A/N: I hope you're all enjoying this! Two more chapters of the OG fic to go before I take over! Once again, I want to thank Tom Alto. ENJOY
At the dog show in Downtown San Francisco, the dogs and their owners were all lined up perfectly, wanting the city to know which one of these canines was the most noble enough to win. Suddenly, a stray gray and white dog approached one of the show dogs, wanting to get to know the fellow canine, but the owner gasped, not wanting his dog to be dirty with germs like the stray possibly has. "That stray is harassing my Jasper! Security!" the owner called out.
A security guard picked up the scruffy looking dog and tossed him out the emergency exit. "Get out of here." he said. The stray then looked behind him, and there he saw Daolon, Monkey Fist, and the Huntsman, looking for the Noble Dog that contained the power of immortality. The stray, clearly frightened, ran back inside, wanting to get away from the three bad men. He ran across the stage, much to the guard's displeasure. "Hey you!" the audience laughed at that as Daolon, Monkey Fist, and Huntsman set their sights on the show dogs.
"Which of these is the beast we seek?" the Huntsman asked.
"It could be any of them!" Monkey Fist pointed out. "How are we supposed to know which of these dogs is noble?! I don't suppose you have a way of finding out, do you, wizard?"
Daolon ignored the quip and just smirked evilly. "Do not worry. There is a simple way. If we destroy them, only one will be left standing. The one that holds the power of immortality." he explained.
The Huntsman smirked under his helmet. "Perfect. With the power of immortality, nothing will be able to crush us." he said.
As they began to plot on how to destroy the dogs, and while the security guard chased the stray, our newly formed mega team entered, hoping to save the Nobel Dog from the bad guys. "OK, guys. The Dog Talisman holds the power of immortality. So the power has to be in one of the dogs." Kim said, already taking lead. But as soon as they saw all the show dogs, they were baffled.
"But which one?" Jackie asked.
"Aw man! This might take forever!" Jake said. Just then, the stray then approached King with a smile, hoping the Titan could be a new playmate and keep him safe from the guard. He barked happily as he hopped in front of him.
"Uh, hello?" King waved meekly. The stray barked happily, then King ran, clearly confused by the creature, starting a game of chase. "Please leave me alone! I'm supposed to defeat evil right now!"
Jade then glanced and gasped as she saw Daolon, the Huntsman, and Monkey Fist. "Jackie! Luz! Jake! Kim!" she exclaimed, pointing to them.
"Oh, well, look who decided to show up." Monkey Fist said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. He, Daolon, and the Huntsman then got into fighting stances. "The new cheer squad!"
"That's right! And we all made up a new routine just for you three! Don't think you'll like the new finish though!" Kim grinned.
"Your peppiness is no match for our new evil alliance." Dalon menaced.
"Let's switch it up." Rose smirked. "Jackie, handle the Huntsguy. Me and Kim will take care of the old evil dude, and Luz can handle Monkey Fist."
"I like the way you think." Kim grinned as she, Rose, Jackie, and Luz began to fight. Jackie showed incredibly coordination as he ducked the Huntsman's attacks. As the Huntsman prepared to use his staff, Jackie then grabbed it with his legs and used it as leverage, sending the warrior onto his back as Jackie flipped him.
Kim and Rose worked together to avoid Daolon's advances, ducking and delivering smooth punches. "You bratty girls are becoming an annoyance to me!" Daolon growled.
"Good." Rose and Kim smirked, delivering a gut kick, sending Daolon backward and landing in a giant dog food bowl.
"That's gotta hurt." Jade smirked as King was still being chased by the stray. "King, will you stop playing around? You're going to miss the fun!"
"Does it look like I'm playing around?!" King exclaimed. "I can't get him off of my tail!"
Even Monkey Fist's skills were no match for Luz's magic, as she used circle spells to make ice and fire glyphs, distracting the primate villain. "You're no match for the future Monkey Master!" Monkey Fist growled after shaking off Luz's fire spell.
"Do not underestimate me! For I am Luz, human witch and warrior of peace! NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!" Luz smirked, using his favorite Azura quote, blasting a ray of energy from her staff, sending Monkey Fist flying into a giant toilet bowl.
"Boo yah! Score one for the good guys!" Ron smirked, high fiving Jake.
"Quick, kid! We better take the dog away from them!" Fu Dog said.
"But WHICH dog?!" Jake asked.
"Were any of you not listening?!" Uncle barked. "The most noble one!"
