Authors Note: Hi all, sorry for the long wait. I promise I will finish this story before the Mission PAW premiere. I know you all think Chase is getting all the attention in this story, but he is my favourite of the pups. I will write stories based around the others after this.
Chapter 5: The Discovery
Inside the castle ballroom, the royal birthday party was well under way. As Chase entered, he found many of the female pups attending couldn't keep away from him.
"Hi there, what's your name?" asked a blonde pup.
"I've not seen you in Barkingburg before." said a brunette pup.
"You wanna dance with me?" asked a ginger pup.
Chase was starting to feel overwhelmed.
"How am I supposed to spy with all these girls around?" He thought to himself. He felt like maybe he couldn't do this. However, Ryder's words were playing in his mind, which lifted his confidence. But, he knew he needed to make a quick escape in order to get spying.
"Would you ladies excuse me one moment please" he said before quickly dashing down the corridor. There, he met Prince, who had offered to help Chase anyway he can.
"Here Chase" said Prince. "Sniff this, and we'll find Princess Scarlett for sure". Prince had brought one of Princess Scarlett's favourite hair ribbons; therefore it was covered in her sweet smell.
"OK, I've got her scent, let's go!" Chase said with confidence.
Before long, Chase was following the scent of the Princess through the castle along with Prince looking out for anything suspicious. They went through rooms, hallways, stairs and bushes. Very soon, they came across something shiny.
"What's that?" asked Chase. "Looks like some kind of jewel".
"It's a ruby diamond hybrid jewel" replied Prince. "Barkingburg is famous for them, but, there's only one place this one could have come from. The missing crown".
"How do you know?" asked Chase.
"The royal mines where these jewels are dug up from are for the royal family only" said Prince. "And, there Princess Scarlett's favourite jewel".
With this new information, Chase contacted Ryder and the rest of the PAW Patrol through the communicator in his tie.
"Come in Ryder" said Chase. "Prince and I are following Princess Scarlett's scent, plus we've just found one of the jewels from the missing crown".
With that information, Ryder responded, "Good work Chase." "Let us know what else you find".
With that, the talk ended and Chase was back on the trail with Prince by his side.
Meanwhile, Ryder and the rest of the PAW Patrol were deep inside the tunnels under the castle.
"Whoa, it's really creepy down here" shuddered Marshall.
"Good thing Tracker isn't here, he wouldn't like this one bit" said Rocky.
"So, what exactly are we looking for Ryder?" asked Zuma.
"Anything that will give us an idea of who's behind this crime and where the crown and Princess Scarlett might be" said Ryder firmly.
As the pups gazed around, all they saw was brick walls and lit torches. Nothing obvious that would tell them the answer. Suddenly, there was a loud growling noise.
"Oh no!" yelped Skye. "There must be a monster down here."
"Actually, that's just tummy growling." said Rubble in embarrassment. "You got any treats Ryder? I never had lunch".
"Sure Rubble, here you go" said Ryder as he threw a biscuit.
As Rubble tried to catch the biscuit, he didn't watch where he was going. He rolled back and knocked into the arm of a statue.
"You ok Rubble?" asked Rocky.
"I'm ok" Rubble replied.
However, Rubble was more than ok, he was brilliant. When he knocked into that statue arm, it had activated a lever which led to a secret room in the tunnels.
"Nice work Rubble" cheered Ryder.
As they entered the room, the pups gazed in wonder. It was filled with all sorts of special treasures. Gold cups, silver pictures, even a solid gold dog bowl. On the side of a table, Marshall found a map. Marked on it was two big X's and a route of how to get to them from what they assumed was the room they were in now.
"This is perfect" said Zuma.
"Hey pups, check this out" called Skye.
As they ran over, they were shocked to find a load of squeaky toys, a pile of bones and pieces of white fur.
"You don't think…" said Rocky, but before he could finish, Chase called.
"Hey Chase, how go's the search?" asked Ryder.
"Ryder, you won't believe what Prince and I found" said Chase with a serious voice. "My googles are picking up the residue of prints, but they're not footprints, they're PAWPRINTS!"
All standing is disbelief, the PAW Patrol realised who, or rather what they were dealing with now.
"You know what this means don't you?" said Zuma.
They all said together, "The bad guy is a PUP!".