Cherry and the Friendship Games

chapter 9

James and Elizabeth decided they wanted to go out for dinner and dancing tonight, so that meant Mo was going to baby and dogsit while they would be out. She was a little upset with the way Cherry had been behaving, but she tried not to let it bother her while she would look after the others. Since the human adults were out too, Lady and Tramp decided to visit Jock and Trusty.

"Have a nice time with Jock and Trusty." Mo smiled at the adult dogs.

"Thank you, dear, we'll tell them you said hi." Lady smiled as she left with her mate to meet her old friends in the neighborhood.

"Sounds great." Mo smiled. "Good night!" she then went back in the house and shut the door behind her. "Okay, it's just me, the puppies, and the baby. How hard can it be?"

"Well, hopefully not too hard." Angel said.

"Yeah..." Mo shrugged. "Um... Let's watch a movie..."

"Can we watch that show Thunderbolt that Patch is always talking about?" Colette asked.

Mo shrugged. "I see nothing wrong with that..." she then sat on the couch next to Junior and found the channel the show was on. "Let's see what we're cookin' with."

"I hope it has a lot of action." Danielle smiled.

"Patch says it does." Colette smiled back to her sister.

"I think you're the real wonder dog though." Angel said to Scamp.

Scamp smiled bashfully. Thunderbolt was now on TV and they were going to watch together.

"It's a good start." Scamp smiled.

Mo smiled, but she yawned a little, today was a little exhausting for her. She seemed to start falling asleep during the show. Junior was even enjoying the show with his puppy friends.

"This show is very entertaining." Angel smiled.

"Mm-hmm..." Mo smiled sleepily, she didn't mean to, but she started to drift off.

While Mo was falling asleep, the shadow returned. But unfortunately for him, Junior and the pups noticed the shadow and started to bark and yell at him. The shadow became a frightening image and snarled at them. The puppies whimpered and shivered from that. Junior sniffled and started to cry, since it scared him and he tried to wake up his big sister. The shadow then crawled into Mo's ear without her waking up. But unfortunately for him, Mo was awakened by the cries of her brother. He didn't seem to leave her head though.

Mo sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Oh, my, I must've fallen asleep..."

Junior kept crying.

"Oh, Junior, what's wrong?" Mo picked up her brother. "Are you hungry? Tired?"

"No, evil shadow!" Junior told her. "He went into your head!"

"Evil shadow?" Mo tilted her head.

"It's true! There was an evil shadow and it just went into your head!" Angel told her.

Mo looked at them and changed the channel. "No more TV tonight."

"We're telling you the truth!" Angel told her.

Mo looked at them, she got up for a moment and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

"You don't think that shadow could be in her head right now, do you?" Scamp asked.

"Hard to say," Danielle spoke up. "I just know that it gives me the willies!"

"We'll need someone's help just in case it involves evil magic." Colette said.