would find him first?   

Spike was resting down under a overhanging tree in a rough part of the mountains. It was starting to snow again, and made a blur vision to everywhere he was looked at. Suddenly Spike noticed a silhouette in the snowstorm, he looked up and spotted a wolf coming his way. Spike was not standing up, he didn’t care, still, the wolf came closer…
He stopped right in front of Spike, Spike looked up: It was a beautiful white wolf, his fur was whiter then the snow. The wolf stared with his yellow eyes back, but Spike wasn’t impressed and he remained where he was. He hoped that the wolf was going away, but when he looked up again, he was still there. Maybe he was laying at his favourite spot or something,  Spike wanted to stand up and move on. He had already made one step, until he heard a voice:

“Spike, wait…”He clearly recognized that voice but it could not be true, it just wasn’t possible. Next to the white wolf was another wolf appearing, Spike could not see clearly until the wolf came closer. “Mo… Mom???” He could now clearly see the wolf, “Mom, your alive??” Spike run up to the his mother who settled down next of the silent white wolf.
Spike was pushing his head against the fur of his mother and looked up to her, he could not believe that she was alive.
“Oh Spike… I have missed you so much.” “I mist you to, Mom, where were you al the time??” “That’s hard to explain, son, but you have to be strong. I cannot stay with you forever.” “Why not?? We are now together again mom, we can do whatever we want!” “No darling, I can not stay for much longer, please listen very carefully to me.”

 “You have lived your live with nothing but fear. You have to stop being scared all the time…” “How?” asked Spike. “To defied your fear, you have to find your greatest enemy, and fight it, so he will never ever control you again!” “You mean Steele, Mom?” “That’s for you to decide... I have learned everything a mother can learn to her child, but this is something that you have to do it yourself. Everyone has his own way....  Now, go son, fight your enemy.” “But mom, I wane stay with you…” Spike looked at his mother while she turned around to walk away. “You cant stay with me, some day you will understand why. Besides, your old enough to take care of yourself now” “But Moommm….” But Spike’s mother was disappearing in the snow storm, the white wolf fallowed behind her, and was soon out of side to. Spike was alone again, he did not believe what was happened, and what he had to do. He thought for a while, and decided to search for Steele, because that’s was his greatest enemy.

Steele meanwhile was already searching for him in the mountains, his team didn’t want to help him with the search. They had enough of Steele’s proud and his revenge. But Steele continued to search, he wanted to have some hair from Spike so he could show it to Balto. This way he could made the disappearing of Spike look even more terrible then it already was. He already knew what he was going to say: “This is what happens when you are messing with my pride!” And then he wanted to show Balto the hairs. But first he had to find that little wolf, and that wasn’t a easy task. He could be everywhere, but Steele wanted his revenge to be complete. When the snowstorm picked up he had to stop the search and waited by some rocks to get shelter against the snow. Finally the sky cleared up a bit and he resumed his search. He climbed up to some nearby rocky hills, so he could have a better view of the valley. The view was magnificent, but Steele had eye for only on thing, and that’s was that white rat… While he looked around, he heard something behind him, Steele could not see what it was. The rocks and tree’s where a ideal place to hide, so Steele yelled to that place: “Come out cowered, and fight me!” But nobody came, “Okay… Lets have it your way, lets play hide and seek…” Steele walked to place where he heard the noise. Nothing, but he continued searching, if it was Spike than he could completed his revenge. Than he saw a paw print in the ground, that wasn’t from a wolf, it was much bigger, way bigger… Steele turned around and walked back to the open field.

Before he knew, he was flying trough the air and landed on the rocky ground. For a moment he didn’t know what was happened or where he was. All what he could see was that big black bear coming his way. Steele tried slowly to stand up, but the pain in his left leg prevent him. He saw the big cut on his paw witch’s started to bleed, he couldn’t run away.

