-I Past the storm I-

Foreword: Finally the big north antrim trials were coming, Fiona was really excited: she had trained her Asgardian mare for a long time. It was a hard and sweaty training, sometimes nothing went right, but Fiona learned to stop when this happens. Then she just put the saddle and bridle of and rode without any saddlery on her horse. They even practiced cross country adn show jumping this way, not many people were able to ride a horse like that and have such a tight bond to their riding animal. But let us see if they hae trained enough and if everything goes right now! They both are totally motivated, but the other contestants are great, too, we will see what is waiting for our great team in the near future! Stay excited

Today was a really weird day, Fiona thought and sighted. It was the sixth day of the North-Antrim-Trials, Fiona and her beautiful black Asgardian-Horse mare had already participated on the endurance and show jumping competition of this great event. The competitors were really good and Fiona was especially scared of the other dressage competitors. Dressage was Daydreams best discipline, but it was also the class with the most participants.

It was a very rainy day early in the morning but the weather report says that the sun will might shine from afternoon to evening, but nobody could believe that if they looked outside now. Fiona took her umbrella and went to the stable, she still had a lot of time, because her dressage show would be later at the day. When she entered the stable the young girl was already wet, even if it were only a few steps and she had her umbrella: the rain was so strong and the wind blows the rain from all sides against your body. For a small moment the brown haired girl thought she had seen someone in her mares stall, but this couldn´t be. Fiona thought it must have been a visual illusion, because thepeople were actually in the neighbor horses stall. Fiona shook her head, she should take a nap before the competition, otherwise she could forget winning the first place. The teenager girl was already excited the whole morning, she kept running into things like doors, chairs, tables and even humans, also she had spilled her trainers coffee on his newspaper. The strange people were moving on and Fiona didn´t thought of them anymore, her horse was eating its hay and everything seemed alright to the young woman, why shouldn´t it be?

After a while Lukas came to her and asked if she needed anything, but she just shook her head and sat down in daydreams box, watching her mare taking a nap itself. Fiona sighted and her eyes slowly fell down. Suddenly she was awake, the girl didn´t knew what woke her up for a moment, but then she heard the voices: "Daddy me wanna have that horsey!", a little girls vice said. " Oh Tiffany, you will get that horse for your birthday I promise, come here you horsey!", a deep mans voices said and Fiona guessed it must be the father of the little girl named tiffany. Suddenly Fiona noticed that Daydream seemed to be awake for a while, she wasn´t laying anymore and stood right in front of the door with her neck stretched above the wooden planks. Now Fiona stood up and she was shooked when she saw that the father and daughter were talking to Daydream, her own horse, that girl wanted to buy HER OWN HORSE. "Ahhh Daddy, do you see that girl? Chase her away from my horsey, that is my horsey, I wanna have it for my birthday!". Fiona was still shooked, she couldn´t say a word, she couldn´t even belive that this was appening, was she still dreaming? "Excuse me, young lady, but could you please leave the stall of my daughters horse, can´t you see that she doesn´t like it and I think the horse doesn´t like you either." Daydream snorted displeased but also a little amused, she was very intelegent and she could understand every word that human say. "This isn´t your horse!", Fiona floundered, those were the only words she was able to speak, but after a few seconds she found her selfcontrol back and said confident: "This can´t be your hrose because it is my own horse and I would ask you to leave this stable now, if you don´t own any horse, I myself need to prepare for the dressage competition now, have a good day...oh wait no I don´t wish you any good day!". "But we will buy this horse, you´ll see!",the man answered and carried his daughter out of the stable.

Fiona was still confused when she was preparing the Asgardian mare for the dressage show, the gil had told Lukas, the trainer, what happened, but he had no idea either. Also the little girl and man weren´t seen before the competition ever again.

Fiona had almost forgotten what happened in the morning, she only concentrated on the competition and she made a great show out there, everything went like planned and Fiona was really proud that her mare and herself was such a good team. But just as she thought that, she heard the voice of the little girl Tiffany again. "Daddy that´s the horse, that´s MY horsey!", she screamed and ran towards the black Asgardian mare, which was scared by that little pink and fast ball running towards her. The mare snorted in excitement, but Fiona could calm her down very fast.

"We are buying this horse now, it belongs to us! How much do you want?", the father asked while texting on his brand new mobile phone, it was one of the newest mobile phones on the whole world.

"Nothing...I want nothing for her!",Fiona answered almost crying because of anger and excitement, why were these rude and mean people still bothering her? The black haired father looked up from his mobile phone and smiled: "Oh great: nothing? You can have that, I think that is a fair price, I´ll call my wife and tell her we bought a horse!" at the same time the little girl was screaming and running around: "My horse, I have a HORSEY and you all don´t! Ha I´m better than anyboooody!". Fiona shook her head: "No I meant nothing because this horse won´t be for sale, it never was and it never will. I would like to ask you to move out of my way, I need to go to the stable and take care of MY horse!" The man put his mobile phone down, his smile was gone and he looked shooked at the young woman. Fiona and Daydream snorted at the same time and went away, they would never sell Daydream, never ever! They had grown up together, it would be torture for Fiona at the stable without the wonderful mare around her. Or would you be able to sell your best friend?

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Art (c) Summerlandhillstable
Mina
Time horse: 3-6h
Time background: 2-5h
Ref: own ref , no background ref
Adobe photoshop Cs6
Wacom bamboo fun pen and touch