It was the night of Christmas Eve and the pack was gathered around a patch of fire, singing Christmas carols. When everyone was heading back to their warm dens, Aleu overheard a pup asking his mom if Santa was real. The mother hesitated. Aleu decided to help her out.

"What's your name little pup?" Aleu asked.

"T-Tim" The pup said.

"Ok, Tim. Do you believe in Santa?" Aleu asked the young pup.

The pup nodded.

"Well, you keep believing in Santa, ok?" 

The pup nodded and smiled at Aleu. Aleu smiled back. Then the young pup and his mom hurried back their cozy den.

"What an angel."  thought Aleu, walking back to her den.

 

 

Aleu woke up in the middle of the night. 

"I wonder what woke me up..." Aleu thought. She heard a sound outside. "Footsteps? Who could be up this late?"

As leader of a pack, Aleu got up and went outside to see what was going on and who it was.

"It's snowing" Aleu thought. looking to the sky and watching the snowflakes fall.

When Aleu looked around and didn't see anyone, she started to sniffed the air.

"This guy smells like peanut butter cookies." Aleu thought  "He should be easy to track down."

Putting her nose to the ground, Aleu followed the peanut-butter trail.

"The scent is growing stronger." Aleu thought aloud.

That was when Aleu heard a shuffling noise. Then she saw movement behind a large boulder nearby.

"Show yourself!" snarled Aleu

"Hey! You're going to be on the naughty list if you're going to talk to me like that!" threated the wolf.

"Who does this guy think he is? Santa? Yeah, right." Aleu thought.

"Well, you're going to be banned from this pack if you don't show yourself." threated Aleu.

There was a long pause.

"Well?" Aleu said.

"This is a wolf pack?" The wolf said. He hid himself more behind the boulder.

"That's right. And I'm the leader." Aleu said proudly. The wolf made a run for it. "Hey! come back here!"

Aleu ran at top speed toward the wolf, then pounced on top of him, pinning him down.

"Ok, you're definitely on my naughty list."

Aleu saw the wolf's face clearly. He wasn't a wolf at all! He was a red husky! Like Kodi. He looked pretty old, but didn't run like an old dog. He had a long white beard and was wearing red pants and a red jacket with white puffs at the sleeves and corner. On his head was a Santa hat.

"Who are you?" Aleu asked him.

"Santa." He answered.

"Oooookkkkkkk. Umm, why are you here?" Aleu asked.

"Delivering presents. Oh! And looking for my sleigh and reindeers. Have you seen them?"

"Umm, no."

"They must have gone far..... but they wouldn't know where to go without me to lead them......." The husky thought aloud.

That was when Aleu smelled something unfamiliar. Nothing she ever smelled before. Forgetting the old guy and followed the scent

"What is that smell?" Aleu thought.

"That might be them!" The old man said excitingly.

"Huh?" Aleu said.

"My reindeers! It's a good thing they didn't go far." Santa said, not looking at her, but up ahead. Aleu looked where he was looking and saw a red sleigh with about 12 reindeers attached to it. On the sleigh was a large red bag. Aleu's jaw dropped to the ground and her eyes were as big as dinner plates.

"Told ya." Santa smiled.

Aleu didn't say anything.

"Oh! would you look at the time. I got to get those pups their presents." Santa annouced. "See ya!"

""Wait! You're really... Santa?" Aleu asked.

"You bet!" he said happily. 

"Well," Aleu said. "do you have an extra hat?"

"Yes. Why?" asked Santa. 

"Well," Aleu hesitated. "Could you give that hat to Tim? He's a pup in my pack." 

"Tim? Oh! Tim!" he said. 

"Yeah, you know him?" 

"Of course! I give out presents here, but I never knew it was a wolf pack. Sure, I can give him a Santa hat." said the old husky.

"Could you also sign your name on it?" Aleu asked eargerly.

"Sure! For Tim, right?"

"That's right."

"I'll give it to him." promised Santa.

 

 

The next morning, Tim woke up to see a Santa hat in front of him.

"Huh?" Tim said.

He picked up the hat and put it one. A perfect fit!

"Mom! Mom! Santa gave me a hat! He gave me a hat!" Tim said, rushing over to his mom's room.

 

 

"Aleu! Aleu! I got a Santa hat Santa gave me his hat!! I must be special!" 

Aleu turned to see Tim in a Santa hat running toward her.

"I bet you are, Tim" Aleu replied, smiling.

"This is the best Christmas EVER!!!!!!!" Tim said.

"It's mine, too, Tim," Aleu looked up to the sky. "Mine, too."

Somewhere at the North Pole, Santa chucked with his owner, Santa Clause.

"Wasn't that a fine Christmas?" Santa Clause asked his dog, happily munching on a clocolate chip cookie.

After swollowing his peanut-butter cookie, Santa barked.

 "It sure was," Santa thought. "It was awesome."

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