AN: Hello again my Peeps, I bring you chapter 4 of Chasing Fire.
For those who are wondering, I have had a Writers Block on Sweetie Vs The FBI. I do plan to start it back up again, but I would love some of your ideas.
Enjoy
Chasing Fire
Chapter 4
Everest and Chase's Past
Chase's POV
"WHAT," Ryder and Everest said in unison.
I thought I put those horrible memories from my past would never come back to me. I never wanted that to happen. "My parents, *sniffles* *starting to cry* Meine Eltern," I started to cry more, "I *hiccup* lost them *hiccup* from a fire *gasp* at my old home Germany."
Ryder and Everest just looked at me like I just died. Everest came closer to me and nuzzled my neck. "Chase, you never told me about your past," Ryder said coming up and petting my head.
"I never really wanted *hiccup* to, because *hiccup* of the horrible memory," I said trying to calm down.
"What could have made you think… Oh," Ryder said with realization, "The fire caused it."
I only nodded. Everest then nuzzled me more and I nuzzled her too.
"What was your past, Chase? Maybe it would make you feel better to tell," Everest coed.
"It would probably be the best of ideas," Ryder said, "Your therapists should be arriving soon."
I just laid my head down in defeat and Everest put her head on top of mine very gently.
"Ryder?" I asked getting his attention.
"What's up pup?" he responded.
"Where are the other pups?" I asked thinking they were still in the hospital somewhere.
"They're at the Walmart that is just a block down with the PAW Patroller. They wanted to be closer to you and Everest while you two recover," Ryder said sitting down in a chair.
I was about to say something else, but a huge wave of pain went through my body and I moaned in agony, "Mmmm… Owwww… Ahhhh…"
"Chase, Chase, Chase, It's ok. It's ok." Everest tried to comfort me.
I then just got a flashback to my home in Germany
Flashback
I was walking in a forest near my home in Vaihingen, Germany. I was with my mother and father and we were as happy as can be. We were heading home when something exploded. Everything around us was in flames in seconds, the trees, the bushes, even the trail was covered in what looked like an oily substance and was on fire. There was no way out.
"MAMA, VATI?!" I yelled in German. I was only a year old so, my voice was new and squeaky.
"Wir bekamen Sie! Wir bekamen Sie! Es ist ok! (We got you! We got you! It's ok!)," My mom said looking to my dad, "Honig? Wir werden gefangen. Wie sind wir dabei herauszukommen? (Honey? We're trapped. How are we going to get out of this?),"
My dad looked to her and said, "Ich weiß nicht. Mein Engel, das einzige Dang, das wir tun können, ist schutzen unseren Sohn. Ich will unseren Sohn zum leben, selbst wenn wir nicht tun. (I don't know. My angel, the only thing we can do is protect our son. I want our son to life even if we don't.)"
Then my mom and dad came to me and laid down on top of me. Protecting me from the flames of death. The last words I heard them say were, "Wir lieben Sie Verfolgung. Wir werden immer mit Ihnen sein." (We love you, Chase. We will always be with you.)"
They covered me with their bodies and protected me.
Later, the firefighters showed up and moved my parent's bodies off of me. They were surprised that I was uninjured and still alive. They took me into a K-9 training course in Germany.
End of Flashback
I woke up on my hospital bed slowly unlike the last time. I saw that all the pups were in the room. Ryder was in his usual chair again and Everest was laying right next to me, her head in my paws. I shifted a tiny bit to let her know I awake. She acknowledged it and shifted closer and whispered into my ear, "Hey Chase. What happened in Germany?"
I let out a sigh of defeat, "I guess I need to tell you."
The other pups must have overheard and came over and sat at the bottom of the beds.
"Chase, it might make you feel better to tell us about your past," Marshall said, "You can't keep everything to yourself forever."
I knew he was right. I sighed again and said, "Fine." I then proceeded to tell them about the fire and how my parents loved me and I loved them. I shared the times I had with them before the fire.
Marshall's POV
All of us listened to Chase's sad story on how he lost his parents.
"You had a German accent?" Rubble asked him. Chase nodded.
"Wow, that must have been hard to live without them," Rocky said. I pushed him a bit.
"It was very hard to even cope with it. When the firefighters found me they were surprised they found me alive and uninjured. They said I was lucky, but I said it was because my parents loved me so much, they were willing to risk their lives to save me and also the Lord wanted me to meet you guys and do great things with you. I miss my parents so much. I didn't know what to do with my life at that point. I only knew German at then and I was a very insecure pup at times. I could speak no English whatsoever, I just wanted to kill myself," all of us including Ryder gasped, "but the firefighters and the Lord wouldn't let that happen. One week after the fire, the firefighters took me to the K-9 academy in Nuremberg Germany. For one whole year, I trained there. I was then shipped here to the US. I learned a bit of English on the way. Another year later I'm fluent in the English language and mastered to the American accent. I wanted to forget about the whole thing, but you can never forget about the people you love." Chase then looked to Everest and kissed her on the cheek.
