Zuma woke next to his friend, his eyes red from him crying. He heard a faint whisper from Tumbleweed but the snake venom was spreading through her body quicker every second. He whined, unable to know what to do. They were both very hungry and dehydrated, leaving Zuma without any ability except for to wait to die with his mate. He sighed, knowing his friends wouldn't find him in time to save her. He sat next to her still crying. Then he put his paw on her stomach, his paw shaking. He felt a small kick, then another. She's expecting!? She didn't tell me! He heard her whisper, oh so lightly, "y-yes I'm expecting p-pups. Grass isn't m-my brother, h-he was my m-mate. B-but I l-love you. W-will you be t-the adoptive f-father?" Zuma was shook. Adoptive father!? "Y-y-Yes j-just Don't d-die I don't w-want to be alone." She sighed laying her head back down in pain. He sighed crying again, howling. He heard trucks, thinking it was his friends, but he just thought he was hallucinating and didn't care. He curled into a ball next to his mate and she set her tail around him, in a very weak motion. They both panted from being dehydrated and they were thinner than ever because of their hunger. Zuma heard sirens get louder but he knew he was Hallucinating. He laid crying, his fur under his eyes soaked with tears. He heard a very faint whisper from Tumbleweed, "I'll miss you..." Zuma yowled, "Don't leave! I don't know how to help you!" He cried out. "But I do," He heard a voice behind him. "M-mom!" He heard Tumbleweed whispered excitedly, she couldn't even wag her tail. Her mom ran over to her, "how long had she been like this pup?" Zuma thought for a second, "atleast 13 hours. She's gotten weaker each minute." Her mom nodded running to get a plant. She placed the plant on Tumbleweed'a muzzle where the bit was. Tumbleweed winced. "I-I'm Zuma" Zuma has said to her mom but she didn't answer. She was too busy saving her pup. Zuma whimpered, then panted, and decided to limp over to a class by river and get a drink. He licked up the water and felt hysrated after some time. He was still starving but he wasn't dehydrated. He ran back over to Tumbleweed and her mom, or really limped over. "I'm Swan, the bite will heal in about a couple hours, but she won't be able to move until tomorrow. I'll stay with you guys. You look hungry, I'll go get some food." Zuma nodded and laid back down next to Tumbleweed. "Your going to live!" He happily barked. He saw Tumble smile. He smiled. Zuma heard pawsteps and looked behind him. Sean couldn't have token that long to get food. "Zuma!" He heard a pup bark. He couldn't see so well because there was sand dust everywhere. Then he saw them. He stood up, "R-Rocky? Chase? Ryder? Pups? Is that all you guys?" He stayed still, looking through the dust. "Zuma what happened?" He saw his friends walk out of the sand dust and he half ran half limped over to them. Tumbleweed heard everything. "Zuma what's going on?" Zuma got out of the hug from Ryder and walked over to Tumbleweed, "these are my friends Tumbleweed. They came to save me!" Tumbleweed got help from Zuma to turn around to see his friends. Tumbleweed gasped and growled, baring her teeth. Zuma was surprised, "w-what's wrong" He heard another growl and looked over to see Swan. She was growling too. "I-its That!" Tumbleweed pointed her nose to Chase, and Swan walked up to her daughter, still growled. "M-me? I- didn't do a-anything" Chase backed up. "Your Breed killed him..." Tumbleweed said, shaking now. "I d-didn't k-kill anyone!" The other pups and Ryder stood there confused. Chases eyes grew wide as Swan came forward, ready to pounce. Chase backed up farther until his back touched his truck. "It wasn't m-me! I-it was m-my brother!" Chase closed his eyes, whincing. Swan and Tumbleweed stopped. "Y-Your the one that tried to stop him... b-but got hurt from it." Chase opened his eyes and nodded. "I was the one to take the hit from the fall from the tree before h-he killed him." The other pups stood confused. Chase walked up by Zuma and barked, "My brother, as you know him as, Slick, had tried to kill the little pup, their son and little brother. I got in the way and told him not to kill him but he got mad at me and decided to climb up a tree with me and leave me on one of the tallest branches. Then he went down the tree and made me watch him kill the pup. I tried getting down but I slipped and fell into a major concussion. These pups saved me." Suddenly Tumbleweed yowled in pain and collapsed. Zuma And Swan quickly ran to her. "She's starving, she'll die soon if she doesn't get food." Zuma nodded, "Same with me, but she's feeding pups. She needs the food." Ryder nodded, "alright pups, Spots get a stretcher and put Tumbleweed on it then drive her home. Chase I'll need you to drive with Spots so she can get through traffic, bring Zuma with you. Swan you can ride with Marshall, the firefighter. Rest of the pups you can drive home with us." Spots had already gotten Tumble on a streatcher and driven away with Chase and Zuma. The rest of the pups followed.
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The pups arrived to the lookout atleast 30 minutes later. Zuma was eating and drinking water in the lookout while Spots was feeding, healing and giving Tumbleweed and drink. Zuma walked over to Spots and Tumbleweed. Spots sighed, "She'll live." Zuma's tail wagged. "Why wasn't Marble at the mission? I would assume that I was an animal I trouble." Spots sighed, "So Rubble and Rocky were so distressed by you being missing they went to Jakes for a little. Everest also had her pup so she went to go see Jake. Marble went with Rubble, to cheer him up. I told Chase to call them to tell them to come back. He's great at acting as you might not believe." She laughed. "I told him to act sad while saying it. They're on their way back home now." Zuma heard screeching in the drive way. "Go hide! he heard Spots say before he hid behind a beanbag. He saw Rocky,Everest,Rubble, And Marble wall in. The pups were crying, probably Chase told them some random bad news. All the pups walked over to Spots, "who's that?" He heard Rocky ask. "Oh this is Tumbleweed, we well found her in the desert." Rubble barked, "with Z-Zuma?" Spots sighed. Rocky started crying, thinking Rubble held on to hope. "Rubble it's been a week since he's gone missing... he's-" Zuma walked out and interrupted. "He's right here" he smiled and Eocky stood there, I'm utterly shock. "Y-Your h-h-here!" His tail wagged. The pups ran up to Zuma and hugged him, being careful about the cast on his paw. " I can't believe it... what happened?" Zuma smiled, "I'll tell you everything during the meeting."
This story will end in about the next two or three chapters,maybe four, I hope you liked it so far! I also know that snake venom usually takes less than a day to spread through a body and kill the living thing but I stretched it for the story. Also, I don't know what heals snake bites but just go with it.