Balto: The Parallel Timeline
Chapter 7: Searching For The Sled Team
It was nearing dawn when Togo began his journey to find the lost sled team.
When Togo told Noris, his plan Noris thought it was "foolishness"
"Togo, please don't crazy on me now!" Noris pleaded to Togo before falling over.
"This is foolishness, you'll die like a dog!" he said as he got back on his feet.
Togo shot Noris an offended look.
"S-Sorry I didn't mean to offend you." Noris said shakingly.
Togo then turned and continued walking.
"If you travel into that blizzard at this point you'll be frozen stiff by tomorrow!" Noris shouted as tried to continue to try and talk Togo out of his plan.
Togo ignored Noris and continued walking.
"If you become a frozen stiff statue Togo, don't say that I didn't warn you!" Noris shouted to Togo.
Just then Nut and Hut came tumbling down the hillside crashing into Noris in the process.
When they reached the bottom Hut muffled something but Noris spoke before Nut could translate Hut.
"Where's he going?! He's going into freezing coldness to find a dog he hates, and bring medicine back to a town that hates him!" Noris said in a impatient voice.
"Uncle Noris, did you understand Hut?" Nut asked shocked.
Noris then gasped in horror.
"Oh no! I'm beginning to understand the bear!" he whined.
Nut and Hut then clapped making Noris's annoyance turn into anger.
"Bears, dog..." He growled to himself.
Togo then grabbed Noris, and dragged him down the alleyway of the hospital and led him to a window.
"Now Noris do you want to know WHY I'm doing this." Togo said.
"Ugh how hard is it to talk some sense into..." Noris paused mid-sentence when he looked into the window.
The window showed Violet's room, Violet was sound asleep but she were still letting out nasty coughs or soft wheezes.
Noris thought to himself for a minute before turning to Togo.
"Okay, lets go get the medicine." Noris said before he started walking out the alleyway.
"Wait hold on, NOW you're coming?" Togo said.
"You really think that you're going spend days in bitter cold all by yourself, of course I'm coming!" Noris said.
Togo smiled and he followed Noris who were soon caught up by Nut and Hut, together the four walked out of town and into the forest in search of the lost sled team.
A few minutes after Togo, Noris, Nut, and Hut left Anchorage...
Sierra made her way down the hospital's alleyway and looked into window of Violet's room.
Violet was sound asleep, letting out soft wheezes.
At first Sierra thought that Violet was getting better but that wasn't until Violet let three loud nasty coughs that sounded nastier than before.
Sierra felt her heart break, she couldn't stand the sight of her owner being sick anymore.
Her sadness now got the better of her, she could no longer stand.
Sierra then laid down in the cold snow and she began to sob quietly, just then Sierra noticed something in the snow when she looked at it closer she realized that it was a paw print.
Sierra then got up and followed the paw prints they followed all the way to the edge of town and into the forest, she then picked up a fimilar scent.
"Togo..." Sierra said to herself.
Meanwhile...
Togo walked up to an old spruce tree and he scratched at the trunk of it, it was a tactic that he came up with which he dubbed "Marking The Trail".
"Atta boy Togo, you took on the roughest, toughest, meanest tree in the forest!" Noris joked.
When Nut and Hut walked up to the tree that Togo marked and Nut raised his paws up as if he were challenging the tree to a fight.
"I'm marking the trail!" Togo said over his shoulder.
"Oh, he was just marking the trail Hut." Nut told Hut.
Hut muffled as if he was saying "Very clever."
For two more hours Togo, Noris, Nut, and Hut walked down the trail.
At one point Togo sniffed the air and picked up a scent...
"Iron!" He said outloud.
Nut of curiosity sniffed the air to see if he too would pick up Iron's scent but instead he smelled the smelly odor of Hut.
"Sheesh Hut when was the last time you took a bath!?" Nut said pinching his nose in disgust.
"Hey bears, now is not the time." Noris said.
"Guys come on, Iron and his team passed this way!" Togo said.
"Wow he is sure lost!" Noris said to himself.
Meanwhile with Iron...
Iron squinted as the heavy snow blew against him, he kept denying the fact that he was lost although he kept leading the team in circles for god knows how long!
"Iron! We're going in circles!" Ash cried from behind.
Iron then spun around and shot an annoyed/angry look at Ash.
"WHAT!?" he shouted.
"Yeah...circles is a good thing, I mean their...circular." Ash said frightened by Iron's tone.
Hank and Bravo then walked up to the side of Ash.
"Ash is right Iron, we've going in circles for hours and we kept trying to tell you that we're lost but you NEVER listened to us!" Bravo pointed out.
"Yeah, do you know what you're doing Iron?" Hank asked.
"I...I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, ITS...ITS THIS WAY COME ON!" Iron said before he took off in another direction.
Everyone was yelling at Iron to slow down but Iron ignored them and kept running as fast his paws could carry him.
Then at one point Iron slipped on a hidden patch of ice and he along with the sled team slid down a steep hillside.
Then CRASH!
Iron groaned in pain as he rubbed his head in pain.
The other dogs all stood up groaning or moaning in pain.
"Ohhh, I hit my head on something." Hank moaned.
"Yeah, MY head." Bravo said.
"Ummm guys our musher." Ash said.
Hank, Bravo, and two other dogs walked up to Ash.
The musher was laying on the ground completely motionless and by the looks of it he was in a coma.
"He's hurt pretty bad guys." A dog said.
"What are we going to do now Iron?" Ash asked.
Iron didn't reply he couldn't deny it anymore he was now officially lost.
A/N: Well folks here's chapter 7 I hope you guys enjoyed it and also the designs for Togo, Seirra, and Iron will be up on DeviantArt profile sometime this week and I'll keep you updated on that but anyway I'll see you in chapter 8, Drew out!