CHAPTER 16 THE BOOK OF LEGENDS
I'M NOT VERY GOOD WITH TITLES, THIS ONE TOOK ME A WHILE. SO BACK TO THE MAIN PLOT! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
"Nice woom!" Budy whistled.
"This is the work of all the generations of my family, everything you see right in front of you!" O'Brien proudly announced, as they were going down some stairs.
"So many trophies and golden statues!" Arrby was contemplating the trophy display.
"These are trophies for story telling competition and best cocktails, various artifacts plus some lucky charms, valuable and rare books and family portraits, I couldn't get space for all the giant paintings on the wall, so one trip to Mr. Applestuff's house and he printed me small versions of them."
"That man his a good person, but it's to sticky!" Madame Aberash shook her arms, making her bracelets giggle.
"Wait, where is Sweetie?" the Wolfhound turn in search of the pup.
"She's back there with Quest, both are contemplating a exhibitor full of golden necklaces."
"Salty, go check if your sister isn't robbing anything."
"Chill, old man! I'm here!"
"Check your pockets."
"I don't have any."
"Your frog pockets!"
She blow a raspberry, "Fine! Here it is." she clicked Sr. Busby's head and he spit out five silver coins.
"Sweetie!" the Princess berated her pup.
"I can arrest you! Right here, right now!" Chase prepared his net.
"First, you're to young to arrest someone; second you are out of your area, so even if you could arrest me, it couldn't be outside of your area; and third even if you had all that, I wouldn't let me be captured by some dumb and plain police mutt like you!" she throw three of the coins at Chase's face.
"That's it! Tell him! Ahahahah!" Pompom was enjoying the show, laughing at the expense of the police pup.
"Are you just going to ignore this?" Rubble asked.
"It isn't the first time and it certain won't be the last."
"Dude, and you awe fine with it?" Zuma looked at the white pup, that was now walking away.
Everest caught up to her, "Wanna talk about it?"
"Not really."
"Why did you steal?"
"I said I don't want to talk."
"Is that why you always try to steal the crown?"
She faced the husky, "You're not going, are you?"
"Nope!"
"Why?"
"Because, now I'm your friend, and friends care for one another." she, discreetly, peeped behind her, "And I'm not the only one!" she winked.
"What? Is Big Ol Ears listening?" she goggled.
"No; but is somepup that you might like!"
"Really?!" she turned, Rocky was itching forward, while looking to his sides, being the most discrete and normal he could.
"I knew it!" Everest hit her shoulder.
"You're surprisingly good at this." Sweetie smirked.
"It's called being social and nice. You should try it! For real, at least try to do it."
Sweetie looked at the mountain pup, her puppy eyes were strong, "Fine! I'll try it. Are you really older than me?"
"Am just more positive than you! And older!" she laughed.
A melodic sound filled the room.
"What's this?" Everest was amazed by the sweet melody.
"It's O'Brien playing the Celtic harp. It means it's story time!" Sweetie's tail wagged for a bit.
"Why is he going to tell us a story?" Rocky asked, now appearing by their side.
"That's how he explains long themes and things! Now let's hurry, trust me you don't want to miss it!"
"Everyone seated?" O'Brien asked, "Good!"
He had a book in his paws, it was green with golden finishes. He opened it.
"Many years ago, seven powerful magic creatures lived in Barkingburg, with different abilities and powers, but one day The Devil came!"
"Dude! What?"
"Zip it, water boy!" he looked at Zuma, "I don't like to be interrupted!"
"Ok." Zuma shine down.
"Belzebub, the ancient reported various battles between them, until they sealed him away, banishing him, but on doing so their bodies couldn't handle, so they turned into spirits!"
"Ah, yes! Merasmus knows about this, that wasn't actually the Devil, it was one of the Devil's dogs, which one I'm not certain, but it wasn't Vlad."
"Whose Vlad?" Tony asked.
"A tiny immortal chihuahua with a very short fuse, if he bites someone, the soul will leave your body and it will be destroyed on his stomach, resulting into the disappearance of them from this universe!" he raised his arms.
"Interesting!" O'Brien was writing in a piece of paper.
"So can we move on? I still have to get my beauty sleep!" Sweetie complained.
"If only that would wowk!" Zuma laughed, Rubble, Marshall, Chase and Quest joined him.
