A friend in the Blizzard
Authors note:
Hi. This is my first ever Fanfic…hm…not much to say other than: I do not own Balto or any of the original characters; they belong to Amblin Entertainment and Universal.
OH, btw; this story will develop itself over time, but I know I'm going to start before the first movie and we'll see what happens ;-)
Silwer-Paw
Chapter 1
Looking for a Friend
The wind carried with it the cold smell of a raging blizzard that would envelop the land with a howling, white, biting cold fog. Balto stared northward from the cabin of the boat he had settled on just a few mere weeks ago. The cold breeze ruffled his gray fur and gave him a feeling that the next few days would be trying. Boris, the Russian snow-goose who had taken care of him since he had lost his mother in a blizzard similar to the one coming from the north, had left a few days ago saying something about urgent business and had flown off after making sure Balto would stay away from Nome, the town residing just a few minutes run from the boat. Balto had never been in the town because of his heritage; His father was a pure bred Husky from the town of White Mountain, but his mother Aniu, she was a white wolf from the mountain-range between Nome and White Mountain. He was a half-breed, half wolf half dog, and therefore he was shun by both dogs and wolfs along with humans who saw him as a wolf and feared him. Balto had never felt true loneliness since Boris had found him soon after the loss of his mother and taking him-quite literally- under his wing, but now with Boris gone, Balto had nobody to talk to and had to hunt the outskirts of Nome by himself. All he wished for was a friend.
The blizzard hit Balto`s already cold and salt-stained boat at night, he cowered from the wind under a thin blanket Boris had found for him right after they settled down on the boat. His dreams were uneasy and he woke up several times during the night. Feeling the need to warm up, Balto left his corner in the cabin and ventured outside to see if the blizzard would clear up any time soon. He lifted his front paws onto the edge of the boat, but he couldn`t see more than 10 feet of the boat because of the blizzard combined with the darkness of night.
He was about to go back inside for shelter when he smelled something. The freezing wind brought tidings of something approaching the boat. Balto peered through the blizzard but saw nothing, until a pair of yellow eyes appeared not 10 feet from the boat. "Who's there" Balto yelled, but his voice could barely be heard through the howling of the wind, yet, the eyes moved back and disappeared from Balto`s sight. "Who`s there" he yelled again. No answer. He went back to sleep with the belief that his lone mind had played a trick on him.
Meanwhile, a pair of yellow eyes disappeared inside a hole in the boats belly.
Authors note
Hm, not much dialogue in this chapter but I felt that I needed to describe the situation in a 3rd. person kind of view. Will put more dialogue in the next chapter which I will probably post at the same time as this since I have to wait two days from when I started the account till I can actually post something…
Anyway, PLZ review and be brutal, tell me what I can do to improve and what u liked.
SMITE ME O MIGHTY WRITERS!!!!
Silwer-Paw