Oddball's Adventures of Snow Buddies: chapter 5

Snow White yawned and stretched, then took a small walk around. "I'll be right back, I wanna take a walk."

"Go ahead, Snow." Patch allowed her to go.

Scruffy growled with a grin, then chased the cat.

"OH, COME ON!" Snow White whined as she was chased. "SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS--"

The other people looked bewildered as Snow White mewed and hissed in distress as Scruffy chased her.

"Wow, I don't think I would even want to translate that." Vincent said.

The other kids shook their heads.

"Where did she learn such language?" Atticus folded his arms.

"Don't look at me!" Vincent shrugged.

They continued to look at him.

"Okay, so I might have said a few bad words when I was with Sykes." Vincent said.

"Oh?" Atticus asked.

"Sorry, Dad, but I really didn't like him, he was a terrible man..." Vincent replied. "I never liked him."

"Uh, maybe we should get back to the story." Akito said.

"Let's wait until Scruffy and Snow White tire each other out." Patch suggested.

The others then nodded.

Snow White growled as she came back after being chased. "Why do you always gotta chase me?!"

"Sorry, dog instincts," Scruffy smirked. "Maybe you should chase mice."

"No, thank you." Snow White said.

"A mouse!" Vincent pointed to a fleeing rodent across the floor. "Get it, Snow White!"

"Get it, Vincent," Snow White deadpanned in a dry monotone before smirking. "I learned that one from my big brother."

"You are definitely Garfield's sister." Vincent glared.

Snow White smirked innocently.

"So, do you wanna take over for now?" Patch asked Atticus as he had a part in the story as well.

"Sure, now, where was Patch? Oh, yes..." Atticus said.

Flashback to Atticus's and Drell's tent.

"Don't even think about it." Atticus said, without looking at Drell.

"What did I do?" Drell rolled his eyes with a scoff. "I didn't do anything!"

"You were about to sleep on top of me." Atticus told him.

"Oh, right, sorry." Drell said sheepishly.

"Alright..." Atticus then yawned and went back to sleep.

Drell smirked and rolled on top of Atticus on purpose, pinning him down. "One! Two! Three! You're out!" he then laughed in victory.

Atticus then lifted the strong warlock off him and even if it wasn't intentional, pushed him straight up and out the tent.

Cherry came out of her tent briefly. "Hopefully I can do this without anyone looking..." she then knelt by the bushes with her eyes shut with a peaceful smile. "Ah..."

Drell yelled out and crashed against her. Luckily, she wasn't crushed, but the strong warlock did crash close by the girls' tent.

"Too bad that didn't kill me..." Cherry mumbled and slightly narrowed her eyes.

"Okay, I deserved that." Drell groaned out of pain from the crash.

"Please stop talking..." Cherry said.

"What are you doing?" Drell asked.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Cherry rolled her eyes.

"Trying to sleep?" Drell guessed.

"Sure, why not?" Cherry scoffed as she sat in the bushes. "I'm trying to sleep in the bushes."

"Uh, Cherry, you should know, that' poison oak." Drell warned.

Cherry scoffed. "Nice try, Drell, but that's not gonna work on--....Itchy.... Itchy..." she then ran around in a circle. "ITCHY, ITCHY, ITCHYYYYY!!!!"

"I told you." Drell said.

Atticus then used his magic on Cherry to make the itching go away while letting Drell feel the itching, but he was too tired to care at the moment. Cherry shivered and cleaned herself up before going back to her and Mo' tent. Drell fell asleep, but scratched himself slightly in his sleep.

"Really, Dad?" Akito's voice asked, unimpressed.

"Hey, who's side are you on?" Atticus asked with a laugh. "There was a time in life where your Aunt Cherry was the butt of Drell's jokes before she started to make his life into a nightmare."

"True." Akito nodded.

"I still cant believe how mean Drell was to Aunt Cherry..." Estelle sighed. "Maybe that's why she hated everything."

"Oh, hard to say," Atticus shrugged. "Your aunt once told me that anyone who's goth is born goth and then they become goth at the age they discover who they really are."

"So, Dad, what happened in Alaska the next day?" Scruffy asked.

"Eventually it came to be morning," Patch went back to narrating. "We of course woke up to Buddha's meditation."

The dogs all woke up as it was morning in the cave now.

"Help, I'm thuck!" Budderball called out, having his tongue stuck to one of the icicles. "Help, my thongue ith thuck!"

"Budderball, what're you doing?" Rosebud released a long-suffering sigh.

"I thought ith wath a lollipop..." Budderball struggled to get free.

Patch sighed before helping Budderball out. Oddball and Colette winced as the tongue was then free.

