"easy, just jump" elijo said immatating jumping.

Aleu laughed. "Isn't Antui supposed to be watching you?"

"he never pays attention" elijo said smiling

Aleu yawned and stood up. "hungry?" Aleu asked

"yea" elijo said "but we don't usually get fed for another couple hours.

"im sure no one will mind if you have a early breakfast" Aleu said

"Aleu" came a serious voice.

"what Kento?" Aleu asked looking up to see the white wolf.

"what are you doing with this pup again?" Kento asked

"he came to me" Aleu said

"he seems to have formed a liking to you" Kento said "he wont talk to anyone else without causing trouble"

"o" Aleu said surprised "i didnt know"

"well get him back to 2nd level" Kento said

"Right" Aleu said then Kento walked off.

"Come on elijo" Aleu said and they headed not for 2nd level but for the food area. elijo just continued smiling as they walked.

When they arrived elijo ran over to the nearest meat and ate. Aleu ate from the pile next to elijo and when they finished she took him back to 2nd level.

"don't give Antui too hard of a time" Aleu said smiling.

Elijo nodded and Aleu left. She walked outside and felt the warm air blow threw her fur. She started for Nome. She hoped her mom wasn't still taking this news of her being part of a wolf pack hard. 

"Dad how much further do you think Anchorage is?" Kalgorn asked

"not too far. Why? Getting tired already" Balto replied grinning

"No i was just wondering" Kalgorn said.

"wow i didn't think we were this far already" Balto said suddenly

"What?" Kalgorn asked

"Anchorage should be right over this hill" Balto said as the headed up a steep hill. When they go to the top what they saw wasn't what balto had expected. Flat open land. Anchorage wasn't anywhere in sight.

"er dad?" Kalgorn said turning to balto

"Maybe we're not as close as i thought" Balto said uneasily.

Chapter VI

Lost and Found

"Dad are you sure this is the Right way?" Kalgorn asked as they headed further over the open land.

"Im sure Anchorage was here" Balto said looking around.

"We're lost now arn't we" Kalgorn said

"Don't jump to conclusions Kalgorn" Balto said

Kalgorn sat down and watched his father until he started walking again. Kalgorn followed.

They had been walking for an hour before they had to climb over another steep hill. "on my last trip this way i don't remember their being this many hills" Balto said panting after climbing to the top of the 3rd hill in a row.

"Dad maybe we can find somewhere high up and see anchorage" Kalgorn said

"Good idea" Balto said climbing up another hill.

"Kodi what are you still doing here? I thought you and your family left this morning" Duke said spotting Kodi outside the boiler room.

Kodi had just woken up that morning having slept in pretty late and he had just walked outside when he heard Duke.

"Just dad and my brother went" Kodi said "they were the only ones that wanted to go"

"how come you didn't want to go?" Duke asked

"becouse i like it here and i dont want to leave" Kodi said streatching.

"How long are your dad and brother going to be gone again?" Duke asked

"A week" Kodi said

"Did your sister go with them becouse i haven't seen her in the last 2 days" Duke asked

"Not that i know of" Kodi said thinking "she might have becouse i haven't seen her at all in awhile too"

Kodi had just finished saying this when Aleu showed up.

"Aleu i thought you had gone with dad and kalgorn" Kodi said

"no i didn't" Aleu said to her brother

"Where have you been? We haven't seen you in a couple days" Duke asked

"well its none of your business" Aleu said then walked past Kodi and Duke.

"What's wrong with her?" Duke asked. Kodi shrugged.

Aleu continued walking down the street. She didn't feel like telling everyone about her being part of a wolf pack. She had only told her mother becouse he dad had told her too. She started looking for her mom and found her in the boiler room.

"Mom" Aleu said walking in

"Hi" Jenna said she was now smiling

"Look im sorry about earlier" Aleu said

"Its ok Aleu, Im not mad anymore. I was just surprised" Jenna said

"O, I never told yall becouse i was afraid yall would hate me" Aleu said

"Aleu, nothing could make me hate you" Jenna said smiling at her daughter

"Thanks mom" Aleu said smiling back

"Dad do you see anything?" Kalgorn asked his dad who was ontop of the highest cliff they had been able to find.

"No, Nothing just hills and flat land" Balto said "It goes on for miles"

Kalgorn shocked looked around "we coudn't have walked this far in just three days"

"Well we covered alot more ground than i thought we had and we went an entire day's running in the wrong direction" Balto said relizing his mistake.

