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Crazy-Horse- Yes, I used your Chicken Space thing. XD. It is true that he isn't in a lot of stories now a days. XD. To answer your other question, about the "Courage the Cowardly Dog JR" story, I haven't read that story yet. I've seen it around, but I haven't gotten around to going and reading it. If anything is close to it or sounds like it, I'm deeply sorry, and I shall go back and change it. Still, thank you very much for the review, and I hope you and others continue liking the story! ^^.

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Chapter 5: The Queen of the Black Puddle's Daughter

Coward, Mint, Sulo, and Maple were all sitting in the then year old's room. The pup had told them of what he found out about Katz, and why he tried to follow her and Kyle to school the day before.

"So, let me get this straight," the ten year old started. "Katz and La Quack, two of your father's enemies are at our school, and are planning something?"

"Yes," the puppy told her. "From what I've learned about them from Dad's journal, I know they're up to something bad."

Maple nodded, and leaned back against the wall. "It's a good think it's Thanksgiving break. We can try and find out some things while we're off."

"How long are you off?" Mint asked. He and Sulo were still trying to get use to living with them, and learning what their human owners did everyday.

"The rest of the week."

"And now long is that?"

"Three days, if you don't count Saturday and Sunday, then it's five."

"Oh."

Sulo flew down and landed on the bed. "So we have five days to try and figure out what's going on."

"Seems that way."

"Well, we still have when Maple and Kyle are at school too," Coward told his friends. "However, there's a chance that Katz or La Quack could do something to them, and I'd feel a lot better if we can find out what's going on, and stop it, before they go back to the school."

Mint jumped up from where he was sitting on the foot of the bed. "Then, what are we waiting for? Let's start looking!"

The purple puppy shook his head at his two-tailed cat friend. "It's not going to be that easy, Mint. Dad had a hard time beating these two back in the day, and so will we. We need to be careful, and come up with a plan first."

"I agree with him," the small bird spoke up. "We don't know anything about them yet. From the way Coward talks, they sound like they're badder than Night and his gang, and they nearly killed us and him!"

The black-and-white kitten sighed, and sat back down. "I guess you're right."

"No need to worry about it, Mint," Coward told the kitten. "Sulo does have a point though. We need to working on finding out what they're up too. The sooner the better."

"Coward's right," Maple added, sitting up right. "The sooner we figure out what they're up to, the sooner we can stop them."

The son of Courage stood up and smiled. "Alright guys, let's get to work. Mint, you go with Maple and keep her safe, okay?"

The black-and-white kitten nodded his head. "You can count on me!"

"Glad to hear it. Sulo, you'll come with me. We can look faster that way if we go in twos."

The bird nodded. "Right."

With that said, the two groups headed off, knowing just what they had to do.

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Last night, it had rained, making the ground all wet and muddy. Coward didn't mind it too much, since he was a puppy, and felt like going and playing in the mud and puddles at were around. He shook his head. Now was not the time to be thinking that. He was on and mission, and he had to see it through.

As he and Sulo pasted by a puddle, the purple puppy thought he saw something inside of it. He stopped and looked down at it, wondering if he did see something, or if his eyes were just playing tricks on him.

He saw a face staring at him, and it wasn't his own. It was a girl. She had red eyes, dark purple hair, and was dressed in blue. She smiled up at him, showing her white fangs.

The two month old puppy froze, staring down at the thing in the puddle. He took a few steps back, and let out a scream much like his father's.

Sulo, who was flying a little ways ahead of him, heard the scream and flew back to his friend as fast as his wings would let him.

"Coward!" he gasped, once he reached the pup. "What happened? Why did you scream?"

He was still staring at the puddle trembling. He couldn't speak, not yet anyway. The bird sighed and landed on his head, and did the one thing he thought would snap his friend out of it.

He yelled in his ear.

"COWARD!"

The puppy yelped and fell backwards, as the bird flew off his head. Once the pup had fallen onto his back, did the smaller animal landed on his nose.

"You okay?"

"Y-yeah. I think."

"What scared you so bad?"

"I saw something in that puddle! It was a girl, and she smiled up at me, and had fangs.."

Sulo frowned, still looking down at his friend. "Are you sure you saw a little girl down there?"

"Yes!"

The smaller animal flew off his nose, and over to the puddle. Coward gasped, and reached a paw out, ready to call him back, when his friend flew back over to him.

"I don't see anything in there. Are you sure you saw something?"

"I'm sure!"

"Well, whatever it was, it's gone now. Let's get going."

"O-okay.."

The puppy stood up, still a little shaking and scared from what he followed after his friend, after glancing back at the puddle a few more times to make sure that nothing was coming out of it after them.