"Must you always think with your stomach?" Patch sighed to the bottomless stomached puppy.

"Sorry." Budderball frowned.

Buddha was shown outside of the cave first and was still meditating as the others came out.

"Uh, Buddha, you ready to start looking for someone to tell us where we are?" Oddball asked.

"Hmm?" Buddha looked to her, then followed her.

"Come on, hopefully someone else is awake and they can help us." Oddball walked with the others.

"Yeah." Patch said.

"Maybe we should have a race along the way." Colette said.

"A race in this weather?" Patch asked her in surprise.

"Come on," Colette grinned. "Let's have some fun."

"Yeah, come on, let's have a little race." Oddball and Budderball smiled.

"Well, alright, on your marks... Get set... Go!" Patch said before running with them.

The dogs laughed as they enjoyed their race. The running went on for a while though.

"It feels like we've been running in circles." Rosebud panted.

"Well, at least we haven't been encountered with any wild animals yet." Oddball panted.

"Hey, where did MudBud go?" Patch wondered.

MudBud poked his head out and buried himself underneath a huge snow hole he had created. The others came to him as he was digging lower and lower to find some dirt to lather himself in.

"Yo, if you keep diggin' you're gonna end up in China!" B-Dawg told his dirty brother.

"I agree." Colette said.

"Is there dirt in China?" MudBud asked. "'Cuz if there is, I wanna keep digging!"

"MudBud, get out of there before you freeze!" Colette called.

"Aw, alright..." MudBud crawled out and he looked totally different, there was no dirt or grime all over his fur.

"Uh, MudBud, you look different." Patch said.

"What is it?" MudBud looked around himself, not seeing it himself just yet.

"You look, uh, um..." Patch wasn't quite sure how to say it.

Buddha gasped, then dropped his voice low to a whisper. "Guys, I'm sensing someone else's presence."

"Is it good or bad?" Colette asked.

"What're you talking about?" Oddball asked as she tried to find someone the golden puppy was referring to. "I don't see anything."

"Over there, by that tree!" Budderball saw it. "I saw something!"

The others turned, but they saw no one there now.

"There he is!" B-Dawg found it then. "It was this huuuuge wolf!"

"RUUUUUN!" the Buddies cried out before running away.

"Hey, wait for me!" Oddball called out.

The 'wolf' saw them all fleeing away, so he decided to go after them. Only, he wasn't a wolf, he was actually a Siberian Husky pup.

"Wait, you aren't a wolf, you're just a puppy." Patch said.

Oddball and the Buddies kept running however.

"I've never seen a puppy like you around home before." Colette added in.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you guys and your puppies." the pup replied.

"It's okay, they are just new to this place." Patch said.

"I should say so, I haven't seen you all around here before," the pup replied. "I thought you might be lost."

"Well, we might need to go and stop the Buddies and my niece before they get themselves more lost." Patch said.

"Come on, I'll help you." the pup offered.

Patch and Colette smiled, but then gasped. The Buddies and Oddball had stumbled out onto the ice and were now slipping all around. Luckily, they all made it to the other side without cracking the ice.

"Phew!" Patch and Colette looked relieved for their 'godpuppies'.

The Husky pup couldn't help but laugh.

"Hey! What's so funny?" Oddball glared.

"Yeah, dawg, we just saw a pack of huge wolves!" B-Dawg added in.

"Well, if you consider one of me a pack of huge," the pup laughed. "Name's Shasta and I'm an Alaskan Husky."

"That makes sense why we've never met a husky like yourself." Patch said.

"Well, hello, my name's Rosebud," the female Buddy introduced herself. "That's Oddball, her uncle Patch, his girlfriend Colette, and my brothers: B-Dawg, Buddha, Budderball, and MudBud."

"So, why do they call you MudBud?" Shasta asked the usually dirty puppy.

MudBud looked in the ice to see his reflection and looked dismayed. "Oh, no! I'm clean! I'm spotless! Think of a dirty place! Think of a dirty place..." he then told himself, feeling miserable.

"That's what we were trying to tell you." Patch said sheepishly.

"So, where are you guys from?" Shasta asked the strangers.

"Well, we're from Fernfield, do you know the way back?" Colette asked.

"I'm afraid I do not," Shasta replied. "Wait..." he then looked to the golden puppies. "There's five of you... How did you all get here?"

"We fell from the sky." Budderball said.

"Hm... You guys up for a dog-sled race?" Shasta sounded like he had been expecting them.

"What's a sled race?" Budderball asked.

"We should see Bernie, he should help." Shasta replied.

"Who's Bernie?" Colette asked.

"Come with me." Shasta led the way.

Rosebud didn't seem to have any hesitation in following Shasta.