she would run on his team, Kodi had been listening and gave a deep sigh when he heard them agree, Saluka grinned at him,                                             "Well done", Balto congratulated her as he and Jenna approached, Jenna nuzzled her.

Two weeks later a pack of wolves and dogs a mile or so outside of town were watching a light grey female named Alexi argue with a cream and brown husky named Ben, they were arguing because a collie/husky cross named Mist and a red Husky named Stitch had told Ben that Alexi fancied him and told Alexi that Ben did'nt like her and when Ben tried it on with Alexi she snapped and they'd been arguing ever since, Stitch and Mist were the only ones finding it funny, Tenaka, Jake, a medium sized darker grey male wolf, Snowy, a small white and brown female wolf, Moonlit, a smaller blueish coloured female wolf and Valo, a large black male wolf were all unimpressed with the joke, Valo was growing irritated by the bickering and snapped at them,                                             "Enough of the arguing!", he shouted at them, Alexi and Ben jumped at the at the loudness of his voice, Stitch and Mist stopped giggling too,                                                           "No more of the fighting", Valo scolded them, "And you two should grow up!", he shot at Mist and Stitch, they both slank back, Jake removed his paws from over his ears and gave a sigh of relief, Valo sat back down,Tenaka relaxed without the arguing. After an hour Valo heard a sound in the bushes, he raised his head and stared towards the bush,                                                            "What is it?", Tenaka asked noticing Valo, the others all looked in Valo's direction too,                                                   "Something in the bushes", he answered without looking away from the bush, the others all stood up, Valo did too, he raised his hackles as something approached, he was about to attack when a brown dog stumbled out of the bush, he was mostly light brown with dark brown and white markings, they could smell that he was like Tenaka, part wolf, Valo rolled his eyes,                            "You deal with this one", he told Tenaka as he turned his back on the new-comer,                                                               "Something I said?", the dog asked as Tenaka walked up to him,    "Oh, never mind Valo, he's just that way with everyone, I'm Tenaka", Tenaka told the dog,                                        "Tenaka huh?", the dog asked,                                        "Yeah...why?", Tenaka questioned,                                        "Heh, I'm Sarchie, your brother", Sarchie smiled, "Glad I found ya", "Brother?", Tenaka exclaimed,                                           "Yeah, mother Jenna, father Balto, both from Nome...", Sarchie half explained,                                                                         "So mum and dad had more pups", Tenaka asked feeling quite shocked,                                                                                "Well obviously or I would'nt be here would I?", Sarchie laughed, Tenaka just looked stunned,                                                   "So who's the leader?", Sarchie asked, no one really knew, they had'nt thought about who their leader might be before,        "Valo!", Jake announced without thinking, everyone looked at him, "Valo is", he said again, they all thought about it for a couple of seconds then all nodded in agreement, Valo looked shocked for the first time,                                                                    "So...can I join your pack then Valo?", Sarchie asked, Valo looked at him,                                                                           "Why not, one more dog won't hurt", Valo moaned at the thought of another dog, Sarchie smiled. Later that night Jake explained to Valo why he said he was their leader,                                        "You're the largest, fastest, strongest and wisest of all of us, it makes sense for you to be our leader", Jake told Valo, Valo nodded and then walked off to sleep on what had become his rock, it was the tallest around and he could keep an eye on everything from there, he smiled to himself at the thought of finally being the leader of his own pack. Next day the pack went out hunting to teach Sarchie the ropes, the hunt went well and they all fed well, Sarchie felt happy he was part of the pack, so far he'd figured that Valo was to be left alone most of the time unless he wants to speak with you and that Mist, Stitch and Ben were at the bottom of the pecking order, he felt proud he was above them, Valo made them the Omega's because they were all dog, Tenaka and Sarchie were part wolf, whilst walking back through the forest, Tenaka and Sarchie talked the whole time about their parents and about Nome while Jake talked with Snowy, when Snowy and Moonlit first joined the pack they were inseperable but recently Snowy had been spending more time with Jake, Valo rolled his eyes and carried on walking ahead, after only a few steps he stopped dead, Tenaka and Sarchie walked right into him,                                      "What is it?", Jake asked, Valo's ears twitched back and forth, everyone grew nervous, Valo span around and faced the way they'd