by Tigermay » Sat May 10, 2014 4:24 pm
Equid Number: 30
Owner: Tigermay
Equid Name: Kerys, a respelling of her original name
Tragic Past Event: It was a typically beautiful day, the kind of which one takes for granted in the late spring as the flowers bloom and foals frolic on the mountainside. A young mare was laying in the grass, a stallion of about the same age next to her as they flicked their tails playfully at each other. Eventually Kerys rolled over to press her back against his rump, letting out a sigh as she lowered her head to the ground. "What is it, my love?" The stallion rumbled flicking his tail over her back as he viewed the buckskin mare.
"Oh, nothing." She said in a light-hearted tone which certainly implied there was indeed something.
He huffed and got up, walking over to her and nudging her on the side. "I know that tone Kerys, what do you want?"
She rolled over on her side for a bit then stood up as well. "Help me raid Narca's herd."
And the answer was the same as it always was in these matters. A devious smile lit the stallion's face and he said, "Of course."
When she returned to her parents' herd that evening, her siblings ran over to come greet her. Two lively foals, a filly and a colt only a year apart. As the eldest she entertained them for a bit before her parents came over.
"Kerys." Her father, a sooty bay stallion named Rayn, snapped, scaring the little ones off as her mother stopped on her way over to give the foals something to do. Having settled them down, the older mare walked up to them and as both of her parents stared her down, Kerys knew it was going to be another fight about him.
"Were you with him again today?" Her father began, his anger already bubbling up and expressing itself through an underlying tone in his voice.
"Yes." She replied unshamedly, her head and tail raising in defiance. Her mother, a palomino paint mare named Cara, cleared her throat and backed up her mate.
"He's not a good stallion for you. You two always get into all sorts of trouble!" It was true, and though Kerys was the one who pushed for the action, whether she realized it or not, he was the one putting those ideas into her head. Her parents did not support her talents in fighting pranks and other such things, and she would've never known she was good at them if it weren't for her love. Eventually, Kerys just let them yell all of their disapproval into her face and it went in one ear and out the other. He was good to her no matter what they said and the 'warning signs' they were mentioning weren't really there in her mind.
It was midnight or around then and Kerys was awake and waiting. He was supposed to meet her just a little bit aways from her herd tonight. Maybe tonight would be the night they did it, when they ran away together. He kept delaying, saying he needed to take care of things first and then... Then they could go. He was starting to be really late when she heard them. Screams. Fearing for her stallion and her family, she bolted towards them. Suddenly, shapes in the night, running around in the dark. The screams became louder. Screams of woe, of terror, of rage. She heard her father's shouts and mother's grunts but not her sibling's cries, at least not anymore. Stallions! Other equids! That was what was attacking. Kerys ran in, prepared to fight to the best of her ability when she saw that her family was nowhere to be found. All was quiet, far too quiet. The kind of quiet that deafens you and cools your soul. Then a movement. Terrified and feeling completely incapable, she spun to see three stallions approaching her. She would've ran as fast as she could at this sight, but there he was, her stallion. She relaxed a bit, thinking this could be a late rescue party. But then a laugh rang out, a sound that let her know that if there was any hope left in her heart, she might as well just kill it herself right now. "Darlin'?"
He didn't answer her. Rather the stallion that had laughed and seemed to be the leader did. "Oh cut it out, sweetheart."
Kerys straightened, trying to appear brave. "Why?"
The tall stallion sneered as he flicked his tail at the two others and they stopped. "Cause it's just sickening. My son never loved you, the only reason you're even apart of his life was so he could help me get back at Rayn. And now that I have I think its time to cut ties and finish my revenge..." Those words roles off his tongue like butter, as if it were nothing important, and he tilted her head towards her. The third, unknown stallion started to move forwards, but the father of her love stopped him. "No, he has to. Good way for this to come full circle."
Kerys fear filled eyes lit upon him, his head low and coat shinning under the moonlight. "How? I loved you! It was all just a sham? Was this really what you wanted? I thought we were going to run away, be together..." He winced at each sentence end as Kerys became furious then tapered off into sobs.
"No, it's not what I wanted." He said finally, and his father turned sharply to look at him.
"What?" Her stallion's response was an attack. As the three stallions got into it, she went forwards to go help when one of their hooves hit her chin and she woke up from the daze as the cut started to bleed.
Kerys turned and took off, still having no idea what had happened to her family. They had been so right about him, so right about her not being able to see anything with her arrogance, and now they'd paid the price for her mistakes. There was nowhere and no one for her to go home to.
i graduated and now am a boring adult