A/N: Well, here's my first story in 2015, a Balto story. This is based on the first 1995 film that's considered a cult classic from my generation. This is based on an RP with thunder pony, who has wanted to do an RP on this movie for a good long time and I finally managed to find Balto online with a transcript. We only own our OC's, and everyone else is owned by their rightful owners. I don't think it is, but this movie makes me think of classical Don Bluth who I worship like a God. Anyway, read & review!
The train was arriving at Nome. Cherry was sitting, curled up with a good book while her daughter Felicity was lying against her stomach with the bump in place for her pregnancy still to come, and she was traveling with old friends, Atticus and Monique, but Mo for short.
Along with Atticus's and Mo's two children, Akito and Estelle. Felicity nuzzled against her mother. Cherry decided to let her arm out and wrap it against her daughter while she read. Estelle did the same with her mother. Mo wrapped her arm around Estelle.
"Too bad Scamp and Angel couldn't come with us, too cold even if they got all that fur." Cherry said as she emotionlessly turned another page.
Felicity was seen to be shivering slightly as they came closer and closer to Nome.
"Well, I'm guessing their fur isn't use to the cold of Nome, Alaska." Atticus said.
Felicity cuddled closer, feeling the gentle taps inside her mother's stomach. "It is colder than Papa's room here, Maman..."
"We'll be okay, cherie... Just keep your jacket on you unless we go inside with a fireplace." Cherry said to her daughter.
Felicity was wearing Cherry's old jacket she was known for wearing, when Cherry eventually got too big to wear it all the time, she gave it to Felicity to wear to keep her warm since she only wore a golden dress and black boots. Akito and Estelle were wearing warm clothes.
Cherry bookmarked her book as she saw that they were getting closer to the train station to drop them off with a plethora of the other passengers inside. "Wake up, Fliss, we're here..." she gently stroked her daughter awake.
Felicity snorted, then sat up in the seat, rubbing her eyes and then yawned after a nice rest to make the trip go by faster. "I had a dream about wolves being in this Iditarod race..."
"So did I." Akito and Estelle said.
"Oh, there aren't wolves in the races," Mo giggled. "Only sled dogs, like Siberian Huskies."
"No one else, just those dogs, no wolves, no Dalmatians, no mutts, no cocker spaniels..." Cherry said as she placed her book away for now until the train would stop and they were about to meet a family they were to stay with during their visit in Nome.
Felicity looked up to her mother, then back at her 'aunt, uncle, and cousins'. "You think maybe one day it will change?" she asked the twins.
"Yeah." Atticus said.
Felicity took a look outside the window. "It is so foggy and white! Is Alaska like this all ze time?"
"Yes, dear, it's very cold, your father and I had a romantic weekend here once before you were born." Cherry stated as they looked out to see the cold climate that is Nome, Alaska.
"Aw! How romantic." Estelle said.
"Yes... It was a bit too cold for our tastes, but Maestro and I managed to keep ourselves warm at night." Cherry smirked a little.
"Maman, there is a couple waving at us!" Felicity called. "And they have their own little girl, she has rogue hair and a chein of her very own!"
"A what?" Estelle asked Felicity.
"She means a dog," Cherry said for her 'niece'. "Felicity's English is a little rusty, Akito and Estelle. She was raised by her father for seven years before I came back to see them."
Felicity smiled back. "Estelle, look, it is so pretty!" she pointed to the girl's dog who had reddish fur and looked very friendly.
"Yeah, she is pretty." Estelle said.
Cherry put her book up, then went with Atticus and Mo to get their things.
"What do you think, Atiko?" Felicity looked over to the boy.
"I think the red dog is very pretty and so is the girl." Akito said.
"Come along, kids!" Mo called as she had their bags ready and stood next to Atticus.
Cherry came to Felicity and strapped a backpack on her. "Here..." she then took out a string with a shell attached to it.
"Oh, oui, merci, Maman!" Felicity took the pendent and wrapped it around her neck as it started to glow around her now.
They all then made their way to the couple their little girl and her dog.
"Hello, there," The man greeted. "My name is William Brewer and this is my wife, Sandra."
