The day had come, the adoption day. It had been waited for with fear and excitement by the parents and the puppies. Now a box had been set out by the sidewalk and a red husky along with a grey wolfdog watched over the puppies playing in the box. It was hard to keep quiet although the red husky had often asked it from her puppies that they would be on their best behavior that day. The puppies bounced around happily fighting for the attention by the people that passed by. Many kids tried to drag their parents towards the box but most of the kids were dragged away themself.

Suddenly a loud howl broke from the box and the puppies tried to cover their ears from the noise.

“Aleu, honey” Said the red husky “please don’t howl like that”

“oh” Aleu stopped. “I’m sorry mama, it only happens when I’m excited”

“I’m excited too!” Saba said excited, jumping on top of Aleu. “I can’t wait to get a human and chew on their socks!” She giggled and attacked her other siblings

“Papa are you going to get a human too?” Boomer asked the grey wolfdog.

He looked at him and smiled “Nah, humans like cute little puppies like you. Not old grizzly grown-ups like me” He said and smiled.

A young woman caught interest when she heard all the noise from the box. She smiled and the puppies wagged their tails like their mom told them to do. There was one puppy that caught most of her attention, she looked very much like her mother but she had a red bridge on her nose. The woman lifted her up and Isha, wich was the puppies name wagged her tail even more.

„Hi there little one“ the woman said and smiled at Isha, the puppy licked her nose in a greeting.

„You want to come home with me?“ The woman asked and she was surprised but it looked like the puppie had nodded her head like saying yes and not before long the woman was holding the pup to her home.

Isha waved her siblings goodbye for now.  

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“This is your new home” The woman said and laid Isha down on the floor so she could have a look around. She ran across all the rooms trying to see all the new things that were now hers. After a while she found a small room with a fireplace in it and a small sofa. The room looked warm so she slowly walked in and sat down in front of the fireplace. This was her spot now, she knew it. Soon she was fast asleep.

“Wake up” A sweet voice rang in her ears she yawned and looked up with sleepy eyes seeing her new owner petting her as she sat next to her in front of the fireplace.

She lifted Isha up and held her infront of her face. Isha yawned and wagged her tail happily. The woman giggled

“I’m Alice” She said and smiled. Isha licked her noise liking her name.

“Hmm I will need to find a name for you... What about Tanana?” She asked as she laid Isha back on the floor because she had fallen asleep once more.

“I will call you Tanana” Alice said before walking out of the room to let Isha sleep in peace.

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Two years later

Isha had grown into a beautiful lady over the years and resembled her mother a lot. Alice kept her as a pet unlike most of her siblings so she didn’t get to explore the world as much as they did. Isha didn’t mind though, her world was her family and Alice.

Isha enjoyed spending her days going around town when Alice was at work. Alice worked at the butchers and would often bring home an amazing meal for Isha. Her live seemed perfect. Everyone was healthy and although two of her sisters had disappeared into the wild she believed that they had embraced their wolf side. 

“Isha where have you been? A dark red husky said running after her. Isha quickly turned around seeing her brother Boomer chasing after her. Isha stopped to great her brother.

“Hi Boomer I haven’t seen you for a while, is Josh training you so hard?” Isha giggled as Boomer caught up with her.

“No but I have got great news to tell you, Josh is going to take us on a few day trip north for hunting it will be a great time to practice the team better” Boomer said almost jumping around in excitement.

“Thats great, just promise me that you, Hope and the other members of the team will be safe” Isha said worried about her brothers safety. She ofcourse believed in him but that land had its dangerous mountains which had led to many deaths.

“Ofcourse, I mean what can go wrong when I’m the leader” Boomer said with a laugh “I will need to go back to meet with the team, I will see you after the trip” Boomer said and ran off.

Isha giggled as she saw Boomer run to the next person he knew to tell them the news. He sure was happy with his life as a sled dog. Isha shock her head while smiling, he was so much like their father.

“Tanana! Tanana come here girl!” A voice was heard in the distance and Isha knew it well. Alice, she thought to herself before quickly running to her owner.

“There you are!” Alice said and hugged her.

“There is someone I want you to meet Jake” Alice said to a man who stood next to her. Isha looked up at the man who gave her a weird look.

“You want me to meet your dog? Aww that’s so sweet” He said and sat down and started to scratch Isha’s ear hard so she whined and stepped back as the man stood up to and started to kiss Alice. Isha growled at him angrily.

“Whats wrong Tanana?” Alice asked stepping from Jake. Isha glanced angrily at Jake.

She knew that Alice had started to date someone, she had been home less past months. But what could she do, although she didn’t like the looks of this man she couldn’t do anything about Alices choose. Isha gave one quick glance at Alice with a hope of understanding before running off. That man would lead to some trouble, she knew it!

Isha headed in the direction of an old boat that lay on the shore. She had spent a lot of her childhood there.

“Dad, You there?” Isha called. After a short while a grey wolfdog stepped out and looked down.

“Isha, anything wrong?” He said and ran down to her worried.

“No nothing is wrong with me. It’s about Alice she has just started to date a guy in Nome and I haven’t seen her for a while, but few moments ago I met her boyfriend and I’m worried about her” Isha said and sat down hoping that her father would have some good advises.

“Isha honey, I think Alice can take care of herself, just be around and make sure he won’t hurt her” Balto said and smiled tiredly.

“Yeah I guess you’re right.” Isha said with a sight. She just had to make sure he wouldn’t hurt her.

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“ISHA? ISHA ARE YOU THERE?” A voice called for her from outside her house.

“Whats going on?” Isha asked tired as she yawned and looked outside to see who it was.

“Kodi what are you doing outside so early, the mail doesn’t go until 11” Isha whispered, making sure she wouldn’t wake Alice up.

“It’s Boomer...” Kodi said and Isha could hear the sadness in his voice. Isha looked around the room and saw an open window on the other side. She quickly ran towards it and jumped out.

“What happend Kodi?” Isha said running towards him.

“You should come and see” Kodi said and a tear slipped down his cheek.

A group of people stood in middle of Nome, Isha walked slowly, looking around her at the large group

“Whats going on?” She thought to herself. As she came closer to the group she could see her dad comforting her mom.

“Dad?” She asked but he didn’t say anything, the only thing she could see was the sadness in his eyes. Suddenly her eyes widened, in the middle of the group was a sled and lying on it were the bodies of Lisa, Shadow and... Boomer.

“No!” Isha whispered and looked away. She could feel the warm fur of her brother Kodi next to her as he nuzzled her.

“What happened?” Isha asked and looked up at him.

“The team fell of a cliff, Khaz, Copper and Raven survived along with their owner Josh... but Lisa, Shadow and Boomer weren’t as lucky” Kodi said and sighed sadly as a tears streamed down his cheeks.

“But what happend to Hope?” Isha asked as she felt the warm tears starting to fall again.

“She couldn’t handle Boomers death, She never came back” Kodi said and looked over at his parents.

The group around them slowly started to leave, one by one but Isha along with her family stayed there the rest of the night, mourning the loss. Saba had arrived shortly after Isha and the sisters were now with their parent’s along with Boomer.

But the time came that the vet came to remove the bodies.

Isha was the last of her siblings to leave. It felt like her life was ruined.

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More weeks pasted by quickly and Isha felt like she didn’t belong anywhere anymore. She spent most of her time alone since