Author Notes: I struggled to find a name, but... My first OC is here. Anyways, enjoy the story and feel free to review and stuff like that.
The sky was grey, grayer as ever... almost black. Snow began to cover slowly the Alaskan Wilderness grounds. The sun light? It was coming to an end. And yet there they were, running.
"Balto, Kaji... keep running! Don't look back... don't stop... for... anything!", she felt the throbbing wound in her back leg. It was bleeding, and it was getting worst every second. This pain could be heard in her voice and she began to pant. "Keep... running...", managed to say one more time.
The three of them kept running for a few minutes... then looked back. Nothing.
"Mom, why are we running? I thought you said Haind was a good person...", the smaller wolf said sounding really innocent.
"He is, Balto. He was trying to help us, sweety.", she looked back once again. Still nothing. "But, those hunters... Promise me, sons... Promise me that you'll never hurt anybody just for fun.", the white wolf said.
"We promise mom!", both wolves said at unison. The white wolf smiled. A sudden shout came from behind them.
"Aniu! Run! They're comi-"... the shout was cut suddenly. And that's all she needed to hear. It was Haind, he was there once again... trying to save them.
"Come on kids! Run!", screamed Aniu to her children... but then, another noise broke through the wind. And the stunning white wolf fell to the ground. One of the hunters had shot her, and she couldn't walk anymore... tears going down her cheek because of the pain, and then began to feel helpless.
"Mom! Come on! We need to go!", Kaji cried. Both pups were crying, but Balto knew what was going to happen. If they didn't run, they'll be caught by hunters... or worse.
"COME ON ANIU! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. BUT I WON'T LET YOU DESTROY OUR HAPPY COMMUNITY!", someone shouted at them. Lights could be seen uphill from where the pups and the fallen wolf were.
Aniu tried to give a reply that shout, and used all her strength left. "DANIK, IF... YOU THINK... YOU'RE GETTING OUT OF THIS... YOU ARE... SO WRONG! HAIND WILL SURELY FIND YOU! AND YOU'LL PAY THIS!".
Then talked to her kids. "Balto, Kaji. Please, take care... of each othe-", she coughed some blood, "Please, run... take care... of.. each other...", her chest stopped beating.
Some snowflakes began to fall over them. Some of them were on Aniu's nose, melting.
"Mom?", Kaji asked. No answer, her eyes were closed. "Mom?!", Kaji asked louder than before.
The bigger wolf of the two nudged Aniu's muzzle with his own. "Mom, please answer me!", said once again.
Both pups had tears wetting their cheeks.
"She's gone Kaji... please, she's gone.", Balto said... both of his eyes were so teary that he had the need to blink every second. "We need to go, brother. THEY are coming."
"NO! I won't let mom here. I refuse to leave her like this!", Kaji replied and then tried to move her mother's body by the neck. But he could barely drag her a few centimeters. "No! No! No! Come on Balto, help me!", Kaji shouted at him.
"Kaji, please... I know we can't leave her here, but if we stay here, the same'll happen to us. Please, don't disagree with mom's last will.", Balto tried to reason with him. "We need to go Kaji, we can come here later and bury her. But now we have to run."
Kaji looked at his brother, he knew Balto was right. So, he nodded and both of them ran through the trees, still crying... leaving her mother behind. Snow began to cover her rest.
Flashback - 30 minutes ago.
"Mom, look! It's going to snow today!", Kaji said. Balto was playing on his back in the grass. He really liked to roll on it.
"Yes Kaji, it is.", Aniu said giving her son a good smile from ear to ear. She couldn't stop watching her children grow... their children. "I wonder where Haind is... he said he was going for some food. He's taking too much time", the white she-wolf thought.
Then, she looked once again her kids. Balto with his brown and grey fur, his bright yellow eyes, just like her's. He had the same built body as his father.
Kaji... Kaji was more like her. His fur was white, grey patches behind his ears... but he had his father's eyes... they were blue... dark blue, almost purple.
