It was a Saturday morning so bright and breezy, it felt like the weather itself was trying to flirt with the entire planet. Strutting into this perfect day came Athena and Obito, the Bonnie and Clyde of the canine world, if Bonnie wore fur and Clyde had the coordination of a baby giraffe. No federal warrants yet, but give them time.
Athena, an elegant husky with one eye dipped in celestial blue and the other in warm hot cocoa, moved with the grace of a runway model auditioning for Dog Vogue. She paused to sniff every flower like it owed her rent, and when faced with a puddle, gave it a disdainful side-eye that clearly said, “No thanks, peasant.”
Obito, meanwhile, was a different breed of chaos. A Malamute in the awkward teenage phase where his paws looked like they were ordered in size XL by mistake, he bounded beside her with the raw energy of a toddler who’d just discovered sugar. He moved like someone had shouted, “The ground is lava!” and he believed them with his whole soul. His grin? Blinding. His toe beans? Dangerously cute. His coordination? Optional.
They arrived at the local funfair, a place that looked like a unicorn had exploded after bingeing a pack of highlighters. Athena raised an eyebrow at the distant carousel, ears perked like she was tuning into a gossip channel. Obito, meanwhile, nearly passed out from joy upon catching the scent of cotton candy, popcorn, and the tears of terrified children.
Their first challenge: The Walzer. Or as Athena dubbed it, Satan’s Salad Spinner. She gave it a stare that could curdle milk. Obito? Oh, he was ready. His tail was wagging like a metronome on espresso. As they queued up, Athena performed an immediate emergency sit-down strike. You could practically hear her inner monologue, “Listen. I have standards. And bones that I’d like to keep inside my body. Enjoy your impending trauma, brother.”
Obito didn’t flinch. The moment they unhooked the leash, he launched himself onto the ride like a dog-shaped cannonball. And then it started spinning. Fast. Faster. FASTEST. At one point, we’re pretty sure Obito entered a new time zone. His face blurred into a perfect mix of ecstasy, horror, and "Did I just see God?"
Meanwhile, Athena was off-stage digging up a section of grass like she was trying to open a portal to Narnia. The local gardeners walked by, saw the chaos, sighed the sigh of men who’ve seen things, floral war crimes, perhaps, and kept walking.
Eventually, the Walzer spat Obito back out like a hairball, his fur now resembling a microwaved wig, and his tail wagging like it had a personal vendetta against gravity. Athena walked up coolly, as if to say, “You survived? Pity. I was eyeing your bed.”
Next stop: BUMPER CARS.
Now, Athena decided this was her moment to shine. She strutted into the bumper car arena like a royal entering a food court, nose high, tail floofed to max capacity. Obito, still drunk on centrifugal force, followed behind like a happy tank with no brakes.
What happened next? Absolute carnage. Obito zoomed around the arena like he thought this was Mario Kart and he had three bananas and a grudge. He smashed into everything, cars, walls, a teenager’s dignity. His tail flailed like a furry helicopter rotor, powering him through pure joy and minimal control.
Athena, meanwhile, studied the battlefield like a four-legged Napoleon. Then, with the elegance of a ninja ballerina, she leapt onto the roof of a bumper car. The driver, a tween with a slushie, shrieked like he’d just seen a tax audit. Athena stood tall, wind in her fur, face stoic, as if declaring, “I am the captain now.”
For five glorious minutes, she rode that bumper car like a queen on a chariot of mild chaos, occasionally ducking stray paws and wayward elbows, but never once losing her poise.
After their triumph (and minor public disturbance) at the Walzer and bumper cars, Athena and Obito were just warming up. Fueled by sheer determination, adrenaline, and probably popcorn crumbs, they trotted further into the funfair with the unshakable confidence of two four-legged tornadoes in fur coats.
Their next target,  the sweet stall.
It started innocently enough. A waft of sugary heaven drifted over the candy-striped tents, and Obito's nose twitched like a radar dish locking onto its target. Without warning, and faster than his oversized paws should logically allow, Obito launched himself at the sweet stall like a cannonball made of fur and enthusiasm.
