10-29-2010 at 1:45 AM

Kineta giggled while Dinah sniffed her over. "That tickles!" <br><br> Kendra walked closer to the hole and looked down at Dinah. "Is there a safe way down?" <br><br> Kineta looked around to see if there was a way down.. there was a few roots and things... Unsurely she said, "maybe..." She looked at Dinah hopeful that she would say Kendra could come with them.. Even if there was no way up.. with a few long jumps she might be able to make it down. Then again she was thinking squirrely, Kendra doesn't run around squirrel jumpinging.. Kineta sighed and and sniffed around the start of the tunnel waiting for Dinah's opinion. <br><br> Kendra looked at Sha and off into the woods were the others must be then back to Dinah. She wanted to go with them, but what were the dogs left up here going to do? Sha was hurt and Dusk never seemed to snap out of his dream... so who was going to lead them home if Dinah was in a hole? But what if the tunnel was really long... would Dinah and Kineta be okay by them self? What if she never saw Kineta again? Kendra's head pounded with thoughts.

10-28-2010 at 11:34 PM

Sheena huffed and puffed as she finally caught up to an apparently fully energized Kendra... "I'm either really out of shape or I'm still weak and tired from all that walking." She looked around to see where Dinah was. <br/><br /><br />"Ummm where's Dinah," she said as she edged closer to a random and scary hole in the ground. "Oh, nevermind." She backed away from the edge.

10-27-2010 at 8:23 AM

Dinah sighed. "I guess we look for another way out." She sniffed Kineta carefully, checking for injuries, but the pup seemed okay... just a little beaten up. "Maybe we should--"<br /><br />"Dinah!" Cobalt howled, skidding to a halt at the edge of the hole. "How did you get here?"<br /><br />"I fell," Dinah replied, giving him a blank look. She noticed Kendra and Sha giving her odd looks and cocked her head at them in question.<br /><br />"We know you fell, Dizzy," Sha sighed. "We just watched you do it."<br /><br />"I know that," snapped the border collie. "But Cobalt asked."<br /><br />"Dinah... did you hit your head?" Sha asked, just as Cobalt whined,<br />"Dinah, who are you talking to?"

10-27-2010 at 8:10 AM

Kendra was looking back in the woods to see if Sheena was coming still then she heard Sha telling her to restrain Dinah? At that moment she noticed Dinah falling into the earth and she dove to grab her. But it was too late.. Dinah had fallen in and the earth was crumbling under her paws she froze in fright as she realized a few things one there was a hole, two Kineta was in it, three... the earth was slipping away from under her paws! <br><br> "Dinah!!!" Kineta barked excitedly! "I'm okay... a hurt a bit all over...." Then Kineta looked up as more earth started sprinkling on her head. Then... she saw Kendra! "Kendra jump back!!!!" Kineta stood up on her back legs and pressed her paws against the wall that was under Kendra. Feeling like this might help keep it there, somehow. <br><br> Kendra jumped back onto safe ground and then in a stressed worried confused way she said, "What on earth do we do now??" <br><br> Kineta got back down on all fours and started to back up so she could look up better to see Kendra... after taking a few paw steps back she realized she hadn't hit a wall? Where was the wall?? She stopped and looked at Dinah very confused.. "Why isn't there a wall here?" She turned around and stared into the blackness of a tunnel.

10-26-2010 at 3:08 AM

"Yes, genius," Sha sighed. Beside him, Dinah was whining and looking for a way into the hole, without success. "Kendra, will you restrain her? She's going to fall in."<br /><br />Of course, at this exact moment the edge crumbled away under Dinah's feet, and she plunged into the hole next to Kineta. Sha snarled and grabbed for her tail as it disappeared over the edge, but he missed. "Good job, graceful."<br /><br />"Quit sniping, Sunshine," Dinah huffed as she picked herself up off the ground. She turned to Kineta. "You all right, pup?"<br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, Cobalt's ears perked up. "Frappe? Do you hear Dinah?"

10-26-2010 at 3:01 AM

Kineta awoke and cried with the pain through out her body. After a few moments she relaxed and the pain mostly faded. She opened her eyes and lifted her head some but all she could see was black then she thought to look up.. She tilted her head and peered upwards into the night sky.. "Did I fall into a hole?", she asked "herself". <br><br> Kendra had run well ahead of Sheena after she had heard Dinah's whinning. After she reached Dinah and Sha she stopped and looked around still confused..