"so we just have to go back" Kalgorn said turning around

"yea but also when that hunter shot at us i think we ran off to the west when we should have gone east" Balto said

"Your joking right dad?" Kalgorn asked

"No, I wish i was but we're lost... Really lost..." Balto said

Back in Nome Aleu and Jenna were headed out of nome. Aleu wanted to show jenna the wolves cave. Jenna didn't want to disturb anyone at first but Aleu had talked her into coming.

They walked for several minutes before it came into view. "is that it?" Jenna asked

"Yep" Aleu said "you can see the wolves coming out"

"Oh i see them now" Jenna said "I didn't think you acctually lived in a mountain"

"Well big packs need big places to live" Aleu said laughing

They arrived and entered. "Wow!" Jenna said looking around the cave and at its ceiling far above them.

"You like it?" Aleu asked

"Yea its amazing" Jenna said.

"ALEU!" came Kento's voice

"What kento?" Aleu asked

"who is this?" Kento asked jesturing his head towards jenna

"My mother" Aleu answered

"Next time your bringing a guest let us know ahead of time. We thought you we're helping another intruder in" Kento replied seriously

"Sorry" Aleu said rolling her eyes

Kento walked away. "whats up with him?" Jenna asked

"Thats the way he is" Aleu said "Come on ill give you a tour of this place"

Aleu led her mother around the metting corner, eating area, sleeping area then led her up to the higher levels of the cave. They were held up in the 2nd level by Antui who asked Aleu for help with some of the pups.

"Thank god it's my last day. This week has been worse than when i lived with my owner" Antui said

"what does that mean?" Aleu asked pulling a pup off of another.

"Well my owner thought i was a dog then when he realized i was a wolf he became well abusive" Antui said

"That's awful" Aleu said dropping the pup she had held while Antui helped a pup get its paw out of the crack that had formed.

Antui lifted both pups up. "not to bad i mean he hurt me alot but he only gave me one major injury" Antui said. He then turned so his side was facing Aleu. He sat the pups down then layed down on his side. Aleu could now see a large scar starting at his chest and going down over his stomach and antui's legs covered up the rest.

"What did he do?" Aleu asked mortified at this new news of Antui's history

"you should be able to guess. He tried to kill me but didn't cut deep enough" Antui said getting back to his feet.

Aleu stared at him. "your serious?" Aleu asked

"Yea but after he did that i escaped and the pack found me half dead" Antui said

"This can't be worse that that" Aleu said jesturing to the pups

Antui started to say something but jenna came over to them. "what's going on?" Jenna asked

"Er.. just a little chat" Aleu said "Come on let's get back on that tour"

"ok bye" Jenna said to Antui

"Bye thanks again Aleu" Antui said

"Bye" Aleu said.

"what was he showing you on his chest?" Jenna asked

"Just something" Aleu said wanting to get off the subject. "Look this is the 3rd level. The hunting wolves meet here"

"Er.. Aleu how many levels are there" Jenna asked

"30" Aleu answered

"im not sure ill have enough time to get that high" Jenna said

"What got something to do today?" Aleu asked

"Yea" Jenna said looking away from aleu and across the cave to the other side.

"well we'll stop at level 15 then" Aleu said. Here is level 4"

An hour later they walked out of the cave. "you know your way back?" Aleu asked

"Yea" Jenna said "ill see you later" Jenna asked

Jenna left and headed for Nome. Aleu went back into the cave and saw Platinum. "Hi" Aleu said

"Hi, Aleu look i was wondering if you could come with me on a hunt" Platinum said.

Was he asking her out? Aleu wondered "Sure Platinum" Aleu said smiling

Kalgorn and Balto were wondering back across the field. If balto was right then they needed to backtrack west for a couple hours then turn south and go back for an entire day. Kalgorn was getting hungry again. Balto must have been too becouse he looked into the pack on his back after taking it off and then sighing.

"We're out of food" Balto said

"what are we going to do about eating then. I havent seen any animals since we left Aleu" Kalgorn said uneasily

"I don't know but we have to keep going" Balto said

Kalgorn and Balto continued walking until night had fallen then going to sleep. When they got up they started south and while they walked they saw a bird fly overhead. Balto sighed. Kalgorn's stomach growled with hunger. He tried to keep his mind off his stomach and resorted to counting his steps. So far he was on step number 1,724.

Balto knowing there was nothing to do for food kept thinking about where they were going. If they were going in the wrong direction then there could be no other way then with schere luck that would get them to anchorage and food.

Jenna was standing behind Balto and Kalgorn as they struggled up a hill. She had no idea how she had gotten there but all she knew was that she was with Balto and Kalgorn.

"Balto, Kalgorn" Jenna said smiling

They ignored