A Legend Begins

“Then just rip it out” Soda snapped annoyed. His tail went gently side to side as the mentioned the humans.

Soda huffed lowly and shook his body pausing to think. “Fine” he finally said lowly. His ears went flat as he sat near the larger dog once again.

"Do not wander out the house, Starburst!" called Irina as she runs out the house and down the street in a blur of white fur. They are lucky her breed is well known for their speed. She runs past cats, rats and a dog here and there as she runs blocks away. She slows to a halt, panting as she moves past piles of trash and junk until she sees an old pick up truck. Its doors are gone and inside was a brown dog. "Lifa!" Irina calls out as she approaches and the brown dog lifts her head. Her tail starts to wag as she hops out to great Irina

"Mom! what are you doing here?" she asks happily, licking Irina's muzzle.

"I need something to disinfect a wound, and some clean clothe to close it." she lists to Lifa, who disappears in a dash through a hole in a fenced yard. minutes pass and she returns with a bundle in her mouth.

"im not sure what works, but ive seen my human drinking this a lot." she shows Irina a neck of a bottle poking out from the bundle. "and these are as clean as it gets."

"thank you, Lifa. I'm sorry i cant stay and chat right now." Irina licks lifa's little snout and takes hold of the bundle and sprints back home.

Starburst perks her ears before returning to exploring. She wanders back towards Kreig and the new pup, watching with interest.

"Thank you, Irina! That is most helpful indeed. Alright kid, this is the last stretch then we get you cleaned and bandaged." With one quick yank, he pulls up, removing the last of the studs that are in the top of the scruff. He then quickly grabs the alcohol and soaks a rag, which the then pats at the wounds.

Soda held his tongue as a soft Yelp came from him. “That’s good” he mumbled. At the smell of the alcohol his ears went flat. His mind dazed lightly.

“Come on Soda!” A little girl laughed skipping down the road. He quickly followed as they were headed down to the store. She tossed a tennis ball sending him ahead down the road into an alley after it. He toyed with it for a moment until he heard a scream of his name from his little human friend. Soda instantly dropped the ball and came running. 2 mutts, looking like a boxer and a retriever were chasing her. Finally one snatched her thick jacket dragging her back into the snow. Soda lunged towards the dogs snapping and tearing at their flesh. He had locked around the smaller ones neck shaking them since they were holding her. The boxer grabbed his legs and pulled him back repeatedly tearing into him. Finally he let the smaller dog go when teeth sunk into his shoulder. Spinning around to grab the other dogs leg he tore back as his shoulder was broken. He wasn’t keeping his balance so he flipped onto his back. The boxer snatched the little girls arm as she cried out. Soda rolled over closer to the boxer locking his jaws into the boxers neck causing him to lose the girl. The other male quickly grabbed a hunk of Sodas flesh in his chest area. As the dog yanked back on his collar bone an older human came and hit the dog with a bat. Once the boxer let go Soda quickly got to his feet and the dogs stood there snarling. Finally the boxer flinched making Soda lung. He grabbed at the dogs face getting his ear and upper cheek. Just as quick as he grabbed he tore back. The boxer finally gave in and ran off yelpping as Soda tailed him till falling. The snow was stained with the dogs blood. People grabbed the little girl taking her off and him as well. Everything was black until the smell of rubbing alcohol filled his nose. He opened his eyes to the familiar room. He and his human were on her bed. Her arm bandaged along with one of her legs. A few bandaids on her face. Soda was completely bandaged still bleeding. “Good boy” the girl mumbled running her hand slowly over him. He was just over a year old and that was his second fight. The first was only a few seconds, nothing like this. His tail wagged gently over her sheets.


Soda shook his head bringing him back once again. How he did miss the humans. Sadly now though he would have a flash back and forget it within minutes. Anything really from his past before the flood was forgotten only brought for a few minutes due to flash backs but then they were gone again.

Soda gave an odd smile “Thanks...A lot” he said lowly as he couldn’t help but move his head around. He then turned his gaze to the collar.