10-26-2010 at 2:53 AM

Cobalt's tail wagged, faltered, and then wagged again. "I think it's an... owl?" He suggested. He hoped not. Birds were terrifying. He sidled closer to Frappe and peered up into the trees. He really wished Dinah was around.

10-26-2010 at 2:44 AM

Frappe put a small smirk on her face, but she was still paranoid about the random creaking she heard from the trees. Suddenly, a loud "WHO!" was heard from behind them. Frappe stood on edge and slowly walked to Cobalt. "I think there is an animal out there," she whispered.

10-18-2010 at 7:22 AM

"Scared?" Cobalt poked the tree again, and wagged his tail when it once again drew away from him. "This is neat! I wonder if it talks?" He yipped at the tree a couple of times, but it did not deign to answer him. "Oh well. There's a stream, at least." He grinned and tipped his ears back, an expression that never failed to make Dinah and Chi smile. Maybe it would have the same effect on Frappe and calm her down a bit. He hoped so.<br /><br />Dinah sniffed at the edge of the hole before them and whined softly. It was deep; she could barely see Kineta at the bottom. She hoped the pup was unconscious as Sha said, and not dead. "Has she moved or made any sounds, Sha?"<br />"Not a one," Sha sighed. "But I can see her breathing."<br/> "Well, shouldn't we try to get her out of there?" the border collie fretted.<br/>"I'd love to, sweetheart," Sha replied dryly, "but in case you haven't noticed, there isn't a way back out of that hole once you're in it."<br/>"Well... maybe one of us should go down there and see if there's another way out."<br/>"I'd rather not see half the pack die in a hole," Sha growled.

10-16-2010 at 4:23 AM

Frappe's eyes widened at the sight of the tree. "Cobalt, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore. what did we enter, Halloween Town?" She stepped on a branch and the loud echoing sound of it snapping startled her and she yelped loudly. "Cobalt, I don't think i've ever been so scraed in my life before. You?"

10-15-2010 at 9:45 AM

"Sha's gone and Cobalt and Frappe have vanished," Dinah informed her worriedly. "I can smell Sha though."<br />She lent her nose to the effort, and within minutes Sha came into sight.<br /><br />"About time," he sighed. He pointed toward the hole. "The pup is unconscious down there."<br /><br />Meanwhile, back at the ranch [I had to] Cobalt was still stumped. "I... I've never smelled anything like this place, Frappe. It smells nothing like where we were, and I don't remember when it changed." He poked a tree with his nose and it hissed and shrank back from him. "What the--"

10-15-2010 at 9:37 AM

Kendra awoke when Sheena moved and noticed the water forgetting that there must be something going on for a second she licked some up and sniffed it. Kineta must have brought it for her and Sheena.. Wait where was Sheena? Kendra spotted her tracking something almost out of sight so she troted slowly off to follow her. Once she caught up she asked, "what on earth is going on??" She yawned she hadn't heard Dinah's paniced barks and was confused and tired.

10-15-2010 at 5:18 AM

Sheena's eyes shot open at the shocking and nervous voice of Dinah. "What happened" she said as she took a few licks at the water that appeared in front of her and Kendra while they were sleeping. She nudged the water closer to Kendra and stretched quick. "I can smell Sha's scent coming for a few places. Maybe they went to the same place." She started tracking Sha's scent. It was slower than normal since she just woke up.

10-15-2010 at 3:31 AM

frappe slowly walked behind Cobalt, she could see, but her eyes were stinging. "Cobalt, where are we? Well, actually, I know that we are kinda already in the middle of nowhere, but where are we NOW?" Frappe tried to sttle the unesiness that began to creep up to her mind. 'where was everyone? why couldn't she smell them? where did Cobalt bring her to?' Thoughts raced through her mind as she surveyed the new area.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Rolo joined her mother in worry. It seemed like she had slept for an eternity and the world was moving too fast. She placed her head on the ground and listened as Dinah spoke.