Sweetie rolled her eyes, ending up looking at Rocky.
The recycling pup wasn't approving his friend's childish behavior.
She smiled, pleased, at least somepup was being mature.
"Young lady! Didn't you forget to say something?" Tony raised his eyebrow.
"Agh! Please."
"There's the manners you learned!"
"I'll have to rewrite the book, but to sum it up, their spirits stayed on Earth wandering around, and in that way they stayed for hundreds of years, until five years ago when, well, the Devil's dog returned!"
"Five years ago? But the only thing that happen five years ago was the... explosion of the Gust's mansion!" the Princess stopped to think, "Are you saying that it was the same thing?"
"Princess Lillania, I'm dead serious, it was not a coincidence!"
"So are you going to explain what happen there?" Chase asked, while looking at Skye.
"No, that's not my job! I'm here to explain you about the spirits!"
"Then go ahead!" Rocky was so interesting in knowing more that he didn't noticed that he had approached Sweetie, now standing to her left, but she also didn't protest.
"As I said there are seven spirits! Three of them are in here, so I'll start by them." he nodded to Skye, "Let her out! Say her name!"
Skye closed her eyes, "Esmerald bunny!" her eyes began to change color, from pink to red, from red to orange, until they were green.
"What's going on?" Marshall duck behind Everest.
"She's just letting out the time controlling bunny." she patted Marshall.
"What now?" the Dalmatian was confused.
Around Skye's body a green glow was starting to increase.
"Skye!" Chase closed his eyes.
"I'm not liking this!" Tracker covered his head with his hat.
"It's fine Tracker! Trust me! The first time is always a little scary!"
"What did she mean by that?" his mind was going a million miles per hour.
Where Skye stand a ghostly green floating bunny also stand.
"Cool!" Rubble exclaimed.
"The Esmerald bunny, has dominion over time, she can skip, slow down, rewind, freeze, anything that has to do with time she controls it!"
"Can she talk?" Katie asked.
"They can all talk, but this particular one is shy, a lot shy!"
The bunny nodded.
"And what about the other two?"
"Of course! Jane, your turn!"
"Ruby Viper!"
Like Skye her eyes started to change color, but these time her hair also changed, from brown all the way to red.
When the red flash dispersed, around the girl a red viper was all around her body.
"Oh my god!" Marshall jumped backwards.
"Don't worry she's only venomous!"
"That doesn't help at all!"
"Don't worry little one! I only bite if I want!" the Viper got on the floor and tasted the air with her tongue.
"So what can you do?" Everest asked.
The red Viper slither towards the husky, "Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah! Lay it on me!"
"I have poison plus I can change colors, but most important I control the earth!"
"Like rocks?" Rubble asked.
"Everything solid from Earth's crust and more!"
"And the third in here should be arriving right about now!" Jane pointed up.
A blue light appears from the ceiling and in front of everyone a white wolf with blue eyes manifested.
"Ah, Blue Moon! Finally!" O'Brien was pleased.
"Blue moon like the moon, or is that your name?" Aarby scratched his ear.
"Both."
"So that means?..." Zuma wasn't getting it.
"The blue moon is me and I'm the Blue Moon." she walked through everyone.
"Did you understand anything that she said?"
"Nah, beats me dude!" Zuma was getting sleepy.
In fact he wasn't the only one, almost everyone was getting sleepy to.
Everest was one of the exceptions, she was looking directly at the White Wolf's eyes, "So... Now what happens?"
"You are the right one."
"Cool, so how do we?..." the spirit grabbed her and flew trough the roof.
"No, my tavern!"
Everyone looked at O'Brien.
"What? Don't worry, she's fine. Blue Moon is the calmest and safest of all the spirits, always keeping her calm, Viper is the most explosive one and Bunny is just a sweetheart."
"Thanks." she was now the size of an actual bunny, Skye was laying at her side petting her.
"Can they all shrink?" Katie and Princess Lillania were affected by the cuteness of the tiny bunny, Cali had her grumpy and jealous face on.
"Yes, they can all shrink, but they can also increase their size!"
"Some kitty is having a grumplous!" Karen joked.
"Mhem!" Cali nested in a pillow and fell asleep.
Budy pulled Marshall and the two Rottweilers aside.
"She has dwinked to much! I need you' help to bwing he' back safely!"
"You got it Budy!"