All of us pups were completely shocked. Chase tried to kill himself years ago, but he didn't, thank the Lord. But what if he did? What if he killed himself? The PAW Patrol would not exist without him. Skye must have seen that I was puzzled or that my face drained of all color when Chase said: "I wanted to kill myself."
"Hey Marshy? Are you ok?" She asked.
"Ya I'm fine," I answered, "Could you and I just talk for a minute? Outside."
"Sure," She said walking out of the room with me.
Once we closed the door, Skye was the first to speak, "What's up?"
"I'm worried about Chase. I mean said he wanted to kill himself. What if he wants to do that again?"
"Chase would never do that. If he tries he will be surrounded by friends telling that he shouldn't. Chase a tough pup and with the help with all of us he and Everest can make it. They both have one more week here at the hospital. When they come home they are going to want to rest. You and I will have to look after them, together." Skye emphasized the last part.
"Together?"
Skye nodded, "Together we will help as a team. They need us. They helped us. It is time for us to return the favor."
I smiled and regained my composure, "Right, Chase and Everest will need us. No job is too big, no pup is too small." We both smiled and went back into the room.
No One's POV
Two days have past and Everest and Chase's night terrors have gotten worse. Even though they have a therapist, Chase has been having the terrors of everyone dying in the fire, but also about his family in Germany. Everest keeps having the terrors were everyone kills her for not saving Chase. All that does not mix with the physical pain they have from the surgery and other injuries, although that is getting better.
One night Chase and Everest were having night terrors, Chase had another one about his parents, but Everest's past was catching up to her as well.
Everest's Night Terror.
Everest was with her younger sister, mother, and father somewhere in Alaska's mountains. It was the peak of winter and it was a small flurry of snow was falling making it a pretty scene. Everest and her sister were in front of their parents.
Just when anything can't get any better Everest sneezed, loudly, very loudly. They were in a small canon of two large mountains will tons of snow. The sneeze echoed through the canon. After it cleared, there was a rumbling. The rumbling came from the mountains, snow was coming down fast.
"AVALANCHE!" Everest's dad yelled and picked up Everest while her mother picked up her sister. Everest's mother and father ran and ran as fast as they could to protect their pups.
After some time of running, they came up to a cliff. There was nowhere to go, they were trapped. The only thing there was a rock that looked like a cave, but the snow was going a max of 85 mph. They wouldn't make it, but maybe the pups would. Everest's parents then threw Everest and her sister to the rock. Everest hit right smack in the middle in the safe zone, but her sister ran as fast as she could. Everest ran to her and held out her paw to grab her. Everest grabbed her and pulled into the safe zone.
They both stood in shock as soon as their parents were hit by the avalanche and fall down the steep cliff edge.
"MOM! DAD!" the sisters said.
"No no no no! Everest?" Everest's younger sister said, "I'm scared." She then proceeds to hug to Everest tightly. Everest was dazed but hugged her sister for comfort.
Everest looked to her sister again, only to see that her eyes were fully black and then stabbed a sharpened stick into Everest's chest making her howl in pain.
"IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!" said her sister.
"KILA!" Everest was now crying, "I'M SORRY!"
End of Flashback
Ryder's POV
The pups and I were sleeping soundly when suddenly we heard Chase and Everest howl in pain at the same time. We all shot awake to see a panicking German Shepherd and Husky. Everest was bleeding at her chest while Chase was gasping for breath.
Marshall and I rushed to their sides while Skye went to get the doctors. Everest had a sharpened stick stabbed into her side and her oxygen was cut. Chase's oxygen was cut as well, but also was his morphine and saline IVs were cut and pulled out of him. Chase was then also turning very red and all his skin was very inflamed, and he started to sneeze.
"Ryder! Ahhh Chooo! Everything! Ahhh Chooo! HURTS! Ahhh Chooo!" Chase struggled to breathe and speak.
"Ryder? Ahhhhh! What *breathing heavily* happened?" Everest struggled to say from her pain.
I was about to answer, but Marshall beat me to it, "It was Humdinger!" Marshall growled.
Just then Dr. John, Dr. Mark, and a couple of nurses came rushing in and started to help Chase and Everest calm down and replace everything.
After ten minutes Chase was passed out again and Everest was refusing to go back to sleep because of she what Chase to sleep soundly more, and I bet her side hurt from the stab wound.
I came up to Marshall, "How do you know it was Humdinger?" I asked.
