Once the pack was out of sight, we went back onto land and caught up with Nava.
"She will be a great leader." Nava said. "And now it is time for all of you to go home."
"What about you?" Balto asked. "You're alone, where will you go?"
"I will find Niju. We are still a clan, and would not be whole without each other. Good-bye my brother."
Nava ran off.
We started to leave, only to hear the raven land behind us. Balto groaned slightly.
"Here we go again with the raven." Fred rolled his eyes, amused.
"Now what?" Balto asked sarcastically.
"Only the journey home my son."
We all dropped our mouths open and turned around. Instead of a raven there was a beautiful white wolf right behind us! We all stared at her.
"Aniu, you're my...?" Balto asked, stunned.
The white wolf, Aniu, gave a nod and then howled good-bye as she disappeared into thin air!
"Good-bye to you too, mother." Balto said gently.
"That's the wolf that convinced Balto not to give up when he was bringing the medicine to Nome!" Jasmine said, her beak still open.
The team and I were also opened mouth for quite a while. Even Balto was stunned, but not much since he did realize that Aniu seemed familiar.
"Wait...Aniu is your mother?" I said to Balto.
"Yeah, she introduced herself to me in a dream I had last night. I recognized her voice when she showed up just now." Balto explained.
"But...Nava told me and Selena that Aniu was his daughter."
Balto and the rest of the team was stunned. Balto ran to catch up with Nava and the rest of us followed.
"Nava! Wait up!" Balto called.
Nava, confused, stopped and watched us catch up with him.
"What is it?" Nava asked.
"Aniu is your daughter?" Balto asked.
"Yes."
"I just found out that Aniu is my mother." Balto said.
Nava looked shocked. Balto then explained how he found out.
"You know, this whole time you and your daughter were here I never asked your names." Nava realized.
"That's right...my daughter's name is Aleu. I'm Balto."
Nava looked even more shocked.
"Balto? Is it really you?" He said.
"Yeah. I mean, that's my name anyway."
Nava suddenly hugged him!
"I thought I'd never see you again!" Nava said happily. "How's Nava and Rose? And Moony and Alaska?"
"Huh? Wait a minute you're Nava." Balto said, confused.
"No I meant Nava II, your older brother. Aniu named him after me."
Balto still looked confused.
"He has a slight case of amnesia." I explained. "But I know what happened to them."
I quickly told Nava and Balto the story of how Balto was saved, only to be lost in a river. I then explained about Nava II's death and how I saved Rose, including the explanation that Rose and I are connected.
"So that's why Rose only had one pup at a time..." Nava realized.
"That's right."
Startled, we turned and saw Rose, Moony, and Alaska coming out of my compartment in Rip.
"Rose?" I said, confused. "I thought you decided to not come back here."
"I did, but then I realized that I missed Nava and Balto." Rose explained. "Plus, Moony and Alaska wanted to see their old home again, same with their mates and pups."
At that moment Palla and Cadillac, Moony and Alaska's mates, came out of the compartment in Rip too. Same with Cathy, Cadillac and Alaska's daughter, and Copper, Moony and Palla's son.
Nava, glad to see Rose and Moony and Alaska again, greeted them and was happy to meet Moony and Alaska's pups too.
Suddenly, more wolves came out. Namely Terry, Nanook and Howl. It turns out that Rose did have a litter in her, they were just born one at a time. Meaning that Terry, Nanook, and Howl were more of Rose and Nava II's pups. Then Shina, Gigi, and Juneau appeared. Shina, Gigi, and Juneau were Terry's, Howl's and Nanook's mates respectively. Gigi was the one who really stood out because she wasn't a wolf or a husky. She was a black poodle.
Nava and the rest of Rose's pups, plus their mates, started talking, getting to know each other better. At the same time Balto started talking to Rose, Moony, and Alaska.
"Hi Uncle Balto." Moony smiled.
"Hi Uncle Balto!" Alaska hugged Balto.
"Hi..." Balto said awkwardly, hugging her back; then he turned to Rose. "I don't understand, how come you never once visited me? I mean after you found out that I was alive."
"I knew you would've asked about...about your brother." Rose tried to keep from crying. "And it's too hard for me to talk about him."
Balto looked at her sympathetically.
"If it is too hard I can ask Miranda instead." He said. "I'm sure she knows about him since she's connected to you."
"Yes, she's found out about my past due to reading my mind." Rose nodded.
"Say, isn't Cadillac Selena's father?" Velma pointed out.
"Adopted father, yes." Selena agreed.
"But he's married to Alaska, who's..." Daphne said.
"Don't bother trying to figure it out, even Selena and I haven't worked it out yet." I laughed.
