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Post by Daisy on May 2, 2009 4:05:32 GMT -5
HOFFNUNG;;
My soft hooves walked the earth. Winter was coming, it was getting closer every second of the day. Wandering to see this land would either be the worst or the best thing of my life. Mother had once told me, don't venture where horses were as it would be fatal. So, doing what she said I didn't and instead I ventured here into the land of the wranglers. Hooves started to pound the earth, I was scared but then realised they were my own. Any moment now mother would come out of the trees, where had she gone? I opened my kissers to let out a cry, where was my mother? Somehow, I knew inside she had gone and left me. Feeding me drained her energy so she had abandoned me or maybe she was looking for me right this very second. I would nicker to her, when she came out of the trees, and she would neigh and rear happily. Looking over I saw her, she was cantering toward me with her mane flying. If only I hadn't blinked as when my eyes opened she was gone. How I miss her so, she was everything to me and I couldn't live without her.
Wandering around I saw a weird formation of stones, inside was burnt wood and ash. I sniffed at the black ash, it flew about and there must of been a spark as something caught and a small flame was starting to lick at the wood. I reached in and it licked at my nose, naturally i squealed and cantered away from the light that was hot. Was the sun that hot? Mother had always said that the sun was a huge orb that would go if little colts weren't good. When the great sun was gone, it would never come back up. I had been a bad colt and went away from my mother, I would cause darkness unless I found my mother. "Mother, mother! Come save me mother!" I cried into the wind. She never came, I waited for her to come but she never did. I then lied down in the grass, nothing would save me now but something told me to stay strong. That I was Hoffnung the great horse, no one could ever make me weak enough to give up. That I could live another life.
Slowly I stood, I arched my boa and started to trot around. It was so beautiful, to see the trees blow around in the light wind. It was now I heard her "HOFFNUNG!" she cried. I galloped into the trees, searching for my mother but when I caught a glimpse of her she heard heavy footsteps and she galloped away. What ever made my mother gallop would pay, I had my chance of being reunited with her and something or some one made her vanish. Flicking my tail I trotted out of the trees and back into the camp, the light that was hot still flickered and I snorted at it. Morning was always my favourite time of day, it was so lovly to see the sun lift the fog and make a beautiful afternoon. The only thing mother had not told me, was about alliances. I had heard her talking to another horse, it was a stallion, and she said 'you can never turn him dark, he is like me and non allianced. Leave now you putrid beast' the words echoed in my mind. What was dark? What was a alliance was my biggest question of all the ones I had.
Surely mother should of told me, alliances must be a big thing and if only something would tell me about them. I had asked my mother what the alliances were and all she said were 'dark, light and neutral'. The stallion was dark, he must of been and trying to make me dark. The stallion was my father, he had a bright chestnut coat just like my own, and how I wished I could see him. Father had been mean to mother, he was always shouting at her 'BLUTE! Had that little beast over to me!!'. I trembled when ever he shouted, he was always kind to me but something in his eyes said that he wanted me for power. Mother had always said bad about father, at night that was when I was supposed to be sleeping. Something about the way she nuzzled me and said 'it will all be ok when he goes' I knew she was scared. For me mostly, now she would be terrified to know I was out in the big wide world where my father was and how he would try to capture me and take me from my mother to live with him.
Lifting my hooves in turn, I walked steadily before lying down in the grass. My journey was not over yet. I was only a foal, living a life in the wild but what was on the other side of life. What other chances could I get in life and would they be good or fatal. It was the first time I have thought about it, and it felt good to wonder about my future. What if I died a early death, or maybe I would die when I was old and it would be from no disease this way. Nothing would ever be able to harm me, for I was Hoffnung. The son of Blute and the dark stallion. I didn't really know what would happen to my father if I found him. I would be grown up and strong, I would try to kill my father as the dark streak in me was there. I would kill him with no mercy, mother had told me that the lights and darks hated eachother. Maybe I would be light, but mother said I had no alliance and it was terrible to think that I had no mark and no group.
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