10-14-2010 at 7:43 AM

"What was that?" Sha murmured.<br />"What?" Dinah growled, not opening her eyes.<br /><br />"I heard a scream."<br /><br />"I didn't."<br /><br />Sha huffed with annoyance and struggled to his feet, taking off into the woods in the direction the stupid puppy had gone. Of course she was in trouble. Of course no one knew it but him. Of course.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Cobalt was completely lost. He remembered Kineta running past him twice, never bothering to stop, and he remembered barking to tell Frappe what direction he'd gone and hearing an answering bark that told him she was headed his way, but then he'd veered off course somehow. He hadn't found the stream, and he couldn't see the road. His head hurt....<br /><br />Sha wasn't the brightest or the best trialer, but there was nothing wrong with his nose. He tracked the stupid puppy easily enough, grumbling about useless companions the whole time. When he got to the edge of the hole, he barely avoided falling in. With an angry sigh that hurt his ribs, Sha sank down and settled in to wait to see how long it would take anyone to notice there was trouble.<br /><br />Cobalt stumbled and decided it would be best to just sit down for now. He knew he hadn't gone far, and he thought he'd gone in the direction of the road after failing to find water. The problem was, this looked exactly like the place where the road should be, but it wasn't there. Worse, he couldn't smell his companions anymore. In fact, nothing smelled the same.<br /><br />Dinah woke up disoriented, realizing several things: 1) Sha was gone, 2) She couldn't hear Kineta or Frappe, and 3) She couldn't sense Cobalt *at all.* "Kendra! Sheena! Dusk, wake up! Something's wrong."

10-14-2010 at 5:23 AM

Kendra watched all the excitement and sighed she was so tired... she went and laid down by Sheena and fell asleep. <br><br> Kineta continued to flash around the forest until she found what she was looking for! A creek she found a creek! She had found it! She barked excitedly to let everyone know she had found something then started to run back towards everyone. She spoted Cobalt and Frappe and noted the smell. "What did you guys get into?" She giggled because she knew it was a skunk, she had tried to play with one of those before... <br> When she got in the view of Kendra and sheena noticing they were sound asleep. She stopped and thought... then troted back running past Cobalt and Frappe again. Once she reached the creek again she found a large piece of bark with a bit of a dip in the middle. "Perfect!" She grabbed it in her mouth and went down the creek to fill it with some water, it didn't hold a lot but.. she could always go back and forth for Kendra and Sheena. She slowly and carefully walked past her smelly friends for a third time as they headed towards the creek. <br> When she reached Kendra and Sheena she set down the bark in front of them. They would find it when they woke up. She thought outloud quietly, "hmmm what else can I do to help out... Oh! I could go see if there are any fish in the creek! She then started to bounce her silly way back to the creek and her smelly friends. But wait... what was that? Shiney? Something in that tree just sparkled! She dashed off towards towards the tree not watching where she was placing her paws.... <br> Suddenly Kineta realized her paws weren't touching the ground! She was falling! She looked down and barked out in terror, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" After falling about 12 feet she landed with a loud thud on her side she looked around with one eye, the other hurting too much to open even weakly.. She could see she was trapped..almost in a pit... but she couldn't see the one wall.. if there was a wall at all... Why is there a pit? She wondered faintly before letting the darkness take over her mind as she passed out.

10-14-2010 at 4:36 AM

"Uhhh... water. We should find water. Or something." Cobalt stood up, shook his head to clear it and moved downhill, trying to locate the source of the water he'd been hearing. Water would help a little bit-- it would clear Frappe's eyes, at least. He caught a flash of Kineta darting between the trees and bolted after her, hoping she could find a stream. "Come on, Frappe!"

10-14-2010 at 3:27 AM

Sheena had found nothing on her little search for water. She hoped that the others came up with something. She wandered back and noticed Frappe and Cobalt still struggling from their encounter with a skunk but she knew that there was nothing she could do to help them. She sat down and took a nap.

10-14-2010 at 3:14 AM

Frappe turned her head around and could barely make out the shape that was the male aussie. "I dink I can." She placed a paw onto his head to confirm it was indeed Cobalt. "Okay, I can see you. Dis Dinks. I cand believe dis habbened"

10-13-2010 at 4:40 AM

"I'm right behind you," Cobalt wheezed. His nose was burning but he'd avoided the worst of it and could still see. "Uhh... can you hear me?"