Rover, Ellie May, and Raffles were now herding sheep. Raffles and Ellie May smiled while Rover was out of breath.
"That was fun." Ellie May smiled.
"You okay, Rover?" Raffles asked.
Rover shook himself and approached the sheep.
"What is he about to do?" Ellie May asked.
"I don't know if I wanna know..." Raffles groaned.
Ellie May sighed and decided to go after Rover.
"All right, you cotton balls," Rover assembled the sheep like an army. "Listen up! I'm only gonna blab this once. Your Little Bo Peep days are over! Your mommies aren't here to take care of ya," he then looked down to the littlest sheep in the flock. "From now on, I'm your mommy! Now get this, you're gonna graze harder than you ever grazed before, you may end up hating me, but I'll make sheep out of ya! Always stay in a tight group, and no stampeding! Now, if you're gonna keep running back and forth, screw up, and you're lambchops! Remember, they're out there waitin' for ya with the mint jelly! Now, do we understand each other?"
"Baah!" The sheep responded.
"I can't hear you!" Rover replied.
The sheep then bleated louder.
"All right," Rover remarked. "Let's move out, move out!"
"Well that happened." Ellie May said.
There was then a distant barking heard. Rover looked over and saw the cornfield and there was another female dog barking to a bunch of invading crows.
"Who's that?" Ellie May asked as she noticed the female dog as well.
"Wow..." Rover looked rather lovestruck.
"Oh, her? That's Daisy," Raffles replied. "She's from the other farm next door."
"You mean the one that Patch and the others are at?" Ellie May asked.
"No, no, there's another farm not too far away from here, this is a popular country land." Raffles replied.
"Ohh." Ellie May smiled.
"What a doll!" Rover started to make his way over to Daisy.
"Whoa! Rover, you can't leave; all three of us are suppose to watch over and herd the sheep." Ellie May said.
"Hey, you and Raffles take a break..." Rover pushed her over slightly. "I'll watch the sheep. It's okay, trust me, yeah, I'll see ya later."
"Rover..." Ellie May sounded firm as she knew he wanted to go see Daisy.
"Go on, besides it should be easy watching these sheep that and you two could use some alone time, if you know what I mean." Rover said.
Ellie May blushed to that. "Well, okay, I just hope you know what you're doing..." she then went to go see Raffles.
"Oh, trust me, I do." Rover said.
"Erm... Hi, wanna do something?" Ellie May came up to Raffles.
"I'm just curious how you grew overnight." Raffles replied.
"I don't know, all I know is that I dreamed of being older and even wished if my dream would come true while I was asleep," Ellie May said. "And then the next thing I know; I'm older."
"Hmm... I usually don't believe in magic, but I guess I do now." Raffles smiled. "You look more beautiful than you did before."
This caused Ellie May to blush while smiling bashfully. Raffles smiled back to her while Rover was obviously falling in love with the dog next door.
"Don't those two look perfect together?" Colette asked Patch as she saw Raffles and Ellie May together.
"They do look adorable," Patch agreed. "I wonder how Ellie May grew up though? I didn't do anything."
"Must have been another source of magic." Colette said.
"Or a miracle..." Patch looked up to the clouds slightly. He soon saw a familiar female dog in the sky wink at him tell him that she was the one that granted Ellie May's wish. "I knew it..." he then whispered to himself with a proud and thankful smile.
"They seem like they are perfect for each other, but don't you think Raffles should be as strong as you so then he doesn't, you know, get killed?" Maisy asked Patch.
"That would be nice, plus Raffles has been so helpful for Rover during these tough times." Patch had to agree.
"So then go and do your thing." Colette urged her future mate.
Patch nodded to her. "Hey, Raffles!" he called as he went to see the sheepdog.
"Yeah, Patch?" Raffles asked before he bumped into a random boulder.
"Uh, you ever wanted to be stronger?" Patch offered.
"Sometimes, why do you ask?" Raffles replied.
"What if I told you that I could make you stronger?" Patch smirked.
"You can really do that?" Raffles smiled.
"Yep." Patch nodded with a smile.
"How?" Raffles asked.
"Gimme your paw." Patch smirked.
"Um, okay." Raffles said before giving Patch his right paw.
Patch then worked his magic as he took Raffles's paw. And where Raffle started to feel stronger.
Patch smirked as he continued. "You can thank me later."
After a while, it was done as Patch let go of Raffles's paw.
"Okay, now try out your new strength with that boulder." Patch said, pointing to the random boulder.
Raffles shrugged, he then went to the boulder and saw he was able to lift it like it was a simple paperweight. "Amazing." He smiled.
"I thought you'd like a little boost." Patch smiled back.
"Well, thanks, Patch." Raffles smiled, he then soon sent the boulder flying far away so then it wouldn't be in anyone else's way.
"Brilliant!" Patch cheered to that.
Ellie May was impressed by this as well and decided to get a little closer to Raffles. Raffles smiled, then looked over to Ellie May.
"That was mighty impressive, Raffles." Ellie May smiled.
"Thanks, Ellie May," Raffles smiled back but then due to his now strong ears he could hear someone or something climbing a tree and where he had a bad feeling what climbed the tree as he sighed. "Rover left the sheep."
"Oh, man..." Ellie May face-pawed. "I knew he would be distracted from Daisy!"
"Who?" Patch asked.
"We'll explain later, right now; me and Ellie May have to get back to the sheep." Raffles said.
"Oh, go, go, go!" Patch nodded to them.
Raffles and Ellie May soon rushed back to the sheep and stop them from climbing the tree. Rover panted as he rushed over and had a pair of boxers on his lower half.
"Rover..." Ellie May sighed.
Rover smiled nervously, then pouted as he felt bad for what had happened.
"How are we going to get the sheep down from the tree, Dad?" Danny asked.
Patch walked over and offered to help. Farmer Hill looked down to the puppy.
Patch bowed as he was going to help the sheep come down, but he then remembered what he did for Raffles and then decided to let him handle this one. "Raffles, why don't you have this one?" he then asked.
"Uh, I dunno, are you sure?" Raffles replied.
"Sure I'm sure, besides with your new strength; you'll be able to get the sheep out of the tree in no time." Patch smiled.
Raffles smiled nervously as he then tried to get the sheep out of the tree. He soon got an idea of how he could get them down from the tree as he started to push the tree down. The sheep were nervous and started to eat the leaves. Soon enough after just one push; all of the sheep were out of the tree entirely.
"Way to go, Raffles!" Danny smiled and pet the sheepdog.
Raffles soon smiled before letting go of the tree, letting it go back up. The sheep then came down and scattered. The Farmer looked very firm to Rover since he was in charge of the sheep and he had let them get into the tree. Raffles soon went after the sheep and got to herd them all back into one place.
Rover hung his head as the farmer looked firm towards him. And where soon the farmer was taking Rover over to a shed.
"You'll sleep in here 'til you can do something right." Farmer Hill firmly told the hound dog and shut the door, making Rover stay inside the shed for the night.
"Poor Rover," Ellie May said. "But at least he's learning the hard way."
"Man, what a day..." Patch sounded exhausted.
"Dinner!" Atticus called out.
Patch smiled tiredly and went to get some dinner. And where when he got to the food he went up to it with his siblings, future mate, and feline friend.