A new life

By Janus Oberoth

Before you start to read: English is not my first language, so you will find grammar mistakes. Please do not put much attention to them

“I need something to eat” Luna thinks while she laid her paw on her swollen belly.

She is a wolf with a black fur and eyes of a penetrating amber color.

Until a month ago Luna was considered one of the most beautiful wolves of the Storm pack, she was the younger daughter of the leaders of the herd, which granted her an important position inside the pack, but now she does not have the privileges that she had before, not even some rights like other wolves of wolfs of low status.

She is confined to her den, everything for cause for an error that she had committed; she pays the price of the prejudice of her pack. She was pregnant of the cubs of a dog that she had known a month before.

Luna caressed her belly thinking about her cubs that grew inside her, Luna's happy thoughts are replaced by anguish and the fear of knowing that will happen to those cubs so soon they arrive to this world.

Luna could not understand as the members of the clan, including her parents decided to kill those innocent cubs of a crime that they did not commit, Luna could accept that punishment be directed to her, but not to the cubs.

 

The privations that Luna suffered were terrible, she had nothing to eat, she would have been parched had it not been for a little water grotto in the den. Luna had been under obligation to eat up the unlucky rats that had dared to enter the den room of the hungry wolf.

 

Luna was thinking about how the things arrived to this point which she doesn’t have anything in her life just the consolation and the sentiment of new life that she has inside her, in addition to the support of somebody who she loved a lot.

Luna's thoughts are interrupted when somebody enters at the den, she directs her look to the entrance of the den and sees black-colored wolf like her, just this wolf has white paws and his eyes were brown-colored.

“The wolf has one important portion of caribou's leg in his mouth.

“Malek” says Luna looking at her brother that gets close to her and deposits caribou's piece of leg near to Luna's feet.

She immediately begins to devour that meat while Malek looked at her.

Malek was the older brother of Luna, he was the first to be born and therefore someday he would be the clan's next leader. Malek and Luna loved each other since they were cubs, he had been the only one to raise objections to Luna's and cubs' punishment.

When Luna finishes, she gets up and nuzzle Malek affectionately; he that he does the same thing.

“What happened to you?” Luna asks seeing some injuries in Malek's body; they are licked by Malek himself.

“I was discovered when I entered to the warehouse, they beat me up” Malek says smiling at Luna that was looking at him in silence.

 

Malek had stolen food all that month for give it to his sister.

 

“Malek, you should not have taken a risk like that” Luna says looking at Malek.

“Come on sis, you needed that food, I know it” Malek says looking at his sister that looked at him in silence.

“Did the guards have the courage to attack you?” Luna asks looking at Malek.

“In the beginning they did not it, even they told me that they would forgive me if I returned meat, but I refused because that meat was hidden” Malek says looking at Luna.

“Malek this cannot continue; you should not take a risk to help me” Luna says looking at Malek, he smiles with a sneering smile.

“A beating will not stop me” Malek says looking at Luna.

“Malek, this is serious; if dad and mom learn about it, you will be in problems” Luna looking at Malek.

He looks at her in silence because he knew that Luna told the truth.

“Luna, you must flee from here, if you do not do that, you will not live for a long time just like the cubs” Malek says looking at his sister that looked at him.

“I know it, I do not care about what will happen to me, but cubs, they do not deserve to die for something that I made” Luna says beginning to sob.

Malek nuzzles her affectionately to encourage Luna; she looks at him, Malek smiles at her affectionately.

“Tomorrow is my turn for the guard, so you will be able to use that to escape” Malek says looking at Luna, she looked at him surprised.

“But, if the pack learns about that you helped me to escape, you will get into trouble” Luna says looking at Malek that smiles at her and lays his right paw on Luna's shoulder.

”It is not important for me, if my life can assure that my nephews live just like you, I will be more than happy to die; besides I have a plan” Malek says looking at Luna, she looked at  him surprised.