She approached Balto and began tickling him with her muzzle, using his position in her advantage.
"Haha, mom... that's not... fair... haha, stop... please! Haha, stop! I was... on my back!", Balto said between laughs. A wider smile growing on Aniu's muzzle.
Kaji saw his opportunity and tried to help his brother. He jumped, using his hind legs for impulse as his mother taught him.
In half a second, he was on his mother's back. He started nibbling her ears, carefully to not hurt them. Aniu saw Kaji on top of her and began to laugh.
"So, two vs. one? That's not fair sons!", Aniu said.
Balto used this time to take a stand, it seemed like he was going to jump too. But he sprinted directly to her mother's side and began tickling her side.
The three of them kept playing for what seemed an eternity, laughing and rolling.
Then they heard a sound behind the bushes. Aniu rose from the floor.
"Who's there!?", she asked.
"It's me, sweety", a dog said showing himself from between the bushes.
"Haind! You're he-", the dog kissed Aniu in the lips. But it was a worried kiss, Aniu felt it.
Aniu put away her muzzle from Haind's and then stared at him. Stared directly at his almost purple eyes. His brown husky fur was all messed, maybe from the bushes... or maybe from another thing.
"Haind... what happened? Something wrong?", Aniu asked. Worry starting to show on her face.
"We have to go... Danik, he... you know how he is... he... You've seen him...", Haind said.
"He what?!", Aniu demanded.
"He smelled your scent on me", Haind said, "I tried to explain that I crossed my path with a wolf but he said he could smell something else...", Haind said. Aniu knew what he was talking about. "And then one of his bodyguards tried to kill me...", Haind continued, and then showed his left side, the one that he tried to hide since he got there.
"Haind! You're bleeding! Why didn't you tell me from the beggining!?", Aniu shout.
"There's no time, we need to go. YOU have to go... Danik is coming here, he wants to kill you. And if he comes here-", Haind said.
"He'll find our children", Aniu finished for him. "Thanks for coming this fast, especially since you're bleeding. We'll all go to the north, I know there's a river over there. The four of us should clean our scents and then keep heading north.", Aniu said.
"Aniu, I'm not coming. I have to stop Danik.", Haind said. Worry was obvious on his face. And the only idea of leaving behind his mate and his children made a tear wet his cheek.
"NO! You're coming with us, Haind!", Aniu said... then looked back. "Balto, Kaji... we're going. We need to head north.", Aniu said. Then looked back at Haind but the only thing she could see was his tail getting into the bushes, "Haind!".
"I NEED TO DO THIS! NOW, GO!", Haind shouted. Aniu was shocked, it was the first time that Haind yelled at her.
"Come on kids, we need to go!", Aniu said, "You remember where the north is?", Aniu asked to both of them.
"I know!", Kaji said, "If you put the sunrise side at your right, then the north is in front of you.", and proudly smiled.
"Hey, I was going to say that too!", Balto said with a frown.
"My children, there is no time for playing anymore... there are bad people and we have to leav-", a loud noise covered the area, Aniu knew that noise... and now she knew how it felt too.
Both pups were on the ground, with their heads under their paws, trembling with fear. After the sound banished, Kaji lifted a paw and was caught by a red spot on the ground. Then looked up, her mom was wounded...
"Mom, you're bleeding!", Kaji said. At this words, Balto stood quickly on his legs. "Mom!", both pups cried at unison. They've never seen what this was, after all... they were just three months old.
Aniu was in total pain, but still able to run. The bullet just caught flesh, what means that there weren't any broken bones. But the main problem was the bleeding. She stood over her children.
"Run, Kaji. Balto... run!", Aniu shout, and the three of them began to run.
Author Notes: Okay, if you're a little confused with this... It'll be all more clearly on the chapters to come. Also I'm starting school again, so... I don't think I'll have that much time to write.
Anyways, thank you all if you are reading this, because that means that you're interested somehow on the fic.
As always, you're free to review, etc, etc... See you in the next update.
AmusiNN.-