Cherry and the Friendship Games
Chapter 13
Previous Chapter Next ChapterIn the evening, Cherry was at her laptop, a little bored. There came a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" Cherry put her laptop up, she opened the front door to see Atticus, Patch, and Mo. "Uhh...?"
"We're here for the sleepover!" Patch told her.
"A sleepover on a school night?" Cherry asked anxiously.
"Yeah." Atticus said before showing the text.
"FORTE!" Cherry yelled out, then glanced at the stage magician. "Sorry, force of habit... TELLER!"
"I need to talk to you all tonight." Teller told them.
Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch looked to each other.
"I'll explain everything tonight as soon as everyone is inside." Teller said.
The others came inside. Teller ordered a pizza for them and paid for it for them. Once they were in their pajamas together and now sitting in the middle of the floor, Teller took that time to explain to them what's going to happen tonight.
"I found a way for us all to enter the Dreamscape," Teller took out what looked like a glowing dream catcher. "We all have to be asleep and grab onto this before we do. We'll enter into the world of our dreams and we'll be able to go into other people's dreams like the Sandman can sometimes whenever he visits you during your deep slumber."
"Cool." Atticus smiled.
"But Teller, what if we can't fall asleep?" Cherry asked.
"You will, trust me, you will..." Teller sharply said to her.
"But what if-" Cherry asked.
Teller set the dream-catcher down, lay down on his stomach in the middle of the floor and touched the dream-catcher, shutting his eyes. The others followed suit and Cherry was the only one left. Cherry copied them and shut her eyes.
Suddenly, everyone yelled and screamed as they were falling suddenly and were in their day clothes and they landed in a hallway floor with a bunch of doors with names on them.
"Whoa!" The kids and Dalmatian puppy said, surprised.
"Welcome to the Dreamscape..." Teller told them.
"This isn't anything like the Dream Theater you showed me yesterday." Cherry said to him.
"It isn't," Teller looked back. "This is the Dreamscape, it shows everybody's dreams. Many magical beings come through here if there is a threatening viral outbreak on innocent mortals."
"So what are we doing here again?" Patch asked.
"I need to show you all about why your elements are in danger." Teller said, going to Mo's door first about her dream since she was the first stop and the doors went alphabetical order. He then grabbed the door and opened it.
There was a flashing bright light and they were all in a new room. The room shifted and Mo was now aged up to an adult woman and she was wearing a white gown and she was no longer wearing her bandanna.
"Who's that?" Patch asked.
"Guys, it's me." Mo told them.
"Mo?" the others asked.
"Welcome to your dream." Teller told Mo.
"My dream...?" Mo felt confused at first.
"Oh, Mo, darling, there you are..." an elder woman with gray hair and horn-rimmed glasses ran over to Mo and hugged her nice and tight. "I just wish I could've raised you as a baby like your brother, you've grown up so fast..."
"Um, do I know you?" Mo asked.
"Oh, Mo, surely you recognize your own mother..." the woman told her.
Mo then looked at the woman again. "Elizabeth...?" she whispered.
"Come now, we have to get you ready, it's your big day." the elder woman took Mo's hand and sat her down to comb her hair.
"M-My big day?" Mo asked.
"Of course, don't you remember? It's your wedding, you and Atticus are getting married." The elder woman told her.
"Mine and Atticus's wedding...?" Mo felt confused.
"But, I'm right here and we're not old enough to get married?" Atticus spoke up.
"Come on, come on, let's get you ready, the bridesmaids will be here any minute." Elizabeth said while brushing down her adoptive daughter's hair.
"Bridesmaids?! Who are the lucky girls that um that we chose?" Mo asked.
"Oh, Monique, you sound as if you just woke up or something." Elizabeth chuckled.
Cherry, Atticus, and Patch wondered why they were here.
"Teller, this looks like a good dream, not a bad one," Cherry said to Teller. "Why are we here?"
"Wait for it..." Teller said once he had a gut feeling.
There was then a knocking at the door.
"Yes? Who is it?!" Mo called out.
"Are you ready to walk down the aisle with me, dear?" James smiled, he was older too and even had a cane.
"It's time." Elizabeth added.
"Already!?" Mo sounded shocked.
Suddenly, they were in the main room of the church, the organ played the Wedding March and James walked with his arm linked with Mo. Mo was having cold feet, even though this was just a dream, it felt real. The priest stood with a smile with a bible in his arms and all of Mo's family and friends were there. Even the Junkyard dogs, minus Buster of course, were there.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join these two into holy matrimony." The priest said.