"What are your names? I don't think I ever got to know!" Marshall looked at the two brothers.
"Right my name is Vinny."
"And my name is Mikey."
"How do I know who is who?"
"Easy, I have an orange spot on the right and Vinny is the one with the spot on the left." they posed together.
"Ok, but why do you need our help?" Marshall tilted his head.
"She's stawted to invent wandom wowds, that's the first sign she is getting affected!"
"So why us?"
"They've helped me befowe and I twust you!"
"So we already know sedatives won't work!" Vinny said, waving his hand.
"What do you mean they won't work?"
"As a matter of fact it just makes things worse!" Mikey looked at where Karen was, "Guys!"
"What?"
"We have a problem!"
"What kind of problem?" Marshall asked.
"She's gone!"
"What do you mean she's gone?" Vinny screamed.
"Guys, what's the matter?" Jane showed up behind them making them jump, "Why so stressed?"
"Kawen dissapeawed!" Budy shake her.
"Oh not again! Viper, you know what to do!" she petted the snake.
"Let'ssss jussssst wait that ssshe hassssn't turned cold blooded again!" she tasted the air.
"I'm so confused. First, Everest gets kidnapped by a spirit and now this?" Marshall was awake, but every event had push him into a paranoia state, "What if she never comes back!? What if the wolf was a bad guy!? What if she kidnapped Karen to!? What if? What if?" Zuma put his paw on him.
"Dude. Chill, she is okay! Pwobably!" he lowered his voice in the last one.
"Zuma is right! Marshall, I think you should go to sleep." Rocky joined.
"I'm also getting tired. How about we comeback tomorrow?" Rubble yawned.
"I'm not leaving without Everest!" he screamed.
"Marshall she will return, I'm sure!" Katie petted him.
"I just wish I could stay calm and wait at the same time!" he sit down.
"Let me give you a paw!" Skye said.
"If you think you can help me, then go ahead."
"Stay still this won't hurt!" the bunny shoot a green spectral energy ball that hit the fire pup, freezing him.
"Skye! What have you done!?" Chase and everyone else was perplexed.
Skye ignored her friends rambling and got close to the Dalmatian.
"Listen. Blink twice if you're hearing me." Marshall blinked twice, "Good!"
Katie got up, but was hold back by Madame Aberash, "Let her do her magic darling! She knows what she's doing, you know that she has her heart in the right place!" she smiled, while holding Katie's hands, giving her a strange item.
"What is this?" she looked at a doll made of straw with buttons for eyes.
"A voodoo doll."
"Like a real one?"
"Yes, for you! I can see that your aura is good, the perfect for use it for good." she placed her palm in her forehead, Put a piece of hair of the one you want to control, it can be a person or an animal!"
"And why?" Katie looked at the doll now admiring it.
"I feel that one of your friends in the castle is not being himself!" she placed a white fur in the doll, "Now close your eyes!"
She did what she was told to do and in the darkness of her closed eyes she saw a white light with a shape of a cat crouching.
She opened her eyes, "She's there." she pointed to the stairs, "Behind."
The rest of the pups were still watching the freez Dalmatian, the Esmerald Bunny got inside Skye and she began to speak, "Marshall, I know you are worried with Everest, but trust me, she's fine she is in good spiritual paws and even if she wasn't she would still be fine, because she is one of the toughest pups you and I know! Am I right?" Marshall blinked twice.
"You're worried because she is your friend and you don't want to loose her, but you forget her capacities, that she can take care of herself." Skye looked at the others, they nodded, "Remember your training in Pup Fu."
Skye unfreeze her friend.
"Calmer?"
"Yes! Thanks a lot!"
"Anything for my friends!" she pressed her head against his.
"I've got a tea' in my eye!" Budy sniffed.
"And I got your cat!" Katie was holding Karen by the neck, to avoid getting scratched.
"Ahey, lassie let me go! I still am fine." Karen was swinging her paws everywhere.
"You need to rest!" Rocky avoided on of her claws by an inch.
"Ahf! Fine, but I'm doing it because ye asked Rookie boy!" she joined Cali in the nap, "Have a goodnight lads and lassies."
Rocky ready himself, he knew that everyone was looking at him.
"Rookie boy?" Sweetie's voice pitched.
"That's the nickname she likes to call me." he was already waiting for her to start mocking and embarrassing him.
