A/N: The sequel to Balto, Balto II: Wolf Quest with our favorite adventurers. Read & Review!
Akito, Estelle, and Vincent were visiting Elizabeth, James, and Junior after the news of Vincent being brought back to the family. Elizabeth and James were curious why they never heard them mention having another son before and once Mo and Atticus explained why it was, they understood. Junior was in his room with Scamp and Angel. The two now fully grown dogs were resting together as Angel was still pregnant with the puppies since days before Christmas.
"Hey." Estelle said to Angel.
Angel yawned and tried to get herself up as her belly looked expanded due to her pregnancy. "Hello, Estelle... You've grown so much since I last saw you."
"Yeah, only one thing is the same, I'm single." Estelle said.
"Oh, you don't need a boyfriend yet, you're still growing," Angel smiled softly. "There'll be plenty of time for you to find someone... Though, I found Scamp when I was only a puppy..."
"I guess." Estelle said.
"I still love you all the same." Angel gently nuzzled against her mistress's daughter.
"And I love you too, Angel." Estelle said.
Angel smiled, then yawned again, curling up into a little fluff ball to get some more rest, she was more sleepy ever since she found out she was going to have puppies.
Junior was in the backyard with Atticus, Akito, and Scamp.
"I wonder how Balto and Jenna are doing." The twins said in unison.
"Who are they?" Junior asked his nephews.
"A wolf-dog and a female red Siberian Husky." Akito said.
"Oh, where'd you meet them?" Junior asked with a smile.
Elizabeth came out with a tray of cookies for the kids as she walked a bit slowly, due to her aging. "They went to Nome, Alaska for a little while to see the dogs race... According to what I heard, Balto was part husky and part wolf."
"Sounds cold." Junior laughed, freezing just to be funny.
"Nice one." Akito said.
Elizabeth gave cookies to her grandchildren with a smile.
"Thanks, Mom." Junior smiled.
Lady came out with Danielle, Annette, and Collette following her as they had grown too and looked more mature since the others had last seen them.
"Hey, girls." Atticus said.
"Hi, Atticus!" the triplets greeted.
Danielle came after her sisters, scratching herself, much to their annoyance.
"Dani, a proper lady does not scratch herself in public!" Collette scolded.
"It's absolutely wrong." Annette added.
"She must have a flea." Atticus suggested.
"It's still not lady-like." Collette huffed.
"Absolutely not lady-like!" Annette seemed to repeat herself.
"Hey, don't talk to your sister like that." Junior told the spaniels after his mother went back inside.
"We will if we want," Collette said, then looked back to him. "Wait, you can understand us like Mo, Atticus, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent?"
"I grew up around dogs all my life, it's kind of expected." Junior shrugged.
"True." The twins, Atticus, and the grown-up pups said in unison.
"You're a good kid, even if you're growing up..." Lady nuzzled against Junior. "After all... Tramp saved your life."
"He did?" Junior didn't remember.
"Yeah, there was this rat that got in the house and Dad tried to get it, but Great-Aunt Sarah wanted to get rid of Dad because she thought he was bad." Collette smiled in admiration.
"Absolutely true!" Annette added.
Junior listened to the story.
Mo came out and sat beside Atticus with a smile. "Brings back a lot of memories, huh?"
"Yeah, sure does." Atticus said.
Estelle was listening to the story while drawing Balto and Jenna and drew an litter of puppies with them.
"Is that Balto and Jenna then?" Vincent looked over.
"It's a perfect day," Mo smiled as she watched the others. "I'm glad we chose to come visit today."
"Yeah." Atticus said.
"Uh-huh." Estelle agreed.
Vincent smiled. "I never knew about wolf-dogs, they sound totally cool."
"Well, maybe, we can go there sometime, I just hope its soon." Estelle said.
Wendy Darling was walking down the street as she held her stomach was walking with a little girl holding her hand.
"Oh, hello." Wendy greeted the happy family.
Vincent looked over to Wendy and the young girl. "Hello." he said.
"Our mail got mixed up." Wendy handed the letters to Mo and Atticus.
"Again?" Mo scoffed, this had happened before when she still lived with Elizabeth and James. "You'd think they'd learn by now."
The little girl looked a little shy and kept hiding behind her mother. Vincent waved at her with a kind and friendly smile. The girl blinked, waving to him gently.
"Jane, come on out, don't be shy," Wendy told her daughter. "I'm sorry, she used to be more outgoing before..."
"It's okay, ma'am." Akito assured her, then went to get a closer look at Jane.
