Lol, yes this story sucks it is my first but its about to take a romantic turn (not in this chapter… soon I hope!)…. I think; sometimes my story changes as I write it!

"Melanie?" Jake shouted. He couldn't see anything through the rocks and was beginning to freak out.

"Yeah?" She asked

"Are you OK?" Jake asked, crossing his fingers.

"Pretty much; and don't worry You go down and watch for me, 'cause I'm going to follow this ravine and I don't know WHERE it'll come out!" Jake considered it; what else could he do? This was one situation where he had top agree.

"Fine, but be careful." Melanie looked around and then forward, she only had one path. Melanie tried to be confident as she pushed Chip into a slow walk. Around the sharp rocky sides until Melanie pulled Chip to a sudden stop. She stared at the dead end as if it could disappear. But Melanie was stuck, and now she had no clue what to do. She looked to the left and saw a few shrubs who had foolishly decided to grow in the walls, and were a dry, yellow color. Ahead, rocks the color of sand formed a wall that would not move. At her right, she saw a solid wall of dirt, rock, sand and other minerals. Melanie glanced up and saw a few bushes and-what? Something whitish-grey; it was moving, or looked like it at least thought Melanie. Am I hallucinating? Wow; this is kind of freaky in a very cool way but I should probably do something to get rid of this…mirage! Melanie was about to pull out her water when the thing appeared into full view and towered above Melanie.

The object turned out to be a grey horse; a stallion probably. He walked down a small path that no normal human would find, halfway and then went back up. He was almost 'showing' Melanie the way. She reached the top and saw Jake at the bottom. He didn't see her, and since the mystery horse that had saved her had vanished, she walked down towards him.

"Are you OK?" Jake asked when he saw Melanie coming.

"Yeah…why?" She asked, a little confused, did she not look OK?

"You were just in a mini avalanche, why would I not ask that?"

"Whatever; hey what kind of mustangs are here, colorwise?"

"Basically all, why?"

"A grey one, I think a stallion, showed me the way out back up there." Jake stared at her as if she were lying. "What?" She asked.

"It was the Phantom."

-------Sam and company--------------

"I came here because, well, don't talk until I'm done, OK? Let me get all of this out." Adrianna waited for everyone to nod. "My best friend was killed by a horse and I thought since I never got to say goodbye I'd do this program in memory of her. And well, when I got here Popcorn turned out to look exactly like THAT horse." She pronounced that full of hate. "I wouldn't hurt him, trust me, but can I work with him, I don't know why I just wish I knew- why did she have to go riding that day? She could've gone to the movies with us, or anything!" Adrianna sighed. Sam almost gasped, she shouldn't be listening to this, she and Jen weren't professionals for this kind of stuff, Adi needed to talk to a counselor or something. But Sam decided to find out more.

"How?"

"We don't really know, after both her parents died, she began to stay with her grandparents who owned a farm. Then one day she went for a ride, and only the horse came back, blood all over him. Her body was never found."

"So she might not be dead?" Vicky asked.

"Its been about a year, everyone has basically given up." Sam nodded.

"We've all had our near death experiences; maybe she made it out somehow. I mean, for all you know that blood didn't have to be hers."

'They said it wasn't; her blood. They took a strand of her hair and compared it to the blood on the colt's coat and it didn't match! But I decided it was just that hair and blood aren't the same. I mean, whose blood could it have been? It wasn't the horses."

Sam sighed, this was getting tough, tomorrow morning she'd ask Brynna about it, for now though, she was going to try to continue their game.

Listen, It will all unfold why the Phantom helped Mel, I promise, now please Read and Review, because if this story sucks I DEMAND you tell me; lol don't just give me a comment if you like it. I want the controversy! Thanks, any ideas are OK I have some, but I love to get other opinions!