After Rubble, Chase, and Skye left the lookout with Ryder, Diamond turned to the remaining pups.
"So...what is it that you guys do for fun around here?" She asked. Marshall and Zuma looked at each other before a smile broke out on their faces.
"Pup Pup Boogie!" They said, rushing towards the elevator. Rocky shook his head while Diamond looked at them with confusion in her eyes.
"Pup Pup Boogie? What's that?" She asked.
"It's a dancing game for us pups!" Marshall said.
"Yeah, it's weally fun, and once you play, you'll nevew want to stop!" Zuma said, jumping up and down. "I'm the king of Pup Pup Boogie, while Skye is the queen. No one has evew beaten our high score, and wight now, thewe's a fiewce battle between hew and I."
"Nobody's ever beaten their high score...yet. Today, I'm going to be challenging that." Marshall said, chest puffed out. Zuma raised an eyebrow, green eyes filled with confidence and egoism.
"Oh yeah? You'we on!" With that, the two headed downstairs. Rocky couldn't help but laugh, causing Diamond to turn to him.
"Marshall should have known better than to challenge Zuma. He's not going to last even a minute - and it's not because I don't believe in him." He said. Diamond tilted her head to the side.
"Why, then?" She asked. Rocky felt his lip twitch, suppressing the urge to smile.
"Because Marshall is clumsy as a pup can get. He loses his footing too often to even be on the pad." The mix-breed laughed. "Wanna watch?"
Diamond nodded her head, and Rocky smiled as the two headed towards the elevator as well.
"Let's go!"
With that, the two headed downstairs just in time to see Zuma bringing out the pads they were going to be on. Sensing the two, Marshall looked over at Diamond and Rocky and smiled.
"After Zuma loses, you wanna play Diamond?" He asked, ignoring Zuma's scoff of disbelief. Diamond hesitated.
"Um...sure, but, how do I play? I never actually done this before." She asked, and Marshall just smiled at her.
"It's easy, all you have to do is match the arrows that come across the screen with the arrows on the pad. The game is design to be a rhythm type of game, so it's basically follow the beat to the song." He said, just as the announcer came on after Zuma plugged in the game. "Do the Pup Pup Boogie!"
"Just watch and leawn fwom the mastew, Diamond. I'll show how it's done." Zuma said with a cocky tone in his voice. Soon the two pups got into position, and then the song started to blare out of the speaks, and they began dancing. Diamond watched them, fascinated, as they matched step that came onto the screen. She couldn't help but bop her head a little, the song getting to her, and the urge to dance was overwhelming. She didn't even know that Rocky was watching her, smiling, happy to see the new pup enjoying something that they all love.
Just as the competition between Marshall and Zuma began heating up, they were cut off when Ryder appeared on screen.
"Sorry to bother you pups, but I need Marshall with his ladder." He said.
"It's okay, Ryder. I'm fired up! Diamond, you can continue where I'd left off, okay?" Marshall said as he ran out the door and got into his fire truck. The screen cut back to the game, where it was obvious that Zuma was winning.
"Come on, Diamond, let's play!" Zuma said. Diamond looked around, nervously.
"I don't know...I've never played before."
"Well it's the fiwst fow evewything, wight? Come on. Like Mawshall said, all you need to do is follow the awwows on the scween, and whoevew gets the most points, wins." Zuma said, as the duck on the screen began quacking at the second player. Diamond bit her lip before stepping up to the pad, and did exactly what she was told to do - follow the arrows. Occasionally, she would glance over at Zuma, who was too focus on the game, and then follow his steps, just as well as the arrows. For a few seconds, Diamond stumbled, blushing in embarrassment, before she finally got it down, and began grooving to the music.
Minutes passed by, and Diamond couldn't help but smile as she got into the game, matching Zuma step by step, with Rocky cheering her on. Eventually, they began to tire out, and Zuma decided to call it a draw.
