I know, I know, a bad idea to start another story when I have at least five others that I need to finish. But...Well, read this and review! Please? Pretty pretty please? It's good! ...Kinda...well, please, at least try to enjoy yourselves.

Warrior Buddies

1

Rosebud sighed, relaxing on her plush pink puppy bed. Her brothers, Buddha, Mudbud, B-Dawg, and Butterball were supposed to meet with her at their stump in a few minutes. Sighing again, she reluctantly pushed herself up and padded out the front door towards the town park.

When she got to the stump, Buddha and Mudbud were just arriving. "Hi guys," Rosebud greeted.

"Hey sis," Mudbud greeted back.

"I'm here!" B-Dawg exclaimed suddenly, skidding to a halt by Mudbud. "I'm on time, right?"

"You're timing is fine," Buddha said, going into a meditation stance.

"Now all we need is Butterball, but he's always fashionably late," Rosebud murmured.

"Fo-shizzle, dawgs! The only time he's on time is if it's for dinner!" B-Dawg said.

Then, the oversized golden puppy in the football jersey ran over to the group. "Sorry I'm late, but they were serving brunch, and I couldn't say no," Butterball said.

"Well, we're all here. What was it you -" Buddha was cut off by some howling. A dog raced by, followed by the new dog catcher.

"Ah, it's him!" Mudbud cried.

"Hide!" Rosebud instructed. The puppies dove for some bushes and ran. But they soon lost sense of where they were.

"G-g-g-g-guys…" B-Dawg stammered. "I-I think we're lost."

"Then our spirits must want us to be here, or else we would not have been led to this unknown spot," Buddha said.

"What's the matter B-Dawg? Scared of the woods?" Rosebud taunted.

"N-n-n-no," the blinged-out pup replied shakily. "I-I'm just worried about you is all."

Buddha's ears were perked, as if he heard something. "I sense another being in our presence."

"Oh, good, maybe they have some snacks," Butterball said.

"Dude, you just ate!" Mudbud pointed out. A twig snapped, and the Buddies huddled together.

"G-guys…"

Then a cat leaped out of some bushes. She had dark ginger fur and green eyes, and was followed by a dark brown tabby male and a black male with a brown underbelly. The two toms had amber eyes that were glinting in the sunlight penetrating through the trees. More cats emerged, such as a golden tabby tom, a tortoiseshell she-cat, and a gray tabby she-cat, along with a smaller white she-cat and a smaller reddish tabby tom.

"Get out of our territory, dogs!" the first cat spat. She leapt for Rosebud, but the female pup rolled out of the way.

"What? L-look, we didn't know!" she stammered.

"The woods are not one person's or group's territory. Rather, the woods were created to be the home of everything that passes through them," Buddha said to the cats. The small white she-cat stepped back.

"W-what? You speak cat?" she squeaked.

"Who doesn't?" Rosebud asked. "I can speak dog, cat, goat, horse, pig Latin, and sheep."

"OK, that's showing off," Mudbud complained.

"Should we take them to Firestar?" the black tom asked the dark brown tom.

"Yes. He will be interested in them, I am sure," the brown one replied. "Let's get going!"

The cats circled around the Buddies, and began herding them away from Fernfield.