Username: kakalanks
just a note, i would
love to win this stunning
boy and good luck to all
those who have entered,
should i win, he will get
lots of art! kakalanks xx
Name: skye ( this is
the name of the pet
husky in one of my
favourite books) i
thought it would
really suit him! <3
Story:
i was freezing and tired out, i wasn't sure quite how much longer i would last out, my new friends were the only ones keeping me going on and on, but even they where starting to tire and they had done this thier entire life! we finally came to a checkpoint, both teams had agreed to rest here. i fell to the ground exhausted along with my friends we slowly crawled, well more or less wiggled into the igloo.
i expect you are wondering where i am aren't you? or have you guessed? well i, the great skye, am leading a husky sled team in a huge race, and the reason i'm on the team well it's a long story, but i am trying to make it as short as i can for you! this is basically how it happened ...
" i'm so sorry dad we where playing and sapphire ran under a bush and got stuck, sapphire being so small she wasn't strong enough to get past the thick branches and couldn't find the way she came in and then blitzen just bounded in after sapphy to get her out, but saph had shaken the bush so much some thorns and twigs had fallen to the ground and blitzen stood on one!" wept a small blonde haired girl, she was about the height of the bush i was hiding behind. " i know dad! we can teach sapphire to be in the sled team!" the girl dried her eyes and looked expectantly at the man i presumed was her father.
" urghh sapphire will have to do, though how he will cope i don't know ..." the man with the black hair stormed off and the girl ran to fetch that little dog. i figured now would be a good time for a nap, i crawled to my bush and curled up in the middle.
i jumped, something was near me i tiptoed from my bush to get a closer look,
"who is it?" i called the thing shouted back at me from the darkness.
" what do you want? i want you to fill my place, let me train you, come join the sled team!"
" what's in it for me?"
" a home, a little girl that loves you and as i'm guessing your main priority: food, water, and shelter."
that sounded good to me, how hard was it to be a sled dog anyway? i had seen people practise that lots of dogs all ran and draggged a sled with people on it behind them, they raced and i always loved racing! "fine, i will help but keep up your end of the bargain and i have to be able to back out if i want!"
***
that was how it began, me and a stranger striking a deal under a bush. for the days that followed i trained with blitzen, and then at the end of the week we went up to the black haired man.
"hello dogs, i know you don't know me, but i am here to help you win the race and take blitzens place please wiggle into your harnesses and hope the man sets it all up properly i will take blitzens place and we have to show him we can work together!" i wasn't sure how that announcement would go down, seeing as i was an outsider a total stranger asking to just be accepted immeadiately no questions asked. the dogs were very co-operative poor blitzen got a few odd looks by his confused friends, but they wiggled into harness.
" look daddy! the dogs want to practise! can we?"
"sure i guess so ... wait who is that one? that's not one of ours is it?" the man looked at me questioningly, i gave a convincing bark and wiggled into the harness. " oh well it wants to join us and sapphire is useless we might as well try nothing can be worse that that tiny little thing!"
we ran and ran, suddenly a husky next to me started barking,
"hello, i am the leader of our pack, my name is Flash. welcome to our team! you are doing great work, much better than saphire did... let me introduce you to the others! me and blitzen are lead dogs we go at the front, that's what you are doing currently, then Snow Dance and flare are the two point dogs (the two girls behind us) then we have Missy and Flake the two team dogs (the two girls behind Snow and flare) and finally Blue and Jet, the two wheel dogs, they are right at the back, we all have special postions and mine and your roles are to lead the others to victory!"
***
race day came, after all our training we won no problem the course was easy, and the other dogs where strong! i loved feeling the air rush past me as we ran through the snow ... i was sad when it ended, i didn't want to go back to my life under the bush, no friends and all alone, i wanted to go back home with the blonde girl, to race with my friends and feel the wind rustle my fur once again!
