Chapter 5

"What's today?" asked Kodiak. "Today is monday why?" asked Balto. "Because the mail is delivered to Noorvik today and the mail run goes right past here." answered Kodiak. "Ok I see what you mean, but he won't take a wolf on his sled." said Balto. "Why not if he sees you he should take her." replied Kodiak.

Balto thought about what Kodiak had said and then thought that there wasn't anything to lose so agreed.

"Ok you go and stop the sled and I will organize things here." said Balto. "Ok, I will be back in a second." said Kodiak as he ran of in to the sparsely covered forest

Kodiak ran towards the path that had to be taken for the sled to fit, but had to slow down because he didn't know the place. Kodiak finally came to the path, but he could tell that he was too late for he saw the paw and skid marks in the snow. "Great I missed them." thought Kodiak to himself so he stayed near the path waiting for the return trip.

A hour or two went by, which to Kodiak felt like an eternity before he saw the sled led by Willow so he stood in the middle of the path.

"Easy, whoa." said the musher and the dogs came to a stop. "What are you doing here Kodiak?" asked Willow. "I need you to follow me with the sled." replied Kodiak. "Well unless it's important I am not going any were." said Willow. "My sister has been shot." replied Kodiak. "Ok, that is important." said Willow a little shocked as the musher walked past Willow and patted Kodiak on the head.

"What are you doing out in the middle of nowhere boy?" asked the musher as he rubbed Kodiak on the head, but Kodiak just walked a little in the direction he wanted them to go and then faced the musher and barked. "Do you want me to follow you?" asked the musher, but Kodiak just repeated his action. "I take that as a yes, I just hope that it is important." said the musher quietly to himself.

The musher walked back to the sled and then stepped on the skids.

"Haw, Haw." shouted the musher as he made the dogs follow Kodiak.

Kodiak led the sled towards Aleu hoping that Balto had made everyone go or the musher wouldn't stay there for one minute and that Kodiak knew for sure.

"Easy." said the musher as the sled came out into the clearing were Aleu was laying and then the musher saw Balto beside her. "Is this what you want me for?" asked the musher as Kodiak walked over to his sister and stood on the opposite side that Balto was sitting at.

"Oh I see the problem." said the musher as he saw the large amount of blood in the snow so he slowly walked over to Aleu and picked her up in his arms gently and then layed her on his sled carefully were the mail was. "This is an important run now since your daughter is hurt are you up to leading the team Balto?" asked the musher.

Balto barked and with that the musher walked over to Willow and took the reins off of him and called Balto over to clip him up so Balto walked over and let the musher put the reins on him so that he could lead the sled. "Line out, Hike, Hike." shouted the musher.

Balto Lined up the other sled dogs and then turned around and ran back to the path, with Willow and Kodiak following behind the sled. It took three hours getting back to Nome but it usually took four hours to get back to Nome so they made it ahead of schedule.

The musher unclipped all the dogs then picked Aleu up and walked to the animal hospital to see what the vet could do. The musher walked into the veterinarian and called for the vet and then the old gray heard man who was about sixty five years of age came from his office to see what the musher wanted him for.

"So what do you have here?" asked the vet. "It is a wolf." replied the musher. "I can see that, but why have you brought it here for, I don't treat wild animals." said the vet. "When you put your add in the paper you said we help any animal great or small and I know you are the best doc around these parts." replied the musher. "Well I do remember having something like that put in the paper so I guess you have me on that one, and I am a vet not a doctor so please try to remember." said the veterinarian as he put his glassed on. "Ok thanks." thanked the musher. "Your welcome, now who will be paying for this operation and for us to take care of her after the operation is finished?" asked the veterinarian. "I will." replied the musher. "Ok if you want to, may you bring her to the operation table before she bleeds to death." asked the vet once he had noticed that the musher had blood on his jacket. The musher carried Aleu to the table and then gently placed her on it.

"Mathew, Mathew." called the veterinarian and shortly after a young blond haired man walked through the back door and into the room were the musher and veterinarian were. " Did you call me?" asked the man. "Yes, we have a patient." said the veterinarian as he put a pair of white plastic gloves on. "I will leave you two to do your job." said the musher and then he left the room as the vet and his assistant started to get the bullet out of Aleu's back leg. "Come back in a hour and I should be finished." instructed the vet as the musher walked out side the veterinarian and closed the door.

After the musher had closed the door he saw that Kodiak was waiting out side the veterinarian on the porch so reached down and patted him on the head and said. "It is a good thing you brought me to her when you did because she wouldn't have lasted much longer."

Then the musher left to take the mail into the post office.

Kodiak was out side the door of the veterinarian's while Balto had gone to tell Jenna the news. "Is she your sister?" asked Willow as he walked up to Kodiak. "Yes she is." replied Kodiak. "But she is a wolf." said Willow with a stutter. "I know she took after my dad." replied Kodiak. "Oh ok I thought you were pulling my leg for a minute there, well I have to go round up the team, hope everything goes well ."said Willow and then he left.

"Jenna are you there?" called Balto then waited a minute or two and Jenna came out of the house that she lived in. "Hi Balto that was one quick trip." said Jenna. "The reason I am back is because Aleu has been shot and is in the veterinarian now." replied Balto. "How bad is it?" asked Jenna concerned." It isn't that bad I don't think, but it isn't good either, she is unconscious." replied Balto.

With that Jenna ran towards the vets with Balto beside her. Balto arrived at the vets first with Jenna close behind him. "Is she ok." Jenna asked Kodiak franticly. "I don't know when the musher comes back we might be able to get a look." replied Kodiak calmly.

The three of them waited out side the door of the veterinarians' until the musher came back. Jenna started to pace backwards and forwards infront of the door. "Don't worry she will be ok." said Balto assuring.

Just then the vet's assistant came running out of the door towards the post office and went inside then came back with the musher and walked inside.

"Come on lets see how she is doing." said the musher to Kodiak, Balto and Jenna and they all walked inside quietly." She has lost a lot of blood but she is lucky the bullet missed the bone or that wouldn't have been the only problem." said the veterinarian. "Were is she now?" asked the musher. "She is in one of the cages on the floor still asleep in the back room." replied the veterinarian leading to were she was. "How will we know if everything is ok?" inquired the musher. "As soon as she is awake." replied the veterinarian. "When will she wake up?" asked the musher. "Any time now, which reminds me I better give her something for the pain or she will be impossible to deal with being a wild animal." said the veterinarian as he pulled out a needle form his jacket and gave Aleu some pain killers. Just as he put the needle away Aleu started to rouse. "Ah she is comming to now." said the musher.

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