said Misty. “WHY ARE WE STILL ARGUING!?!” asked Scylla again.

This went on for hours until finally, Max gave up. Aleu was to powerful, not just with her brain, but with her strength, too. Have you noticed how her dream about the ice flows that she had was involved in this? It reminded her of what her father and Nava did which she told to Max. Soon, her other dream will kick in, also.

The mystery of the stolen meat had been solved and the living beings, plural, responsible for it were, you guessed it, the hunters. Not a single wolf was surprised. Now they had to come up with a plan to figure out how to keep those hunters away. “I’ve go it!” Aleu exclaimed. “We can just do what Boris, Muk, Luk, and my father did just as the human, who I thought was going to adopt me, attacked!” The wolves spread out around the territory, waiting for the humans. When one, or when all of them, came, they would do the exact same thing that Muk, Luk, Boris, and Balto did at the time just mentioned. Of course they weren’t there, but Aleu explained it to them. “It also works perfectly tat there are more humans and more of us.” The plan worked and no human ever went by there again for what seemed like forever.

The next few days were very uneventful other than another five hour argument with Max about the same topic as before.

One night, Robert claimed he saw a UFO. Ginger saw it, too, only it was just a meteor. She told that to Robert and he became very disappointed. Kiba and Kali were not there yet, and said they saw a UFO, too. Ginger told them, too, that it was just a meteor. They were disappointed, too, but not as much as Robert.

One day, Aleu woke up early in the morning with one though in her head. “Will I be able to stay the leader of this pack?” She thought about this until it was time to go on the morning hunt. They were very successful and everyone had enough to eat and they stored the leftovers in the cave. Aleu still had this thought in her head when she and the other wolves heard a loud roaring. “Fire!” someone yelled. The wolves were so startled; some of them stopped still looking at the flames that were not even a mile away. All four wolf packs fled in the opposite direction of the fire. When all forty-eight wolves were in safety, they watched as most of Garret’s and a small section of Thunder’s territory were burned to the ground.

They all went back to their territories except Garret and his pack. The ground was still too hot to walk on. While they were waiting for the ground to cool, they stayed at Thunder’s territory because it was the biggest. Soon, everything got back to normal. “That fire was the biggest I’ve ever seen a fire be!” exclaimed Scylla. “When do we eat? ‘Cause I’m starved!” asked Max It’s not even close to dinnertime! Go catch a rabbit or something.” said Aleu. Molly asked, “Will you ever learn to be patient, Max?” “I am not impatient, I’m just hungry.” “You sure seem impatient.” “That’s ‘cause I’m hungry!” “…and impatient.” Max’s face glowed red and steam flew out his ears. “Can we just have a little snack?” “You can, but no one else is hungry.” said Aleu. Max gazed at the pack in disbelief. Aleu sensed his disbelief and asked him, “What do not believe? Aren’t we allowed to not be hungry?” “Yes you are, but I just can’t believe you’re not hungry.” “Max, that’s because you’re always hungry.” “I am not always hungry! Ok, so I am, but that is not a reason to insult me!” “We weren’t insulting you! We were just trying to explain that we weren’t hungry.” “And you did that by insulting me!” “Tell us where we insulted you.” “You insulted me by saying I’m always hungry!” “That’s actually more of a compliment.” It is no-… it is?” “In a way, it means you exercise more, needing more energy, which comes from food.” “Ok, it is if you look at it that way…” “Ha! You admitted it! We’re not insulting you!” Max took in a loud, deep breath, but did not seem to let it out. It just escaped him somehow. “That’s over, but now it is dinnertime.” “So let’s eat!!!” “Yeah, what are we waiting for!?! It’s time to go on the hunt!”

After dinner, Max came to Aleu. “Sorry about all the trouble I am. I’m not trying to be like this, it’s just that that’s how I express how much I miss Nava. I know he’s not coming back, but…” A long moment of silence followed. “I just want him back.” He walked away. “That was weird.” Aleu thought.

The next morning was the same and almost everyone was bored. “I think this would be the perfect time for that meteor to turn into a UFO and land right here in front of our mussels.” mumbled Robert. “Oh, we’ll find something to do.” said Ginger. “Yeah, when that UFO lands here.” Robert said with a frown. “Don’t be that way, everything will turn into the most excitement you’ve ever had!” exclaimed Ginger. “When the UFO arrives.” said Robert, again. “It looks like its here!” said Ginger above the noise of an over passing bush plane with the words “Balto Flyer” on it. Aleu was the more interested than any of them, wondering if this Balto was the same Balto as her father.

