how much ive seen him" Kodi laughed

By now the rest of the team were showing signs of waking so Kodi decided to walk out side and see what it looked like. Kodi walked up to the door and stood up on his hind legs, resting his paws on the door and biting the doorknob then turning it until the door started to move outward. As soon as the door was open kodi stepped out.

All Kodi could see was whiteness. Everywhere he looked, looked the same. Tacking a few steps out he felt a chilling breeze.

"least its not as cold as it was last night" Kodi commented. Suddenly Sasha appeared at his side.

"impressive trick" Sasha complimented.

"it's not so hard. My dad has shown me a few tricks to open doors"

"your dad would be Balto right" Sasha asked

"yep" Kodi said grinning.

Kodi started to walk further out but after only a few steps he fell completely through the snow. Sasha ran out to him. "Kodi!"

 

 

 

8

"im ok. Its just deep snow" Kodi said then tried to figure out how to get out of the deep hole he'd just fallen in.

Kodi tried to take a few steps and the snow collapesed on top of him. Sasha fell down too.

"glad you could join the party" Kodi chuckled and shook the snow off his face.

feeling bare ground underneath his paws kodi saw that they were on the side of a steep hill and he concluded that they could just walk up the hill and out of the snow. Taking a few steps kodi caused even more snow to fall ontop of him but most of it fell on Sasha.

"Kodi!" Sasha exclaimed. "What are you doing?"

"we're on a hill. We can walk up the hill and out of this hole" Kodi explained.

Kodi started to take more steps but sasha said "Hang on kodi. Let me get beside you so im not burried"

So kodi waited while Sasha struggled up the hill, slipping on the soft snow every now and then.

After a few minutes she was at his side and they started forward. It wasn't long before sasha was knocked backward and rolled down the hill.

Kodi ran back down to her and helped her climb back up.

since sasha seemed to have more troubled moving out of the snow than kodi did, he walked behind her and pushed her from behind.

Finally they were out of the snow but they were both soaking wet and the cold wind blowing didn't help either.

"this really helped us didn't it?" sasha said sarcastically and shook her fur dry, spraying kodi.

"Hay" Kodi said "watch it"

"sorry" Sasha said looking back at kodi.

Kodi mimicked sasha and followed her back insid the wooden house and sat down at the fire next to each other.

 

 

1 hour later kodi and sasha along with the rest of the team were running back to nome. Kodi noticed how the musher had taken a lil longer to put the straps around him and sasha. Almost as if he was thinking about switching them.

This caused kodi to give it his all that morning. Everytime his hind legs touched the snow he jumped further. It wasn't but a few minutes before he was dragging ralph and kirby. Though Sasha stayed right with kodi. Mimicking his runing.

 

 

9

"Kodi"

"huh?"

"What was that all about?"

"what?"

Kodi and the rest of the team were back in nome and the straps had just been taken off them. Kodi and Sasha were waking towards Kalgorns.

"the running. You don't normally run like that. I had to run alot faster to stay with you" Sasha pointed out.

Kodi sighed then looked around at her. "ok ive been on the sled team for a little under a year now and ive been trying to get to lead dog postition the hole time but Kirby has always been ahead of me. And earlier today the musher seemed like he was thinking about switching me and you and i know once he does that i may never get to lead dog" Kodi confessed

"Is that it?" Sasha asked chuckling

"yea?" Kodi said confused

"it's nothing, don't worry about being replaced by me. Ive never really cared to be lead dog anyway" Sasha said

Kodi didn't push her on the subject but instead he challanged her to a race to kalgorns. After telling her where kalgorn lived they started.

Kodi and Sasha were side by side for the first few seconds but soon sasha started to get ahead of kodi so kodi pushed himself harder. Now kodi was ahead of sasha. They were almost at Kalgorns when sasha started to pass him again so kodi resumed his style of running he had done earlier that day and started to pass sasha fast. By the time they got to kalgorn's even kodi's tail was ahead of sasha.

"you let me win that didn't you?" Kodi asked sasha when they both had come to a stop.

Sasha grinned innocently.

Kodi shook his head. "alright when we leave im racing you to the boat just by the beach and this time i want you to give it everything you've got. Don't hold back just so i'll fell better"

"if you say so" Sasha chuckled

 

 

 

 

10

As kodi and sasha walked around to the back of kalgorns they heard loud high pitched barking.

"Togan" Kodi said to sasha.

They rounded the corner and saw a small brown pup crouched on the ground sneaking up from behind on kalgorn, who was busy talking with misty. As Kodi and Sasha watched togan stopped right behind his dad and pounced on his back.

Kalgorn jumped and yelled.

