09-5-2010 at 5:00 AM

"Way to drown the children, Frappe," Cobalt called. He sat down on the bank to wait for the daring rescue to play out. The wind picked up, ruffling his fur and he stood up again, tail tucked and ears in worry as the lake water became choppy and more difficult to swim in. Thunder drowned out his low worried whines as he started to pace on the shore, wondering if he'd only be in the way if he jumped in to try to help.

09-5-2010 at 4:49 AM

Frappe grabbed Rolo by her neck as if she was her mother. she then ran through an open field with Cobalt hot on her tail. As she neared the nearby lake, her speed began to decline and with a loud grunt, she flung Rolo into the air. The BC landed into the water with a giant splash and Frappe was left on the side laughing. She watched as Rolo began to doggy paddle across to safety. She then began to smack her paws against the water's surface and started to pant harder. It seemed as if she was trying harder and harder to keep her head above water until at once, she was gone. <br /><br />Frappe gasped and looked at Cobalt. She waited a second to see if Rolo was going to come up, but then jumped up and bolted towards the lake. She jumped in as if she was a dog diving champion and landed in the water as welll with a loud splash.

09-4-2010 at 11:54 PM

Reserved with strangers but exuberant when excited? Check. Tendency to bound around like an overgrown puppy when excited? Check. This was Cobalt's brother all right. Judging from the shadow-colored coat, he was the famed S.K. Dusk. Dinah's entire hind end shook with the force of her wagging tail. A distant roll of thunder made her flinch, but she shook it off and focused instead on answering the other dog's question.<br /><br />"I live in the same kennel as Cobalt. We're good friends, and he makes everyone very happy." She grinned, tongue lolling out to make the expression comical. "He's a bit of a clown. If you go a little closer to the edge you'll probably see him roughhousing with the other dogs." Dinah bounded over to Dusk, displaying some athleticism of her own in dancing around fallen tree limbs while somehow also turning to give her new acquaintance a puppy-like look of anticipation. "Come on, I'll show you where he is!"<br /><br />She bounded away, passing under a low-hanging branch of a nearby tree as she did.

09-4-2010 at 11:01 AM

Kendra woke the second Sheena moved. She jumped up and looked around until she caught Sheena in the corner of her eye. She then watched Sheena wander over to where Dinah was and lay down. She shock her coat and ran quickly after Sheena when she got closer she crawled under the bush to be near to Sheena. She whispered shyly, "are you feeling better now? You were out really fast and for awhile." "I got worried" she admited. Kendra laid down her head in the dirt and looked at the other dogs while waiting for Sheena's reply.


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Kineta peered down at all the dogs from a tree and giggled quietly. None of them knew she was here. The wind was picking up a lot, so she worried about them smelling her but for now the wind was blowing in her favor and she would remain secret. She wanted to pull silly puppy tricks on the dogs below. She pawed her goggles to move them back into their proper place. They didn't fit proper her yet since she was so young. She then let out a little gasp of excitemeant as she spoted some kind of nut. She walked skillfully, very squirrel like, towards the nut and picked it up in her mouth. She then let out another quiet giggle. She had one of her favorite things! A nut! Kineta is one of those dogs that seriously does have a squirrel brain therefore her first thought was. "This is perfect for dropping on the dogs below!" She wagged her tail excitedly but slowly so not to give away her presence and waited for a dog to wander below the tree she was in. <br><br><br> Kineta looks like this with a different coat color and her goggles are green like her eyes. <br>



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09-4-2010 at 9:52 AM

Dusk tilted his head when he heard the familiar name, "Cobalt..? How do you know Cobalt??". A smile crept across Dusk's face. "Cobalt is my brother, I have not seen him for a while now. Is he nearby? I thought I smelled something familiar on the wind.." Dusk, obviously excited, spun in a circle and jumped over Dinah quite athletically. "Our owner gave Cobalt to a good friend and he visited with us a while ago, but after that he poofed and his sisters and I missed him all that much more."

09-3-2010 at 6:57 AM

How long have I been out? Sheena wanders around looking for someone and stumbles upon Dinah talking to more strange dogs. She lays in the bushes and watches hoping to find out more about them.

