Dekalla hopped up onto the crate and peered at a sign.BIG RACE COMING UP!It read.JOIN TODAY!"Oh so thats what that sign says.Dekalla said to herself.I wonder if I can join?"

Her father Steele walked over and looked up the sign.

"Please,please,please!Can I join!"She whined.

"Ok you can join and I will lead your team.""No I am having my own team and you can have your own also!"Dekalla exclaimed."Well it's quite dangerous but I guess it would be alright seeing that you are the 2nd best husky in Nome."Steele said and Dekalla guessed he was going to start talking about that he was the complete best Siberian Husky.

"Thanks dad!"Dekalla barked over her shoulder as she ran off in search of sled team members.

Dekalla saw Dixie and asked her if she would want to join but Dixie refused.Dekalla asked her mom Jenna,but Jenna was too busy.She soon met up with some huskies that she didn't know and asked them what their names were."Whats your name?"She asked the leader of the small pack."Kanuk.He answered.And this is Deluk,Mahas,Dejango,and Weran.""Will you be in my sled team?""Certainly!"

The day of the race soon came and Dekalla had a complete sled team."Ready...Set....GO!"

The huskies were off like rockets.Dekalla panting hard and saliva dripping from her jaws as she ran,Steele nipping at everyone's(except his daughter's and his sled teams)heels,Balto speeding forward as quickly as possible,Kodiak slipping on huge patches of iced over water,another husky that they didn't know eating someone's  snow.

The race was abuzz with barking,talking,screaming,claws clicking and skidding on ice,huskies panting,and lots and lots more noises.

Soon a huge storm blew ocross the lands of Alaska and Dekalla's sled team were hopelessly lost."What are we to do now?"Asked Dejango."I don't know to tell you the truth."Dekalla replied."Then how are we hoing to win this race?"Weran pressed."We are no matter what!"Dekalla growled.

"Quit acting like Steele!"Dejango growled."Im leaving!"And with that he turned and walked away into the raging storm.Why do I have to be so much like my father?She asked herself.I need to find Dejango before he gets hurt."Weran!Deluk!Mahas!Kanuk!We are going to find Dejango,and now!"

Dekalla turned her eyes towards the north direction and strained against the sled line.The other huskies followed her as she walked."Where is he?Can you see him yet?"Asked Kanuk."No I don't see him yet."She called out over the sound of the howling wind.Just then she saw a patch of fur up ahead.Could it be!?Dekalla moved closer and was horrified to see it was Dejango,but Dejango was dead.His fur iced over and his eyes glazed over,he had blood streaked across his sides and a giant ripped gash starting at his tail and leading to his ears."No!Dekalla cried.You can't be dead!We need you!I wish I hadn't acted like Steele."Weran stepped up and rasped his toungue around Dekalla's ears and muzzle softly."I know you want Dejango back,but,he left you.He didn't care whether you died or not,so why should you care about him?""Why should I care!I cared about him more then any of us or me for instinst.I wish he was still alive!"She sobbed.Just then Dejango twitched slitely.He gasped for air and struggled to get up."No don't move!You will just get more hurt."Dekalla said."Ok."Dejango rasped."How long until the finish line?""A long time,Dejango.""Oh this is just a bunch of rugged madness.""Yes I agree."Said Weran softly."Rugged Madness."

Dekalla picked up the scruff of Dejango's neck and dragged him onto the sled carefully making sure not to injure him anymore then he already was.Then she covered him up with a blanket and licked his muzzle."I love you."She whispered softly as so not to let the other huskies hear her."I love you too."He whispered back.Then Dekalla turned and walked to the head of the sled,slipped her harness over her ears and ran and pulled and strained against the lead.

A faint glow shined up ahead and Dekallla made out the shape of a white she-wolf ahead of her and the other huskies.Then the she-wolf was gone.Dejango got up and walked over,the gash was no longer there,neither any other wounds or signs of sickness.Dejango had been mysteriously healed by the white she-wolf and imeddiatly she knew that the wolf must have been Anui,Balto's mother.

"Well im all right now."He said proudly."Great now lets win this race!"The sled team kept on running until dusk fell and once more the team was lost.

"Look!There's a cave.Maybe we can stay there and rest for the night."Dekalla anounced.The other huskies and Dekalla went into the cave and laid down on the soft mossy floor.

They did not know but the white wolf Anui was standing in the snowstorm out side the cave and howling these very words,"Rugged Madness."

Authors Note-Sorry part1 is so short.I was in a hurry to create the profiles for Dejango and his pack members.But remember that part 2 is coming soon.*Winks and howls,"Rugged Madness."