After about two weeks of driving her dam crazy, Reckless was getting rowdy. Naturally, with out having any other foals to play with, she started to try and rough house with her mother. Black sun decided that it was time to introduce her little filly to the life that she would be living for hope fully the rest of her life.
Reckless walked over the hill, and couldn't believe her eyes. There sprawling beneath her was the most beautiful landscape she had ever seen! Mountains sat proudly in the distance, their snowy peaks reaching out toward the sky, while tall grass swayed in the soft afternoon breeze. Trees were scattered in some areas, their great green shadows cast over the land. And right in the center of it all was a beautiful sight. About 11 mare stand grazing, enjoying the last bits of the Wyoming sunset upon there beautiful backs. And best of all fillies and colts were frolicking in the grass.
"Young Reckless this is a field known as Vertigo Mountain Valley, home to the herd that is your family and shall be living with for the rest of your life," Black sun told Reckless. It was just then that Reckless caught a glimpse of her father, Dark Magician, watching over his harems.
Two months later, when Reckless was playing in the rolling hills of the valley with her fellow two month olds, the men came. They sat atop swift stocky ranch horses swinging rawhide ropes that, once they settled upon a horse's neck, they were stuck. Reckless in fear, began to run, so did every other horse. The stallion was experienced; his herd had not yet been captured in the seven years he had been in control. But things have a way of changing in a way that you don't want them to. As the stallion dropped his neck in snaking motion and sent the mares that hadn't already fled galloping off, one of those horrible ropes settled over his great dark chestnut head. He squealed, pulling his head up to avoid it from snapping, but it was all over. One by one the mares were caught along with there foals. Only one colt and his dam, the lead mare a tiger dun, escaped whinnying with pleasure as they all cantered away from the others, locked in the corral.
They spent six days in the corral being fed water and hay over the fence and in troughs. Although she was mostly off of mares milk Reckless stayed as close to Black Sun as possible. At the end of those long six days the men came back. They left the lesser horse, to who were basically skin and bones now, in the corral and took the upper class horses into another corral right beside the existing one. Left in the first crammed and crowded were about 20 lesser horses. It was now that a mistake would change Reckless's life forever.
Reckless was now starting to grow restless and decided to go and canter around the corral. She imagined that she was in one of those competitions the Old Father, the oldest horse in her band, spoke of. He had once been a great cross country horse until one day that he bucked off his rider and fled. He had managed to cut off the tack from his back before joining this herd. Reckless was so caught in this moment that she didn't even realize that another buckskin colt was also cantering……… but in the opposite direction as her. It was only when her head smacked right into him that she noticed that he was there.
"Oops sorry," Reckless apologized looking down.
"That's okay I was lost in my own little world also," the colt replied kindly. "What's your name?" He asked her. "I don't really ever see other foals that get lost, if you know what I mean?" He joked and Reckless laughed a little bit.
"My full name is Sergeant Reckless, but you can just call me Reckless or Recki," She looked up, expecting to see the colt laughing at her funny name, but he didn't. Instead he just looked at her and said, "I've heard of her wasn't she a war horse?" and Reckless nodded.
"What's your name?" Reckless asked him.
"My full name is At Stars Edge, but you can call me Star for short" he replied. Just then a mahogany bay filly came trotting up.
"Hey Star, Mom wants you to came back before you run into something, or even worse someone," the filly told star and Reckless and Star looked at each other and simultaneously started cracking up. "What's so funny" the filly asked.
"Lady the thing is, that's already happened!" Star exclaimed, and all Lady could say was "oh" that was the first time she realized that Reckless was standing their.
Noticing her stare Reckless stammered, "I-I'm Reckless" afraid that the filly wouldn't like her.
"Hi I'm Lady," she said cheerfully and they started laughing.
"Wanna meet my mom Reckless?" Star asked and she nodded so they all walked over to where a dark bay mare was waiting for Star.
"Hi Mom" Star and Lady both said.
"And who do we have here?" the mare questioned referring to Reckless. Reckless thought ' Well at least she looks and sounds nice'.
" This is Reckless," Lady told her mother.
" Hey Ma can we go run around the paddock a little bit?" Star asked and his dam nodded, letting Reckless, Star, and Lady all go run off for a while.
"When Lady was younger her herd abandoned her" Reckless was suddenly saddened, "So my mother took her in and she's been with us since" Star finished, and Reckless was happy again.
"So I've been living with star for 1 month and 3 weeks and 6 days now," Lady told her proudly. Suddenly, as if on cue, the foals heard a squeal came from the fence; all three foals looked to see the worst thing that has happened in Lady and Stars lives! Their dam was being loaded into a trailer by the men. Star and Lady ran to the gate but didn't make it in time now, they were forced to watch there dam go off to somewhere, they didn't know where, and they didn't care now, all that mattered was, that she wasn't with them anymore. All they could do now was go over to black sun and ask if she would take the two, now orphaned foals, in with her until they figured out what was going on. Black Sun agreed but now all they could do was wait and see what there fate was to be.
Jay, Sadie, and Cassie leaned up against the fence waiting for Kate. Kate and her stallion, Cody, were competing in a 35 mile competitive trail ride, and this was the final sprint. In fact all for girls were competing at this event. Next up was Sadie riding her horse, Fancy Shmancy. Suddenly, Kate and Cody burst out of the woods neck and neck with another rider and her black mare, and neither rider was going to give up without a fight!
