Zexion and His Many Jobs

I don't own anything

Chapter 6: Annoying Creatures

Again how did this always happen to me? I am not the only one in the castle that has to do this. Xemnas had better have a good reason for this. I am half way to my new job and already I don't like it. I can smell it from here.

I got to the driveway of the property and all these dogs are barking. Xemnas said that I would love this job since there are animals involved. When did I ever say I liked dogs. I haven't. I think somebody needs to check Xemnas' mental health.

When I finally make it to the porch of the house to talk to the owner of this place a dog, a big dog, goes to attack me! Like seriously why would you have an attack dog out when people can come and get bit by it?

"Well hello you must be Zexion. My name is Thelma. I am the owner of this farm. Are you here for the job of kennel cleaner?"

"Uh, yeah I am."

"You don't talk much. That's alright you don't have to be talkative to work with dogs. They just like to be pet. I will have you work in the bigger barn with Cassidy, she will show you the ropes. You might like her she doesn't talk much either."

"Ok, where is the bigger barn?"

"I will just call Cassidy so then she can come out and get you."

"Ok."

Thelma took out her cell phone and called Cassidy telling her to come out that she has a trainee here. A few minutes later a girl with short brown hair and glasses came out of the closest barn and came up to the porch. The big dog the tried to get me tried to get her too before Thelma pulled him off. I guess his name is Chip.

"Hello, I am Cassidy. I guess you can fallow me."

"Hi, I am Zexion."

"That is an odd name, Zexion. All well. I hope you like this better then I do. It smells and the dogs are really annoying. But never tell Thelma or anyone else that, ever."

"Ok, yeah my name is odd, but I like it. I think you and I will get along very well. I don't like dogs very much and I am very sensitive to scents."

"Hmm. Well this is the biggest barn here, it is called the Kennel Barn." Cassidy opened up the gate and headed into the barn. The dogs instantly erupted into furious barking. It hurt my ears. What got me the most though was the smell, it was horrible, like nobody had cleaned the place in days. The smell was off poop, pee, and something else that I couldn't classify.

"Oh god the smell." My eyes watered. Cassidy looked back at me and had a sympathetic look to her face.

"I know it is horrible. It gets into your clothes too. Well what is used to clean is a shovel, a broom, and a mop." As she listed the things off she pointed to the things she already had out since she already started with the cleaning.

"What you do it you shovel out the kennals, then after you do that you sweep the left over shavings out then hopefully the dogs on either side of the kennel you are cleaning don't put shavings from their kennel into your kennel so you can mop the floor. A lot of the girls here don't mop, that is why is smells like it hasn't been cleaned. It is really gross.

I stared at her trying to remember everything. The dogs were still barking through out all of this so it was hard to understand what she was saying.

"SHUT UP!"

The dogs quieted down a little bit. Cassidy had yelled really loud and it made me jump in surprise.

"Sorry about that, it is the only way to get the dogs to stop barking. Here I will show you how to clean the kennal."

Cassidy then proceeded to shovel the shavings out of the kennel using a snow shovel. She would bring all of the shavings to the front of the kennel and out into the isle. She then put the shovel down and grabbed the broom. She swept all the little shaving out onto the pile she had started. She then got the mop ready. When she went to go mop the kennel I heard her groan. I looked into the kennel and saw that the dog to the left was pacing and spinning and jumping getting shaving onto the clean floor. All she did was yell at the dog and take her foot and push some of the shavings back at the dog and the mopped to kennel.

"See that is what is annoying about them. Anyway, after you get the floor mopped you take the bags of shavings and put some in. Not too much or it make a huge mess but to too much or it smells really bad."

She put a medium sized mound of shavings in the kennal and pushed it around a little bit to spread it. She put the bag of shavings down and walked to the door at the back of the barn. She looked at me like warning me about something. I didn't understand.

She shrugged and opened the door. Then I understood. The dogs that lived in the kennel the she just cleaned ran through the door. She yelled at them to go to bed but the only saw me. One of them jumped on me. I fell onto my but.

"Etsy get off of him now!"

Cassidy ran over and grabbed the dog off of me and put her in the kennel she got the other one and also put it into the kennel.

"Sorry about that. I tried to warn you but you didn't listen. A lot of the dogs like to jump. It is not cool, I wished they didn't but everyone else thinks that it is the cutest thing in the world. Blah."

I shrugged and when she held out her hand to help me up I willingly took it and stood up.

"Its ok, I have a friend that knocks you over if he gets overly excited. His name is Demys and he is an idiot."

"Oh, well that is interesting. So you can do the next set of kennels. I will put the dogs out. The next group shouldn't bother you."

Cassidy then opened the doors of the kennels of the next set of dogs. She was right they didn't try to jump on me. Just licked and rubbed their bodies up against my legs. She shooed them out the door and then handed me the shovel.

I headed to the back kennel. Since the kennels are three deep. Not very big either. I started shoveling out the shaving pushing them from the back one to the middle one then to the first one, then out into the isle. After I did that she handed me the broom and a swept in the same way I shoveled. By the time I got done doing that Cassidy quickly handed me the mop and I mopped the floor. Then I grabbed the bag of shavings and put some in each of the kennels.

"Good job. You are better at this then some of the girls here. I am going to let the group in."

She walked to the door and opened it and I wanted to help and get the dogs into the kennels but I didn't know who was who and the kennel doors had name tags on them. So I did the next best thing, since they were all in the kennel I shut the first door until Cassidy came back to put them away properly.

Thank you Zexion. If you actually stay here, you will learn the dogs. When I first started working here I was confused on who went were too." She quickly put the dogs into the right kennel.

