Chapter Notice: A Special thank you to Kovu 01 for helping me out with ideas in this Chapter
Chapter 8: Heart Ache
In the Present
Ryder had been called by Farmer Yumi, a tree had fallen on one of her fences and broke it. The Paw Patrol responded, Ryder took all of the pups including Marshall who was wearing Rocky's invention. They had been there for 3hours, Chase was growing concerned for Marshall, even though he had Everest with him all the time, it wasn't till Chase saw Marshall lifting a pole with Rocky and Everest, he finally snapped.
"MARSHALL! What do you think you are doing!" Chase yelled taking the pole off of the Dalmatian "You shouldn't be lifting this! Not in your state!" he threw the pole on the ground
"I'm helping" Marshall said back somewhat surprised by Chase's actions "I thought you all said I could help?"
"No, not lifting a pole...Marshall, lifting that pole could rip your stitches on your side and belly, you're in no condition to do that!" Chase yelled at him
Marshall started to get tears in his eyes "Would you stop Chase...I'm FINE! I'm tired of sitting on my butt all day not doing anything"
"You can help with something small, not this though!" Chase replied kicking the pole with his paw
"I'm doing fine...I'm not re-opening my wound, Rocky's helping me!" Marshall said, beginning to get slightly angry
"And who's to say that that won't happen...lifting that pole with stretch your belly wound, it could rip the stitches, then what? You'll bleed out, we're no where near Katie's, or a hospital for a fact! You'll bleed out and die, just like in my nightmare...you bled out and d-d-d...AND DIED!" Chase could feel himself started to tear up, then without warning he burst into tears "You died on me...right in front of my-my own eyes...and there was nothing I could do t-to save y-you! I won't have you d-d-die on me buddy...I failed you there in the nightmare, and I-I'd fail you again. I'm a police pup, it's my j-job to protect everyone and you...failing is NOT who I will be...I failed once in the nightmare, who-who's to say I won't fail again if you tear your wounds open"
4 Hours Earlier
During the nap, Chase was allowed to sleep in the same room Marshall was in. Though he was having a nightmare
In Chase's nightmare, he was sitting on Marshall's bed talking "Don't worry Buddy, you'll survive, and all of us will help."
Marshall replied with a smile, "Thanks Chase, that means a lot to me."
As Chase was about to reply, he felt something warm and wet touching his paws and hind legs, he looked down and saw blood rushing out of Marshall's side and belly. Chase gasped and Marshall saw his panicked face, so he said worriedly, "Chase? What's wrong, why are you pani-"
Marshall flinched and all of a sudden felt a lot of pain, he pushed the sheets off him and saw blood rushing out of his belly and side."
Marshall said painfully, squeezing his eyes shut, "Ch-Chase, h-help me."
Chase took the blood-soaked bandages off Marshall's belly and side, bu that only resulted in blood gushing out of his belly and side, Chase was panicking and yelled, HELP, SOMEONE! MARSHALL'S BLEEDING BADLY!"
Chase put his paws on Marshall's belly and applied pressure to try and slow the bleeding. bu wasn't working! Chase saw Marshall's eyes rolling up towards the back of his head and his breathing rapidly increasing, which soon turned into gasping for air, Chase looked at his paws and now saw his paws soaked in Marshall's blood...and a big pool of blood surrounding him! Chase was stunned to the core at how big and deep the gash was on Marshall's belly!
As Marshall continued to bleed out, Everest rushed into the room and jumped on the bed next to Chase and pressed her paws on Marshall's side wound. Everest looked at Chase and yelled, Chase, hep me! My mates dying..."
Marshall's eyes began to close "E-E-Ev-erest, C-C-Ch-ase, I-I'm s-s-sor-ry"
"MARSHALL, MARSHALL! STAY AWAKE...DON'T LEAVE ME...STAY AWAKE!" Everest yelled, tears rushing and dripping off her face
But Marshall's eyes closed and finally, he stopped breathing.
Everest saw Marshall's head drop and eyes closed with no breathing, she screamed, a flood of tears dropping off her face, "MARSHALL! COME BACK...D-DON'T DIE...D-DON'T LEAVE ME!"
