The Love Breaters - the adventure begins.

Chapter Three, 
With a picture of D Dog
And a picture of Stick

Chapter two
When Top -Pup opened his eyes that morning he found himself surrounded by 4 big paws.

He looked up to find Z standing right on Top of him.
Z was quite an increadible hound dog, he could sneak up on you like that, quiet as a ghost.

"Good Morning" he said, "R u ready to embark on an adventure today?"
Top Pup had no time to shake off sleep, he did not  wish to seem sluggish (well, there was no denying he was caught fast asleep), being around Z had a way of making him snap to  tippy toes in an instant. 
"Today?" he asked?
"Today"  Z replied.
Top Pup got a feeling that Z was a well aware of his affect on other dogs, and rather enjoyed it. 
"No Goodbyes, no thinking about it - just up and go, are you ready for that?"
Top Pup's heart began pounding.
He looked around at his small abode his gaze drifted further outside the window, the shelter structure. He took in with new eyes, the eye of departing. It was barely dawn and all the other pets were still deep in a slumber. He was going to sneak our of here, with Z, before they got up, and he would never see this place again.
Wow, why had he agreed to this? he asked himself.
Who is this Z dog, did he even know?
He looked up at Z who was gazing down at him intently and again had that eerie feeling that Z watching his thoughts as if his forehead was a screen.
"Having second thoughts are you?" Z said with a twinkle in his gray eyes.
But Top Pup could read Z's mind just as well, he knew that today, in a few minutes, to be exact, Z would embark on his journey, with or without him and there was no way he was going to stay behind wondering what would have happened had he joined him..
"Who else is coming?" Top Pup heard himself ask.
"Only my friend D" Z replied.
D was a british hunting dog, who looked small next to Z, but was actually not a small dog himself, and like Z, exuded inner power.
How was he going to fit in with these two big animals? Top Pup thought, quite a sight the three of them would make, the  thought made him smile inside.
"You'll be riding my back" Z said, reading his thoughts yet again.
He wasn't really leaving Top Pup much room for regret, it was obvious he was expecting him to step up to the plate, Top Pup thought
"I'm in" he replied.
"I knew you would be," Z said,
He lowered down stretching his front paws forward so that Top Pup cold climb on top of him.
D was waiting for them at the shelter gate which was easily opened as Z nudged the handle with his nose.
How come it wasn't locked? Top Pup wondered.
The sun was just rising as they left the compound.

It was going to be a long journey, the road they would have to walk was on a mountainous terrain over looking the ocean. Top Pup had no idea what the area surrounding the compound looked like. He remembered very little from the night he was brought here, accept being scared and helpless sitting in an unfamiliar car with unfamiliar people after barely escaping being hit by the huge car lights that seemed to coming at him from every which way. It seemed like eons ago, but his senses told him it wasn't that long ago at all.
By now the Sun was fully up and it was starting to get warm. Riding on Z's back was a sticky affair as Z's fur was long and warm and keeping a steady grip was no easy feat. Top Pup was also concerned with making himself less of a burden on Z's light walk. His thoughts drifted and he was thinking of how strange it all has been. The time before he arrived at the shelter seemed before he was born because at that time, before his jump, he did not know he understood people language and he did not know that he was not completely dependent on people.
Suddenly Z stopped in his tracks. He and D dog were both staring in the same direction with enlarged nostrils and fur sticking up like needles and then it hit Top Pups nostrils too, an animal scent he had never sniffed before, it was something big, something wild, something dangerous. and before he had a chance to take it in it was upon them. The wind had played against them, by the time they became aware of the mountain cat they had practically walked into his lair. Within what seemed like a split second he felt a complete transformation in Z his body hardened and his bones seemed to be sticking out from underneath his fur.. Before Top Pup could apprehend what was going on he was tossed into thorny bushes where luckily he landed safely with only a few scratches and watched wide eyed the battle that was about to take place. The cat was huge, its ears smoothed back in  menacing preparedness, his sharp teeth exposed and he was making a hiss that madeTop Pup's  hair stand up. The dogs stood their ground growling and exposing their teeth in turn. For a while the 3 animals surveyed each other through slotted eye lids and flared nostrils and then, suddenly, the cat turned around and with his tail between his legs vanished into thin air.

Yet the two dogs remained standing on guard  for what seemed like forever to Top Pup. For a moment he was worried that they had transformed into fierce fighting machine and will remain that way for ever when just as suddenly, Z turned in his directions looking  his old self again and said "little one, are you ok?" Top Pup immerged from the thorny bush. The three dogs surveyed each other, until Z stretched his front paws forward so that Top Pup could climb back on tom of him again.
They kept their course as if nothing ever happened. Z and D dog spoke very little Top Pup noted, they needed no language to communicate, it was all dog instinct - all was clear as crystal and nothing whatsoever was amiss in this silence, indeed, Top Pup realized, he too understood this language.

The road kept on winding above the ocean when Top Pup became aware of another animals scent faintly wafting their way. The dogs stopped in their tracks again, but Top Pup knew this animal was not going to post a threat to them, a moment later a strange looking battered cat appeared right in front of them, as if saying, "I'm here, hands up, open and vulnerable, I come in peace" The dogs surveyed the cat, It was a regular house cat, or at least used to be, or maybe it had never been a house cat, because this fellow seemed experienced in the way of living out doors. He introduced himself as "Stick" and asked to join the party. "I can be of help, he said, I know the ins and outs of where you are headed toward." Z and D dog exchanged a looks and sniffed in agreement. Stick allowed them to pass him and joined the party walking somewhat behind them. He looked up at Top Pup who was surveying him form his vantage point up on Z, trying to figure out what a cat was doing in such a wild area and why was he interested in helping. Z and D dog seemed to have the answers to these questions, they had no qualms about this new addition, it was as if they were expecting a fourth party to meet up with them.