Nikki, Kaltag and Star running in. Dana was out of herself to see all three of her pups together.

''TAYER?!'' Shira asked in anger. ''What do you think you're doing?!''

''Mom! Don't do this!'' Tayer told her. ''You don't want to do it!''

''I told you not to bother me again!'' Shira said. ''Now let me finish this!''

''Shira!'' Dingo yelled to her. ''Do you really want to do it?!''

''He killed my mate!'' Shira said. ''And the hero of Nome!''

''LADY!'' Kaltag said. ''You don't want to do it, do you?!''

''Who're you to ask?'' Shira asked him in impatience.

''I and these two of my friends were the friends of your mate!''  Kaltag said.

''And?'' Shira asked.

''Mom.'' Tayer said in a calmer tone. ''Please listen to me. You have to trust them!''

''Why should I?'' Shira asked, angrier as her son sounded like commanding her.

''Lady, it seems that you didn't spend your whole life in the wild, am I right?'' Star asked.

Shira's eyes widened in confusion. Where was this going to lead to?

''No.'' Shira said. ''I used to to have the owner.''

''Sean was his name, wasn't it?'' Nikki asked.

Upon mentioning Sean, Shira looked at them with astonishment. What did Sean have with all of this?

''Mom.'' Tayer asked his mother. ''That night when Sean did, you were horrifyed, weren't you?''

Shira looked at her son. Her look on the face seemed like as if she was going to burst into tears.

''I was...'' Shira muttered.

''Mom, please tell to dad's friends the story you used to tell to my, Rondey, Taiga and Sarah.'' Tayer said.

Knowing that Sean was going to have something with all this, Shira started: ''Steele told me that when you were so close to Nome, Balto ambushed Steele and his team, leaving him in exile and threatened all of the dogs of Nome to hail you as a hero and Steele as a villain.''

''Lady.'' Kaltag said in a calm voice. ''That story is a lie!''

''How do you know?!'' Shira asked him. Her voice seemed rather as if she was going to cry than go berserk.

''Because I, Kaltag.'' Kaltag said, looking at his friends. ''And my friends Star and Nikki. We're the one who was what really happened.''

''You're the eye-witnesses?'' Shira asked.

''We are.'' Kaltag said. ''Now listen to me very carefully.''

Taiga, Sarah and Rodney came to their mother upon hearing that the true story was going to emerge.

''When we were stranded in the snow, Balto found us later.'' Kaltag started remembering. ''But Steele didn't want him to help us. He tried to kill him, but he fell down the cliff. What we didn't know was that he managed to survive...

...the next thing he was going to do was that he tried to prevent us from bringing the medicine. He wanted to leave the children die! But we returned thanks to Balto's wolf heritage.''

Shira looked at him with her jaw dropped and eyes widened in shock and horror. She couldn't believe what she had heard right now.

''Steele?!'' Shira asked. ''Steele... he wanted to leave the children die?!''

''Yes.'' Nikki said.

Shira looked at everyone, then at Balto, who was hanging on the cliff, then at her pups. The next thing that happened was that Shira started to tremble. Then she started crying hard.

''Mom?'' Taiga asked. ''Mom! What's wrong?!''

''This is not happening...!'' Shira cried. ''It was all a lie...!''

''Mom?'' Tayer asked.

''Your dad lied to me!'' Shira yelled with the tears strolling down her face. ''How could he do that?!''

''How he could lie to us?'' Sarah and Rodney asked.

''Not only that!'' Shira cried. ''How he could let the poor children die!?''

''His ego got the best of him.'' Star said.

''Shira, is everything alright?'' Jenna asked her, sounding like as if she was her sister.

''I can't believe that I was trying to kill Balto...!'' Shira said. ''Steele was the villain...!''

''Mom, do you understand now?'' Tayer asked her.

Shira looked at her son whom she despised all her life. She realized that Tayer was trying to let her live despite being so mean to him.

