Hey guys~ So I have finished exam week, and I'm back on. I just wanted to let you know that these chapters change point of view. The first was Zap, this one is Patches. It will continue in that pattern. Enjoy!

I wonder if the legend Zap told me is true… I thought to myself as I helped some of the others hang up a Happy Halloween banner. I mean, it sounds so unbelievable! But what if…?

"Gah!" I heard a yip below me. There was a loud crash and I felt the ladder I was standing on give way underneath me. I crashed to the ground, the banner tearing down with me.

I pushed up through the rubble I was buried underneath. A bowl had landed on top of my head, and spilled it's contents everywhere. Candy. I rubbed my head, growling. I dug under the mess to find the dog who had knocked the ladder down.

A tan and black head burst up from under the ladder. The dog turned around.

Mistrel.

She was a Chinook dog, with long fur on her head. Her eyes were an amber color, and she had black saddle markings. Her ears flopped over slightly. We were good friends, and we often trained together. She was in training for a leadership role at H.Q., but she still needed experience as an agent before she could get into Alpha School.

I stopped, and went over to help her up. She blew her hair out of her face. "Sorry… "

"It's good Mistrel." I smiled, helping her dig herself out. "Now we just gotta clean this mess up."

"Come on. I'll help." Mistrel said, getting up from the mess, and picking up the candy. "I was just trying to get this over to the snack table."

Working together, we quickly cleaned up the mess and hung the banner. The other agents glared at us, probably thinking Don't dare knock down anything else. I decided we should leave for a while…

"Hey, you haven't met my friends, Roy, Ollie, Rosemary, Cupcake and Rebound from the pound." I said, taking Mistrel over to the guest dog houses. I knocked on 0564.

The door flew open, and standing there was Rebound.

"Hi! Hi Patches! Who's that?! Huh?" The gray dog yapped excitedly.

I grinned. "Mistrel, this is Rebound. Rebound, this is my friend Mistrel."

"Hi! Nice to meet you! Hi!" Rebound grabbed Mistrel's paw and shook it vigorously.

"Hey…" Mistrel looked a bit intimidated.

"Hi, I'm Cupcake." A peach colored dog with brown ears stepped out from behind Rebound.

"And I'm Rosemary." Said another. She was gray, with tan points and black ears.

"Nice to meet you."

I led Mistrel over to the next dog house, and knocked. Out came a black dog with long, floppy ears, and a red dog with ears that stood up.

"Hey guys. This is my friend Mistrel. Mistrel, this is Roy," I pointed to the red dog. "And that's Ollie." I pointed to the black dog.

"Hi. Nice to meet you." The two dogs said.

I looked around. H.Q. already looked spooky. Fake spiders and webs hung from the walls, and banners and streamers of all sorts hung everywhere. Creepy pictures of old dogs lined the walls.

"Hey Patches! Mistrel!" I heard a rough voice say. I turned around to see my best friend, Roscoe the Rottweiler. He was Rocky Rap's son; Rocky was Zap's bestie. Following Roscoe was my other friend, Junior, who was Agent Diggs's son. He was a German Shepherd.

"We need some help over in Main Floor." Junior barked, pointing to the middle of Dog H.Q. "We're setting up the food table."

"Mmm… I wonder what delicious treats we're gonna have this year!" I exclaimed. "Catch you guys later!"

Mistrel and I followed Roscoe and Junior to Main Floor. There were a bunch of tables laid out.

"You two, can you put the tablecloths on?" Roscoe asked. "We'll start bringing out the food."

"Okay." I went over a grabbed a neatly folded up tablecloth. It was decorated with black bats and spiders, with an orange background. I unfolded the cloth and was about to spread in out the table, when I felt something that was stuck to it.

It was a piece of black paper, that looked burnt. I took it off. It was folded, so I opened it. In creepy handwriting, it said:

I am terror…

I am pain…

What? What could that mean? I quickly shoved the paper into my collar storage and went on spreading the table cloth.