SCORCHY
by Daniel Lamberson

"Did you hear me Jerry? What kind of an agent are you? You've never heard of Scorch!?" Cruella yelled at the odd looking phone in her office. Scorch, after he overheard his name, put down the cracker he was eating, swallowed, and came over to the door that was open a crack to listen. "I don't care anymore if you've heard of him or not, I just want him out of business, understand! "Scorch's eyes widened then he push forward on the door to listen more closely. "Ill explain! I've had my brother, P.H. DeVil, calculate the problem with profits lately, he said that Scorch is holding my business down, so I want him out of the way!" Her angry face turned to a grin. "Ahhhhh!! Scorch yelled upon hearing this, and without thinking, started to run away from the DeVil Manor. Cruella looked angry again. "I am sick and tired of John Scorch's fall designs! I am going to have to run him out of business!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I CANT EAT FOR ANOTHER HOUR! Yelled Rolly with an angry, question face starring at the chow tower then at Spot then the tower again. "Well what do you expect? It's daylight savings time!" Spot said smiling "NOOOOOOO!!!! WHY GOD WHY!!! Rolly said, grabbing her by the wings, staring at her eyes "Calm down, It's just an hour!" Rolly started to have a more worried face than ever. "Oh, sorry for a split second I thought I was talking to someone else" Spot said sarcastically. Cadpig and Lucky walked up behind the two "We heard someone panic and knew Rolly didn't eat lunch." Cadpig said. "Yeah, c'mon on lets go! Thunderbolt is gunna be on." Lucky runs to the barn and the others follow.

Scorch, not being sure where he was at, cautiously moved around in the swamp. while walking he looks to the left, sees some bugs, to the right, bugs up a really large bird, to the left of the bird on a branch, a nest. Scorch just shrugged and continued. Suddenly the bird swoops out of the sky and charges at him, Scorch looks down and sees the birds shadow enlarging. Scorch in shock runs as fast as his small legs could push him, he trips and the bird barley misses him. He gets up and runs again. Now panting, and tired he walks forward and sits down, now safely away from the bird. Once he catches his breath again, he looks around his surroundings, he sees some teeth, a tongue... "Ahhhhh!!!!" Scorch yelled and started to run out of the open mouth of Steven's. Steven smiled and closed his mouth tight. Scorch, in a panic, bites his tongue hard, and Steven's mouth shoots open long enough for him to escape.

Back at the farm, all the pups are happy watching Thunderbolt, all the pups except Rolly, who was too busy writing his will. "To Lucky, zero bones, to Cadpig, zero bones, to Spot, zero bones-and so on." Rolly said while writing the paw prints. "Huh, what did you say?" said Lucky without even blinking while staring at the TV "I SAID THAT I-that's nice" Cadpig butted in. "AH I CAN'T TAKE IT!" Rolly yelled and ran outside. He looked franticly around "Food, food, gotta be food around here somewhere!" He looked up in the kitchen window of the house, and saw a blueberry pie Nanny left out to cool. "Oh PAPA!" Rolly exclaimed. "Don't even think about it." Pongo said warning Rolly. "It's only a half hour to lunch time!" Rolly jumped at his father seemingly appearing out of nowhere. "Ah, but dad, cant I just have a little tiny, itty bitty, little piece?" Rolly said putting on his sad puppydog face "No. Sorry, but that pie's for our pets. Now your mother and I are gunna go to Hiccup Hole, if you pups need us ok?" Rolly changed his face from sad to a grin. "Um, ok dad." Then laughs under his breath. "Remember what I told you. Bye." Then walks over by Perdy, and they walk away.

"Scorchy. Come here. SCORCH! Where is that ferret?" Cruella asked herself. "Come Here scorch! Or you'll be a fajita instead of a ferret! hmmm." Cruella picked up her tape recorder "Memo to myself, find that ferret!" Scorch, trapped at the end of an alley in Gruetly by three cats, standing on a trashcan lid and shivering from fright "Ah don't be scared, we just wanna beat you up, that's all." The first cat says laghing, at that time, from inside a store someone tosses some trash out the window. The trash hits the lid Scorch was on and flings him away. "Ahh man, I don't like fast food! Let's go!" The cat says. Scorch begins walking down the road.

"I've got you now Thunderbolt! You'll never get away!" All the pups stare at the TV with anticipation "That's where your wrong I got my Super duper Shhhh(static)hhhh..now for our special live bulletin." Cruella's face appears and all the pups jump. "CHANGE IT AHHHHH!! Lucky yells at Cadpig. She pushes the button" It doesn't work! She's on ALL of them!" Cadpig says startled. "Scorch! Where are you? Scorch? COME HOME NOW OR ILL... shhhh "Thank you for your time, and now back to your regularly scheduled program. "Wow ThunderBolt I've never seen an escape like that ever!" "NOOOO!!!!" Lucky yells, "I gotta get me some pie!" Rolly exclaims and runs through the doggie door and looks up at the pie. Scorch walks onto the dearly farm and his stomach begins to growl, he looks up at the pie and smiles. He starts climbing on the wall. And on the inside Rolly pushes a chair over to the window and gets on, he closes his eyes and starts smelling the pie Scorch climbs up and does the same. When they opened their eyes, they saw each other and fell off. "OWWW!" They yelled at the same time. "Hey stop copying me!" Rolly yelled at Scorch. Then they both started growling at each other. "Hey did you hear that?" Cadpig asked her two friends. "Huh what?" Lucky asked "That THUMP!I think Rolly's in-yeah that's nice" Lucky said not paying attention. Cadpig quickly grabbed him by the collar and said "DONT USE THAT ON ME OR ILL TEACH YOU SOMETHING YOU WON'T FORGET!!!" Lucky just looked at her and smiled. The three run outside, and the sun shines. "AHHHH!! Natural light! It burns my eyes!" Lucky complained. "That's my pie!" Rolly yelled "UH-uh" Scorch replied. They both looked to the side and saw the pie on the ground next to them. Spot, Lucky, and Cadpig all were running towards the out numbered ferret. Scorch just looks around, takes a bite out of the pie, and starts running. "Your dead ferret!" Lucky called after him. Scorch ran around the corner of the building and CRASH. Lucky, Rolly, Cadpig, and Spot all ran around the corner to see what happened. "OW! Watch it Dingbat!" Mooch yelled at Scorch, who got up and naturally ran off. The pack then followed after him. Their attention was turned from Scorch when Cruella drove in and stopped just inches from Mooch who was still sitting there rubbing his head. Mooch just smiled for a second then started running away. Scorch hid behind the building to see what was going on "Anita! Rug burn! Come here now!" Anita and Roger(reluctantly)came out the front door. "What is it now?" Roger asked "Oh its awful! My Scorch is missing!" Cruella said "Oh that's awful!" Anita exclaimed. "Lucky guy." Roger said. Cadpig jumped forward Cadpig. She just looked over at Scorch "Hey Cruella there's your rat." Roger said pointing "No Rupert it's a ferret! Scorch!" Scorch opened his eyes wide and shook his head "NO NO!" Cruella grabbed him by his neck "If you ever run away again I'm gunna tie you up!" The pups just laughed. Cruella got in her car and took off, and Rolly ran back to his pie that was on the ground. "Alright now I'm gunna-OH NO!" Nanny ran came out to feed the pups and saw the pie on the ground. "MY PIE!" She yelled. "Did you do this Rolly? For being a naughty pup you get no lunch today!" She cleaned up the pie. Rolly sat there with his mouth wide open and screamed "NOOOOOO!!!!!!"

THE END

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