About Flicka, her foal and her foals first struggle to survive. This Chap was supposed to be my second chapter in my real life book on paper but I gave up on that for the internet-book life. I was playing with the different perspectives on my last chap but the lines didn't show so I'm going to do another thing. I will be playing around with what I can and cannot do on here so don't write a review about it, it will change so just review about something else…. Please!
Reviews:
Julia N SnowMiko: OMG you gave me an idea! It might come up in this one or the next one so wait and see…. Creek would have to ride Darko so Darko didn't get himself and the others in trouble but I still will do the idea soon.
KuroNeko: Yah I'm sad he had to go too but… Ok I shouldn't spoil it XD She is becoming a leader and will soon enough become… Ok stop Bwp, stop trying to spoil it. Creek should and is going to…. Ok I'm going to let you read this chap now before I spoil the future chaps
Enjoy!
And thanks for the reviews!
HG
Chapter 9: It's herd life….
The first day of May, a good day to have a foal and let her be born in spring where birds are singing I thought first when I woke up. It has been a year since I rescued the horses and saved them from being train horses now I have other priorities to take care of. My parents Mia and Jake have finally let me take over the herd and have went exploring since they have time. I sighed when I realized I will have to listen to bickering mares and stallys all day and have to check the borders a few times a day. I sighed louder when I realized I need to get up and check the borders now. I get up quickly and canter away from the hill, where I slept, and get to the job of checking the borders for an hour. When I'm done I walk back exhausted I had to run from border to border and drop to the floor when I reach the hill.
"Flicka, you know I check the borders now?",
I lift my head up barely "What?",
He laughs and nuzzles me "get some more sleep, I'll do the other stuff",
I nod and drop my head on the ground. He laughs and trots off to the herd to listen to their bickering. Hours later in early afternoon I wake up again and lift my head up to look around. I skim across the landscape until I reach knight in the middle of a group of young mares that I rescued a year ago.
"Oh you look big and strong, do you work out?" one asked,
"Ummm" knight stammers,
"Your voice is so cute when you stamper" another says flirting with him,
I roll my eyes and get up quickly to fix this problem. When I reach him I head strait for knight pushing every mare I pass.
"You ladies better back off, he's got someone" I inform them angrily,
"I'm afraid he does" a dazzling palomino mare parades through the group with all the mares she passes moving for her,
I pin my ears back and snort sarcastically "I bet you do, little highschooler",
She flips her mane back "Oh darling, you got to stop hogging the good guys or I mean stop making the good guys hog you!" She says innocently laughing,
I snap at her and she surprised steps back "Do you know who I am?",
I laugh "do you know who I am?",
She growls "Yes your Flicka the boy hogger",
I laugh again "and your brat the high school girl. Your way way out of your league in reality, missy. Go back to high school or stay away from me and my family" I growl,
She turns around to go "Your way way way out of your league, Flicka" She growls while walking away "You're not his mate yet, you got to have a foal",
I growl and shoo off the other young mares. When the crowd leaves I turn to knight who is looking quite gooey like he found the perfect girl. I growl and kick him with my hoof.
"Hey" he says coming back to reality,
"Were you listening to me when I shooed the young mares off?" I ask,
"yes, until she came" He says going back to his dreamland,
"Knock it off" I say while I smack him again, harder this time,
"Hey chill ok, I will never leave you!" He whines reassuring me "We have a foal for Pete's sake, will always be mates",
I roll my eyes and knight nuzzles me. I go to graze after knight goes to check the border again when I feel a sharp pain in my abdomen. I wince when it comes back and I turn my head to my expanded belly.
"What you doing, honey" I say to my unborn child,
The only answer I get back though is another wave of pains and I drop to the floor in pain. Raven, a pitch black mare with sharp ice blue eyes, comes up to me after seeing my distress.
