Cherry's Adventures of Rover Dangerfield

chapter 24

"Ellie May is something wrong? We heard you howl in pain." Darla said.

"She's gone into labor, the puppies are coming!" Raffles yelped.

"What?!" Darla gasped.

"We better find someplace for me to have the puppies soon!" Ellie May groaned in pain.

"Hurry, Ellie, right here!" Raffles helped her into the barn.

Patch overheard that and howled out. Pongo and Perdita rushed over.

"Patch, it's you." Perdita was surprised.

"You summoned us, son, it must be important." Pongo replied.

"Ellie May's having puppies!" Patch told his parents.

"Oh, dear.... Quickly, lead the way." Perdita said.

Patch then led his parents to the barn as Ellie May was weakly being taken there. Rover and Daisy's puppies looked curious and so did Patch's brothers and sisters. The puppies were soon taken out of the barn so then the dogs and adults could give Ellie May everything she needed while giving birth. Ellie May breathed weakly as she was about to give birth.

Perdita coached and supported her since she was a mother and experienced this herself after all, only with fifteen puppies before adopting eighty-four more. After a while, they all soon heard new puppy cries.

Perdita smiled peacefully, then came to the others. "Ellie May's puppies are born."

"I'm a father..." Raffles whispered in delight.

"You can come inside to see them." Perdita smiled to Raffles.

Raffles smiled and came inside the barn. Ellie May smiled wearily and proudly as she looked down to her newborn puppies. Raffles began to come over to his mate and the newborn puppies. Ellie May smiled to him as they had four puppies, three girls and one boy. The boy puppy looked a lot like his father.

"Hey, buddy..." Raffles smiled to his only son.

The boy puppy looked up to his father and tried to grab onto one of Raffles paws. Raffles gently held out one of his frontal paws. The boy puppy soon got a hold on his father's paw and where he soon started to giggle as he lifted him up just like Hercules did to Zeus when he was a baby.

"Whoa!" Raffles chuckled. "Looks like he has his mother's eyes and my strength."

This made everyone else chuckle. The boy puppy soon placed his father back on the ground.

Raffles chuckled and patted the boy on his head gently. "Good boy."

The boy puppy smiled back, looking up to his father already as his sisters were getting milk.

"Son, come on and get some milk." Ellie May said.

The boy puppy looked over and then did that.'

"Drink up, son, it's good for you." Raffles smiled.

"Can we come in now?" Darla asked.

"Come on in!" Perdita called.

Everyone else came inside and awed at the four newborn puppies.

"Aw!" Connie smiled.

"Ooh, puppies!" Darla gushed.

"They are so adorable." Cadpig smiled.

"Looks like you guys got some new pups to play with." Rover smiled to his children.

Rover's pups all nodded as they agreed with him.

Rover chuckled as he gave them all a hug. "Oh, wait 'til I teach ya how to play Blackjack."

And where he would teach them soon and where as soon as the puppies were old enough to walk; Ellie May, Raffles, and their pups would soon go to their new home.

"Goodbye, Rover..." Connie said softly as she was deciding to take her leave.

Atlas put his arm around her in a comforting way since the dog she had raised from a puppy was going to have a whole new life for himself.

"Should we leave now then?" Mo asked.

"I suppose so..." Connie replied softly.

"We'll visit him whenever we can." Atlas assured her.

Connie smiled to him. Atlas smiled back. There were final goodbyes and everyone was now separating. Rover then laughed as he was chasing Daisy around the meadow and the puppies even joined in.

"We made the right choice." Connie smiled.

"It'll be okay, Connie," Atlas soothed. "You still got us."

"Yeah." Darla nodded.

Connie smiled to them as they were on the way back to Vegas for one more night. Cadpig and Tripod cuddled each other as they leaned against Atlas and Connie's laps.