am I? Where are those voices coming from? Where am I?” Slowly opening his eyes the dog sat up. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts said, “Where am I.”

“You’re in Nome” said a large tan dog.

“Nome…Ok now I need to know who I am”, the dog replied

“You mean you don’t know who you are?” asked the tan dog curiously.

“Sorry but I don’t remember anything”.

"You were out for a day I was beginning to wonder if you'd pull through? The names Kirby and nice to meet you”, Kirby smiled and nodded his head, to greet the new dog. “We had a pretty serious storm last night but it’s died down so now we can actually go out side.”

“Maybe if I walk around I’ll remember something” said the dog. “Hey that sounds great; I’ve actually I’ve been cooped up in here myself so a walk would be a nice change of pace”.

“Alright let’s go” said the dog excited, “Why am I so anxious to get out of here?” The two walked out of the boiler room, Kirby took notice to the scar on the other dog’s muzzle, but he paid no mind to it see as it didn’t concern him and he didn’t want this dog with amnesia first recovered memories to be painful ones. Upon exiting the boiler room both dogs’ eyes had to adjust to the light that reflected off the snow; stumbling as they walked due to the snows constant shifting.

“Hey let me give you the tour of the town while we’re walking” said Kirby.

“Sure that’s sounds great”, answered the dog.

“We’ll start off over there…”

“Ahhhhh a bear!” people were shouting in the street as a large creature moved down the street.

“Come on lets get out of here” yelled Kirby. As he started to run he looked back to see the dog standing there not moving. “Hey what are you doing we need to move it’s not safe here” yelled Kirby back to the dog.

“But there’s a little kid out there!” the dog barked. A woman standing right next to the dogs was yelling, “MY BABY”. While two men were holding her back from rushing down the street towards the bear.

“There’s nothing we can do, all we can do is move to safety until the humans deal with it”. Said Kirby

“No I won’t accept that” and with that the dog was moving at full speed towards the child. Moving at a break neck pace the dog barley reached the child before the bear. Quickly grabbing the hood of the child’s coat he began to drag the child towards its mother. The bear got on all fours and was now chasing the dog. The bear quickly caught up with them and soon loomed over the pair preparing to swipe its gigantic paw at them. The dog wasn’t fast enough to avoid contact with the bear’s paw while holding onto the infant. Despite that he held fast and waited for the hundreds of pounds of pressure he would receive from the bear’s paw. The bear’s paw made contact sending both dog and child through the air. The dog did his best to land so that the infant didn’t feel the shock of the impact on the ground. Luckily for them there was plenty of fresh snow on the ground to soften their fall. But now they were trapped they sat in a foot of snow unable to get up. The bear was now directly over the pair and the dog fearing for the worst closed his eyes. A loud thunderous noise pierced his ears.

 

 

Perking his ears up Largocould have sworn he heard a gun shot; but from where, and by who? “Hey Kodi did you hear that?” Largo asked. Now perking up his own ears Kodi closed his eyes to try to depict what Largo heard.

“No I don’t hear anything and still don’t why what do you think you heard?” answered Kodi.

“Well I guess I’m just hearing things then”, said Largo.

“Well it’s a good thing you did think you heard something, look the weathers cleared up we finally get going again”, Kodi said. Largo sometimes admired Kodi’s optimism and enthusiasm, but other times they annoyed him for example right after arriving from a normal mail run, Kodi said ‘Let’s go run a couple of laps around the town.’ Though the town wasn’t huge it was growing more and more each day it seemed and Largowas exhausted. He didn’t see the point of tiring himself out even more then he all ready was; besides they had to head out again in less then two day; this didn’t leave too much time to rest anyways. Waking up Mr. Simpson, looked at the sky

“Well looks like we can finally head out.” He said. Happily Kodi barked to wake the rest of the dogs up. Yawning Ralph said,

 “Is it time to go already I only go a few hours of sleep”.

 “Quite complaining Ralph” said Dusty, “We all only got a few hours of sleep, but its better then coming home dog tired”.

“Let’s get you all tied up so we can get home”, Said Mr. Simpson, securing the dogs to their respective lines.

“I can’t wait to get home”, said Ralph.

“Yeah know what you mean, I can’t wait to sleep in a nice warm house”, replied Dusty. Although he was happy Largocouldn’t shake the feeling that something would be different when they got back home.