"And this is of course our little one, Rosy." the woman, Sandra, added as she put her hands down to her daughter.
The girl looked a little shy, she stayed close to her parents and her dog.
"Bonjour..." Felicity greeted shyly.
"Hello..." Estelle greeted shyly.
"Hello." Akito said.
The girl hid behind her parents and dog.
"Rosy, come on out... Maybe you'd like to share your surprise with them?" William encouraged his daughter.
Rosy blinked, then slowly came back out to see the kids as the adults go acquainted. "Dad says he has something for me, but he hasn't told me what it is... Would you like to come see it with me and Jenna?"
"Who is Jenna?" Felicity asked right then. Were they expecting someone else with this girl?
"Yeah, who's Jenna?" Estelle asked.
Rosy stepped aside, showing her dog. "This is Jenna. I wanna make her into a sled dog like those bigger dogs in the races!"
Jenna barked to Rosy, then it came to be clear speaking to the kids, even Felicity since she had the pendant one now that was given to her when she went with her family to Pride Rock to meet King Simba and Queen Nala's daughter, Princess Kiara. "Hello and welcome to Nome, weary travelers."
Atticus, Mo, and Cherry were speaking with Rosy's parents about staying with them during their visit.
"Pleased to meet you, Jenna." Akito said to Jenna.
"Nice to meet you too," Jenna smiled at them, then blinked. "Wait, you can understand me?"
"Well, I can now, they must have been born with it," Felicity held her pendent.
Rosy looked surprised. "Wow, you can talk to her!"
"Yeah, you see me and my sister have the power to talk to animals, we got it from our father's side of the family." Akito explained.
"My Maman can talk to animals, but I cannot without this." Felicity showed her pendant.
"That's really pretty," Rosy came closer to it. "Where on Earth did you get it?"
"Roche de Fierté," Felicity replied as she showed the girl it. "I got it from a mandrill before we left for home."
"We have to make one stop first and then we'll show you around." William told Atticus about having a place to stay during the visit.
"Okay." Atticus said.
"Looks like Rosy has made some new friends." Sandra smiled down as the kids seemed to had been trading stories.
"That should keep Flick busy for a little while." Cherry sounded relieved.
"The same with Akito and Estelle." Mo said.
"Come along, Rosy, Mr. Johansson has a surprise for you," William said to his daughter. "Your friends can come too, but Jenna will have to wait outside."
"Okay, follow us." Rosy told the kids around her age as she clung to her mother's hand.
Cherry took Felicity's hand while Atticus took Atiko's hand, he took Estelle's, and Mo had Estelle's other hand. And they all followed William, Sandra, Rosy, and Jenna to where Johansson worked at.
"First, you have to cover your eyes, Rosy." William told his daughter.
Rosy sighed, but did as told, really wanting to know what this surprise is. Jenna waited outside like she was told to as they all came inside. After a quick introduction of new friends, Mr. Johansson went to his table to get what he had been working on for the little red-haired girl, hopefully she would share with the new people. Akito and Estelle were amazed at what they saw.
"Okay," William chuckled as Mr. Johansson put the present in front of the children. "You can open your eyes now." he told his daughter.
Rosy did that and grew instantly excited, it was a handmade sled just for her. "Ohhh! I love these runners, I love this brush bow, I love this sled!" she beamed to her parents who were happy that she was happy.
Jenna came over then to see the humans.
"You guys can be the judges on the first run, Jenna can be the lead dog!" Rosy grew very hyper then as she tied reins onto her dog. "Come on, mush!"
"I think you're missing something." Cherry said as Sandra had the girl's hat.
"Yeah, don't mushers need a musher's hat?" Akito asked.
"You're right, Akito," Sandra told the boy and gave her daughter a fluffy hat. "You'll need this."
"A real musher's hat!" Rosy beamed, even if the hat covered her green eyes. "We're a real sled team now! Come on, guys, let's go!"
Felicity watched as the twins followed Rosy outside with Jenna. "Maman...?"
"Go ahead, dear." Cherry already answered.
