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*Laughs evilly* I'm happy my cliff hanger has made you want this chapter very much. So I won't make you wait any longer! The next chapter is up! Also do you find the Outsider's nickname 'the gentic demon' intresting? Also, we have a familure face appearing! Anyway, enjoy!

Saving a Hero

Alaskan Wilderness, midday;

The Outsider looked down on Balto’s unconscious form as it prepare to end his life. It’s claws drove downwards but stopped right before they entered Balto’s skull. It snapped around to find Tina standing there. “Leave him alone, its me you want!” she yelled, wanting more than anything to defend her hero. The Outsider looked back to Balto and roared just like it had at Jenna, pretty much saying ‘you got lucky’. It turned back to Tina and let out a roar. It charged at her and tried to slash her with its claw. She leapt out of the way and got between it and Balto. The monster turned to look at her. It let out a massive roar. Suddenly there was a snapping sound, it turned around as a tree fell on it’s head. It fell to the ground, knocked out and pinned under the tree.
Tina smiled, the Outsider’s claw had cut through a tree as she’d planned. She turned to Balto and her smile vanished. He was battered and bleeding, she cried some. She had to get him back to Nome, she’d promised Jenna. She managed to get him onto her back and moved as fast as she could. She couldn’t believe her hero had lost, she knew it had been likely but she’d had so much faith in Balto, that he’d be able to put an end to that genetic demon but he wasn’t. “He lost…” she said softly, in disbelief somewhat.

Nome, 9:30 pm;

Jenna paced the shed floor back and forth. Before Tina left to help Balto, she’d told her that if Balto was alright, her and Balto would howl but if something was wrong, only Tina would. Jenna dreaded that she’d hear only one, so much that the pain from her hurt ankle didn’t even register in her mind, only the pain in her heart did. “Please be alright Balto, you’ve got to be, I need you…” she said, worry going through her mind. If Balto was dead, what would she do? The Outsider would come to destroy Nome, her family would die, if that happened, she’d have nothing to live for. She tried to take her mind off it, thinking of the pups her and Balto were going to have, wondering what they’d be like, would they be brave like him? Her mind wondered back to the possibility Balto wasn’t coming back, no matter how hard she tried her mind kept going back to that. She started crying, her heart ached, hoping her love would come back. Her ears perked as she heard something, a howl, it was Tina’s. She listened hopefully for Balto’s but heard nothing for a few minutes until Tina’s howl once again broke the silence. Her heart sank. “Balto…” she said softly and ran out the door.
Tina struggled on but she was so tired. She looked back at Balto, he was still unconscious. Her joints were stiff from cold and fatigue, she knew Balto had to be freezing if he was still alive. She wiped the possibility he wasn’t alive anymore out of her mind. “Hang on Balto, we’re almost there.” she said, more to reassure herself. They’d just past Balto’s boat, they were almost in Nome, Tina hopped Jenna was coming to help.
Jenna ran through town, not even feeling her throbbing ankle through the agony her heart was going through. She finally reached Balto and Tina, her heart broke when she saw Balto. “No…” she said as tears surged into her eyes. She looked at her battered and beaten mate, crying hard. “What happened?” she asked, very upset.
Tina collapsed and panted hard for a few seconds, she was so tired her whole body ached. “He lost…” she said, disbelief still in her voice.
Jenna managed to pull herself together, she understood how terrible it had to be for Tina, she believed Balto could do anything, he was her hero, Jenna couldn’t imagine how Tina must of felt, having her hopes and her hero crushed. “Is he…is he alive?” she managed to ask, dreading the answer would be no.
“I don’t know…I’m too cold to feel his pulse. I managed to stop the Outsider from killing him but enough damage may of already been done.” replied Tina shivering. She managed to get up and stagger towards Jenna house.
Jenna quickly put part of Balto’s weight onto her own back, managing to help Tina support him and take some of her stress off her. She helped carry Balto through the streets. She glanced at his head, blood had stopped coming from his wound but his face was covered in it. She winced but didn’t look away. “Please just survive...” she said quietly.
Steele walked up, an evil smile on his face. “Well, what happened? Half-breed get in a fight with a grizzly?” he asked jokingly.
Jenna looked over her shoulder with a deep snarl that made Steele back up a little bit. “This is the worst possible time. There is something very dangerous out there, Balto tried to stop it, he couldn’t.” she said, pinning her ears back and baring her teeth to Steele.
“Well then maybe I should put him out of his misery.”
“Touch him and you’ll regret it.”
“Who’s going to make me? You?” Steele let out a laugh.
“No, the Outsider will.” said Tina.
“What’s that? Another dog?”
“Worse, it’s a monster and its what did this to Balto.”
Steele would of laughed but he knew himself just how much it took to do that to Balto. “Well a monster huh? Well I guess this half-breed already proved he can’t stop it so he isn’t really useful anymore is he?”
Tina looked at Jenna. “Looks like he isn’t backing off, I guess I’ll have to take a page from your book.” she whispered. She moved out from under Balto and looked at Steele, she batted her eyelids flirtatiously. “Now come on Steele, are you sure you won’t reconsider? I might reconsider your earlier offer of a date if you do.” she said, flirting to Steele and nudging him slightly, backing him up.
Jenna didn’t understand until she saw where Tina was luring Steele, a sly smile crossed her face. Steele fell for it, he thought she was hitting on him. “Well I guess maybe I could.” he said.
“Of course but there’s something else you could do for me…” said Tina, keeping Steele under her spell.
“What is it?”
Tina looked behind Steele and got ready. “You can…have a nice fall!” she said and pushed her weight up into Steele chest. Steele hadn’t noticed Tina had backed him onto a rather high porch, which he now fell off of. There was loud crash as he landed on an overturned trash can, his mass crunching it. He let out a howl of pain as his ribs were still injured from the fall from Balto’s boat and suffered worse injury. Tina looked down, anger in her eyes. “I’m going to warn you Steele, I know this monster better than anyone. If we stand any chance of stopping it we need Balto alive or its going to get to town and it will show no mercy to anyone, everyone will die. If you can’t leave him alone for that, do it for the only thing you really care about, yourself! I’m going to tell you something about this monster, it has claws that can tear clean through six inches of solid metal like its tissue paper, can you imagine what they’d do to flesh and bone!” she warned. She went back to Jenna and helped her carry Balto while Steele tried to dislodge himself.
“Good thing Steele is too stupid to realize it was a trap, again.” said Jenna before looking back to Balto, wondering if he was still able to fight that monster.
Meanwhile in Balto’s mind, he’d given up hope. His mental plane resembled the last time he’d lost the will to go on, the bottom of that cliff. He didn’t know whether or not he was still alive or dead, even if he was awake or asleep, he just laid in the snow, his paw over his eyes, crying. “I’m sorry Jenna, Rosy, I couldn’t stop it, I let you all down and now Nome is doomed.” he said, depressed. He wanted to get up and somehow get back to Nome but he just couldn’t muster up the willpower to. His ears perked, he heard something. He removed his paw from his eyes and looked up. Standing in front of him was the same white wolf from before. She pointed her head skywards and let out a long, majestic howl and looked at him, expecting a howl in return. This time Balto didn’t hastate, he got up, shook the snow off, and let out a long howl of his own.
Aniu looked proudly at her son and let out a howl along with him. She couldn’t tell him she was his mother, it wasn’t time for that yet. She looked at him. “Hello do you remember me?” she asked.
Balto nodded. “Yes I do, thank you for helping me so much…am I still…” he asked, wondering if he was still alive.
“Alive? Yes you are but unconscious.” Aniu replied, she understood why Balto thought he might have been dead.
Balto smiled slightly. “That’s a relief.” he said but then lowered his head. “I can’t stop that monster, I did everything I could but I just couldn’t beat it.”
Aniu shook her head. “Do you remember what your friend told you before you headed out on your own that night?”
Balto looked surprised. “You know about Boris?”
“I know many things.”
“Alright. He told me ‘A dog cannot make this journey alone but maybe a wolf can.’” he quoted.
Aniu nodded. “Yes, that was true for that journey but not this one. Nether part of you is strong enough to beat this creature, you will need help this time. Now awake, you need to get back to the ones that care for you.” she said and let out a howl.
Balto groaned as he regained consciousness. He expected to see the frozen wilderness he fought the Outsider in and feel pain and cold but instead saw a lit fireplace, he was warm. He felt a weight on top of him, he looked over to see that his mate was partly laying on him, warming him with her own body as she did before. She saw him and her face lit up. “Balto! You’re alive!” she said and nuzzled him repeatedly. “You almost gave me a heart attack, thank goodness you’re alive.”
Jenna got off him and Balto tried to sit up but pain shot through his injured ribs and he felt dizzy. He looked at his ribs, they were taped up. “What happened? How’d I get back here?” he asked.
“Tina saved you, she carried you all the way back to Nome.”
Balto looked at Tina who set a little bit away from him. “Thank you, you’re stronger than you look.” he said.
Tina blushed slightly. “I guess we’re even huh?” she asked.
“Even…Tina can the Outsider talk?”
Tina cocked her head. “Well its able to talk but it doesn’t know how.”
“Yes it does, during our fight, it asked me ‘Why won’t you die?’ it was hard to understand but I got the message.”
Tina looked shocked. “This isn’t good, its learning.”
“Learning? It can do that?” asked Jenna.
“Yes, its designed to absorb information from any source, to better itself.”
“Like it wasn’t tough enough.” said Balto, managing to sit up with a slight whimper.
“It gets worse, the longer its alive outside the enclosed laboratory, the more it grows, if we don’t stop it soon, it will metamorphosis.”
“What?”
“It will transform into a more powerful form.”
Jenna’s eyes went wide. “More powerful?! That monster could already wipe the whole town off the map.”
“I know, it shouldn’t evolve before it attacks, we have to stop it before then.” said Tina, a serious expression on her face.
“We will win, but I can’t do this alone.” said Balto, his normal smile on his face.
“Well before we make up a plan to stop the Outsider, there’s a family in the other room that is very worried.” said Jenna. “Rosy and her parents helped bandage you up but Rosy cried the whole time, it broke her heart seeing you so beat up, same with me.” said Jenna, nuzzling Balto before the two of them went into the next room to be with Rosy.

