The Return

The Return is the fourth novel of the Adventures of the Labradors series. It stars Mookey and Midnight, and also the resurrected Sparks and Choco.

Plot
In the prologue, Sparks and Choco are walking but not knowing where they are going. Everything around them is a white space until Sparks sees a dog walking up to them. Sparks recognises his Uncle Johnny and he asks if he and Choco were dead. Uncle Johnny replies that nobody can die, they can chose to die or not. Choco asks Uncle Johnny if they can chose to return to the real world, and Uncle Johnny says that it is their choice if they want to live or not before leaving.

In the real world, Mookey and Midnight are camping and they Mookey thinks he sees a golden and chocolate Labrador approaching them. He tells Midnight and they recognise that Sparks and Choco had come back from the dead. They greet each other and Mookey asks how them came back. Sparks answered that in the White Realms they encountered his Uncle Johnny who died in the Mixture Dungeons when Sparks was a month old. Choco explains that Uncle Johnny said that if they wanted to return to the real world they only just had to want to, and then they were there.

Mookey asks Sparks if there was anything else that Uncle Johnny had said, but Sparks had unexpectedly fainted and was back in the White Realms. He found Uncle Johny who said that there was an adventure for him if he still had his questing spirit. Sparks replies that he will never lose such a spirit and asks him what the adventure was. Uncle Johnny said that he had gone searching for Dagger of Doom so that the Doberman King wouldn't find it. He gives Sparks the duty to stop the Doberman King from finding the Dagger. Sparks said that the Doberman King was dead, and Uncle Johnny asks him how he got back to the real world from the White Realms. Sparks wakes up before answering and tells Mookey, Choco, and Midnight about his dream. Mookey asks Sparks if the Doberman King is back, and Sparks replies that he must be because why would his uncle have warned him?

Midnight claims to hear the rumour that the Dagger of Doom is hidden in the White Realms. The only way that dogs who haven't been resurrected to get there is to pass through the White Waterfall. Choco asks her what she doesn't know and they start the adventure.

They are halfway through their journey when they encounter a patrol of Dobermans. They luckily escape and steal some knives which they attach to their tails for protection. They ecnounter another patrol after that and discover that the knives have tracking devices. They take off the knives and carry on with their journey.

They arrive at the White Waterfall but discocer that the Doberman King was about to enter. Sparks, Mookey, and Choco challenge the Doberman King but are defeated and Mookey is seriously injured. The Doberman King walks through the White Waterfall and the three puppies follow him.

When they arrive in the White Realms, the four dogs are forced to split up because there are two directions. Sparks and Mookey go right and Choco and midnight go left. Sparks and Mookey find the Doberman King about to use the powers of the Dagger of Doom and Mookey attacks him, but the Doberman King stabs Mookey in the back with the Dagger. Mookey is teleported back to the real world and Sparks battles the Doberman King. Sparks makes the Doberman King drob the Dagger and Sparks uses its power to slice at the Doberman King's shoulder. Slowly, the Doberman King dissolves and arrives in the Black Realms, the Land of Hell.

Sparks finds Choco and Midnight and tell them that Mookey was back in th real world. Midnight asks if he is okay and Sparks replies: "I don't know."

Back in the real world, Midnight sees an injured Mookey lying on the ground and bleeding from his wound. He rubs noses with him and Choco says: "Finally I know. So you are his girlfriend!" They bandage Mookey's wound and the four puppies return to the camp. Mookey asks if the Doberman King was gone for good, and Sparks replies that he definetely will return four the greatest battle of all time.

In the epilogue, the Doberman King finds Zaka who tells him that she has found the exit to the Black Realms, but it can only be opened by the most recent death in the White Realms. The Doberman King opens the exit and all the Dobermans there return to the real world, ready for war.

Characters

 * Sparks.
 * Choco.
 * Uncle Johnny (first appearance).
 * Mookey.
 * Midnight.
 * The Doberman King (first re-appearance).
 * Zaka.

Novel Trivia

 * The Return is the novel after the death of Sparks and Choco.
 * The Return is the first novel with Choco on the cover.

Story Trivia

 * Sparks and Choco return to the real world from the White Realms with Uncle Johnny's advice.
 * The four puppies reunite and head for the White Waterfall.
 * When they arrive, Sparks, Mookey, and Choco do battle with the Doberman King.
 * Sparks and Mookey find the Doberman King and Mookey is sent back to the real world because he is stabbed.
 * Sparks defeats the Doberman King and sends him to the Black Realms.
 * The three puppies return to the real world and cure Mookey.
 * Sparks, Mookey, Choco, and Midnight prepare for war.
 * The Doberman King opens the exit from the Black Realms for war against the Labradors.