"We'll have to take all the dogs then." Kim said, already figuring out a plan. Jackie sighed as he, Kim, Luz, Ron, and Jake took the dogs' leashes.
"Sorry! We'll bring him back!" Jackie exclaimed.
"Emergency, ma'am. We'll keep her safe." Kim said.
"Life or death situation. No time to argue!" Luz exclaimed.
King then ran outside as the stray continued to chase him. "QUIT FOLLOWING ME!" King exclaimed. "I'M NOT OF THIS REALM!" Then Daolon growled as he got up, followed by Monkey Fist and the Huntsman.
"Now what?!" Monkey Fist asked.
Daolon then waved his staff, summoning Finn, Ratso, and Chow. The heroes gasped as they saw the Enforcers appear in thin air. "Aren't those the same Three Stooges wannabes who we fought last night?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, but something's different. They didn't look orange last night." Kim said, feeling uneasy.
"They got a Dark Chi makeover." Jade realized as her eyes went wide.
"Warriors, get them!" Daolon ordered. With that, the heroes ran towards the exit with Jackie walking the dogs.
"Good dogs! Go, go!" Kim said.
"Get along little doggies!" Jade exclaimed as Tohru, Jake, and Gus closed the doors to the showroom. Then Tohru used a soda machine to block the Enforcers in. But even Jackie knew with their new powers, the bad guys wouldn't be trapped for long.
"Luz, do you think you can trap the Dark Hand guys in another one of those urns?" Jackie asked.
"Uh, I haven't really studied much about trapping magical foes in artifacts yet." Luz smiled sheepishly. "That's coming up next year. Plus, I'm running on what little magic King is giving me so I don't to push it. Eda's the more experienced one." She then realized something. "Oh wait. She's not here."
Uncle shrugged. "We don't need owl lady's urn anyway! It's full like her ego!" Uncle quipped, making Luz glare at the elderly Chinese shopkeeper.
"YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!" Luz exclaimed. "Eda is a great witch! And if you would have let her come along, she would have showed you why!"
Kim and Jackie sighed, but luckily the argument didn't last for long as Chow used his newfound strength to bust down the door and the soda machine. "Whoa. They're super strong." Rose commented.
"I am so buff!" Chow smiled, actually loving his powers so far. And Ratso and Finn levitated and broke through the roof, then landed right next to Chow.
"Hey! We can fly!" Ratso realized.
"Groovy!" Finn happily exclaimed.
"That would be so cool, if they weren't going to hurt us." Ron said with a nervous smile. The Enforcers then leaped through the air, ready to strike down the new team of heroes.
"RUN!" Jade exclaimed. Jake then stepped in front of his new teammates and smirked.
"I'll handle these circus clowns!" Jake grinned. "DRAGON UP!" With that, he transformed into his dragon form and used his tail to knock away the Enforcers. With that, the heroes ran with the dogs to the park, hoping they would be safe until they could find the Noble Dog.
"Aw man! That gotta hurt." Finn said as he got up, still feeling dazed before Jake landed in front of them again.
"If you thought that hurt, you three will be feeling this in the morning!" Jake smirked, using his dragon breath to burn the Enforcers' feet. They began jumping up and down in pain as they felt their toes burn. Tohru smiled and gave Jake a thumbs up as Daolon, Monkey Fist, and the Huntsman looked on with disappointment.
"My minions would have probably handled this better." Monkey Fist grumbled. Daolon then used his staff and then gave the Enforcers' the weapons that belonged to Daolon's warriors.
"Score!" Finn smirked.
"Uh, we're probably going to need some hardware of our own." Jake said, the grin on his face fading as he saw the weapons.
"Attack!" Daolon ordered. With that, the Enforcers leapt and used their weapons to try and cut Jake and Tohru. But Jake dodged their attacked using his size and Tohru used his strength to pull a stop sign off it's hinges and used it like a shield to keep the Enforcers at bay. But Finn used his weapon to cut through the sign, making Tohru gulp as he realized they were in trouble.
Meanwhile, over at the park, people were just chilling and having fun, playing Frisbee and whatnot. Jackie and Kim worked together to walk the dogs into the park, hoping they would be safe from Dalon, Monkey Fist, Chow, and the Enforcers. "Good dogs. Good dogs." Kim smiled, handling it with ease, impressing Jackie.
"Thank goodness you know how to handle these dogs, Kim." Jackie smiled.
"Well, I do a lot of dog walking and pet sitting jobs." Kim said with a smile, trying to remain humble. "I actually always wanted a dog but luckily that encounter with Drakken's pet poodle changed my mind. At least it's not like the fetch incident."
