Me: Hiya everyone!

Thunder: Hello!

Shade: Hi.

Me: Sup everyone? Good?

Thunder: I'm sure they are.

Me: Well, alright then. Sorry for the later up-date. I've been busy with school and other things. But, since Thanksgiving was this past week, I finally got done to writing a bit more, and finally finished this chapter. Longest one year so far at 2,646 words! Well, besides what I'm adding with typing this up here in bold, and at the end. XD. Anyway, reviews?

Thunder: Yes.

Me: Yee!

Crazy-Horse- Thank you SO much for the review! It means a lot to me, and I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far! This chapter will make you very happy, as well as others I hope. I feel like I rushed at the end, but eh, yolo, am I right? XD. Once again, thank you so much for the kind review, and I hope you and everyone else continues reading and liking the story!

Thunder: That was fast.

Me: Yep. XD.

Shade: Just start the chapter already!

Me: Okay, okay, geez. Please enjoy the chapter everyone!

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Chapter 4: New Friends, and the Ghost of the Chicken from Outer space

"Alright, now I can look up on the cat," Coward said, as he walked into Maple and his' room. He looked around for the small black journal that his father had left for him. The room was a mess, as his female owner was a very messy kid, as most were. He was no better, as he had a hand, or rather a paw, in helping with making the room that mess it was now. He put his ears down, and let out a sigh. "It's gonna take forever to find the journal in this mess. I better clean it."

That being said, the son of Courage began cleaning up the room. He put books back where they belonged, dirty outfits into the washer, so when Maple's mom got home and could clean them. He put toys and games away. He continued to clean the room til it was all cleaned up. In the making, he found his journal.

"Alright, let's see what Dad's book says about that cat…"

The puppy began looking through the journal. His eyes widen as he saw a picture of the same cat that was in the school.

"I think this is it.."

Katz, one of the most evilest enemies I've ever fought. He's a red furred back with amber colored eyes, and evil to every bone in his body. He first appeared when the old couple and I went to a hotel, coming back from a trip that we took. He tried to fed us to his spiders. If it wasn't for Muriel, I wouldn't be alive today. I ran into him again when he tried to find out Muriel's comaal apples. He sent a made of candy to kidnap her, and it did, along with me.

Then, he came back when a plan to blow up a sub. Again, I had to stop him, and luckily, I did. No one was hurt. Well, all but him. He got ate by a shark, and I thought he was gone for good.

How wrong I was.

He came back again along with other bad guys that I fought to try and get rid of me with a game of dodge ball. It always worked too, but Muriel told me to do the one thing that I could do that they couldn't.

I screamed. Loudly.

It saved my life again. Who knew that screaming would or could be used like that? After that, Katz and the others went missing. It was like they had disappeared off the earth. No one seen them since then.

"Until now," the son of Courage said to the small book.

That was where the journal ended at. Coward set the black book aside, sitting down on Maple's bed. The purple puppy sighed. That didn't tell him a lot of how to get rid of Katz. He would have to figure out how on his own, before something bad happened to Maple or Kyle, or any of the other kids that the school.

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The next morning, Coward watched as Maple and Kyle got up and began getting around for school. The purple puppy followed them to the door, to which the younger of the two turned and looked down at him.

"Now, Coward, you ain't going to follow us to school again, are you?" she asked him.

The two month old pup shook his head, looking up at her with his big black eyes. "No Maple. I promise I'll stay home today, and be good."

It was a lie, and he hated lying to her, but he knew he had to follow them to school again and make sure Katz and La Quack didn't do something to hurt them. He was sure that she would understand that it was to protect her, and to keep her safe from them. And Kyle too, since he knew he'd be in trouble if something happened to her older brother.

"That's a good boy," Maple told him with a smile. "Now, we'll see you after school, okay?"

"Alright."

"Bye, Coward!"

"Bye!"

Kyle grumbled something about him being a stupid puppy, and walked out the door after his little sister. Coward waited for a good ten minutes before he headed out after them.

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As the Son of Courage made his way to his owners' school, he heard what sounded like barking and hissing coming from an alley way. The pup went to see what it was, despite the fear that was growing inside of him with every pawstep that he took.

He saw that looked like a cat with dogs all around it. The cat was black-and-white with green eyes, that were wide in fear from the growling and snarling hounds around it, and to the pup's shock and surprise, the cat had two tails! Above the cat, was a bird. It had a green face with orange cheeks, and gray feathers. The dogs were large domans, and they looked ready to tear the cat and bird apart. And him too. You didn't want to get on these dog's bad side, the purple puppy could already tell, just by looking his fellow K-9s.