Mo flipped through the envelopes, then saw one directly for her and Atticus, though they didn't live here live here anymore. Estelle went over to Vincent.
"Hey, Jane, I'm Akito and that girl over there is my twin sister, Estelle and next to her is our one year older brother, Vincent, we're your three cousins." Akito said as he extended his right hand to her.
"We're cousins?" Jane looked at them, tilting her head.
Vincent looked at the letter with Mo and Atticus.
"It's from Aunt Cherry." Mo said with a smile.
"Yeah." Estelle said as she came over to her twin brother and cousin.
"What does it say?" Vincent asked.
"She's spending a vacation with Forte, Felicity, Simon, and her other son, Thomas, it says." Mo explained to her family.
"Where are they spending their vacation?" Vincent asked.
"They've visited Alaska." Mo smiled, remembering when they went to visit Nome, despite poor Estelle getting sick.
The name of Alaska got the twins excited.
"We have to get going," Wendy said to the group as she took Jane's hand back. "Edward's parents are in town and they would love to meet Jane."
Jane waved her hand gently to the family as she went off.
"Why don't we visit Alaska again?" Mo suggested to her husband.
"I was about to ask you the same thing." Atticus said.
"How 'bout it, kids?" Mo looked to her children.
Akito and Estelle of course accepted while Vincent was thinking, he wasn't there the last time they went. "Well, if my twin siblings are going, then count me in." He said.
"That's the spirit." Mo smiled down to him.
Later that night, they decided to leave in the morning after they would have a nice Sunday dinner with James and Elizabeth like most children do with their grandparents on Sunday evenings.
"Did you hear?" Angel came up to her mate. "Mo and Atticus are going to Alaska."
"I know." Scamp said.
"Sometimes I wish we could go with them..." Angel smiled as she lowered her head a little. "I hear Jim Dear and Darling say the vet said though that travel wouldn't be good for me right now..."
This was a predicament they were in.
Angel nuzzled against Scamp. "I can't believe we're gonna be parents."
"I know I can't believe it either." Scamp said with a smile.
"I wonder what mine were like?" Angel smiled as she looked into the clouds as if they provided an answer. "If they would've liked me... If they would've liked Mo... If they would neglect me from when Mo and me ran away from our last family and became one with the Junkyard..."
"Our pups are going to love you for who you are and they are going to love me for who I am." Scamp said.
Angel smiled, nuzzling her nose against his as it was like kissing for dogs.
Junior came with a chunk of the roast that his mother made for him and the others and placed it in between the dogs. "There you go, you two soon-to-be parents." He said.
Angel and Scamp smiled at him, then started to eat the food they were given.
"Mom, Dad, I had the weirdest dream last night." Estelle said.
"Me too." Akito added.
"Me three." Vincent finished.
"What happened?" Mo asked her children.
"I was under water and I could breathe and then I looked and saw that I was a mermaid." Estelle said.
This shocked Atticus and Mo.
"No way, I had that exact same dream, except I was a merman." Akito and Vincent said in unison.
This shocked Atticus and Mo completely now along with junior's parents and the dogs. Because you see, if all three of the siblings had the same dream, it meant something. Atticus and Mo just wondered what this could mean. For Atticus, being from a merman himself only in his human form knew that this might mean that the siblings would soon transform underwater, but the question would be when.
"What an interesting dream." James remarked, not having known.
"I have a feeling this vacation will be an amazing adventure." Estelle said.
"Maybe, maybe not, I believe leaving your home is adventure enough." Elizabeth smiled.
"Oh, I'm so excited." Estelle said.
"Thank you so much for coming." Elizabeth smiled as she took James's hand.
"Yes, thank you." James said to his family brought up by his foster daughter.
Mo smiled, very happy that they adopted her as their daughter after she and Angel tried so hard to find one home to keep for their own. Junior looked happy for them, but he was a little sad inside that he never found a girlfriend yet. Estelle felt the very same way.
Junior gently ruffled up Estelle's hair in a playful uncle sort of way, smiling down to her. "You'll find someone soon enough, you're pretty enough as it is."
"Yeah, but when?" Estelle asked.
"Someday, you have plenty of time to explore." Junior soothed her.
"Yeah, you're right." Estelle said with confidence.
"It'll be okay, sweetheart." Junior continued to soothe with a smile.
"Be safe on your trip, we know you've been to Nome before, but be very careful." James told the family.
"We will, Dad." Mo smiled at her adoptive father.
Atticus agreed with Mo. After dinner, the Fudo family decided to go to bed early so they could get going by tomorrow morning.