The Later Life Of Balto

Volume 1

It was dawn, just before the sunrise. It was 1 year after the Bush Plane arrived in Nome. Since 1925, Steele has been looked up under the hospital for lying about Balto in front of Jenna and the rest of the dogs. Steele was eating his little bit of food he would get daily. "Balto will pay. I have been locked down here for 4 years. Now he is famous, which it should have been me who was famous. Not Balto. What a dumb wolfdog. Once i get out of here, I will make Balto pay." A Doctor walked through the hospitial, checking on a few paitents. He went to the medecine room to sit down for a while. Steele went under the room and started to bark loudly. "What in tarnation is that noise!" yelled the doctor. He noticed it was coming from under the floor. "Hey. That bark sounds like Steele's bark!" The doctor quickly got a hammer and some tools to get through the floor. The doctor finaly got part of the floor up, and Steele came out. "Steele! How did you get under there? You have been gone for 4 years. Come on. I'll get you some food." The doctor took Steele to get some food.

Balto woke up, and drank a little water from his bowl. "I wonder how Jenna is doing. Probobly sleeping. It is early in the morning, so she must be sleeping." Balto saw that Boris was also still sleeping, along with stella. "I wonder if they are going to have kids or not." said Balto. Balto left to head toward town to meet up with Kodi before he left with the mail for the next town. As Balto passed the totem pole, he noticed something different about it. The wolf at the bottom had been scratched up pretty bad. "Those claw scratches... They look familiar to me." Balto decided not to care, and he went on to see Kodi before his team left. Once Balto reached the post office, Balto was proud to see Kodi set as lead dog. "Good job, Kodi. I see you finaly got to be lead dog. I am very proud son." said Balto. "Thanks dad. Say, what are you doing in town this early?" asked Kodi. "Oh, i just wanted to see you before you left. Have you ever met one of your sisters, Aleu?" asked Balto. "No. I don't think i have, dad. Was she nice?" asked Kodi. "She was a good pup. But a bit stuborn." said Balto. "Well, i am going to go check on Jenna. Have a good trip, Kodi." "See ya, dad." The sled team raced out of town, and toward White Mountain for their first stop. Balto quickly went to Jenna's home. Steele was watching him run through the city with evil eyes. "Oviously he had pups with Jenna. I know just the way to get revenge on that wolfdog." Steele krept to the store were Dipsy and Mel were. Steele looked through the window, only seeing Dipsy eating out of a bag of jerky. "He He He.." lauhed Steele. Steele entered the store, and made Dipsy jump. "Who are you?" asked Dipsy. "I am Steele, and you are the first step in my revenge plan!" Steele jumped at dipsy, and riped open her neck with his sharp teeth, killing her instantly. Steele draged Dipsy's body away from the store, and toward Balto's home. Steele spread Dipsy's blood all over Balto's blanket. Steele burried Dipsy's body under the sand, and quickly went back to the store to clean up any blood on the floor so that Dipsy's owner wouldn't know what happened.

Balto and Jenna were talking about Aleu and Kodi, before they began to couple for a little while just for fun. Balto later went to the place were all the dogs would meet to discuss stiuations. "Hey! Balto! Quickly come over here." said Doc. Balto was confused at what was happening. When Balto went over to Doc, Doc showed Balto a bag of jerky with blood stains on it. "What happened?" asked Balto. Well, we think it is Dipsy's blood. We found this in the shop a few hours after the mail dogs left. We think Dipsy was murdered..." "How could this happen? Who would do this?" asked Balto. "We don't know. We will have to start a dog investigation squad to catch anymore wierd whatever. I will gather up some of the best dogs i can find. Balto, would you be part of the squad?" asked Doc. "Ok. I wan't to know who is doing this." said Balto.

Steele listened in on there conversation. "I will need to be more carefull if i want my revenge to run smoothly. Now, to find my next victtom." Steele creeped through the town, looking for some others to kill. He decided he would kill Mell next, but wait till they discovered the blood on Balto's blanket.

