chapter 3

Balto walked towards another stream and then walked up and down to find the shallowest area and found a shallow crossing with a few flat rocks sticking out of the water and then crossed by jumping on the rocks one by one until he was close enough to jump onto dry land then the wind started to pick up and Balto felt that even though it was not winter yet the wind still had a chill to it.

Balto walked into a forest which was the only way to were Aleu would have moved the pack. As he entered the forest he saw that the sun was going down and he didn't want to be walking around in the woods at night so he walked a little farther until he found a suitable shelter form the weather and then slept there for the night.

Morning came and Balto continued his journey but was hampered a bit by the fog that had settled over the forest early in the morning and found himself in the heart of the forest without any idea of were to go so he took what he thought to be a straight line and found himself near the ocean again and decided to stop for something to eat. After he finished fishing for his breakfast he started to walk again following the beach until he came to a cliffed area and had to walk farther inland and in snow. Balto came across a cave on his left and a sharp cliff on his right and heard something in the bushes behind him so he walked silently forwards and ran right into a large brown grisly bear standing on his back paws.

The bear looked down at Balto and gave a loud roar then without warning the bear swiped his paw at Balto but Balto ducked and the bear just missed him. Balto knowing that the bear would continue to attack him jumped on his arm and grabbed it with his mouth and front paws but the bear threw him of and Balto landed on his feet before running around the bear and jumping on his back and grabbed him with his mouth and paws again this time the bear had trouble getting Balto of for he couldn't reach his back. The bear got of his hind paws and down onto all four to try and fling Balto of But Balto only lost his grip which he quickly gained again so the bear continued this action once, twice, and three times before Balto finally fell off of him and then he walked over to Balto and swung at him with his paw again but Balto jumped and the bear missed but he didn't see the other paw and the bear hit him and he tumbled over and laid on the snow paws up in the air.

The bear walked over to him and put his paw on Balto's chest ready to squash him against the snow but Kodiak came and jumped onto his other paw but the bear just threw Kodiak away and started to push on Balto, Balto's eyes started to close with each push that the bear gave. Kodiak stood back up and jumped onto the bears nose this time and the bear took his paw off of Balto to get Kodiak off of his face and then threw him away and he landed onto a loose large rock that hung over the cliff. The bear walked over to Kodiak and clenched his paw into a fist and tried to hit Kodiak but missed and hit the rock which loosened it even more and unwedged it and it fell, Kodiak quickly jumped off and grabbed the edge of the cliff and climbed up.

"Dad are you ok." asked Kodiak as he walked over to his Balto. "I will be ok, but I need to rest for a while, by the way what made you come." asked Balto having trouble talking after having his chest squashed. "Well Dusty came and talked to me and I realised that you didn't tell me because you didn't want me to know that my sister was a wolf and you were just trying to protect me and then a little while latter a little bird came and told me that she was hurt." answered Kodiak. "Ok, I am sorry for not telling you." apologised Balto. "That's ok, and I am sorry for saying that I hate you." replied Kodiak.

Kodiak waited with his dad for a little while which to Kodiak felt like half a day. Kodiak didn't want to talk to his dad so that he wouldn't have to talk back so he watched the clouds roll past instead.

"Ok I should be able to continue now." said Balto as he had a little trouble getting up. "Are you sure." asked Kodiak. "Yes, and I want to get to Aleu." replied Balto.

Balto and Kodiak continued on their way and entered another forest so Balto and Kodiak followed a path made by caribou until they came to a tree which had fallen on it so they walked around and found that the path had ended.

"Now where." asked Kodiak. "It is a few miles straight ahead but I need a rest." replied Balto. "But it is nearly dark." Kodiak told Balto. "I know so you best go ahead." replied Balto. "What about you." asked Kodiak? "I will be ok, besides I know the way." replied Balto. "Ok bye dad, see you there." said Kodiak.

Kodiak continued in a straight direction as his dad had said and walked out of the forest and found himself between two high ledges unaware that eyes were watching from both sides. Just then a voice asked "What is your name and what do you want here."