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Tell me what you think of what I have so far:
Balto: Warriors
By Swords of the Wolves
Prologue
Sometimes things don’t turn out to be as good as you expected it to be. This was the case with Balto and Jenna, who found out many disadvantages to being human or human-like. They were simply wandering out in the woods when a voice began to speak. It was menacing, yet familiar. It was the voice of Steele. He gave them both a threat that neither of them took lightly. He warned that if they do not leave each other or the city of Nome, then he would take it and Jenna from Balto by force. To make his point more clear, he stood up on his hind legs, showing his balance that Balto and Jenna thought to have been mastered by only humans. He also drew a sword from his side, another human-like thing that Steele was now able to do. It was scary for both of them. They ran back to their boat, and wondered what they should do. Leaving each other was one thing that they knew that they would never do, but leaving Nome was something that they would not want to do either. “I would rather see this boat be up in flames than see it under the control of Steele,” as Balto put it. It was not long until they could see no other solution than to leave Nome. As they began to leave to gather up their pups that still remained in Nome, Kodi burst in, looking frantic. “Mother, father, you are needed! This way!” Balto and Jenna wasted no time in following him, and Kodi led them to the boiler room where Balto and Jenna had made their love clear to each other. There, waiting for them, was a grey mist. It wasn’t smoke, but it had a supernatural feeling around it that made all of them feel uneasy. Without warning, streaks of it shot through Balto, Jenna, and Kodi, making them gasp for breath at the shock. It continued to flow into them until there was none left in the air. A voice came from the mist, “Nome must not fall into the hands of Steele. You must fight him. These gifts I have bestowed upon you will help you.” Then the voice was gone.
The story
Balto was silent. His mind was now filled with things that he never remembered learning, skills he thought he could never do, and the sense that he would never be the same again. He had a feeling in his front paws that felt strange, so he looked at them, and he saw that he actually had fingers! He moved them around like he sometimes saw humans do. He noticed a weight on his back, and reached back with his human-like arms, and felt two sword handles angled so he could draw them with ease. “If Steele couldn’t do this, I wonder if he would think I was a freak human-wolf-husky cross, or would he fear me?” said Balto to himself. He looked up at Jenna, who was doing almost the same thing that Balto was doing, but a little differently.
Jenna, after noticing her human-like dexterity, reached back to what was strapped around her. She pulled it out and looked at it. It was a bow. Finely strung and with fine carvings of wolves on it. She felt her back again and sure enough, there were arrows there. She also noticed that she was also wearing a sword on her back. She drew it. It was not as long as most double-handed swords, but it was thinner, and possibly deadlier. She found her mind to also be flowing with skills and things that she never thought she could do and things that she never remembered learning. She wondered how she would find out what those things meant and how she would use them.
Kodi was not that different mentally than the others, but the weapons he had were different. He had two swords, like Balto, but his were curved like sickles rather than straight. He was one who wanted to try them out right then and there, but he knew that his parents would advise against it. With his swords drawn, he swung them around, a couple times like his thoughts told him he could do, and then tried a couple other moves that seemed useful. He also tried to make sense of the strange words that he somehow knew. He thought that they were enchantments of some sort based on things that he heard the children discussing when they talked of stories they had just heard of. He reached into his new knowledge of these enchantments further, and found out what they did! He decided to do a harmless one first and made created water on the floor. He looked at his father and mother, who watched him do that, and said to them, “Well, I think we should be able to fight off Steele with these things, don’t you think?”
Balto sighed. “I hope. Maybe we should get to building up our defenses around the boat with our new magical powers. I think we know a few things that will help with that.” Balto and the others walked back to the boat, acting as if nothing happened so they wouldn’t arouse suspicion among the humans. When they got back to the boat, they tried out the spells that would build up the rock around it. It allowed them to have a fallback point should Steele get through this far. The rock had an opening that was small enough for them to get into, and they could always close it up if they needed to. Still, Balto and Jenna worried about Steele, since he had not given them a time period in his threat, and that could mean he could come any second now…
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