Felicity beamed, then went outside with her new friends. Rosy's parents paid Mr. Johansson and all of the adults watched their children at play. Felicity, Akito, Estelle, and Rosy were running as the red-haired girl was with her sled and Jenna was pulling her among the people as a firework came into the air suddenly.
"Does that mean a dog sled team is coming?" Akito asked.
"Uh-huh, they're on their way!" Rosy said to him. "Jenna, easy girl, whoa!"
"My turn!" Felicity insisted like a real child.
Jenna kept running, then slowed down a little as a couple of other female dogs named Dixie and Sylvie were coming to her side.
"Hi." Akito and Estelle said to the two female dogs.
"Oh, good morning..." Dixie greeted. "Hello, Jenna... Ought to be a close race, don't ya think?"
As the dogs talked with Jenna, Rosy was talking with her new friends.
"You guys ever see a sled dog race before?" Rosy asked them.
"No, I had only heard of them." Felicity replied.
"Same with me and Akito." Estelle said.
"Well, now's your chance, look!" Rosy pointed as Jenna, Dixie, and Sylvie were sitting normally as the adults were in uproar.
"Pinky, what is happening?" Felicity sounded scared.
"Don't worry, the sled dogs are coming back from a race now with their lead dog, Steele!" Rosy assured her and the twins, looking as excited as the other adults surrounding them.
"Steele? Sounds like the dog is full of himself to me." Akito said.
Jenna looked at Atiko as if to nod to him.
The dogs and the racer came into view. The girl dogs in the crowd sighed flirtatiously as they saw the lead dog.
"We should get Mom and Dad." Rosy suggested.
"And our parents as well." Felicity then added.
"Yeah." Akito and Estelle said.
Jenna nodded her head, agreeing with the kids. Dixie seemed to have been trying to flash her collar to get Steele's attention.
Rosy hugged her dog, then saw the dogs coming closer and waved her musher's hat. "Come on, Steele!"
"Go, Acier!" Felicity cheered for Steele as well, even if Atiko and Estelle didn't seem too impressed with the show boating dog.
Then suddenly a gust of wind came in. Which caught Rosy's musher's hat.
"Ah! Oh, no." Rosy said after her hat left her hand thanks to the wind.
Rosy's hat flew with the wind, but no one seemed to notice except Jenna and the other kids. The hat was a bit far away from them and the finish line and they couldn't cross since the dogs would be making their round to cross it and please everyone in Nome for the race.
"My hat!" Rosy wanted to go after it, but Jenna bit her loose coat sleeve to pull her away from the commotion.
Who could help Rosy get her hat back? Akito was getting ready to go and get Rosy's hat back. As he did, there came a wolf-like dog who was riding along the sled dogs and angered the people. He seemed to had been trying to ignore their jeers and retrieve Rosy's hat. Akito then raced back to the girls and Jenna with the wolf-like dog the people were confused as to why he didn't run from the wolf-like dog.
"Balto, what a crazy thing to do!" Rosy smiled at the wolf-like dog. "Just to show off for a pretty girl."
"You know this loup?" Felicity asked.
"Atiko, Estelle, Felicity, this is Balto," Rosy introduced them.
Jenna looked to the wolf-like dog, Balto.
"Nice to meet you, Balto." Akito said as he shook Balto's paw.
Jenna looked away shyly from Balto feeling like a teenage daughter when her mother would bring up a crush around a boy she liked since Rosy had called Jenna pretty and Balto seemed to be happy with that, and to meet other humans that weren't shunning him. Cherry came with Atticus, Mo, William and Sandra.
"You kids stay away from him!" William got Rosy away from the wolf dog and kicked snow into his face.
Akito gently wiped the snow off balto's face.
"Better?" Akito asked Balto.
Balto nodded his head.
Akito then glared at William. "What's your problem?! Balto wasn't attacking us!" he exclaimed to William.
"Watch your tone, young man and besides, Balto is still part wolf." William said.
"But he didn't attack us or hurt us!" Akito exclaimed to William out of anger.
"Dad, you hurt his feelings!" Rosy argued.
Jenna followed William and Rosy as Balto was going off in deep pain.