“Even if I can escape, where I would go?” Luna asks looking at Malek.

“Do you remind that town near the sea about I spoke when I returned of that accident on the river?” Malek asks looking at Luna that nods.

“That town is called Nome, there you will find to Balto, he is a half wolf that lives on the town outskirts, in a old boat, he a nice guy just like the rest of the Nome's dogs, the things are very different there, I am sure that Balto will find the way to help you” Malek says looking at his sister that nods while Malek gets up.

“I will go to rest, if dad or somebody of the clan sees me here, the plan of escape would be able to look compromise” Malek says looking at Luna.

Malek slides through the hole and disappears; Luna leans back and closes her eyes.

Next evening, Luna found herself asleep in her den; she was resting peacefully until she feels that somebody moves her body. Luna opens her eyes having the blurred sight of somebody that found itself in front of her. When Luna's sight becomes clear she recognizes his brother Malek that is in front of her.

“It is time” Malek says looking at Luna.

She gets up; both come out of the den and quietly head toward the entrance of the cave of the pack. They walk with care not to wake up the rest of the wolves.

Malek and Luna finally get to the entrance and go towards the outside for a tunnel, when Malek and Luna came closer at the end of the tunnel; she sees that a silver wolf is on the tunnel's ground, he is unconscious. She gets surprised seeing Malek's friend called Anuk.

“What happened?” Luna asks looking at Malek.

“I had to put him out of count in order that you can escape” Malek says looking at Luna that looks at him surprised.

“When he wakes up, he will accuse you” Luna says looking at Malek.

“I don't believe it, he had no time at least of seeing me, he stayed a moment only while I told you that he was going to check that everything was in order, in that time I attacked him” Malek says looking at Luna.

"You should leave” Malek says looking at Luna that looked at him.

“Come with me” Luna says looking at Malek, he shakes his head.

“I can’t, if I also go away, the clan will not stop hunting us” Malek says looking at Luna.

“Before he goes away I want you position yourself behind me and throw me against the cave's wall” Malek says looking at Luna, she gets surprised hearing his brother.

“I... I cannot do that” Luna says looking at Malek.

“It is the only way of justifying that you escaped, if Anuk and I are unconscious, it would mean that you went away without my help, I will stay and I will sabotage the search” Malek says looking at Luna.

She nuzzles Malek affectionately, he does the same thing.

Malek stretches his paw and rest it a moment on the belly of Luna.

“I would have liked to know your pups” Malek says while he looks at Luna that looked at him with a smile.

“You will meet them, somehow, you will meet them” Luna says looking at Malek.

He kisses Luna on the forehead before she positions herself behind him.

Luna takes Malek for his scruff of the neck and throws him against the cave's wall. Malek falls on the ground; Luna nuzzles him affectionately before coming out of the cave and escaping toward freedom.

She walks for three days; Luna could not allow herself the luxury of stopping long time to rest because she knew that her clan's members got close to her more and more.

She did not eat anything since she had left the cave. She crossed the mountains and forests on his way toward Nome.

After the fourth day, she can observe Nome from a cliff, the buildings of Nome's coastal town excelled in the landscape; Luna breathes relieved seeing that she had finally gotten to her destination.

Luna again enters in the forest and begins to walk down the hill to come out of the forest; she can observe Balto's boat in the distance. She leads her steps toward that place where she arrives after some minutes. Luna felt that her strength abandoned her at every step.

The cool wind hits Luna that gets close to Balto's boat, she gives some turns around the boat to study it, and she finally resolves to climb.

Luna gets to the deck; she observes an old small bucket close to the bridge.

She enters at the bridge.

“Hello?” Luna asks, she does not obtain answer, so she enters in the cabin.

She observes surroundings, in search of some sign of life, short Luna downs her head and starts to sniff the wooden floor.

She perceives a dog's or a wolf’s odor, the trail leads to Luna to some stairs that led to the internal part of

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