this place where all dressed funny, not like the people in Nome, they all looked so serious and looked as though they all had a bad smell under their nose because their heads where up so high, it made Dusty laugh out aloud.

Walking the streets she tried to listen out for anyone saying the word Nome but so many people were talking and all at once that she couldn’t make out individual words it was all one big jumbled sound, she had no idea how the humans could ever understand each other.

After what seemed an eternity she reached the edge of town where it turned into a huge forest that extended far into the distance. She watched it as the sun went down as though weighing up her chances of entering it to try and find her way home. Suddenly she heard a rustle in the trees and as she squinted she jumped back when she saw two glowing eyes looking back at her. Her heart skipped a beat as she quickly turned around and ran back into the main center of the town, although now that night had come all the people had gone in to the buildings and only a few stray dogs walked down the streets. Thinking one of them might now the way back to Nome she quickly walked up to one of them.

‘Hi, umm excuse me but I’m looking for Nome…’ She smiled down at the Husky who yelled in surprised as he ran away from her. Frowning a little she turned around wondering why he was so scared. Seeing another husky she quickly ran up to him. ‘Can you show me the way to Nome.’ She asked politely as the husky cowered slightly.

‘Please don’t hurt me wolf…’ She said, ‘I’ll tell you where Nome is just follow where the sun set…’ With that the Husky turned around and began to run away. Dusty frowned slightly did she just call her a wolf? She didn’t have long to think because in the distance she could hear her new owner calling her name trying to find her, it was now or never to make a break for it back to Nome and her proper owner.

She quickly followed the Husky’s instructions and just before she was out of the town a group of dogs jumped out of the shadows blocking her way. Dusty looked at them as she tried to walk past them but they blocked her path. ‘Let me go.’ Dusty said frowning slightly as one of the dogs who was completely black stepped forward.

‘We don’t let wolves go free in my town.’

‘I’m not a wolf.’ Dusty said.

‘If it looks like a wolf, then I’m pretty sure it is a wolf.’ The black dog said sarcastically as he stepped back and the dogs behind him all leapt onto Dusty. Trying to fight back Dusty realized that there were too many of them.

Hearing something behind her Dusty ignored it as she continued to try and fight back when suddenly all the dogs attacking her leapt off and ran away in to the night. Turning around Dusty looked up to see the man who had brought her here standing in front of her with a stick scaring the other dogs away. The man brought Dusty back to the hotel he was staying in before shaking his head and looking down at her as she licked some of the scratches on her legs.

‘I bring you here and all you do is go and cause fights, I told my mother that having a wolf hybrid was a bad idea, all they do is start fights…’ The man grumbled as he lit a small fire in the fireplace before going into his bedroom and closing his door. Dusty slowly walked closer to the fire before stopping in front of it still not believing that the man who had ruined her life had rescued her and she wasn’t a wolf hybrid why does everyone say that she was? Dusty didn’t have long to think because she quickly fell fast asleep.

Slowly Dusty woke up the next morning and stretched her legs out and yawned, she turned to the door where the man went last night and noticed that he had already left that moring probably to go to work. Placing her head back on her paws, she ignored the pain from the scratches and bites the dogs had given her last night and rather thought about Nome her old home, and wondered where Kodi was, was he living his dream?

Although the words of being called a wolf still hit Dusty hard, she couldn’t be a wolf if she was then why would someone have adopted her and not a wolf-dog like the legendary Balto? Closing her eyes she sighed when she thought about her adoption day…

Her brothers and sisters all looked almost identical as Dusty played blissfully with one of her brothers. The woman who was selling them was giving them away for free because she had already tried to sell them but they looked to wolfish and no one would buy them so she was trying to get rid of them. An elderly lady walked up to the box and Dusty instantly jumped up and down as the lady picked her up and Dusty licked her face.

‘I’m taking this one home…’ She said looking at the owner.

