The characters in the original Balto movies are not in any way my property blah blah blah...

HOWEVER!!! characters of my own creation, Daniel Crowe and Sonja Weaver are mine as well as most of the songs that will appear in this story.

Songs that are mine will be started and finished with a

Thank You!

Chapter 3

Raven, that was his name. At least before he lost to Sonja. The rule of thumb for the group was that if you lost, you dropped the name you entered with. Daniel laughed at what Sonja was known as, Husky. Now look at her she was the spitting image of her name. He looked at the guitar and walked over to it and took it out of its case. He picked it up, took some practice strums and then started to sing.

Forgotten thoughts of yesterdays
Through my eyes I see the past
Well I dont know, I dont know, I dont know why

I believe, I believe, I believe in the truth
From inside
Go away, go away, go away from me
Leave me alone

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die

Unwanted, live my life in shame
Who's to blame for my mistakes
Well I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why

I believe I said I believe in the truth
From inside
Go away go away go away from me
Leave me alone

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die
As I drift and die
As I drift and die
As I drift and die

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die

When he finished Sonja walked in.

"Sorry about calling back that day Dan"

"Its okay, besides I'm better at guitar" he replied strumming a chord.

"How about playing me a song?" she asked looking up

"Maybe later 'Husky'!" he said petting her ruffly on the head. He could see that she was smiling.

"All right" she said turning around.

Daniel thought for a moment and then yelled for David. When he came down he asked him a question.

"Hey David mind if I go hunting?"

David seemed dumbstruck at the question

"You don't have a gun do you?" he asked

"I have a friend staying around that has one that i can use, mind if I take Sonja?" he asked pointed to his old friend, and hopefully one day he can put a "Girl" in front of Friend.

"Sure go ahead, we'll say this is another chore okay?" he said laughing.

"Right" chuckled Daniel.

Sonja was confused, she had never gone hunting before and didn't really want too. But it was time with Daniel. As they walked out into the woods Sonja could tell something was familiar about the area. Then she saw the cave, it was the one Daniel came out of when she thought that he was really a Wolf, even though something seemed familiar about him. Then why they came back here clicked in Sonja's head as Daniel pulled out an item. It was a Berretta 9mm.

"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!" she yelled stepping back.

"What, this?" he said pointing to it

"No the rock next to your foot!"

He laughed "Sonja, when you disappeared your dad blamed me" he said putting it in a holster.

"YOU SHOT MY DAD!!!"

He looked at her shocked "WHAT NO!" he yelled

"Me and my Dad went and got some gun licenses, and i got a nine-mill" he said taking it out and loading it "Plus I hopped that your dad wouldn't get any ideas, I know he isn't the type but I get kind of nervous when your dad sees me"

Sonja was relieved "Okay then, lets just go hunting and get this over with"

As they walked around they talked, about the day that Dan choked, the day that Sonja left, and what happened after He walked out the door of the room.

"So they liked what I said?" he asked laughing "Yea right!"

"No really, your a little rough around the edges but they couldn't let you in. you wouldn't have won by dissing me!" she replied laughing "In fact, they were considering letting you have another chance. But then you ignored us when you came in the next morning."

"Well alright I believe you" he said ducking under a branch. Then he stopped

"Sonja?" he asked

"Yea?"

"Why did they call you Husky?"

Daniel asked the question and watched the result. She didn't seem angry or hurt that he brought that up. But instead, longing. Like she was waiting for that one question her whole life.

"Don't you know?" she asked looking at him

"no I don't" he said looking around for something to shoot.

"I was called Husky because of a number of reasons" she said "one was it was my favorite animal, two it was because I owned a Husky, and three because..." she seemed to stop.

"it was what you suggested" she said smiling

"Whoa-hoa!" he said holding his left hand out

"I suggested your name?"

"yea, to tell the truth Dan I really like..."

All of a sudden Daniel dropped his gun and grabbed his head in pain. It was a barring ringing that seemed to burn a hole in his head. Sonja didn't know what was going on, did she do something? He was in an immense amount of pain, he picked up his gun and tried to holster it, but instead of holstering it, he pulled the trigger.

Sonja jumped at the sound of the fire-arm shooting. She watched as suddenly Dan grabbed at his leg where he had shot himself. Except he wasn't screaming like most would. He was just crying.