"See? I knew you had it in you. A little more pwactice, and you'll have to fight Skye fow the title of Queen of Pup Pup Boogie." Zuma panted, drinking out of his bowl. Diamond grinned at the compliment, just as Rocky showed up and laid beside Zuma, nuzzling deep on his side. Diamond watched them, curious, as Zuma groaned. "Wocky..."
"Don't 'Wocky' me, you and I both know you enjoy having me by your side." Rocky said, grinning mischievously up at the Labrador. Zuma sighed and pulled him closer, placing a kiss on the top of Rocky's head.
"You'we lucky you'we cute." He muttered, nose deep within Rocky's fur.
"Um," Diamond started. "If you don't mind me asking, but...are you two together?"
"Yep, and so is most of ouw teammates." Zuma said, grinning at the Rottweiler pup.
"Really?" She blinked. "It's just...you don't carry a scent..."
"Scent?" Rocky tilted his head, confused on what she was talking about. When she began blushing, opening her mouth to explain further, Rocky immediately knew what she had been thinking, and shook his head, a little pink dusting across his face. "Oh no, no, no. We carry a scent, but not like that. We're too young."
"And Wydew would probably kill us if he knew." Zuma muttered, rubbing the spot where Rocky elbowed him - something that he seems to be doing a lot today, Zuma thought darkly.
"We mark each other by other means - rubbing against each other, rubbing our scent on our intended mate's pup houses, things like that." Rocky said, grinning as Diamond blinked.
"Mawshall's the only one who's been bitten. I have twied to do it to Wocky, but he won't let me." Zuma pouted, giving his mate a glare as Rocky rolled his eyes. Diamond looked over at the mix-breed.
"Why won't you? Don't you love him?" She asked, and Rocky blushed.
"I...I do, but, with the mating mark, it's just...more intimate somehow. It's one of the first few steps that leads to mating." He said, squirming a little even when Zuma planted a kiss on his cheek.
"And Marshall has one? Who is his mate?" Diamond asked, but she had the feeling she already knew.
"Chase. Which is a suwpwise to us, since the pup had been heads over heels in love with Skye." Zuma said. Diamond blinked as she remembered something Rubble had said to her, and caused her to frown.
"Was he the only one?" She asked. Zuma and Rocky cocked their head to the side, both confused.
"The only one who has a crush on Skye? Eh. It's hard to tell, honestly. Before Everest, Skye was the only female on the team, so it's possible that there could have been more than one crush." Rocky said.
"I...I did have a cwush on hew for a little while, but I got ovew it, thinking she'll like Chase more." Zuma said, blushing, looking quite sheepish for his confession.
"And you, Rocky?" Diamond asked, but Rocky shook his head.
"Nah. I never really saw Skye as a mate, so I think I was one of the few that didn't fall for Skye's charms." He said.
"I had my suspicions on Mawshall, though," Zuma confessed. "He and she had been hanging out a lot in the past few yeaws. I honestly thought they may have had a fling going on, but when I had asked him, Mawshall said he only saw hew as a sister. Plus, he's had a cwush on Chase for a while. He just nevew thought Chase would feel the same."
"Wait, Marshall had a crush on Chase? Since when?! He never gave that impression to me!" Rocky huffed, glaring at his mate as if it was his fault. Zuma just shrugged, scooting a little distance away from Rocky as he continued.
"I think aftew helping Fawmew Yumi that's when it began. You'll have to ask Mawshall youwself. Anyway, Skye is mates with Evewest, Chase with Mawshall, and I with Wocky. Pwetty much evewyone except Wubble." He said. Diamond tilted her head up, mind in thought.
"I see..."
"Hey Diamond, mind staying here in the lookout?" Rocky asked, and Diamond blinked.
"Why?"
"Because tonight's movie night! Every Friday, Ryder, Katie and her cats, Alex and his friend, Emily who will also bring along her kitten named Precious, Jake and his girlfriend, and Everest will come to the lookout to watch a movie with us. Since you are living with Katie, all you have to do is wait for her here, and help us with the snacks." The mix-breed said.
"So, you wanna stay and help us get weady fow tonight?" Zuma asked. Diamond nodded her head and smile.
"Sure!"