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Back with Maple and Mint, the cat and human were close to the school, and it was the kitten's first time seeing one.

"So, this is where you go to school at?" he asked, once they reached the school.

"Yep," she replied. "This is it."

"Wow.."

He stared up at the large building it awe. He couldn't wait till they got inside, and he could see what it looked like from there. Would it be bigger or smaller than the outside? Questions like that buzzed through his mind like a bunch of bees.

"Come on Mint, I'll show around.. If we can get inside."

"If?"

"The doors might be locked since we're on break now."

"Oh…"

Maple reached down and picked him up. "Don't worry. If they are, I have other ways of getting inside."

"How?" Mint asked. He wanted to know them all of the ways to sneak inside of the school, in case he needed to someday.

"You'll see my little kitten friend."

The two walked over to the front doors, and to both of their surprise and shock, the doors opened.

"Guess they were unlocked after all."

The black-and-white kitten hopped out of her arms. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go inside!"

"Alright."

The two went inside the school, wondering what they would find. And they hoped it was nothing bad.

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Meanwhile, back at the house, Kyle was home alone. His sister and the stupid puppy, kitten, and bird were out doing who knows what, and their parents were at work. He didn't mind it really. He enjoyed be home alone. After all, there was no one to tell him what he could and couldn't do.

He went to the living room and sat down and turned on the TV, snacks were all around him.

"Now, time to kick back and watch some TV."

However, just as he got started waiting something, he heard something..

What's that? A voice?

"Kyle…" the voice whispered.

He looked around for the voice, but couldn't find anyone.

"Who's there?"

"Kyle…" it whispered again.

"Blah!" Kyle stood up and went outside to see if it was someone playing a joke on him.

A tall figure stood there.

"Who the heck are you?" he asked.

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Back with Coward and Sulo, the two were looking around for any sort of clue that might be able to help them. The son of Courage was still a bit freaked out from what he had seen.

I know I saw that girl in the puddle… I wonder who she is and what she could want.. I hope she isn't anyone bad!

"Find anything?" he called to his bird friend.

The smaller animal shook his head. "No. You?"

"Nothing."

The son of Courage let out a sigh. "This is going to take us longer than I thought."

Sulo nodded in agreement. "I hope Maple and Mint have doing better then us."

"So do I…"

The two went back to their mission. Coward came across another puddle, and he gulped. He looked down into it, and again saw the girl. He screamed and fell back when she started to rise up from the water!

The bird heard the scream again, and turned to see what had scared his friend again, and he too saw the girl rise from the puddle.

"You were right!" Sulo chirped.

The puppy didn't reply to his friend. He only stared, shaking like a leaf at the girl. She smiled down at him, once again showing her white fangs, causing him to tremble more.

"Hello little puppy, and you too, bird," the girl finally spoke.

"W-who are you?" Coward asked, once he had found his voice.

"My name is Sapphire. I'm the daughter of the Queen of the Black Puddle."

"Queen of the Black Puddle?" the puppy echoed.

"Yes."

The son of Courage got out the journal and looked up on this Queen of the Black Puddle person.

The Queen of the Black Puddle, was another of the enemies that I fought. She was a demon, a beast, they liked to go after males. She would take them to her underwater lair, and then eat them alive. She could also turn into a female dog to try and get male dogs.

She went after The Old Useless Man, and I had to be the one to save him, since Muriel was a mess without him.

I saved him, as much as I wanted to leave him down there to his fate, but I didn't want Muriel to be sad. I wanted her to be happy, and that's why I went down there and saved the man she loved.

It ending there, and the pup put it away, after shivering at the thought of what he read.

"So, you're her daughter?"

Sapphire nodded. "Yes. But don't worry, I'm not like Mom. I won't try and eat you."

"Alright…. Oh! I'm Coward and this Sulo."

"Nice to meet you," the bird chirped.

She nodded, smiling. "Same to you."

There was a long pause of silence, before she spoke again.

"I have news for you, son of Courage."

The puppy perked his ears at this. "And what would that be?"

"My mother has taken the one you call Kyle. She is going to do to him what she tried to do to your father's old owner."

He felt his blood run cold, and he froze, eyes wide in fear and shock. "W-what?"

Sapphire nodded her head at the young pup. "It's true. I came to warn you, so you can save him before it's too late!"

The purple puppy turned to his bird friend. "Come on, we have to go find Maple and Mint! Let's go!"

The three of them headed off in search of their other friends.

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Mint and Maple were still looking around the school for anything. The kitten was more or less looking around at everything that was new to him. He had no idea that a school was this big.

"Maple?" he called from the other room.

"What?"

"What's this thing?"

