It was like any other day, it was a beautiful day as my brothers and I wore different colored Bandanna’s, I chose the blue Bandanna, Hunter chose the red Bandanna, Taylor chose the green bandanna and Samuel chose the Navy Blue Bandanna.

After we put the Bandanna’s on, Penny looked at us. “You guys look good.” She said to us, Taylor grinned as he knew this would be the most special moment for him. “Thanks, Penny.” He said to Penny as he walked over toward the mirror that Roger had placed there a week ago while trying to get everything situated after Cruella came to the farm and stayed until she could stop chewing gum, I shook my head. “Taylor, you better not look in that mirror for too long.” I warned him.

“I know, sis.” Taylor spoke as he walked back to us, we then heard a howl, something that we recognized was the Colonel’s howl. “Come on guys, let’s see what the Colonel wants.” Our younger brother spoke, however Penny got in his way and blocked his path. “Whoa, hold it, gamerpup.” Penny told him. “I think its best if you four stay here and train with TJ.”

“Aw, but Penny.” Taylor spoke with a disappointed tone, the same tone when Perdita and Pongo wouldn’t allow us to go for a walk with them. “Go, but just be safe, Penny.” I told her, she nodded and ran off, sadly it was the last time we saw of her.

A few weeks have passed as we started getting worried about Penny, not knowing where she got off to and not knowing if she’s going to be okay.

Roger and Anita set up flyers like there was no tomorrow, while my brothers and I split up to look for her, there was no sign of her body or any items left behind from her as we continued our search for Penny.

The search that my brothers and I did took all night as we searched high and low for her, even checked the Garbage Cans for her, we started to lose hope in finding her as it started pouring down rain, our fur was getting wet from the rain drops as we heard the Thunder booming in the night sky and saw some Lightning coming out of the sky. "We'll resume our search, tomorrow, I'm sure we'll find her." Samuel spoke, assuring us that eveything was going to be okay.

I did notice a Bandana on the ground as I walked over to it. It was covered with what looked like blood stains, as I sniffed the cloth, the aroma of the blood entered my nostrils as I picked up the Bandanna and examined it, I looked at my brothers. “Let’s head back to the barn, maybe we can get some answers.” I told them as I picked up the cloth with my maw and carried it to the farm with my brother’s right behind me.

As we raced toward the farm, I could only think, was there a Struggle? Did something happen? And the most important question of all, is she alive? While the questions were looming in my mind, I didn't care if we were soaked from head to paw, since we made it back to the farm, TJ saw us as we shook our fur dry from the raindrops.

"How was the search?" TJ asked.
"We couldn't find her." Samuel replied.

I walked over to TJ and laid the bloody and soaked Bandanna that Penny wore right next to his feet. "However, we did find this, Sensei." I spoke.

"No..." TJ spoke, his eyes went wide when he saw the bandanna that he remembered giving her as a sign of friendship along with Two-Tone, as a symbol that he sees her as a daughter, he sat down on his rear, never looking away from the Bandanna that was on the floorboard of the board. "This must mean that she is gone." He spoke as he finally closed his eyes, I caught a glimpse of a tear coming out of his eye.

I'm pretty sure, my siblings saw it too, but I shook my head. "No, it can't be, sensei, I mean, I-I-It's got to be someone's bandanna that looks like Penny's." I spoke, I backed away as it was clear that I didn't want to accept the fact that our sister was actually dead, that someone had already killed her.

My heart was pounding when I heard the words that TJ said, it actually did a number on me it was like someone punched me in the gut, as I was pondering that if we continued our search, then we would find out if she was alive, she just got to be alive, I know it, I was like a cat on a ferris wheel when I heard that.

I could sense that my siblings were taking it hard, Hunter was taking it the worst. "What if we found her body?" I asked. TJ looked at me. "It wouldn't do us any good, her body could be anywhere, even in places, we can't seem to search." He replied, implying that she could've been eaten.

"No!" I cried.
"Raven, listen to me, she couldn't be able to..."

"She has got to be alive, she's just got to!!" I cried interrupting TJ, I ran out of the barn with my siblings right behind me, we ran back toward the alley where we found the Bandanna, I just had to find answers before my own mind could rest.

After a moment of silence, we heard a voice coming from behind us, as we turned and saw a group of canines walking toward us, it was only a group of ten of them, I couldn't shake the feeling that we could be in trouble. "Leave us alone!" I shouted.

The leader walked up to us. "Can't actually do that, you see this is our turf, and you pups aren't on the guest list." He spoke.

"What's it to you?!" Hunter growled getting ready for a fight.

The Leader looked at my paws and maw, noticing the blood was a little dry as he chuckled. "I know where that blood came from." He spoke as he licked his lips with his tongue like he was trying to get whatever it was off the corner of his mouth and toward his nose. "That was the Female Dalmatian's blood." He spoke.

"WHAT?!" My siblings and I said in unison.

"A grown dog took care of her." The Leader spoke as he walked toward us. "It was hard to see that night, since it was dark, but the scream told us otherwise of what happened."

I was getting angry. "YOU LIE!" I shouted.

"Do I?" The Leader asked, he chuckled a bit, but took his paw and snapped it like he was giving his gang a demand. "Of course, you guys won't live long enough to tell the tale."

One his gang members came after me as I struck him with my claw as soon as he came toward me, Hunter, Taylor and Sam. Hunter soon followed me and struck two pups that were going to help their comrade, He loves this stuff, Sam took one third of the group of pups with his claws. as the four of us was fighting back, I overheard a conversation between a member of the group and their leader. "How do these pups know how to fight?" The pup asked. "Who cares, let's see if they bleed." The leader responded.

Hunter, Sam, Taylor and I jumped into the air. 'Oh, we bleed, and so do you.' with one final blow, the pups were dead, I looked at my claw as their blood was running toward us, 

Seeing the blood, I slowly licked a little of it off of my claw as I tasted the blood in my mouth, I swiped the rest off of my claw, it splashed onto the wall, the blood didn't really bother me and my siblings... Well, not anymore... We then heard sirens as I signaled for my brother's to follow me, we made a dead end for the dog catchers leading them to the docks where Jock would help his pet, then we headed back to the farm when the blood stopped leaving paw tracks, I remember what Penny once said to us, "You must strike hard and fade into the night." 

For once I'm starting to think she's gone and being in denial isn't going to bring her back at all, but whoever killed our sister isn't going to get away with it.