Chapter 6: Crossroads

Sierra walked really fast and took odd routes to make sure her grandfather didn't follow her. She knew that would be a bad case, and make the worst case scenario possible. However, after a while, Balto went home to get Aleu so she could talk to Sierra, and have Hunter keep guard over Toklo, so their pups don't get hurt.

Sierra sniffed around and used her senses to make sure Balto wasn't nearby. He wasn't. She was safe, but not for long. Eventually Balto and her mother will come along and see her with the dog that got kicked off the sled team.

"Steele?" Sierra asked.

She hoped Steele was still there.

"Well look who decided to come crawling back," Steele said.

"I know why you were mad. It was still bad reason to tell someone to rape my mother, but I can still understand your anger."

"What do you mean?"

Steele was confused.

"Balto was the name of the wolf-dog right?"

"Yeah. Balto is your grandfather."

"Wait, what is all this?"

"Sierra, you do realize the whole reason I had your mother get raped is because she was the daughter of the wolf-dog who got me kicked off the sled team and left for dead in a town that now hates me!"

"But you lied about everything! Those kids could've been killed! It would've been your fault they would've died."

"I do understand that, but he was the one that got me kicked off."

"Yeah, because he was better than you."

Steele was starting to get frustrated. Balto was talking to Aleu meanwhile.

"Sierra has been acting weird. She walked away from me really fast when I found her. It's like she was hiding something."

Aleu became worried.

"What could she be hiding? My gut tells me this is bad! Papa, we have to find her!

"I know where she is, I just don't know what she's doing. I'll take you to where I followed her to."

"I can't just leave! Toklo is around my kids!"

"Can you trust Hunter?"

"Of course I can trust Hunter! But not Toklo!"

Balto went up to Hunter.

"If Toklo hurts one of my daughter's pups, kill him! Please, Aleu and I need to see what Sierra is up to!"

"Those are more of my kids than his! I'll kill him if I have a suspicion of him hurting them!" Hunter said.

Aleu and Balto left to find Sierra and what she's up to. Steele and Sierra were still talking.

"You do realize that all this, your mother getting raped, the hard life you go through, is because of that wolf-dog, right? Bingo made my life a living hell!"

"It's Balto," Sierra corrected.

"I call him Bingo. If you have a problem with it, leave!"

"Well, what if… some way, I can get you on the sled team?"

"You can't do that. Do don't associate with the humans enough!"

"Yeah, but my uncle is a mail dog!"

Steele remembers Kodi. Well, he remembers all the pups, but he remembers watching Kodi get attacked by that bear a year ago.

"Good ol' Kodi! Can he get me on?"

"I'm sure he can! If I can talk him into it! But I gotta try to talk to Uncle Kodi about this without mom or grandpa knowing!"

"Oh that's easy. We can just sneak into the town and stalk Kodi. Once we got him alone, we can talk him into getting me on the sled team!"

"It's a deal, Steele!"

"I won't terrorize your family anymore!"

"Thank you!"

Sierra nudged Steele. Right at that time, the wrong time, Balto and Aleu caught sight of that. Both were stunned, but Balto was left in disbelief.

"Sierra! She's with… a significantly older guy!"

"Aleu, do you have any clue who that is!?"

Balto now had a death wish.

"Who is it, papa?"

"That, Aleu, is Steele!"

Balto and Aleu came in at the wrong time! And now to you, KodiWolf321