Balto (New Adventure)

Chapter 1 – The Beginning of Mystery

“I wonder where I will be going now….”

A female wolf was sitting at the edge of cliff, thinking of something that would lead her into the next place. Her white fur was blown gently by the wind and her blue eyes were looking far down to the surroundings, covered with snow.

As far as she could see, the white colour was the dominant than anything else. It created a perfect silent in the forest while the wind kept blowing trees, making a little sounds of it.

But, that silent was disturbed by the sounds of footsteps. It became louder and louder, even it came directly from deep down of the forest to her place. The creature began to show himself to the female wolf who was sitting at there.

“Sorry for keeping you at there…”

A male wolf with silver fur came out from the bush, showing his black eyes to her. He began to walk closer to her, hoping that he could know what she was doing while he went out.

“Is there something that bother you?” he said, “You were so calm back then.”

The female wolf just shook her head and smiled.

“I’m just thinking of where we will be going now,” she replied, “We can’t keep walking everyday.”

“I know, Lani,” he answered, walking into distance, “We just have to walk and find some safe place to rest.”

The female wolf, known as Lani, began to move closer to him, seeking some answer from him.

“Fine, then why you always went to somewhere each time we stopped walking?” she asked. “There must be some reason about it, Alex.”

Alex, the male wolf, began to chuckle for hearing this question.

“I was just walking around,” he answered with smile. “There is nothing to worry about it.”

Lani became confused after heard the answer, but, she knew maybe it was the best that he could give to her.

“So…,” she asked. “Where we will be going now?”

Alex moved closer to the edge of cliff, his eyes were full of determination of one place that they would go.

“Nome…,” he answered with confident, “We will be going to Nome right now.”

Meanwhile at Nome, the storm was coming directly and hit everything in there. Every door was closed and every window was lid down. It looked like there would be no one who was hanging around in the middle of this storm. Still, there was one creature that was in outside now and he was running in full speed to find some shelter nearby. A dog that looked like a wolf was in there, running while searching someplace that he could rest from the rage of storm.

“Balto…,” he thought, “You should come home quickly back then if you didn’t want to get trapped in this storm.”

A wolf – dog, known as the famous Balto, was still running to his boat, a place that he usually stayed and called as home. As far as he kept running and running, the boat then became closer and closer until it was in front of him. Despite on how he looked now by the time snow had buried him, he jumped straight to it and began to walk to the dock, a place that he could rest from it. Unfortunately, there were some uninvited guests at there.

“What the…,” he thought, disbelief on his face, “Who they are? And what they are doing in here?”

 

What he saw then was a pair of wolves that was laying down in there. One was a male with silver fur and black eyes, and the other was a female with pure white fur. It looked like the female was sleeping now while the other one was still standing there. The male looked deep down on Balto’s eyes.

“Well…, I didn’t mean to disturb you, but…,” he glanced at them, “Could you tell me at least why you are in here?”

The male looked at Balto for a moment, thinking of something.

“So, this is Balto…,” he thought, “The son of Great Aniu.”

There was a moment of silence before the male wolf came to speak up.

“Sorry for disturbing your place…,” he answered gently, “But I and my friend have to find some shelter from the storm.”

“Oh…,” Balto looked surprised at this, “I thought you were intruder because there was no one to visit me, except my family.”

The male wolf began to smile for hearing the reason.

“I understand,” he said, “It was my fault that I come here.”

“No, you just do the right thing,” Balto replied, shaking his head, “Beside, I can spare my room for you two until the storm calm down.”

“Thank you,” he said with smile, “By the way, my name is Alex, and my friend is Lani. Glad to meet you.”

“I’m Balto,” Balto said, “Glad to meet you too, Alex.”

Alex then moved closer to the outside, looking for the storm that became heavier than it was.

“So, why you are in here, near to the town?” he asked, “I thought wolves weren’t accepted in here.”

Balto was trying to smile due to what Alex was talking about.

“Yeah, it was a complicated thing, but…,” he explained, shrugging, “Now, I’m welcomed in here, whether it’s just for some people.”

Alex seemed not surprised by the answer, just remained calm by the time.

“So…,” he started, “Could we stay in here too?”

Balto was startled by the words that flew from Alex, the wolf that he just knew for a little while. He tried to think, hoping that he would find some answer for Alex’s question.