"You alright Flicka?" she asks eyeing my stomach,
"Yah I'm fine" I say struggling to get up,
She, seeing my struggling, helps me up "Ok but if you need anything all be right over there by the pond",
I nod and she returns to the pond where she drinks and rests in the shade of the grove of trees that surround it. After I watch her return I turn back to grazing but find myself not able to with volcanic waves of pain in my stomach. After awhile I give up and go to rest by raven who greets me with a smile. While I rest I admire my new herd: Our newest member a bay mare with a blaze and left rear sock was chatting to her mate a back appaloosa with a snip and right rear stocking and left front sock. Their names were Brown star and Spotted Darkness. Their colts name was Blu moon and he was a blue roan with black points and white spots on his rump. He is a big trouble maker like his father. Our other families were Strawberry and Berry who had a foal that was named Berry junior and they are all blood red with black points. Berry junior is also a trouble maker but is more annoying and testy then Blu. The last new family is Grey silk, Grey mist and Grey sky. Their all grey but Grey Mist has dark grey points and Grey sky has white points. When we came back a year ago today the herd had lowered in numbers because of the wild catchers but knight brought 3 more families and since I stopped the train from coming the wild catchers have stopped. We have lived in peace for a year and I am expecting to live in peace forever. The other two families that stayed here were the sassy families and they weren't involved in much but drama or debate. Both families were leopard knabstruppers and one had a filly while the other had a colt and those too were put together by the parents. I winced when the pain came back to my stomach and I waited for it to pass but it didn't and I felt like throwing up. Raven noticed my pain and got up to tell knight while I went deeper into the forest on the outskirts of the valley. I walked for a few minutes before the pain got immense and I had to lay down. A second later I heard howling and then rustling of leaves but they stopped and I went back to my pains. I pushed thinking it was time then I pushed again an again before I felt it and…. a second later a wet body was next to me. I let out a exasperated breathe and got to the job of cleaning her. When she was clean I saw her colors clearly: She looked exactly like me but had white patches and a left front stocking, her eyes were blue like her father. I smiled and watched her try to stand but fail each time. She turned to me and nibbled my mane when I nibbled her mane. After she finally got standing I got up and started to go home, she lifted her eyebrow at me leaving but followed on weary footsteps. We were a few feet away from getting out of the forest when I heard hollowing. It was closer than before and I got worried. If a pack of wolves came I might not be able to protect my little one I thought looking around. My foal, not aware of the tension, was playing with the little animals and insects we came by. I ushered her faster and she had to trot to catch up to me. When we came into the opening I nickered afraid for me and my filly…. When I heard a deep strong howl and rustling of leaves where we came from. I was more afraid for my filly then myself and wouldn't be afraid if she wasn't here. I nickered louder starting to trot but making sure my filly wasn't behind, we weren't even able to go for a few minutes before a black wolf jumped in front of me and I grabbed my foal by the neck to bring her closer.
"well well what do we have here, boys" He growled and 5 other wolves came from the opening and surrounded us,
I growled and pinned my ears back warning him to back away "Go away wolf, you have no business here",
"Oh I do" He says motioning to the other wolfs to attack,
I, scared for my fillies' life, put her on my back and jump over the barrier of wolves. She bites down on my mane holding on for dear life and I gallop to my herd for protection. On the way the wolves try to get my filly while I'm galloping but I kick them before they can. My filly kicks, panicking, when the wolves try to bite her, she misses only half the time. When I make it I jump over the hill but land wrong and land on the ground on my side. My filly gets thrown off and lands a few feet away from me. My herd gallops to me and helps me up before fighting off the wolves who cower at the number of horses.
"We will get your filly" The leader, I suspected, growls running away with his pack,
I breathe heavily taking in deep breathes shaking off my fear. Knight gallops up to me and nuzzles me affectingly. My filly gets up shaking with worry and goes to me and knight. We both nuzzle her and a name pops up in my head.
"Everyone, my foals name will be Anaya" I say proudly "It means free in Indian",
Everyone cheers, happy for her to be alive…..
Well that went well…. I guess. What were your opinions on it? This chap was supposed to be different but I changed it. Hope you liked it!
