Chapter 30: When the Walls Have Eyes.
A stormy evening Camden, Dylan was dusting off the shelves as the pups ran amok,
"Hey Dylan." Charlie greeted as came down from upstairs.
"Hey Charlie." Dylan greeted as he continued dusting.
"I see your doing your chores."
"Yep, hey have you seen Dolly anywhere?" Dylan asked.
"I think I saw her playing with the pups outside."
"In the rain?!" Dylan gasped running over to the nearby window to see Dolly jumping on the trampoline with a large ball of pups, "Oh my Dog, oh My Dog!" He panicked as he hurried outside, "Dolly!"
"Hey Dyl check it out!" Dolly exclaimed, "Dog made water slide!" She gestured over to his treehouse where a slide was added where pups were sliding down and jumping through a hoop that Dolly was holding up, and we're landing in the doggie pool, "Cool huh?!" She asked.
"Dolly we need to get these pups inside, we can't have catching amounia!"
"Why, it's not thundering! So it's all good!" She said with confidence, that is until thunder could be heard which all the pups suddenly stopped and rushed to the door tramping over Dylan. Charlie laughed as he started drying off the pups.
"I guess you told them huh Dylan." He joked which Dylan groaned, Dolly entered and shook herself to which Charlie covered himself with the towel.
"Man stupid rain." Dolly complained as she walked passed Dylan who was now completely wet.
"Well at least everyone's here." Charlie stated as dried off the last pup before walking over to Dylan, "Let's get you dried off as well." He said before the power to the house suddenly went off, "Uhhh... I didn't do it." Charlie stated as Dylan got up and looked around in the dark.
"Anyone got a light?" He asked to which Charlie pulled out his phone and turned the flashlight on.
"What happened?!" Dolly asked hurrying over to Charlie.
"Seems the breakers on the brink, I'll go and check the breaker." Charlie said as he walked over to the basement, once he reached the basement he finds Da-Vinci all bundled up shaking, "Da-Vinci are you okay?" He quickly rushed over to find curled up, once she saw Charlie she immediately jumped to him.
"I-I was p-painting when... When suddenly the lights went out, I-I panicked and jumped under the covers t-thinking that... That devil woman..." She cried as Charlie held her tightly.
"It's alright I'm here shhh, no devil woman is gonna get you I promise."
"I-I don't know." She cried as Charlie rocked her back and forth.
"There, there... Shh I'm here don't worry." He hugged her tightly as he looked around with his phone light, "Do you know where the breaker is?" He asked. She pointed over to the corner to which Charlie walked over and opened only to see that all the switches weren't touched at all, "Huh... That's weird."
"What's wrong?" Da-Vinci asked.
"These look like they haven't been touched, has anyone came down here?"
"Not that I know of?"
"Huh..." Charlie looked back at the box before clapping his hands, "Welp I guess we just have to wait till the power comes back." He stated before looking to Da-Vinci, "Wanna come?"
"Yes please." She smiled wagging her tail excitedly running up the stairs. Once Charlie exited the basement Dylan was already in a panic.
"Woah, woah Dylan chill what's up?" He asked.
"I just did a head count and only counted 97!" He stated.
"Well Da-Vinci here so she makes 98." Charlie explained Da-Vinci sat next to Dylan.
"But we are still missing one!"
"Uh Dylan?" Dolly called out looking very concerned at the moment, "Scratch that make that 95..."
"WHAT?!"
"We were all in the living when suddenly two pups just disappeared on us." Dolly explained.
"Maybe they went to the bathroom?"
"By themselves?!"
"Well when you put it that way..." Suddenly Dizzy and DeeDee jumped onto Charlie.
"I don't wanna disappear either!"
"Yeah Disappear!" Dizzy and DeeDee cried out before Charlie held them close.
"Don't worry you two, no one's going to disappear not on my watch, right Da-Vinci?" He asked only to get no response, "Da-Vinci?" He asked again before looking down to see she disappeared, "Uh oh." Suddenly Dante appeared.