Steele was about to go to Jenna, but was stopped by his resident fan girls, Dixie and Sylvie.
"Maman! Monsieur Brewer was mean to Balto!" Felicity cried out.
"We'll talk about this later, Fliss, Maman's getting as cold as when she was rescued from her 19th birthday..." Cherry said rather icily, not noticing what had happened before that made Felicity and Atiko squabble about how William treated the wolf-dog.
Akito had somehow sneaked away to stay behind with Balto for support.
"Atiko!" Cherry called for Atticus's son, then groaned. "Well... Maybe this is why Atticus and Monique had twins..."
Balto was very sick to his stomach now as he continued to walk, trying to ignore Steele and Jenna's conversations. He looked up to the boy. "Oh, you're that boy, Akito, right?"
"Yeah and I think that was very nice of you to bring Rosy back her musher's hat." Akito said.
"Wait, you can understand me?" Balto asked.
"Yeah, you see, me and my sister have the ability to talk to animals from our father's side of the family." Akito explained to Balto.
"Interesting..." Balto never heard of such a thing.
Suddenly, there came a snow goose. "Oh, Balto, there you are!"
"Oh, hello, who are you?" Akito asked the snow goose.
"Name's Boris," the snow goose introduced. "If you'll excuse me, my boy and I need to get goin' now before the people come after him."
Balto sighed. "Don't remind me..."
"I'll come with you." Akito said.
"Really?" Balto sounded thrilled that another human besides Rosy wanted to be around him.
"Well, I dunno..." Boris sounded unsure about letting this happen.
"Oh, please, Boris, please?" Akito asked Boris politely.
"Oh, fine, you can come." Boris said out of defeat.
"Yay!" Akito exclaimed happily.
Balto was happy to had made a new friend, but walked along with Boris and Atiko. "I can't believe those people were still mad at me even though I helped Rosy get her hat back..." he mumbled, feeling ashamed to be alive.
"Well, if they don't like you, you know, besides from Rosy, me, Felicity, and Estelle then I don't like the people of nome minus Rosy, Felicity, Estelle, and me." Akito said trying to cheer Balto up.
"Where are you guys from?" Balto asked.
"England, London." Akito said.
"I hear London's real foggy." Boris commented.
Balto's ears then pricked up suddenly. "Did you hear that?" he asked, though was sure Boris couldn't since he was a goose and didn't have special hearing.
"No. You?" Boris asked Akito.
"No." Akito replied.
Balto suddenly dashed away. He wasn't trying to avoid them, but he had heard something which got his attention, but he ended up running into Jenna, much to his embarrassment. Akito finally caught up, thanks to his athletic skills, next to his detective skills and saw the scene.
"Jenna!" William called as he walked with Akito's parents and Cherry.
"Jen, Akito, come on!" Rosy called to them as they were going home.
Jenna smiled about going home, but then turned to see that Balto was already gone off somewhere else. She tried to look for him, but the family had called her and the boy twin so they just decided to get going.
"Our place should be fine for you all to stay." Sandra said to Atticus, Mo, and Cherry.
"Um, is it okay if I stay with Balto tonight?" Akito asked, hoping they would be okay with it.
"You want to stay with that miserable mongrel?" William growled.
"Do not yell at my son." Mo threatened.
"That thing is part wolf, he might hurt you." Sandra said, slightly scolding the boy who was not her own son.
"I'll take my chances." Akito said.
"Okay fine but don't say we didn't warn you." William said.
"Great I'll go and tell Balto now." Akito said as he turned and ran to go and tell Balto about the news.
"Should we help him?" Felicity still clung to her mother as Sandra got Rosy out of her coat since they were inside now.
"I don't know... He might be dangerous like Mr. and Mrs. Brewer say, dearest..." Cherry was at her daughter's level, unzipping the jacket.
"He reminds me so much of you." Mo told Atticus about Akito's determination.
"Yeah, he reminds me of myself as well." Atticus said.
"He's got a big head like you did." Cherry added which made Estelle laugh.
Rosy took Felicity by the fire to warm up a bit.