"That's cute." she walked away.
"What do you mean by that? Sweetie!? What do you mean by that?" Rocky needed an answer.
"At least she didn't mock you, Rookie!" Rubble giggled.
"But I'm starting to wish she did!" Rocky let out a little yelp.
"My sister is nice when she wins something for being nice, when she knows that being nice is going to be worse for someone than being herself or she is actually being nice. Sometimes I can't tell why she's being nice!" Salty admitted.
"She's still a mystery for me also, and I'm her owner!" the Princess sat with Salty, "So now what do we do? Do we wait for Everest to return?"
"Basically."
"May I get a drink?"
"Sure thing Princess! Follow me." Jane lead her up the stairs.
"You may call me Lillania."
"Of course Princess, I mean Lillania."
The two laughed.
MEANWHILE IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE:
Everest and the Blue Eyes White Wolf were looking at the stars, "You get it, the power you are about to receive?"
"Yes, with great powers comes great responsibility! I know not my first time having super powers, I watch superhero shows, heard that phrase a million times. We are going to be a great team, you and I together!" Everest gave her a pat on her back, "So can we go back to our friends? They are probably worried by now, specially Marshall!"
"That stumbling Dalmatian?"
"Yeah, do you happen to know any tips about dating?"
Blue Moon blinked, "You like him, don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, I don't have any experience myself, but I've been around the world to know somethings. Just respect these three rules; don't force him, always be yourself, if you are a good person or animal, in your case and respect him and he shall respect you back!"
"I think I'm having trouble with the first one!" Everest glanced at the stars, a falling star passed by, she closed her eyes.
"What did you wish for?" the spirit asked.
"You'll see! Now let's return! I need to go to the bathroom, and I don't feel comfortable doing it in here!"
"In that case let's not waste anymore time, just lean your head back, so that way I get in faster."
"It won't hurt, right?" the husky did what the spirit had advised.
"You'll feel slight uncomfortable for the first time." she transformed into a white smoke ball.
"Do you enter through my mouth or?..." the spirit slide down her mouth, Everest eyes shined even more then usual, she saw constellations, planets, new lifeforms, entire multiverses, she felt like she was riding trough a tunnel full with colorful lights at mach speed, until she snapped back to reality.
"Feeling funny!"
"Now you are immune to burning once you pass Earth's atmosphere."
"Wait! You are talking trough me!"
"I'm talking to you, only you and others with a spirit inside can listen to me, that's how we communicate."
Everest was smiling and laughing like a child on Christmas day, "This is awesome! I had almost forgot that I need to evacuate myself!"
"Then let's go."
"Do you need help to fix the roof?" Rocky had his tools out.
"Boy, there is no need right now, they will return, hopefully trough the same hole!" O'Brien looked up to the damaged roof, "But once they comeback, I will accept your help."
Everest crashed trough the roof, creating another hole.
"You can start now son!" O'Brien grabbed a bottle and drink it.
"Sorry for the roof! Look guys, I can fly!" the husky spunned in the air.
"That we can see! But you got to pass the final test!" Tony pulled a deck of carts under his hat, "Poker! Me, you, O'Brien and Budy. You can use your spirit."
Everest grinned, "Blue Moon. You can sit this one out!"
"You are certain about this?"
Everest walked to the table, "I'm the certainst I've ever have!"
"That's not a word!"
"Put it in the dictionary." she pulled a chair and joined the game, "Who deals?"
"Me!" O'Brien shuffled the cards and gave out five to everyone, "Let's see if you can defeat us Missy!"
"Finished fixing the roof, so how is the game going?" Rocky sat next to Sweetie.
"She's in trouble."
"Why do you say that, Sweetie?" Rocky asked, he, Sweetie, Marshall, Skye and Chase were sitting near the table watching the game.
"She's playing against poker titans, they are at my level in poker, she has no chance!"
"Sweetie, Sweetie!" Skye waved her head, "Do you really think I wouldn't teach them!" she smiled innocently.
"Really?" she arched her eyebrow, "Who is the top dog?" she was strangely out of character.
"Everest is pretty good, but here Rocky is the king of bluff!"
Sweetie was surprised, "Uhuhu!" she snorted, "So you're not as bland as I thought, boy scout!"
"It's nothing really."