Well what do you say? Worth the cliff hanger?

Yea this WAS WELL WORTH TH CLIFF HANGER
Kedell have you ever thought about being a writer i mean honestly cause this is a Great story!

Actuelly yes, I've almost writtin my first full length novel, I'm serious! I am planning to become a writer and a teacher.

Dude that is aswome and you have got to try and get this PUBLISHED plus if you are going top be a tacher you should tach a t joppa high i hear its a pretty good school.

Really? Well since I don't own the rights to Balto or the Outsider, I can't really publish this. Anyway, time for the next chapter which also has something with Tina and Steele getting some payback. Enjoy!

Healing Wounds

Nome, Alaska, 6 am;

Balto set on the porch. Jenna and Tina were asleep, he’d had trouble sleeping because of his injuries and something on his mind. “How can we stop it?” he asked himself. He remembered the fight, the only thing that had any effect was hitting it with something, he couldn’t bite through its skin. “Alright so we need to pound away at it but how can that destroy it?” he asked himself. He wished some of his other friend were in town, he needed all the help he could get, he’d even settle for Dixie. He got up with a groan and walked a little bit, thinking. “It’s a living thing, it has to be able to be killed.” he said to himself before coughing some from his injured ribs. “Oh man, how am I going to fight that thing again in this condition?” Suddenly something grabbed his hind leg and swung him around into an ally. He slid across the icy ground and banged his head on a trash can. He got up to find Steele standing in front of me.

“Then half-breed, I guess you won’t be able to be me ether.” he said. Balto took a snap at the bigger dog but Steele avoided it and struck Balto in the head with his paw. Balto yelped, his head still hurt from the concussion he’d gotten from the Outsider. Steele saw this and grabbed his leg and threw him head first into a trash can again. Balto yelped harder, he tried to stand but felt dizzy again and fell, he’d gotten another concussion. Steele laughed at Balto’s pain. “I don’t care about this monster or whatever it is half-breed, this town hates me so I could care less what happens to it.” he said. He bit down on the bandages wrapping Balto’s bruised ribs and tore them off.

