It was a normal sunny day on the of Cowtown was doing their own thing while four certain bulls were saddling up their horses. The first bull was a blonde bull in a blue long sleeved shirt with brown pants finished with a brown hat and gloves. Moo's hazel eyes narrowed in hidden irritation as his horse Cyclone kept moving as he tried to put the horse's saddle on.
"Cyclone will you stay still so we can get to that old mine quicker?" the slightly dark yellow colored bull asked with a sigh as his horse just messed around with a black horse with a red mane and tail Moonshadow wasn't being better for his owner.A Large red bull with a black patch of fur around his left eye,wearing a green vest,brown hat and darker red growled saying "Moonshadow enough!."His horse snorted at him, before flicking it's red tail. The large bull growled in irritation, he had no desire to hang around with these laws cows any longer than was necessary but his horse was in a rather defiant mood. And of course, so was the other horse he was currently in cahoots with.
"Who wee, I don't know who's more annoyed, Moo or Terribul," a black and white bull sniggered, already fixing his saddle on his horse before reaching up to brush the mane.
"Yep," grumbled the large blue bull, who tipped up his hat to wipe his you readers are wondering on where exactly they were going,as they were saddling their horses for a ride, all four bulls were asked by the mayor (much to Terribul's annoyance of being around Moo.) to inspect a old mine to see if it can be used again.
For both Mayor reasons of getting people jobs..and for more money."Come on Cyclone," Moo Montana encouraged. "The sooner we get on the road, the sooner we can get this wrapped up. Like the Code of the West says."
"Code of the West," Terribul muttered with contempt. Why in all the Mesa did he have to go along with them? There were a hundred better things he could be doing. Like taking nap in the sun. Being nice with these laws cows, what a joke.
"Hey, maybe they like each other," teased the Cowolardo yelped when a black gloved hand grabbed him,blue eyes meeting dark brown as Terribul growled "What you say brat?"
"Uh...nothing, nothing,"Kid said nervously, holding up his hands in surrender. "Just uh...saying it's a lovely day for a ride."
"That's what I thought," Terribul snorted, letting go and shoving him younger bull glared as he went to brushing Jessiebelle,muttering under his breathe "I feel bad for anyone who ever courts with that hardass."
"Yep," the Dakota Dude intoned, making the younger bull jump before sighing in relief when he realised it wasn't Terribul."Oh thank god it's only you who heard that." The twenty two yearold sighed in relief as he tried to calm his rapidly beating heart."Better watch yourself," the older bull warned. "Never know who might be listening."
His fellow law cow smiled sheepishly as he said "got it Dakota."His fellow law cow smiled sheepishly as he said "got it Dakota."Dakota nodded as they were finally able to all saddle up. Terribul was muttering under his breath but no one paid him any mind.
They all then hopped onto their horses and rode off towards the old mine."Reckon that old mine's worth reopening?" Cowolardo asked, enjoying the feel of the wind as they rode.
Dakota just shrugged.
"Well, that's what we're off to find out," Moo said with a small smile.
"Think this one is haunted too?" Kid asked with a smirk as they all got closer to the old ,boarded up,mine."I hope not," Moo said seriously. "Had enough trouble with Skulldugery the last we investigated a haunted mine."
Terribul snorted, he remembered SaddleSore and BootStrap complaining about that bag of headache and longest hour of his life.
"What kind of mine is it again?" the young bull asked and Terribul rolled his eyes, didn't he ever shut up?
"Silver mine." The red bull said bluntly,hoping the younger shuts up now."Not gold, huh?" he asked with a grin.
"Nope," Dakota these bulls ever shut up!?
"Something on your mind Terribul?" Moo questioned, spotting the stormy look."Just thinkin' I got better things to do than this." Was the grunt reply,the taller bull looking ready to just do this whole thing on his own."Mayor's orders," Moo reminded him. "You'd best take it up with him when we return."Before Terribull could say anything,they arrived at the mine,it's entrance boarded up except for some boards on the ground having been broken.
"Hmm, what's all this then?" Moo questioned, swinging off his horse and heading over for a closer rolled his eyes before saying as if it were common knowledge "They all wanted no one to go into it after the miners stopped working in brats getting in or any bandits."he pointed to the boards before tearing a few down as he finished his explanation. "So they boarded it up."
