For Adventure Bay - [PAW Patrol Fanfic]

Close Call

A rather melancholic tune resonated within the studio.

"I really need to practice my shifts..." the violinist whispered to herself.

"Maybe I'm just over-reacting from the whole thing... I shouldn't expect him to like me back... We're good friends already... I messed it up... Now I lost him for good... "

Tchaik's Valse Sentimentale began to fill the vacancy of the silent room. She was on her own, churning out her saddened heart, hoping to numb everything away.

At bar 31, she missed the G semiquaver. She stopped, putting down the wooden instrument on the lid of the closed grand piano.

She sat down on the piano stool, hands on her head. "I really messed up.."

Then something clicked in her. A bubbling guilt, fear, and anxiety rose from her heart. First it was like a small sprout and on the next second, it began to bloom into a imaginary red rose with thorns on it's stalk.

"I really need to apologize to him..." she blurted out, a sad sigh following it.

She packed up the violin and stored it away for safe keeping. Her feet began to drag her out from the room, looking for the person she'd befriended for most of her life.

"Where is he?" she wondered. She looked at the main hall, the PAW Patroller was still parked there.

"Maybe he went on a mission-"

A frantic rumble of footsteps came from behind her. She spun around and saw Nat with three of her staff members.

"Contact them now! Any of them!" Nat ordered.

She was confused and somewhat worried. She ran towards her.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"There's an explosion..." she paused. "Ryder, Chase, and Marshall are near... Or even in the explosion area."

Those words hit her. Her mind went blank. Nat glanced at her subordinates and told them to go first.

"I'm sure that they're going to be fine..." she placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I hope..."

At the Explosion Area

Marshall winced. His ears were ringing like crazy. He shook his head and saw Chase and Ryder closing their ears.

"Ryder? Chase? Are you alright?"

He couldn't hear his own voice. He kept shaking his head, hoping to shook off the ringing sensation.

"Pups, can you hear me?" Ryder asked.

Both of them nodded as their hearings started to go back to normal. They looked back to the transformer. It was exploded to pieces, unrecognizable anymore. Fresh pulps of fire washed over the debris and the area around it, bringing back the blaze that had been put down.

"That was close..." Chase sighed in relief.

"Did you guys got hurt?" Marshall asked.

They looked at themselves. Luckily they weren't hurt, even the slightest.

"I guess we're good." Chase said.

Ryder felt his pup pad vibrating. He took it out from his pocket and answered the call.

"Ryder! Are you alright??" A frantic staff was on the screen.

"We're alright..." he replied.

"Oh thank goodness!!" the other side cheered in relief. "We thought you're a goner!"