MOST RECENT CHAPTER EDIT: March 16, 2019
Small office – Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:56; Friday July 11th, 2014 (DAY 9) (2 weeks earlier)
Balto and his "wolf-pack" were eating some of Paul's delicious tomato sauced chicken with rice. They all ate off from the floor again, after having cleaned it.
"Are you ready? I'm ready! Are you ready? 'Cause I'm ready!" munched Ralph.
"Something tells me he's ready," said Balto, looking at Ralph.
"This is going to be great, Balto," said Paul.
"Let's go show ourselves once we finish up!" said Kerr.
"Hangar"
Minutes after they finished eating, they arranged themselves on the stage. The crowd cheered like always.
Craig announced, "Thank you everybody for sleeping at our warehouse! We have finished our second song, and today, we're going to perform another original song written by our bass drummer, Paul, and composed by our sound mixer, Kerr!" The crowd cheered.
Balto took his turn on the mic. "In case anyone wishes to know, today is my birthday!" said Balto. People cheered. "I am now nine years old!" said Balto. "Sleeping arrangements tonight will be postponed until 1:00 AM because at 8:00 PM, I'll be holding a legal rave in my warehouse with cake and snacks to sell! Be sure to make it! Tomorrow morning, the tents can stay longer until 2:00 PM." People cheered.
The band took position and then started to play. After the intro, Balto began his first vocal parts. Everyone enjoyed themselves during the song.
13:07 (Less than 4 minutes later)
After the performance ended, the crowd yet again exploded in cheering.
Charlotte, very cheeky, with lots of energy left in her from the performance, ran over to Paul with her guitar and smashed it at him. "Aouch!" he yipped as he started to blush harshly due to the situation he was in.
Craig ran over and picked up the snare drum and smashed Paul's head through it. "Jeez! Craig! You just sabotaged our snare drum!" complained Paul. The crowd was laughing at the sight of the band smashing their instruments and Paul getting the most hurt.
"I wirr get you for zis!" called Andrew as he then whacked Craig with his bass.
13:33 (About 25 minutes later)
Later that day, Balto and the "wolf-pack" arranged again on-stage. "So, what do we do now, lads?" asked Charlotte.
"Hey Charlotte," mentioned Craig, "because we usually have fun with the dogs, how about we have fun with the audience?"
"Genius, Craig!" said Andrew.
"Okay... How are we going to do that?" asked Balto.
"We can entertain them by doing stupid things, and by playing some audience games with them!" replied Craig.
"Let's start off with doing stupid things!" said Kerr.
They then began to showcase Ralph on how much he can lift. Dusty laid on Ralph's back while Ralph did push-ups.
"Forty-seven! Forty-eight! Forty-nine!" cheered the audience and the other humans. "Fifty!" they finished, as Ralph's legs gave up and his body collapsed onto the stage floor. "Nice job, Ralph!" said Dusty as she dismounted from his back.
Then just after that, Balto did push-ups with Dusty on his back. Balto was struggling to lift.
"One!" cheered the audience as Balto was taking forever. "Two!... Three!" "Oh no! Oh NO!" exclaimed someone in the audience as Balto's legs were slowly collapsing.
As Balto couldn't hold Dusty's weight anymore, he puked onto the ground in front of him. "Curses!" he exclaimed. The entire crowd laughed out loud.
Minutes after that, Balto and his band drank out of pop cans in a circle on their stage. Craig, Kerr, Andrew, and Charlotte were drinking Pepsi, and Paul and the three dogs were drinking fruit juice.
Ralph took a huge sip of his orange juice, then he placed his mouth near Paul's drink and then Ralph spit in Paul's juice can. Spit and juice splattered all over Paul's face. Paul frowned, but the audience and human band laughed ballistically. The three dogs did barrel rolls laughing on the ground.