“Please, stop.” said Balto weakly, he was disorientated by his concussion and felt so weak.

“Now why would I do that?” asked Steele. Steele reared up on his hind legs and brought his full body weight down on Balto’s ribs. Balto yelped loud in pain and coughed hard. Steele did this again, with the same reaction. Steele did this repeatedly while laughing rather psychotically until there was a rather loud snap. Balto and Steele both knew one of Balto’s ribs had broken. Balto coughed harder, some blood coming up. Steele reared up to do it again.

“No!” yelled Tina as her and Jenna slammed hard into Steele’s side, knocking him on his side. The two females put themselves between him and Balto, snarling and baring their teeth. “Leave him alone!”

Steele looked at the sight before him, he was still hurt from his previous fight. “This is over.” he said and ran off, with another psychotic laugh.

“Thank you.” wheezed Balto, he tried to stand up but couldn’t even get part way off the ground before falling back down with a groan of agony. “If I can’t even beat Steele, how am I supposed to stop that monster?”

Jenna was crying at seeing her mate this badly hurt. Her and Tina picked him up carefully and took him back to Rosy’s house and got him taped up again. Balto rested in the living room. Tina and Jenna went outside. “What are we going to do? How can he stop that thing when he’s too hurt to even stand up?” asked Jenna, disheartened.

Tina thought for a few minutes. “I know a way but its very dangerous…” she said.

“What is it?”

“The Outsider has great healing powers, it can heal almost any wound. If I can get a piece of it, I can make something that will heal Balto.”

“How are you going to get a piece of that monster?”

“Well when it heals, it sheds its old skin, its shed skin will do. Don’t worry it won’t make Balto shed his skin, it only does that because it’s a reptile. I think Balto hurt it in there fight, which is why it didn’t follow us to finish him off last night.”

“I’m coming with you.”

“No, Balto needs someone here incase Steele comes back, I’ll make it back, I promise.” said Tina, she ran off out of town.

It took Tina awhile to reach the Outsider’s lair. It was still sleeping so she snuck into to the cave. Despite not reacting earlier, the stench in the beast lair really made her almost throw up, she just knew how to hide it. She looked around for the shed skin, she saw it, right behind the monster. She got a little mad at her rotten luck. She snuck around. She carefully stepped into the warm waters, trying not to make much noise. She snuck behind it. As she reached for its shed skin, the creature’s tail smacked the surface of the water. She froze. The monster was still sleeping, it must of just moved in its sleep. She bit down on the skin, it tasted revolting and increased her urge to throw up. The monster’s tail smacked down again, this time hitting Tina’s back. She wanted to yelp but managed not to despite the welt forming on her back. She snuck out of the lair, dragging the shed skin. As soon as she got out of its lair, she dropped it and threw up.

A few hours later, Tina and Jenna had Balto on his boat so no one would see what was about to happen. Tina had ‘barrowed’ a bowl of water from Rosy’s house and tore a piece of the shed skin and dissolved it in the water, which turned bright green. She let out a sigh. “Alright, this can heal all your wounds but there’s something that I didn’t tell you before, the normal body is not designed to heal this quickly and as such, it will hurt, it will hurt worse than anything you’ve ever felt. It last take one hour to finish, in that time you will be in absolute agony, the stress could kill you.” said Tina, the scientists had tested this on a US marine and it had been too much for him. “So if you want to get your family and flee Nome, I’ll stay here and fight the Outsider alone.” she said.

Jenna looked at Balto, she didn’t want him to endure that much pain but they had to stop this monster. She nodded. “I don’t want him to be in pain but that thing is going to wipe the town out if we don’t stop it so I don’t think we have a choice.” she said.

Balto thought about it and nodded. “Same here, bring it.” he said, managing to smile. Tina nodded and allowed Balto to drink the medicine. He gagged but managed not to throw up. “Oh, it tastes disgusting.”

“I know, it will take a few minutes to take effect.” said Tina, pinning her ears, feeling guilty she was going to put him through so much pain. Tina turned to Jenna. “This is probably going to be hard for you to watch, you don’t have to stay.”

Jenna looked at Balto then at Tina. She laid down next to Balto. “I’m not leaving him.” she said.

It took a few minutes and Balto thought that it wasn’t working until it kicked in. He grit his teeth, his muscles tightened, it took all of his willpower not to scream in pain and the only reason he didn’t do that was for Jenna’s sake. It felt like his ribs were being torn from his body and his skin was burning, tears of pain ran from his clinched eyes.

Jenna felt like crying herself, she wanted it to stop, she hated seeing her beloved in so much pain but knew it had to be like this. She put a paw on his back to comfort him. “Just hold on Balto, I’ll be here the whole time.” she said softly.

Tina on the other hand couldn’t bare watching it at all. “I’ll go keep a look out for Steele.” she said and left. She felt ashamed for acting this way but it just hurt her so much to know she was putting her hero through unimaginable pain. “I a wimp.” she said as she set in front of Balto’s boat. “I should be up there, encouraging him through this but I can’t.” she looked down and some tears ran from her eyes. She felt someone in front of her. She looked up.

In front of her was what she first that was Aniu but then she realized it was a wolf dog, about her age, and male. “Hello sister, long time no see.” said the dog.

“A-alex? Is that really you? But how?”

“In the flesh, well not exactly since I’m kind of a spirit.” said Alex. “I’m your spirit guide, I’m supposed to help you. I followed you back.” he said, his voice comforting. “I wish I could nuzzle you but I’m not solid at the moment.”

“I missed you so much, I’m so sorry I caused your death.” said Tina, crying a little.

“It wasn’t your fault, I was just doing what any big brother would of done.”

“Yeah, I guess. I’ve been beating myself up all these years and if I hadn’t, then I might not be in this mess and nether would Balto and Jenna.”

“Fate is harder to change than that, well you know, except when time travel is involved.” he said, smiling warmly. “You need to go be with Balto, he needs you to be strong for him.”

“I don’t know if I can…”

“You have to be, you’re a descendent of Balto, he never quit when someone he loved needed him, even if he needed someone to remind him.”

