Dingo's Tale II: A Quest For Vengeance

Chapter 8: Haunting Memories

Date and Time – April 12, 1927 11:17 a.m.

Location – Nenana City Limits

"Alright Saba, lead the way." Dingo said. Saba started to walk towards the city, "It's on the other side of town, follow me. We should have waited until night when people are asleep." Saba said. "As long as we find them, we'll be alright." Balto said. Saba however, shook her head, "Have you ever heard of the pound before?" Saba asked. "No, what is it?" Balto asked. "It's a place where unlicensed dogs go, if they are brought in for harming another person, they get killed on the spot, and if they don't find an owner, they get put down." Saba said. "Well, you all heard her, we need to be extra careful around here. This isn't like Nome, we get caught, our mission is a failure and we all die. Whatever you guys do, do not let them fire that rifle." Balto said.

The group walked into town staying close right behind each other. There were a lot of new smells to smell since this was a big city after all, "Too bad we couldn't go out in the open, I'd love to see more of the city!" Yukon said, sniffing the air. "You're telling me!" Kodi said walking closely behind his brother. "Guys! Stay focused, we want to stay hidden and alive, not run out into the street and become target practice!" Dingo said looking back at his brothers. Balto and Saba walked side by side trying to stay hidden from the humans. "Saba, do you know a place where we can lay low until nightfall?" Balto asked his daughter. Saba nodded as she looked around the corner to make sure the alley was safe, she couldn't afford to lose her other eye, "There's a huge junkyard only a block away, if we make it we can stay there until nightfall." Saba explained as she led the group to the junkyard.

Saba found the hole cut in the fence where she remembered, "Come on guys, crawl through here." Saba said. "Where do we go?" Dingo asked. "Just wait until I get through. Ungh, there we go." Saba grunted as she pulled herself through the hole. "Alright, follow me, it's a little hut made by piled up stone and wood, it should hold its ground in a snowstorm if the snow starts to pick up." Saba said. The group arrived and laid low at the camp when suddenly they heard a growl, "Oh, not again." Yukon whined. "Sorry guys, false alarm." Dingo said as his stomach growled. The group started to laugh, "Well, I guess we could all use something to eat, eh?" Kodi said, laughing. "There's a lake just north of here." Saba suggested. "I don't know Saba, remember the last experience we had with a lake?" Kodi said, remembering the events of the night before. "Oh, stop complaining, it's either sticks or fresh fish, your choice Kodi." Saba said laughing. "Oh, fine, let's go guys." Kodi said.

The group of siblings made their way towards the lake without being seen, "See, this was really easy." Saba said with a laugh. "Yeah, yeah I get it." Kodi said as he took a drink from the water, "Yuck!" Kodi said as he spits out the water, "By the way big brother, lake water from this city is completely disgusting." Saba said laughing. "Well now ya tell me!" Kodi said trying to get the taste out of his mouth. "With that aside, why don't you give us a little lesson on how to fish?" Balto said smiling. "Of course, come over here." Saba said walking to the dock. "Now, this is going to hurt a little bit, put your tail in the water like so, and just wait for a bite." Saba said sticking her tail in the water. "Whoa, whoa, I am not risking my tail for some fish!" Yukon said. Saba was quiet, and sure enough, a fish came flying out of the water, "See boys? My tail is still here, as soon as he bit, I flung him off with my tail. I have my dinner, you boys catch yours." Saba said, holding the fish with one paw, slicing it with her other.

"I guess it's now or never." Kodi said, nervous for his tail. "Just give it a shot! I bet it doesn't hurt as badly as you imagine!" Dingo said, putting his tail in the water. After about two minutes of waiting for a fish, Dingo finally caught one, "Whoa!" Dingo said as he pulled the fish out of the water. The fish landed on the ground and started jumping around. Dingo jumped on the fish and sliced it open with his paw. "See, Kodi? It's easy once you try!" Dingo said, as he started to eat the fish. "Easy for you to say! I've been sitting here for…. YIPES!" Kodi screamed as a big fish was caught on his tail, Kodi took off with the fish holding on to his tail. "Somebody help me PLEASE!" Kodi screamed. The group was laughing, when Balto saw him, he laughed and fell into the water. "Ugh, man this water smells!" Balto said, pulling himself out of the lake. Kodi finally got the fish off of his tail and went chaotic on it! "*pant* Man, this sucker is huge! Dad, you want to share this one?" Kodi asked. "Nope, and that goes for you too Yuke, we all hunt for our own fish." Balto said. "No problem dad, I already have mine anyhow." Yukon said, standing over his fish. "Man, Ember would have loved this." Dingo said, remembering Ember at home. "I hope her and mom are doing okay."

Jenna and Ember's POV 2 hours ago…

April 12, 1927 10:27 a.m.

Jenna's House – Shed

"Alright you guys, we need to do this exactly the same when Daddy gets home alright?" Ember said. "Okay Mama!" The pups said. "Good job, I think your dad will be happy to know that you four can talk!" Ember said. "Mama, where's Daddy?" Nikita asked. "Yeah, he's been gone two whole days!" Kazu said. "He's somewhere far away from here helping his Sisters and Brothers with something." Ember said, putting it as kindly as she could. "What are they doing, Mama?" Zodiac asked. "They're going to go uh, HUNTING, yeah hunting!" Ember said. "What are they hunting for Mama?" Amber asked. "How about we play the quiet game? Let's just take a nap, Mama is tired and needs some sleep." Ember hesitated. "Okay Mama!" They all said, laying their heads down to go to sleep.