"C'mon Rocky. Stop being modest, you always beat me and Chase." Marshall wanted to show up his friend.
"It can and will get heated, Rubble and Zuma don't know what they are missing. They say it's boring!" Chase admitted.
"It's because it is dude!" Zuma yelled across the room.
"You only say that because you are bad at card games!" Chase responded.
Zuma zipped his lips.
Blue Moon sat down next to them.
"Hey everything good?" Skye asked, the Esmerald Bunny appeared to her side.
"What's worrying you?"
"Nothing Esmerald."
"Are you feeling left out?"
"Yes." she admitted, "All my previous hosts always depended of me. Some didn't deserve it, this is the first one that, didn't want my help!"
"Don't worry! You still have to know Everest better." Skye touched her paw.
"She is amazing, she enjoys relying on only her when she knows that she is capable of pulling it off, so if anything, she's just proving her worth to you..." Marshall went on and on.
She leaned to the others, "She told me about him. It seems that the two need a slight push to be set." she whispered.
"She wants to dance with him, but the two are nervous about it, they doubt their dancing skills." Skye explained.
"I may know someone that can help them."
"Who? Another of the spirits?" Chase was curious.
"Yes, but unfortunately, it's the toughest one to find! We don't know nothing about him for years!"
"The Leaf Chameleon. He's kind of a meany one. And is the only one that we can't feel, if he is inside someone!" Esmerald's foot hit the ground several times.
"Excuse me?" Chase was confused.
"We can feel when one of us is inside of someone, but he don't know the location if one if us is far away, we know that the Phoenix Eagle is with someone, two of us haven't found a partner and Chameleon, well only he knows where and how is he!" Blue Moon explained.
"What can he do?" Rocky looked at Sweetie with suspicion, she avoid looking him directly.
"Camouflage, controlling all kinds of plants, super-adherence; that let's him climb trees and walls." Esmerald was counting trough her fingers.
"Can he stick to, like for example ceilings?"
"Yes."
"Does he have anything else?" Rocky asked once more.
"Well, his camouflage let's him disguise has any one and anything. He can be right here in this very room, any one of us could be him, you see that chair?" the white wolf pointed at a chair facing the wrong direction.
"Yes."
"It could be... Him!" she fired a projectile shaped star, knocking it over, "Or not." she recovered her cool, "Do you know where he is or who is he inside?"
"Not exactly, but I've seen weird things happening on Adventure Bay! Specially with me, I've been having a streak of bad luck, ever since I lost my lucky charm, but upon hearing this, maybe it wasn't just bad luck." Rocky pondered.
"But why would he do that to you? He doesn't even know you!" Marshall had stopped rambling.
Sweetie was beginning to back away, Rocky smiled, "Isn't he a bit of a troll?"
"A bit? No. A massive? Yes. He's way of helping is by being chaotic, all the time, even when we fought against that Demon dog, and on April fools, is when he is at his worst!" the Esmerald Bunny tremble, the terror of those scary days.
"So, if he is all of that! Why is he the solution?" Chase was not getting it, and neither were Sky, Marshall and Rocky.
"His a love specialist, is full of himself, but he is legit good at it! Don't ask me how. I have no clue." Blue Moon admitted.
"Aren't you suppose to be the wisest one?" Marshall asked.
"Aren't you suppose to be the distracted one?" she got annoyed by his question.
"Sorry! I didn't meant to upset you!" he crawled behind his Shepard friend.
"Sometimes things slip from his mouth, he doesn't always think before talking!" Chase defended him.
Esmerald hold the wolf's paw, her eyes became pink, "Blue, leave the kid alone. We can see he didn't meant it!"
"I would also like to apologize. I lost my composure, it's not normal for me to act this way, but for all the centuries I have lived throughout, it's common to sometimes conflict with our personalities." she smiled, showing the peace in her look
Marshall accepted, "Thanks!"
"Sweetie, do you have any idea?" Rocky smirked.
"Why are you asking me?" she was surprised.
"You are smart, right? Besides, you should know about the Leaf Chama... How was it?" Rocky scratched his neck.
"Don't you pay attention? Leaf Chameleon!" as soon as she said that an orange, yellowish glow surrounded the pup, "You are a sly c...!" she lowered her ears as she yelled, her eyes gain the color of the glow.
Quest pushed Tracker to the action, "Let's go see the Chameleon!"
