fought them off and then they heard steele struggleing to get up.
"get out of here steele" balto growled. Steele ran from them. Jenna turned to balto.
"we make a good team" balto said smiling
Jenna smiled then looked back to the town then to balto and balto laughed.
"jenna most of these cuts will have healed by tomorrow. And only a few acctually hurt. Its just dried blood that's making me look so bad" balto said
"o ok" Jenna said
"well thanks for coming back" balto said "id be dead if it weren't for you"
Jenna nuzzled him and said "no problem"

Balto smiled and when jenna licked his neck. He was coverd in scratches and cuts but only his back felt sore. Balto and and jenna stayed together the rest of that morning until they heard someone coming. Balto and jenna who had been curled up together looked up. They saw rosie. Rosie looked at them for a second then saw balto. she gasped.
"o my god are you alright boy?" she asked
balto barked
"jenna what on earth happened?" Rosie asked walking over to them
Jenna just barked and rosie said "come on my dad will help you"
Balto looked at jenna and she stood up so he stood up and followed them.
When they got to jenna's home balto waited on the doorstep while rosie opened the door. Jenna walked in and rosie followed and the door shut. Balto frowned looking at the door. He waited a minute and rosie's dad came out and said "rosie fill the bath with warm water, Come on boy" and held open the door. Balto walked up the steps and into jennas house. He looked around. It looked very comfortable. Balto heard water running and looked to his left and saw a door open. he headed for it. Jenna walked out of the room and when she reached balto she said "i think that is for you" nodding back to the door. Rosie's dad came up behind them and said "come on boy" and walked into the room. Balto followed him and saw a round bath full of water. He looked at it and jenna said "get in" balto walked up to it and put his paws on the edge of the tub. He sniffed a second then rosies dad lifted him up and balto slid into the water. He felt warmth wash over him and he stood up. His fur was wet and the dry blood was washing away. He looked around and saw jenna appear with her paws on the edge of the tub. He laughed at him and balto grinned. Balto turned towards her and rested his head on the edge of the tub next to jenna's who was licking his cheek. Balto closed his eyes. It was extremely comftorable standing in the warmth of the water.

Balto heard rosie come in a few minutes later with a sponge. She put it into the water of the tub and then pressed it against baltos head. Water rushed over baltos face and the she started scrubbing him with the sponge.
By the time balto had climbed out of the bath his fur was cleaner than it had been in years. Balto was dried and then when he walked out of the bathroom jenna came into view.
"hay you look better" Jenna said
"hay" Balto say
Rosie came out of the bathroom and then went into a room where her dad was sitting in.
balto watched her then jenna licked his cheek. He smiled at her then nuzzeled jenna and then he heard rosie say "hay boy would you like to say with us tonight?" balto perked his ears up and then she said "you can sleep with jenna" and balto barked happily and licked rosie's face. She smiled and said "i guess thats a yes"
The day passed slowly and by the time rosie and her dad went to bed it was late. Jenna walked over to a large wicker basket with a large cushion filling it and climbed into it and layed down. balto watched her smiling. She saw him doing this and said "what?"
"nothing" balto said smiling at jenna. She watched him then said "well you gunna lay down or sleep sitting down?
Balto climbed in and layed down with her. balto felt jenna rested her head against his neck and balto grinned.
"night balto" Jenna said
"night jenna" balto said and dozed off.