I can't just stand here and watch those dogs attack that cat and bird, no matter how scared I am! Or how big.. Mean.. Nasty.. They look…

He shook his head, and growled slightly under his breath.

No! I have to help them!

Coward ran down the alley way towards the dogs, cat, and bird. "Hey!"

The other group of animals turned around to face the puppy that was heading towards them. The cat and bird looked terrorifed, thinking that the new dog was part of the gang.

"Oh no!" the black-and-white cat yowled. "Not another one!"

The son of Courage skidded to a halt in front of them, panting, trying to catch his breath. It was a long alley on the inside then it looked on the outside. He looked over at the cat when it spoke, and he smiled at it and the bird.

"Relax," he began, "I'm not with them. I'm here to help you."

"Oh yeah?" one of the dogs, a black one, stepped up. "And how do you plan to do that, runt?"

He took a step back, as he stared up at the older dog. The black one towered over him, glaring down at him with glowing red eyes, showing his long sharp, white fangs, that dripped with drool. A brown, white, golden, and black-and-brown dog(s) started towards the shaking puppy.

"I—I—"

The other dogs were all standing over him now; glaring down at him with their mean eyes. Coward started to tremble and shake in fear, as he stared up at the other dogs.

I think this was a bad idea… he thought.

"Yeah?" the brown one asked, pushing the smaller dog. "How do you plan on stopping us?"

The younger dog gulped. "Well.. I—"

"Hey, I know!" the white one spoke up, cutting the younger one off. "Let's have a snack before we have dinner!"

"Yeah!" the golden barked. "I like that idea!"

The black-and-brown one nodded in agreement, licking his fangs, grinning evilly. "I agree with Snow. Let's have us a snack first. What do you say, Night?"

The black one, Night, nodded his head as well. "Yes. Let's get him boys!"

Coward's eyes had widened when the other dogs began talking about using him as a snack. The puppy had begun shaking like a leaf that was about to fell off a tree branch, if the wind blew a little bit. He suddenly got an idea, and knew what he had to do. He looked at the cat and bird, and yelled one word to them.

"Run!"

The two-tailed cat and bird didn't need to be told twice. They took off running and flying away from the dogs. Now that they were safe and sound, the son of Courage spun around and ran as fast as his paws would allow him to go. Night and his pack were hot on the younger dog's tail.

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After what seemed like hours of running, Coward finally lost the other dogs. The purple puppy was leaning up against a large building, trying to catch his breath once again. He never ran that far and long in his short life before.

At least that cat and bird are safe. I hope anyway..

He heard claws hitting the side-walk, and he froze, eyes wide. He began to shake, his eyes closed, hoping and praying it wasn't Night and his dogs. He didn't think he had it in him to run anymore.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Huh?

He slowly opened his eyes and saw the cat and bird from before. They both looked at him with eyes full of worry. He leaned forward so he was standing up-right on his back paws.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied.

"We never did get to thank you for saving us," the bird said.

"Yeah," the cat added. "Thank you…?"

"Coward. Coward the Cowardly Dog, son of Courage the Cowardly Dog. And who are you guys?"

"I'm Sulo," the bird chirped.

"And I'm Mint," the cat finished. "It's nice to meet you, Coward."

He smiled, wagging his tail. "Same to you guys."

"So, what were you doing out there before?" the black-and-white kitten questioned. "Don't you know that Night and his dogs at the most feared around here?"

"No. I didn't know that. I'm new around here, and I couldn't just leave you guys there when you were in trouble, now could I?"

The bird flew onto the puppy's head and looked down at him with his black eyes. "You could have, but you didn't. Why?"

The son of Courage shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno. Something told me to help you guys, even though I was scared out of my mind."

Mint let out a purr. "Well, I'm glad you did! They were gonna kill us for sure!"

"And that wouldn't be very good since this is a kid's story," the pup added.

"Right…"

Just then, a shadow fell over the new group of friends. They looked up, and gasped at what they saw. A large spaceship was in the sky, blocking out the sun, making it seem like it was night time. The door to the ship opened up, and what looked like a chicken stepped, only it was glowing and see-through.

"What's that?" Mint asked, his eyes wide.

"I dunno," Sulo told his friend. "Coward?"