Mo smiled a little. Angel appeared to be a bridesmaid while Patch was a groomsman. However, the dark shadow appeared and no one seemed to notice yet.
"Where's Atticus?" James and Elizabeth asked.
It was then shown Atticus was with a younger and beautiful blonde woman in a green dress who had eyes brown as a fresh penny.
"I'm leaving you, Mo, I don't love you and I never did!" Dream Atticus told Mo.
"No, this is just a nightmare." Mo said.
The shadow returned and snatched for Mo's element.
"There's the shadow!" Cherry pointed.
"Stop right there, Shadow Man!" Patch barked.
"I don't think so..." the shadow cackled, swiping Mo's element and was about to fly out.
"Oh, no!" Cherry cried.
Teller tucked, rolled, and took out his sphere prison and opened it up to trap the Shadow Man. And where he was able to catch him and the Element of Harmony.
"Let's go!" Teller told the others to leave this dream.
"Wait, first, can we see what Patch's dream is?" Atticus asked. "I always wanted to see what a puppy/dog dreams about."
"I think every owner thinks that." Patch smiled.
"Probably about chasing rabbits..." Cherry guessed.
Teller looked at the time. "Well... Okay... Come with me." he said, leading them to Patch's door.
"Coming." Atticus smiled.
"I'm coming too." Mo also smiled.
Teller took them to the dog section of the Dreamscape and rushed to find Patch's door for them. The others looked around as they followed the illusionist.
"Wow, there sure are a lot of dog dreams." Atticus said.
"Dogs are known to sleep more than people." Teller said as he kept a sharp eye out for Patch's dream door.
Patch looked as he passed the names of his brothers, sisters, and even parents. Even though this was the dog section, even Spot's name was listed, and she was a chicken.
"Cool, even Spot's dream is here." Patch smiled while going down the section.
"I'll never understand that chicken..." Teller sighed, then came to Patch's door. "Ah, here we are."
"This is so exciting..." Atticus grinned that he was going to see what his dog dreamed about, something that all pet owners dreamed of doing and often never had the chance.
Teller stepped aside to let Atticus go first. Atticus walked in to see what his pet dreamed about. There was a flash of a bright light. Patch walked in to join him since it was his dream.
There was a beautiful springtime meadow with butterflies bobbing along and flowers dancing. Patch was in his human form now, but had a straw hat with a red and white long-sleeved shirt with white shoes. There was a human girl around his puppy age who had tan skin with light brunette and fuzzy pigtails tied with red bows that matched Colette's collar, she had a flowery sun hat with a dress and a parasol in her hands with white gloves. It appeared to be a jolly holiday.
"Wait, a minute, is this-?" Atticus asked.
"Yes, this is Patch's dream." Teller said.
Patch walked up and saw the girl. The girl smiled back and her copper eyes twinkled.
"You look like what I thought..." Patch said, then he did a double take. "Colette?"
"Who else would it be?" the girl smiled to him.
"Oh, right, sorry." Patch laughed a little out of nervousness.
"Why do you look so nervous?" Colette asked.
"Oh, it's just... Wow..." Patch chuckled. "Oh, isn't it a glorious day?"
"It really is..." Colette smiled to him as music started to play.
Patch sang a song.
"Oh, you haven't changed a bit, have you?" Colette mused.
Mo and Cherry poked their heads in and watched as Patch and Colette shared a musical moment together.
"Oh, honestly." Colette commented.
A few of the other Dalmatians and Colette's family, even with Jock and Trusty, and their friends from Puppy School and the Pound Puppies even joined in on the song.
The two of them then started to dance together. Atticus smiled, very happy for Patch.
"Who is Colette?" Teller asked, though he had a very good idea.
"She's a cocker spaniel," Mo explained. "My parents raised her mother and adopted her father after he saved my baby brother from being infected from a diseased rat that got loose in the house."
"I think he had a good idea of who Colette is." Cherry whispered to her.
Teller chuckled.
Colette joined in the song.
"Common knowledge." Patch nodded to her.
Atticus unknowingly held onto Mo's hand as they watched this. Cherry glanced and saw it, she didn't say anything, but she looked a little upset over it, she left the dream while everyone else continued to watch Patch's dream come alive.
The song ended and the two shared a kiss on the lips.
"Awww! How romantic." Mo smiled.
"Yeah..." Atticus smiled to her.
Mo looked at him, then saw their hands touching, and she blushed to him. Patch became a Dalmatian puppy again and rejoined the others with a dreamy look on his face.
"So that's what you dream about." Atticus smiled.
"Oh... O-Occasionally..." Patch chuckled sheepishly. "When I'm not with Lucky and the other Pound Puppies..."
