Shadows
Percy's PoV
I stood in the stables with Blackjack and Nightmare,the only two black horses at my dads barn. Nightmare is my boyfriend Nico's. Our dads bought her from the stock yard as a yearling and Nico helped me train her to be a show jumper like Jack. But at the moment she is giving birth to her first foal's by Blackjack and Blackjack is being very overprotective of her at the moment so I can't even get in the stall because Jack is standing at her stall door. So I just stand as close as posible watching her with my horse.
An hour later I had called Nico and the vet and went to get my dad. Was I worried about leaving Blackjack unsupervised and loose? No. Most certantly not . He has walked around this farm loose since he was 6 months old and follows me and my whole family around like a lost puppy. When me and my dad walked into the barn Blackjack was pacing in front of Nightmares' stall and Neeks was running in from the oppisite side of the barn."Percy,is she ok?Has she had the foal yet?"Nico asked excitedly and worried. I laughed and shook my head at my Shadow Prince.
"I don't know. Come on lets go see."I tell him dragging him by the hand to Jack and stop and see that Nightmare has already given birth, to TWINS!"YES I KNEW IT!"I shout . Nico grins as he looks at the two foals lying beside thier mom.
"Well they certintly gained thier parents coloring"a new voice commented, Dr. Artemis Storm , one of our vets. There are two vets ,Apollo and Artemis Storm. They are twins but look nothing alike except thier eyes ,which are bright has close cropped sandy blonde hair while Artemis has long straight auburn colored hair ,Apollo wears black boots with gold stiching and anything gold and Artemis wears black boots with silver stiching and anything silver. They act just like the greek archer twin gods from my favorite myths.
"So has anyone been able to get in there yet ,Percy?" Artemis ask me snapping me away from my thoughts.
"Not yet ,Jack has been stubborn since she went into labor ." I tell her and she nods.
"Well he isn't going to like this but you need to grab his halter and lead him away to distract him for a few minutes for us to get in there."Artemis tells me . Oh no i'm fixing to face my worst fear: getting Jack away from Nightmare
I gulp as I near Blackjack where he stands in front of his mates stall,"Hey Jack look what I have"I say producing a carrot out of my pocket walking slowly twords him .His ears swivel tords me and he comes right to me close enough for me to grab his sea green halter. He eats the carrot as I lure him away from Night's stall. I nod to the vets and they sneak into the stall to check on Night and the foals.
"Alright Percy ,we're good."Artemis calls out. I look over and see Nico going into his horses stall,so I set another carrot on the ground for Blackjack and walked into Nights stall to stand beside Nico. In front of us lay two small black foals ,a girl and a boy.
"What do you want to name them Neeks?"I whisper in Nico's ear as I wrap my arms around his waist and nuzzle his hair.
"How about Black Shadow for the filly and Night Shade for the colt?Sound ok?"Nico asked me while staring at the babies.
I nodded and say softly"The names are perfect ,Neeks."Then I turn to everyone else"Everyone meet Black Shadow and Night Shade,or for short Shadow and Shade!"I announced to our dads and everyone cheers as me and Nico left the stall to join them in the aisle.
"Blackjack ,come guard we're going inside."I told my horse, who came back to guard the door immediantly .'Over protective stallion' ,I think.
"Let's go celebrate inside and leave the horses to themselves"my dad suggested. We nodded and me and Nico,the Storm Vets,and our dads headed in where we knew our moms were cooking.