"This can only mean one thing." He said.
"Please don't..."
"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"
"God damnit." Charlie groaned facepalming himself, "Look, let's get everyone into the living room that way we don't lose anyone."
"That's a good idea." Dylan stated.
Later
All the remaining pups were sitting in the living room visibly confused and scared.
"Alright everyone settle down, settle down!" Charlie called out getting all the pups attention, "Now I'm sure you're all aware that some of us have suddenly disappeared." He stated as the pups started to become a little more panicked, "Woah, woah hold up before we get any more panic we have a simple solution, the solution is we all stay here and group together until the power returns." He explained before looking over to Dawkins and DJ, "Dawkins what's our chances of the power returning?"
"Hard to tell maybe all night."
"Well if we have to, let's have some soothing music, What do you say DJ..." Charlie called out to DJ only to get no response, "DJ?" He called out to see that he disappeared, Dawkins looked over and started freaking out.
"H-he was just r-right here!" He said panicking.
"We're too young!"
"Too Beautiful!"
"To Die!" Triple D cried out holding onto Charlie who clearly wasn't in the mood to deal with them.
"Alright everyone chill, this is no time to panic!" Charlie said as the pups started to get antsy, "We need to remain calm and figure out where everyone is disappearing."
"Charlie listen to this!" Dolly called over as she had her ears against the wall.
"What's up?"
"Listen." She said pointing to the wall, Charlie quickly place his head against the wall and heard some strange and scary noises coming from inside the wall.
"That's... Weird."
"The walls have never made this sound."
"It's like the walla are watching us, eating us one by one till we all become it's dinner!!!!" Dante said which really started to freak out.
"Woah woah Woah everyone relax. The walls are not alive and they are not eating us." Charlie explained though it clearly didn't help the pups, "Dawkins please help me on this." He said before looking to see he's not there, "Dawkins?!" He called out to no answer back.
"Let's go look for him." Dylan suggested.
"Alright well let's be careful." Charlie stated as Dylan lead putting on his mining helmet, as they carefully walked down the hall, they spotted something blue and puffy.
"It's princess positron, Dawkins would never leave her on the ground like this." Dylan stated picking up the alien plushy.
"This is getting weird and frustrating, what are we... Uh Dylan?"
"What...?" Dylan looked behind to see that most of the pups that followed them suddenly disappeared, "OH MY DOG, OH MY DOG!" Dylan screamed in a panic as he started to paced quickly before Charlie held him close.
"Relax Dylan we need your head right now!"
"Yeah relax Dylan it could get worse." Dolly stated not clearly helping the situation.
"How could things get worse?!" Dylan yelled in a panic.
"Oh I don't know, maybe we lose everyone in one go."
"Please don't say that..." Dylan stated but glanced behind her to see more pups disappearing.
"Don't freak out Dylan!" Charlie warned Dylan who seemed to be on the brink of screaming, "We got to find the source of the sudden disappearance, so get it together man." Charlie said to which Dylan started to hyperventilate, "Dolly, snap him out of it, I'm going to go look around for a bit."
"Got it." Dolly said before running to her brother shaking him hard, "Come on bro snap out of it!"
"I'm fine... I'm fine, I'm good now." Dylan gasped for air as he finally started to calm down, "Where did Charlie go?"
"He went ahead to look for the source of our problem."
"We better find him before..." Dylan glanced around and noticed not a soul was around, "Oh no!" He stated before pulling on his ears, "No, no, no, NO, EVERYONE'S GONE!" He screamed to which Dolly sighed in frustration.
"Look bro clearly you need to relax, we can't lose you too!" Suddenly both she and Dylan started to slide back unexpectedly, "Uhhh what is happening?"
"I don't know!" Dylan glanced back to see that one of the large ventilation hatch was opened he soon panicked and tried to run but the force of the vacuuming was too powerful as they inched ever so closer to the ventilation opening.