''I... I do... now...'' Shira cried. Then she nuzzled her youngest son, showing him some mother love for the first time. ''Tayer... I'm so... so sorry...''

''It's okay, mom.'' Tayer said.

''Shira, why the sudden change of heart?'' Balto asked.

''Ever since Sean died, I was traumatised.'' Shira said. ''The medicine could have saved him, but he never received it. I just get horrified when children die!''

''Do you understand now?'' Balto asked her the same question Tayer had.

Shira looked at Balto with the teary eyes. She approached him and instead of throwing him to his death, she grabbed him by his neck scruff and helped him up.

''You do understand, don't you?'' Balto asked her.

''Yes.'' Shira said. But as she was about to say...

''Shira!'' The lead wolf asked. ''Are we going to finish the fight?!''

Shira looked towards the wolves she had teamed up with in order to kill Balto. But upon realizing the truth, she just said: ''No.''

The wolf leader looked at her in confusion and said: ''But... but...''

''I said no!'' Shira told him. ''Because there's no need for it.''

The wolves found that offensive. She asked them to help her, now she switched sides. They started to slowly and menacingly approach her and the others.

''Get away from us!'' Shira hissed at them.

''No.'' The wolves said. ''You betrayed us, now we shall deal with you and the others!''

However, Sarah hissed at the wolf, saying: ''Stay back from my mother!''

The wolf swiped at Sarah, but missed her thanks to her quick reflex. But three wolves started walking towards her, Taiga and Rodney. Now no one was standing on Shira's way.

But then, a dark gray husky, wearing a red collar, jumped in-between and growled at the wolf. Yukon and Yin were surprised that Yang stood up to the wolves. Shira was also surprised.

''Stay back from her.'' Yang hissed at the wolf.

''Out of my way!'' The wolf growled at him.

Yang refused to move, causing the wolf to swipe him in the face. Yang yelped in pain, yet he refused to get out of the wolf's way.

As for the other dogs, they were being circled by the hostile wolves. Even the dogs fought well, there were far more wolves.

But then...

''Dad!'' Denahi called his father, noticing someone moving in the forest out there.

''Not now, Denahi!'' Kenai said, trying to fend off the hostile wolf.

''No, dad, look!'' Aki called him, seeing the other figure moving. ''I think Denahi saw a caribou!''

''What?'' Kenai and Aleu asked. They looked in the same direction their sons did. True to Aki and Denahi's words, two more caribous ran past that direction.

''Does that mean...?'' Naia asked, remembering the caribous.

But before she even managed to continue, more wolves appeared, but these wolves attacked the ones who had circled the dogs.

Aleu and Kenai recognized these wolves. It was their former wolf pack, who came to rescue their friends!

''Our former pack!'' Kenai yelled in surprise.

But more wolves appeared from the other side, also attacking the hostile wolves. They were led by a scarred white wolf-dog, black wolf and white malamute. There were also some younger black, gray and white wolf-dogs Dingo recognized them.

''The Outsiders!'' Dana said, noticing their rescuers.

The wolves realized that they were being outnumbered by the dogs' allies. All they had to do now was to run away!

''Retreat!!!'' The wolf leader screamed, facing the defeat.

And of course, the hostile wolves ran for their lives, thus leaving two wolf packs and the dogs on the clearing.

''Forrest!'' Dana said, relieved that they had been rescued. ''How did you know we were in danger?''

''As the member of Outsiders' wolf pack, we followed these wolves.'' Forrest said. ''They were led by Shira, am I right?''

''Yes.'' Dingo said.

''Speaking of Shira, where's she?'' Angel asked, preparing to the new fight.

''She's there.'' Dingo said, looking at her. ''But don't attack her.''

''How come?'' Winter asked.

''She finally found out the truth.'' Dana said proudly. ''We're taking her and her kids home.''

''Right, if you say so.'' Forrest nodded.

''I see that you and Angel did settle up the family, right?'' Dingo asked

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