Balto ran and ran. The wind around him nipped at his nose and made him cold. There was something chasing him, something big, mad, and furry. He tried to call out for help but nothing came out. It was as if his voice box had been ripped out of his mouth. "Balto! Balto dear get up your dreaming!" a voice said in the pup's ear. Balto woke up and screamed. "ITS CHASING ME! MOM DAD! KILL IT HELPPPPP!" he yipped. "It was only a dream son, just go back to sleep" Silver said in a clam voice. "oh...I'm sorry about that, I just get so scared in dreams like that" Balto said curling up and falling back to sleep, all cuddled up next to  his sister and brother...and his mom.

Balto woke again to a scream. "Mom? dad? were are you?" he asked after seeing they were not next to him. "White
Moon? Socks!?" he asked looking around for his litter mates. He climbed out of the cave and looked out. What he saw made him scream. There was a  big brown bear with Anui in his jaws. Silver had his teeth sank into the bears leg. "MOM! DAD! HOLD ON!" he yelled has he hopped down to bite the bear. He stopped in his tracks when he saw it...he saw his brother and sister laying dead next to each other. They had bit marks on there neck. White Moon was without a head.

"Balto stay there! I got this handled!" Silver yelled to his son. Balto was frozen in shock. Aniu was being shook in the air in the bears jaws. she was yipping and clawing at the bears nose. The bear dropped her as if she was a rag doll and stepped on Silver with one paw. He pushed Silver in the snow with the giant paw and Silver gasped. "SILVER!!!!!!!!!" Aniu yelled even if she was weak from loss of blood. "Aniu?" Silver choked out. The bear toke his paw of Silver and hit Aniu hard, making her crash into a tree.

Balto was still frozen with fear and shock, watching his mom and dad get killed before his eyes. Aniu tried to get up, "Balto!!!!" she yipped as she closed her eyes. Balto snapped out f it and ran to his mom. He licked her cheek and eyes, thats when he saw she was going to die. "mom? oh mom! don't die please! I need you, dad needs you...mom!?: mom stay awake!" he said pulling on his moms ear as she closed her eyes again. "its all my fault mom! If I was awake and if I would not have frozen in fear then...I could of..." "no! don't say that Balto! this is not your fault! you are only a pup and should not have seen this" Aniu said, cutting him off. Balto licked her cut neck and choked back tears. Aniu looked up at him for a while then looked over at her fighting mate, Silver.

She closed her eyes and died. Balto lied there for a while, staring at her as if she just bit his head off. "Mom? mom! nooo don't leave me! NOO! PLEASE NO!" he yelled into the air. Balto dug his face into his moms bloody neck and bawled. His crying and sobbing could be heard from all over the woods. He kept shanking his head, saying his moms name over and over again, sobbing, crying. I could not be...his mom was dead.

Meanwhile Silver was tearing at the bears neck, trying to kill it. He was losing more blood every time he moved. He heard the sobbing and looked over at Balto...and saw his mate dead. He gasped. The bear, seeing that he was not biting him anymore bit down hard on silvers neck. there was loud crack and silver was dropped to the gound...dead.
Balto was still sobbing as the bear walked into the woods, leaving the dead bodys and crying pup alone. "mom, I sould of been there when the bear attacked....I will get that bear, make him pay!" Balto said turning his tear stained face up to the sky. Balto cried for hours and hours. He was thirsty and staving but still stayed next to his moms body. she always stayed next to him when he needed it.

Balto must of fell asleep because the last thing he knew he was being shook awake by a goose. "Get up little one. We heard from a near by owl what happen, we want to take you in." the goose said who was a mother with six babys behind her. One baby was smaller then the others and was hiding behind his mom. Balto shook his head. "you guys are geese and I won't leave my mom. its my fault she is dead anyway!" he said shaking his head to get rid of tears.
The mother smiled. "Come on, just for a little while untill you get bigger and can take care of your self?" she asked. Balto had no were else to go so...he went with her. "Now come alone! are nest is only a little while away". Balto felt like eating the goose right now but did not. The baby that was hiding walked up to him, shaking. "your not going to eat us are you? and by the way..my name is Boris." the baby goose said.

Balto nodded his head and lied down. He missed his mom, he missed her soft voice, he missed her fur that was white as snow, he missed her licking him and brushing his matted fur with her huge paw. A tear rolled down his cheek without him even knowing it. "are you ok dear? oh...It must be hard to lose your mom, i mean i lost my mate a year ogo." the mother goose said walking up to Balto.
Balto looked into her eyes and then curled up, and fell asleep. It was hard to sleep that night without his moms fur keeping him warm. Or his siblings curled up to him.  His head hurt and the site of watching his mom and dad die kept playing its self in his head over and over again like a movie.