It was late afternoon and the mail team stood waiting at the post office. Scout was in the lead with his best friend Danger behind. Danger's 'friend' Snowbelle was standing talking to him. Scout grinned. He knew that Danger and Snowbelle liked each other but he also knew that they weren't expecting puppies and probably wouldn't for a while. The musher came out with a sack and dropped it on the sled and went back to collect more.

'This'll be fun!' said Scout, 'I hope we meet some wolves!'

The other dogs laughed.

'You would!' replied a muscular black and white malamute at the back, who's name was Maxie, 'That's all you ever talk about!'

They all laughed again and Scout and Snowbelle joined in. Scout had a habit of suddenly going off into his own little world and start talking about wolves. Everyone knew about this.

'I'm sure it would be fun!' said Snowbelle, kindly. She was mostly red but had a white muzzle, white front paws, white back legs, a white chest and tummy and sky-blue eyes.

'Aww, come one, Snowie!' teased Danger, 'Don't tell me you'd prefer a wolf to me!'

He put  on a cheeky face. He was like a normal husky in that he had a white face, tummy, chest and front and back legs. He also had that little slit in the middle of his forehead. But he had light brown fur, auburn eyes and a very cheeky smile.

'Yeah, right!' giggled Snowbelle, 'No one could be better than you!'

She nuzzled him and the other dogs laughed.

'Aww!' chuckled Maxie. Then a little black and white malamute pup ran up to him.

'Good luck, Papa!' he cried, jumping up at Maxie and licking his nose when he bent down.

'Don't worry, Steele, my boy!' said Maxie, 'It'll be great!'

Steele nuzzled Maxie.

'Hey, where's mum and your sisters?' asked Maxie, his dark brown eyes staring kindly at his son.

'On their way. Celia wated to walk slowly like a lady! And Shadow and Blue were playing chase so mum had to stop them!'

He sighed a little puppy sigh and looked up at his dad.

'I hate being the only boy!' he said, sadly.

'Ahh, don't worry about!' replied Maxie, 'Aunt Josie was the only girl in my mum's litter!'

Steele smiled up and turned round when he heard his sisters.

'Non, no, no!' cried Celia, 'You have to walk slowly and properly, otherwise you won't be a very good lady!'

She was getting worked up and Shadow and Blie pulled faces at her.

'I don't wanna be a lady!' huffed Shadow, 'I'd rather go play in the mud or play chase!'

'Yeah!' replied Blue, 'Being a lady stinks!'

'Not when you're older and you wanna but don't know how!' shouted Celia, here eyes watering.

'What?' asked Shadow and Blue together, surprised that their sister was crying over that.

'Girls, girls!' said a voice desperately, 'Calm down! Celia leave them be. If they don't want to be ladies when they're older then so be it. But you can and I'm sure you'll be lovely. And Shadow, Blue don't say things like that. You will be ladies when you're older, tomboys or not!'

A pretty white malamute with icy blue eyes and a thick black stripe from her nose to her tail came out behind her daughters.

'There you are, Marie!' called Maxie, 'I was getting worried!'

'You have every right to be!' sighed Marie, 'These guys are driving me nuts!'

'Sorry, mama!' chorused the three puppis. Steele laughed at his sisters and they all jumped on him.

'Hey!' called Scout, suddenly, 'Shouldn't we be going?'

He watched as the musher put the last sack onto the sled and call back a see you later to the guy in the office.

'Right!' replied Danger and Maxie.

'I'll see you later, kids!' said Maxie, licking his four pups. He looked up at Marie, 'I'll see ya later!' he said, nuzzling her. His family moved and Scout smiled at them.

'Mush!' shouted the musher and the team were off. They ran across the snow, sending it flying all over the place. The soon made it to the forest and ran in and out of trees for a while before they started panting.

'Stop!' cried the musher, as Bingo, a young brown and white female husky, lost her footing and fell. The team stopped and watched as the musher checked Bingo.

'Hey!' said Ranger, a young brown and grey husky, 'Are you ok?'

'Yeah!' she said, through gritted teeth. The musher moved all of her legs to see if they were broken and she howled when he moved her back right one.

'You won't be able to run!' he said to her, 'We'd better put you on the sled!'

He carried Bingo over to the sled and carefully placed her on it.

'Mush!' he said again.

Scout sprinted off, hoping they could get there without hurting Bingo further. Looking back for a moment, he could tell Ranger was worried. He sighed and turned back round, narrowly missing a tree.

'Watch where your going!' shouted Maxie over the noise.

'Sorry!' Scout shouted back.

They managed to get to White Mountain just as the sun was setting. The musher patted them on the heads and took them to a boiler room on the outskirts of town. He took Bingo to the nearest hospital after he locked the rest of his team up in the boiler room. They all lounged around getting ready to sleep.