“I guess your right. Thanks brother.” said Tina with a smile.

“Welcome.” said Alex, he let out a howl and vanished.

Tina went back up to Balto. “Come on Balto, you can do this, you have to do this.” she said.

When the hour was over, the pain stopped quickly. Balto relaxed, breathing heavily from the effort it took to withstand the pain. Jenna licked his nose and nuzzled him. “Did it work?” she asked.

Balto waited till he got his energy back , which didn’t take as long as he expected, before standing up, he felt as good as new, maybe even better. “Yeah, I feel a lot better, that stuff works good.” he said, ripping off his bandages. “If only it didn’t hurt so much.”

“Yeah, that’s a nasty side effect.” said Tina. “Well only one thing to do now.”

“Take the Outsider down.”

“Right, I’ve got a plan, we lure it into the ice cave and use some dynamite I found in the shed outside the boiler room, the humans use it to open paths blocked by avalanches and rockslides, to trigger a cave in to trap it.” said Tina.

“But what about its regeneration?” asked Jenna.

“I can use something from its shed skin to have the opposite effect, we just got to get it into its system.”

“How do we do that?” asked Balto.

“I’ll handle that, you just go home to Rosy and spend the time till nightfall with her. Tonight the monster will attack, the temporal storm accelerated the blizzard so it will hit tonight instead of tomorrow, we have to stop it before its too late” said Tina…

What do you think?

Hmm... Interesting.
The Outsiders skin is both medicine and poison.
Time to shove it down his throat, and I mean that quite literally.

Another great chapter. Can't wait to see how our friendly neighborhood jerk Steele fits into all this. Should be a hoot.

Write on!
-LWf

I wonder what life would be like if the outsider was real i'm glad its not though and i did not see that twist coming
kendell this book is a Hook Line And sinker KEEP UP th great work.

Thanks, I liked the plot twist, we're nearly done, this is almost the last chapter but its also a final battle but not with the Outsider, you'll see what I mean, enjoy!

Rival’s Last Quarrel

Nome, Alaska; 9:30 pm;