"OH MY GOD!!!" she yelled

"Should have had the safety on" he muttered "first thing I learned"

"We need to get you moving come on!"

"WAIT!" he yelled.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a Red Bandanna and Sonja recognized where he got it from immediately. She gave it to him. He tied it around his leg and almost screamed because of the pressure.

"Sorry to use your Bandanna like this" he said almost able to fake a laugh.

With a long and agonizing walk a storm started to kick up. They managed to make it back to the Cave, but they would need to wait for the storm to blow over before going back to Davids house. And more importantly a doctor.

"So what you were saying before I shot myself?" he said

"Yea your an IDIOT!!!"

"Well, I heard that girls like to baby big tough guys" he said pumping his right arm.

"Yea right!" Sonja yelled.

"But seriously what were you going to say?"

"Dan, I really like you"

"Yea I like you too Husky" he said smiling

"I'm serious Dan! I like you more than a friend and please don't call me Husky, I'm not in White Lake right now. I shouldn't be called that"

There was a silence and then Daniel began to speak. "I know that Sonja"

He looked up "I have liked you my entire life, every day I wanted to ask you the biggest question of my life!" he exclaimed "But instead I tried to impress you as that Crap Raven! I now know why we called you Husky, its not because of any of those reasons that you listed. It's because your one at heart, Its just who you are; just like I'm a..."

"Dan please don't Say it!" she pleaded not wanting to hear what he was about to say.

"Just like I'm a Wolf" he said putting his right fist over his heart "Raven is gone Sonja, maybe I need a new name."

"like what?!?" she said faking a smile

"Wolf" he said howling.

When he stopped he looked at her, smiled and laughed.

When the Storm blew over they trudged back to Nome. When they got there the first place they ended up was the Doctors.

"Holy!..." the doctor said seeing the damage. "what did you do?"

"I was hunting, I saw some promise in an Animal, and I shot" he said obviously lying "the bullet missed and Ricochet off a tree and hit me in the leg"

"well alright lets get that bullet out" he said taking out a knife.

Sonja looked at Daniel, he wasn't afraid. At least he didn't look like it.

"Hey Sonja go home okay?" he asked

"But why, and why did you lie?"

"tell ya later" he said whispering. "bye Sonja!" he said pointing towards the door.

Daniel strummed on his guitar, not bothered by the patched up hole in his leg. He looked at Sonja. He had lied to the doctor and Dan had yet to tell her why.

"Sonja still want that song?"

Her ears perked up and tail started wagging "god sometimes I hate this thing" she said "think that you can piece the answer together?"

"Yea" he said tuning the guitar. "all right here it goes!"

The one girl, I thought I would never get.

Is right here for me I bet.

She disappeared, without a trace, when she did I lost my Pace.

She was my world, she was my friend, hopefully there until the end.

In a blink of an eye,

She was gone,

And a hole in my heart appeared for what seemed like forever!

Everything happens for a reason

Nothings set in stone

Fate is ever shifting

But my love for you is not.

Please Stay with me!

Now I'm here with you.

Finally I can see your face

Finally your here in the flesh

In the end, your just a friend

but even that might change

But

we might

never know!

Everything happens for a reason,

Nothings set in stone,

Fate is ever shifting,

But my love for you is not.

Please come with me!

Be more than a friend,

stick by me till the end,

through thick and thin

Day and night

I want to be with you.

Everything happens for a reason,

Nothings set in stone,

Fate is ever shifting,

But my love for you is not.

Please.

Would you like to be my girl?

Would you like me to go away?

Do you want me to stay by your side?

Or is your mind on someone else?

Please come with me!

As Sonja listened to the song her heart was balling. This was how he felt about her? He had gone as far as to write a song telling what he felt about HER! When it was over she had tears in her eyes. She got up and laid her head in his lap. And she couldn't help but cry.

"I'm sorry Daniel!" she said

"For what?" he asked softly

"Hurting you so much"

"Hurting me? Sonja, I didn't ask you the question that i now know the answer too. It was my fault, not yours" he said lifting her head up.

"Still, you should have won and I should have seen that you liked me when you refused to diss me!"

"SONJA!!!" he yelled as he smacked her across the face

"You have NOTHING to be sorry about, I wrote this song last night in the cave! You mean the world to me, I'm not just saying that!, but don't take it upon yourself to feel sorry for something that we both would realize is true!"