“I don’t know it would be good to you…,” he answered, “Beside, why you want to stay here instead your pack?”

“Because…,” Alex started to answer, “It was complicated to explain right now.”

Balto was a little surprised at his answer, never realizing that he would get a company to share and stay soon.

“Okay, if you say so…,” he said, “But, I must warn you to not come near the human. You know how human still don’t like the wolves.”

“Of course,” Alex answered with smile on his face, “I will stay far from them.”

“And, if you don’t mind…,” he said, laying down,” I want to get a rest now.”

Alex just gave him a smile across of what he said.

Later, they were just waiting until the storm passed down by the time, day became night. And soon without anyone realized, the night became a beautiful morning.

Nome in the morning was so excellent and perfect where many people were hanging around, doing some job or anything else in the middle of society. Soon, it was full of crowd, not the silent that had filled it a little while ago.

Balto, who still didn’t believe of what was happened yesterday, was going to Jenna’s home. Instead of taking an ordinary way, he took a shortcut to avoid a lot of people that walking around. When he reached it, he began barking through the window.

“Balto…,” Jenna said, still yawned from her decent sleep while looking through the window, “Is there something you want to talk?”

“Yeah, of course…,” he answered, looking on Jenna, “I want to hear about your opinion?”

“My opinion?” Jenna looked confused, “Do you have some problem now?”

“Maybe yes…,” he said, “But, maybe not too…”

“Okay,” Jenna finally decided, “Stay there. I will come out now.”

By the time Balto was waiting, Jenna came outside to meet him, revealing her beautiful face.

“So, what’s your problem now?” Jenna asked, “Is it connected to our children?”

“No, Jenna. They are fine,” he answered, “Actually, it’s about someone else.”

“Well…,” Jenna said, trying to think of who Balto was talking about, “I will listen.”

Balto took a deep breath before he continued it.

“Yesterday, when I was coming back to home, I saw two wolves in it,” he explained, “One was a male and the other was a female. They just came there due to the storm and then, the male wolf asked me to stay in there with me. He just said their reason to stay was complicated to explain. So…, what do you think of it?”

Jenna looked surprised at this, and then, she just gave him a smile.

“I will say that…,” she moved closer, nuzzling him, “You are too kind too them. Why you didn’t say no to them?”

“Because…,” he started, “I guess they seemed troubled by the way, and they didn’t look like a bad one.”

Jenna was laughing when she heard that.

“Okay, Balto. I know how you feel,” she said, “Well, you can explain them more to me in the way.”

Balto just smiled. He knew Jenna would understand his feeling, an unexplained thing that only he knew by the instinct.

 

Back at the boat, Lani began to wake up after having some sleep back then. She opened her eyes slowly, glanced at around to find that she was alone.

“Where is Alex?” she thought, “Why he always go somewhere alone?”

Instead of thinking it, she decided to stand up and went out to get a fresh air in the morning. She slowly walked down from the boat to the land below, raising her head while taking some fresh air as much as she could get.

“I wonder what I will do while…,” she thought, but cut off when she heard something behind her, “What is that?”

Not so far from the boat, some dogs were running forward to the beach. It looked like they were heading the boat.

“Hey, Kodi!” Ralph shouted, “Slow down, it’s still morning, you know.”

“Yeah…,” Dusty added, “What’s the hurry?”

Kodi looked behind him, still running at the distance.

“I just want to talk to my dad,” Kodi shouted, “He must know this good news.”

“Good news?” Kirby looked confused, “It’s just a race for tomorrow. Beside, you haven’t become the winner yet.”

“Oh, yeah,” Kodi said, looking at back, “I will prove it tomorrow. You just wait and see that I will…”

The moment he said, he crashed hardly to something that was blocking in front of his way. He rolled to the side of the boat while the other that he had crashed, rolled and landed at the pile of snow, not so far from Kodi.

 

“Owww…,” Kodi said in dizzy, “My head is hurt.”

After a while, his friend came to him, checking that everything was fine.

“Kodi,” Ralph said, “What was happened to you?”

“Yeah, I just saw that you crashed something…,” Kirby added, “And then, you are here now.”

“I don’t know,” Kodi answered, still in dizzy, “I didn’t see what it was…. Maybe just a rock.”

“So…,” Dusty started, “Our lead dog seems must pay attention in front of him or he will get stumbled.”

Kirby and Ralph began to laugh. They had to admit that it was

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