The Life Of A Horse 3-Eclipse's Adventure

Chapter 12

The Next Day

When I wake up I notice that Wild Heart and Lily aren't in their stalls. I whinny, calling out to them but they don't answer. "Black Star, do you know where they went?" He looks at me, "Yeah. The humans took them and they're in that pasture." He points with his head and I look over. They are being led in circles by a human holding a rope attached to the halter on their neck.

They're being trained! I kick the door of my stall trying to get out but it doesn't budge. It must've been made specially for stronger, wild horses. I kick at it repeatedly until the "man from the bush" comes to my stall. "Perfect. Let's lunge you too." He grabs a rope by my stall and comes inside. I jump back but he puts it on me anyway.

He leads me to a pasture next to Wild Heart and Lily. Someone else leads Black Star to my pasture and soon we begin training. (A/N Please don't comment about how "this is not how horses are trained" if they aren't trained this way because I really am not exactly sure how they are trained so I'm sorry)

He leads me around in a circle saying walk or trot or canter. Whenever he says trot or canter he circles the whip around after me slowly to encourage me to go faster. At first I was trying to be lazy and not go faster but the second that whip touched my hoof I jumped forward and starting galloping before he calmed me down and told me to trot. I did what he said from then on. My plan was to pretend to be trained and then one day when we go out riding I will buck him off and run away. I guess Black star saw this because did the same thing I did.

After about an hour we were led back to out stalls. As we were being led the humans were talking. "What do you think for breeding season? I'm thinking Wild Heart and the two year old. Even if they're both wild now. Somehow Wild Heart caught on to being wild way faster than normal horses."

"We need names for them. I think we should name the yearling Victorious."

"I like it."

"Ok so Wild Heart, Victorious, Sunshine? Sunrise maybe?" I buck at that. No other horse can be named Sunrise. They must have mistaken my buck for joy. "Okay the other mare will be named Sunrise and then we have this one left over," one says pointing at me.

"Maybe, Blackout?"

"Yeah that sounds cool."

At that we make it back to our stalls and we talk about our second names. Day Lily-Sunrise
Wild Heart-Wild Heart
Eclipse-Blackout
Black Star-Victorious

I stay silent thinking of the new reminder of my family. I can't believe they named her Sunrise. Now we really have to get out of here. Always hearing that name would rip me apart. When feeding time comes I barely eat anything and I lay down. One of the things a horse doesn't do. (Well sometimes but not usually)

The humans see that I didn't eat much food and that I'm laying down. They come in and check everything only to see that I'm ok. "He's just sad. Leaving him alone or letting a horse he knows inside would be the best choice."
At first they leave me alone but when they realize that nothing is better they let Black Star inside and he looks at me. "What's wrong?" He asks.

"My sister's name is Sunrise and I haven't seen her in a long time," I sigh. "Oh. I'm sorry," he says. "The only family member I had left was named Willow. She is my mom's sister and we got seperated somehow. Then I found my mom and the herd but then I got caught and taken on the boat." I look up quickly. "What did Willow look like?"

"Ummm chestnut. Oh! And she had a blaze and one white leg." Ohhhhhhh no. I realize I'm standing now even though I don't remember getting up. "Did she have a son named Rusty?" "Yeah! Do you know her?" He asked excitedly. I look at him deciding if I should tell the truth or not. I look up, "Yes. I knew her-" "Knew?" He asks horrified. "Just listen. She killed a member of my herd. She tried to kill my mom and dad and sister and the other members but mostly focused on my family and me. She even took me prisoner." "What? She would never do that!" "Well she did. What's your mom's name?"

"Silver, she is light gray and my dad's name is Obsidian. He is black like me. I have a brother and sister too. My sister looks like my mom and her name is Cloudy and my brother is a medium gray. His name is Mercury."

I look at him wishing he wouldn't have been seperated from his family like I was. "I'm sure we will be able to find our families again," I say. I'm not sure though. I didn't even think I had a chance until now. Maybe it's because I feel responsible for this. Like I need to do the right thing even though I didn't do anything to seperate him from his family. I did kill his aunt but she was gonna kill my family.

Suddenly a human girl about 12 or 13 years old comes into my stall. She has golden blond hair and she crouches by me. "I'm going to free you in a minute. You are wild horses and you shouldn't be tamed." A person comes walking by and he sees the girl. "Who are you? Get out of the stall!"

She quickly jumps out and apologizes. "But if she lives here then shouldn't he recognize her?" It doesn't make sense and I'm glad when she runs off. A horse comes walking by Wild Heart's stall and I'm surprised to see that it is Wild Heart! Her stall door is open and she walks in before closing it with her nose. It latches and she pretends nothing happened. "Wild Heart how did you get out?"

She looks at me as if she has no idea what I'm talking about. "Your stall," I say. "Oh that. They left it loose so I just pushed it open like this." She pushes it open with her nose and points with her head. I look at her without saying anything and she closes it again.

Something weird is going on. I ignore it and eat the rest of my food and Black Star looks at me. I forgot he was in here. "What are you gonna name your triplets?" "What?" "You two are totally gonna have foals. Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about." "Woah there nothing is happening between us." Is there? "If you say so." He takes a few bites of my food that I didn't finish completely and then lays down. He isn't that much younger than me so why does he lay down?

Now I know something weird is going on. Yesterday with that voice inside my head I thought I was messed up but now I know it wasn't me. It's Wild Heart and Black Star. Seriously what is going on?

.................................

A/N

I'm in the car right now so I can't publish this right now but in seven hours when I get there I will be able to. I'm gonna write another right now and publish them at the same time. 1238 words I think. Well bye I'm gonna start the second chapter. Bye! :)