“Ready guys, mush!” commanded Mr. Simpson. With that the dogs took off. Because of the rest they got last night they were running strong. Kodi was also preoccupied he also felt something was off like he had a sixth sense about it. Shaking his head to clear it he once again focused on the task at hand. But he couldn’t ignore the feeling so he stepped it up a little.

 “Hey Kodi slow down will ya, I’ve got a sore paw” complained Ralph.

“Sorry Ralph, I’m just anxious to get home”, replied Kodi. Largoknew that there was more to it then that had Kodi also felt something? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.  

 

 

Laying there in the snow the dog didn’t know what just happened. Everything was quiet dark, “Am I dead?” he thought, “NO, I can’t die yet!” opening his eye he still couldn’t see anything. The thick black fur of the bear was lying right in on top of him. The dog tried to move but he was completely pinned to the ground and the constant pressure on his chest was becoming increasingly heavier. His breathing increased as he felt his self slip out of consciousness. His thoughts were becoming foggy. Why did I come to this town and why can’t I remember anything. Closing his eyes the dog could see a silhouette of a figure. Wait I know I’ve seen him somewhere before, but why does that matter. I guess I’ll never know now will I. A piercing cry was wailing in his ear, and then he remembered he still had that human infant with him and at least it wasn’t hurt. “Guess I accomplished one thing” he said. A small glimmer of light was blinding his eye from his right side. Maybe I can still get out of this alive. The dog nudged to the right being careful to not either harm the infant or cause more of the bear’s weight to collapse on them. Slowly but surely he was able to free his paws so he could start digging a wedge to let them to slip out from underneath the bear. Soon he felt the warmth of the sun on his nose as he poked it out from underneath the snow then he placed his muzzle underneath the infant nudging it up out of the hole first slowly following after. After he reached the surface he collapsed from exhaustion. Not only had he dug his way out but to be under the strain of a several hundred pound bear on him and holding it up so it didn’t crush him and the infant. The dog closed his eye and passed out right there in the middle of the street. The figure appeared in his thoughts again only this time the shape was more defined and this image gave him a collaboration of emotions ranging from anger to love confused, and disoriented the image faded and all turned black.

 Walking up to the boiler room Balto and Jenna both were wondering what all the commotion was about. Upon entering a loud roar of dogs from all around town were chatting about the gossip of the day. Balto noticed a dog he had never seen before asleep on the floor while everyone was chattering. Jenna also noticed and said, “How can he sleep with all this noise”. Walking up to the dog Balto nudged the dog to wake up. Turning over the dog mumbled

“Bear… can’t we sleep for a few more minutes”. More forceful his time Balto nudged the dog to wake up. “Fine I’m up I don’t see why we can’t sta….,” sitting up and then trailing off due to his inability to rationalize were he was. “Uh where am I and where is Bear?” the dog said. Balto bewildered responded

“Well I don’t know anybody named Bear, but you’re in Nome’s boiler room.

“Oh, thanks well my names Axel and Bear is my friend who I am traveling with, or was at the moment since don’t know where he is.”, the dog said.

“My name is Balto and you must be new in Nomebecause I’ve never seen you here before”, said Balto cocking his head from side to side to get a better look at the dog. “Balto where are your manners, he obviously doesn’t have a clue where he is and you start off by interrogating him” said Jenna.

“It’s alright I kind of expect that from everyone I meet, really”, said Axel with an embarrassed look on his face. Just before Balto could say anything, Kirby bolted in through the door out of breathe.

“Where’s Balto?” Kirby asked. “I’m right here where’s the fire”, asked Balto.

“Just follow me”, Kirby said and sprinted out the door towards the heart of the town. Balto Jenna and Axel followed behind. Upon they’re arrival Balto noticed Axel had followed them.

“Why did you follow us” Balto asked.

“I can smell Bear”, Axel replied. “Well you guessed right” said Kirby anxiously,

“Look”. Kirby pointed his paw towards a large mass on the ground.

“Wait that’s a grizzly why would it be here in town” asked Jenna now also nervous.

“It must have been attracted by the smell of meat”, Balto said.

 “My friend is nearby I can smell him”, said Axel, as he put his nose to the ground following the scent of what he thought to be Bear.
“There”, he said, pointing to a heap of fur on the other side of the bear’s body. “Bear wake up buddy”,

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