And I'm back, hopefully I can do these three more times before the year ends. Maybe not this story, but we'll see. I was stuck on this chapter for so long that I didn't know what I was going to do but I finally finished it. Hope you like it.
"ok that's it everyone." said the instructor after the last girl crossed the finish line, "if you want to stay and see the results for the 4 of them, you can wait 30 minutes, or you could go home and wait for the email to be sent by the end of the day. Also, if you want to let your pets run around for a while is fine by us, we will be clearing everything up in a few hours, so have fun." he said then walked away.
After the instructor left, the Dalmatian family, instead of running around on the field, they swarmed Dylan, "AHHHH!" Dylan said before getting swallowed.
"'That was amazing,' 'You were so fast', 'how did you get to be so cool.'" Everyone just said one thing after another, that was until. "Are you going to leave us?" Everyone just stopped after that and released Dylan.
"*sigh* you all know I wanted to go into space. This could be my only chance to do it. And being the first dog on Mars would be amazing." he said looking at the sky, "I just have to be ready for if I get to go, doesn't mean I don't want to be here with you guys. I love all of you." he said, opening his arms and without saying anything they all consumed Dylan again. But not long after they all jumped from him and then started to run around the track. "Feeling the love!" he said laughing.
"Let me take a look at that." Delilah said walking up to her son, then grabbed his shoulder and looked.
"I'm fine Mom. He didn't break skin." he was talking about when right in the middle of the race one of the other dogs lashed out and bit Dylan, thankfully Ron was not that far behind and jumped in to pull him off.
"Still wasn't cool he did that, I get wanting to get into space, but going this far." Spike said shaking his head.
"But knowing Dylan, he's a lot tougher than he looks, he probably didn't even feel it." Summer said.
"I still do, it's not stopping me from moving, it just hurts." Dylan said while Delilah was still poking his arm.
"Looks like it's just going to bruise." she said letting go of his shoulder and then hugged him. "I am so proud of you Dylan, you are so close to your dream."
"Thanks Mom." he said hugging her back.
"Room for one more?" Doug said playing with his paws. Dylan and Dalileh looked at each other and made room for one more. He then jumped in without hesitation and started crying.
"Oh dad." Dolly said patting his back.
"Wait? Who's wafting the pups." Dylan said.
"we're on it." Dawkins said with Da Vinci and DJ by his side with DJ just menacingly looking at them.
"I keep telling you, nothing happened." Da Vinci said to DJ.
"Sure." he said only backing up a little.
"Hay Dylan, are you ok?" Ross asked walking up to them.
"I'm fine, thanks to Ronny it wants to bad."
"Well like you said, we should know who the best is when it's this fair." he said looking away. "And his excuse for doing it. 'I've been training for this all my life, I was promised that spot long ago.' etc., etc."
"It's a good thing he was disqualified for it, but I'm surprised even after that attack you were still able to keep up the same pace." Ross said
"He just bit me, not strong enough to break skin see." he showed them, I think he thought it would be strong enough and discouraging enough to get me back off. unforcedly for him, the Dimitris don't know the meaning of restraint when playing." he said
"We know how to hold back." they yelled from the far side of the cores.
"I still say we should get this disinfected and banged up." Delilah said, still looking at his shoulder.
"It's fine, we can do it later, right now I just want to wait and see what happened, as well as to make sure they don't break anything making them forced to leave before." Dylan said.
"The three of us are watching them." Dawkins said.
"Wait, I'm watching then as well, why?" DJ asked
"Because you're next to us, and Dantas over there talking to that golden." Da Vinci said.
"Wait!" Everyone that was not running around said, turning in the direction of Danta and Francesca.
"So, you a black Dalmatian with white spots?" she asked.
"That's what I said." Francesca looked him up and down, licked her paw, and then rubbed his arm. "Told you so." she licked her paw again and rubbed his ear, making the purple smudge but a bit of his white did show up, "I said black dalmatian, not black and purple." he said.
"Well sorry, but if you were fully black, I would have thought you were a labrador." she said.
"Well, I am part labrador from my father's side." he said making her look over at the group and seeing them all watching her intensely.
"hehe." She laughed nervously and waved a little. "He looks very Dalmatian to me." she said quietly.