She thought for a moment and then swiped her claws across Dans face. He didn't cry, he didn't move his face to avoid it, and he didn't yell at her for doing it.

"Nice to see you back" he said laughing.

"Thanks Dan, I owe you"

"No" he said quickly "no you don't"

"Anyway" she said "goodnight"

As she turned around she swiped under his chin with her tail and walked into her bed.

Daniel looked for a moment and then remembered when he first caught wind of her feelings towards him.

(Flashback)

Jake Rhodes was possibly the biggest, stupidest, most perverted person in the school. Daniel watched in the lunch room as Sonja Weaver picked up her food and walked to the spot next to him. He smiled, they had always been friends. Then all of a sudden she flew back and was caught none other than Jake Rhodes.

"HEY!" she yelled

"You can thank me later sugar" he said moving in to make a kiss

"HEY RHODES!" Daniel yelled at the top of his voice "LEAVE HER ALONE!"

"And why should I do that?" he said putting her back in the upright position

"Oh I don't know, maybe she doesn't want to have anything to do with a pus spewing druggie" he said smiling

"What did you call me!?!" he yelled

"I think that even with that tiny brain you understood what I said" replied Daniel

"Thats it your dead!" he yelled.

Daniel could hear the rhythmic 'fight fight fight fight!' of the kids watching the event unfold. As Jake rushed Daniel sidestepped and spun around, hitting the bully in the back with his elbow. He recovered quicker than Daniel thought and rushed back, this time pegging Daniel in the stomach. As he felt all of the air in his stomach leave him he spun around and punched Jake in the face, causing him to roll over clutching at his now broken nose. Screaming in pain he came running again, except this time he started to swing his fists and hit Daniel a couple of times. Daniel ducked one, causing the enormous kid to fall on his face. Daniel taking the opportunity flipped Jake on his back and commenced to punch him in the face.

"Teacher!" he heard a kid yell.

Daniel looked away and tried to get back to his seat when Jake put a fist in his face. Last thing Daniel remembered was seeing the floor and the feet of the principal. He woke up in the nurses office and he saw his Mom and Dad as well as Sonja and the principal.

"Now Daniel what happened" asked the principle

"Well I got in a fight" he said casually

"Oh it was no fight!" yelled Sonja "Jake Rhodes was trying to kiss me and he stood up for me! Jake almost killed him! Daniel was lucky that he did what he did to the guy!"

"Thank you Sonja but we were asking Daniel" replied the principal

"Sir she got it right, it was what I was about to say"

"Oh well, Crowe ill let this pass for now. But school ends in about an hour and your about to go home so go get your stuff"

"Yes sir" said Daniel getting up

He nearly collapsed in pain from Jakes first punch to the gut. He managed to get to his locker and get his pack and Sonja was even nice enough to come with him, and the PRINCIPAL was nice enough to let her.

"Thanks Dan" she said leaning against a locker

"No problem" he said doing the same.

"See you tomorrow?"

"I don't know I might get a stomach olser and I swear I feel a broken bone somewhere..."

He was interrupted when Sonja began laughing

"Whats so funny?" asked Daniel beginning to smile

"This!" she said as she reached over and kissed him on the cheek "See ya tomorrow Dan!"

"Later..." he said feeling his cheek and watching Sonja walk away,

"Wow" he said turning to walk away "thats a first!"

(end Flashback)

The sun was bright and the air was fresh. Balto could tell it was going to be a great day. Then he thought of Jenna and smiled. THAN he thought of Sonja and smiled even more, she had finally found someone who she likes. He couldn't WAIT to meet him someday. He walked down the ramp of his Fishing boat and looked around. Speaking of which he was ready to go to Sonja's. Maybe this Wolf will be there.

As he walked up he saw a human walk out of her house. He was saying something and then noticed Balto. He began to walk over and Balto coward, afraid to see what he was going to do.

"Hey boy!" he yelled running over "whats your name?" he said looking for a tag. When he found none he muttered something.

"You wouldn't be Balto would you?" he asked.

When Balto didn't respond he shrugged and said "ill find out soon enough" and he walked away.

He walked to Sonja's and barked. She came to an open window and shouted down to him.

"Meet the human?" she said obviously exited

"Yea, interesting guy. Talked like he would have been able to understand anything that I would have to say" he said sitting down.

