The day hot and the stands full, the team mounted and entered the arena. Not just one of the horses but all of them acted up, trying to shove through every out to the arena.The girls faught to keep them under control and on task. Sweat dripped. Though, the day was hot, very hot in fact, it was not what was making the horses sweat.
In what had seemed like seconds black clouds swirled above them. One horse in particular grew frantic, bolting for what he knew to be the exit. He skidded to a stop and ran the other way. The sky groaned aloud while bluefire balls rained down. The fire licked at everything it touched. A gate swung open. Horses all over were rearing or running for the only chance they had at life. A brown gelding made sure that his rider stay onboard. He bolted out the gate and ran for dear life. He carried his beloved passenger to a near-by feed store. The fire had oddly not come within a foot from the area. He refused to move despite his rider's, Natalie, desperate pleas to take her back. Tears streamed uncontrolably down her cheeks. She hoped that somehow her friends had also escaped. She didn't even know how the hell the feed store hadn't burnt down like everything else. That curiosity tugged lightly at the back of her mind. She waited while the world she had known burned to a black crisp. She watched as the people ran around stupidly, on fire. Their screams echoed in her head. She tried to dismount, but her horse pinned his ears and wouldn't let her off. She felt like her whole life was crumbling before her eyes.
Hours passed before the fires suddenly died out. It was weird; no water, no fire extinguishers. It just died. The mezmorizing blue flames just smoldered into black ash. All fell silent. Not an animal dared to make a noise. Natalie wasn't sure there were animals to make noises. Slowly she urged her horse, Kodiac, on, and this time unlike the hours before, he obeyed. They walked, the clip-clop of his hooves was the only sound. The ground was split in many places. Like it had opened up to grab Natalie and Kodiac by the feet and drag them to the bowels of hell. She hurried him passed said cracks.
They entered the blackened arena. The stands and the fences barely stood. The bodies. All the bodies lay everywhere. In the stands. The arena and all around. She dismounted and ran to one of the bodies on the arena. The hair was gone from this particular body and the air around it smelled like burning flesh and hair. The stench made Natalie's stomack curl. She pressed a trembling hand over her mouth. Tears fell from her face. She counted the bodies in the arena. All fifteen of the other riders were there. Her friends were part of the team and one of her charrished sisters. She closed her eyes and let her grief consume her for a moment. Everything she had known was gone. Her life, family, friends, all gone before he in a matter of hours.
Natalie mounted back up and wandered on Kodiac. She wanted to go home, but knew it wouldn't be worth it today. She would need a full day to make the trip. Everything around her was charred and useless. She wondered why of places, had the feed store been safe. She remembered the sight. The balls of fire had fallen only a foot from the perimeter. It was the only place besides the local Safeway that was still perfectly intact. Why? What made those stores different from the others? She dismounted and looked up at the large store. The big "R" wasn't lit. She had a feeling it never would again. She led kodiac around the outside to find a way in. At last she found an entrance. They navigated their way passed storage and into the main center.
Sun set arrived and Natalie hunckered down on one of the couches inside the store. Kodiac munched quitely on some hay that Natalie had found in the storage area. She watched him as she ate a sandwhich. The supplies all from which she had taken from the Safeway. Kodiac seemed partially content, standing there. Natalie, lost in her own thought process let hours slip by.
She was pulled from her deep train of thought when her phone rang. She ectracted it from her pocket and realized it was only her alarm, that she had set days earlier. The clock read 10:25. After having wrapped herself in a horse blanket she let the tears run until sleep finally took over her body.
A/N: This is all I have so far. I know it's boring but I might change it or me and a friend are doing one like this and I might type that one up. I don't know. Tell me what you think of it so far. I'd really like to know and should I keep going or not?