"and…GO!" Hunter said hitting the stopwatch as Dolly sprinted into action. Dylan was right next to him laying down on his side after going throw it 5 times to get a good time, and he beat his best time by half a minute. "you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, yeah." He said out of breath. "I just need a minute."

"I keep telling you, your last time was more than enough. If you don't place in the top three tomorrow. I will give all my favorite red coat to charity and never buy another one again." He said looking back to see how Dolly was doing. "and I only say top three, because I know you're going to tire yourself out doing your house chores."

"I won't hold you to it, but I appreciate the confidence in me." Dylan said.

"Dylan, I know you can do this, you just have to get out of your head sometimes." He said then brought the stopwatch up seeing Dolly about to finish. She was on the tightrope but then fell.

"Can I get a do-over?" she said.

"nope, the timer is still going." Dylan said.

"ger." Dolly growled. She then got out and finished.

Hunter stopped it, "2 minutes behind Dylan's old time. not bad for your first time." he said. "Dylan's first time was 10 seconds slower and he fell off two obstacles. Well crashed throw the tiers and feel off the tightrope."

"before we put in the mud." Dylan said and rubbed his snout remembering his fall.

"what! Dylan's faster than me?! When did that happen?" Dolly asked shocked.

"well, I have been training for this for a while." Dylan said. still on the ground.

"ok, I'm ready." Spike said.

"ok then. ready, and…GO." Spike then bolted.

"wait?" Dolly said. "I thought when you're in space you'd be floaty, so why are you training like this?" she asked.

"would you have pups that can't last more than a minute of running while playing.

"ah."

"This is to show off your stamina with the ability and speed. I hope all this training pays off." He said finally getting up and sitting next to her.

"seeing as how fast you are compared to me; you should be fine. Maybe this girl will see how fit you can be if she can watch you run." Dolly said noggin him

Hunter turned and opened his mouth to tell her something, But Dylan looked up and shook his head. "he is fit. Though I think Dylan needs 'a little' weight. He almost passed out from overdoing it on the third run the first day."

Dolly saw the look Dylan and Hunter had. "you know who Dylan's crushing on don't you?"

Hunter didn't say anything and looked back to see Spike got tangled in the net later, "do you want to keep going, or do you want to give up?" Hunter yelled trying to get away from Dolly.

"he knows!" she said.

Dylan then looked over to Hunter trying to get Spike out of the net. Sumer and Dorothy came over to see. "hey, let me help you out." Dylan said and ran over.

"gerr!" Dolly growled.

Half an hour later.

"come no, not so fast." Dylan said running alongside of Dorothy as she was running the course.

"I got this." She said with a smile, as she ran.

"come on, come on." Hunter said leaning into the finish line, the rest were also watching as Dorothy was about to finish.

"you're almost therAAA!" he tripped and rolled over the finish line.

Dorothy saw this, but instead of going to help him, she jumped and landed on Dylan's back, "done!" she said triumphantly.

"Yeah!" everyone said, it was a big deal, that was because the cores was not meant for a little dog, Dylan only needed to help her once.

"why to go/congratulation/great job/amazing work." They all said.

"That was great. if you do what to be like mom, then you are more than qualified to run around the halls." Dylan said standing up and trading around to make Dorothy laugh.

"thank you." She said and hugged his head.

"I want to go again." Spike said, going to the starting line.

"you want to make it a race." Summer said.

"loser shows non-stop affection for the day." He said.

"deal." She said and without Hunter saying anything, they bolted.

Dylan, Dolly, and Dorothy were just watching. "hay Dylan?" Dolly started.

"yeah?"

"yesterday, after you left to the park with Fergus, why didn't you come here?" she asked.

"how do you know that." He said.

"after Dawkins came back from with the blueprints, he said Spencer said you and Fergus went to the park to train."

"I know how busy he gets running this company and considering most don't respect him because of his age. I don't want to bother him while he's working." He said, "if you look closely." He said taking his eyes off the race and pointed to the calendar, "there are days where he was less busy and I could come over, if not, then those would have been the days where he came over." He said.

"Thanks, you." Hunter said crouching down and then scratched his head. "but I will always make time for you or anyone else. If things were just a little different, I think I would have turned into the same monster 'she' was." He said, "so the lest I can do is always be there for you guys. Like you said earlier, I'm you de facto owner." He said with a smile.

"Thanks." Dylan said smiling and leaning into his scratching.

"anytime."

"and done!" Summer said

"that's not fair. You tripped me." Spike said.

"that's not true. My paws were always under me." She said with an innocent smile.

"yeah, but your tongue wasn't." he said.

"I don't remember there being a rule against it." she said. "now a deals a deal." She said.

Spike glared at her for a second, but then it melted away, "I hate how I can never be mad at you." He said and started nuzzling her.

"ok, ok, break it up." Dylan said. "it's been fun, but I think it's time to leave. Thanks for letting us stay. And as much as I would love to stay and train some more, I did promise Dolly she had the rest of the day to decide what to do, and I kind of toke over it by coming over here in a rush." Dylan explained with a nervous smile.

"sure, I understand." He said. "I'll pick you up in the morning, be ready." Hunter said.

"you got it." he said. "come on Dolly, where to next?"

"let's just see where the road takes us." She then put on her helmet. "let go." She said.

"Dolly! Not so fast." He said putting on his helmet and jumped onto his bord with Dorothy in toe. Summer and Spike not too far behind.

"hahaha. It's always nice to see them. Hope Dylan get to tell her the truth before it's too late, regret can hold anyone down." Hunter said to himself sitting back into his chair. He turned on his computer again and saw it was still on the email. "oh, that right, I was looking it over earlier." He said about to close it when he saw an attachment. "P.S. we normally don't do this, but seeing as its such late notice, were allowing you to bring your other pets with you that might need supervision as you might not find anyone, thank you again for understanding." It read. "hum?" Hunter was getting an idea. He grabbed his phone and call someone. "hello, I was wondering if Dr. Dave is available?"

And there you have it; another chapter is done with. Hope you all enjoy this. And I know there are some of you that tell me you love my story, I really appreciate it, I would send you a message but Fanfiction stopped notifying me about my PMs so even if I did send you one and you send one back I might not see it for a while. So, I would like to say thank you.

Word of the day.

Purport (pur-port)

Verb

to have the often-specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred); also: claim

That's it for me, until next time. Red Omega out, Peace!