Forest of Whispers

Forest of Whispers is the second novel of the Adventures of the Labradors series. It stars Sparks, Mookey, and Choco, and the untruthful Midnight.

Plot
In the prologue, Midnight is travelling at twilight. She is found by Zaka, the Doberman Princess, who takes her to her camp. The Dobermans guarding Zaka believe that Midnight is a spirit because they swear that they saw her killed by Sparks. She explains to Zaka that she wants a guard for herself, and Zaka gives her Lesumo, a male. She explains that she'll be needing Lesumo to kill Sparks and his friends Mookey and Choco.

Starting another adventure to the Western Lake, Sparks, Mookey, and Choco are starting a fire as the moon had just risen. Choco notices that a bush moved but thinks it was just the wind. The three puppies are attacked by Lesumo quickly and discover that Mookey had been dognapped.

Back at Zaka's campsite where Midnight is staying until she has her own tent, Lesumo arrives with an unconscious Mookey. Midnight tells Lesumo that this isn't Sparks and that he is an idiot. Lesumo complains that he couldn't see in the dark and they all looked the same. Mookey had regained consciousness before the conversation and managed to hear that Midnight wanted Sparks. Mookey still played unconscious to listen to the conversation. Midnight tells Zaka that she wants another guard and Zaka gives her Merrik, a proffesional male hunter.

Sparks and Choco, trying to recall where their attacker had gone, found Zaka's campsite and hid behind a bush. They saw Midnight telling Lesumo and Merrik to go hunting for her, and they attack her. They leave Midnight's unconscious body behind the bush they were hiding behind and check to see if anybody was inside the tent. They defeat three Dobermans and discover that Mookey wasn't there.

Sparks and Choco follow the tracks of Lesumo and Merrik and encounter them with Mookey being held hostage. Sparks and Choco defeat Lesumo and kill him but are seriously injured while fighting Merrik. Merrik knocks Choco unconscious and Sparks is almost killed. Sparks manages to pin Merrik to the ground and Mookey, oddly, runs away from the battle. Spencer runs after him but then realises that the Dobermans will find Choco and maybe kill him.

Sparks takes Choco back to the bush where they had hidden Midnight. Sparks makes his own campsite and takes Midnight and Choco there. Sparks had kept Midnight inside a ring of fire to keep her from escaping. Sparks questions Midnight and she tells him that she had managed to survive the boulders. She explains that she is looking for a power source hidden in the Forest of Whispers, but doesn't know where the Forest of Whispers is or what the power source looks like. Choco, having heard this when he regained consciousness, says asks why she wanted to capture Mookey, and Midnight said that she wanted Lesumo to capture Sparks.

Sparks gives Choco the job to guard Midnight and keep her in her ring of fire while Sparks tried to find Mookey. He followed tracks that led to a waterfall and he found Mookey there. Mookey seemed to have no memory of his friends at all nor himself and the two puppies do battle. Mookey defeats Sparks easily and is knocked unconscious. Sparks wakes up in a new area and Mookey had kept him prisoner. Luckily, Sparks could hear the waterfall not far away and knocked Mookey unconscious. He takes him back to his campsite but Choco was unconscious and Midnight had escaped. Sparks didn't know if Choco was alive.

When Mookey woke up, Sparks got him to remember who he was and that Sparks and Choco were his friends. He explains that he was captured by Midnight's servant Lesumo, who is dead, and also has a very experienced new one. Mookey says that Choco will regain consciousness at twilight and that they have to find Zaka. Sparks asked who Zaka is and Mookey explains about the Doberman Princess.

Sparks and Mookey travel to the Forest of Whispers and Mookey claims to know what power source Midnight was looking for: the Dogscalibur bone. Sparks wondered how the Dogscalibur bone could have possibly arrived at the Forest of Whispers but before Mookey could reply, they were both shot in the side by arrows.

Sparks and Mookey wake up back in Zaka's tent. Zaka questioned Sparks about the power source Midnight wanted to find. Sparks tells her that the power source is the Dogscalibur bone and that it is the most powerful object known to dog. Sparks lies that in its true form it's unstable and cannot be used.

Zaka explains to Midnight about Sparks' answers and takes him and Mookey outside. Midnight takes Merrik with her and Sparks leads the way to the Forest of Whispers. When they get there, Sparks attacks Midnight, knocking her unconscious and he and Mookey do battle with Merrik. Sparks is seriously injured and Merrik was about to kill him when Mookey kills Merrik.

Sparks and Mookey return to Spark's campsite and find that Choco had regained consciousness. They travel back to their homes and Sparks says that they need to rest their wounds if they want to go on another adventure someday.

In the epilogue, Zaka and her guard Chunoqe find Midnight and bring her back to campsite. Chunoqe asks what they should do to make sure Midnight gets better, and Zaka says: "My daughter needs rest."

Characters

 * Midnight.
 * Zaka (first appearance).
 * Lesumo (first appearance).
 * Sparks.
 * Mookey.
 * Choco.
 * Merrik (first appearance).
 * Chunoqe (first appearence).

Novel Trivia

 * Forest of Whispers is the first novel that has a prologue.
 * Forest of Whispers is the first novel that only has Mookey on the cover.

Story Trivia

 * Midnight is found by Zaka, the Doberman Princess.
 * Midnight hires Lesumo to capture Sparks, but he captures Mookey.
 * Sparks and Choco find Zaka's campsite and capture Midnight.
 * Mookey was taken by Lesumo and Merrik to hunt.
 * Sparks and Choco do battle with Lesumo and Merrik and they kill Lesumo but are defeated by Merrik who escapes with Mookey.
 * Sparks brings Choco and Midnight to his campsite and orders Choco to guard Midnight.
 * Sparks finds Mookey and they do battle. Sparks is defeated and wakes up being Mookey's prisoner.
 * Sparks knocks Mookey unconscious and takes him back to his campsite.
 * Back at his campsite, Sparks discovers that Midnight has escaped and that Choco is seriously injured.
 * Sparks and Mookey travel to the Forest of Whispers to find the Dogscalibur bone but they are shot in the side by arrows.
 * Sparks and Mookey wake up in Zaka's tent who questions Spark about the power source in the Forest of Whispers.
 * Sparks gives away the idendity of the Dogscalibur bone.
 * Midnight takes Sparks and Mookey to the Forest of Whispers. Sparks knocks out Midnight and Sparks is almost killed by Merrik, who is killed by Mookey.
 * Sparks, Mookey, and Choco return home to rest.