Ember woke up many times because she couldn't sleep, she called out to Jenna. "Jenna, pst." Ember whispered. Jenna woke up from her sleep, "What's up?" Jenna asked sleepily. "I'm scared…" Ember responded. "For Dingo, right?" Jenna said. "Yeah, he's been gone for three days now and I can't help but think something happened to him." Ember said with tears in her eyes. "Don't worry Ember, Dingo is the strongest pup I have and I assure you, he wouldn't let himself die." Jenna said. "You're right, I worry too much." Ember said. "No, you're reasonably concerned, when Balto was out on the Serum Run, I was more scared than you are now, I couldn't handle losing my future mate and my girl Rosy. I felt more confident when he went to go find Aleu." Jenna said. "I would have been too if Dingo was put in that situation, I guess I should put myself in your shoes, I'll go back to sleep now." Ember said. "Have a good nap Ember, I'm going to get some fresh air." Jenna said. "Stay safe Jenna." Ember said. Jenna nodded and walked outside.

Jenna walked out of her shed and took a deep breath and let's out her stress. Even though Dingo has been the strongest pup of the litter. Jenna still was worried about her children since a mother always worries about their children. Jenna took another deep breath before heading out to the forest. There was a special place in the forest that Jenna and Balto went to before all the pups were born. It only took a few minutes to get to that special in the forest. There was a tree on the cliff side next to the ocean that had two paw prints on it. Those were Jenna and Balto's paw prints together right next to each other. Jenna smiled as she looked up at the old paw prints that stay on the tree for the past couple years. Jenna twitched her ears as she heard a twig snap from behind her. "Hello?" Jenna said as she turned and looked to see who was behind her. Two red eyes stared at her from a bush in the dark. "Who are you?" Jenna asked as she took a step back. "So you're the one who is his mate," said the voice from the bushes. "What?" Jenna said as she tried to look closer at whoever was in the bushes. The red eyes from the bushes came into the light to reveal a black wolf with a scar on his left eye. Jenna gasped before taking off toward the trail home. The black wolf then jumped forward and started to attack Jenna. Jenna tried to fight with her paws and teeth as well, but it was no use. The black wolf was already two times bigger than her. Jenna got a quick second to get away as soon as she scratched the scar tissue to make it bleed. The black wolf yelped in pain as he let's go of Jenna. Jenna took a few steps away from the black wolf before stepping on a bear trap. Jenna screamed in pain as the black wolf recovered from his injury and jumped forward at Jenna making her hit her head on a rock knocking her out cold.

April 12, 1927

Location: Unknown

Time: 12:11 p.m.

Jenna woke up in a dark place, no visibility whatsoever. "Ungh….my head, where the hell am I?"Jenna said to herself. "Ahh, awake at last….my dear." Jenna looked around, but couldn't hear where the sound came from. "Who are you? What business do you have with me or my family?" Jenna asked. "Don't say you've forgotten me. We are old friends as you could say." The strange voice said. Jenna recognized the voice from somewhere. "Is there any light in this damned place?" Jenna asked aggravated. "Oh there is, there is plenty of it, just a flick of this switch and…..boop." A light appeared above Jenna. A familiar black and white husky walked into the light. "St…Steele? What the hell, what do you think you're doing?" Jenna asked, yelling. "Well, I've come to take back what was mine 2 years ago. I figured that with good old Lobo gone, we could have some quality time together." Steele said, walking slowly towards Jenna. "I was never yours, Steele! Now tell me what you want so I can get back home! I have family to take care of!" Jenna said. "Oh, you mean this lovely lady and her little ankle biters?" Steele said, flipping another switch, revealing a light shining on a cage. "EMBER! What does she have to do with any of this?" Jenna asked. "They don't, I just want some leverage for your naïve little boy, oh what was his name, Dingo I believe?" Steele said with the same smug look on his face. "Dammit Steele, let them go, NOW!" Jenna demanded. "And don't you dare bring my son into this! He will tear you up like a newspaper!" Jenna said. Steele started to growl while showing his teeth. Steele then got into Jenna's face and started shouting. "I WOULD LOVE TO SEE HIM TRY!" Steele shouted in Jenna's face. Jenna started to breathe harder from fear of getting hurt again. Steele started to calm down with a chuckle. "I don't think little Dingo or even Bingo would mind if we started our own little family. The family we should have already started," Steele said with a dark evil smile. "No! You wouldn't dare!" Jenna said in fear. "Oh I can and I will," Steele said looking into Jenna's eyes. "But let's not let the other children watch shall we," Steele said before turning off all of the lights. Leaving them in the dark to do something ungrateful and sinister, a seed that will wait until the final weeks of one month and will be born into the world.

To be continued…

A/N (NightWolfZilvia) Well guys, this is probably the second longest chapter that I have written so far! From the looks of it, I think that there will have to be a Part 2 to Part 2! I think I took the right path with this chapter and hopefully you guys think so too! I can't thank KodiWolf321 for helping me with this story, Chapter 9 will be out soon, probably in the next few days, so be prepared for what happens next! Now onto Thomas's A/N!

A/N (KodiWolf321) hello everyone! We have another chapter for you and I really can't wait to see where chapter 9 will take us! It's been a great ride with these last few chapters. Anyways guys hope you all liked this chapter and we will see you in the next and final chapter!