"How do you know?"
"The color of the flash."
"And how do you know that's the color?"
"Trust me, I've seen some, things!" she admitted.
"Can you tell me how?"
She stopped and opened her medallion, "Open your mouth."
Tracker blinked, "Ok?"
Her golden medallion shot out a multicolor beam that entered the jungle pup's mouth.
"Qué fue eso?"
"Ya verás! You will see!" she giggled.
"Oh! It's good to be back, but I would have preferred on other occasion." above Sweetie an orange chameleon was floating.
"I've had enough, Viper! Look who is here!" Sweetie call the attention of the reptile.
She launched at the chameleon, tightening around his body, "Thisss time there'ssss no running, no trickssss and no going invissssible!", Sweetie took the chaos she caused to slither away.
Rocky watched her escape, "Go after her champ." Karen was up on her feet, now that she was recovered.
"Please, you have no idea for what you are saying!" Rocky got up.
"Then why are ye getting up?"
"I'm just getting up." he walked away.
"Why are ye walking away?"
"I'm just walking!" he climbed up the stairs.
"Why are ye climbing the stairs?"
"I'm going to catch a breath of fresh air." he left.
"Sure thing lad." she laughed for herself.
"Now tell usss why didn't you appear for yearssss!" Viper was wrapping around his neck.
"Gaagh!"
"I thought you said she wasn't a constrictor!" Marshall turned to Jane.
"If she's angry enough, she can be one."
"Oy! Leon stop with your nuisance, you made me lose!" O'Brien throw his cards in the air.
"It wasn't because of him!" Everest chanted.
"You are good, newbie. Did Skye thought you how to play?" Tony tipped his hat.
"Yup! Let's make a bet, if I win this next round, hum! What's your name?" she asked the chameleon.
"J-Joe...!" he had difficulty saying, due to the fact that he was being strangled.
"Say that joke and your suffering won't end!" she made a scary face.
"Just call me... Leon... ARGH!"
"Viper stops choking Leon and I get all the dog treats, you win and she can go for an entire hour and I admit defeat." the husky revealed her game, only a pair of deuces, with other poor cards.
"I could go for yearssss!" she applied more strength.
"What do you say?" she made an offer pose.
He thrown is cards across the table two kings, two queens and a diamond ace, "You talk the smack, lets see if you have the skills to back that up! Tony, you deal!"
"Gotcha! Pass me all the cards! Vinny! Mikey! Cue the battle music!"
"You got it, boss!" the twin pulled an amplifier from under the stage.
"You got tunes that can make this bowing game intewesting" Zuma was hoping.
"Hold on to your socks!" Mikey began.
"I don't wea' socks?!"
"Cause you are about to get rocked!" Vinny finished.
TOXICITY MEDIEVAL STYLE STARTS TO PLAY
"Ayhaar! Time to bogey my bones!" Arrby immediately started to feel the beat.
He started to flip, thrown, juggle all the deck, almost one minute later, "Done! Whose first?"
"Hit me." O'Brien bumped the table.
Everyone was watching, even Rocky and Sweetie were watching on top of the stairs.
Tony dealt him five cards, the bloodhound took a look at them, "Now to you." he slid five cards to Everest, she looked at her hand, a lonely king in the center, surrounded by an ace and other three cards that were not so helpful.
The two looked and analysed their cards for almost thirty seconds, "These cards are good, can you say the same for yours?" O'Brien decided to play a different kind of game, "I understand if you want to go down fighting, but it will be all in vain!"
"Are you talking to me, or to your own reflection on the mirror behind me?" she smirked.
"You have a feisty spirit, looks like I have to break your fantasy, give me two." Tony passed two cards to O'Brien.
"Do you want new cards, pup?"
Everest looked at her hand, there was definitely room to improve, but how much? She peeked at O'Brien's tail, it didn't move, then his face, his smile was bigger then last time, he was not bluffing, his cards were good, but it was no royal flush, while in their previous game she noticed that his tail moved an inch, when he got the best hand, so she had still one chance, she needed three new cards, two of them were already ready to be exchanged, but the third one was not as simple, she had an ace and an eight, although one was clearly superior, O'Brien seemed to have at least two aces and the eight was her lucky number.
Madame Aberash sprayed water on the two dogs to cool them off, "Give me three."
She looked at her new hand, full house baby!
