Ty watched every bush closely, looking for even the slightest movement. He glanced around, listening carefully to the rustle of the branches. He was being hunted, and he knew it he heard a sudden crunch of the leaves behind him and as fast as he could, he whipped around and released the foam-tipped arrow into the bush, a loud thwack was heard, and immediately after was the yelp of a pup. Ty notched another arrow and quickly went to the source of the yelp and instead of finding his white-furred friend he instead found three pups lurking in the bushes. Ty went to speak, but before he could the pup with dark brown fur jumped at him, and acting on instinct, Ty slapped him out of the air with his bow. Ty then dropped the foam arrow and notched a bullet point arrow and pointed it at the spotted pup's head. "Don't move!" He said as the brown dog picked itself up. He heard another growl from behind him. He turned around and behind him, he saw a small blonde cockapoo standing behind him. He looked back at the brown pup and there was a sudden loud whimper from the blonde pup behind him. As he glanced back behind him, he saw Zach with his mouth on the cockapoo's neck. They all sat still, the brown shepherd not moving a muscle, fear filling his eyes. There was another rustle from the bushes, and out of the bushes came a husky with lavender fur. She looks around a bit before speaking calmly. "What's going on here?" She asked.
"Don't move, or I swear I'm gonna put an arrow in this pup," Ty said, just trying to scare her off. She slowly took a step back and sat down. "Let's just try to talk this out, okay?" The lavender pup said, glancing at the brown pup and shaking her head gently. "I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding. Why don't you let go of our friends, and we can just all go on about our day?" Ty let down the arrow and let the Dally go, but Zach held on to the Cockapoo tighter, causing her to whimper more. "Zach, dimiserunt eam." The white wolf grudgingly let go of his catch and came and sat down next to Ty. The brown pup made a sudden sprint over to her. "Skye!" He screamed, quickly checking her wound. The dally now free from his predicament quickly ran to her and looked at the small amount of blood coming from Skye's neck.
"We need to bring her to the tower." The dally said, before turning to Ty. "Is that yours?" He said, looking at Zach. Zach let out a low growl and Ty tugged his collar a bit, and he quieted down. "Not exactly no," Ty responded.
"Well, do you know if it has anything?" The dally asked. Ty shook his head and the dally sighed. "Then we need to take them both to the tower." Ty backed away and Zach stepped back as well.
"We're not going anywhere with you. We don't even know who you are." Ty said.
"I'm Marshall," The dally Said quickly. "The shepherd is Chase, the husky is Everest and this is Skye. Now we need to get her back to the tower before she gets an infection, and we need to bring him to make sure he doesn't have anything he can give her." Ty looked at Zach, who sighed softly and nodded up at Ty. "Fine, but it's best if I carry her," Ty said, but before Ty had the chance, Chase picked Skye up and gently tossed her on his back before giving Zach a second glance. Ty shrugged before whipping his bow forward, turning it into a staff which he folded up.
"Follow me," Chase said as he began to make his way through the brush, and soon they came to this small spire of steel with a giant metal paw on the front of it. Ty stared at it, lost in a mix of wonder and amazement. "Come on!" Chase said, hurrying as they went into the lookout. "We need to get both Skye and the wolf inside," Marshall said.
"He'll behave on his own. I'll wait here in the meantime." Ty said, Nudging Zach forward. The white wolf followed behind Marshall quietly leaving just Everest and Ty there by themselves. After a few minutes of awkward silence, Ty let out a small cough to break the tension. "So..." He said before looking down at Everest. "I'm sorry for what happened. I didn't mean to cause any harm." Everest gave him a gentle smile and chuckled.
"It's fine." She said, gently hopping onto one of the many beanbags. "I'm sure it was all just a misunderstanding. You can sit down if you want." She said, gesturing to the beanbag beside her. "No, thanks, I'm fine. I'd rather get some target practice anyway." He said as he walked outside, unfolded his bow and nocked a Bullet point arrow, and looked around for some sort of target to test his accuracy. He noticed that Everest had followed him outside and was watching him. Then he spotted some pine cones on the trees nearby, and he took aim and loosed some arrows at them, and the arrows smashed through them. "What do you think the others are doing?" Ty asked her as he drew and fired another arrow. "Good question, I don't know."