"Togan, please don't do that when daddy is talking to mommy" Kalgorn said.

Kodi chuckled but sasha had gasped.

"what?" Kodi asked then noticed Sasha was staring at Kalgorn's back. "oh yea. Told ya he had that same mark"

"It's like an exact replica of my mark" Sasha said

Kodi noticed that misty had spotted them. He was surprised she hadn't noticed them sooner. Sasha was red and blue and kodi was a dark rust red and tannish. Their surroundings were the wooden fence and the white snow.

"Kodi! good to see ya" Misty said smiling. Kalgorn looked around and saw Kodi.

"Hay kodi. I didn't expect you so soon. I see you've brought a friend"

"yea, this is Sasha. I told you about her" Kodi replied

"yes, Kodi tells me that me and you bear the same mark. He told me yours was on your neck." Kalgorn said walking up to sasha with a friendly smile.

"yea its on the back of my neck" Sasha said turning around letting kalgorn and misty see.

"this is surprising" Kalgorn chuckled. "i never thought anyone else had this mark"

"Any idea what it could mean?" Misty asked

"nope. As far as i know its just a Z" Kalgorn said

"What are your parent's names?" Misty asked Sasha

"umm, im not sure of my dad since he was killed shortly after i was born but my mom was Kira" Sasha explained

The name sounded familiar to kodi.

"That name rings a sort of bell." Kalgorn said thinking

"same here" Kodi said.

"well i can't think of where but ive heard that name before" Kalgorn said

Suddenly Togan jumped onto Kodi's back. Kodi jumped and looked back.

"Togan get off Kodi" Misty said walking around sasha and picking togan up off kodi's back.

"awww, i never get to have any fun" Togan whined as Misty took him away and into the house.

Kodi heard sasha chuckle.

"Where are you from sasha?" Kalgorn asked

"Im from near this place called Ice Point Cliff. There was a town not far from it. I lived there.

Kodi gasped.

"what?"

"That name. I know it. Ice Point Cliff. Remember Kalgorn. Dad told us about how his parents and his SISTER. That's it. Kira, Sasha's mother, was dad's SISTER. and Ice Point Cliff, that's where dad used to live. His dad was stealing food from that butcher that lived in a town not far from where they lived." Kodi exclaimed.

Kalgorn stared at kodi.

"But. . ." Kalgorn started "i thought dad said Kira was killed along with his parents"

"Kira must have somehow survived" Kodi said. "im gunna go tell dad"

And with that Kodi took off running.

"Is it possible i might be some really distant relative of yours?" Sasha asked looking back to Kalgorn.

"i think its entirely possible" Kalgorn smiled

 

 

11

"Dad!" Kodi said running into his moms house.

It was empty. His mom was there but she was snoozing on the couch. Kodi crept out of the house so as not to wake her then thought where His dad could be. Finally kodi decided to try the Boat.

Sure enough when he got there he saw his dad sitting on the railing looking out into the distance.

"dad" Kodi said

Balto looked around and saw Kodi.

"Kodi, hay. What are you doing here?" Kodi asked climbing down off the rail.

"I just wanted to tell you something" Kodi said then went on "I think your sister wasn't killed by that hunter"

Balto looked at kodi curiously for a minute then asked "what do you mean?"

"you told me that your sister Kira was killed along with your parents" Kodi explained

"oh, yea. What makes you think she wasn't?" Balto asked curiously

"well Sasha, a friend of mine from the sled team has the same mark on her neck that Kalgorn has on his back and she told me and kalgorn that her mom was Kira" Kodi went on.

Balto interested said "where is sasha now?"

"She was with Kalgorn when i left" Kodi replied

"lets go see if she's still there" Balto said and jumped down off the boat and ran off in the direction of Kalgorns. Kodi not far behind.

 

"Sasha?" Kodi said walking around Kalgorns.

Kodi saw that Sasha and Kalgorn were still talking.

Sasha looked around at the sound of her name.

"Kodi, that was fast" Sasha said standing up. She walked over to balto and said "Ive heard alot about you"

"Really?" Balto chuckled

Kodi walked over to Kalgorn while balto and Sasha talked and asked kalgorn "so what happened while i was gone?"

"nothing. We were just talking about wheater she could be related to us. However distantly" Kalgorn replied.

 

 

After the exciting discovery of Sasha's mother being his dad's sister that day kodi had completely forgotten that they didn't have to run the mail the next day. As a result Kodi ended up going to sleep hours before anyone else.

When he woke up the next morning he noticed that he was the only one up. As kodi lay there gathering his thoughts he remembered that there was no mail to run that day. Slightly relieved

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