Everest was shaking Marshall, trying to still wake him, But still no movement, Marshall was dead.
Chase then dropped to his belly, blood soaking Chase's fur, crying with tears rushing down his face, and yelled, "NOOOO! MARSHALL BUDDY, COME-COME BACK...I N-NEED YOU! BUDDY DON'T LEAVE ME! MARSHALL, M-MY BROTHER, COME BACK, come back, come back."
Chase then dropped his head onto his chest and just cried into Marshall's chest
Outside of the nightmare, Everest was shaking Chase gently, trying to wake him up.
Marshall had heard Chase talking about him dying and wanting him to come back, while crying, and still crying. Marshall had tears in his own eyes as he to was trying to wake Chase by talking to him.
All of a sudden, Chase's eyes shot open, sweating while still teary eyed. He looked at Marshall and Everest, then without any warning, hugged Marshall while bursting into more tears and just cried into Marshall's chest "M-Marshall, I-I'm so sorry! I-I thought you had d-died on me! My h-heart shattered in-into a m-million pieces once y-you died! I-It was HO-HORRIBLE!" he just cried louder into his chest
"It's okay Chase, it was just a nightmare. I'm here, I'm still alive, I won't ever leave and die on you, I promise." Marshall wrapped his bandaged paws around the Shepherd
Chase slowly stopped crying "Y-you swear? Y-you p-promise you won't l-leave me?"
Marshall nodded "It's a promise. Don't worry, I will live...you are my best and closest friend and you will always be my brother Chase...always" he said still hugging him, Everest joint the hug
Back in the Present
After a moment of silence "I'm a police pup, and th-there's no acceptance for failing. Being part of the police force, you're 'To Serve And Protect'...NOT 'To Serve And Fail' If I fail a-again, I'll be leaving the Paw Patrol...I'll turn in my resignation, as well as my Police truck and uniform. And leave the Police force as we-well...there's no room for Failures in the Police force. I-I'm going to go sit in my truck and th-think for a bit" Chase said shocking everyone they watched the Sheppard go to his truck and hop in it
Marshall Looked up at Ryder "Ryder, can you take me over to Chase's truck? I want to say something"
"Sure" Ryder replied
In his Police truck, Chase had both paws on the dashboard and his head on the steering wheel, was talking to himself
"Stop crying Chase, you're a Police pup, you're not supposed to cry. You need to grow up, crying is for babies. You're making the police force look like a joke with your crying, grow up Chase, grow up. Stop being a baby Chase...being a baby is unacceptable for a police pup like you" tears are fell from his eyes "STOP BEING A BABY CHASE WITH YOUR CRYING! GROW UP CHASE...GROW UP!"
Chase then slammed his paw into the windshield, creating a huge crack on the corner windshield and also making his paw bleed, he started to hit himself on the head with his paw consistently while tears falling on his truck's floor
"Grow up, grow up, Grow Up CHASE!" And before Chase could continue hitting himself
Marshall, who had seen and heard the whole thing, put his paws on Chase's to stop him from hurting himself "Chase..."
Chase slowly looked at Marshall, his face soaked in tears, just hugged Marshall immediately, and continued to cry in Marshall's shoulder After awhile of letting Chase cry into his shoulder, they separated
Marshall Noticed the big crack in his windshield, then looked at his paw, which was a bit bloody "Want me to clean your paw and wrap it up?"
Chase looked at his paw, blood was dripping from it an there was also a blood stain on the windshield "Sure, thank you Marshall." he replied still sobbing
Marshall gently hugged Chase "You're welcome Chase" he got some bandages that were meant for his own injuries and started gently wrapping Chase's paw "I'm sorry Chase, i just wanted to help so badly, I know it could have torn my stitches" he finished wrapping his paw, tears fell from Marshall's eyes
Before Chase could say anything, howling and growling could be heard from the ground around Chase's truck, when Chase looked out he was shocked to see the pack of dogs circling his truck, eyeballing both pups like they were lunch.
To be continued