It landed on the other side of where the fire had taken place as they were. Aleu chased it, trying to keep up with it. When she finally got to it, it was on the ground. She exclaimed, “That thing is louder than a wild eyed grizzly!” She heard a human, not the airplane pilot, after the pilot handed him a bag of mail, say, “Thank you Duke. Why don’t you deice your plane while I go get you some fuel?” Duke got another bag from inside the compartment from where the bag of mail came from. He took a tool from it and started to chip away the ice from the wings of his plane. Finally, the other man came out with a large canister of fuel. Aleu sniffed the airplane and was sure she smelled her father, Balto, and one of her brothers, Kodi! She was so surprised about this that she jumped in and started searching for one of them. A bag of mail was thrown on top of her and the hatch was closed and locked! She was trapped! She started to claw at the hatch and whimpered. It was no use! The deafening sound of the engine started up again. “Ughhh!” groaned Aleu. “I have no idea where this thing is going!”

After the exaggerating trip in the bush plane, the hatch was opened again and the bag of mail taken out. Aleu was unnoticed, so she climbed out. “How in the world did this happen!?! I’m back in Nome!!! I wonder where my parents are.” Aleu was so surprised, she felt dizzy. The first place she looked for her parents were, obviously, their houses, her mother’s first. “Aleu!?! Wait, you can’t be Aleu, she’s all the way across the Bering Sea!” “I was until I got a free ride on that bush plane,” Her mother literally jumped on her and hugged Aleu harder than she has ever hugged anyone before and Aleu’s eyes seemed to be popping out. “I was one hundred percent sure you would stay in Russia! This is a miracle!” “I never was in Russia, though. I was on an island just off of Russia called St. Lawrence Island.” “Wherever that is… But this is great!!!” “I will have to go back, you know. I am the leader of a wolf pack there.” “A wolf pack!?! Your father just said that you finally found a home, in Russia.” “He was wrong then.” “You’re not still upset with him, are you?” “No! Of course not! That was almost a year ago anyways.” “Well, come on then! Let’s go over there!” On the way over, Aleu told her mother she was sorry about not saying goodbye. “That’s okay, all that matters is that you’re here!”

When they got there, Jenna told Balto the whole story. “I can’t believe it’s you! I mean, come on, this almost never happens! Maybe it’s the first time it ever did happen, in the history of the world!” “You know I will have to go back to St. Lawrence Island, right?” “Yes, but does that mean tonight?” “No, but very soon.”

Back on St. Lawrence Island, the pack was too puzzled to talk. “What’ll we do now?” was the question in everyone’s mind. The temporary leader was chosen the next day. Votes told that Scylla was to be this leader. Aleu stayed longer than they wanted her to be, and longer than she wanted to be there, too. Ok, back to Nome.

Aleu and her parents had much fun together until the next flight to St. Lawrence Island, which was a little over a month after Aleu arrived. “By everyone!” said Aleu as jumped into the hatch. “I hope this will become an annual trip!” Aleu joked. It wasn’t going to be an annual trip, but it was going to happen again in a few years, but this time on purpose.

Aleu arrived back on St. Lawrence Island at night and the bush plane did not leave until the next day. “Hey guys!” said Aleu as she trotted back onto her territory. “Where were you?” asked Scylla. “Nome.” “What were you doing there and how did you get there? It’s not winter, so how did you cross the Bering Sea?” “By the loud flying thingy. Also known as a bush plane.” “Was it fun?” “No. It was exactly the opposite of fun. Loud, smelly, and I was being thrown around inside.” “How long did it take?” “A few hours.” “Really? ‘Cause that thing flies super fast.” “I know. But the thing is, is that I’m back now. Have you guys eaten yet?” “Yes.” “I haven’t, so I’m going into the woods to catch a rabbit. I’ll be back as soon as I can.” Aleu found more food than she was going to eat but she did not store the leftovers in their cave, she dug a hole, placed them in the bottom of the hole, and filled it up.

In the morning, Aleu remembered about the way everyone got up in a certain order. Again, it was that same order as before. She couldn’t remember why, but she knew that it was not a problem, just something that happened naturally. The first one to do anything else was Max. He stomped right over to Aleu. Aleu asked, “What do you want?” “I want you… you better just leave me alone today…” Jack went to Scylla to ask what they were going to do first. Aleu wondered why Scylla was in charge of everything now. “Scylla, can I go to the beach “Sure, but be back when the hunting call goes off.” “Got it.”

When Aleu got to the