"From Pup to Dog"

Note:This story does not have the Road Rovers in it,the dogs do not talk,this is just a story about Ramses growing up,his past ect. If you want to read a story with alot of fight and such in it,this is not that story,( but it has some really cute part with some puppys in it!)But I'm not saying this story has no action in it at all.(Well maybe it dosen't but I'm not a good judge of stuff like that.)
Black screen:1989 Egypt. Fade in.Modern Egypt.
Shot starts looking towards the sun,slowly pans down towards a semi-arid desert. There are a few acidia trees and some grass but not much of it.Off in the far distance you can see the Nile river. Pan down all the way to the ground. Out of the distance comes a small rabbit.The rabbit is running like crazy. The rabbit runs off screen.Close behind it comes a saluki puppy.He is a tri-colored saluki,his top side is black,his under-side is white he has yellow green eyes.All 4 of his paws are white so is his muzzle. His ears are brown and black.Where the black meets the white he has a brown band.This is Ramses Tutakanaton the fifth,he will be called Ramses.
Ramses has a short puppy tail ,short puppy muzzle,big puppy eyes, huge oversized paws, and a round puppy belly. Ramses runs after the rabbit as fast as he can go.He starts to gain on the rabbit, but a tree looms into view.Under the trees gnarled roots is a small hole.The rabbit runs head-long into the hole and Ramses hits the tree full-tilt. His paw is stuck inbetween the roots,Ramses struggles and whines and finaly his paw pops free.He tumbles over backwards and lands on his back.Ramses gets back up and runs back to the hole but it's too small for him to fit into,he starts digging furiously to get at the rabbit.Suddenly you hear barking from the distance.He stops digging and turns around.you look back and see a small house with some grass around it,in back of the house is an adult female saluki,she is tan with white markings,this is Ramses mother.Ramses yips a little puppy bark and starts trotting back.

Cut to back of house. Ramses mother is licking one of the puppys.Ramses trots over to a water dish and bends down to drink.Suddenly a brown and white blur hits him.It's his sister Cleo.She is a brown,black and white saluki.Her ears are black, her markings on her under-side are white,and she has green eyes.They have a brief puppy battle that ends when Cleo pins her brother down,he whines and squarms and wags his tail till Cleo lets him up.Cleo always was the largest puppy. Cleo walks off to do other things,suddenly she spots an ostorich chick and gives it an enthusiastic chase,Ramses sees the chick too and runs after them.Ramses chatches up with Cleo and they both run after the chick and start to gain on it. Cleo shoots out one fore-paw and gives the chick a well-aimed smack.The osterich chick tumbles head over heels.Ramses and Cleo dive after it at the same time and hit there heads.They both fall over back-wards.Ramses gets up first and corners the chick,he's about to take a bite out of it when it gets a direct bulls-eye on his nose,Ramses yelps in pain.The chick pecks at his nose again and he yelps again (it really hurts a dog if you damage it's nose)Ramses trys to back-pedal but the chick comes after him and pecks keep raining on his nose.Cleo starts barking at the chick and Ramses starts to growl at it,the chick screaches at them as an adult ostirich runs towards them,they both start running like mad away from the huge bird.The adult osterich starts chasing them and pecks Ramses on the back.Ramses yelps like crazy all the way back. Cut to the yard. There mother is still there when they both come tearing into the yard Ramses runs over to his mother who starts to lick his nose, Ramses starts uttering little puppy crys because his nose really hurts.(just a few days ago he got hit in the nose by a door).

Fade out. Fade in. A few months have passed. Zoom into back yard.Ramses is almost a year old.He is very busy chewing on a bone. From inside the house some people come outside.One is Mallila,who is a 12 yr old human female. She has farely dark skin,and curly sholder length dark brown (almost black) hair.Cleo(Who is also almost a year old) walks up to her and sits down. She looks up at Mallila.Mallila smiles and kneels so that she can look at the dog eye to eye. Mallila starts to pet Cleo's head.Cleo wags her tail and barks.Mallila says somthing in Egyptian as she puts a collar on Cleo's neck.She snaps a leash to the collar and leads Cleo off.Ramses stops chewing his bone and looks at Cleo,he whines,and Cleo looks back at him,she wags her tail and barks back at him and walks off after Mallila.Ramses whines again and waves after her with his paw.