"Fetch incident?" Jackie asked curiously. But before Kim could even answer, one of the show dogs spotted the Frisbee, his eyes going wide and smiling. That caused the other dogs to follow suit, already taking off after the Frisbee, dragging Kim and Jackie along with them.
"Oh no! Not again!" Kim exclaimed as she held on tight to the dogs' leashes.
"Bad dogs, bad dogs, bad dogs!" Jackie exclaimed as he too held on tight. Jade and Ron were running up to catch up to them.
"Oh no! It's a repeat of the fetch incident!" Ron exclaimed, remembering that painful experience. "I still have the burns and scrapes from that time!"
"Kim! Tell them to heel!" Jade called out.
Kim did in fact hear Jade and did just that. "Heel, dogs!" Kim ordered. The dogs did just that and as soon as they did, the Frisbee players dropped the Frisbee and ran. Kim smiled. "Phew. That went better than I expected." she said. She then noticed Jackie was on his back, feeling dazed from being dragged around by show dogs. "Jackie?"
"Stay…" Jackie said, still feeling dazed.
While the other heroes had yet to reach the park, King had entered, still being chased by the stray hound from earlier. The young Titan could take a lot of things, itchy welts, blistering boils, even severely ingrown toe claws, but this dog managed to get under his skin like nothing before.
"Argggggggh! What is it with these human realm creatures!? Not even the nastier demons were ever this annoying! And they'd try to suck your blood!" cried out King as the dog continued sniffing him curiously.
In a huff, King tried scaring off the canine by trying to pull of the most frightening face he could manage…although because it was King, his most frightening face was more comical than anything, his eyes hilariously bugged out of his skull and his tongue flapping about. Naturally the stray wasn't the least bit intimidated by the Titan and showed his affection by licking King.
The sensation of licked tickled King and he sound found his heart melting for the canine. The dog's affectionate nature was simply too infectious for King. He could feel the warm, fuzzy feelings radiating off the little four-legged creature.
"D'awwwww. Why are you Earth creatures so hard to hate? I swear it's like you're all like Luz!" said King as he pet the stray dog's head. The canine wagged his tail, appreciative of the young Titan's gesture.
Their bonding moment was tragically cut short when Luz and the rest of the new team came rushing into the park. "King, haul tail! We don't know how long Jake and Tohru will hold the bad guys so we have to get the lead out!" Luz yelled.
Not wasting a moment, King ran with his friends, rushing them towards Jackie, Kim, Jade, and Ron.
Back at the entrance to the dog show, Chow lifted Tohru up in the air and threw him onto the hood of a Ford. Jake gasped, now knowing the Enforcers could so some serious damage to them but he didn't even had time to fly after Tohru as Ratso grabbed him by his tail and began to swing him around. "DUDE! NOT COOL!" Jake exclaimed, already getting dizzy before Ratso flung him to where Tohru landed. "AW MAN!"
Tohru was still shaking off the crash when he saw Jake's shadow but didn't have time to move away as the American Dragon landed on Tohru and the car, crushing whatever was left of the vehicle. After getting over the daze, Jake heard the 480 pound Japanese man groan in pain. "Oh, sorry big guy." Jake chuckled sheepishly.
"I've had worse. Believe me." Tohru assured through his groans.
"Face it, dudes. You guys are no match for…" Finn boasted before trying to come up with a cool team name to go with their new makeovers.
"Whatever we are!" Ratso smiled stupidly.
Once the majority of the heroes have found a quiet place and caught their breaths, Uncle, Gus, and Fu Dog lined up the dogs, ready to discover which one was the noble one.
"So, how exactly are you supposed to know which dog is nobel and all that?" Trixie asked.
"The blow fish will let us know!" Uncle explained in his usual old grumpy man way.
"For a wise chi wizard, he doesn't seem very Zen." Spud whispered, earning him a two-finger smack.
"Don't think Uncle did not hear that!" Uncle barked before going back to what he was doing.
"Okay so maybe we should have a better guideline on what counts as noble. You just saying, 'we'll know it when we see it' doesn't exactly help," Gus said, looking over the dozens of dogs they ushered out.
"Aiya! This should be easy for you kids, especially when you come from the realm of demons," Uncle sighed, exasperated.
"Say no more, I'll have our prize dog identified in a jiffy," Fu Dog declared confidently as he got on all fours. He began sniffing a dog's hindquarters, much to the disgust of the male witch.
