”No luckily I didn’t…” Marlow said in a desperate voice and still kept walking forwards.

”Okey then,” Sniper said with a smile then passed him and walked away…

Other soldiers watched that a bit sarcastically, most of them didn’t have anything against half breeds. Rika was one too; they had already ignored her heritage. Who would care about it right now? Only thing what was on the soldiers’ minds was to get home safely and get food and a bath.

”I’m dirty!” Scope cursed when he shook his fur and noticed that one of his bags had been ripped off, he cursed it.

”I lost everything that I had there!” He shouted and bit a small branch in desperation.

”Aww Scope will miss his dinner all the time…” Janice joked while she walked beside Speedy.

Speedy himself didn’t say a thing; he was walking quietly and leaning on Janice who was helping him to walk. He didn’t know why she did this but he didn’t mind to complain. His eyes scanned around the area, which usually had been quiet, the town was soon behind them, the trip to Nome had now started…

Meanwhile: Jack who had been running for a while had ran into someone and flew back.

”Was auf aller Welt..?” A German soldier exclaimed. He raised his gun and aimed at once at Jack’s chest with a Kar98 model rifle, he then noticed the dogs coming towards him and loaded his weapon.

”Halt! Hände hoch du Schwein! Versuch nicht, etwas zu machen!” The SS soldier shouted and then without warning suddenly shot Jack in the chest. The dogs were shocked. Jack shouted in pain and hit the ground. The SS soldier raised his gun to shoot the dogs but suddenly Janice, Sniper and Legion attacked him ripping the soldier’s neck and back.

”Scheisse! Bleibt weg ihr Schwein-Hünde!” The SS soldier shouted. Then finally he screamed and died on the ground, blood running down from his neck…

Legion spit on his body. “Damn SS wanders,” he said and looks at the dogs, he saw that they had just arrived, he thought something.

Dusty stopped when she saw Legion. She remembered that horrible nasty small desert soldier, she slowly shook her head.

”No… It can’t be… Him…” She said quietly and stepped back, memories being a hostage swam up in her mind. She hit Ralph while she backed up.

”Ouh what you are doing…?” Ralph asked. He then noticed Legion, Janice and Sniper, soon the whole group of wounded and unwounded dogs arrived in view.

”Jetz I guess we meet the Nome Dogs once again…” Salama snapped when he walked up next to Jetz who thought something hard.

”Unfortunately… But also they are our only chance to get most of the wounded soldiers to care…” Jetz said and sat down while he sighed.

Balto saw those dogs too, he noticed that they were badly outnumbered and they didn’t have any chance in beating them- so many well trained soldiers. Jetz then started to walk towards him; he took peaceful steps to show that he wasn’t going to hurt them, he calmly stepped in front of Balto. He knew well that he would be the leader since he was the so called ‘hero’ who had saved one town, but never given any blood for his country like Jetz had same as the other on his team…

”I guess you are the lead dog of this… I guess sled team?” Jetz said, he wasn’t so sure but when he counted there was one sled team and other dogs as well, and that was too much.

”Yes, I am the leader of this small group… And I guess you are the leader of your one,” Balto replied and looked straight into Jetz’s eyes.

”Unfortunately I am now the leader of this team, all the officers have been wounded, half of the whole dog divisions have been slaughtered, there aren’t anymore of us left. What was it in the start, 30? Now left are about 15 of my team, plus reinforcements,” Jetz said, from his eye one could see that he didn’t want to talk about losses.

”What do you mean?” Dusty suddenly asked Jetz who gave only a small smile to her. “Antoria…. I guess you are heading there… Well it is destroyed…” Jetz said coldly.

May shook her head slowly. “There has been a great battle against the SS, victory is USA’s but that cost several lives and a whole town is burned down, there isn’t anything useful left… I’m sorry,” Jetz said and lowered his voice he then looked behind him at the others, Rika limped up next to Jetz.

”He is saying the truth, my team has been slaughtered there, I’m the only survivor of it,” she said and whined about her wounds a bit.

”And now we are helpless… Most of these dog soldiers are wounded, they won’t survive if they don’t get a vet or any help…” Jetz added, his voice was cold, but he knew what he was talking about…

”Well I don’t mind anything of your words! SOLDIER!” Fang shouted and growled at Rika and Jetz, one wounded soldier growled back, and he was one of those who had made it back from the hand-to-hand combat alive.

”What you will say it against house dog!” He shouted and walked in front of Fang and growled loudly, from his eyes can see that he have seen enough…

”Private get back to your place,” Rika ordered but the young soldier ignored her, Legion walked up next to Jetz, his cold look nailed the young private.

”C’mon I like to see you in action, we don’t need to watch filthy soldiers like you,” Fang growled, Kodi supported Fang and growled at the soldier as well.

”Dad don’t take those suggestions… They will kill us anyway,” Kodi said and showed his fangs; the young soldier growled and took one step closer to Kodi.

Suddenly he attacked, but Legion jumped in between interrupting his attack. They both hit the ground, without mercy Legion ripped the soldier’s throat and killed him, the private yelped loudly and then he was dead.

”As I can see, some of the soldiers don’t agree with you Kodi, I warn you and the others, Legion won’t succeed in stopping them all…” Jetz said and nodded at Legion who ripped the collar off the dead soldier’s neck.

Kodi swallowed something and took a step back, he now realized how fast Legion had killed that soldier, and he knew that he couldn’t do that to him or his friend. “Dad…?” he asked and tried not to look like he would be scared.

”How we can help you?” Balto asked he didn’t want to kill his friends with saying no.

“My friend… You can also say no if you don’t want to help us,” Jetz said and sighed, he look behind him when he heard voices, one soldier had hit the ground.

”C’mon hang on you don’t…. You can’t just die right now!” Kat shouted she tried encouraging this dying soldier.

Kodi and the others went to look at him. Kodi looked at the soldier whose muzzle was covered in dry blood. A soldier who had silver-white fur, but it looked dirty and bloody, his eyes were desperate and he was crying.

”Am… Am I going to die..?” He asked, Kodi swallowed, this was his first time when he saw a dying dog, he couldn’t say anything about it, and he was shocked like his friends next to