Balto went home, and brought Doc, and a few other dogs that were going to be in the D.I.S. Balto ran up the little ramp to make sure everything was good so that he could bring the rest up. Balto then saw his blanket covered in Dypsy's blood. "What the heck!" yeled Balto. "Is everything ok Balto?" asked Doc. The dogs started to walk toward Balto. Balto began to panic. He lifted a board in the floor, and put the bloody blanket under it. Then before the dogs could see what he was doing, Balto sat on the piece of wood so it wouldn't pop up and reveal the bloody blanket. The dogs looked at Balto, and Balto had a creepy smile on his face."What's with the face? It is happy, but yet also disturbing." "Oh. I was making a face?..." said Balto. Doc looked down on what Balto was sitting on. "Balto, would you mind standing up for a moment?" asked Doc. "Um, well, i like sitting here. It is all nice and warm." "Get up now, or we will arest you and put you under the hospitial with Steele." Balto growled, then stood up. The part of the floor Balto was sitting on lifted up a little. One of the dogs went over and looked under it, and pulled out the bloody blanket. The rest of the dogs gasped. "Balto! Can you explain this?" Doc said, shocked. "No, i can't. I don't even know were the blood came from." said Balto. "Well, this is Dipsy's blood. It is the same collor that we found on the jerky bag." Balto let out a sigh. One of the dogs came over to Balto and said, "You are under dog arrest. Until we find out on how this blanket got covered with blood, you will be forced to be thrown under the hospitial." "No! I didn't do this! You have to believe me!" said Balto. "I'm sorry, Balto. But this is proof that you murrdered Dypsy." Balto was taken to the mill to see what should be Balto's fate. Once Jenna heard what had happened, she got as many dogs to come to the mill. "Balto, why?......" She thought.

Once Balto and the other dogs were in the mill, Doc began to speak. Mell was Balto's opponent. "Mell, what do you have to present us?" asked Doc. "Well, i have known Dypsy for a very long time. When i heard that Dipsy was murrdered, i couldn't dare come here. But i did so i could see what fate we should order Balto to. Now, Balto has no record of doing bad things. But we have proof that Balto murrdered Dypsy. Mel draged in the bag of jerrky, and Balto's blanket, and presented it to the dogs. "Now, we found this bag of beef jerky in the store. The blood on the bag matches the blood on Balto's blanket. That is the only proof that i have. I say we kill someone special to Balto for what he did to Dypsy, like Kodi or Aleu." "No! you can't do that!," yelled Balto. "After what i did to save the children here in Nome, and that i saved the pilot from the airplane, i don't understand why you would think i would do such a thing!" "I'm sorry Balto. But we have proof. All thoose in favor of Balto guilty, say I." Then almost all the dogs said I, exept for Jenna. Doc talked with a few of the dogs, then went to Balto. "Balto, we think it is only fair that you suffer the same pain that you caused Mel. We all know that you and Jenna are in love. Have you two reproduced lately?""That is so rude of you to ask that!" yelled Balto. "Say yes or no or we will have you executed here and now!" Jenna began to cry. "Fine... yes we have. We did this morning." said Balto. "Well, when Jenna's pups are born, we will have them killed. My order is final." "No!," screamed Jenna, "I wont let you kill my pups!" "Im sorry Jenna, but the desision is made. Balto, once we have killed your new pups, you will be banished from Nome for 3 years. Do you understand?" asked Doc. Balto looked up at Doc, then growled."Yes. I do." "Good. Now leave. Enjoy you last months here in Nome Balto. Im sorry it has to be this way." said Doc.

Balto left the mill, and looked for Jenna. He found her sitting on Bear Rock. As Balto approched her, she said, "Balto, i know you were telling the truth. But it is hard for me to believe that you were because of the blood on your blanket. Because of this, my pups will be born, then killed. Do you know how painfull it will be to watch my pups be killed? I don't think i can do this. But luckily it wont be our first pups." Jenna ran off, leaving Balto alone. "Who would do this to me?" Balto said to himself. Balto then felt a feeling of anger and hatred rage through him.

Jenna slowly became pregnant, and Doc went to check on Jenna to see if she had given birth yet. Steele watched his plan. "Exelent. My plan is working just fine. I will kill another to make Balto's sentence more permanent. Steele sneaked into town, looking for another dog. He then noticed the mail dogs come in. He saw Jenna come over to Kodi. When the 2 left, Steele went and followed Kirby. While Kirby was asleep, Steele bit into Kirby's neck, killing him just as fast as Dypsy. Steele draged Kirby's body to Balto's home, and laid it down on Balto's new blanket.

When Doc went to see if he could find Balto, he instead found Kirby. Laying dead on the blanket. Doc ran and got all of the dogs in the town to come over and look. While Balto was returning home, he noticed tons of dogs at his home. "What's going on here! Leave my home!" Doc draged Kirby's body to Balto. "Oh no. Not again." Balto thought. "Balto. This has gone far enough. Leave the town now. Balto saw Jenna come over. Once Jenna saw Kirby dead, she said, "Balto, i cant believe you anymore. I'm sorry. Don't ever come near me ever again! " Balto noticed Kodi and the other mail dogs behind her, looking at Balto with sad eyes. "Jenna i--" Jenna