"that's my dad, my father..." he stopped himself, looked down a little, and said, "He's...no longer with us." he said.
"Oh." she then just ignored that everyone was watching them and nuzzled him a little, "I'm sorry, didn't mean to bring it up."
"It's fine, you didn't know, it's not like you know that much about me from the 10 minutes of talking?"
"you're right, we should fix that." she said. "How does tomorrow at the park around sunset." she said excitedly.
"Oh um." Danta was talking back at this, "sure, that, that sounds good to me." he said.
"Great." she then licked his cheek, "See you then."
"Yeah, see you." he said, following her as she left. Unknown to him, not only was he blushing, and his tail was wagging, but he had on a genuine smile, not like the one he had before, but am honest to Dog smile.
When he turned to see what his family was doing, when they saw he was looking they all quickly looked back to the pups, only to see Dawkins, Da Vinci, and DJ bringing back the Dimitris, either dragging or pushing.
"Oh, come on." "What did we do." "We did nothing wrong." the three of them complained.
"you three know what you were doing." Dawkins said.
"Dylan wants to see the results of his training." Da Vinci continued.
"Or he's going to go full Dylan and we do not want that today." DJ finished.
"Hey, what is that supposed to mean." Dylan said. He looked at the rest of the group seeing if any of them would defend him. Every time he looked at someone around him, they just turned their heads somewhere else, the only ones that didn't turn their heads were Ronny and Rebeca.
"*ahem* what were they doing for you to bring them here?" asked Delilah.
"They were trying to reenact what happened to Dylan and what he should have done." Dawkins said.
"Dylan is a lot stronger than he lets on." D1 said.
"If he wanted to, he could have done something." D2 said.
"If I did do anything then I would have been disqualified." he said.
"But if it was a fight, you could have taken him?" D3 asked.
"Well." he said, making everyone look at him. "I wouldn't go as far as to say I would win without a scratch. But I haven't been in a real fight so it's hard to say if I could win. Definitely wouldn't be able to do my chores for a while." he said thinking about it.
While he was thinking about it the instructors were saying something, but he didn't hear anything until, "We'll see next week. Train hard everyone." they said and walked off.
"what's going on?" Dylan asked.
"The results are up." said Dolly.
They all looked to the board to see everyone's placement
Dylan 57 Rebecca 54
Ronaldo 56 Shiver 50
Tobby 50 Bubble 48
Snow 44 Bella 40
Rex 0 Stella 40
"So, what's going on? Asked Dorthey asked.
"The top 4 are going to go one round next week to see which ones are going into space." Rebecca explained.
"And I'm right behind Dylan." Ronny said.
"You could have been in first if you took it easily at the beginning." said Dylan with a little wag of his tail.
"We'll now that that's out of the way, COME ON SWEETIES, WE'RE HEADING HOME." Delilah said getting everyone to rush to them. Once they did the was just a wave that carried them to the bus.
"Headcount!" Dylan said then moving up and down the aisles.
"Classic Dylan." everyone said while laughing.
"This is going to take a minute." Dolly said and turned to see who she was sitting next to, only to see Rebecca right next to her, "what are you doing here?"
"We were a bit too close to you guys when the wave came in." she said looking at the floor where Ronny was.
"I can see why Dylan is so resistant." Ronny said while his eyes were spinning.
"107." Dylan said finishing his count. "107? Weren't we 105 this morning?" he said.
"Yeah sorry, we just caught up in the wave." She jumped down and then started dragging Ronny outside. "we'll be seeing you at the finals."
"Yeah, see you two there. May the best dog win." he said.
"Back at you." Ronny said. And then they were off the bus.
"Ok everyone, I know we just had pizza." Hunter said getting everyone's attention, everyone started waging their tails in preparation, "And in celebration of Dylan coming in first, who wants some pizza?" He turned to everyone with a smile. "And enough for everyone to have 3 slices." just the sounds of howls as the bus were driving away.
And with that, the chapter is finally done. The next chapter might have a guys' night, or Dawkins and Da Vinci focus. Can't say right now. Hope you all that still read this enjoyed the chapter.
Word of the day
Shambles (sham-bles)
Noun
Archaic : a meat market
That's it for me, until next time. Red Omega out, Peace!