asked Dixie “You know whats wrong?”

“Yes I know whats wrong.” Dixie looked at Balto and said “Do you want me to tell her? You can't keep it a secret for forever you know.”

“Yeah I know. And it no longer is. That's the problem. Luk just blurted it out to a room full of dogs, geese, and bears.”

Dixie growled. “I am going to skin that chubby ball of fluff. He would make a great rug...”

Jenna was now thoroughly confused. “Okay so what is going on?”

Balto turned to her and said “Everything I'm about to tell you is true. It may not sound like it but it is. Got it?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay.” Balto then told her about everything. The Kraken, the Flying Dutchman, and Davy Jones. “So far, the only people me and Boris have told about this are you, Dixie, Muk and Luk, and Kaltag. But now, half of Port Elizabeth knows it!”

Jenna put a paw on his shoulder and said “Don't worry. I bet the majority of them don't even believe it. You should go get some rest.”

Balto agreed and walked up to bed. He fell fell into a dreamless sleep for once.

He woke in the middle of the night to the sound of someone banging on the door. He got up out of bed and lighted a candle. He went down and opened the door. Five soldiers stood there. “May I help you gentlemen?”

The soldier in front spoke crisply. “You are summoned to meet with the Governor on a very urgent matter. You will come with us.”

“Hold on a minute. I don't have to come with you. I'm not in any sort of trouble.”

From the way the soldier shifted from foot to foot, he was not used to people talking back to him. He was used to people stopping whatever it was they were doing and listening to him. “Sir, you are being summoned by the Governor. You must come with us.”

Balto folded his arms across his chest. “I don't think so.”

The soldier turned to the one standing behind him and nodded. Balto saw a rifle butt coming at his face, a hard blow, then he went back to sleep.

He woke up slowly as moving his head any hurt. He tried to reach up so he could feel his head but his arms would not move. He looked down and saw that his paws were handcuffed to the chair. 'What's going on?' he thought.

“Good. You're awake.”

Balto looked toward the person talking. The Governor was sitting behind a large desk with an Admiral. Then Balto remembered what had happened. “You have no right to hold me sir.”

The Admiral laughed. “We have every right to do so.” The Admiral walked up to Balto and said “We have received news that you have survived an encounter with both the Kraken and Davy Jones.”

Balto thought up an excuse quickly. “You believe that? The bear was drunk when he said that. I don't even know what the Kraken is.”

The dog stared him right in the eye. “I have reason to believe differently. You were there that night. A vessel was attacked the same night you were. One of the crew survived. Of course, his mind is not altogether. But he saw you walking down the street one day and recognized you. He came and told us everything. You saw both of them. He unfortunately has died of a sickness recently. Now I want you to come with me on an expedition to find and destroy both Davy Jones and the Kraken.”

“And why the sudden urge to do that?”

“Within the last ten years nearly 26 vessels have been destroyed by unexplainable causes. Well over half of them have been broken in half by something massive. Now we know what it is, and we want to get rid of it. And you are going to help us.”

“I don't have to.”

The Admiral walked over to a stack of papers on the desk. He held them up to show Balto. “Do you know what these are?”

Balto looked closer. “I believe that they are a list of laws.”

“Very good. I brought these to show you one law in particular. Ah, here it is. It talks about about one withholding information about a criminal. A very serious crime.”

Balto couldn't help but laugh. “A criminal? If I remember all those story's correctly, Davy Jones is the ruler of the Ocean. Sounds like he can do whatever he wants to do.”

The Admiral glared at him. “Not when he is messing with my ships! I will find him and destroy him. And as I have said already, you are going to help me. Otherwise, I am going to take this before a judge and when he finds out that you have been interfering with the capture of a criminal, well, time to go to the gallows.”

Balto gulped nervously but said “If you did that, you would be killing an innocent person. I don't know anything about Davy Jones.”

The Admiral started walking around Balto. “I didn't say that you would be the one going to the gallows. I have information concerning a certain goose by the name of Boris.”