Balto licked Rosy’s cheek as she was tucked into bed, as did Jenna. “Good night.” she told them and hugged them both. “I’m glad you’re better.” she whispered to Balto.
Rosy’s mother lead the dogs out of the room. “Jenna, I…I don’t want you to come with me and Tina.” said Balto, regrettably.
“What? Why? Balto you ne-” said Jenna, surprised.
“Your ankle is still hurt and even if we kill the Outsider, me and Tina could still die out there, someone has to be here for Rosy.”
Jenna wanted to argue but knew he was right. She buried her face in his fur and sobbed. “Please don’t say that, you’re coming back, you promised you’d never leave me.” she said, saddened.
Balto nuzzled her comfortingly. “I know I did, I hope I can keep that promise.” he said.
“I’ll stay here, for Rosy’s sake but please, no matter what happens out there, stop that thing.” Jenna said and looked up into his eyes.
Tina nudges the door open. “Balto, its time.” she said.
Balto walked over while Jenna curls up in front of the fire. “Please be alright…” “Jenna’s staying with Rosy.” said Balto, he really didn’t want to leave Jenna at home but Rosy needed someone.
Tina nodded, understandably. “I understand, I just hope we won’t need her help.” she said. “I got us some supplies. I got the dynamite like I said. I also got a sled to carry stuff and I ‘barrowed‘ a syringe from the doctor to put a little surprise for the Outsider in. Remember the plan?”
“Lure that thing into the ice cave and trigger a cave in of ice to bury it…did you do something about what I noticed, with the thunder?” he asked, he’d told her earlier.
Tina nodded. “Well I turned an old radio, an umbrella, and a bunch of stuff in an old junk shed to build a transmitter and portable battery that will make a sound like thunder.” This got a confused glance from Balto. “What? I have an IQ of 174 and I’m really good with my paws.”
Balto chuckled. “Alright, lets go take the Outsider down.”
The Outsider sensed them leaving the town. The blizzard was beginning but it was compelled to murder Tina. It calculated were they were going and found a canyon before the Ice cave they’d have to pass through. It let out a massive roar. The cracking of ice filled the air. An avalanche buries the ice cave and closes off that end of the canyon. It looked at its work and emits another disturbingly evil laugh.
Jenna laid on the floor of the shed, waiting for her beloved to return. “Please be alive.” she said. The door swung open, inviting in an already fierce storm. “Balto?” she asked, perking her head.
Steele walked in, prompting a gasp from Jenna. “Well where’s that useless mate of yours?” he asked, a crazed look in his eyes.
Jenna was glad Balto wasn’t there. “He’s gone with Tina to put an end to the Outsider.” she said defiantly.
Steele laughed, almost as disturbingly as the Outsider, only this time it was because of the crazed tone of it. “That mutt couldn’t hurt a flea in his condition. How does he think he can beat a monster?”
Jenna managed to smirk. “We healed him, using something from the Outsider. They’re going to trap it in the ice cave.”
Steele laughed again. “Didn’t you hear? The path is blocked by an avalanche, they’re walking into a dead end.” he smiled menacingly.
Jenna looked shocked. She didn’t want to believe Steele but she could see he wasn’t lying. Jenna, calm yourself down, they’ll find a way to stop it anyway. she thought to herself.
“Now Jenna, we both know the half-breed isn’t coming back, come with me.” Steele taunted, adding another psychotic laugh.
“It didn’t work a few months ago, its not going to work now.” she said.
Jenna turns around but Steele grabs her hind leg and flips her onto her back. He pins her front shoulders to the ground. “I wasn’t asking.” he said, snarling. He was doing this more to scare her than anything else.
It was working, Jenna was frightened, thinking of what he could do. She straggled but could break free. She realized her hind legs were free. She kicked out and connected with Steele’s still injured ribs. He yelped and fell off. Jenna got up and made a dash for the door. She suddenly felt herself snap backwards, her bandana tightening. The back of her head smacked the deck. She didn’t notice, adrenaline kicked in, she ran. Steele kept holding on but her bandana came undone and she got away. She ran as fast as she could through town, ignoring the raging blizzard. She stopped behind a houses, shielded from the storm, her heart racing. She groaned. She laid down and put her paws over her aching head. “Oh my head.”
“Oh Jenna where are you?” asked Steele, carrying her bandana in his mouth. He couldn’t find her and her scent was impossible to find in the blizzard. Jenna held her breath, she didn’t even move. Steele growled, then smiled as he thought of something. “Jenna, I’m going to make sure your mate doesn’t make it back!” he said with a psychotic laugh, he dashed off, he remembered the path.
Jenna let out her breath and relaxed for a minute. She covered her throbbing skull again. Her eyes snapped open as she realized something. “Oh no, Balto!” she said. She ran out after Steele.
“Jenna, where are you heading in such a rush?” said a familiar voice with a Russian accent.
She turned to see Boris waddle up. “Oh thank goodness you made it back alright.” she said, relieved.
“Why wouldn’t we be making it back alright?”
“Uncle Boris!” yelled Muk as he and Luk ran up and hugged Boris, almost crushing him, as per usual.
“I’d like it if you’d please be getting off me now!”
“Guys! Balto is in big trouble.” said Jenna, trying to get them to settle, she needed help.
The polar bears instantly dropped Boris. He shook the snow off himself and got up. “Jenna, what is wrong?”
“I can’t explain right now but Steele is after him and we need to help him, he’s out in the wilderness and there is something much more dangerous out there I don’t have time to explain.”
“Be leading the way. Muk, Luk, come on, Balto is in trouble.”
Jenna turned to lead the way when she remembered something. That night on the hill, the Northern Lights hurt it… she thought.
Balto and Tina straggled against the wind and snow as they entered the canyon and it subsided. “Well we’re almost there.” said Balto, panting.
“Yeah, I wish we’d left earlier before the blizzard started.” said Tina.
“Half-breed!” yelled Steele as he stepped forwards.
“Steele?” asked Balto confused. “We don’t have time for this.”
Steele laughed. “Really, well nether did Jenna.” he said, thinking of a way to infuriate Balto.
Balto snarled. “If you so much as touched one hair on her head!”
“I killed her.”
Balto snarled louder. “You’re a liar!” said Balto, mad.
“Even a liar has to tell the truth sometimes.” he said with an evil smirk.
Balto was angry, he didn’t believe Steele but he knew deep down that Steele was right, even liars had to tell the truth sometimes. “I don’t believe you.”
Steele laughed and untied Jenna’s bandana from his leg. He laid it in the snow. “Look familiar?”
Balto staggered. He felt like he’d just been punched in the gut. Jenna never took off her bandana, never except to give it to him that night. He quickly began snarling. “I’m going to rip you in half!” He leapt on Steele.
Tina rushed to help but heard that evil voice in her head. Oh no you don’t. said the voice. Tina suddenly felt a terrible pain in her head, the worst headache she’d ever had. She fell down and put her paws over head, crying in agony. I’ll let him take care of your hero. Do you like my new power? I have to fully concentrate on the link but it should hold you till this fight ends. Tina was in unbearable pain. He head felt like it was going to explode. Tears of pain ran down her face, she whimpered from the horrible pain.
Balto slammed into Steele and they both rolled across the ground, biting and clawing at each other. Steele kicked Balto off and lunged for his throat. Balto avoided the attack, Steele’s jaws closing on the snow. Balto bit into Steele’s shoulder as hard as Steele in turn bit down on his. Balto rolled Steele over. Steele released his grip and bit down on Balto’s maw. Balto had no choice but to release his grip to pull himself free from Steele grip. Balto bit again, this time tearing off a piece of his ear. Steele growled in pain. He drove his head into Balto’s throat. Balto coughed and staggered off Steele. Steele jumped on Balto and bit into his back. Balto twisted around and knocked him to the ground. He leapt on him and tried to bite Steele’s throat. Steele kicked out with his hind legs, kicking Balto in the stomach. Even with his ribs healed, it still drove the air from his lungs and sent him to the ground in a coughing fit. “I won’t give up.” he said through coughing.
Steele got up and laughed psychotically. “Fine, I‘ll just kill you.” he said. He grabbed Balto’s leg and threw him. Balto rolled across the ground. He tried to stand but still hadn’t recovered from the kick. Steele tackled him to the ground and stood over him. “Time to die, half-breed.” he said and lowered his jaws slowly over Balto’s throat. Before he could close them, he felt something bite his tail. He turned around to find Jenna. “Big mistake sweetie.” he said turning his back to Balto. Balto managed to stand and bite Steele’s leg. With all his strength he managed to swing Steele around and throw him. Steele’s back struck the canyon wall, his head smacking hard against it. Steele fell unconscious into the snow.
Balto panted. He looked at Jenna, a smile crossed his face. “Jenna!” he said and nuzzled her lovingly. “Thanks for not listening to me.” he said.
Jenna smiled and licked his on the nose. “I can’t stay home while my mate is in trouble.” she said.
Balto got Jenna’s bandana out of the snow and slipped it around her neck. “I think this is yours.” he said, smiling.
Boris and the polar bears walk up. “Balto! Glad to be seeing you in one piece.” said Boris.
Muk and Luk just ran up to hug him, nearly crushing him. Tina finally forced the Outsider from her mind, stopping her agonizing headache. She smiled at Balto and his friends but then remembered the real problem. “Guys, we’ve still got certain problem to deal with.” she said.
“Who is this Balto?” asked Boris.
“I’ll explain later. She’s right, we need to stop something really bad.” said Balto.
“Hang on.” said Jenna, she walked a short distance away and came back with a bag. She opened it to show the broken bottles.
“The Northern Lights?”
“They stopped the Outsider from killing me that one night. They seem to hurt its eyes and block its vision somehow.”
“Of course, the Outsider’s eyesight is amazing but that can weaken it.” said Tina.
“What is this Outsider?” asked Boris.
Before Balto can respond, the Outsider’s roar echoes through the canyon. They look to see the monster standing on the top of the ridge, the full moon behind it, making it a menacing silhouette as it let out another roar. Luk says something no one but Muk understands. “How should I know what that is?” asked Muk.
“Its something bad, and we’ve got to stop it.” said Balto.