'That wasn't a good run today, was it?' said Maxie, 'That little one got herself hurt and then,' he yawned before adding, 'Scout almost gets us rammed into a tree!'

The others laugh.

'Hey!' Scout protests, 'It's not my fault! I was making sure Ranger was ok. He's likes Bingo after all!'

He couldn't help it and immediately shut his mouth after what he said. All the other dogs whistled and laughed and Ranger shot and embarrassed and upset look at Scout. He ran up the barrels and boxes and jumped out of the open window nat the top.

'Ranger!' Scout shouted running up the barrels and boxes. He looked out the window and saw the young dog trying to pick himself up. He whimpered when he put his front paw down.

Scout ran back down and charged full speed at the boiler room door.

'What are you doing?' gasped Danger as the door flew open.

'Ranger's hurt himself!' Scout called as he ran out and around the back off the boiler room. Ranger was lying on his side, a little bit of blood under him. Scout ran up to him and started to heave him up. There was broken glass where Ranger fell and the young dog had gashed his side.

'Come on!' Scout said, croushing down, 'Get on and I'll carry you in!'

Ranger wobbled on three paws trying to endure the pain in his side. But he slowly got on to Scout's back and let the older dog carry him round the boiler room. The musher came back without Bingo and saw them.

'What's going on?' he asked Himself as Scout approached him with Ranger.

The musher picked up Ranger and walked back down the street muttering to himself.

'Hey!' said Daisy, a grey husky, 'What just happened?'

'Ranger jumped put of the window, cut his side on some glass, hurt his paw and I had to carry him to the musher.' yawned Scout, who was secretly worried about Ranger.

'Let's just get some sleep!' said Maxie, putting his head on his paws, 'The sooner we sleep, the sooner we can wake up and get home to see my family!'

Scout and Danger laughed and agreed.

'And I can see my Snowbelle!' grinned Danger.

'Right!' agreed Scout, 'And I can see my...'

He thought for a moment as the other dogs watched him.

'And I can see my slipper!' Scout finished making everyone laugh again.

'Don't tell me!' said Maxie, 'It look like a wolf!'

'You could say that!' replied Scout with a smile.

Soon, the team was asleep. Apart from Scout who was still worried about Ranger and Bingo. He got up and slowly walked out of the boiler room. He looked up at the forest and saw a white shape getting closer. It was very pretty in the light of the moon. After having a longer look he realised it was a wolf. He didn't want to wake the others up because it would probably leave. Instead, he walked closer to the forest. It wasn't that close so he had to keep walking. Soon, he made it right up to the forest. The white wolf was still there, a little bit of fear in her eyes at what Scout might do.

'Hi!' whispered Scout, sitting down.

'Hi!' the wolf replied, calming down and smiling.

'I'm Scout!' said Scout, 'I've never met a wolf before. You're my first!'

He grinned his cheeky grin, 'What's your name?'

'I'm Aniu, daughter of Saber and Catori.' she replied, 'I don't really look much like my parents. My father is dark grey and black and my mother is white and grey. I have three brothers and one sister. My brothers are Nava, Achak and Sparrowhawk and my sister is Nitti. There all grey except Achak. He's black with a white star on his forehead and white ears.'

She wasn't sure why she was telling Scout all of this but somethign about him made her. Scout just smiled.

'My mother is called Sugar and my father is called Ty. They're both brown and white like me. I also have a sister, called Cookie. She's exactly like me too.' said Scout.

The two sat in silence for a while.

'Heh, strange that we just told each other about out families.' chuckled Scout, 'Mine seems pretty boring compared to yours though!'

'Nah!' chuckled Aniu, 'Mine are boring!'

The two heard voices from the boiler room. Scout quickly jumped up.

'I'd better go or else they'll wonder where I am!' he said. He looked at Aniu's sad eyes. 'I promise I'll be back tomorrow, ok?'

'Ok!' replied Aniu, walking off into the forest.

Scout ran back to the boiler room.

'Hey, where were you?' asked Daisy.

'I met a wolf!' Scout said dreamily, 'She was white and so beautiful! She was kind too!'

The others stared at him.

'Are you alright pal?' asked Danger.

'I'm fine!' Scout insisted, 'It was just so amazing.

'Whatever!' sighed Maxie, 'Let's just go to sleep!'

They all fell back to sleep and Scout's dreams were full of Aniu.

They all woke early in the morning and Scout snuck away and ran into the forest.

'Aniu!' he whispered, 'where are you?'

After a couple of minutes, Aniu walked out the trees, smiling.

'Morning, Aniu!' grinned Scout.

'Morning!' Aniu replied.

Scout sat