Balto tried to jump out of the chair at the dog, but the cuffs held him in place. “He hasn't done anything!”

The Admiral chuckled. “Not yet. But I can, arrange things, you might say.”

Balto looked over at the Governor. “Are you going to let him do something like that?”

The dog behind the desk nodded. “I want that accursed Davy Jones gone as well.”

“So what do you say Mister Balto? Are you going to come help me find Davy Jones or are you going to condemn your best friend to death?”

Balto knew he was beat. “Fine. I'll go with you. But how are we supposed to find Davy Jones? The ocean is a very big place.”

“I have my ways.”

The Admiral started to make his way out of the room when Balto called to him “What's your name?”

The dog stood in the doorway. “Steele. And from here on out, you are going to do anything I tell you to.”

“Can I tell my friends what's going on?”

“No need” Steele said. “We left a message saying that you were called away on urgent business.”

Steele turned to the two soldiers standing guard. “Take his cuffs off. We leave immediately.”

Balto was relived to have the cuffs taken off. He rubbed his wrists to get the blood flowing back to his paws. Early the next day, he followed the two guards out to the dock. He was impressed with the ship. It was huge. He counted the cannons down the side of the ship. There were around fifty cannons. That meant that this ship had 100 cannons on three different decks. And if he remembered what Boris had told him about his days in the navy, one of these ships could carry over 500 ordinary sailors not including Captain and officers. They even had their own small army of 130 marines.

Balto looked around the dock and realized that it wasn't just one of these ships. It was a fleet of five ships! So all in all, he was part of a military expedition of five hundred cannons, five massive warships, and an army of over six hundred. Not bad. 'We might even stand a chance' Balto thought.

He was pushed onto the ship rather hard and was brought to the Admirals room. Steele was sitting at his desk with a load of maps and charts figuring out which heading to take. He looked up as the soldiers brought Balto in. “Ah good. Our guide. Please sit down.”

Balto preferred to stand.

Steele sat back down in his chair and said “I want you to tell me everything you know about the Kraken, the Flying Dutchman, and Davy Jones.”

Balto thought for a second, then said “The Kraken is big, the Flying Dutchman is big, and Davy Jones would not win very many beauty contests.”

Steele glared at him. “Anything else?”

“I guess you should know about his crew. All of them are part sea creature. Including Davy Jones. And from what I saw, they are very talented with weapons. And the most dangerous thing they can do is suddenly appear on board.”

“What do you mean 'appear on board'?”

“Say the Flying Dutchman is right over there. We lock the doors to this room. The crew of the Flying Dutchman would suddenly appear in here with no trouble. You can't predict where they'll come from. One could come out of the wall and another one could come out of the topgallant mast.”

Steele was making notes in a little book. He looked up from it and said “What about the Kraken?”

This is the one thing that Balto did not what to talk about. He remembered all too well the day that, if it would not have been for Boris, he would currently be digesting in the Krakens stomach.

“The Kraken is huge. I can't stress that point enough. It is probably ten times the size of this ship. It's tentacles are very long and it can break a ship in two as you found out. And I pity any poor soul that sees that beasts mouth. I think that me and Boris are the only two who have seen it and not been eaten.”

Steele was scribbling away in his little book again and he didn't even look up when he said “Yes, thank you. Go away now.”

The soldiers escorted him out of the room and assigned him to work in the rigging of the ship.

Balto complained about it. “I don't know how to do anything with sails!”

“Well then you better learn. Get up there.”

Balto hated being on boats. Just looking into the water made him uneasy. He remembered the time he looked the Kraken straight in the eye. Now, not only was he on a boat but he had to work up in the sails. He was afraid of heights too. “This just keeps getting better and better” he grumbled as he climbed up.

After ten minutes of climbing, he finally reached the fighting top (a platform halfway up the mast). He climbed in it feeling very seasick already because of the increasing of the ship rocking.

“It'll pass after a while” a voice next to him said. He turned to see a young dog standing beside him. “Oh, I'm Kodi by the way.”

Balto tried to reach out and shake the dogs paw but felt like he would fall if he let go

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