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Boris!! is there and I love how you use forshadowing in the story KEEP IT UP. ^.^

Alright, time for the final epic battle!!! This is the last fight with the Outsider, will the group win or is Nome doomed? Perpare to find out!

Win, Lose, or Draw

Alaskan Wilderness, 11:30 pm;

“That!” said Balto, getting the sled harness back on.
“I’ve got an idea, we need to put some distance between us and that monster.” said Tina, she put on her harness and dashed with Balto deeper into the canyon, the others falling shortly behind..
Steele groggily woke up. “Alright, now I know how he felt.” said Steele. He feels something big land in the snow in front of him.
The group reached the end of the canyon. “Alright, this will have to do, Jenna get those set up, there’s a lantern on the sled, its lit use that.” said Tina, she turned to Boris and the polar bears. “You three just hide, we can beat this thing and at the moment it has no reason to try to kill you.” The three obey and hide behind a snow bank.
Steele is thrown into the clearing, rolling several times before coming to a stop. He coughs and hacks, some of his ribs shattered. The Outsider walks into the clearing, walking on all fours, its snout had lengthened to a more dog-like appearance and dog-like ears now adorned its head. “Tina, explain.” said Balto, surprised by the change in the creature’s appearance, as was Jenna.
“Well it considered you a worthy opponent so it most of evolved to be more like a dog.” said Tina, reasonably shocked.
“Great, it got more powerful.”
“I know!”
The Outsider picked Steele up with its tail and stood up to its full height. It extended it claws in front of its face. “Drop him! He might be a complete moron but he still doesn’t deserve this!” yelled Balto.
The Outsider looked at him then back at Steele. It retracted its claws. “You…disappoint…me…” it said. It took Steele’s front leg and slowly bent it, causing Steele to scream in pain until a loud snap was heard. Steele lost consciousness from pain. The Outsider snapped its head to the side after releasing its grip on Steele’s leg. Its tail snapped sideways and toss Steele easily. It turned back to the group, all of whom were a little shocked by what it just did. It looked up at the canyon wall behind it. It leapt up and slammed its hands into the top, causing another avalanche that sealed off the section of canyon they were in. “No…way…out…but…through…me…” it said.
“You heard it, the only way out is to stop it.” said Jenna, still shocked that it had broken Steele’s leg like a twig.
“No matter what happens guys, we can’t let this thing out of this canyon, win, lose, or draw, we’ve got to take it down for good.” said Tina, Balto and Jenna nodded.
“I’ll set up the Northern Lights.” said Jenna, she rushed off to were she left the bag to find that it had been buried under a layer of snow, she couldn’t find it. She quickly started digging.
The Outsider charged at Tina and Balto on all fours. It leapt at them, claws extended. They jump to the side and its claws drive into the frozen earth. It quickly retracts them and turns. It charges again, for the first time trying to bite them with its razor sharp teeth. The avoid and it gets a mouth full of snow. “Its acting more like a dog now too.” said Balto.
The Outsider spits out the cold snow and charges again, moving much faster on all fours but still not as fast as they were, dodging its bite once more. It brings its hands up and hits both at once, sending them rolling across the ground. “Its getting smarter, not good.” said Tina.
Jenna gasped as she looked desperately for bag. She began to lose hope until she saw the Outsider land a hit. She calmed down and sniff around for her own scent. She quickly found the bag and ran back to the sled. She saw the Outsider prepare its blades to drive into Tina. She quickly pressed her nose against a button on the machine Tina had made, guessing which on it was. A noise like thunder started sounding. The Outsider looked up and quickly retracted its blades. Jenna smiled and poured the bottles onto the ground, positioning them with her paws. She set the lit lantern behind her and stood between it and the bottles. “Hey! Outsider, come and get me!” she yelled. The Outsider snapped around to see her. It dashed forwards quickly. Jenna was scared but she managed to get the consciousness to get out of the way as the monster leapt at her. The aurora instantly shot out of the bottles and cast over the Outsider. The genetic demon roared in pain as its eyes burned from the bright light. It fell forwards, crashing face first into the bottles, drawing another screech of agony as the sharp shards drove into its eyes. It stood up and roared as it tried to get the shards out, only doing more damage to itself. “Well that worked better than I’d hoped.”
Tina thought of something and ran to the sled, getting out a syringe filled with yellow liquid. She threw it at the monster’s head, it broke on impact, sending the fluid running into its eyes. She jumped back, avoiding getting any on her. “What was that?” asked Balto.
“The same stuff I gave you mixed with the left over diphtheria anti-toxin from your run. The same stuff that makes it work on the virus has the effect of reversing the other medicines effect, it can no longer regenerate.” said Tina with a smirk. “Oh and don’t worry, I didn’t mess up the time line using that.”
“Who knew that night would save us now?” asked Jenna, smiling.
“Lets attack it while its still stunned.” said Balto, leaping forwards and kicking off the monster’s chest. The monster staggered back before Tina dashed forwards and drove her head into the monster’s stomach. It gasped as it staggered. It began flailing madly in front of it, blind and not knowing were it was being attacked. Jenna got behind it and drove her head into its back. It fell forwards but caught itself. Tina drove her head into its lower jaw. It staggered back, only to be struck with a tackle from Balto. Suddenly, it stopped flailing and stood absolutely still. “What’s it doing? Do it give up?”
“I’m not going to give it the chance.” said Jenna, jumping at it.
“Jenna! Wait!” yelled Tina.
The Outsider twirled around and slammed its fist into Jenna’s side. She went rolling across the ground for a few feet. She got up and managed to shake off the impact. “Alright what happened?”
“It’s using its other senses to track us, it adapted.”
“Great, how powerful is this thing going to get?” asked Balto. He ran forward and jumped at it. It spun around and caught him in midair. It threw him a good distance as Tina tried to attack it. It swung its tail around and hit her in the side, getting a yelp out of her. Jenna managed to jump on its back and bit down on its neck. It let out its disturbing laugh and grabbed her with its tail before throwing her. Balto tried to take its legs out from under it but it jumped into the air and struck him with its tail with enough force to knock him a few feet away. Tina and Jenna dashed at it from behind and jumped at it. It caught them and smacked their heads together. It threw Tina away but turned to Jenna. It knew she wasn’t Tina but it was harder for her to tell without its eyesight so it decided to get rid of her. It wrapped its tail around her neck and released its hand hold, leaving her hanging by her neck. She struggled, her air being cut off. She was scared, she couldn’t breathe. Balto shook off the hit he’d taken and saw his mate being strangled. He ran around and bit down on its tail. The Outsider faced its head in his direction, unable to see him, it recognized his scent. It let out a mocking laugh at him. Balto snarled and bit down harder, he kept biting down, not letting up. Jenna began to black out and Balto’s jaw began to hurt but finally he felt his teeth sink in and tasted the horrid blood of the abomination. The Outsider tossed Jenna away and roared in pain as it tried to dislodge Balto.
Jenna gasped for breath, putting her paw over her throat. “That was too close.” she gasped.
Tina came over. “Jenna? You alright?” she asked. She looked at Balto and saw some of the monster’s green blood drip from his maw. “I don’t believe it! That thing’s skin can withstand bullets and he bit through! For you Jenna, that’s love there.”
Jenna smiled, knowing her mate had done the impossible again, for her. “You know Balto, nothing is impossible.”