"Oh you have no idea" Sonja said shaking her head

"So" Balto said as he began looking around. "Wheres this Daniel, character you were talking about?"

"He should be here soon" she said coming down. "Don't worry"

Daniel tried his hardest to turn into the wolf. But nothing was working. Then he remembered what the white wolf said to him in his last dream.

"Think of yourself as the wolf, if your heart truly wants it you will become it"

"Yea thanks for more instruction" he said as he closed his eyes.

He imagined himself as the wolf and began to change. When he opened his eyes he looked himself over and was pleased to see that he was a wolf.

"Guess I really did want to be a wolf" he said as he ran back to Sonja's house. Then he noticed that he wasn't smothered in his own clothing. He also noticed that the bullet hole wound wasn't aching...yet.

"Maybe its because this change was wanted!" he said as he ran to his friends house.

Eventually his wound began throb with pain, but Daniel didn't care. He was seeing a friend in a way he had only seen her once.

When he got there he noticed Sonja with that dog that he tried to talk to earlier. Sonja noticed him and barked, calling him to The other dogs attention as well.

"HEY SONJA!!!" he yelled running over "who's your friend?"

Sonja looked over the Wolf, taking in his every feature. His fur was a Blueish grey on the top half of his body and white on his paws, maw, and under body. Arranged almost exactly like Baltos fur.

"Who's your friend?" he said panting

"His name is Balto" she said

"Hi" Balto said "hows it goin?"

"Hey, nothin much" he said turning to face Balto "how long have you known Sonja?"

Balto looked at the ground and then back at Daniel "we'll since before I saved Nome"

"What?"

"He saved Nome from a virus by bringing back the vaccine" explained Sonja.

"I met her a month before that" said Balto "also, I never quite learned your name"

"Oh" exclaimed the wolf "its Daniel"

Balto thought for a moment "nice to meet you Daniel" he said

"Same here" replied Daniel.

"LEAVING ME OUT OF THE LOOP BALTO!" came a voice. Balto looked around the area and then saw a running Red and White husky coming towards them.

"HEY JENNA!" yelled Sonja jumping up and down.

Daniel had never seen Sonja like this since he had found out her secret. Sure her tail wagged when I asked her if she still wanted that song but thats completely different from now. She was jumping up and down as if there was no tomorrow. Maybe since she found out life was finally looking up again. She watched the two huskies talk to each other and Sonja look over at her. Then the red and white husky walked over to Balto, cautiously. It was like she didn't trust Dan.

"Hey I'm still alive here!" shouted Daniel getting up.

"Oh right, sorry" replied Sonja "Jenna this is my old friend Daniel, Daniel this is My friend Jenna"

"Hi Jenna" Daniel said nodding his head.

"Nice to meet you Daniel" she said finally looking him in the eyes.

It was strange the only two wolves she knew was Balto, and Aleu. And they weren't even pure wolves. But this one had something in his eyes which spoke volumes about what he had been through. His fur was almost exactly like Balto's, except Blueish gray instead of brownish gray. His eyes however his eyes were a cool blue instead of brown, and they showed he had gone through some hard times. Jenna had to wince when she saw what was covering part of his right leg.

"Were you shot!" she said jumping up.

"This?" he asked looking at the gunshot wound "Yea, doesn't really hurt though. Luckily there was a human nice enough to patch me up" he said

"Really" she said sitting back down a few feet from Daniel.

Daniel looked at her and then pieced it together "Don't worry Jenna, I didn't do anything wrong" he said standing up.

"Sorry if that scared you" he said

"That's alright Daniel" Jenna replied, voice a little shaky.

"Well, Sonja lets get going" Daniel said

"We're are you guys going" asked Balto

"Just out for a walk around, Sonja's going to give me the full tour" replied Daniel

"Want to come?"

Balto talked with Jenna and then stated "yea, sure!"

Well looks like Dan kicked it off just the right way wit Jenna!

Also The one song with the by it was my first one that i wrote so be nice. So was the whack a... rap that was in the last chapter. Also I just got to describing loosely (at least what i consider loosely) what Daniel looks like as a wolf because... well you'll learn in the next chapter. Also! Once this story is finished I will make a sequel if everyone wants me too. But until then, Kodi and Dusty and the rest of the gang from Balto III will not be in this story.