The pup shook his head. "I don't know ether. Come on!"

He turned and ran back towards his home with his new friends following him.

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The three friends got back to the house to find that Maple and Kyle were already there, and they weren't very happy to see that the puppy wasn't there when they returned.

"Coward, I thought I told you to stay at the house!" the ten year old said.

The two month old pup put his ears down. "I'm sorry, Maple, but I had to. And we have bigger problems right now anyway!"

That said, he went upstairs to their room, Mint and Sulo behind him. The son of Courage grabbed the black notebook and began to look through it once again.

"What's that?" the two-tailed cat asked.

"It's a journal my father left for me. It will tell us what's going on."

The cat and bird looked at each other, then back at their new friend.

"Alright."

Coward continued looking through the journal, till he found what he was looking for. Or what he hoped was it anyway.

The Chicken from Outer Space, was the first enemy I came across. He came to earth to try and turn the humans into chickens like himself. He did so by giving an egg which when eaten, would slowly turn whoever ate it into a chicken. He got the Useless Old Man, but I kept Muriel safe from him. I blasted the chicken with his laser gun, turning him into a cooked one.

Not too long after that, he came back for some pay-back. He wanted to rip off my head and put it on his body for some odd reason. He kidnapped Muriel and threatened to use it on her if I didn't do as he wanted. As always, I saved her, and the Useless Old Man was the one that had it happened to him. I felt a bit bad for him, but not all that much.

Soon after that, he sent his son, a chicken with three heads to finish what he had started. Like before, I stopped him, them? Whatever, and saved the farm house.

It ended after that, and once again, the pup sighed and put the book down.

"Well, that doesn't tell me how to get rid of that chicken."

"Well, it's a ghost, right?" Mint asked.

"From what Dad's journal said, it should be, yeah."

"Then why don't you catch it with something?" Sulo spoke up.

The son of Courage flicked one ear. "How?"

"Use a… Oh, what are they called?" the cat half said, half asked.

Coward waved a paw. "Calm down Mint. I know what you mean. I'll use one of them to catch that ghost chicken. Come on you guys!"

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The Ghost of the Chicken From Outer Space flew down from his ship. He looked around at the small town of Nowhere at all the small buildings that were around. He had one thing, and one thing only on his mind.

And that was to destroy that stupid dog.

The ghost stopped when he heard a noise. He turned around and saw a smaller version of that dog. It looked just like him, only it was younger and purple. A cat and bird stood beside him.

"Hey, ghost! It's time for you go hit the road!" Coward growled, and flipped a switch on the large metal thing behind him.

The ghost chicken began getting sucked into it, and it fought as hard as he could, growling and squacking, trying to get away.

However, it did little to no good as he was sucked in anyway.

Mint flipped the switch back to it's off mode, and chuckled. "We did it!"

Sulo nodded his head. "Yeah!"

Coward chuckled. "We sure did."

The ghost chicken kicked at the bag it was in, still trying to get out, it spoke and the three friends could somehow understand it.

"You haven't seen the last of me!" he growled at them. "I will get out of here, and when I do, you'll pay!"

The black-and-white cat hopped onto the back, shutting the ghost up. "Ah, be quiet you!"

The puppy and bird laughed, as they threw the bag away, so that no one would ever find it and let the ghost out.

"Well, I say this is wrapping up nicely," Sulo chirped.

"Yeah!" Mint nodded. "Oh, Coward?"

"Yes?"

"Would it be okay if we live with you and your family? We have none of our own."

Coward looked thoughtful at this and smiled. "Sure, I don't see why not."

The cat and bird hugged their new friend, who returned the hug.

"Come on guys, let's go back home."

And with that, they headed back to the house, wondering what new adventures tomorrow would bring.

And that's Chapter 4, everyone! XD. Hope you enjoyed it. As said before, I felt like I rushed the ending a bit, but I wanted to get it out for you guys. You've been waiting long enough. XD.

Next Time: Coward and his friends are still trying to figure out what Katz and La Quack are planning. Meanwhile, it's Thanksgiving break (since it was only a few days ago, and I wanna do a chapter of it in this story. XD.), and the gang try and have a good time. Only, it's cut short when the daughter of one of Courage's enemies comes and warns them about a plan that her mother is doing, and it has something to do with Kyle. Can Coward stop this bad guy and save Kyle before it's too late? Only one way to find out, and that's to read the next chapter!

Till then, see ya all later! Bye!

And Happy late Thanksgiving!