Finding Happiness

The Toughest Choice

When they reached North Wind HQ, Dave felt Ariel could be safe from DuBois and anything that could seriously harm her.

"Welcome to North Wind Headquarters" Eva said to Ariel.

"Wow!" smiled Ariel.

But Dave just ignored the girls.

He remembered when he (while in his Dr. Brine disguise) was embarrassingly captured by Classified and his team. But the worst part he remembered was how he was rescued by his minions.

When Eva brought Dave and Ariel into the investigating room where Classified and the other team members were waiting, the wolf gasped at the sight of Dave and was ready to attack.

"No, don't!" shouted Eva. "You will not harm them. There's more to Dave than you think, sir."

Classified growled viciously at Dave, who scowled back.

"Guys, please, come on" begged Ariel. "It's Christmas, we shouldn't be fighting like this."

Finally giving up, Classified walked away muttering to himself while Corporal was amazed about something.

"What?!" barked Short Fuse. "What is it?"

"Look" pointed the polar bear.

The two watched as Dave helped Ariel get her winter coat off and then she checked his tentacles to make sure he didn't lose any from DuBois.

"Nope, you still got eight" said Ariel.

"Thank you" Dave sighed in relief.

Seeing this, Corporal and Short Fuse were surprised while Eva simply just watched.

"Looks like Dave has found himself a soul mate" replied Eva.

Corporal and Short Fuse nodded in agreement, still surprised.

Throughout the entire day, they celebrated Christmas a little early and Eva gave Ariel a special present.

"What is it?" asked Ariel.

"It's an animal amulet" replied Eva. "To remind other people and animals how special you are and what your talents are no matter what."

As Ariel placed her present around her neck, she smiled.

"Thanks" she said to Eva.

While all this was happening, Dave was given a cute serum that returned him back to his small and adorable self again. He was glad that he was like that again.

"I always hated being big" he admitted to himself.

For dinner, Dave was given a large supply of fish and chicken meat to last him almost the entire week.

And for a while, Dave and Ariel spent time together for the longest time since he shrunk back to his cute self.

Meanwhile back in New York, DuBois searched every corner of the city.

She knew she always gets her prey. Well... expect one time four defenseless escaped from her (But let's not go there. We all know how that ended).

The minute she passed the restaurant she checked earlier, DuBois noticed a white feather on the ground.

Like a hound, DuBois smelled the feather and tracked down the owner.

"Voila" DuBois smiled evilly. "Snow owl has taken my prize."

Then she noticed a drop of ink sitting in the snow.

DuBois examined the ink, all though the taste of the subject wasn't so great for her.