"Mmm?" She walked into the room and saw the black-and-white two-tailed kitten on top of, or trying to get on top of, the chalkboard. "That's a chalkboard. The teacher writes things on there for us kids to do or solve."

"Oh… Cool!"

"You've been saying that since we got here."

"I can't help it."

"Sure you can't."

"I can't!"

Suddenly, the sound of barking from the outside window, and they looked out to see Coward, Sulo, and Sapphire standing there. The two hurried out of the closest door, and met up with the other three.

"What's going on you guys? Find anything? And who's this?" Maple asked.

"This is Sapphire. She's the daughter of one of my father's enemies, the Queen of the Black Puddle. But she's nice. She came to warn us that her mom is going after Kyle to try and get him like he tried to get the Useless Old Man from my father and Muriel. We gotta save him!"

The ten year old paled when she heard this. "We have to! Mom and Dad will kill me if something happens to him!"

"I'm staying here. I hate water," Mint meowed.

"So am I. I can't swim anyway," Sulo added.

"Right. Maple, stay with them. Go back to the house and wait for us there."

"No way! I'm coming with you!"

"It's too dangerous! I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to you!" Coward protested.

Even if I'm scared out of my mind right now.. I really don't want to do this! But I can't let Maple get hurt, or Kyle ether for that matter, how matter how much of a jerk he is to me..

"Fine. Just be careful, okay?"

"I will." He hugged her, before he and Sapphire headed off.

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Coward and Sapphire when to the closest puddle they could find, and she jumped right into it, waiting for him to follow. The puppy took a deep and big breath, before he too, jumped into the puddle of water.

"Follow me," she said, and swam off.

He nodded and followed after her, to where he guessed was where the two of them lived. Where else would her mother take someone? The puppy looked around at all the new things he had never seen before. The water burned his eyes so he had to keep them closed a lot, only opening them to make sure that Sapphire was still there, and he was still following her.

When the puppy opened his eyes again, he felt fear shoot through him more than it was when they first jumped into the water. His new friend was nowhere to be found! He was all alone in the water with who knows what.

Oh, this is bad! he thought. What am I going to do?!

Coward did the only thing he could do. He continued swimming, hoping he would find his new friend, or Kyle before something bad happened. He heard what sounded like singing, and he quickly followed it, kicking his paws as fast as they would go.

I hope this is a good idea…

He stopped when he saw Kyle, and he was about to cry out in joy, but then he remembered that he was under water. That would be a bad thing to do. His lungs were already hurting, screaming for air.

He needed to get him and get out of here, fast.

But, how was he going to do that with the Queen of the Black Puddle there? He'd need a way to get rid of her before he did anything else.

He grabbed a piece of what he thought was rock, and threw it against something. It made a cling noise when it hit, making the queen look up.

Grumbling to herself, she flew to see what it was, giving the pup the opening he needed. He swam over and grabbed Kyle and began to swim back towards the puddle he and Sapphire had come from.

"And just where do you think you're going, dog? Trying to take another meal of mine?" a voice hissed from behind him.

Gulping, the pup turned to see the Queen of the Black Puddle there, glaring at him.

"Ummm.." he spoke, forgetting that he was underwater.

"Wait, you're not that dog.. You're smaller and purple."

"You see.."

"No matter, you won't e escaping me!"

She then turned into a monster and began swimming towards them. Coward screamed and swam as fast as he could. Kyle was slowing him down however.

Great! We're both going to die!

"Stop!"

The pup stopped and looked back. He saw Sapphire there, standing, rather floating, in front of her mother. She looked back at him and nodded, and he smiled and swam off with Kyle.

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"You're back!" Maple cheered. She hugged him and her older brother. "I was worried sick about you two!"

"So were we," Mint added, rubbing up against his dog friend, purring happily. "We're glad you both are back safe and sound."

Sulo nodded, flying and landing on the pup's head. "Yeah."

Coward chuckled. "If it wasn't for Sapphire, we wouldn't be. She came and saved us."

"I'll have to thank her when I see her."

The others nodded in agreement, as Maple added, "Come on you guys, it's Thanksgiving. Let's go eat."

"Right. One thing first."

"What?"

Coward turned to the readers with a smile on his face, and waved his paw. "Happy Thanksgiving everyone!"

And that's chapter 5! ^^. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did typing it! I know it's pass Thanksgiving, but I wanted to do a chapter with a bit of it in it. XD.

Next Time: Coward and his friends and family and getting ready for December 25th, when yet another bad guy comes, and this time, it has something to do with Coward. Can the little puppy and his friends stop this bad guy, or will it get what it wants? You guys will just have to wait for the next chapter to see!

See you guys later!