Fade out. Fade in. Back in the yard. Ramses is one year old puppy now.A man who looks like he's in his late 60's walks into the back yard(He's a monk) with a woman(The owner of the house and Ramses'es mother's owner) who he is talking to.The old man is wearing loose robes, has a long rope in his hands,shaved head,and,most notisable,he has a large staff,nearly 7ft. tall, made intierly out of wood.Ramses walks over to them and starts looking a the old man,he starts to wag his tail.The old man bends down and fastens an 'ancient' looking leather collar to Ramses neck and ties the rope to it.He then says something to the woman and she gives Ramses a good-by pat on the head.He licks her hand and wags his tail.The man waves at Ramses to follow and waves good-by to the woman. She waves back.

Fade out. Fade in. To a large snowy mountian,surraounded by large snowy hills wich are in turn surraounded by more hills...and more hills...and for a change of pace......more hills. Caption:3 months later in the Himalayas. Zoom to a largish old looking wall(Made of redish mud bricks) surrounding an oldish looking building.the Whole thing is on top of a mouintian plateau,this is the Monestary.Cut to inside of the Monestary,Inside of the wall is an area that is a cobbled floor,a temple,and a small living area for the monks.In the cobbled outside area Ramses is chewing on a bone.Some monks come out of the temple and Ramses gets up from his bone and walks over to them.The one in the back is his owner,Ramses trots over to him and starts barking.His owner pats him on the head and hushes him,Ramses stops barking.

Cut to outside of monestery.
Ramses's owner is outside of the monestary,he has his staff.Ramses is at his heels,he shoos Ramses away.The monk walks off. Ramses goes the other direction,and spies a rabbit and gives a half hearted chase that takes him off screen. Fade to black.
Fade in.
(caption:a few hours later)
A snowy hillside,the snow has started to blow,and Ramses is walking up the hill,all of a sudden,he gets a horrified expresion on his face and starts running like mad in the direction that his owner had gone in. Cut to a small clearing where the air is calmer and the snow isn't swirling as much.Ramses runs in and skids to a stop abruptly. In front of him is a mound of snow that had a slightly redish tint.Sticking halfway out of the mound was his owner's staff.Ramses begins to whine and nudge at the staff,he smells around the mound and his fur bristles involintarily.He sniffs harder.He sits down on his haunches,points his muzzle to the sky and howls long and mornfuly.
Fade out.
Fade in to Ramses walking through a valley with his owner's staff in his mouth.He walks over to a small cave and goes in with the staff. Cut to intirior of the cave.it is kinda' dark,Ramses goes to the back of the cave and put down the staff,he used his snout to shove some leaves over it,Ramses walks out of the cave. Fade out.
Fade (caption:8 months later) in to a valley that has high cliffs on one side,there is a fox standing by a small mound of snow. Ramses sees the fox and chases it off.He trots back to see what the fox was looking at.Ramses looks down at the snow.In the snow is a very small Golden eagle chick.It has no adult plumage yet,and it has a broken wing.Ramses starts to smell the eagle chick(he wants to eat it)But then the eagle chick snaggs a direct hit on the soft part of Ramses's nose with her hooked beak.Ramses yelps and then growls at the eagle chick,he narrows his eyes at it,and he lifts his right paw to beat the life out of the chick...just one blow and it would be on more.....The chick kept hissing at Ramses with fearless ferocitly.Such a small ferocious animal!Ramses loses his growl and his eyes soften.The snow has began to fall.Ramses lowers his paw and uses it to scoop up the eagle chick,Ramses lied down and pulled the baby eagle close to him.Ramses winced.The chick was gripeing his paw.[Ramses(in thought):We will learn to get along,you and I.....what should I call you?....Frightful?No you were never afriad of me.....Sheba!That's it!I'll call you Sheba.......]
Fade out.

