Sandra rode around on Harvey with her friends close behind. Gingka's horse was a brown horse with white splotches named Patch and Kenta's horse was a smaller tan horse named Sandy. The only one who had yet to learn how to ride was Kyoya. He said he could wait a while. Sandra just wondered how long he had planned to wait. They had been there for awhile now.
"This is so fun!" Yu shouted.
"You said it, Yu!" Gingka agreed.
"You guys keep riding. I'm going to go check on the mustang," Sandra called as she rode Harvey away toward the circular pen. The mustang was still there but something was different. It didn't jump around wildly like usual. It still held its hard, fierce gaze but it seemed as if something had calmed him down a little. Sandra stared at the mustang for a moment before shrugging and heading up to the house. She found her Grandma standing on the porch watching a black car drive away. She looked very angry. Sandra rode over to the edge of the porch.
"Is everything ok, Grandma?" she asked.
"No," her Grandma answered. "Those were people from the bank. They're threatening to take this place from me!"
"What? Why?" Sandra asked in shock.
"I haven't been able to pay for the house lately. I've been trying to save up the money to finally pay it off but I haven't been able to with everything else," he Grandma explained.
"They can't just take this place from you!" Sandra protested.
"But they can. I just need time to get the money," her Grandma said.
"I'm going to go tell the others," Sandra said, riding back to where the others were. "Guys! We've got to talk!"
"What's wrong?" Emma asked once everyone had gathered.
"They're threatening to take this place away from my Grandma," Sandra answered.
"What? They can't!" Alex protested.
"They can. My Grandma hasn't had the money to pay for the house so they'll take the house unless she pays up soon," Sandra explained. "She said she just needs a little more time to get the money together."
"We could help, couldn't we? There's got to be something we can do," Kenta said.
"Like what?" Yu asked.
"We'll think of something," Tsubasa assured him.
"Well, until we think of something we just need to go on with lives as usual," Gingka said.
Sandra nodded. "I'm going to go get the newspaper for my Grandma," she said, riding off down the driveway. When she got to the end she slid off Harvey and grabbed the newspaper. The front page caught her eye. The was a horse competition being held. It was a race through an obstacle course and whoever won would get $1,000 dollars! Sandra quickly got back on her horse and raced back to the house. Before giving the paper to her Grandma, she went over to her friends.
"Guys!" she called. "You've got to see this!" Everyone came up and looked at the paper.
"$1,000 dollar prize?" Madoka gasped in shock.
"This is our chance to save this place!" Emma said.
"I'm doing it. You guys in?" Sandra glanced at her friends.
"Of course," Alex agreed. Everyone else nodded their agreement. Sandra smiled and ran to tell her Grandma.
Kyoya's POV
Kyoya walked out of the house that night. He'd been doing that for awhile and it seemed that the mustang had warmed up to him. Tonight, since they found out about the competition, he had to try and get on the mustang. He walked over to the pen where the mustang seemed to be expecting him.
Of course he is. I come out here every night.
Kyoya climbed into the pen and pet the mustang lightly on the neck. "Easy now," he soothed. "We're going to do this tonight. Just stay calm, boy." The mustang's fierce look had vanished. Kyoya calmly went to the side and climbed up onto the mustang. The mustang didn't try to throw him off or anything. Kyoya pet the mustang's neck. "Good boy. Now let's try this."