"I think this is a temporary job. That is what Xemnas keeps making me do. He seems to like to torture me."

"Well, If you stayed I would at least be able to relate to somebody here. This can be a very lonely job. Each person only does one barn you don't really get to talk."

"Well I guess we shall see then won't we?"

Cassidy then proceeded in getting another shovel and broom so both of us could work at the same time. There was only one mop so we had to share that. Since we needed to get some of the groups seperated we would have a group outside and a group in the barn.

"Oh what is the foul smell?" I suddenly smelled something awful. Cassidy looked and laughed at me. I raised one eye brow wondering is she went insane.

"Sorry for laughing but a dog just took a poop on your shoe. I don't know how that could happen, it has never occurred before to me. You must have really bad luck or something."

"Well that is awesome, please tell me you have paper towels around here somewhere?"

"Yeah, hold on." She quickly ran too the back of the barn and tore off some paper towels from a roll. She came back and got the poop off of my shoe. She threw the paper towel into the garbage can sitting in the isle.

"Do you need to put the piles of icky shavings sitting infront of the dog kennels somewhere?"

"Oh! Yeah the piles go into the garbage can so then it can be dumped into the dumpster."

She quickly shoveled the piles into the garbage can. Once she was done there we finished cleaning the kennels and put the dogs away. After another forty five minutes of cleaning the kennels we had them all done.

"Now that that is done we need to make the food up. It can get a bit messy."

Cassidy then went out a side door towards the back of the bard and then into a shed a grabbed a bag of dog food. She brought the bag into the barn and set it down next to a big blue storage container.

"Can you go get another bag of food please?"

"Sure."

I walked out of the barn through the side door and into the shed, there was big pallets full of bags of dog food. I pulled a bag off of a pallet and went back into the barn. I saw that Cassidy had opened the bag that she brought in and dumped it into the blue container. She grabbed the bag that I had and opened it with a pair of scissors and dumped that into the container also.

"Can you go to the front of the barn and turn on the hydrant that is on the left next to the first row of kennels?"

I walked to the front and saw the hydrant and pulled the handle up to turn it on. I walked back to the back and saw that Cassidy was filling the container with water.

"We have to soak the food. I haven't understood why but it must be done. We also put canned food and evaporated milk in there too. It keeps the dogs weight balanced."

After the water was in the container she took six cans of dog food and six cans of evaporated milk and opened them and put the contents into the food and took a large stirring spoon and stirred it all into the food. It was gross looking.

"Each dog gets a large scoop of food. They only get fed once a day but it is a lot of food."

She picked up the scoop and it looked like a scoop that you would use to feed a horse with. She proceeded to dig that in and then she put a the scoop of food into a large bowl. She filled three bowls like this.

"Here put these into the kennels of the dogs on the end there."

I took the bowls and put them into each kennel of the dogs. I went back and grabbed the next group of dogs food bowls and put them into the kennels. This went on until we ran out of bowls so then we collected the bowls from the dogs that were done and filled those and gave them to the dogs that still needed food.

It took a good half hour to feed the dogs and recollect the bowls. Cassidy told me that the dogs tended to chew on the bowls if they were left in there. Once done feeding we needed to sweep the isle and mop it.

I swept the floor and Cassidy mopped. Cassidy told me that it took us three hours to do the barn. If it had been her it would have taken four or five hours. There were probably about forty or fifty dogs in this barn.

"The lower barn has twenty five dogs in it. Since this is a dog breeding facility they need a lot of dogs but a lot of them are retired or aren't used. I think Thelma is going to be adopting out the dogs that aren't being used."

"What type of dogs are these anyway?"

"Oh they are German Shepards. Interesting how they are all different colors huh?"

"Yeah, there are a lot of different colors. I didn't think German Shepards came in these colors."

"Yeah, it was a shock to me too when I started working here. I thought I knew a lot about animals but you always learn something new everyday."

Cassidy then walked out the front door with me following her and she flicked the lights off in the barn and went up onto the porch. Again Chip started barking and trying to get out of his cage that he was in.

"Hey Chip, how are you? Still don't like me I see. I just need to get my check then I will be out of your way."

Cassidy very carefully went into the porch keeping her eyes somewhat on Chip as she went to get her check. It looked like she grabbed to envelopes. It looked like Chip was going to get out of his cage in a second. Cassidy practically ran to the door and closed it.

"Here is your check for the day also. Normally it is a weeks worth but since you are only working today she paid you for today. You should have atleast thirty bucks."

"I see that Chip doesn't like you? Why is that?"

"I have no idea. One day he just when to attack me. So I try to avoid the porch as much as possible. Does he like you?"

"Nope, not in the least he went after me when I showed up."

"Isn't that just awesome?" Cassidy said sarcastically.

"Oh yeah." I said just as sarcastically. She laughed.

"Well I am going to go home. You might want to too. You kind of smell." She said laughing after she said it.

"Yeah you smell too thank you very much. I guess I will see you around. Maybe if I don't like any of the other jobs that I am going to have to do I will come back and work at this one."

"Sure, if your nose can handle it."

"Yeah. Well bye."

"Bye."

We walked in separate directions. I wanted to go home and shower then maybe go read a book too. I kind of wish I knew more about Cassidy too. All well. It shall be interesting to see what Xemnas has planned for me for tomorrow.

A/N Sorry, sorry, sorry for not updating in over four months. I have been busy with school for the first 2 months and work for all of them. Another excuse is that I am lazy. Sorry again.

Please review so then I know that people are reading this. If not I might stop writing it. Should I also make a plot to this? Give me ideas you want to see in the story.