"How romantic." Mo smiled.
Patch turned red slightly, but kept his smile. Atticus chuckled and patted his puppy on the head.
"Now, now, let's go back before something else happens." Teller put his hands up.
"Yeah, like if one of us left without telling the rest of us," Patch said. "Speaking of which, where's Cherry?"
"Cherry?" Atticus and Mo asked.
Teller whistled a tune like he was going to call a dog. Cherry heard that and walked over.
"There you are," Teller folded his arms to her. "You shouldn't go wandering off."
"Sorry..." Cherry nearly scoffed.
"Alright, now we can all leave." Teller said.
"How do we leave?" Mo asked.
"Like this." Teller said, leading them out through the exit.
There was a flash of bright light and the five of them slowly opened their eyes and they were back in Cherry's living room floor with the dream-catcher in between them.
"Well, that was easy." Patch said.
"But I'm afraid the Equestrian magic won't be as easy with the portal being gone." Teller replied.
Patch gaped at him. "You know about that?"
Teller slowly nodded.
"The portal's gone?" Cherry and Atticus asked.
"I'm afraid Sci-Twi got a hold of it, though unintentionally." Teller explained the best that he could.
"That's it! I have got to destroy that pendant!" Patch barked.
"Yes, you are selected for it..." Teller nodded. "We also need to dispose of it or else Atticus might be just in as much danger as Sci-Twi since he's close to her."
"That's a shock..." Cherry mumbled under her breath.
"Cherry, enough, your best friend is in danger enough already." Teller scolded.
"He's right." Patch said.
Cherry sighed with an eye roll.
Teller looked at the time. "All right, it's late and it's a school night... We all better get some sleep, you all have school in the morning."
The others nodded, they then said good night to each other and quickly went to sleep and went to their own personal dream worlds instead of the Dreamscape this time.
However, while they were asleep, Penn was still driving to find Teller, and reluctantly had included Zolten and Moxie for the trip. Luckily for him, the kids had fallen asleep telling him that it would now be easy driving without hearing the constant question.
"Ah... Silence..." Penn smiled peacefully.
Zolten poked Moxie in his sleep. Moxie poked back. Zolten got angry and jabbed her. Moxie then slapped him in his face. The two then started to fight each other in their sleep.
"Well, it was fun when it lasted." Penn sighed.
Zolten and Moxie even started to strangle each other.
"I am so done with having kids... At least it can't get worse..." Penn groaned.
And where it did, the car was now out of gas which meant he had to stop driving.
"Me and my big yapper..." Penn scoffed. He then saw there were no gas stations for miles and his cell phone lost reception, he looked out the window and saw a house, he then decided to leave the car, taking the keys with him and he locked the doors and went to the front door, knocking on it.
"Who could that be at this hour?" Cherry groaned, she had slept in her bedroom, Atticus, Patch, Mo, and Teller were in the guest rooms, so she got the door and opened it, she rubbed her eye with a very large yawn due to how exhausted she was right now.
"Cherry?" Penn asked.
"Yeah... What of it?" Cherry put on her glasses and realized who was at the door. "Jiminy Christmas!"
"Do you know of where Teller is?" Penn asked.
Cherry knew, but she decided to mess with his head. She leaned against the door-frame and folded her arms with a sleepy smirk. "Maybe I do, maybe I don't..."
"He's inside, isn't he?" Penn asked with an annoyed knowing look.
"Yes..." Cherry groaned. "Can I go back to sleep now?"
"I'm afraid I'm gonna have to stay here..." Penn said, going to the living room couch. "My car's out of gas and there's no hotels... You don't mind if I stay here, do you? I mean, I've come a long way and he just flat-out ignored me, sometimes I feel like no one listens to me, and-"
"No story, need sleepy..." Cherry groaned that he was keeping her up.
"Can I stay here overnight?" Penn asked.
Cherry yawned heavily. "Whatever..." she handed a pillow and blanket and went back to her bedroom.
Penn grabbed her arm and held her back. "Do you know what's going on?"
"Penn, I have school tomorrow, please let me get some sleep..." Cherry begged.
"Fine." Penn glared.
Cherry mumbled. "Pain in the-"
"Don't even finish that sentence." Penn glared.
"Yes, sir..." Cherry sounded fearful of Penn's anger and gave a nervous smile.
Penn kept glaring coldly to her. Cherry looked back, but looked ahead once she made it to her room and went to get some sleep. Penn yawned, he put the pillow on one side and bundled up in the blanket to get some sleep himself. The next morning sure was going to be interesting.