"I know that," Moo stated dryly. "But those boards look more recent."
He gestured towards the torn boards which had laid on the ground before the four bulls had shown up.
"What does it matter?" Terribul demanded. "Maybe someone was taking shelter or something."Honestly,the law cow thought to much into everything 'suspicious'.Not everyone lived in towns,ranches or a house like them."You could be right but we'd better keep a look out," Moo now said. "This place might be being used as a hideout or something."
"If it is, we can bust 'em!" Cowlorado red bull of the group rolled his eyes at that before pulling the last of the boards off,going sheriff just wanted to get this over with."Yeah, yeah," he muttered, kicking aside a dusty old bucket. "Let's get going."
"Yep," Dakota said, going in after frowned as he and Moo followed aswell,the young bull just didn't understand that tunnel ahead of them was dark so Dakota lit a couple of lanterns, one of which Terribul took. He didn't want to have to look at any of them so he was going first.'Just find any piece of ore,silver, or Bulloney and then you can get on with your life.' the red bull thought bitterly,looking around but stopped at seeing something shine up ahead."Huh, what's that?" he muttered, squinting at the thing that was shining, he couldn't quite make it closer,Terribull then knelt down and picked the object up. Revealing a glowing pink,literally Glowing,about as big as the bull's palm and shaped as a star."What in blazes is this?" he asked, very dumbfounded by his discovery.
Right behind the sheriff, far back in the ,Kid and Dakota saw the glow from the stone. "Say Moo, wasn't Terribull up there? "Cowlorado asked with a grimace as a bad feeling formed in his gut.
"Yeah, he was," Moo said, also feeling uneasy. "Let's get up there."As they started rushing up to where the other cow ,hearing their hoofsteps, quickly hid his find into his hat since it would be seen from his pockets."What's going on?" Moo demanded as they arrived on the scene.
"Nothing, I'm just looking around," Terribul said then looked at the law cows who seemed to look relieved as he asked "What's with you three? "They glanced at each other.
"Nothing," Moo said finally, but he still felt something was off . "Did you notice that glow?"The Scarlet bull in front of him raised a brow of fain confusion,saying in the same tone slowly "Nooo . I didn't." Terribull the started walking,holding his lantern up high...only to stop when a 'Hiss' was heard from the right side of the sheriff's lantern...and a spark that started moving!
Crap! Dynomite! Everyone froze in horror before Moo yelled.
"Everybody run!"
"You're telling me!" Cowlorado all ran, but were blown the rest of the way by the blast.
"Ahh!" they all cried as they were sent flying, bits of debris hitting them as they , Lanterns and old mines...never again!
"Argh," snarled Terribul as he finally landed in a rather painful then got up,grunting with a wince "Whoever left that thing in there was a damn idiot."
"No kidding," groaned Moo, picking himself up and brushing the dusts off his hat.
Kid stood up,brushing the dust off himself as he said " I saw my life flash before my eyes ."
Over dramatic.
"Right," Terribul said with a snort. "that must have been fast."
"Yeah...hey!" the Kid said indignantly as Moo and the Dakota Dude tried not to the latter was quick to grab the younger in mid pounce."Let it go," the Dude said in his deep inflections. "You is young after all."
"Bet that's not what he meant," muttered the Kid mutinously as Terribul ignored him, glancing felt alot of pain in his head all the sudden . Seems , least he thought so , that the mine had been booby trapped the day or two before for a reason . So doubt their be something valuable...Wait! the rock he found! Looking behind himself for a quick second , Terribul took the rock from his hat when he saw the law cows weren't looking..it was broken down the middle.
Terrific... And why did the sheriff suddenly feel weird? ..and glowing?
"Urgh!" he groaned, knees feeling weak.
A sudden pain flashed across his shoulder and he glanced to one side, he'd stumbled right into the rocky wall. His head was started to swim so much that he was barely aware of was going on? Oh his head hurt to much to think . He barely heard his name being called as all went black.
OK ….. I think I posted this in a way no words were cut of . What happened to Terribul ? You'll find out next time. The characters are own by Ryan Brown and Bob Carrau.
