Authors Note: This was done by me and "Demberway".:) I typed the Chapter and he added more detail to the parts where there needed more detailing, so make sure you give "Demberway" credit to.:D

K, anyway, this Chapter is a bit more intense just so you know. But here's the new Chapter, Enjoy!:D

The hungry scavenger is racing towards Marshall and Everest, and just as it jumped at Everest, Marshall yelled. "EVEREST, LOOK OUT!"

Just as Everest turned to see it leaping at her, Marshall ended up intercepting it and took the hit for her. Marshall fell on his back hard, gasping a little from the hit to his chest, and as he slowly tried getting up, the scavenger charged and slashed Marshall's shoulder, causing him to yelp in pain and falling back to the ground. The scavenger then sunk its teeth into Marshall's hind leg, easily ripping into his flesh, making the poor Dalmatian scream in agony.

Everest stood there in shock the first seconds before totally realize what was going on.

The scavenger looked at Marshall and licked its lips, when he stared at his defenseless neck. Marshall opened an eye when he saw it quickly approaching to his neck. But before it could do anymore damage, Everest hits him right in the head, knocking it off Marshall. Everest then slashed its side and the scavenger fled, running away as fast as it could. She gasped a couple of times standing to her four paws and screamed.

"Stay away from us-!" But then she noticed Marshall, bleeding on the cold ice with two open wounds.

Everest ran back to Marshall, who was laying on his side, eyes closed and breathing heavily.

"Oh no, Marshall!" She exclaimed putting her paws in his injured shoulder, trying to stop the bleeding.

Seeing him twisting on the floor, constantly bleeding and shivering made her concern about his actions. Of course, Marshall is brave and loyal, but why would he risk his own life?

But a better way to put it would be; why would he risk his own life… for her?

"Why?" she whispered, only loud enough so he can hear her. Marshall, who was holding his shoulder to stop the bleeding, painfully looked confused at Everest.

"Why what-?"

"Why did you do such a thing?!" She shouted, turning her head sharply, developing her already teary eyes. "You could've-! … That thing could've… done something worse to you." Tears slowly started to land on the ice beneath her, as she returned her view to his injuries. There was silence for a moment; you could only hear the winds blowing around as she tried to cover the open wounds, trying to look for something that could help her with it.

Marshall slowly opened his eyes that were until now closed for the pain, smiled painfully and directed his view to her.

"Because … I care about you."

Everest's eyes opened widely and turned her head to him.

"I-I couldn't bear to see you getting hurt… knowing that I could've done something." He continued in a tired voice, smiling all the time and looking in her eyes.

Everest didn't say a word, not moving even the sightless bit, and looked him confused. Those words touched her in a strange way that she couldn't describe in that moment. "Y-You would risk your life… for me?"

Marshall saw that she was just standing there, like shocked, so he asked.

"Everest? Everest, are you ok?"

Everest blinked a couple of times; she looked at her paws, blood starting to cover them. She shook her head and replied. "Y-Yeah… I'm fine." She replied, still trying to go back to reality. "A-Are you able to walk?"

Marshall grimaced in pain and replied. "Well, I can try."

Everest took her paws off his leg wound, saw Marshall try to get up, but the moment he put pressure on his hind leg, he yelped in pain and fell back down on his side, closing his eyes, breathing heavily again, blood still running down his hind leg and shoulder.

"We need to get the bleeding to stop and clean your wounds before they get infected...here, I'll carry you back to the Ambulance."

Marshall replied painfully, "Yeah, sounds like a plan."

So, Everest put her head underneath Marshall's belly and hoisted him on her back and carried him back to the Ambulance. Marshall also wrapped both his forelegs around her so he wouldn't accidentally fall off.

But something was going on inside of Everest As she carried Marshall back to his ambulance, Everest felt strange, but in a good way. Feeling his warm, soft white fur on her back, his gentle touch and his warm breath on her neck; a comfort type of feeling she's never felt before. Every step she took made that comfort grow a bit more, drawing in her face a shy smile. But she quickly stopped thinking about it. "Not now, he needs help; my help to be specific."

As soon as she got him in the Ambulance, snow began to fall.

So Everest closed the Ambulance doors, turned on the lights and warm air inside, and gently layed him on his stretcher and put a soft pillow behind his head for him to have at least some comfort. Marshall looked up at Everest. "Thanks for the pillow...it's nice and soft." He said as he coed at the warm feeling.

Everest smiled sadly but replied, "Don't even mention it. Actually, I hadn't thanked you for saving me yet."