09-3-2010 at 1:22 AM

Dinah crouched slightly, ears and tail low as she surveyed this strange dog. He didn't seem aggressive, but Dinah was not one to take chances with strange dogs. Except... this one smelled really familiar. She stood up and sniffed the air, then tilted her head at the larger dog.<br /><br />"Why do you smell like Cobalt?" she asked.

09-2-2010 at 12:20 PM

The mysterious dog halted and lay in the shadows. He too caught the scent of something on the wind. Another dog was nearby... Then his acute sense of smell picked up something else in the sudden gust of wind that arose and was gone as quickly as it had come. It was a familiar scent.. and it smelled slightly like... himself? Confused, he slowly crept towards the stronger of the two scents. In a clearing up ahead, he spied a border collie. She had red fur and yellow eyes, and she looked quite stunning as the sunlight danced with her coat. He was slightly unsure, but his curiosity overwhelmed his apprehension. He slowly padded out into the light. His blue coat gleamed as the sunbeams hit it and he walked with the grace of a champion. Not too assertively, he approached the unfamiliar dog, but he sure wasn't submissive. He got about twenty feet away and sniffed the air cautiously, this strange dog smelled okay.

09-2-2010 at 2:00 AM

Cobalt's eyes shone with mischief.<br /><br />"Well, if you insist," he he drawled. He crouched like a cat and leaped, tackled both dogs and knocked the young BC off of Frappe. Cobalt and Rollo both went rolling across the ground, snapping at each other in mock aggression.

09-2-2010 at 1:56 AM

If Frappe were a human, she would've blushed. Cobalt's comment left her mind to wander into places a doggy mind shouldn't wander into. After shaking her head clear of these "thoughts" Frappe stood up and took a few steps away from Cobalt. She sat down and thumped her tail silently against the ground. <br /><br />Suddenly, a voice rang out from behind her. "Mommy! Where are you?!" Frape turned to see the young Rolo stumbling as she walked against the uneven ground. She saw Frappe and all of a sudden, bolted towards the older dog. "FRAPPE!!!" <br /><br />Both dogs tumbled as the smaller dog barrelled into the larger. Frappe looked at Cobalt before giving him a pleading look. "mind helping her get off of me?

09-2-2010 at 1:12 AM

Dinah sighed. "She'll be fine. Cobalt will never catch on. She'd better watch it with the fibs though. She'll have the pups thinking it's okay." Realizing that she was talking to herself, as Kendra's feet were twitching and she was growling softly in her doggy dreams, Dinah stood up, shaking the leaves from her coat, and wandered away, deeper into the woods. Her paws made no sound on the leaf-strewn forest floor, and she listened to the sounds of Frappe and Cobalt's play-fighting fade away in the distance and be replaced by the sounds of wind, birds and trees. She breathed in the scent of the woods and caught the scent of another dog-- far stronger than if she was just smelling the trial dogs on the shifting breeze. She froze for a moment, then decided that if the other dog wanted to greet her, it would, and she continued on her way.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Cobalt was getting more and more leaf-covered as Frappe continuously knocked him over. Finally she pinned him and he whined piteously, showing his teeth in a submissive grin. "Oh please don't kill me, Alpha. I'll be good, I promise!" he joked.

09-2-2010 at 12:43 AM

"Hah, he sure is silly and acting like a pup. And Frappe is going to dig her self into a hole of lies and not be able to get out at this rate" Kendra giggled some and then sighed. "I'm glad she'll be okay" Kendra glanced at Sheena. "I'm tired too I think I'll take a nap" Kendra closed her eyes and fell asleep dreaming of adventures with her new friends.

09-2-2010 at 12:28 AM

Frappe jumped up and growled playfully. "oh, they will come out, once I'm done chasing you!" she lunged towards Cobalt, all four paws gracefully lifted off the ground. Her multicolored body shone in the sunlight, and her smile radiated with joy. Once her paws were back on the ground, she barked and chased after Cobalt, showing the gracefullness that he was lacking. Her tail swished back and forth in the air as she playfully tackled Cobalt onto the ground, her nose only inches away from his. "Oh! um.. hehe..."

