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Since I havn't quite decided on a title yet, Im going to leave this one untitled until I decide on one. In which, this topic's title will change to the title. Now for Chapter 1 of the long awaited, or so i hope and think, sequal to:
'Kodi's Big Mistake'
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Here it is. Enjoy!
Chapter 1
He couldn't believe it. The words Asher had spoken repeatedly played over and over again in his head. Kodi! Im pregnant and the pups are yours. It had to be a mistake. He couldn't be a dad. He wasn't ready. He didn't know anything about parenting. Breathing out a sigh he spoke in a raspy voice "But what choice do i have?"
Kodi was out on the beach, pacing up and down it, milling over what Asher had told him. Though it was late and the wind blew fiercly while snow fell endlessly on him, Kodi hadn't payed any attention to it. He had become too submerged in his own thoughts to even acknowledge it. Besides, he'd had to run threw these kind of conditions before. On more than one occasion he and the rest of the team had had to run threw snow storms like these for hours before stopping. He'd grown used to them.
A Mistake. . .
That's what this whole mess was. One big mistake. The biggest mistake he'd ever made and it was all his fault. He had the scars to prove it too. He knew he couldn't get mad at Asher for this but. . .gosh. He was in a mess. Asher seemed under the impression that, since she was pregnant with his pups, Kodi would leave Dusty and. . . and devote himself entirely to her. But Kodi wasn't sure if he could just forget about Dusty. She ment too much to him for him to give her up so easily. To Kodi, Dusty was the Holy Grail. He felt angry at himself for making such a stupid mistake. As much as he liked Asher, he didn't love her like Dusty. His feelings for Asher were those of only a friends.
Coming to a stop in his pacing, Kodi sat down. Still paying no attention to the snow and wind. He didn't even notice the sheet of snow stuck to his coat of fur. Inside his mind, his thoughts had sifted over to Dusty. How could he tell her something like this? Shoot, how could he not tell her something like this? How do you tell this to someone anyway? There was no way he could hide this from her. She'd see right threw him in a heartbeat. But he had just promised her he wouldn't have anything to deal with Asher anymore.
Literally, just barely under a minute before Asher had told him about his pups, he had promised Dusty that Asher was out of his life completely. Now, how could turn around and go back on his promise only hours after he'd made it? Hanging his head low, he frowned even further. His cheeks falling to an all time new low. He couldn't do it. He cared about Dusty too much to break her heart again.
Letting out a sigh, Kodi shook his head and closed his eyes, "What am i going to do?"
While he sat there, his head lowering ever more, he heard a whine. Coming from his thoughts, he looked around for the source of the noise. It took him a few seconds to realize he had made the sound. His ears flatened against his head as he frowned down at the ground. He could already picture in his head what would happen once he returned home and told Dusty about the pups.
Walking inside, Kodi looked around for Dusty. He felt slightly relieved when he saw that the purpleish dog, Dusty, wasn't in the room. He would tell her later. But she must have heard him enter because, quite suddenly, she appeared in the hall giving him a cheery smile. "Kodi, you're back!" But once she saw the frown on Kodi's face, her cheeks fell to a perfect mirror of Kodi's frown. Something's wrong.
Kodi didn't take but a few steps into the house before he sat down. His rear landing on the damp welcome mat infront of the door. Dusty could tell something was definatly wrong now. Kodi wasn't being himself. Concerned about him, wanting to cheer Kodi up and find out why he was so depressed, she approached him slowly. Looking him over for anything that might help her figure out the reason for Kodi's mood. Anything that might help, weather it was a bruise or a cut that would show he was in pain or something else. But what she saw only told her that he had been outside. She could see white flakes of snow in his fur. "Kodi? What's wrong?"
Kodi didn't reply. He didn't say anything at all. He just looked into Dusty's eyes with a sarrow expression then his eyes fell to the ground. Dusty was beginning to feel worried about him. She could tell by the frown on his face and the look he had given her that he had bad news. This bad news must have been really bad because just then, she heard Kodi whine. The high pitched, sad note reaching her ears she asked again "Kodi, What is it?"
When Kodi finally spoke, his voice was very shaky. Sounding as if he was about to burst into tears. "Im sorry Dusty"
Unable to make sense of this, Dusty tilted her head. What does he have to be sorry for? He's already made it up to me for cheating on me. But before she could say anything Kodi spoke again:
After a slow steadying breath, he said "It's Asher. . ."
