The competition had started. It was first a simple examination. All the doges were taken from their owners and were placed on top of little tables with red, white and blue covers. The judges checking the dogs over, probing the dogs every inch of being to see how 'perfectly' breed/formed it was. This of course, made Aden feel very-very-very uncomfortable.
"Get your cold hands off my jollies, grandma." He muttered, which the old bat obviously couldn't hear since she was so... what's the word... old. Yeah, that's totally it.
The judges left, leaving the dogs up on the little tables. Luke turned to Aden and barked. Aden didn't understand why he didn't speak english. Even more so, why couldn't Aden understand dogs? He was one... Well physically. Luke probably had some mental drops added as well... That's probably a reason why he couldn't talk. Aden felt horrible about this.
Not to mention he had met Luke while he was in human form. Three years back, he saw this nine-teen year old take his little brother to school. They had hit it off, of course. Had some laughs, became fast friends. But three months later, he just went missing.
"Time for revenge, right Luke?... Anyways. So. Luke. Let me win and you're free to go." Aden said lowly, just in case someone was lurking around. Talking dogs usually get a lot of publicity. Well, at least the 'talking dogs' in the movies.
Luke nodded. With his tail wagging like mad. Aden was pretty sure he'd win, he was pretty athletic as a human, and as a dog he was probably even better. Now, he wasn't too bright... But compared to a dog, he was basically Steven Hawking!
The owners came back to lead their dogs out to the ring, in which each would perform a trick. Some jumped on their hind legs. Other's jumped through hoops. Some rolled over. Luke laid down. And Aden had stood on his hind legs and somehow pulled off a waltz with Jaffar. Which made the gathering crowd applaud and go "Aww! So cwute!" for about a minute.
Raul stomped his feet as he saw the judges smile and laugh at Aden's performance. It's clear he had won that little round.
The next was a simple run. He would have to climb up a slanted wooden board. Jump into a small pool, then swim across. Get out, run through a series of tubes. Then for the toughest part was a maze. Followed by a long run back to the finish line.
"What the hell? A dog is suppose to clear this?!" Aden remarked, still keeping his voice down so no one heard. Raul sneered and kicked Luke. As the official said "GO!"
Aden of course, lead the pack. He pounced up the wall. Dived in the pool. In which he swam around in circles for a little while to show boat while mocking the slower dogs. Then he jumped off and crawled through the tubes, which then lead to a maze. Luckily, he wasn't color blind like most dogs, so the multi colored walls were easy to pick out. The red path was the way out, he was sure since there was more red then any other color. Finally, he finished with a dash back to the start line.
Aden won this short, odd contest in no time flat. Though he was panting like crazy. Having no sweat glands and all that fur was a downer.
"Good job D---Aladdin!" Jaffar said as he patted the dog's head.
Raul, mean while, was pouncing up and down, his face beat red.
"LUCIFER YOU STUPID GOD-DAMNED- ARG!!!" He screeched whilst kicking the dog. Which of course, led to him being hauled out for animal abuse. "JAFFAR YOU CHEATING SCUM BU-" The police had placed tape over the hysterical boy's mouth. After all, silence is golden. But duct tape is silver. Which is equally as nice.
The dog was being hauled off, but Jaffar stepped up. "Oh, that's actually my aunt's dog. Raul agreed to take care of it when she went out of town and he decided to enter it here..."
"... Works for me. Take this mangy mut." The officer said, grabbing Luke by the collar and dragged him over to Jaffar's feet.
After Aden got his little doggie-collar with a little gold name plate. The three of them left. If Luke could, he'd probably be grinning from ear-to-ear. Especially after seeing that horrible brother of his getting dragged away by the police.