"I found a yarn ball under Chase's bed and what else would make Chase sneeze that bad? Also who else would want to do this to a pup that does his job well if not better than we are at our own?" Marshall angerly said.
The rest of the pups when up to her to comfort her while she cried softly. I decided to leave and tell Carlos and Tracker the news and also to get Jake from the waiting room. When I left I made sure the other pups knew about my whereabouts just in case.
Skye's POV
When Ryder left, I calmed down Marshall and after that, myself and the other pups went up to Everest who was still softly crying. I started to comfort her, "Everest, it's ok. Chase will be ok. We will get Mayor Humdinger for this," I growled the last part.
"It's not just that. *sniffle* Just like Chase, I lost my family young. *sniffle*," Everest cried softly.
"What? That terrible. No wonder we never saw your parents either," Rocky said. Marshall pushed him again and I gave him a death glare. Rocky backed off immediately, ears down and tail between his legs.
"Do you mind telling us what happened, as Chase did?" Rubble asked.
Everest only nodded and got her baring again. She then proceeds to tell us her story through soft sobs.
"Only my younger sister Kila and I survived. The avalanche killed our *sniffle* parents. All because I sneezed." She cried into Chase's side who then woke up to hear Everest's story. Chase was lying flat on his bed, so he wouldn't feel as much pain. Everest crying into his side probably wasn't helping but he didn't flinch.
"Everest. What happened to your sister?" Chase asked in the calmest tone us pups have heard. The way that he spoke was so soft and quiet that, like us, Tracker would barely hear it. That also means that he is healing.
Everest was surprised that Chase was up, continues with her story, "After the avalanche stopped and it was safe to leave. We went home to our human owners. We told them the story and for some reason the threw me out of the house into the freezing cold. My sister tried to chase after me but they kept her in. The last words they said to me where 'When you killed your own parents, you can go join them,'," Everest started to cry again, and surprising Chase did too, "Then, I somehow survived the freezing cold and made it out of town and hitched hiked all the way to the south. Ever since that day I wish I could see my sister again, she is the only family I have left."
Chase then motioned her to come closer and they cried each other to sleep over their families that they lost. While us pups cried softly on how horrible both our friends' stories about their parents.
No One's POV
Somewhere in a town called Foggy Bottom a mayor and six particular kittens are snickering in a cave for the evil work they have done.
"Well done kitties, now hopefully those menacing pups will suffer more and if we are lucky, two fewer pups in the PAW Patrol that will never get in my way again," said the mayor who is known to wear a purple top hat, and purple clothes.
The kittens snickered some more.
Little did they know that what they did wasn't that significant because Chase and Everest will be released from the hospital in three days.
Back at Adventure Bay Hospital. Two days later.
Chase and Everest have been healing very well. They have one more day in the hospital. The arson fire and sabotage at the hospital, against Everest and Chase, is being investigated by Ryder and the ABPD. At this time there is enough evidence pointing to Humdinger that Ryder approved a warrant out for his arrest. His charges are six counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault against police K-9, six counts of animal abuse, and one count of arson from the fire.
Chase and Everest were telling each other made up stories to past the time because every time they try to sleep, they almost always have night terrors about the fire or family.
The other pups were in the lobby talking to each other about what is going to happen when Chase and Everest are released tomorrow.
"So, what is the plan?" Zuma asked.
"Well, Chase is going to need a lot of help walking because of his hind legs while should be healed in a month. Everest too, because of her fractured paw which should heal in the next two weeks or so," Marshall said.
"What could we do with them? Could we play light games, like card games?" Rubble suggested.
"That is not a half bad idea but that would get old very quick," Skye said.
Just then Tracker and Carlos came in with Ryder and Jake. Tracker walked over to the pups. "Hola amigos, que paso? What happened?" Trackers usually friendly smile went to a considered frown.
"Long story short," Rocky spoke up, "Chase and Everest were injured in a fire started by Humdinger. They came here, and both got surgery. Now just two days ago, Humdinger tried to kill Chase and Everest by doing nasty things."
"Oh," tracker dropped his ears, "Are they ok now?"
"Yes Tracker, they're ok now. They will be released to go home tomorrow," Ryder said.
Tracker then regained his happiness and started to talk to the pups on what they should do.
"Well maybe they could watch us play Pup Pup Boogie," suggested Zuma.
"Or, we could do a play," Skye said getting nods from all the pups.
"Ya, a play. What should it be about?" Rubble asked.
"Well, we need something happy. Something that would get their minds off of everything that has happened," Marshall said.
Rocky then said, "Ok then, how about-"
AN: Chase and Everest are coming home.
Now, what will happen there, and will the pups finally bring Mayor Humdinger to Justice?
Ask me if you have any questions.
Till next time
Atlas Guardian Out.