Me: well now, I can't believe I'm doing this to myself.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nor the famously mare known as Lady Midnight, a beatiful black mare with a star on her forhead.
Chapter 1 The New Arrival
Atemu Al Ameri(1) watched intently inside the stall, keeping an eye out for any signs of a foal coming. Lady Midnight, a very pregnant mare who is black with a white star on her forhead. She is a winner of Arabian Shows for her whole life, and now for the first time she is in labor for a foal. The sire of this foal is a well known Goldophen Arabian(2) stallion for racing; Taaj.
Taaj is a handsome, dark bay stallion, fourteen and a half hands(3) tall, white stalkings on his back feet with one sock on the right front leg, and a white blaze down his forhead to a pink nose. Taaj is not only handsome, but has the strength, speed, and stamina to win most of his races. 23 out of 26 starts he won, the first three starts he one in either third or second place.
Now as for Lady Midnight, she is sixteen years old, which is somewhat old for a horse. This creates risks for both the foal and the mare, especially if its her first foal. But the risks are few, about the only thing to worry about is if Lady Midnight leaves the foal and leaving the poor thing to suffocate in his or her sac that covers the whole body.
Atemu hopes that this coming foal will be a colt, a strong, fast colt. This will be his last chance to keep his family's buisness alive. His father died from a horse accident while his mother died of sickness. Leaving Atemu to take care of his sister, who is fourteen, and their younger brother, Yugi, who is turning seven.
All Atemu can do to keep the family property that has been theirs since the time of the pharaohs, is to sell most but a few of the family favorite horses, Lady Midnight included. Unfortunately Taaj was too expensive to be kept, but to help keep some part of him here is to have him sire a foal. And what better mare to give birth to his foal than Lady Midnight?
At the moment Lady Midnight is laying down, she ate an hour ago, a healthy mush of food made especially for pregnant mares, and some wheat hay. Suddenly she kicked slightly with her right hind leg, her stomach flinching. Atemu immediately came into the stall to help the mare. He gently rubbed her stomach, encouraging her to have this foal. In response Lady Midnight lifted her head to look over her shoulder, nickering slightly and then put her head down.
It took almost fifteen minutes until the hooves of the foal appears. Atemu went over towards the hooves, and when part of the ankles were out, he took hold of the ankles gently and pulled, trying to help the mare deliver. Lady Midnight neighed, pawing slightly with her right front leg.
"Easy there my Lady, you're doing just fine, come on girl, keep pushing." Atemu said, from the corner of his eye he saw Lady Midnight's ear turn towards him, letting him know that she's listening.
Soon the tip of the nose appeared, Atemu could feel excited as he saw that the foal is going to be black like his mother.
"Come on girl, you're doing great. Come on my Lady, hey there's his head!" Atemu smiled, seeing the foal's head, and from there it was easy to bring the rest of the foal out. Lady Midnight breathed out as if she was sighing, glad that the labor was over. Atemu got a soft towel and gently rubbed the foal. First the nostrils to get it to breathe, after the sac was off the nose, the foal gasped as it breathed for the first time.
Gently wiping away the sac over the head, Atemu noticed that the foal has the same white star as its mother. He then started to rub the whole body, careful of the weak legs and around the rib area. Looking over the now foal with no longer covered in sac, he saw that his left hind leg has a small sock, and that's all the markings the foal has. Checking over the foal slightly, Atemu realized that his wish came true. The foal is a colt.
Lady Midnight got up, she sniffed her colt for a few minutes as he whinnied. Then she started licking her son with her tongue, bonding with the young colt. Atemu watched in awe, loving the way Lady Midnight is reacting with her first newborn. She is doing exactly what she's doing, and her colt is one healthy looking foal.
"You did great Lady Midnight, now we've got ourselves the best looking foal in the farm." Atemu commented.
"Hey Atemu, how's everything going?" asked a female voice. Atemu looked over his shoulder to see Mana, his younger sister, and Yugi, his younger brother.
"Aww, the foal is so cute!" Mana squealed.
"Is it a boy or a girl?" Yugi asked eagerly, smiling at the young foal.
"It's a boy, the one we've been hoping for." Atemu answered.
"Yes! Thank you Ra, we've got ourselves the miracle we need for Dester Rose Farm." Yugi exclaimed.
