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Kaitlyn Perkins '28
​Staff Writer

The hounds of Willis Hall

11/6/2024

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Once upon a time a very short time ago, in a very mysterious place called school, three hairy heroes roamed the Willis Halls. One of them was a great, very ferocious and untamed Cavapoo: Agent Moose. Another, the master of disguise and the thief of all socks, Moose’s right-hand-dog: Detective Jackson. And finally, knight of all knights, retriever of all retrievers, the king of breaking through wires, there was Sergeant Finley. 
“Ahhhhhhh,” screamed Mrs. Wenk, Dr. Andrews, and Mrs. Kier simultaneously. 
 “Where has the honor pledge gone???” Dr. Andrews rung with fear. 
“I don’t know, it was hanging right here just yesterday,” Mrs. Kier said shakily. 
“Who would do such a thing?” Mrs. Wenk questioned. 
“Something must be done!” Dr. Andrews demanded. 
“Without the pledge, the students will go savage!” Mrs. Kier said in horror.
Not to worry, the trio of dogtectives is on the way. “Whenever there's a problem 'Round Willis Hall, Moose and his team of pups will come and save the day. No Finleys is too big, no Moose is too small, Dogtectives, we're on a roll!’ The trio of dogtectives jammed to their awesome theme song as they raced down the halls to aid the situation. Luckily the trio had something the administrators did not, SUPER- NOSES! 

They used their super noses to trace the scent of the missing honor pledge. Meanwhile, the students in Willis Hall were going berserk. Without the honor pledge, what rules do they have to live by, how do they maintain the core values of NCS? The students were cheating, lying, and stealing like there's no tomorrow. The dogtectives knew they had to work fast, or else the untamed students could tear the schools to ruins. 
The pups dashed down the halls following the scent of the missing pledge. They followed the scent until they came to the senior lounge. “What do we do now boss, you know you can only go in there if you’re a senior?” Sergeant Finely rebarked. 
“I got this guys,” Detective Moose barksplained. “No one will see me if I slip in and hide under the furniture.” 

Detective Moose slipped into the senior lounge and stealthily made his way around the room searching for the honor pledge. “Sadly, it’s nowhere to be found,”Detective Moose announced. “On the bright side, I did find what seems to be a week old ham sandwich and a meatball under some of the furniture, both of which are quite tasty. I even found a sweaty sock.” Detective Moose was happy to have such a delicious meatball. 
“Boss don’t you remember, we’re on a mission.” Finely barkmmented. 
“Yeah, if we find this pledge, Mommy Holley might give me some extra scratches before bed tonight,” Agent Jackson barksplained.
“Alright, let's get back to work. I’ll just store this meatball in my sweaty sock for later.” Moose pupgreed.  
The trio was just about out of clues, when they saw Mrs. Mountcastle, Dr. Koss, and Ms. Dabney sneaking into the computer room. 
The trio tiptoed up to the room and peaked through the crack under the door. “What do you see, Finley?” Jackson begged for the details. 
“Well not much, but I think they’re…wait, they’re… ON THEIR PHONES!!!” Finley barksclaimed. “What?!” Moose burst through the door with the other pups following right behind him. It was true the teachers were on their phones. “This is inconceivable!” Finley barkrated them. 
“How could teachers do such a thing?” Jackson could not believe his eyes. 
“What are you people doing?!” Moose barkmanded an answer. 
 “Well, the teachers replied. If the students don’t have to follow the pledge, why must we?”
 “We have got to find this pledge, the teachers are going nuts!” Finley barkclared. 
“Ooh, I love peanut butter!” Moose barksclaimed. The dogtectives were almost out of ideas, but they had one last clue. “Perhaps those naughty little chicks in Ellis Hall stole the pledge!” The trio agreed, those are some mighty cute, but tricky chicks.  

The dogtectives raced to the coop, where they found….. “The PLEDGE!!” Jackson barknounced. 
“Why did you sneaky chicks steal the pledge?” Moose barkrated them. 
“Well, we just wanted some attention, everybody is always giving you guys so much attention, when do we get our belly scratches?” The chicks cluckplied. The dogtectives understood, after all, how could anybody live without the scratches? They made an agreement, from then on the pups would make sure they came by every Friday to give the chicks some scratches, as long as they promised to stop stealing. 

In the end the chicks got their belly scratches, the dogtectives were heroes and got lots of bacon as compensation, and the teachers stopped playing on their phones. As Finley, Moose and Jackson were enjoying their belly scratches from Mrs. Cocowitch, Mr. Belderes, and Mrs. Holley, they agreed; Why would anyone misbehave, as long as there are belly scratches and bacon involved, everyone’s a good boy. 
The End

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    Hi, I am Kaitlyn

    It is my first year at North Cross. I really enjoy running Cross Country and playing with my dog Nera. I'm also into reading and I like to read The Reader's Digest. My dream places to travel are France and Japan.
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