Dusty's mood changed to anger before Kodi could even blink. Her caring eyes flaming up in anger. "Kodi! What have you been doing for the last few hours?" But she didn't give Kodi time to answer "Oh god. You didn't!" She backed away from him, starring wide-eyed at Kodi like he was some kind of disgusting monster.
After realizing what Dusty was thinking, Kodi's eyes widened too. Shaking his head and taking a few steps towards her, he tryed to explain it to her. "Oh, no no no no no no no Dusty. No, not that"
But she wouldn't listen. She didn't believe him. She refused to listen to him, he'd broken his promise already! "You promised me Kodi. You promised you wouldn't have anything to deal with her. I can't believe this. Why Kodi? Why? Why her? What has she got that i don't?" She was tearing up now but her voice grew louder and louder until it got to the point where Kodi cringed, the volume of her voice making his ears ring. Finally Kodi had to shout to make himself heard. "DUSTY, ASHER IS PREGNANT WITH MY PUPS!"
There was a silence after these words, broken only by Dusty's gasp. She starred at him angrily and started to growl. Then Dusty walked up to him. Giving Kodi a look of pure rage, she raised a paw and slapped him. Hard. His head swung to the side by the force of the blow.
Coming back to reality, Kodi felt something wet hit him on the nose. Blinking he felt it again. There was a small splash on his nose as a droplet of water hit his nose again. Kodi looked up, searching for where the droplets were coming from. Instently he spotted it. An icecicle hanging off one of the rafters from his father's boat seemed to be melting. As he looked, another droplet fell and hit him square between the eyes. He blinked and stood up. Walking away, he felt a droplet of water hit his paw. He looked up again but there was no icecicle or anything that could have dripped water above him. He finally figured out where the water had come from though. It was a tear. He had unknowingly shed a tear which had fallen down his cheek, from his chin, and onto his paw.
That was about as acurate a guess as you could get. He knew that once he told her, she was going to slap him. It was a given that he was going to be slapped quite a few times in the near future. Raising a paw to his cheek, he rubbed it. As if he could already feel the stinging a slap usually brought. He could feel the scratches the last slap had given him. It had been right after he'd told Asher that the other night had been a mistake and she had gotten angry. That conversation ended with a particularly painfull slap to Kodi's cheek. Mainly because she had also cut his cheeks with her claws.
Starring out at the ocean threw the snow and wind, Kodi watched the waves rise and crash on the sand below it. The tide was in right now so, from Kodi's spot, the waves would rush up the sand and stop just before it reached him. It would then fall back and repeat this again and again. Kodi became entranced as he watched it. He found that at times, it could sooth his mind and relax his body. However, his mind was somewhere else, going back over everything that had happened over the last few weeks which had led to this moment. The last thing he wanted to see right now, was Dusty's heart-broken face. He was thinking this one threw. The last thing he'd done without thinking had screwed his life up. Because he didn't think, he was now going to be a father within one year. "Once these pups are born, one thing i can never tell them is, they were a mistake."
Realizing how late it was, he groaned. However much he wanted to, Kodi couldn't stay out here forever. If he stayed her all night, that would only worry Dusty and she'd come looking for him. If he went home, he'd have to tell Dusty and hurt her again. There was simply no way around it. Dusty was going to find out. Preferabally, Kodi wanted it to be him who told Dusty. Someone had told Dusty about him cheating on her before he could last time. He didn't want that to happen again. If he didn't tell Dusty, Asher was sure too. Besides, if he did hide it from Dusty, how was he going to hide it once Asher began to show. Once the pups were born and he had to take care of Asher and the pups, how was he going to explain away his being out late every night to Dusty.
It was hopeless. Well. . . I guess i should be getting home now.
After shaking the snow from his fur, Kodi turned to face the town of Nome. Looking at it in the semidarkness. He breathed out a sigh and reluctantly started forward. He wasn't looking forward to getting back home. The whole way, he kept his head low and his nose down toward the ground. Trying to ignore the starres he was getting, Kodi only began to feel worse. They know what I did. I can see it in their eyes.