The Outsider struck Balto’s head a few times with its fists to try and dislodge his grip. Balto felt light headed and let go, it hadn’t hit him with full force. The Outsider felt and bleeding wound in its tail. It snarled and let out a furious roar. It extended its claws, despite the simulated thunder. It charged at Balto, who jumped out of the way. It’s claw drove through the lantern Jenna had used, becoming lodged in it. It didn’t seem to notice as it kept trying to hit Balto with its claw and unknowingly the lantern but it couldn’t manage to hit Balto. It struck the cliff face after one of its misses, shattering the lantern. It’s claw glowed red with heat. “Great as if it wasn’t dangerous enough already.” said Balto, though he was very confident now that he knew he could pierce its hide. He kept dodging. One miss drove its claw through a piece of ice on the cliff face, creating a lot of steam and cooling its claw. Balto couldn’t see through the steam and the monster tried to take advantage with its claw. Jenna and Tina picked up a medium sized rock and together threw it into the monster’s path. The Outsider’s claw struck the rock. The steam settled to reveal…The Outsider’s claw’s on one hand had snapped off and driven into the snow! “What happened?” asked Balto.
“When you rapidly freeze hot metal, it gets fragile.” said Tina.
“Good, we weakened it.” said Jenna, smiling.
“Good, lets finish it off!” said Balto, he jumped behind the still distracted monster and pulled on its tail.
“Jenna, how’s you ankle?” asked Tina.
“I’m not sure, haven’t been paying attention.” said Jenna, looking down at her ankle.
“Get closer to the ground please.”
Jenna was confused by this request but did so. Tina stepped back before charging forwards and jumping off Jenna’s back. She hit the Outsider square in the chest, combine with Balto pulling it from behind, the monster finally hit the ground. Jenna was still startled from Tina’s actions but ran forwards as the monster set up and drove her head into its bottom jaw. The beast was drove down to the ground and stayed down. “Did we beat it?”
“Don’t let your guard down.” said Tina.
The Outsider’s eye snapped open and it whipped its tail around, knocking the trio away from it. It breathed heavily. “Insolent…pests!…” it yelled.
Balto had landed beside the sled. He noticed the dynamite sticking out. He saw that despite being smashed, the lantern’s fire remained lit. “Please let this work.” he said lowly. He dashed to the sled and grabbed the dynamite. He ran towards the Outsider, lighting the fuse on the way. It turned towards him right as he jumped onto it. He landed his front paws on its shoulders and drove his head forwards, driving the blunt side of the dynamite into the creature’s empty eye socket as deep as he could.
The Outsider launched its blade-less hand up and grabbed Balto by the throat. It lifted him off it and extended its claw. “DIE!!!” it yelled.
To Jenna everything seemed to slow down as her dream repeated itself in reality. The Outsider plunged its claw into Balto’s chest, his eyes went wide and he gasped. The monster pulled its claw out and threw him, smacking his head off the mountain side and good distance away. “NO!!!” she yelled. She tried to run to him but Tina stopped.
Your hero is dead! said the Outsider’s warped voice in Tina’s head.
“Maybe so but he was enough to take him down. Jenna get down the dynamite!” she yelled, covering hers and Jenna’s heads.
The Outsider suddenly realized what was about to happen, it couldn’t pull the dynamite out in time and it knew it. “Not…Over…” it said, it raised its bloody claw above its head and let out a loud roar…right as the dynamite exploded.
Jenna remained down, she wanted to rush to her mates aid but she couldn’t go until the blast was over. Once it cleared, she looked up. As the dust settled, the Outsider still stood, in a pillar of fire. She looked shocked until the smoke around its upper body cleared, its head was gone. The monster’s flaming corpse fell to the ground. Before it hit the ground Jenna had rushed to her mate who laid bleeding and motionless in the snow. She nudged him, crying uncontrollably. “No! You can’t be gone!” She kept nudging him.
Tina walked over but stopped to look at the dead monster, she could feel its life sighs had truly vanished, they’d killed it. She walked over to Balto. Boris and the polar bears had came over and were working with Jenna to try to wake him up. “Come on Balto, don’t quit on old Boris now.” said Boris, shaking Balto head. Muk and Luk were shaking him too but not saying anything, they understood how bad it was.
Tina sighed, crying herself but not nearly as much as Jenna. She went over to the sled and got out the first aid kit she packed. She bandaged up the deep wound in his chest, tears streaming down her face. “Well at least he can’t bleed to death now.” she said. She looked up at the mound of snow and ice that the Outsider had left before dieing. There was no way they could just carry him over it. She new the polar bears had strength they had no idea they had, which was why they almost crushed Boris and Balto when hugging them but they wouldn’t even be able to. She realized something. “The sled! We can get him back to Nome for help!” she said. Suddenly though the earth seem to start shaking and the ground beneath the Outsider collapsed, an underground cave had been destabilized by the explosion and now opened like a massive maw to swallow the blazing corpse. The fissure kept going and stopped half way under the sled. Tina ran over and grabbed a rope on it. Muk and Luk came over and tried to pull it back. They tugged and tugged. It was almost to the point it would stop swaying towards the abyss…when the rope snapped. The three of them fell backward but Tina quickly scrambled to her feet and looked over as the sled smashed on the rock a far distance below. She fell on her rear and started crying, losing hope of saving Balto.
Fifteen minutes later after trying to wake Balto, Tina stopped trying so did Boris. Jenna wouldn’t, she kept nudging him, no longer crying just because she was out of tears. “Jenna, he’s gone…we’ve got to go or we’ll freeze to death out here.” Tina said, feeling crushed.
“She is right Jenna…Balto is…dead.” said Boris, sad. Muk and Luk burst into a crying fit.
Jenna snapped around. “He’s not dead! He can’t be!” she yelled.
“Jenna, if he wasn’t killed by the Outsider to begin with, he’s probably froze to death by now and so will we if we don-”
“I’d rather freeze to death!” yelled Jenna, not willing to leave her mate. She laid on him as the others looked at their feet. “You can’t die…you promised you wouldn’t leave me…” she said softly. She cried, tears she didn’t know she had left…“You can’t be gone…” she said. Suddenly she heard something, a soft rhythmic thumping. A heart beat! She snapped up and looked at the others. “He’s still alive! I heard his heart beat!” she said, excited.
Tina and Boris looked at each other. Tina went over to Balto and put her ear to his chest. She heard his heart beat. “She’s right, he’s heart is beating! Faintly but I can hear it!” she said. They resumed their effort to wake him. Jenna nudged him for a few moments before nuzzling his head.
“Come on Balto, you can’t let us down now.” she said.
Balto was in his dreamscape again, unconscious here too. Aniu approached him, Alex beside her. “He’s still alive but he’s so deeply unconscious, almost like a coma.” said Alex.
“Alex, you might be from the future but you don’t know all things, Balto will overcome this for his mate.” said Aniu. She put her muzzle beside Balto’s head. “Balto, you’re loved ones need you, you must wake, Jenna‘s waiting.”
In the real world, Balto’s eyes snapped open. He groaned and looked at Jenna. “Miss me?” he asked.
“Balto! You’re alive!” Jenna yelled. She nuzzled him till she was tired.
“It takes more than a monster to do me in…the Outsider! Where is it?!”
“Dead, we did it, its been destroyed.” said Tina, smiling.
Muk and Luk prepared to hug Boris but for once waited. Boris was surprised but smiled. “Oh come on, give uncle Boris a hug.” he said. They responded with their normal act of nearly crushing him.
“This is all well and good but…I’m still alive over here!” yelled Steele, laying on his side in the snow, his leg bent at a strange angle.
Tina walked over. “Fine.” she said, rolling her eyes. “I’ll hel-”
“No! I don’t want your hel-”
“Shut up!” said Tina and struck Steele on the back of the neck, knocking him out. She bandaged his wounds and straitened his leg before splinting it. She slapped him awake. “There! You didn’t deserve that but I did it anyway and don’t be ungrateful or I’ll reconsider and throw you in the chasm with the Outsider’s flaming remains.” Tina’s yelling caused the avalanche blocking the canyon to rumble down itself and into the cave, covering all the remains of the Outsider beneath snow and rock, unblocking the path in the process. “Well that’s convenient”
“Yeah, now let’s go home.” said Balto.