09-1-2010 at 11:36 PM

Cobalt's tail wagged a couple more times, then slowly stopped as he saw that Frappe's attention was no longer on him. He rolled back onto all fours and bounded over to the lounging border collies, accidentally landing on Dinah, who snapped at him good-naturedly.<br /><br />"I thought you were supposed to be graceful," she growled.<br /><br />"Only in trials," grinned Cobalt. He spun in a circle and crouched with his butt in the air, wagging, trying to get Dinah to play. Dinah snapped at him a couple of times but wouldn't move from her spot, so Cobalt whirled around and lunged at Frappe, bowling her over. "Shake THOSE leaves out," he yipped, and tensed slightly, ready to run if she chased him.<br /><br />"Doesn't take HIM long to get his energy back," Dinah grumbled.

09-1-2010 at 7:03 PM

Frappe sighed before she once again tried to think of another lie to cover up her first one. "you see, I managed to shake them off because I knew that we had company and I didn't want to look..ummm..uninviting." She looked down at the ground and nervously pawed the ground, her claws creating little hills of dirt and upturning some bugs who were unfortunately in her way. "Anyways, my master says that she is gonna take a part of the world domination as well, and I'm going to help her, but I can't think of any which way I can. And Dinah, I guess Chip isn't a showoff. You are so lucky to have a guy like him." Frappe gave a small grin and looked at Kendra.

09-1-2010 at 8:06 AM

Dinah gave her a blank look. "My boyfriend? You mean Chip? But he doesn't run in trials with dogs that are far below his skill level, does he?"<br /><br />Cobalt, meanwhile, gave a wide doggy grin, his tongue lolling out as his tail thumped with a little more energy. "I haven't paid a lot of attention, actually. My master is always going on about puppies and training and world domination." He shut his eyes and grinned wider-- a doggy version of a hearty laugh, and then rolled onto his back and gave Frappe a playful look. "You ran into a rose bush? Clumsy thing to do. Dinah's pup did that and he was crying for an hour." The bushy tail wagged again, sweeping leaves and twigs across the ground, some of which tangled in the silky silver fur. "But why are there no leaves in your fur?"<br /><br />Dinah sneezed again and moved closer still to Kendra. She lay down nose-to-nose with the other dog and wagged her tail. "Cobalt's silly, isn't he? Acting like a big pup. But he really has no clue she's lying about the rosebush," she confided quietly.

09-1-2010 at 7:43 AM

Frappe gave a nervous giggle before looking at Dinah. She muttered under her breath, 'Now i feel like I've blown it'. She mustered her courage and turned back to Cobalt. "well you see, there was this rose bush down the lake and when I went there..I, uh, ran into it...?" She said the last sentence as if it was a question and giggled again. "so um, Cobalt, did you hear about what our kennel owners said about us?" And then turned back to Dinah "your boyfriend is a show off."

09-1-2010 at 7:38 AM

Cobalt wagged his tail again and even raised his head from the ground. "Frappe," he greeted, but then his eyes clouded with confusion and he tipped his head to one side. "Why do you smell like roses?"<br /><br />Dinah sneezed in a very suspicious manner-- it almost sounded like a laugh-- and abruptly left her kennel-mate's side to join Kendra. "I'm sure she'll be fine. She's probably just tired; I've seen her out there on the courses and she runs hard to try to beat all those showoffs."<br /><br />Cobalt growled softly at the word "showoffs," and Dinah herself snarled a little in agreement.

09-1-2010 at 7:28 AM

Frappe popped up from behind a tree trunk with a rose in her mouth. Her eyes were full of lust and suddenly after seeing Cobalt's face, she felt as if she was turning the charm on too much. She dropped the rose and calmly walked over to Cobalt after her failed and akward attempt to look appealing to Cobalt. "eh, hi there. Rememeber me?" In Frappes mind, the words "say yes, say yes!" were pounding in her head like little drums.

09-1-2010 at 7:27 AM

"I'm Kendra" She said with a slow wag of her tail. "Nice to meet you" After saying hello to Cobalt Kendra noticed Sheena. Kendra wanders over and pokes Sheena softly with her nose. "Will she be okay?" Kendra lays down next to Sheena and waits for her to wake up slightly worried by how she passed out earlier.