Fade in to a forest area with pine trees and the like....lots of snow still.
Ramses is standing under a tree and looking up...
Pan up: Sheba is up in the tree looking at Ramses with distain. Caption:"5 days later" Ramses barks up towards Sheba...
[in text at the bottom of the screen]"Come on....PLEASE come down....."
Sheba hisses back at Ramses.
Ramses(barking):"COME ON....You can't stay up there forever!"
Sheba hisses again.
Ramses:"Please come down Sheba.........."
Sheba suddenly cocks her head to the side when she hears her name. Ramses looks exsited.... "thats it...come on...come down here....please........"
Sheba hops down from the branch and lands on Ramses's sholder,Ramses yelps because of her talons and Sheba bates1 backwards from the sudden noise. Then climbs back onto Ramses's sholder and gripes2  him with her talons,Ramses grits his teeth and keeps from yiping. Ramses starts walking with Sheba on his sholder,hoping that Sheba will calm down enough so that she will stop hurting his sholder and back.Ramses knew that if he let Sheba know he was afraid of her,he would never be able to train her.....but what good would training her do? Ramses(thinking)"Even if I am able to train her,what good will it do me?I'm not human like my master... I can't hunt with an eagle......but maybe........." While Ramses was thinking,Sheba had been tearing at his sholders,Ramses just gritted his teeth and didn't make a noise,blood started driping off his sholders as Shebas sharp talons and powerful leg muscles,even at this young age, did a number on Ramses's sholders. Ramses looks back at Sheba....(thinking)"Hmm..I'm going to have to feed this cranky eagle chick...before she gets ideas about eating me." Ramses looked down at his left paw..(thinking)"I'm going to be a bloody pulp by the time I train this little devil..*snickers* she's doing a number on my sholder,and allready left me a reminder on my paw about what she has those talons are for."
Ramses growls at Sheba,who is startled and bates,but grabs at Ramses and keeps from falling. Ramses(In thought)"at least she doesn't bate badly..." Sheba hisses at Ramses and digs her talons into his sholder again...as if saying "I'll teach you not to growl at me!" Ramses gets to a cave and lies down inside it and nudges at Sheba's feet after she doesn't move for a while,Sheba hops off of Ramses's back and walks to the far corner of the cave to be as far away as posible from him.Ramses sighs and gives the eagle chick the remans of a rabbit.Sheba pounces on the food savagly and begins to rip and tear into it.Ramses sighs.

Fade to black,fade back in to a rocky canyon...(yes,ANOTHER cliff) Caption at the bottom of the screen:"6 month later,and yes,there ARE a lot of cliffs and the like around this place......" Ramses is standing at the top of the cliff with a visibly older Sheba.Sheba has her full adult plumage but is still far from grown.Ramses looks back at Sheba nudges at her feet,Sheba jumps off of Ramses's sholders and lands in the snow.Ramses sighs..
(in thought)"Arg....how am I ever going to get you to fly....?"Ramses looks at Sheba,who is in turn looking out over the canyon.Ramses thinks.After a time Ramses gets behind Sheba and nudges her with his nose,Sheba screaches in alarm and hisses at Ramses,Ramses nudges her again and then barks at her.Sheba jumps and takes to the air,and flys clumsily,but it was flying.Sheba flys up higher and starts level gliding.All of a sudden,the black speck that Sheba has become( 'Cause she's up so high) starts diving towards earth.Faster and faster and then suddenly the copper wings open up and Sheba breaks her fall at the bottom of the canyon as she stoops down on her prey,an unfortunet rabbit.
Ramses runs down the canyon to get to the bottom and slides to a stop near Sheba who was tearing at her prey.Ramses walks towards Sheba who stops eating to look at him menicangly and hisses as the feathers on the back of her head stand up.Ramses slowly approches Sheba his hackles raised trying to scare her.And Sheba raises HER hackles telling him that she isn't one bit afraid of him.Ramses sighs...
(thinking)"I'm never going to get you to trust me...arg....."
Suddenly Ramses heard a sound behind him,he turned around and saw a large grey wolf growling menicengly at him,the wolf was trying to look frigtening but Ramses could see that its ribs were sticking out from lack of food,the poor animal was mad from hunger,and it was eyeing Sheba's kill hungrely. Sheba hissed fearlessly at this intruder.The wolf snarled at the two animals,Ramses began to slink off,but Sheba wouldn't budge.

