Main Characters
Zuma
Chase
Marshall
Skye
Star Dancer
Background Characters
The Farmer
Rubble
Rocky
Violet
Dawn Runner
Night
Captain Turbot
Ryder
Kate
Ellie
Storm
Josh
Mia
Storm
Thunder
"Why are we out here?" Marshall asked Chase, pawing his friend gently. "I do not like the dark."
"Neither do I!" Chase said back, his tail twitching nervously.
After a very quiet morning, peaceful, with sunlight, the farmer had said she had heard strange creaking sounds during the long night, and had called the Paw Patrol to investigate as the noise had continued through to dawn. Shivering, Marshall walked onward, swinging his head back and fourth, looking for whatever the farmer had heard.
"What if she was mistaken?" Marshall wondered a loud. "I hear nothing, everything is quiet." he turned to Chase. "Can you hear anything?"
The brown pup went silent for a moment, casting glances to the side and over his shoulder, then shook his head. "No I can not."
"But you all saw the look on her face," Zuma put in. "She was terrified."
Marshall recalled the farmer's look, and shook his head. He was being selfish, he hated the dark, and wanted to get out of the barn. Wind howled outside, and he pressed his ears to his head to block it out.
"Shh!" Rocky said suddenly. "I hear something!"
"What is it?" Chase demanded, bonding over to his friend. Rocky was crouched next to the stable door, his ear pressed to the opening, he looked very thoughtfully. Marshall quickened his pace, not wanting to be left behind. "I heard a creaking noise," Rocky was saying. "It sounded....."
He cut off as a loud sound began, like thunder rolling across the sky, like branches cracking and splitting off their tree. "What is that?" screeched Skye. She started screaming as she was lifted off the ground, her collar wrenched off of her neck, Skye was carried from the ground into the air, and out the barn door. "Help!" her cries of terror echoed.
"Skye!" Chase howled, racing after her. "Skye I am coming!"
Marshall threw himself at his friend, pressing him to the ground and stopping the brown pup from running. "Get off of me!" Chase gasped, flailing his paws and trying to push him off. "I have to find Skye!"
"I know!" Marshall answered loudly, his voice was hardly audible. "But-" he could not finish his sentence, his words were caught in his throat, he stumbled backward, landing on his back. Skye was mid-air, thrashing and yelling as a swirling mist sucked her in, she turned her pink eyes desperately to him as her fur finally flashed out of sight, swallowed whole by the darkness.
Zuma had reached for his paw and was pulling him up. "Come on!" Zuma told him, gathering Rocky, Chase, and Rubble. "We have to go! Now!"
The sound began again, and this time Rubble was lifted off the ground, his collar wrenched off his next and he was pulled into the darkness. Marshall nudged Chase, and the rest of the pups bolted for the safety of the out doors.
Marshall peered over her shoulder, a black beam was shooting toward them. "Look out!" he warned. The others dodged out of the way of the black beam, and it exploded with impact. Thick smoke filled the air, Marshall coughed trying to see his friends, but only heard their pain-filled shrieks.
Another black beam shoot toward them, Marshall tried to rise to his paws-but they were black with burn, he gulped in a breath of air, the smoke coming into his lungs, and making his cough. The last thing he saw was the explosion, and then darkness.