13:59 (Over 20 minutes later)
Craig was on stage to announce. "Attention please! Today, we will be playing 'Hot Potato' with you guys, the audience! We're going to pass around six plastic jars of dog chow that come with spoons and are lit with light-sticks taped on. Balto here is in charge of playing and stopping the music. When the music plays, you will want to throw the jar to someone else. When the music stops, the person holding the jar—or is the nearest one to it—will need to eat a spoonful of it. It's good for you, however you need to share the same spoon as everyone, so you'll definitely want to throw the jar to someone else! If the person who has it is not eating the food, whoever is around is allowed to force the person to eat it!"
The game then started, with the six jars thrown into different parts of audience. The audience was had a blast throwing the jars all around to their friends and others, cheering the whole way.
Once, someone threw one of the jars on to the stage for one of the band humans to eat. Balto—who was at Kerr's laptop in charge of the music—stopped the music right when Paul caught the jar. Everyone laughed so hard as Paul's cheeks turned fire engine red. He forcefully ate from it, using his teeth from the spoon, and then everyone cheered and laughed. Once the music resumed, Paul kept throwing only towards the rest of the on-stage band.
Beachline – Sasamat Lake, Port Moody, BC, Canada
14:34 (About 1½ hours later)
Then, they went to a local beach. When they were there, Dusty was laying on her back, catching some sun on the sand while having sunscreen on her chest shaped like a smiley face.
Upper on the shore, Balto and Ralph set up a split-exercise ball onto the sand to practice acrobatic jumps with. Many other people were watching. Ralph ran and jumped onto the semi-ball, did a huge double front-flip, and hit the ground, with one of his claws erected straight into the sand. Ralph lifted his paw up to see what happened. "Doh! Musher fixed my toe-nail just a month ago!" he whimpered.
Balto went after that, forgot to jump, and then ended up popping the ball due to his heavy weight and his sharp claw erected. Everyone around laughed because they expected him to jump!
15:04 (About 30 minutes later)
Next, the human band made a slip n' slide that goes from the top of the beach to a ramp that launches to the water. Balto was getting prepared to be launched out of to land into a lake. Balto then slid down on a board, ready to make the jump. As he then jumped from the ramp and released the board, he used his legs as plane wings as he soared into the sky.
Then he noticed down below was Paul relaxing on an inflatable raft in the water. "Moley!" exclaimed Paul.
Balto and Paul had little time to react and Balto landed in Paul's groin. "AOUCH!" exclaimed Paul. Balto splashed into the water as everyone laughed.
"Hangar" – Balto's warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
20:07 (Around 5 hours later)
Balto's birthday party was finally ready to start. "Incoming!" called Andrew to his fellow band members, arranged on stage.
Just in time, a truck carrying a huge wedding-style cake with a large number 9 candle on top came in. People cheered.
"Get your skates on, lads!" said Charlotte.
Craig walked over to the mic to announce to the audience. "The cake has just came in, but first, we've got to sing happy birthday and Balto blows the big candle. So if we can all sing!"
The people then sang "Happy birthday" for Balto.
As they finished, Paul lifted Balto up onto his shoulders so that Balto can blow the candle. Craig announced, "Alright Balto, make your wish!"
I wish I can make it back to Nome—with my son and the rest of the sled team, thought Balto. Balto then blew the candle and everyone cheered.
"You may have a slice of cake for $2," announced Craig on the mic, "You may have a second if you wait until we have served everyone! You may also buy some pop to drink for $2.50 each can!" People cheered.
As people were already eating their cake and drinking their soda, the rave started. The first song on Kerr's DJ laptop was playing "Calvin Harris – Summer". Laser lights were shining around the warehouse with everyone else pumping their fists in the air.
Paul, Andrew, and Charlotte were jugging a lot of soda from their 2L bottles on the stage. "More soda! More soda!" called Paul.
"Give some to ze dogs too!" said Andrew. Then Charlotte gave some of her Pepsi to the dogs for them to get energy from.
The audience raised the roof once the bass dropped. Flashing light effects lit the entire hangar bright. Everyone was so hyper from all the cake and soda, jumping around like never before. "Moley Manitoba!" called Paul, "I've never felt so energetic before!"
The dogs were jumping about as well. "They call this music? This is just noise!" barked Balto, referring to the dubstep sounds from the song.
"Eh, Balto!" panted Ralph, "You're right! What kind of instruments even are these?"
