Chapter 11
Four years had passed. It was now 1925. Balto was crouched down under the hospital. He was not alone. Jenna was crouched down next to him.
He heard a door open. The doctor and another man walked into the room.
"Doctor? How is she?"
The doctor sighed. "Exhausted from coughing, and her fever's getting worse."
Balto and Jenna looked up in worry as the doctor spoke.
"Looks like Diphtheria. She's the eighteenth case this week…and I'm out of antitoxin."
Balto howled in triumph as he sighted the aurora from a distance. He and the sled team slid over the snow as the town grew larger on the horizon. Balto couldn't stop grinning.
The team charged through the sleeping town. People had crowded in the streets. They gasped when they saw who was leading the team. Balto and the team pulled to a stop in front of the hospital. He was unlatched from the sled.
The crowd surrounded him. At first Balto looked up in alarm. Then they began patting him on the head.
They shouted congratulations at him. Balto for the first time felt accepted among the humans.
Later he was on the deck of the ship. Jenna was with him. He looked off into the distance.
"I proved it to them mom." He whispered.
Cast
Balto: Kevin Bacon
Boris: Bob Hoskins
Togo: Zachary Quinto
Claude: Eric Bana
Steele: Jim Cummings
Jenna: Bridget Fonda
Aniu: Winona Ryder
Champ: Christian Bale
Doc: Sean Connery
Nikki: Danny Mann
Kaltag: Jack Angel
Star: Robbie Rist