Well, I'll stop being pesky about reviews, just read it and review at your will.
This is the second to last chapter, and, depending on if I feel like it, there may be a sequel, but I highly doubt that. If there is, I bet it'll be in another fandom.
This is defiantly the chapter where the AU part comes in.
Still un-betaed, and I still don't own anything pertaining to the movie, just the plot, and any characters you don't recognize.
Thoughts and flashbacks will be in italics.
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The retort was made, the staring contest had begun. The world was silent, waiting to see who would win the eternal battle between predator and prey.
"Hey! Both of you had better calm down!" Two yelled
The cougar and Spirit looked Two's way, there was a pause. Then the cougar grunted and walked off.
Two rose to her feet. She glared at Spirit and he glanced at the ground.
"I still hate you." She said
Spirit was about to reply when Two craned her neck and flicked her ears madly. He eyes rolled about in her head, showing off the whites. She took a few panicked steps back and squealed loudly.
"Th-th-there back." Two stammered.
"Great," Spirit thought "Now she's gone completely insane on me."
But then he heard it. A whirring sound, a sound reminiscent of an insect, only much larger, and it seemed to be heading their way.
"Humans," Two said "They've come to take away our freedom, I don't know about you, but I'm not letting them catch me a third time. Come on, we need to take your band to safety."
Two and Spirit sprinted through the landscape, up the cliff, and down the other side. The band was freaking out. Some horses were running every which way, mares were desperately trying to collect their foals, and the general theme was chaos.
All worried eyes fell upon Spirit as he descended down the cliff.
"We need to run either perpendicular from the humans, or parallel, in the opposite direction from them." Two instructed.
Spirit weighed the options; there were young foals that couldn't make the climb up the cliff. He circled around the terrified group of horses and gathered them together. He took the lead and galloped off, with Two a step behind him, and his band in tow.
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Five minutes, ten minutes, still, they were nowhere near escaping the pursuing helicopter.
Another helicopter appeared, spooking Spirit's band into another direction. Spirit cried out frantically for them, but with no avail.
Two urged Spirit onward, not looking back.
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The sun began to sink lower in the sky, and Two and Spirit were exhausted, and in unknown territory.
"Look," Two gasped "A cave."
Spirit didn't reply, just nodded, and together they set off for the only shelter in miles.
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Two looked around wide-eyed at the sight of so many horses. This was a new experience for her, a memory to be cherished.
She was always receiving strange glances; very few horses native to this area had ever seen a band as small.
"Well, this looks like the place; we'll hang around here for a few days, and then continue onward." Cirrus said.
Cirrus was completely at ease, but there was another horse that didn't feel the same way.
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"Well, my egotistical acquaintance, this looks like the place for tonight."
The reply she received was a snort.
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Several hours passed. Two paced across the width of the cave, very uptight about Spirit's presence.
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A young stallion stood atop a cliff, gazing intently on the trio of horses below.
Two kept her back turned to her father memorizing every ripple of the plain beyond her.
Suddenly, there was the blur of a dun horse, and the clash of bodies. A few seconds of fight before Cirrus dropped to the ground, his jugular vein sliced.
Two inched over to her father's motionless body and sniffed it. She knew what had happened to him, and backed away slowly, before wheeling around and galloping off in the opposite direction, leaving one dumbstruck Blacklegs to mourn in silence.
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"Will you stop that, you're creeping me out again!" Spirit commanded.
Two paid him no heed.
"Seriously, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong," Two yelled "I'll tell you what's wrong. You are the bastard that killed my father!"