Beethoven VS Cujo

Chapter 2

Beethoven and Cujo walked only a few miles before reaching a rural area with a small house and barn on the side of the hill. 

"Nice place" Beethoven told his brother. 

"Thanks" Cujo smiled. 

The brothers headed towards the house when a couple of people saw the dogs coming over. One of the was Cujo's family, the Cambers. This include the man of the house, Joe, who was a mechanic. Housewife, Charity. And most importantly, Cujo's boy, Brett. 

The others were the Trenton family, who had come to seek help from Joe to repair their car. They included Vic, Donna, and their young son Tad. 

"Come on, Cujo!" Brett called to his dog. "Come on, boy!" 

Cujo smiled, coming over to his boy with Beethoven while Tad wanted to get a closer look at the dogs but his mother quickly pulled him away.

"Don't go over to those dogs!" Donna told her son, picking him up to protect him. "You don't know those dogs!"

"Don't worry about it, ma'am, Cujo won't hurt him. He likes kids" Brett assured, giving his dog a few good pats. "He's safe" 

"And what about that one" Donna pointed to Beethoven, asking. "Is he vicious?"

Beethoven slowly walked up while Brett reached out his hand to him before Beethoven licked it. Brett smiled. "He certainly seems friendly to me"

Joe then came over, telling Vic about the car. "Run me down the hill and back, I wanna have a listen to it"

"Yeah, okay" Vic nodded. 

"Vic?..." Donna looked at her husband, seeming worried about the dogs. 

"Oh, it's all right" Vic told her, seeing Beethoven and Cujo appeared harmless enough. "Yeah, it's all right"

Vic got into his car when Joe assured him. "Don't worry, Mr. Trenton. Your boy will be all right" 

The two men soon drove off to give the car a test drive. Donna placed Tad back down, allowing him to pet the dogs. 

"Gently" She reminded her son. 

"Cujo. His name's Cujo" Brett told them. 

"Cujo? How you doing, Cujo?" Tad petted Cujo while the big gentle dog licked his face. 

"And who's this one?" Tad pointed to Beethoven before coming over to pet him. 

Brett read Beethoven's tags. "Beethoven" 

Beethoven and Cujo decided to rough-house with each other a bit which made Brett smile. 

"I think they're brothers" He said. He could tell just by the way they played together. 

"What kind of dogs are they?" Tad asked. 

"Saint Bernards" Brett replied. 

"They're great dogs" Tad said. 

"Yeah, they're pretty smart too" Brett smiled. 

The two brothers came back over towards the humans. Donna even found the courage to pet them. That's when she noticed Cujo's bite wound on his nose. Although she didn't think much of it and decided not to say anything.

Beethoven also found something rather peculiar about Donna once he got a good look at the woman, but he couldn't put his paw on it. 

Vic soon returned with Joe, having been quick to fix the car. 

"Well, we better be going" Donna told the Cambers. "Thank you"

Tad came up to hug Beethoven and Cujo one last time before leaving with his parents. "Bye, doggies"