‘Let me warn you, they are part wolf.’ The owner said not batting an eyelid or looking up from her magazine. The elderly lady just ignored her as she carried Dusty away. The ladies perfume was so strong that Dusty sneezed.

‘Bless you dear…hmm I think I’ll call you Dusty…’ The lady said as Dusty wagged her tail. She looked back towards her siblings and waved goodbye she finally had a home

Dusty wasn’t sure what happened to them all she remembered was a man coming and taking them all away and after that she never saw them again. Standing up Dusty noticed the man had left the window open and so slowly she walked over and jumped out noticing that once again the street was so busy with people that they didn’t notice her. In the shadows someone was watching her their eyes glowing a bright blue as they did.

Walking over to a nearby puddle Dusty quickly drank the water and didn’t notice as a Husky walked up and stood beside her. ‘Hi there!’ He said looking down at her as she looked up at him.

‘Hello.’ Dusty said smiling a little, ‘You’re not going to run away because you think I’m a wolf are you?’ She asked sighing.

‘Don’t worry about that wolves come around here a lot I’m used to it, in fact I’m friends with one of them…’ he said smiling slyly.

‘Sorry to disappoint you but I’m not a wolf.’ Dusty said raising an eyebrow as she began to walk away.

‘But you look like one?’ The Husky called out after her, but she ignored him and kept walking.

That day Dusty didn’t run into any of the dogs she had seen the night before but just incase she made sure she was never out of sight of people who could come help her if they did attack her again.

For the first time in her life she felt free, she go any where, do anything without anything she didn coming back to haunt her, she didn’t need to come home she was free. The best thing about this new town was the annoying huskies like in Nome who teased her. The dogs here didn’t’ say anything to her but rather ran away scared when she walked by she was enjoying not being teased or humiliated.

As the day went on she realized how hungry she was and she eagerly sniffed around a few shops that were selling all this food she had never seen before. One of the men at the shops threw down some meat to her as she walked past. Looking up at him with a puzzled look Dusty quickly ate it before running away.

Dusty ran to the edge of the town where she had come the day before and breathed in the cold air this was her first step back home. Before she could put her foot down she saw the man who was looking after her. For a moment Dusty paused if she was going to leave she might as well stay and learn more about the man who had been looking after her, for all she knew maybe he was just going to take her home again?

She slowly followed after him for most of the day trying to find out what he was doing here. But the man didn’t give away much he just seemed to talk to a lot of different people and exchange bags of some sort and the move on to someone else. Dusty watched as he walked into a building but before she could get a closer look the Husky who she had been talking to before jumped out in front of her causing her to jump back in surprise. ‘You again.’ She said frowning.

‘I have a name you know…its Xander.’ Said the black and red husky holding his head up high.

‘My names Dusty…’

‘Do you sneeze a lot?’ Xander said amusing himself as Dusty just frowned and walked away but Xander quickly ran in front of her and stopped her.

‘What do you want Xander?’ Dusty asked starting to lose her patience.

‘Met me outside the house you’re staying at tonight alright?’

‘Why…?’ She didn’t get to finish because Xander interrupted her.

‘Trust me!’ With that Xander quickly bounded off in to the crowd as Dusty looked after him not sure what to think about the crazy husky.

Hearing some commotion behind her Dusty turned around to see a man all dressed in blue harassing her new owner just as he walked out of a building. She watched for a moment and was about to walk away but in the corner of her eye she watched as the man in blue hit her owner knocking him to the ground. Snarling to herself she turned around and ran past all the onlookers and jumped in front of her owner growling and showing her white teeth at the man in blue who instantly stepped back away.

‘I want it by this week, and if that wolf-dog ever comes close to me I’ll kill it!’ The man in blue spat as he walked away into the crowd. The hair on the back of Dusty’s neck stood on end she had never felt so angry before and she wasn’t quite sure why. The man behind her stood up rubbing the side of his face as he grabbed Dusty by her collar and started to drag her away. For a moment Dusty resisted but slowly followed him as the man let go of her leash and they walked back to the room they were staying in.

Once they were back