Meanwhile was Spike thinking about how he should defeat his enemy.
Killing was out of the question, if the unmans found out later that he killed Steele then he would never become a sled-dog. He thought about scaring Steele but he didn’t know how, Steele seems to be afraid of nothing. His thoughts were disturbed by barking not far away.
Balto maybe? Spike ran in the direction where heard the barking com from, trough the bunches and past the trees.
After the last tree he spotted Steele laying wounded at the foot of a hill, an just a few feet away the black bear. Steele was trying the keep distance with his barking.
Spike was standing for a new choice, he could let those two fight it out, but is was already clear to him who was going to lose. Should he than fight with the bear? Was the bear his enemy? Was Steele not his enemy? What was mom talking about?

Spike took a short run, and jumped over the edge, right on the face of the bear. Spike planted his nails in the face of the bear like Steele did with him. After a short struggle knocked the bear Spike of who landed on his back next to Steele. “Having trouble with the big overgrown bear, have we?” Steele was trying to put up a brave and mean face. “Shut up, Steele, when I am done with him, you’re next…” Before Steele cloud answer, Spike stood up, and walked forwards to the bear. “Common, you big stupid bear, you fight like a cat!” The black bear was standing on two paws, and screamed loud. A little less confidant, walked Spike slowly backwards while the bear came closer. “Don’t walk back Spike, now your are showing him that you are scared!!” Steele had to help Spike otherwise he was not going to survive this. He looked around to see if something or somebody could help him. His eyes fell on a rock on the other side of the cliff, where the white wolf watching to what was going on beneath him. Steele and the wolf looked each other right in the eyes, it was almost like the wolf was talking to Steele with his eyes. Steele could not get his eyes of him.

Meanwhile Spike saw what was going on, he waited for a second and jumped up, somewhere halfway he planted his teeth in the bear. Spike was hanging on for live, only problem was that the black bear now had a good grip on Spike. A second later was Spike back on the ground again, but not before he received a massive impact from one of the bears claws. He was no match against the power of the black bear, he had to think of something else and quick to. Still a bit dizzy he looked around, there was nothing that could help him. 

Spike had to draw back to Steele who finally got his eyes of that strange wolf. “Listen to me little punk, you showed enough! You cant defeat him and you know it, your to weak. Just run away now you still can, I’ll will distract him!” “I am weak? You’re the one that let us into this situation. And for what? Just for your stupid pride.” Spike run up to the bear, and bit him in the leg, then he ran forwards to the end of the cliff. “Here I am!!!” The black bear did not turned around, he knew what Spike plans were. The bear came closer to Steele, the bear raised his claw up , Steele saw the big sharp nails shining in the sun. With great speed came the claw down on him, rapidly he closed his eyes and made himself as small as possible. Nothing happened… He opened his eyes, and saw Balto on top of the bear, trying to hang on.

Eventually he had to jump of,  “Your okay?” while he run up to Spike. “Yeah, but Steele isn’t, we have get rid of the bear. You know how to do that right? You defeated two of these.” Well… Stumbled Balto, “That wasn’t exactly defeating, one felled through the ice, and from the other I escaped with Aleu.”  The bear came closer to the two wolfs, “Alright kid, its now or never, I’ll distracted him and you get out of here as fast as you can!” “No, he is mine enemy, I have to defeat him.” said Spike. “This is no time for discussion, you run, I distract.” Balto started to get angry, why would Spike not run off? But Spike mind was determined, he was ready to attack. The bear was now close enough, simultaneously the two jumped on the bear, Balto got a big hit and felled behind the bear. Spike held on the neck of the bear, it was now or never. The bear was roaring and disoriented by the wolf that was trying to kill him. The bear was moving very wild, he wanted to get rid of the wolf hanging on his neck, but Balto saw the real danger. “SPIKE LET GO OF HIM!!!” But Spike didn’t want to, he wanted to defeat his enemy. He did not noticed how close the were to the edge of the cliff, needier did the bear. But Balto saw what was going on and tried to stand up, but it was to late.
The black bear made his fatal step into the dept, taking Spike with him.
Spike realist what was happened, for a second he relived the moment where he saw his mother falling to her death. And now he was next…

For a moment there was silence, there was no wind or any noise. A big “splash” disturbed the silence. Balto stud up and walked trough the end of the cliff, down there he could see just the ripples left on the water survive from the splash. Balto kept looking down for a long