Nome, Alaska, 4 am;

“Why am I even here?” asked Steele, sitting angry on the outskirts of Nome.
“For once I’m agreeing with the bully.” said Boris.
“Well I thought you’d want to say goodbye to Tina. Steele she did help you, would you rather she of thrown you into the chasm?” asked Balto.
Steele got mad but said nothing. “Steele you can’t say anything about the Outsider, its extremely important that monster remains a secret.” said Tina
“Yeah, yeah.” said Steele, not really intending to do so.
“Steele’s you’re still the same selfish glory hound.” said Balto
“Well if my calculations are correct, the passage should open soon.” said Tina.
“Well if you’re ever around please drop by.” said Jenna, nuzzling her descendent.
“Same for you two.”
“Goodbye.” said Balto, licking her on the cheek.
Tina stepped back and drove one of the Outsider’s broken metal claws into the ground. Thunder roared throughout the area. “Goodbye.” she said as lightning surged down from the sky and struck the metal claw. Reality warped around her again. She pointed her snout skywards and let out a howl, Balto joined her and Alex appeared beside Tina and did the same. The warp ended, Tina was gone.
Luk pointed and said something. “How should I know what happen?!” asked Boris. “Oh great, I’m speaking bear again!”
“What the heck happened?!” asked Steele.
“Tina went home to the future, were she and the Outsider are from.” said Jenna, rubbing against Balto and chuckling.
“She was staying with her ancestors.” said Balto, a smirk forming on his face.
Steele’s eyes went wide as he realized just who he’d been hitting on earlier. “You know I think you guys are right, no one needs to know about this.” he said, rather rapidly.

New York City, 7 am, 2007;

Tina reemerged from the warp right were she’d began, this time she was able to not be knocked out. She looked up at Balto’s statue and smiled. “Thank you.” she said before letting out a howl. “Better go make sure the world isn’t ruled by apes or something like that.” she said with a laugh as she walked off.
Alex and Aniu watch down from above. “Well Aniu, you know that was a dangerous journey.” said Alex.
“Yes but fate decided for it to be so and that terrible beast has been destroyed.” said Aniu.
“Yeah, our charges’ combined might was too much for it, I just wish it hadn’t been such a close call.”
“Time travel may change the path of time but there is always risk.”
“Alright but lets try to prevent this in the future, if I was alive I’d of had a heart attack.” said Alex with a laugh.

The End…

What do you think? I hope you like it. I've also added a poll asking if I should make a sequal, if I get enough votes, I'll write the sequal, so please vote!

Wow. What a great ending. You really had me holding my breath there. Ga! Scary.
Steele finally got what was coming to him... I mean, poor Steele.
Great job.

Write on!
-LWf

it takes place in late summer early fall

Re:I'm not sure, I don't now what month Wolf Quest takes place in, I know the first one took place in Fabury.