"I can't go anywhere!"
"Neither can I!" Dolly screamed as they started sprinting but soon Dylan tripped and is flown back into the ventilation system, "DYLAN!" She yelled and dove after him along the way she finds Princess Positron and grabs her throwing her to Dylan who fumbled with it before holding it tightly Dolly slammed into the ventilation system and was halfway in, "Hang on Dylan!" She yelled through her teeth as the vacuuming was at it's strongest soon Dolly started to slide before she was suddenly grabbed by her hind legs, she looked back to see Charlie holding her legs.
"I gotcha Dolly!" Charlie yelled before pulling back almost gett Dolly fully out suddenly the string on Princess Positron snapped causing both Dolly and Charlie to fly back onto the ground, suddenly there was silence...
"NO!" Dolly cried out before running over to the ventilation opening.
"Well we found our source, bow we just need to figure out where everyone went." Charlie stated as Dolly looked back at him, "You think you can handle this?"
"I'll do it, for my family!" She yelled out but soon stopped and looking into the ventilation opening, "Uh... How exactly am I going to get down there?"
"Gotcha covered." Charlie said as he pulled some rope and started tying knots to make it stronger, once he finished tying he then ties it around Dolly and held the end up to Dolly, "Bite down here and hold on tight." He explained to which Dolly bit and held, "You ready?" He asked and in response Dolly nodded, "Alright let's get you down there." Charlie held the rope as Dolly climbed her way into the cramp and dark ventilation, "Do not panic, remember the rope is your friend don't tug on it." He yelled down to her.
"Easy for you to say... You're not tied to it." Dolly stated as she felt the force of vacuuming start up again, "Oh No!" She yelled out as she is sucked down through the vents before seeing an opening to which she fell, dangling by the rope. She looked up to see that she was still attached and sighed in relief.
"Dolly you alright?" Charlie's voice echoed through the ventilation.
"I'm fine Charlie! Though I don't know where I am." She said as she looked around with the flashlight, all she could see was ooze dripping from the walls and ceiling, "Oh this is so gross." She soon shined the flashlight over to see her family all stuck to the wall as if they are frozen in time, "Dylan!" She called out.
"D-Dolly?" Dylan groaned as he opened his eyes only to be blinded by the light, "Ow ow ow!"
"Oh sorry."
"Everyone alright?"
"Yeah we're fine, just... Hanging around." Dylan joked.
"BOOOOOOO! Most of the pups yelled and groaned at Dylan's joke.
"What is going on?!" A voice asked as lights suddenly turned on. The area lit up to reveal a room covered what looks like wallpapers and glue like substance all over the place, alone with a humongous fan pointing in the pups direction, "Dalmatians?" The voice asked to which all the pups looked down to see Constantine looking up to them clearly not happy to see them.
"Coah, ah, AH CHUU!" Dylan sneezed and sniffed, "This was all you?" He asked very congested to which Constantine sighed in frustration.
"It seems that my giant fan has drain alot of power from the neighboring settlements, I was trying to dry my new wallpaper quickly before tomorrows session." He explained.
"Oh that explains so much!" Dawkins stated, "The sudden lost of power, the scary sounds coming from the walls, us disappearing, and these sticky walls." Dawkins explained.
"Am I missing something here?" Constantine asked.
"Oh it's just alot has happened tonight." Dolly said as Dylan sneezed again.
Later
"So let me get this straight, Constantine was drying some wallpaper?" Charlie asked.
"Yep pretty much."
"Well one thing is for certain, I'm glad your all okay, group hug!"
"Hug."
"Hug!"
"HUG!" The pups cheered and tackled Charlie who laughed as they licked him.
End of Story
"Eh that wasn't really scary." Dolly stated to which the pups laughed.
"Well Dolly could you better?" Charlie asked.
"Well I got a story." Dylan raised his paw up.
"Take it away Dylan."
"Alright this stories called..."
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