"That we do, that we do. Now all we need to do is to train him for the races, and once he's weaned we'll give Lady Midnight some time to rest while we'll use some of the other mares for the Arabian Shows." Atemu explained.
"What are we going to name him?" Mana asked.
"I don't know." Atemu replied.
"How about we just say names that pop up in our heads, and then we would choose to agree with it." Yugi suggested.
"Pharaoh?"
"Maybe."
"Shetan?"
"This colt isn't full black, we siad we'll use that name for a pure black horse."
"King Tut?"
"Tut Tut!" Mana squealed.
"Just for that, no."
"Al Hataal?"
"That's used in the movie Hidalgo."
"Caesar?"
"We already have a Caesar."
"Black Beauty?" Mana asked.
"Already used in a book and movie." Yugi replied.
"We should've thought of this before." Atemu complained.
"Pharaon?"
"Nah."
Suddenly the colt tried to get up, his legs wobbily as he whinnied as he fell back down. Atemu watched intently as the colt tried again and again to get up, his mother giving him encouraging licks and nudges. After much trying and falling, the colt was able to stand up. The three smiled as the colt whinnied his victory of standing up. Atemu gently picked him up and guided him to his mother's milk.
Soon the colt figured it out and began sucking as his mother drank in some much needed water.
"How about in the next few weeks, we'll think up names, vote for the three best ones, and then we vote again for the name that is best?" Atemu suggested.
"Yea, because I'm tired." Yugi said, rubbing his cute, round eyes.
"Come one guys, its way past your bedtime." Atemu said, picking up Yugi into his arms, who for once didn't protest and rested his head on his brother's shoulder.
Mana walked behind her brother, smiling at Yugi. Once inside the beautiful mansion, Mana went to her room to change, and then go to bed. Yugi insisted to sleep with his brother. So Atemu carried Yugi to a room, helped changed his little brother into soft linen pjs, and then changed into his own. When he was done, Atemu tucked himself and Yugi under the covers, the smaller snuggling up to his brother's chest.
"Hey, big brother?"
"Yes Yugi?"
"What will happen when Priest's Farm knows about the new foal?"
Priest's Farm is like Desert Rose Farm, breeding and raising Arabians for both racing and shows. They have been trying to get Desert Rose Farm for many, many centuries, but failed every time. They are now the new owners of Taaj, and many other of the horses that were sold. The owner of Priest's Farm is Seto Mansoor(4), who was once Atemu's friend in childhood.
But that was before they realized that their families have been rivals since the beginning of time. Before they were to be seperated, Seto made a promise that he will always be friends with Atemu. The promise was never fulfilled. Apparently Seto's parents worked hard to get the idea out of their son's head, and now his parents just died not too long ago, making him owner of the family business.
Seto knows that Desert Rose Farm hangs by a thread of hope, he hasn't made any moves yet of trying to make a deal with having it, but Atemu knows that that'll soon change. If Seto finds out about the foal, he'll try and kidnap Lady Midnight and her colt. But would he do that? For some reason Atemu has this feeling, ever since he saw Seto for the first time in years, when he came to purchase most of the horses being sold.
Atemu was totally captivated with Seto's eyes, they were like sapphire jewels. He was so busy most of the time looking at Seto's eyes he would agree to letting Seto purchase most of the horses that haven't been sold yet. It wasn't until later when Mana critisized him about letting Seto take most of the horses. But now Atemu still can't keep the tall, blue eyed teen who comes from a family that are his family's rival.
"Atemu?" Yugi interrupted.
"I dont' know Yugi, I don't know. Now get some sleep." Atemu answered.
Me: well here's the first chappie.
1) Ali Ameri is the last name, yes it two words so what!
2) Goldophin Arabian is like the kind that are bred for racing, if you've heard of either Man O' War or King of the Wind, you'll see that the horse in King of the Wind is a Goldophin Arabian, and Man O' War is that said Goldophin Arabian's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great descendant or something like that.
3) a hand to measure a horse is four inches, so technically Taaj is tall for an arabian.
4) Mansoor I know isn't Seto's last name but once in a while u gotta change his last name for a while
Me: Ok reviewers, I have no idea what to name the colt, so here's some choices and u get to vote!
a) Black Rose
b) Pharaoh Shetan
c) Mohan
d) Kadir
Review & Vote plz!