his prey down there, but he was bitten again by Jenna, who would not let her friends to be harmed. As Balto was free, the bear headed towards him, who was leaning on branch. Balto let the branch go, slapping the bear in face as he rolled downhill.

Jenna, Boris, Muk and Luk yelled: ''BALTO!'' as they headed towards the flat land. But as they got there, they realized they were on the ice. The bear realized it too, but he was too lated as he drowned. But the crackings spread to Balto, who was gone underwater.

''Balto, NO!'' Jenna and Boris yelled.

''GERONIMO!'' a voice yelled as Muk and Luk jumped through the ice.

Boris and Jenna, who were still on the ice, were frantically looking for Balto, for whom they seemed to drown. ''But he would not quit, no!'' Jenna thought to herself.

''Muk? Luk? Wher are they?!'' Jenna asked as Boris raised his frozen head out of lake, sneezing in process.

''They cannot swim!'' Boris yelled frantically.

''WHAT?! A polar bears who can't swim?!'' Jenna asked. The hope was fading...

But then, an ice was heard cracking in distance! As Boris and Jenna turned around, they saw Muk and Luk wet, carrying Balto out of the water.

''Balto!'' Jenna and Boris said happily. But while running, Boris tripped on ice and slid into Muk, who bumped Luk as he was trying to revive Balto. Fortunately, the water came out of Balto and he began breathing again. He was freezing.

''Are you okay?'' Balto and Jenna asked each other at the same time. Jenna lied on Balto to warm him up.

She was glad that he was still with him. She told him which way they should go to find the lost sled team. Soon enough, Balto was warmed up.

As Balto was congratulating Muk and Luk for their heroic act and swimming, who were astonished by the fact they had swam, Jenna began walking, but she tripped down.

She tried walking again, but again she tripped down.

''You should go ahead with me.'' Jenna said. ''Jenna...'' Balto said, but Jenna interrupted him: ''No no I'll be slowing everyone down. Rosy can't hold out much longer.''.

Balto felt that he would be going alone. He ordered Muk and Luk to carry Jenna on the branch and told Boris to lead them by following the markings he had left before.

Before Balto left, Jenna lowered her head and dropped her bandana. She picked it up and put it on Balto while saying: ''I don't think it will keep you warm.'' ''It will.'' Balto replied.

As Balto left to find the lost team, Boris, Muk and Luk went back to Nome while carrying her on the branch. She believed that Balto would return with the medicine.

As the sun had set, they finally reached Nome. Then, two canines were seen outskirts. One of them asked: ''Who goes there?''

Jenna recognized the voice. It was Max who showed himself alongside with his friend Molly. When he saw Jenna resting on the branch, he asked her: ''Jenna? What happened to you?''

Jenna raised from the branch, and without feeling the pain in her paw, he got on all of her fours and said: ''Max... Molly... I was after Balto and his friends, they were going after the medicine.''

''Balto went for the medicine?'' Molly asked.

''Yes, but as I reached them, grizzly bear attacked them but after using some effort, we managed to defeat them, but I injured my paw so they carried me home.'' Jenna said.

Max said: ''Wow, he's after the medicine now. In the wild. Let the spirits help him...''

''Come on, Jenna. Let's head to the boiler room then.'' Molly said.

''Alright.'' Jenna replied. ''Thank you for the help, you three.'' Jenna said to Boris, Muk and  Luk as they headed towards the boat, while she headed with her friends into the boiler room.

The boiler room was full of dogs. When Max and Molly entered, most of the dogs looked them not-so-friendly, as they were friends of Balto, but as Jenna entered, they changed their looks.

''Jenna, what brings you here? What happened to your bandana?'' One of the dogs asked as she lied next to Doc.

''Balto went for the medicine, and I lent him my bandana.'' Jenna said.

''That mutt? Tracking a championship team in a blizzard?'' Morse said while chuckling among the others.

Then the doors opened wide, as the canine, who had ice and snow on himself, entered.

''Balto?'' Jenna asked. But much to her misfortune it was...

''Steele!'' dogs cheered as they saw the glory-hound entering ''We'd given you up!''

''Where are the others?'' Doc asked.

Steele bowed his head and began talking showing the grief: ''One by one they fell. Frozen, barely alive. I pulled four onto the sled and three more on my back. I walked and I walked, but it was too late. They were...''The other dogs gasped in shock.

''What about the medicine?'' Doc asked.

Steele continued: ''I went on, dragging the medicine alone. Suddenly that wolf-dog appeared. Balto demanded I let *him* take the medicine. You know he just wanted so much to be a hero in your eyes.'' As he said it, Jenna began looking at him suspiciously.

''He grabbed the crate, but he couldn't handle it. He didn't see the patch of ice... and the cliff.'' Steele said as he pulled out of his back orange bandana. ''He didn't have a chance.''

Jenna gasped as she recognized whose bandana it was: ''My bandanna!'' 
''He made me promise to take care of you, Jenna.'' Steele told her.

But Jenna realized that Steele would never say that as he despised Balto very much. The she said: ''You're lying. Steele's lying. Balto's alive. And he's coming home.'' She told to the others and then she went out.

She put her bandana and she refused to believe what Steele had said. Then, she remembered what had Balto showed her few days ago.

''It might lead him home.'' She said to herself, and then she grabbed the lantern and carried it outside the town, where all the lights had been turned off. Humans believed that all the hopes had faded. But Jenna didn't.

She put the lantern in the position where she thought it'd be good. Then she began digging into the snow and found some cracked bottles.

''Sun... Ice caps...'' Jenna muttered as she moved along, allowing the beam of light to light the bottles. Then, Aurora Borealis appeared dancing.

''Balto...'' Jenna said. Then she heard a voice singing at the place where Aurora Borealis was:

''Reach for the lights,
you may touch the sky,
and the spirits
will come down to you...''

She moved towards the Lights. As soon she touched with her nose the Lights, she saw a shape descending from the sky.

The shape descended behind the Lights, but it was visible. It shaped. Now there was a great white wolf standing behind. Jenna looked at the wolf, astonished, as she said: ''Help... Balto.''

The white wolf left towards the east, as Jenna looked at it and she went to her owner.

The white wolf, Aniu, was walking in the wild without any problem. Then she saw a gray wolf-dog, crying as he thought that he had failed. It was her son, Balto.

Balto noticed the wolf. Aniu howled, but Balto looked away. She looked at him, but Balto didn't respond. She began walking away. But one minute later, she heard howling from the behind. She saw her son, howling. Aniu realized what happened: Balto learned that his weakness is his strength. He finally accepted his wolf side.

Back in Nome, humans believed that the medicine was lost and that the children would pass away. The canines, believed that the sled team is dead, as it was said by Steele. Boris, Muk and Luk believed it too.

Max and Molly, on the other hand, were not sure anymore if it's true, as they despised Steele, but the sled team was lost.

Jenna was resting on her owner's bed, crying because her owner would pass away.

Suddenly, a howl was heard in the distance. Jenna raised her head. She recognized it, it was Balto! He was alive, with the medicine! She started barking happily, as Rosy's parents heard the howl.

The humans and the dogs ran onto the Main Street and cheered in happiness as the saw the lost team coming back with the medicine. But Steele wasn't in the lead of the team, it was Balto.

Balto, the wolf-dog both despised by humans and dogs by his looks, wasn't viewed as an outcast anymore. Since then, he was seen as a hero and a savior of Nome, as he brought the medicine.

Balto realized that he was a hero. He saved the children of Nome.

Then he remembered what Max had told him long before, and someone else when he was a pup: ''Balto, there's something you need to know. It's not how you look, it's how good in your heart are.''