Marshall tried to chuckle but yelped in pain again, making her worry again. Still, he managed to just smile. "No problem, that's what...best friends are for."

Again, the mention of her as his best friend made her blush a little. "I have some medical supplies and bandages in that cabinet next to you, you can use them to...to clean the wounds"

Everest nodded and opened up the cabinet. She took a look at him with a bit of worriedness. "Are you ready? 'Cause it's probably going to sting a lot."

Marshall nodded and contained his breath, and Everest began to clean his bite wound on his leg. Marshall groaned, also clenching his teeth together painfully and then yelped slightly.

Everest immediately stopped and said, "I'm sorry Marshall, didn't mean to hurt you."

Marshall shook his head, "It's alright, it needs to be cleaned or it'll get infected...continue please."

Everest hesitated at first; she hated seeing Marshall in pain like this, even more so that she's hurting him. But took a deep breath and continued to clean his wound. And once it was cleaned, she wrapped up the leg wound and asked, "A-Are you ok?"

"I'm … fine… you're doing great," he said panting a little, gently putting a paw on her leg and smiling.

Everest nodded and looked at the shoulder wound but realized that she wouldn't be able to clean the whole wound because it goes up into the vest. "Marshall, I can't clean the entire wound, your vest is in the way." Marshall looked and indeed it did, the shoulder part of the vest was ripped and bloody.

"Oh, sorry, hang on...real quick." So Marshall painfully unzipped his vest and as soon as he was taking it off his injured shoulder, he yelped, because it was sticking a little on the wound, so he stopped and painfully said, "Everest...can you...h-help me get my arm out of the sleeve part of my...vest?"

This was getting more and more difficult for Everest to do; the more pain Marshall began to feel...the more and more painful it was for her to handle. His painful yelps echoed throughout her ears and body, it almost made tears fall from her eyes, but she managed to breathe deeply and reply. "Yes, yes I can." She said, totally determined.

So she gently lifted his right foreleg up in the air, then took the vest and slowly began to slide the blood-soaked area of the vest that was stuck to his shoulder wound off. All the while, Marshall had an agonizingly painful look on his face, with a tear rolling down his cheek. And finally, she got the vest off his shoulder wound and took the vest off.

Everest looked down at Marshall, who was breathing very heavily, his eyes closed, "Oh Marshall, I'm sorry...I'm sorry that you had to feel that much pain."

Marshall replied painfully, "It-it's ok...it needed to...be done so you...you could clean it."

Everest was silent, so Marshall replied, "It's ok Everest...you...you can go ahead and...And clean my shoulder wound now."

Everest nodded sadly and took a clean, wet gauss and began cleaning his shoulder. It was painful to look at for her, but as soon as she got done cleaning his shoulder, she put some bandages on it and finished. By now, Marshall's breathing was getting back to normal.

When she finally could calm herself, she turned to him. "So, how did I do?" she asked softly.

Marshall looked up at Everest, smiled and replied, "You did great, thank you."

"You're welcome." She softly replied.

"So, what should we do now?"

"Well, probably wait to be rescued. And you need to rest."

"But we need to continue searching for your parents-"

"Not in your condition, what you need to do is sleep, I'll keep watching; that animal is still out there...and not to mention it's snowing harder, almost whiteout conditions."

Marshall sighed sadly and replied, "Yeah, guess you're right."

And at that, Marshall slowly drifted off to sleep. Everest smiled and yawned, watching the peace that she brought to him. Soon, she disposed to lay down right next to him. Again, she felt his warm fur and soft breathing on her.

"Just a bit closer." She said to herself and went closer to him and coed a little, now finally disposing to sleep.

"What is going on down there?"

Chase looked over the cliff again and something caught his eyes, it was almost covered in fresh snow, but saw what looked like some blood stains...he started panicking even more and called Ryder, "Ryder Sir, I...I-I think I see some blood stains down next to Marshall's Ambulance, please hurry!"

"Don't worry Chase, we're coming as fast as we can-"

Static.

"Ryder? Ryder, sir? Anyone there?!"

Chase waited for a response, but it was all static. He started focusing on where his drone was headed but it was snowing so hard he couldn't see a thing, so he had the drone stop and turned on a built in police siren and waited for someone to find it, but got nothing. He was getting a little frustrated, sighed and said to himself, "Come on, come on Ryder, where are you?"

Suddenly the wind started blowing really hard and he began having trouble controlling the drone. "Ruff, Drone, come back!" he barked.

