before?

                 "Uncle Boris, I have found something! Quick!" Kodi screamed at the top of his lungs. Boris quickly, not even caring if he broke his leg,  juped straight off the stern and landed next to Kodi.

                  "What is it Kodi? What did you find?" Boris asked anxiously.

                 Kodi smelt the scent get stronger inside the boat, he quickly crawled in through one of the cracks, and found a plank of wood with Balto's blood on it, Kodi carried it out into the twilight of the night.

                  "No...no..." Boris tried to get the words out, but the way the moon glittered off the blood on that old, weathered plank just seemed to well up emotions Boris hadn't felt since his mother died. Kodi dropped the plank, he gazed at it, the blood wasn't very old, in fact maybe a couple of hours old!

                "How is this possible?! The blood on this plank here is only mere a few hours old!" Kodi exclaimed, his father must have been here, but how was he here undetected? While Kodi was formulating possiblities on how his father visited the area under the radar, Boris turned around and looked at the shore, something told him that he would find some answers across this stretch of water.

***UNKNOWN AREA***

                 He saw light at the end of the long dark tunnel, Balto quickly adavanced towards it, when he reached the light, he found himself to be seeing through his own eyes again, he saw that it was dark and the moon cast a brilliant light unto the unknown landscape. Balto wanted to stop running, but his body seemed to ignore what he wanted, Balto tried once more to stop himself, but his body kept going, suddenly a dark paw grabbed him around the neck, and he was pulled back into the mental dark tunnel, he lost control once again, while his body kept on resuming to run.

***BOILER ROOM***

                  Kodi and Boris now joined the rest of the dogs at the boiler room, they all sat in awe at the blood stained plank, everyone was speechless, as if the blood somehow stole everyone's ability to speak. The wind howled through the cracks in the boiler room's walls, this caused some of the dogs to shiver, something about what Kodi said made them say perphaps was Balto a ghost?

               "Okay guys, I'm sorry, for what I said, but now we have proof, he's been here, and can't be to far away." Kodi began to say, looking for any support from any of his newly befriended, fellow dogs.

               "We forgive you Kodi, it's just that, again, I don't how is he alive? His blood is out of his body? Never a good thing! And was there any other blood trails?" Kirby asked with extreme curiosity.

               "That's the thing! No other trails! Just one spot!" Kodi said, now more confused than ever.

              "I might be able to help you answer that question Kodi" a voice said behind them. Everyone quickly turned and gaped at the sight of Nava, old yet wise, standing in the doorway.

               "HEY! Whose the old wolf!" Kirby said out loud in a disrespectful tone. Kodi shot Kirby a glace to basically just shut-up and listen to the "old wolf", this creature was more wise than all the dogs in the room put together. Kirby still held a proud look. Nava realized this of course.

                "Drop the pride you dog! And lose some weight!" Nava said, calmly, a bit of heat could be felt in his tone. "Kodi, if you are searching for your father, this is no longer the place to find him anymore, but he has traveled far down south-east." Nava said.

                 "But Nava, look at this plank! It's his blood!" Kodi said, hoping to prove the old wolf wrong for his father's sake. Nava sighed, looking at the plank of wood, the blood was drying now in the fiercer heat in the boiler room. "Yes, that is his blood, but what you don't realize that it is a couple of days old, the cold-warmer days have kept it strong and fresh." Nava said sadly.

                  "Well, that sucks, so now what?" asked Ralph.

                  "I don't know Ralph, but we have to find him now!" Kodi declared.

                  "What doesn't make sense how there was only one spot of blood, and that's it" wondered Kirby, thinking outloud.

                   "Kodi, you're father, well, there was this one enemy of our clan ages ago, his name, Bizzaro, a menacing wolf that had nothing else better to do but torment other dogs and wolves, but what he loved more than anything were hybrids, both dog and wolf. I think Bizzaro has escaped and infected Balto somehow." Nava said, more worried than ever.

                  "Do you know what this, Bizzaro, did to his victims?" asked Kodi, scarred of the answer that Nava would have to say to sastisfy the question.

                  "Well, with hybrids, Bizzaro would posion his victim, and the posion would infect the thought process of his victim, therefore letting Bizzaro control them, but he's doing something else with Balto besides what I just told you." Nava said.

                  "Quit dancing around, what is he doing?!" Boris said, fed up with the fancy talk.

                  "Bizzaro is helping Balto's wolf side over come his dog side, making him become unpredictable and very dangerous." Nava revealed sadly. The room got real quiet.

                  "How do we free my dad then? There has got to be a way!" Kodi said, begging there would be a way to stop the tide of fate.

                  "Well, there is only one way to do that Kodi" Nava said, sighing deeply. "You must kill Balto".

                 Nava exits the boiler room, leaving the dogs and the goose in shock after hearing the news, NAva continues towards the forest, and looks over his back real quickly, after seeing nobody, he cracks his neck, and suddenly, his fur turned black, and his face got younger, it is revealed that he is actually Bizzaro!

                  "Soon, Balto will be dead!" Bizzaro threw his head back, laughing like a meniac.

TO BE CONTIUNED...