Some of the dogs seemed to worship him and the fact that he had managed to win the hearts of the two best looking dogs in Nome. Others seemed disguested by him. Few were on his side though. As far as he knew it consisted of only four dogs. Balto, Jenna, Kalgorn, and Dusty. Last time he'd gone to go see his brother, Misty hadn't been too pleased to see him, but she didn't say anything rude to him. Even when he was on the team, neither Ralph or Kirby would listen to him. Whenever he spoke to them, they pretended they couldn't understand him, like he was speaking some long forgotten language. When he had tried to make a friend out of Sasha's replacement on the team, the black and blue dog had threatned to kill him in his sleep. He knew it was a bluff but this dog obviously didn't like him either. Every now and then, one of his worshipers would stand infront of him and bow before him. This always made Kodi feel uncomfortable, but at least they weren't shouting insults at him. He'd managed to become both infamous and famous at the same time.
Walking past a dark alley, Kodi had a flashback to his punishment from the street dogs:
It had been just another one of his normal days. Well, for Kodi, a usual day now ment a day where no one bowed to him. He and the team had just finished one of thier mail runs and had returned to Nome late at night. Dusty had had a sprained paw at this time so Kodi was anxious to get back home and check up on her. She'd been on his mind all day. Once Kodi and the rest of the team had been unchained, everone had walked off in differant directions rather quickly. Kodi stood their frowning. Turning his head back to the position Sasha had once held, he knew that if she had been there, she wouldn't have despised being near him. At times, Kodi had felt that she was his only friend. But now that she was gone. . .
His ears flattened down. Deciding to not think about it anymore, he turned around slowly and walked down the street sidewalk. Trotting so as to get home alot quicker than walking, he kept his head low. Everyone concidered him a pariah. Why couldn't he be forgiven for his mistake? He really was truely sorry about what he'd done. In his sadness, he had come to a stop and he now stood at the mouth of a dark alley. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Just as he let it out he heard the sounds of several pairs of footsteps. He opened his eyes again and looked into the alley. Lifting one paw up off the ground.
As he looked, he saw the figures of at least four dogs approaching him. There was one Akita, two Dobermans, and one Great Dane. Knowing these street dogs only ment bad news, Kodi looked away and started down the street again. But he had barely taken two steps before two of the dogs jumped at him and forced him down to the ground. Surprised, Kodi tried to kick free but the two vicious Dobermans held him down. "Get off me!" Kodi snarled after his chin colided with the ground. He was a pacifest so his snarl only ment he was angry, Not that he was going to fight them but he hoped the dogs didn't know that. Once he got the chance he was running, you couldn't reason with these street kind.
A large shadow cast Kodi into darkness, making him look up. He actually had to strain his neck to see the dog that stood over him. The massive Great Dane dog stood, looking down at Kodi with an evil look in his eyes. Then the Akita appeared briefly beside him, snarling at Kodi. He disappeared from Kodi's view, but less than half a minute later, he felt the dog give him a painfull kick right in the hip. Kodi whimpered and struggled to free himself from the Dobermans grips. They seemed to be fed up with his struggling though and one bit him in the side. The other started clawing at his sides. The claws going deep enough to draw blood.
Kodi felt another kick from the Akita, this time right where his stomach would have been if he had been on his side. The pain Kodi was experiencing only made him more scared of what the Great Dane was planning to do to him. He whimpered and tried to defend himself. But it was useless, he was at their mercy. He would have to endure this until they stopped. Or he lost consiousness. Which ever came first.
The Great Dane watched the three dogs attack Kodi while he was waiting to see the hopelessness in the dogs eyes. His anger at what this dog had done flaming in his own eyes. After a little over five minutes, Kodi's sides were raw red, his legs and waist were beginning to show signs of swealing and blood streaked his already red fur. Kodi was experiencing some pain in his tail as well. He thought his tail bone must be broken. He was hoping that they were threw with him but then the Great Dane stepped forward and he remembered. Now it was the giant dog's turn.
Kodi gulped and watched terrified. He then felt the Dobermans forcing his paws out infront of him, and though he didn't know what the reason for this was, he was sure it was painfull. The Great Dane lifted both its paws up into the air then stomped down on Kodi's.
The pain was so intense, Kodi howled in agony. Tears streamed down his cheeks, mingling with the old, ones and once his howl ended, it was replaced with long high pitched whines. But this was only the beggining of his suffering. The Great Dane lifed his paws and stomped on his paws again. This time, he drove his claws into the flesh. There was a sickening, crunch noise as the Great Dane's paws crushed Kodi's. He was sure this dog wouldn't be running the mail for awhile now.
