Rusty walked around his yard looking out of the fence doors and into the mountians his little town was surrounded by. He was a rusty red and dark cream bottom, with blue eyes. His parents where Steele and Jennna. He had been adopted only a month ago. And he was over two years old. He didn't get an owner because they never really wanted dogs that were quit and skiddish. He lived between the mountians of the Aluetian Mountians. So far he was happy, living in a peaceful, quit, calm town was more than he had ever wanted.
"RUSTY!" yelled his owner Lillian who was an 18 year old living with her Grandfather, Nicolas, who was 89 years old.
"Woof, woof!" barked Rusty running over to Lillian.
"Hey there boy, you ready to eat?" smiled Lillian.
Rusty new that word anywhere and ran inside standing nex to his big dog bowl. He wagged his tail when she put food in his bowl, he smiled and devoured his food as fast as he could, he loved his food. Rusty was in the middle of chewing his food when he heard a crash outside of his house. He growled and swallowed his food. He stepped outside and looked around. He saw a scrawny little husky. For the first time in his life, he felt courage in his body cuase he didn't want his owner to get hurt.
"Hey! Stop, get out!" growled Rusty stepping foward and getting ready to attack.
"Sorry, umm sorry, i...i'm just really hungry... I haven't eatin in three days...." whined the husky.
Rusty took three steps closer and looked at the dog. He saw that she was a female and was really skinny. She had scratches on her buitiful honey color fur. Her dull blue eyes showed sorrow and sadness. He knew that he had to help, she was no threat to him or his onwer so he said, " You stay put, i'll get you some good food."
He walked inside the house and whined for more food. Once the bull was full he went outside and took it to the husky.
"Here you go, you can eat it, I had my share of food already," smiled Rusty.
The husky smiled and managed to wag her tail a little. She walked up to the food and began to gulp down her food. Rusty noticed on big wound that was infected.
"You should get those cuts checked out,some of them looked infected," said Rusty with a concerned face.
"I'll be fine," she said in her sweet voice. Rusty didnt now what to say so he just sat there.
When she was done eating Rusty had said, " What's you name?"
She looked like she was thinking about if she could , "Honey.. at least thats what my owner had called me."
"I'm Rusty... my owner and parents call me that, do you have a place to stay??" asked Rusty.
"No, I travel," she said.
"You could stay in my dog house if you wish, you can even chew on my chew toys," smiled Rusty.
"Thank you, Rusty," said Honey walking towards the dog house and laying donw in it.
"You're welcome, and good night, i'll feed you in the morning," smiled Rusty.
He walked in and jumped on his owners bed, he hoped that she would stay and be his friend. He doens't have many friends here yet, and he really wanted some.
Honey woke up in the morning looking at Rusty's face and wagging his tail. Now that it wasn't that dark, she saw that he was actually kind of attractive. He had red/brown fur, blue eyes,and a cream bottom. He was little for his breed, but muscular and with calm sweet gentle eyes.
"Good morning, my owner is at school and her grandfather is at work.... i'm the only one here besides the cat, Melfred,"said Rusty.
"Hi, do you have any food?" asked Honey.
"Yeah, but you'll have to come inside," said Rusty, "I got i n trouble for takeing my food outside."
"Ummm," said Maple, she never really went inside of a house, except a garage.
"Come on, it'll be okay," smiled Rusty with his warm smile.
Honey nodded and fallowed him inside the house. It was warm and cozy inside, she noticed, and it smelled like chocolate in most of the house.
"Here you go," smiled Rusty.
"Rusty, you haven't eatin' anything today, are you sure?" she asked seeing that the bowl was untouched.
"Yeah, Lillian gives me like 10 treats when she leaves cuz' she feels bad when she leaves for school, but soon we will be moveing out and going back to Nome, so she will go to college to be an actress," smiled Rusty.
"Thats sweet," smiled Honey, going to the food and eating it.
When she was done, Rusty started to ask questions, " So where did you come from??"
"I came from Canada, the country next to Alaska," said Honey.
"Who attacked you?" asked Rusty, still concerned about the nasty scratches.
" Wolves, I was running away from them and they attacked me, wolves are stupid creatures, they shouldn't be alive," growled Honey.
"Hey there, not all wolves all bad, my step father is a wolf," said Rusty.
"STEP father, he probably killed your father to get to your mother," growled Honey.
"No, I wouldn't mind if he killed my father though, my father would kill any wolf, or dog that got in his way of my mother. You see he is a glory hound, and only wanted my mother because she was hot. He also would have caused lives of littlle children, but my father tried to help him, but he was to stubbern,and he wanted to save them, but he wouln't let him. See my father was lost, he didn't now any tracking skills, but Balto, that's mt step father, did, and he tried helping. He also risked his life to help his new owner,Duke," explained Rusty.
"Ok maybe not, all wolves are bad, but some shouldn't be alive," smiled Honey.
"I'll take that," laughed Rusty, "You know you should get those scratches looked at, do you trust people?"
