way.

Aniu: " Move."

Black Cloud: " It's still early. Be my mate or say good bye to your pack."

Ibbiq: " Leave her alone!"

 Black Cloud turned back and looked at Ibbiq.

Black Cloud: " Is this a challenge? Cause it sounded like one."

Ibbiq: " Go away and leave her alone. Get a life!"

Aniu: " Ibbiq! Don't do anything dumb!"

Black Cloud: " Very well, Aniu. Your new mate will be the first!"

 And with that he lunged at Ibbiq. Aniu ran towards her pack and warned them. With that everyone ran to another place. When Black Cloud's pack had reached the place, no one was there. They started to think of Black Cloud and growled.

 Ibbiq wasn't really a good fighter. He was losing. Black Cloud grabbed him by the neck and threw him against a big boulder. His vision started to blurry. He saw blurs throwing themsleves at a Black Cloud before everything went black.

 Whispers were everywhere. there was one in particular. A warm voice that belonged to a female. Ibbiq's senses finally came to him and he opened one eye. He heard a voice say, He's awake. Everyone stared at him until the voice shouted: " Hooray for Ibbiq the hero!" The brown husky finally found the source and saw Aniu giving him her warm smile as everyone cheered. He slowly got up and walked up to her, then nuzzling her.

Aniu: " You saved the pack. Thank you."

Ibbiq: " I have to take care of you now that we're mates."

 Everyone just cheered harder. Some wolves lowered there heads in disapointment. Island and Stripes looked at Ibbiq as he and Aniu nuzzled and licked each other. That night Aniu and Ibbiq slept with each other. In the morning Ibbiq got up and watchd the sunrise.

Aniu: " Ibbiq?"

Ibbiq: " Yeah Aniu?"

Aniu: " Why did you ask me about pups the other time?"

Ibbiq: " I was just curious."

Aniu: " Let's hope that our pups aren't too curious."

 Ibbiq looked at Aniu surprised as the sun popped out of the mountains. He was now to be a father.

 After two months the day had come. Ibbiq was nervously pacing outside the cave. Finally he was aloud to come in. He looked and saw Aniu with two puppies near her, she had a happy and sad expression. One puppy that was brown was nursing, the other who was cream and white stayed there.

Ibbiq: " My son. He's as beautiful as his mother."

Aniu: " You could've had a daughter, she didn't survive."

Husky: " *sigh* It's a shame, but we still have a survivor. What'll we name him?"

Aniu: " I was thinking of a name, Balto."

Husky: " It's perfect!"

 Island and Stripes enter.

Island: " Balto, what a beautiful name."

 That day everyone stayed in the cave and welcomed the newcomer. Two days later Ibbiq was outside thinking about his new family. He hears a rustling sound from a bush and slowly a dog comes out, with white stuff on the sides of his mouth.

Dog: " I finally found you, we didn't finish that fight."

Ibbiq: " Go away, I live in a wolf pack and you do not want to be tracked down by them."

Dog: " Oh, I won't go away that easily."

 Ibbiq growled as the dog lunged, he got a grip on Ibbiq's leg and bit down. Ibbiq bit his neck as the dog tried to throw him. Soon Ibbiq was the one being bit down by neck, it all happened too fast. He felt his oxigen being cut off.

Ibbiq: " I tried Aniu."

 He stopped struggling and fell to the ground. The dog looked up and saw wolves growling at him. Too much to count. The dog thought a moment and ran away, being chased. Island and Stripes saw what happened and soon told Aniu.

Soon enough the silver wolf was laying next to the white wolf, nudging her and doing her best to comfort her.

" I'm sorry Aniu." Was all she could say.

" What will become of Balto?" She said between sobs.

" I don't know, but we must make the best out of the situation."

" Yes, thank you."

 In her dream, Balto was laughing and playing with his father as Aniu looked at them from a distance. Then, a shadow of a dog and his human slowly emerged, starting to cover up her family. It passed over them and having ended, she couldn't find neither of them. A fog began to grow in the air. Aniu started to walk around worridly, and turned around all of a sudden, to find Ibbiq, that was seemed to be kind of transparent. Suddenly Aniu woke up, gasping and shuddering at her dream.

She could hear tiny whimpers, and saw her son on the floor on his back. She chuckled, putting him in a better position, and began to groom young Balto.

" Don't worry, I'll take care of you as long as I'm alive." She said with a whisper.

 She looked outside the cave and saw a star shining brighter than the others.

" Ibbiq, did you do the right thing?" She asked, blinking.

 The star blinked, almost as if answering.

" Guide Balto with the help of the spirits." She said drowsily, laying her head down, she curled up around Balto and went back to sleep. The aurora started to dance in the sky, and somehow, the star dissapeared.