Kodi's paws hurt worse than anything he'd ever felt before. However, the Great Dane still wasn't threw. He bent down toward Kodi. Getting close to the husky's face, he growled then barked loudly. Apart from giving the dog a fright and a ringing in his ears, this was only ment to install more fear into the dog.
Kodi could smell dog's repugnant breath and whined, turning his head away from the Great Dane's. "You know why we are doing this don't you"
The deep voice sounded in Kodi's ears making him whimper again. Flattening his ears, he nodded his head. Afraid he would hurt him more if he didn't answer. But he did know exactly why he was being attacked. Im sorry Dusty! Really, I am. The Great Dane hit Kodi in the cheek with his paws so forcefully that Kodi acctually saw stars infront of his eyes. What the dog did to him next happened too fast for him to catch. All he knew was one second, he was growling and the next, The Great Dane had his jaws clamped tightly over Kodi's muzzle. The sharp teeth pierced the skin and while Kodi shook his head in ever direction, the teeth sawed threw the skin.
The Great Dane had his jaws shut so tightly over Kodi's muzzle, Kodi felt sure he was trying to bite it off his face. Once Kodi's whimpering had started again, the three other dogs joined him. The two Dobermans bite his ears and pulled them back, as if they were determined to rip them off. The Akita was left to cause Kodi as much pain as possible wherever he pleased. After stomping on Kodi's tail, he leaned over Kodi, and sank his claws into both of the dogs sides. Dragging them back, ripping the flesh. Leaving a cut nearly eight inches long.
It was too painfull for Kodi. He could feel his body getting ready to shut down. If the dogs continued, his punishment would end up being death. But maybe that was their goal. Maybe that's what they were planning on doing. If it was, there wasn't anything he could do to stop them. There was no way for him to fight back and he couldn't count on someone coming to help him. Everyone was still angry at him and the sight of him getting beaten like this would probably be a pleasing sight to them.
Kodi was lucky though. The Great Dane released Kodi's muzzle from his jaws and gave three loud barks. "Enough"
The memory still gave him nightmares that caused him to wake up shaking in the middle of the night.
While none of the injuries he'd recieved were pemanent, only his tail and paws had needed treatment. Both of his paws and his tail had been broken. Though in many ways this wasn't a good thing, he did at least get to spend alot of time with Dusty during the time he recovered.
Not wanting to have another encounter like that, he ran. He didn't go far before he slowed down though. Once he'd slowed to his original pace, he heard several barks and someone call his name. Kodi payed no attention to it. He knew it was just another dog wanting to shout at him. Apparently this dog wasn't going to let Kodi just ignore him like this because he snuck up behind him then, before Kodi could do anything, jumped onto his back. His weight was to great for Kodi's legs to support, despite the strength he had, the dog weighed too much. The wind was knocked out out of Kodi when his chest colided with ground. This caused him to cough several times as well as gasp for breath.
Kodi felt the dog's claws pierce his skin. The dog then dragged his paw back, pratically reopenning the wounds from the Akita. Trying not to yelp, Kodi turned it into a growl.
While his legs were trapped underneath him, he was unable to fight back. He could feel the dogs breath on the back of his neck and knew what was about to happen, he was unable to hide his fear this time.
The dog heard Kodi start whimpering and with enjoyment he listened. It was like music to his ears. The dog opened his jaws and was about to bite down on the husky's neck when he felt another dog bite down on his tail and pull him off Kodi with surprising strength.
With the absence of the heavy dog ontop of him, Kodi would have been able to stand up had his legs not been crushed underneath him for so long, they had gone numb. He tried to stand but couldn't. He had to wait for the blood to flow back to his legs, which didn't take long. Still, during the brief period where he was stuck on the ground, he had to watch his rescuer fight off his attacker. Because of the direction he was laying towards, Kodi had to turn his head around as far as he could to see who was defending him. In the darkness, he was unable to make him out clearly. If only he would step out of the shadows and into the moonlight. Just back up a little bit more.
Finally the dog stepped into the light, now illuminated, Kodi realized who it was. It was his brother, Kalgorn. He was clearly visible only for a second before the Anatolian Shepherd, the dog that had attacked Kodi, tried to take Kalgorn down by biting him in the back of the neck. His teeth found their target but his eyes fell apon Kalgorns mark. The Z stood out impossible to miss even in this darkness.
Wanting to help his brother, Kodi tried standing again. He felt relieved when his legs supported him. A bit shaky, but they still kept him up. His eyes fell on Kalgorn, still standing but his head low to the ground, then in his urgancy, he ran towards the shepherd and forced his head into the dog's side. The wind knocked out of him, his jaws let go of Kalgorn and he fell to the ground.