"Not really, they abandoned me and my siblings," sighed Honey.
" How about are dog doctor, he'll help you," smiled Rusty.
Honey looked at his eyes and smiled," Ok."
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After they had went to the dog docter and Honey was all fixed up Rusty had decided to take her to the mountian which he could see his home town, and feel peaceful at the same time.
"Wow Rusty, This is so buetiful!" smiled Honey.
"Yeah, I always come up here to be alone, or just to howl to my family back at home," smiled Rusty. He may not be a wolf, but he always enjoyed howling his head off.
"Howling? Isn't that something wolves do?" asked Honey.
"Yeah, but remember, I have a wolf dog for a father," smiled Rusty sitting down.
"Haha, yeah that is true," smiled Honey leaning on Rusty.
Rusty blushed under his fur, he was so glad that he has red fur covered up the blush that he had under his fur.
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When they got home Rusty saw that he was late to pick his owner up at the stop were she comes home, so he just went straight home to her with Honey at his side.
"Hey my owner is home, and i was.... well... do you want to meet her? She's a good human, and she can take care of you, better than I can, wouldn't it be nice??" said Rusty, but in a fast voice.
"I would bu...." Honey looked into Rusty's eyes. They were blue, but not cold like his father, nice cool and calm.
"Okay, but will she beat me?" asked Honey.
"What?! Of coarse she won't, you never saw me beat did you? You'll be fine," smiled Rusty nuzzling her.
Honey smiled and licked his face to thank him.
"Rusty! Time to eat," called Lillian.
"Woof!" barked Rusty, "Come on, you must be hungry still."
"You Betchya!" smiled Honey.
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"Wow, I didn't now people could be so nice," laughed Honey.
"Ha," smiled Rusty who was on his dog bed, " How longs it been since you've had a deceint bath?"
"Too long," smiled Honey jumping on the bed next to him.
"That must be long," smiled Rusty putting his nose into Honey's sweet smelling fur.
"mhmm," smiled Honey licking Rusty's face.
"Yeaaaa," shyed Rusty licking her back.
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3 MONTHS LATER:
"RUSTY, HONEY! Walk time!" called Lillian.
"Woof!" barked Rusty and Honey together.
It has been a while since Honey had come to his home. She had once been skiddish around Lillian, but have gotten so use to being with people that she had started to trust them more. Yes, she was still careful when she ment new ones, but she was more hopeful with them.
Lillian snapped the leashed on and smiled, "We have a busy day today. You both have to go to the vets for a check up!"
"Rusty? Whats a vet?" asked Honey.
"The docoter. Thats just another word for the place were it's at," explained Rusty while they went out the door.
"Ohh," smiled Honey.
They walked for about ten minutes passing buetiful yards, and walking by friends in the town. They went into the wooden building. Lillian talked to the women behind the desk while Rusty and Honey snuggled up near the fire that was burning.
"Rusty and Honey!" called the doctor.
"Right here," called Lillian leading them to seprete rooms.
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25 Minutes Later...
"Rusty," called Honey trotting towards him with a big smile on her face and tail wagging.
"Hey, did you have a great check up?" asked Rusty.
"Yes!I found out that I'm gunna have puppies!"smiled Honey.
Rusty stopped in his tracks and stared at her belly. He had noticed that she was a little chubby, but didn't expect that. He just thought she got to many dog biscuits.
"Umm, Rusty?" asked Honey in a nervious voice.
"Yeah, sorry. You realy gonna have some puppies," smiled Rusty, trying to hide his nerviousness, but didn't succeed.
"Yup," smiled Honey weakly.
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Four the past weeks Rusty tried to be very happy, but he was to nervious to actually succeed. He was nervious around, afraid she would break easily. He talked to her, but whenever she talked about the puppies he would stutter. He was just afraid. He was afriad that with his fathers blood in his viens would make him a bad father, just like his father was. Lillian even noticed his nerviousness, so she gave him some space, but when he jumped on her bed, she would pet him.
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"R-r-u-s-s-ty!" snapped Honey.
"Mmmmm," whined Rusty half asleep.
"AHH" barked Honey.
"Honey!" Jumped Rusty.
"G--e--, Li-ll--an" whined Honey.
"Woof Woof Woof" barked Rusty barking his head of.
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That night Honey had given birth to two bueatiful girl puppies. They had named them Maple and Ruby.
Ruby was the older one. She had a light red top and a yellowish bottom. Her eyes were blue, just like her fathers. She was kind, playful, careless, and very talkitive. You never seemed to be able to settle her down. Honey had given Ruby a pink collar, which is her favorite color.
Maple was the second born. She had a browish gold collar, which looked more lilke maple than honey, her bottom fur was a creamy color, just like her father. Her eyes were dark brown, lilke trees. Her nose was pink. She was shy, stubburn, and a liked being a lone, but she did like her father near her. She had gotten a braclette from her father, the braclettes are green, to match the leaves of her tree brown eyes and maple fur.
THE END