When balto woke up alone in the wicker basket. He stood up and looked around. Jenna came into view from a door beside the hallway that led to the bathroom.
"Hay" Jenna said
"hi" balto said getting out of the basket and walking over to her.
"hungry?" Jenna asked
"yea" balto said
"come on" Jenna said leading him into the kitchen and there was two bowls with food in them. balto walked over to the bowls and sniffed the food. "its food" jenna said and balto took a bite. It was the best thing he'd tasted since that meet after that blizzard weeks ago. When balto had finished he was full and jenna followed him out of the kitchen into the living room. Rosie walked over to him and said "sorry boy but dad says you've got to go now" and opened the door.
Jenna nuzzeld him "bye balto"
"bye jenna" Balto said
Balto walked out of the door and climbed off the porch. He smiled as he headed for his boat. He was in a very good mood and it was only when 2 dogs growling showing their teeth approached him that he frowned.
"give it a rest guys come on im not that bad" balto said
The two dogs chuckled and dived at him. balto ducked and ran for his boat. Why couldn't they just leave him alone? What on earth had he done to deserve this? He sat on his boat thinking this over for several hours.

Balto say wondering for hours until the sun had fallen and layed down and fell asleep. When he woke up he heard the sound of voices whipering. He looked over the edge of his boat and saw 4 dogs creeping up to his boat. He snuck off the boat and ran for nome. When he reached nome he heard the voice of one dog say "Where is he? He was here just a minute ago" he looked back and saw the dogs running for nome. Had they seen him? He ran into an alley and hid behind several boxes. He heard the dogs run past him. One of them said "you think steele has the girl?" This made his heart stop.
"jenna" balto said then took off for jenna's house.

When he reached her house he saw the footprints of several dogs then the long track of a dog being dragged.
"jenna" balto said knowing wut must have happened. He started following the tracks.

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Jenna woke up from unconsiousness and looked around. She could tell she was no longer in noam. She was laying on the cold hard stone floor of a cave. She saw steele standing at the foot of the mountain with a grin on his face.
"Steele where are we" jenna asked steele angrily. The last thing she could remember was walking outside to go over to balto's when she had been attacked and knocked unconsious.
"near white mountain" steele said
"why have you taken me here?" Jenna asked him
"you should be able to figure that out" steele said grinning more
"dont you dare hurt balto" jenna shouted standing up
Steele started to laugh "then what would be the point of having brought you out here?" Steele chuckled
Jenna growled
"settle down you arn't going anywhere" steele said
Jenna sat down and looked down at the floor and closed her eyes.
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Balto ran as fast as his legs would take him. The trees past him in a blur as he flew past them. He started breathing harder and harder until his lungs felt ready to burst. He could barely think of what Steele might possibly be doing to jenna right now. He tried to keep these thoughts out of his head.
"Jenna im coming" balto panted

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Jenna didn't know how long it had been since he had woken up in the cave but she knew it had been at least 2 hours. She couldn't even be sure if Balto was coming. It was the dead of night and he was probably asleep. Suddenly 2 dogs appeard at steele's side.
"is he coming?" Steele asked
"yea we saw him run past us. At the rate he is running he should be here an a few minutes"
"thats if he makes it over the ice" steele chuckled
Jenna who had been listening felt her heart stop. "o please balto please be alright" Jenna said and she felt a tear fall down her cheek.

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Balto ran right out of the trees and came into a clearing of snow. The tracks ran straight through it. He started to run again but slipped and fell.
"ice' balto said
He clawed his way through the ice until he put his paw down and it sank straight through the ice. He leg went down and balto felt the numbing cold start to bite his arm. He pulled his arm out of the hole and shivered. His other paw went throught the ice when he took another step. he tried again and almost fell into the water as a huge chunck of ice suddenly cracked. Balto jumped over the crack and the ice he landed on broke off from the rest and started to tip. He jumped off and landed in the water. Balto sank his claws into the ice nearest to him and pulled himself onto it. Shivering from head to tail he lay on the ice. He stood up again and looked around. The ice all around him was cracking. He ran to the edge and felt the ice start to tip. He slid down and only just got off intime before he fell into the water again. His paws were numb with coldness. He looked forward and saw he had reached the opposite side of the ice. The tracks led towards the trees in front of him and he started running again.

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Steele was pacing up and down the foot of the mountain when he started to chuckle. Jenna growled at Steele.
"Seems like balto has had abit of trouble with the ice" Steele said grinning a jenna
"no