"Oh, that is just nasty!" spat Gus, "I get you're a dog, but you're a dog that can talk, have some manners!"
"Hey, I don't see you coming up with any helpful ideas Glinda! Why dontcha just use your fancy Demon Realm magic to find our pooch?" Fu shot back.
The talking Shar Pei had Gus beat with that remark since the young witch fumbled around his words in search for a response. "Um…well…I mean…there might be some spell that can help us…I think?"
The older magic user was now giving Gus a skeptical look. "Uncle would also like to know how your witchcraft would be of use here."
Gus frowned and said, "Man…why couldn't Hexside have taught us useful stuff?"
As the trio argued on how to find their Noble Dog, Jade and Amity watched the whole scene unfold, unamused looks plastering their faces.
"It seems like finding the first Noble Animal might take some time," Amity said huffily.
"Seems the others found something else to focus," spoke Jade, motioning to Luz and Rose and what they were looking at. All four pairs of eyes were on King playing fetch with his new dog friend, laughing and whistling each time the canine gave the stick back to King to be thrown again. It brought out the girl's smiles, even in trying times like these.
The young Titan and his dog ran up to the four, excited to show off the new friend he made. "I cannot believe how cool the creatures on this plane of existence are! This little guy is so full of energy, it's almost hard to keep up! Why don't more people bond with this dog animal?"
"Gee, that's a real mystery King. We should really fix that," Rose humored him with a good-natured chuckle.
"Do you have a name for him yet? It's only fair that you get first call on naming after all," Luz said.
"Huh. You're right; a special friend of mine deserves a special name!" King looked at the canine, trying to think of a name that would best suit him best. "How about I name you…Scruffy? It fits because you are scruffy in a good way; it adds to your character."
The dog barked excitedly and wagged his tail, showing enthusiasm for the name Scruffy. King could only beam with joy, happy that his new friend liked his suggestion.
"Hi Scruffy!" Jade giggled. As soon as he heard his new name, Scruffy ran into Jade's arms and began to lick her face, considering her a friend as well. "Awww! Who's a good dog?"
Just then, a blast of dark magic landed near them, making everyone gasp. "Isn't this a lovely little scene? If you snapped a picture it would make for a nice post card."
The heroes froze, wide eyed, and looked in the direction of that familiar, venomous British accent. Sure enough of it was the trio of villains, now looking more determined and angry than ever before. Right behind the Huntsman was Jake, trapped in a net, much to the rest of Team Dragon's concern.
"JAKE!" Rose, Lao, Spud, and Trixie exclaimed worriedly.
"The time for games is long over," the Huntsman said, raising his spear menacingly at the five, "You will hand over the noble animal right…this…instant. One of the dogs may be immortal but I can't say the same for the rest of you."
"You're not getting that pooch as long as we're still standing." Rose smirked, already getting into a fighting stance.
"Ronald, walk the dogs." Jackie said, handing the leashes to Ron as he got into a fighting stance as well. As soon as the show dogs saw a cat, they immediately began chasing after it, dragging Ron along with them.
"THIS IS WORSE THAN THE FETCH INCIDENT!" Ron exclaimed as he held on for dear life.
"You want a piece of me, Freddy Krueger?!" King smirked as he prepared to use his horns to charge against the bad guys.
Daolon chuckled evilly. "Very well. Since you seem one of the most powerful…" Daolon said, brandishing his staff. "...you'll be first."
Luz gasped as she became worried for the young Titan. Scruffy, sensing his new friend was in danger, ran up to Daolon to give him a piece of his mind. "Scruffy!" Jade exclaimed worriedly.
Scruffy then bit on Daolon's robe, making the dark chi wizard growl. "Mongrel, begone!" Daolon exclaimed, using his staff to blast Scruffy out of existence, but after the wave of dark magic disappeared, everyone was wide eyed.
"Whoa." Jade said, awestruck.
"Get out." Kim said.
"No way." Luz said.
"Yes way." King said, also awestruck for someone of his species.
"What the…?" Daolon asked. Scruffy growled, still alive, still wanting to protect his new friends, showing a fierceness in his eyes. Daolon looked deep into the stray's eyes and finally knew who was the noble dog. "The immortal!"
"That is the noble dog we have been looking for?" Jackie asked, shocked as everyone else.
"Why didn't you sniff his behind?" Gus asked Fu Dog.
"Hey! I don't sniff strays!" Fu Dog said. "Just because I drink out of a toilet doesn't mean I don't have standards too!"