All the Pretty Little Horses

There's a ranch called Golden Hope, filled with beautiful horses and lush forests...and they say...that if you ever get lost or wander off the path...a golden angel will guide your way back...

Chapter 1:

"So Krad, how's the room and the cabin?"

"It's fine, thanks."

"So how do you like this place so far?"

He lied not wanting to say anything rude and have a bad first impression, "It's great."

The lady beamed and walked out, "Excellent! I'll be ringing the dinner bell soon, but meanwhile you can just take a walk around and get use to this place, if you need anything just holler."

"Aa..."

After the lady left, he headed outside, onto the road and down the path. Krad sighed as he kicked the dirt in front of his feet, there he was on a ranch stranded in the middle of nowhere, what fun. When he asked for a vacation he was thinking more in terms of Italy or France, maybe even Australia, but no, he was stuck here. Here out of all the places on earth, someone really must have hated him, but then again, maybe he shouldn't complain since he arrived but a couple hours ago and the room was luxurious, for a ranch room anyways. The blonde sighed again, suddenly, he heard a knicker and looked over, there was a beautiful black horse staring at him, he walked over to it.

"Hi there, at least there's something nice out here."

The horse whinnied and took a step back, Krad reached his hand out slowly, "Whoa...easy there...it's okay..."

Soon he found himself stroking the horse's muzzle and getting lost staring at its large expressive eyes, "That's it...nice horse..."

"Oi you! Get away from there! Don't you know these horses are dangerous, not to mention they have a reputation of biting and kicking visitors."

Krad looked at the owner of the angry voice, it was a boy around his age, his deep-violet hair was covered with a hat, his skin was relatively tanned and had piercing amethyst eyes, the blonde gave him a doubtful look and went back to stroking the horse, "You could've fooled me, his horse looks nowhere near dangerous and he doesn't look like he's about to bite my fingers off, quite a nice horse actually."

The boy tilted his hat and scratched his head, baffled, "Well I'll be damned...and he's the one that usually causes the most trouble too."

"Hmmm...you don't say..."

"Hey are you mocking me!?"

"And why would I wish to do such a thing?"

The boy snorted and started walking away, "Pft, whatever blondie, suit yourself, I'm outta here, don't go crying to anyone if he bites you or knocks you unconscious."

Krad didn't answer him, he watched the boy stalk away grumbling to himself, he looked at the horse, "Hmm...I didn't even catch his name, shame on me."

The horse knickered in reply, then the bell rang, "I guess that means it's dinner time, I'll bring you something nice next time."

He forced himself to part with the horse and went down the path which he had came from, standing at the door of the main hall was the lady that had showed him around. She spotted him and gestured for him to get in, she lead him in and greeted everyone, she told him to take a seat so he just grabbed on of the nearest chairs by the end of the table. Soon there were people surrounding him and much to his surprise, the boy that he had been talking to sat across from him, they all ate in silence, Krad took a small bite of bread and took a little sip of the soup and excused himself.

"Oh my, you haven't eaten at all, is there anything specific you'd like to eat?"

Krad shook his head, "No thanks, I'm full."

The lady seemed to consider for a moment, "Alright then, if you get hungry you can just come back here, I'm Emiko Niwa, and my husband Kosuke over there, we're the owner of the ranch so feel free to ask any questions."

"Kay."

The blonde walked out without looking back although the back of his mind was screaming at him to look back at the boy with the amethyst eyes. He took the long way back to his cabin stopping at the top of the hill, he took a seat in the grass, just sitting there in the grass watching the sunset, which was absolutely breathtaking since he never really seen such a thing, and for a few moments there, he forgot that he was dying.

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Nya .....yea....Krad's dying, I have a thing with killing him don't I? Shame on me :P Now I have to see which fic I'm going to update next, probably Haunted, Insanity of the Art or Treat or DIE I'm not very organized right now, so sorry nya

All the pretty little horses is actually a lullaby and it sounds pretty nice, and you'll all find out why Krad's dying on the next chapter! :)