"Hope this is enough. Let's find out!" she stared at her adversary.
"Looking at the one who is going to put you in your place?" he grinned.
"More like the one I'm about to beat. Get ready because, I have new demands!" Everest was going to destroy him, if he had a weaker hand.
"Go ahead you have nothing!"
"If you win, I have to work for you free for a day."
"I agree."
"But if I win, you have to give free drinks to everyone in here and a raise to Jane." thanks to playing against Rocky, she knew that to destroy someone's game, she had to struck outside of the game.
"No, that's too much!" he had lost the light in his eyes, in contrast, the eyes of the snow pup were shining, she had won the psychological war, now it was time to win it all.
Everyone else was waiting for the verdict, even Viper had stopped beating Leon up to watch the game.
"Alright folks! Lets settle this in a civilized way." Karen jumped to the table, "I'm counting till three, once I finish, ya two have to reveal yar game. One."
They lifted their cards.
"Two." all present hold their breathes.
"Three!" they placed the cards on the table.
With a full house against a three of a kind aces, Everest is the winner.
"She wins!" Karen lifted the champion's paw to celebrate her victory.
Everyone cheered, except Viper, that, reluctantly, let the Chameleon breath.
"Now it's getting late, everyone out! I've got to clean this place for tomorrow, that and you should go to sleep!" O'Brien got put of the chair, "Jane get your free day."
"You're serious?" the girl was confused, happy, but confused.
"Take a break, you deserve it."
"So no raise then?"
"Nah, two vacation days, go to the party and enjoy!" he walked to a cleaning closet.
"Sweet."
"And what about the other spirits?" Skye blocked the door, "We need to know more about them!"
The old dog knew she was right, he walked to the book, "It's getting late for stories, so Jane before you go, take the book with you."
"But... I can't this is your book, it never left the library!" Jane was scared.
"There's a first time for everything." he gently smiled, while he handed her the book,"Take good care of it!"
"I will, but I don't know where to guard it!"
"Don't worry, you can stay in my room." the Princess offered.
"Really? Oh, thank you so much, your highness! Er, I mean Lillania!" she hugged the Princess.
"Now only I, Jane, Skye and Salty are allowed to open the book, nobody else!" he looked at Sweetie.
She muttered something.
"Now the real midnight is arriving, go to sleep and rest, and hide the book in a safe place, the mafia has seen some suspicious individuals rooming around and inside the castle! Do not let anyone else know about this! And the spirits have to be kept inside of their respective carriers, last thing we want it's her finding out."
"Who is her?" Chase asked, he looked at Skye, the cockapoo seemed to be in another reality, like back in the Sweetie's hideout.
"Someone that only wanted power, she ended up sacrificing her family and friends for power, she is here, every time the Blue moon happens she tries to find all the spirits!"
"But why? All of that just for power!?" Rubble wasn't comprehending.
"The reason, only she knows. If you see a figure wearing a black cloak, covering her face, do not engage, this goes double for the ones who have a spirit."
"We'll do." Skye promised.
They close the door behind them, but Tony, Vinny, Mikey, Jane and Karen stayed near the door.
"What are you doing?" Arrby asked.
"Listening to the cries of a sore loser that lost against a pup!" Tony explained.
"He is not a good loser!" Mikey started.
"Because he wins almost all the time!" Vinny finished.
"The only one I saw winning against him multiple times was Karen." Jane petted the cat.
"He always cries away from us. Pride issues." she moved her head.
"Let's get movin!" Skye shouted.
"You heard her! Let's go, we deserve a rest." Chase supported his crush.
"For us, we are going to our rooms. You to wizard." Tony turned to Merasmus.
"Ah, yes! It's been weeks that I haven't slept well."
"How do we go to the castle?" The Princess asked.
"We catch the bus. Our houses are on the way to the castle." Hugo whistled and the bus stopped in front of them.
"Oh good!" Sweetie grumbled.
"What? Do you have a trouble with public transports?" Rocky joked.
"Yes, I'm going to the top, alone!" she marched up the stairs.
Once everyone was aboard the driver turned around, "To where do you want to go?"
"To the castle of BarkingBurg, please!"
"Of course your royalty."
SORRY FOR THE LONG TIME, THINGS HAPPENING AND PERSONAL STUFF. NOW ENJOY! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!