Ramses barked at Sheba,but she payed no heed to the warning.The wolf approached Sheba,who was hissing in rage,menaceing in her immobility.The wolf did not hesitate and leaped at Sheba,who attacked at the same instant.Sheba grappled with her talons for a hold on a vital area,the head,the neck,or the back,the wolf strugled to get a grip on Sheba's neck or back,while her wings pounded on his face and body.Ramses in the meanwhile was frantic trying to get the two locked fighters to seperate.The wolf had managed to pin one of Sheba's wings,but then Sheba brought her sharp hooked beak into play as she was desperatly trying to get a hold on the wolfs chest and neck.Ramses,who did not like fighting in general and was a rather peacful dog by nature,was fighting mad.Ramses rushed at the wolf and nocked it off its feet as Sheba was panting like a dog for air.The wolf jumped to its feet almost before it was off them and grabed ahold of the loose skin around Ramses's neck.Ramses yelped in pain and fear.All of a sudden the wolf was again off his feet and it had happend to fast for Ramses to take in,what happened was that Sheba,in rage had somehow gotten into the air while Ramses was fighting the wolf and stooped down when Ramses was clear and taken the wolf through the spine.Sheba stood over the dieing wolf her talons piercing through its spinal cord and pecks raining on its face in anger.Ramses gasped for his breath...it had all happened so fast,this eagle was indeed a mighty hunter.
Ramses walked over to Sheba after the wolf was dead.
(thinking)"Why did she kill the wolf..?was she in a blind rage just wanting to kill the creature that had hurt her?Or was she trying to protect me?"....
Ramses walked over to the rabbit that had started everything,and tryed to eat from it,Sheba looked up at him with false coolness and just barely kept from hissing.Ramses ate from the rabbit and Sheba kept looking at him,half wanting to kill him,the other half wanting to protect him.She compromised,she hissed menicengly but did not attack or move,Ramses looked up at Sheba and looked her in the eye (or possible both eyes,I wasn't there,so I wouldn't know j/k) and in half a minute Sheba droped her eyes and stoped hissing and lowered her sholders in a submissive manner.Ramses stoped eating and dragged the rabbit over to Sheba and practicaly put it in her face.Sheba jumped back,thinking he was attacking,but realised it was a friendly gesture and began tearing into the carcass and Ramses went over to Sheba and began licking at her wounds.Sheba let him do this without retaliation.
(thinking)"Finaly!She understands that I am her friend!Or at least..*looks at his left paw* she knows I'm off the menu..." Fade out from Ramses looking on as Sheba eats from the rabbit.


Fade in(caption: 10 months later...) to a steep snow covered cliff,the wind has really picked up and is blowing firecly it is snowing.(boy there sure are alot of cliffs here....)Ramses trots over from the side away from us.Sheba is riding on his back,right behind his bony sholder blades.Sheba now has most of her adult plumage.Ramses looks out towards the distance and sighs.He starts walking down the steep cliff.After he's gone a third of the way his footing slips and Ramses(along with Sheba) tumble down the cliff.Zoom to the bottom of the cliff.Ramses hits the floor of the cliff.He's unconsious,Sheba had also hit the ground a few yards away from him. Fade out to a white screen.
Fade back to a white screen.
Ramses is totaly buried in snow.The wind is still blowing and the snow is blowing all over the place.Suddenly in the middle of the mound of snow Ramses's nose sticks out.He shoves the rest of himself out of the snow and falls down.He starts to shiver,He winces,some of his ribs must be broken.Ramses lies down defeated.Out of no where an unearthly howling rises up,then a light shines down on Ramses.A mistirous voice says: "Ramses,you have been chosen." Ramses looks up at the light and he has a new look on his face,determination.He struggles to get to his feet,half rises once,falls over,and trys again only to fail again,He trys once more and sucseeds getting to his feet where he wobbles unstedely.Ramses looks around sadly,positive that Sheba perished in the fall. Close up of Ramses eyes,his eyes go wide as he turns around,a small mound of snow has begun to move around.Ramses walks over to it as fast as he can and digs up Sheba.He lowers himself down so that Sheba can hop onto his back.Sheba does.Ramses looks up again at where the light came from and howled.Sheba screached too.Ramses looked back towards Sheba,who hissed at him.Ramses walked away with Sheba.

The End
Note:No dogs were harmed in the writing of this story.A cat got sick,but no dogs.
Another Note:Ramses's nose was not harmed in the writing of this story,a stunt
nose was used for all the damage the nose recived.

Yes it is really over now..........We hope..................................
TODAY'S QUOTE :
"He who has health has hope;
He who has hope has everything"
---Arabian Proverb---


1=Gripe: "When a bird of prey digs its talons into its handler's body."
2=Bate: "When a bird of prey that is in falconry falls off of its perch from fear,this can be a seriouse problem for a bird of prey,because they will hang by their jessies and die unless they are able to climb back up onto there perch."