by Merlin's Heir » Thu May 03, 2012 12:04 pm
Owner: TheHorseWhisperer
Equid Name: Black Horizon (Horizon for short)
Equid Age: 4 years
Story: Black Horizon, or Horizon, was an adventurous young Equid when she was younger. Also quite foolish and daring. When she was 3 years old, her brindle began to slowly fade in. It didn't show much before it began to fade away again. Why did it fade away? That's an interesting story. You see, Horizon's foolish and daring sense of adventure was... rather a rediculous sense adventure. Her idea of adventure was doing dangerous things to prove she wasn't weak like some of the colts said she was. Unlike the other fillies, who, wisely, took no notice of the colts' untrue and teasing remarks, Horizon took these things to heart. She just had to prove that she wasn't any of that.
One day, a colt that wasn't in her herd walked up. He was a horse, not an Equid, and had never seen an Equid before. Horizon was just standing there, alone, when this stupid horse colt trotted up. He looked over her and laughed. Horizon flicked her tail in anger and demanded to know what the foolish colt was laughing at.
"Your legs," the colt shrieked with laughter. "Your skinny, useless legs! What else would I be laughing at, you fool?" Horizon stamped her hoof and glared at the bay colt.
"My legs?" she nearly growled. "I should be laughing at your legs, those thick, heavy blobs of fat." She had never seen a horse before, and thought that he was an Equid that ate far too much and had a tail disorder of some sort.
"Your legs are extremely weak," the colt laughed. "I'll bet if you jumped over a fence they would break and you'd die!"
"Oh they would, would they?" Horizon shouted. "They wouldn't, and you know it!"
"Yes, they would," the colt roared with laughter. "Or are you going to jump over that fence over there and prove that you are right?" Horizon glanced at the fence he was reffering to. A barbed wire fence. Not too high, but higher than she'd ever jumped before. In the back of her mind, Horizon knew she shouldn't give into the colt's dare, but she foolishly pushed the thought away and accepted his dare haughtily.
"Of course I'll prove it," she snorted. "Do you take me for a fool?" The colt rolled his eyes and stepped back to watch Horizon make the jump. Horizon readied herself, studying the fence as she prepared to gallop towards it. She pushed herself forward with her hind legs, lurching into a gallop. The dust from the sandy ground coated her lower legs as she propelled herself forward with vigor and strength. The colt was surprised at the speed she managed to atain with those thin legs. As she neared the fence, she gathered her strength and pushed off as hard as she could into the air. But she had jumped too soon. As she landed her hind leg got caught in the barbed wire. The malicious colt's mirthful laughter sounded through the warm air, the piercing Horizon's ears like a knife. Horizon tried to kick the wire off but only scratched herself more. She tried to push it off with her other leg but got that stuck, too. She flailed around desparately, eventually getting her whole body tangled in the barbed wire. She laid there for a moment, her body, legs, neck, head, and tail covered in bleeding scratches. Then she neighed as loud as she could. She neighed again and again, but no one, horse, human, or Equid, came to her rescue. She laid her head on the ground painfully, awaiting her death and regretting her foolish choice. About an hour or so later, she raised her head because she had heard a sound nearby. She let a hoarse neigh, her throat sore and parched. A car appeared on the horizon. Horizon neighed again. The car stopped and someone got out. A girl ran towards Horizon, stopped a few feet away, and ran back. Horizon let her head fall to the ground again. If this human wouldn't help her, who would? Her delicate and bleeding ears flickered at the sound of approaching footsteps. She raised her head to see the human girl running back, this time with wirecutters in her hands. After the girl untangled Horizon, she got the Equid into her barn, which, luckily, wasn't too far away.
It took several days for Horizon to recover. Once she did, the girl, who Horizon now knew as Horsie, led her outside. Horsie took the halter off of Horizon's head and gestured to the open land before her. Horizon glanced at Horsie in confusion. Was this girl offering her freedom? Horizon had always thought that humans were greedy creatures that kept whatever they wanted. But this girl was different than what Horizon had expected. Horizon shook her head and nuzzled Horsie, choosing to stay with her human friend rather than to return to the wild. Horizon always loved jumping and practiced often- but never over a barbed wire fence again! And somehow, during the time when she was tangled in the barbed wire, whatever was making her brindle appear was disrupted, and the brindle quickly faded into nothingness.
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Merlin's Heir on Thu May 03, 2012 1:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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