"NOOOO, NOT THE TAFFY!" the stall owner cried, but it was too late.
Obito, tongue flailing like a wet flag in the wind, was knee-deep in gummy bears, his tail sweeping jawbreakers into the crowd like a living, fluffy trebuchet. His entire snout disappeared into a bucket labeled "DO NOT TOUCH – SERIOUSLY," and he emerged with lollipops skewered between his teeth like some kind of sugar-coated porcupine.
Meanwhile, Athena had her eye on a different prize.
With all the elegance of a wolf at a royal garden party, she tip-pawed over to the balloon dart game. She wasn’t here to win a prize. Oh no. She had a personal vendetta against balloons. No one knows what started it, maybe a traumatic puppy incident involving a helium escape, but Athena and balloons did not coexist peacefully.
In less than thirty seconds, she’d popped eleven of them just by stepping on them and giving each a satisfied huff, sending small children into fits of delighted panic.
"Aww, look! She's playing the game!" said a kind woman nearby.
"Madam," replied the operator, staring in horror, "those were £80-a-pop custom unicorn balloons."
Athena responded by gracefully stomping a twelfth.
Their next stop was the pièce de résistance of the fair, The Big Wheel. What better way to see the chaos they had created than from the sky?
Obito was skeptical. His past experience with vertical movement was limited to falling off the sofa. But Athena, with her Princess-level confidence and complete disregard for safety regulations, marched them into the nearest gondola. Up they went.
All was well… until the ride stopped. At the top. For maintenance.
Athena immediately went stiff-legged and gave Obito a look that said, “This is your fault.” Obito, now suddenly aware of the height, pressed his enormous body against the side of the car and began to whimper softly like a foghorn in a minor key. His tail, normally a majestic plume, had disappeared entirely under his belly.
And then he farted. Loudly.
The entire gondola shook. The family in the cart below them started dry-heaving. A pigeon fled the scene.
Thirty minutes later, they were finally let down. Obito practically oozed out of the gondola like a melted ice cream cone, while Athena leapt off like nothing had happened, shaking one delicate paw because a cloud might have touched it.
Then came the Ghost House.
Obito, still recovering from his accidental high-altitude gas attack, approached the dark entrance with wide eyes and twitching ears. Athena strutted in confidently until a rubber skeleton dropped from the ceiling, causing her to launch five feet vertically like a salmon reacting to sudden existential dread.
But Obito? Obito took off like he'd just seen the ghost of every vet he'd ever visited. He ran full-speed through every single emergency exit in the place, busting through a papier-mâché wall like a fluffier Kool-Aid Man.
“Ohhh yeah,” he did not say, because he was busy screaming internally.
Eventually, they regrouped, Athena covered in fake cobwebs, Obito covered in shame, and decided to end their funfair journey with a “nice calm walk” through the hedge maze.
However It was not calm.
Five minutes in, Obito tried to eat a hedge. Athena tried to lead them with her "superior sense of direction," which led them into the same dead-end seven times.
"I’m not lost," her eyes insisted. "I’m exploring alternate exits."
Forty-five minutes and three arguments with pigeons later, they had had enough.
So they did what any rational husky and malamute duo would do, they dug out.
The two of them, side-by-side, became a synchronised digging machine. Obito, using his powerful forearms and toe beans like industrial shovels, and Athena, digging with the speed of a caffeinated archaeologist uncovering forbidden secrets. Within minutes, there was a tunnel straight through to the food truck area.
Covered in dirt, leaves, and inexplicable glitter, they emerged like victorious warriors, scaring the churro guy half to death.
When they finally returned home that night, the garden had never looked more appealing. Athena, satisfied and blanket-bound, curled up with her usual “I did nothing wrong” look. Obito, belly full of candy and soul full of regret, passed out mid-snore with a half-chewed marshmallow stuck to his forehead.
And the funfair?
Well, let’s just say... they’re revising the “No Dogs Allowed” policy.
Athena and Obito, a.k.a. Princess and Mr. Toe Beans, had turned a local fairground into a legend.
And they’d do it again.

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