Chapter one: All alone

In a small house on the edge of a small Town a miracle was happening. A middle sized grey dog was giving birth, and since her mate was dead and her owner wasn't home she had to go through the agonizing pain alone. It took her more that a hour but she finally gave birth to a liter of four beautiful little puppies.

The biggest one was a grey male with big brown eyes and short little ears, the second was a yellowish female almost as equally large as her brother with green eyes, medium sized ears and a long tail, the third was a dark grey male with green eyes and long hair and the forth and final one was a blackish female with olive eyes and thin but long ears.

They all started whimpering for food. They were all blind and deaf, so they found it difficult to find a tit to start suckling, luckily for them their mother was happy to help them. She guided them all to a place where they could start suckling, once they were all in place she closed her eyes. She wasn't worried about the pups getting away because:

A) they were still to young to travel far and

B) there wasn't anywhere they could go.

The house of her owner had only one room, in it there was a bed in the corner near it a small table with two chairs, opposite of them was a wood burning stove, which he used for cooking and keeping warm at winter times, left of the stove was a wooden door and near it were war medals, her was in fact a war veteran who joined the american civil war on the side of the union when he was only nineteen. After the war he led a decent life as a house builder, he also married and had a twins.

It was all weal until a big fire in 1900 destroyed burned his house and tools, but not only that it also killed of his entire family. Since then he lived mostly alone (expect for his dog which he took in from the street's in 1906) and living in poverty. For most of the day he would be out doing any job he could to earn some money for food.

Finally he came through the door with dirt on his face. He lighted the lantern and proceeded to wash the dirt from his face. He found it odd that his dog hasn't greeted him yet so when he finished he wen't over to her and noticed the beautiful litter of pups that were sleeping right beside her.

"Eli you had pups!" he almost squeaked from excitement.

Even if he was old and poor the old man still got happy and excited pretty easily.

He feed and petted his dog for a few minutes before leaving her alone, she needed to rest. After eating dinner he also wen't to bed, but he couldn't sleep, most of the night he spent wondering how to name the pups and how would he provide more food for his dogs family he didn't even have enough money to pay the taxes, after many hours of thinking he finally decided to deal with the problem tomorrow.

Two months have passed since Eli gave birth to her liter, they have all grown a lot and gained their names. Oldest male was named Tramp (because he really loved to run around on the street and would often stray far away from home when his mother wasn't looking), the younger male was named Rob (the local kids gave him that name for some reason his owner just roller with it), the older female was named Abby (it just sounds nice) and the younger female was named Olive (because of her eye color).

While their owner was home the pups were mostly outside playing, when he wasn't home they were either taken care of by the local kids or locked in their home, this was one of the days when they were looked inside. It was really boring for the pups, especially for the energetic Tramp.

He glanced towards his mother to see if she was sleeping, she was along with the rest of the pups. Tramp carefully nudged is brother awake, careful not to wake up the rest.

"Wake up sleepy pants!" he said into his ear.

Rob's head went up "Hmm, what!"

"Shh, you'll wake them up!" Tramp said quietly but firmly.

"Okay" Rob paused for a second "so why did you wake me up then?"

"I wan't to play tag!" answered Tramp.

"But mom said we couldn't run inside the house" reasoned Rob.

"We'll be quite so she'll never find out!" reassured Tramp.

"But..." Rob started but Tramp cut in.

"If you wanna be a good little puppy then stay here if not jump out of this basket" said Tramp as he jumped out.

Rob sighed as he jumped out, there was no way he could go back to sleep now and frankly he was bored to.

"Glad to see you joined" said Tramp as Rob landed on his feet.

"Well what else was i..." Rob started before Tramp tagged him.

Tramp took of with his brother in hot pursuit.

They ran around the table, almost knocking it down. Rob couldn't get close enough to Tramp to tag him, Tramp turned around his head and stuck out his tongue a fatal mistake on his part because he didn't see in time that he was running into the basket his mother and sisters were sleeping.

The sisters screamed while the mother jumped and took a defensive stance over the pups, ready to fight to the end if it was needed, she relaxed when she saw that it was only her two sons.

"What were you two doing?!" she asked them with a firm tone.

"Nothing m..." Tramp started.

"Tramp wanted us to play tag!" Rob cut in.

"You little traitor!" Tramp thought to himself.

"Tramp is this true?" she turned to Tramp.

Tramp faced downwards as he answered: "Yes mom"

She sighed: "Why?"

"Because i was bored" he answered.

"Tramp you know the rules: no running in the house. Do you want to break the little we have left?!"

"If that's the thing that would let me start a life as a stray so be it!" Tramp yelled.

Eli sighed, Tramp always wanted to run free like a true wild dog he loved his owner but loved the "wild" life even more, "Tramp we've been over this, living on the street's is harder than you think"

"And how do you know?" he asked.

"Just trust me on this one, okay?"

"Fine" he answered.

"Cheer up son, the owner will be here son, then you can run as much as you want"

Right them the owner opened the door open and came in "Hey there Eli, pups how you doing" he stroke Eli's back before someone started knocking on the door.

"Not again" the old man thought to himself.

He opened the door and saw a young man in a suit standing outside.

"Are you Henry Thompson?" the young man asked.

"Yes" replied the man.

"Mr. Thompson i regret to inform you that due to your inability to pay taxes the government will be taking away your house" the young man said.

Henry became angry and started arguing with the young man. The argument covered many subjects eventually the subject became the pups.

"And what am I supposed to do with these pups! They were born two months ago! They can't survive without a home!" yelled Henry.

"Either sell them or give them away" answered the young man, he face said that he didn't care, but in reality he felt bad for the old man and his dogs.

Not wishing to continue the argument the young man simply said: "Goodbye" and left.

Henry calmed down and started thinking about what the young man said about giving the pups away, he didn't want to, but they could never survive outside on the street's.

In the end he decided to keep Eli with him and to give the pups away to four different homes, to maximize their chances of getting adopted.

He bend down to pick them up and put them in separate boxes, but Eli growled at him. She heard everything and was determined to stay with her pups.

"Come one Eli you know it's for the best" Eli growled for a few more seconds before letting up, she did know it was for the best.

Each pup was put in a separate box and left in front of a house of people the Henry thought would adopt a pup.

Tramp was left in front of a house where a little girl by the name of Caroline, she especially liked Tramp.

As son as hi was left there Tramp started trying to find a way out, he finally had a chance for a life on the street and he almost managed to get out when he remembered what his mother told him before she left: "Tramp i know you'll try to escape and follow, but please don't here you'll have a warm bed and food out here with me you'll have nothing so please fr the love of GOD stay here"

He stopped trying to get out and started whimpering, eventually Caroline heard him and took him in with the whole box.

Her father was furious and immediately throw Tramp out.

"Well that didn't work, so what now" he thought, he noticed how scary it was to be out in the street alone.

"I'm all alone!"

Author's note:

I don't know when the next chapter well be up, since I don't have the whole story worked out. I also do not know if Tramps owner, mother or siblings will be making an appearance down the road it will be decided latter.

Tips and constructive criticism is always welcome!