Please note all of these characters in this story with the exemption of the legendary Hidalgo are of my own creation! For a list of names and meanings pleas refer to my profile
But as I started to move towards the bucket, I felt a strange wave over take me. This wave of emotion was foreign to me. I stopped and looked around and behind me, expecting a two-legged to come from behind and do something to me. I decided my band needed me more, I spun on my haunches and high-tailed it out of there and back to my band. As I did I heard my father scream to me, but what he said will remain a mystery to me. The wind and the leaves made hearing him impossible.
When I reached a safe distance away from the two-legged's dwelling I stopped to take a long drink and had a bit to eat. I had no idea for how long I ran but, I could see a large group of horses in the distance. They were not mine, well from what I could tell. I decided to have a closer look. As I got closer to them I could see that they were horses I did not know. But wait! I scanned the heard of horses, and as I did there was a particular horse that seemed to stand out from all the rest.
A mane of a glowing white and red sections, the coat of a shiny pink, yet almost a red roan in sections intermixed between bright flashy intense white patches that seem to have been freshly washed. Her tail was as white as the clouds on a partly sunny day, thick and full as if it was braided from exactly that, the clouds. There was this mare that looked similar to her that I once knew from what seemed to be only a few months from my past. As I stood in almost a trance-like state my time of trying to recall who this heavenly mare was, was cut short.
I suddenly found myself standing in the direct line of fire of this enormous, no wait, a gargantuan black stallion. His eyes glowed red, his ears if there were any were probably pinned back underneath the thick long flowing bush thing often referred to as a mane. He was a force NOT to reckon with. But hey, I'm young that mare interested me I stood and fought.
BAM! His teeth sunk into my chest, I rear out of pain and aggression. One leg strike out and struck the square of his muzzle. Startled he stopped but just for a minuet. I spun and put my haunches to him and let the cannons fire in his direction. Apparently as I was spinning he had done the same. One of his trunk-like legs struck my tail head, the other clipped the edge of my haunch. Again the cannons fired and again. This time as mine landed on the ground I lowered my head spun on the fore and my teeth locked onto the bulging hock tearing the first layer of skin leaving the blood gushing. Sure he was bigger, more muscular, and with out a doubt more powerful than I. However I am slimmer and built for speed, which means I am definitely more agile than he.
His front hoof landed on my hind end, I once again clamped my teeth on one of his legs. This time it was his front leg, and not only did I break skin but I do believe that I pulled at least a tendon out. He was still going at me. He had two injured legs. I could of sworn that my bite to his hock would of made him un stable in the hind end and unable to maintain his balance when rear..oh! Once more he rears I ram my head to his gut with teeth exposed. This, my friends hit his Alkies Heel so to say, the weak spot on the solid mass of nothing but sheer muscle. He toppled over wedging his already injured hind leg in between a split log and the suction of mud plus the weight of a boulder. He struggled to free himself, but his perilous cries and attempts to free his leg were for nothing. I had him down and beyond any shape to walk. I proudly ran to the mares encompassed them, snaked some, scoping those I wanted, they knew I was in charge. I made my way to the one I had become so entranced with. Not only did I recognize her but she recognized me! I could not believe my eyes. It was her it was indeed her, Luyu! But this was neither a time nor the place for a reunion of any sorts if I was to keep her and the other I had to move them, now! I took off towards the horizon with Luyu by my side.
Just a little farther down and over a creek or two there was the rest of my band. At last a reunion could be had!