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"Bela is a wolf with the same characteristics as Steele"

Chapter 2 "An unexpected Hero"

It's one winter from the birth of Jenna and Balto.

Balto and Jenna slept together with their mom and a few other wolf families in a big cave south from the center of the den-site. As the sun was rising a little ray of sunlight fell through the opening of the cave right on Balto's eye. As it began to wake him up he slowly openend his eyes seeing the sun was already coming up.

He stood up yawning and streching his muscles. He looked over to Jenna and slightly nudged her to wake up. As it didn't work he said while slightly nudging her again: "Jenna wake up lets go outside!". Jenna just rolled over and moaned: "Balto it's to early just five more minutes...".

Balto nudged her again but slightly harder. Jenna looked over and sighed: "Allright Allright i'm up!". She stood up and yawned after streching her muscles just as Balto had done. Slowly they walked outside the cave taking in the fresh morning-air. "What are we planning on doing Balto?" Jenna asked still sleepy. "Let's go to the plains!" Balto said enthousiastically. "What are we going to do over there?" Jenna asked confused. "We'll see when we get there..." Balto replied. As they started to make their way over there a black timberwolf walked their way. He was at least a winter older than Balto and Jenna. "He looked at Balto and just ignored him and walked straight to Jenna saying: "Hey Jenna you want to come with me to go hunting in the forest? I could get us a easy rabbit for breakfast." At this Jenna replied: "No thanks Bela me and Balto ar going somewhere... Maybe some other time?" Bela was not exactly happy with the choice she made.

You see Balto wasn't loved and respected by a part of the pack including Bela and his parents. Why is that you might ask? Well Balto's mother Aniu did something what was a disgrace for the pack. She was mating with a black timberwolf named Devil who wasn't part of Aniu's pack. Most of the wolves hated the decision tha Aniu made, but they loved and respected Balto because they knew he wasn't responsible for the choice of his mother. But some pack members saw Balto as a problem for their pack.

As Balto and Jenna resumed to make their way over to the plains, Bela looked at them with disgust and thought: "Someone needs to take care of that despicable son of Aniu. And if no one does than i will!".

As Balto and Jenna were making their way over to the plains Balto looked over to Jenna and asked: "Why did you wanted to go with me instead of going with Bela?" Jenna looked at him and thought for a moment and answered: "Well someone needs to keep an eye on you! And because i'm older than you are..." Balto looked at her and said sarcastically: "Yeah you must be about 2 minutes older than me!". Jenna started laughing.

As they were talking they didnt mention that the plains weren't much further. Balto looked around him and started to recognise where they were and he started to run. As soon Jenna realised that she was alone she ran after Balto. As she arrived at the plains she saw Balto running through the high grass.

Balto hadn't seen her arrive and continued jumping and running through the high grass. Jenna looked around for a way to stalk Balto without him noticing her. As she found a way to get to him unnoticed she crouched into the tall grass. And as she got closer to Balto she jumped out of the tall grass and pinned Balto under her paws. She began to laugh letting her defence open so Balto rolled her over and used the advantage he had to pin her under his bigger paws. Jenna didn't like that Balto had used the moment she had to laugh to pin her under him.

She started to struggle and said to Balto at an irritated tone: "Balto get of me!". Not knowing what he had done Balto let Jenna go.

As she stood up she walked to an rock in the sun and laid down to sleep in the warming morning sun. Balto looked at her and tought: "She always is a sore loser!". As he tought about this he chuckled.

As Balto was stalking on rabbits Jenna didnt know what was lurking on the edge of the woods. An old army sniper who hunted wolves for sport.

As he made his gun ready Jenna was still asleep enjoying the warm sun on her fur. The hunter got into position and shot missing Jenna by an inch. The bullet shot of the rock and into a tree in the woods.

Jenna woke up and immediately jumped under the rock and yelled loudly. Balto who was still chasing rabbits heard the yell and ran towards Jenna not knowing what happened. As he saw Jenna hiding under the rock where she had been asleep, Balto ran towards her.

As he joined Jenna underneath the rock he tried to calm her down.

The sniper who had lost Jenna out of his sight ran towards the open, to see if she was still there. As Jenna told Balto what happened Balto could hear the man running towards them.

Not knowing what to do he walked out in the open and jumped onto the rock. He tried to scare the man away by growling. But he was just one winter old. His growl was nothing impressive. As his plan failed he didn't know what to do.

At that moment he heard a voice in his head saying: "What kind of growl was that boy? I didn't give you your power just to let it go to waste! Try this: Think about a animal with a loud growl or roar" Balto immediately thought about a full grown male bear. "That's it! Now try growling again!" As Balto growled again he couldn't believe what was happening to his voice! As he growled, he growled like a full grown male bear and even felt the strength of the animal surge trough his body!

And it worked it scared the shit out of the old army sniper! He ran back to where he had stationed his horse and jumped on it and bolted off! As Balto watched the man leaving he noticed that he stopped at a deep river nearby and threw all his hunting gear in the river.

The man thought to himself: "Hunting just became way past my league!"

Balto turned to check on Jenna but when he jumped of the rock to get to her she jumped him and hugged the air out of him!

When Balto recovered from the shock he looked at her and saw her fur dampened from the crying that she had done. A few minutes later Jenna pulled herself from Balto and asked him: "How can you still be alive?! The last thing i heard was that man stopping not far from here and then i heard the growl of an bear! I thought that you were dead!". Balto looked at her as suprised as she was.

He looked at her and asked: "If I tell you this you won't freak out?" Jenna just nodded in response. "Alright...". He told her what had taken place outside of her hidingplace. As Jenna heard these things she was freaking out! "What?! What are we gonna tell when we get back?! How are we going to tell mom?!" Balto looked at her with a frustrated look and tought: "I knew she was going to freak out...". "Jenna! Look at me! Everything will be just fine! Lets just be thankfull that were still alive!" Jenna just looked at him and sighed knowing that he was right.

"Let's make our way back to the den-site" Jenna nodded and they started to make their way back to the den-site. As they walked on they didn't mention the white she-wolf who was looking at them. And as the walked out of sight the white she-wolf disappeared not leaving a scent or trace of ever being there.

Authors Note:

Hey you guys! The second chapter of "Balto: The Heir of Aniu" is here!

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