"Oh screw you, boys!" playfully complained Dusty, "I think this music sounds like music and I want to dance—Human style! Hey Balto, can you ask a human to dance with me?"
"Hey humans!" called Balto, "Dusty wants to dance with one of youse. Now who's coming?"
"Come on Paul! Be a ladies' man!" cheered Charlotte, tapping on his shoulder and then starting to push him.
Paul started to blush. "Uh..." hesitated Paul, blushing vividly.
"Come on Paur!" cheered Andrew, who was at Paul's other shoulder, as Andrew and Charlotte were attempting to push him. Paul was pushing himself backwards. "You had dance crass and you had square-dancing in gym twice!" reminded Andrew.
"But I don't even know what moves to do!"
"Paul! You're embarrassing yourself resisting!" nagged Charlotte. "Now chivvy along, you dorkador!" she commanded as she and Andrew gave Paul one last heavy push.
Paul reluctantly walked over to Dusty, who was lower down stage where the audience was paying close attention. Dusty hopped onto two legs and placed one of her paws on Paul's hand and the other on his shoulder into closed position. The entire crowd cheered.
Paul was blushing fire engine red, but then it began to pale up. A smile painted Paul's face as he looked into Dusty's eyes. He kept the beat by stepping left and right, with Dusty following. This is super awesome! thought Dusty, panting excitedly.
This is super awkward! thought Paul. "Uh, guys, what do I do?" he asked the rest of the "wolf-pack". The crowd chuckled.
"Improvise!" called Kerr.
Paul then spun Dusty under his arm to his side and then back. Then, he shuffled in and then out, then he swang his elbow with hers. The crowd was cheering for them. It was a rare occasion to see a human dancing with a dog.
As Calvin Harris sang the lines, "We fell in love," and "And we could be together baby," Paul said, "The lyrics are placed at the absolute WORST timing!" The crowd laughed.
Paul finished up with the final move where Dusty is dipped into almost a deathdrop.
Then he raised her back onto two legs, released, and ran back upstage. The crowd gave them a standing ovation.
The "wolf-pack" then gathered around Paul. "Bang on! Jolly good show, Paul!" cheered Charlotte.
"That was awesome!" cheered Craig.
"You really dance nicely!" cheered Kerr.
Paul's crimson cheeks started to pale off. A proud smile plastered it. "Wow! Really?" he asked. "That was horrible!"
"Dusty says that she thought your dance was awesome!" cheered Balto.
"Oh, thanks!" replied Paul, "But I could've done better than that if I were choreographed! I only did a few of the most basic moves where the guy is the lead and I have to move her each time!"
"But stirr!" said Andrew.
"Good job, Paul," said Balto, tapping Paul's arm. Balto walked away with the others, to continue dancing in front of the crowd.
"So Dusty, how was that dance?" asked Ralph, upstage with her.
"It was really exciting!" she replied. "By the way, how come Paul's cheeks were so red?"
"I dunno!" replied Ralph. "I guess maybe he likes you...!"
Dusty looked to the side in a calm delight. "Really?" she panted as she then faced back at Ralph.
"Don't be ridiculous, Ralph," said Balto. "Lemme ask him." He then called in human, "Hey Paul! Get your tall red butt over here!"
"Roger that!" called Paul. He then walked over.
"Paul, how come your cheeks were so red?" asked Balto.
"Oh, it's because I had to perform in front of so many people, and I also did not know many dance moves to do, and I thought I was making a fool out of myself."
"Alright, good to know!"
Paul then walked away.
"See?" said Balto, to the dogs.
Dusty panted, tilting her head, "Ralph brought up the topic just because he's jealous that I'm Paul's favourit—"
"Oh, zip it, Dusty!" interrupted Ralph.
"You're the one who said he was handsome!" she retorted.
"No, you did!"
"No, YOU did!" They then fought playfully again.
"I've gotta get outta here," said Balto to himself. He then walked downstage to the humans.
People kept dancing and dancing while having the time of their lives. At the very end of the song, everybody cheered and then the wolf-pack had a nice group hug.
Tune in for Chapter 8!