Not wasting anytime, Kodi nudged his brother away from the dog. "Come on, he's not worth it" Then without giving Kalgorn time to protest, he ran away from the windswept dog. He was recovering quickly so Kalgorn, deciding to follow Kodi, had to run fast. "that's Kodi for ya" Kalgorn chuckled while he caught up with his brother. He didn't consider Kodi a coward though. More of a peace loving type. He was always trying to solve things in a non-violent way, which Kalgorn looked up too. Even when that person got angry, Kodi always found a way to calm him down. If a fight started to break out Kodi would step in and try to stop it. Kalgorn tryed to do the same thing but he didn't have the self-control Kodi did. His anger always got the best of him whenever someone insulted him or hit him.
Though Kodi's legs were still a little wobbley, he could still run pretty fast. His legs propelled him forward at a surprising speed. This must have had something to do with the adrenaline he felt rushing threw his veins. Just when he wanted to stop, he saw the Anatolian Shepherd step out in front of them. Kodi's jaws fell, this dog wasn't giving up so easily. "Fight you coward!"
Kodi started to say "I don't want any trouble, just-" but the dog didn't want to talk. He wanted to fight. It was lucky Kalgorn was with him because he was the fighting type, while Kodi hated fighting. He had had to fight in self-defense only days ago, and hated every painfull moment it had lasted. Worst of all. . .he'd lost Sasha that day too.
Kalgorn had pinned the dog down with a series of clever moves, hitting nearly all the weak points of the dog's body. He now had him down with a paw to his neck. Kalgorn bent down towards his neck, baring his teeth. For a moment Kodi thought Kalgorn was going to kill the dog but then he snarled "Leave us alone!"
Kodi had seen enough fighting for one night. He stepped over to Kalgorn and gave him a quick tug on his tail. "Come on Kalgorn, we've gotta go. He's not worth it."
Kodi's words caused Kalgorn to calm down. The anger that had built up inside him had been extinguished. So, letting his lips fall back over his teeth, the muscels on his muzzle vanished beneath the skin. He turned around to face Kodi but saw he was already running. Just before his tail vanished around the market building, Kalgorn got a glimps of his tail. Then he heard the sound of running behind him. Turning his neck around quickly, Kalgorn looked for the Anatolian Shepherd. He spotted the dog's figure running in the opposite direction and at first, but only for a moment, he thought he was after Kodi again. But he was headed in a completely different direction. Once the dog's silhouette turned down another street, he knew that even if his goal was to go after Kodi again, he'd never catch up. Kodi was probably already home now. Once the sweet aroma of food reached his nose, he realized that Kodi's house wasn't but two maybe three blocks from here. Kodi was safe now.
He felt tired anyway. It was extremely late and he know Misty would throw a fit if she found him sneaking back in at this hour. He figured, he'd try and sneak in though. If Misty did catch him, he had a good reason for being out so late, and if she didn't catch him, well that just ment he wasn't in trouble. Everyone knows you're only in trouble if you get caught.
Kodi slowed to a stop once he'd reached the street his and Dusty's house was located. He hoped she had gone to sleep instead of staying up and worrying about him. He knew that if she got worried enough, she'd come looking for him. He walked up the street as slowly as he could, hoping, praying she was asleep. He knew it would only be worse the longer he didn't tell her but he didn't want to lose Dusty again so early. She and him had only been on speaking terms again from maybe a week.
Slowing to a stop, Kodi looked up from the ground and saw Dusty's house only a few feet infront of him. He groaned and let his head fall. He took his last few steps slowly, then jumped up the stairs of the wooden porch. It was common knowledge to him that all three of these stairs squeeked loudly when someone stepped on them.
Standing infront of the dog door, ontop of the welcome mat infront of the door, he took in a final breath, let it out heavily, then stepped inside. The plastic sheet sliding down his back as he slipped quietly inside.
Author's Note: I cannot say when Chapter 2 will be done but I hope this will keep my fans satisfied until i get it done. Im sure I didn't make any spelling errors or any of the usual annoying grammer mistakes that are usually contained in my fics. Also, don't forget that the four people who draw the best scene from each of my previous fics will get their character into this fiction later on. Please, only one fic per person. You can draw multiple pictures for the fic though.
Total word count: 4,653 words
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