Rover (TLKOE) and Cody (The Rescuers Down Under)

The forest was like a second home to Cody which was why he was always at ease when he explored it. The other animals in the forest were nice too.

He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the paw print on the ground of an unfamiliar animal. The paw print was shaped like a wolf's, but it was WAY too big. He was fearful and yet excited of a possibility of an new animal and began following the tracks. The tracks soon lead Cody into a cave which the young blond took out a flashlight to navigate through the dark cave. Then he saw the what appeared to be a blue furred animal that had the combination of a bear and a dog. The enormous animal was asleep, laying its head on its crossed arms and its body heaving up and down as it snored. Cody took a few steps back and hid behind a large rock, not knowing if this was a hostile or friendly animal.

The monster dog, named Rover, was having a nice dream of chasing bunnies and cats. This was evident to those watching as Rover started kicking happily in his sleep. Rover's nostrils flared as he caught the scent of a human, now he had an even more fun dream of chasing one. His long, red tongue came lolling from his jaw, wet with slobber. His eyes opened halfway. A single ear flattened. His tail started wagging.

The blond kid giggled as he peeked out of his hiding spot to see the blue beast with a goofy expression. He was oblivious that his scent was what was making the creature excited.

Rover woofed and rumbled deep in his throat before inhaling deeply. He was restless now, he fully opened his eyes and stood up with his large tail still wagging. Rover sniffed the air then lowered his snout to the ground and started trotting on the hunt for the nearby human.

Cody gasped as he saw that the blue monster was now fully awake and was sniffing the area, probably looking for him. He looked around for the exit, trying to remember where he came out of. In a situation like this, he would try to retrace his steps but he couldn't do that because of that thing was awake.

His thoughts of a plan came to a halt when he felt something breathe heavily on the back of his head. He slowly turned around to find himself face to face with the large, blue monster dog, which had its dripping tongue hanging in the front.

Rover let out a large bark which frightened Cody as the caused the blond boy to turn and run. Rover wagged his tail at this, he loved it when humans run and happily gave chase.

By some miracle, Cody found the exit of the cave and made his way through the forest. He stepped on twigs, through hedges, and leaped over fallen logs. He felt the monster's excited panting blowing over the back of his head, this was followed by playful nips at his shirt which made Cody run desperately faster.

Rover could have catch the human easily, but he liked giving humans more time to run so he kept a pace that was only fast enough to stay on the humans's tail.

Cody was unable to jump over a particularly larger log and was about to descend and crash on to the ground. The blond kid braced himself. Rover saw this and immediately grabbed the boy by his red shirt with his teeth. The pace and the angle he was in made Rover tumble as well.

He pulled the tiny human into his chest with his massive paws and rolled across the forest, making sure his back was hitting the ground and not the human tucked in his fore paws. Rover wouldn't be hurt by the crash but the monster knew that the tiny human would. Eventually, the rolling stopped, with Rover on his back and Cody's laying on the monster dog's chest. Cody's eyes spin as he was dizzied by the impact.

Just as he recovered. He felt a large tongue swipe against his cheek.

"Gross!" Cody squealed in disgust. He wiped the drool off his cheek before jumping as Rover let out a deep bark. He stared cautiously down at the blue monster who was looking at him happily with his dripping tongue lolling on the side. This somewhat put the blond boy at ease slowly got off the monster's chest while still maintaining eye contact.

Rover flipped on to his paws, shaking the ground and causing Cody to stumble on to his bottom. Rover took advantage of this and pounced upon the human and started repeatedly started licking Cody. His tongue was large enough to cover Cody's entire face.

"MMMMMMMMPH!" Cody's arm flailed as the tongue that kept dragging up his face. Every time, the tongue flicked off, Cody was given a few seconds to breathe before Rover repeated. Cody then had the idea to turn his face to the side, now only forced to close one eye as the massive tongue rolled his cheek up.

"Hey, cut it out! That tickles!" Cody laughed as he tried to push Rover's head away. But Rover didn't stop as he moved his head to lick at Cody's other cheek. Now Cody could only open his other eye as he giggled at the affection this strange animals was giving him.

After what felt, like hours Rover finally stopped his tongue assault but still stood over the blond child, panting happily down at him.

"Huh, guess your a friendly animal." Cody said with a smile as he reached up to scratch under the mutated dog's chin. He then furrowed his eyebrows as he saw something buried underneath the blue fur of Rover's neck. He reached for it, it was a collar that said the creature's name was 'Rover'. There was no address.

"Where'd you come from, Rover?"

In response, Rover lowered his head and snuffled the boy's face. Cody giggled and started scratching Rover behind the ears. He didn't know where Rover came from or what kind of animal he was but he was big, slobbery, and friendly.

Cody realized that the Sun was about to set and that he needed to return home. He wished he could take Rover home with him but his mom would freak out if she saw him.

"Sorry, boy. I gotta go home."

Rover whimpered and stared at him with puppy-dog eyes. The boy couldn't say no to that face but he had to or his mother would ground him.

"I know, Rover. But if I don't, I'll get in trouble and wont be aloud to visit the forest." Cody explained sadly as he cupped Rover's chin.

"I promise I'll come play with you tomorrow, first thing in the morning." He said with a smile. Rover dragged his tongue up the boy's face, coating in in slobber once more. Cody giggled and wiped his face with the back of his hand. He got confused when Rover circled behind him, nudged his head under Cody's legs and pushed him on to his back.

"Whoa!" Cody yelled, amazed that he was now riding Rover. The mutated dog stared back at him with a panting grin as if asking him where to go.

"I live that way." Cody said, pointing forward. Rover took off with Cody hanging on, leaving behind a cloud of dust. The boy lowered his head and nestled it on Rover's back as he scratched at his new playmate's side.