Chapter 19: Friend or Foe (Part 3)
Chase stood at the edge of the bridge staring at the dangling Mix-breed, his heart said to help Rocky but his mind is telling him not too.
"Chase! Your zip-line!" Ryder snaps his fingers in front of his face.
Blinking Chase shakes his head, "Right, sorry Ryder sir. Ruff! Ruff! Zip-line!" he barks and aims for the other side of the bridge.
His Zip-line flies from his pup-park and connects to a tree on the otherside.
"Nice aiming" Skye says impressed, he frowns at her.
"Chase I need you to help stop Rocky from falling." Ryder instructs but Chase shakes his head, "Don't disobey m-"
"I will do it," Natalie pushes passed Chase and grabs the line and flings herself across it, stopping next to Rocky. "Hold onto me."
"Why?" Rocky questions closing his eyes, "Why help me? They all think I hurt him on purpose."
Natalie reaches out to him, and wipes away a stray tear. "Because I know you did not hurt him on purpose, I was there. I saw it."
"But they think I did it-"
"I do not care what they think Rocky, I am here to save you not them." Natalie grabs him around his waist but he pushes her paw off.
"What if I don't wanna be saved?"
She looks at him, raising a brow. "I am not giving you a choice." with that she holds onto him tightly and begins to fling back.
But Rocky wiggles out of her grip. "Sorry Natalie, I can't face them they'll try to kill me and I don't want to hurt them but I'm afraid I will." He flashes a smile then says, "Goodbye."
"Rocky!" Ryder shouts seeing the Mix-breed fall from Natalie's paws and down into the canyon. "Zuma.."
"I'm alweady hewe dude," Zuma says from the river below, looking up he sees the falling pup. "Wuff Buoy!" it flies out of his pup-pack and lands under Rocky, who falls onto it. "Got ya dude."
Rocky frowns and jumps off the buoy, but a rope wraps around his waist and he gets pulled towards the rivers edge.
"Bloody hell! No-one died in my park today mate so stop trying." Silvera says pulling him in, once she's pulled him out of the river she picks him up. "Stop trying to kill yourself, you're better then this."
"I wasn't trying to kill myself, I was trying to get away from them." He points to Chase and Everest who run towards him. "They're going to kill me Si-"
Before he gets to answer, Chase collides with Silvera knocking her to the ground, Rocky rolls out of her grasp.
"Murderer!" Chase snaps pinning the Mix-Breed to the ground. "Trying to kill him multiple times wasn't good enough for you? You just had to go do it again!" He swings his paw at Rocky's head, but Rocky manages to dodge the blow.
"I didn't do it!" Rocky kicks Chase off, "Please, don't do this."
"Did you give Marshall a choice before you brutally hit him!?" Chase swings his paw again, this time it connects with Rocky's head sending him tumbling backwards. "That's what I thought! You saw the opportunity to hurt him, and took it!" He kicks Rocky's side wound causing him to yelp, "You're nothing but a murderer!"
"And a traitor!" Everest yells running passed Chase, she picks Rocky up by the scruff of his neck and with all of her strength hits him across his face in the same place he had hit Marshall, blood seeps from the gash. "I hate you! Do you hear me! You tried to take my mate! the father to my pups away from me! AGAIN! Why ROCKY! WHY can't you leave him alone! He's a father!" She begins to choke him.
"Everest! You're bleeding!" Chase points to her hind legs, blood drips down them.
Anna is quickly by her side, "Enough Everest, you've broken your stitches, put him down."
Everest tightens her grip again, "He deserves to die."
"You'll bleed to death Everest, I need to restitch you." Anna kneels down, Everest huffs and punches Rocky in his face then spits on him. "Come on girl," Anna picks her up and walks off.
Chase then punches Rocky's face over and over until he's beaten unreconisable, blood runs down the Mix-Breeds face who's barely conscious. "You're nothing but a liar, traitor and a murderer!" He lifts his paw up in the air.
"D-Do it, finish me." Rocky begs, spitting a pile of blood on the ground. "Do it Chase, please."
But Chase doesn't, when he looks at Rocky something inside him snaps, "What am I doing?" He shakes his head
"You're weak if you can't finish me." Rocky struggles to his paws, "Don't say you can kill me if you can't."
"Shut up!" Chase kicks him in his side wound, causing him to fall to the ground, "I can't kill you because unlike you Rocky, I'm not a murderer!"
Rocky's eyes widen he stares up at Chase who's staring back at him.
"Besides I-I don't think you did try to kill Marshall, "Chase painfully admits.
"W-what?" Rocky tries to get up but his wounds prevent him.
Chase sits beside the badly beaten Mix-breed, he sighs. "I can see it in your eyes, it was an accident I know it was. But you hurt my brother and I won't forgive you for that."
Tears begin to fill Rocky's eyes, "Can't you just end my horrible life!"
"No, I won't do it." Chase shakes his head, "You have a mate Rocky, and you're going to be a fath-"
Rocky doesn't let him finish his sentence he picks up the rope Silvera used to rescue him, and wraps it around his neck. "I do deserve to die, and you're w-wrong Chase... I don't e-even trust myself with my o-own pups." He pulls the rope tight then walks backwards towards the River's edge, he begins gasping for air.
Ryder and the pups along with Pedz and the Rangers arrive.
"Chase! What have you done!?" Ryder says running towards Rocky who pulls the rope tighter. "Rocky stop!"
Rocky shakes his head, his face turns purple. Taking one last breath he says weakly, "I-I'm sorry, I-I'm sorry everyone for being such a failure." His eyes roll to the back of his head, and he falls into the river.
But then,
Marshall rushes passed everyone and using his rope ladder he manages to pull Rocky to shore, shortly after he collapses next to Rocky. "R-Ryder... H-he's n-not breathing.."
Ryder kneels next to both pups, he unties the rope from around Rocky's neck and tries all the pulse points he knows on Rocky but-
"Wyder? Is he?" Zuma asks as Rubble, Skye and Natalie run besides him.
Removing his hand from Rocky's neck Ryder lowers his head, he grabs the lifeless body in his arms and pulls him close to his chest, he says nothing but his cries echo through the canyon walls.
To be continued
A/N: :( I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make this into a sad chapter.