So he got his drone to turn around and head back. Chase looked at all his surroundings; he couldn't see a thing; the snowstorm just keeps getting worse and worse. There was snow beginning to cover his head and back, making him feel really cold. "Man, this snowstorm is really bad; I don't think I've ever seen it this bad before...I just hope that Ryder and the others are okay."

Chase all of a sudden heard something in the distance, it sounded like a siren, and it was his drone. So once the drone got to him, he put it away and decided to turn his vehicle back into his pup house and once he did, he quickly got inside, shut his door, unzipped and took off his wet, cold vest and quickly wrapped himself up in his blue star blanket to try and help himself warm up.

Chase said to himself, "M-m-m-man, I really hope that M-M-Marshal and Everest are ok too."

Then Chase all of a sudden heard something like bump into his pup house, he originally thought it was Ryder or the pups...until he heard a slight growl and something scratch his door. He said to himself, "Uh-oh, this is not good. What if that thing found Marshall and Everest first? Oh no, I can't just continue to wait, what if both are in trouble and need help now? I have to do something." He said to himself. Whatever that thing is, sounds dangerous; but all what he cares of impulse his determination.

Not standing on his 4 legs he shouted.

"Chase is on the case!"

So Chase got into his second pair of Super-Spy vest and gear that was dry and said quietly, "Ruff, Net Canon."

His net canon came out and slowly opened his door, said quietly, "I've got you now you wild fur ball."

As soon as the door was completely opened, he didn't see anything, just white snow, so he stayed quiet for a few more minutes and sure enough he saw it come into view slowly, so Chase aimed his net canon just right, then all of a sudden, the wild animal saw Chase and charged him, but Chase shouted first and fired his net canon and sure enough, it trapped the animal. The scavenger didn't give up that easy and began to bite the net; that's when Chase changed to his dart gun and fired again with his eyes closed but the sudden fear. After a little bit, Chase opened his eyes only to see that he had knocked the animal out cold.

"Yes, Woohoo, oh yeah, Super Spy Chase took you down!" Chase said dancing around the knocked out animal!

"Oh yeah! Who's the thug guy now? Eh, thug guy?!" he kept teasing it giving some kicks here and there.

"Oh God, you smell terrible! Looks like someone needs a bath now-!"

Chase stopped cold when he sniffled around the unconscious animal; he caught another scent apart from its bad smell. It was a scent that he knew pretty well, it was from a member of the team; as he kept sniffling, he noticed a sight smell of blood coming from one of its sides not too long ago. But what really concerned him was that the scent was coming from the wound too, so he made his conclusion. It was Everest's scent, coming from a recent injure of a scavenger, what means that she fought with it not too long ago.

"You… found Everest and Marshall!" Chase growled to the wild, still unconscious animal and began kicking it roughly.

"YOU STUPID ANIMAL, HOW...DARE...YOU...ATTACK...MY...FRIENDS!"

Chase was so enraged and growled again, "You better hope that my friends are okay, or you're going to pay dearly...on second thought, I've changed my mind, I'm going to make you SUFFER!"

Chase removed the dart and slashed its neck, it immediately woke up and yelped, but Chase shot him with another dart and was out cold...its neck bleeding pretty badly! Chase smirked with an evil eye and chuckled, "I'm going to enjoy watching...you...die."

Chase chuckled one last time and walked back inside his pup house, locked the door and got himself under his blanket and called Ryder.

"Ryder, Ryder Sir. Anyone, please, answer me!"

He sighed as no one replied.

"I hope everyone's okay."

After a while of a good time sleeping, Everest started to wake up because of the cold. Stretching a little, she opened her eyes and looked around. Seems like she wasn't the only one getting cold.

"Oh Marshall." She noticed him shivering a little next to her. "There must be something to cover… us." She said to herself, blushing at the idea.

She looked around the ambulance for some blankets or something. Next to the medical supplies, she found a warm blanked to cover with. When she extended herself to take it, she took a look to outside; what she saw made her gasp silently.

She saw what looked like that scavenger earlier, but there were four of them sniffling around the ambulance. Quickly, she turned the lights off, but turned up the heat, then ducked her head, rushing back to where Marshall was still shivering a little. She tucked herself in the blanked with him. Within a few minutes, he stopped shivering in his sleep and a small smile formed in his face, making her smile too.

Even when she wanted to be peacefully sleeping next to him, she couldn't help but be worried for the animals outside. She put her head against his fur trying to get rid of the feeling.

"They must've smelled Marshall's injuries around here. Hopefully they'll leave soon." She thought before drifting off to sleep once again.

I know that the Chapter is much shorter but hope you enjoyed it nonetheless!:D

Anyway, hope you like!:D

~Kovu 01