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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 3:19:30 GMT -5
The pregnant vix was growing each day. Venom snorted and walked foward. A kick protruded into her stomach. She winced. The brindle ebony lowered her head to graze on the dead grass. She snagged a bite of winter grass and began chewing. She swallowed and felt a pain enter, except this one was more painful, and not just a kick. Her folds opened, she felt them open. A tiny pair of hooves stuck out. Her hot pink optics widened, and she lifted her bannar to kep it from getting dirty and sticky from the birth.....
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 3:27:23 GMT -5
The ebony Arab had been patroling his lands at a liesurely trot. He flicked his ebony banner in the falling snow. The snow was up to his fetlocks now, the winter was with out a doubt here. He snorted, he breath shown in the cold, crisp air. He slowed to a walk when he saw Venom up ahead. He let out whinny of greeting and picked up his trot again.
When he got closer, he realised that she was giving birht. He had known that she was pregnant when he found her, but he didn't know it was time for her foal so soon. He feared for the foal, for it was getting bitterly cold every night.
He stopped next to Venom and didn't say a word, he just put his muzzle on her to try and comfort her.
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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 3:46:45 GMT -5
The brindled essa didn't say a word. The head poked out, and stood still, as both of it's legs slid out, a sigh came from her kissers. It was rather large, but she could handle it. A soft whispered grunt came as it slid all the way out. She tore open the sac, and nuzzled it, trying to get it to breath. Snow flurries landed on the foal, she feared he might freeze. She tried desperately, and finally it did. "Lassan, help. We have go to get him in the warmth!"[/size] she gave him a fearful look. Venom nosed him up, and scooted him along. There was a small cave up ahead, and she had planed ahead and had made the floor into a large nest. She gathered all the hayish grass and warm stuff she could find. She muttered, "Just a little further..."[/size] and finally got there. She nestled him in the fluffiest, warm spot she could find and layed in front of him so he could nurse.....[/color]
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 11:09:42 GMT -5
Lassan stood next to Venom not making a sound as she pushed the rest of her foal out. From what he could see, the foal was average size, maybe a smidge on the large side, but all in all, he was average sized. That was a very good thing, that meant the he'd have a larger survival rate in this cold weather.
The foal finally hit the ground. Venom turned around and began to clean and nudge the little equine, trying to get him to breath. Lassan couldn't imagine how cold it must be for the foal. Lassan shook his crown when Venom's lyrics came to his audits. She asked him to help her.
Together the pushed the barely walking colt into a cavern that was nestled in one of the canyon walls. Lassan saw that Venom had already brought in foliage for the colt. Lassan watched as she pushed him into a pile of leaves and grass and layed down in front of him for him to nurse.
"Venom, you should stand up for him to nurse, because if you and him are laying down, he will most likely choke. I don't want to sound like I am telling you how to mother your own colt, but I don't want anything happening to him." Lassan looked to herhoping that she wouldn't be angry, he just wanted to kee pher and the colt safe.
After a moment of silence from Venom and Lassan, and after a large gust of wind howled across the land. Lassan began to speak again. "So," he started in a whisper so he wouldn't scare the foal "do you have a name for him?"
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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 11:24:14 GMT -5
Venom nodded. "Um, yeah. I'm kinda new at the mother thing...."[/size] She nudged it up and it started to nurse. "I thought about Polaris. What do you think?"[/size] she looked at him. The little foal seemed to be the oppisite of her. It looked like a zebra! "Lassan, the sire is not a zebra. He's just on another island I came from. He's a handsome grey roan. He's all my native breeds as well."[/size] The mother smiled ad groomed the colt's back. "Or Saturn. What do you think? Saturn or Polaris?"[/size] she asked him...[/color]
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 12:04:57 GMT -5
Lassan smiled at her as she nudged the little colt up. He did look like a zebra, bt not really. He was just black with skinny white brindle stripes, he looked more marbled to Lassan. Lassan looked back to Venom as she asked him what would be a beteer name for him, Saturn or Polaris. Lassan thought for a moment and then said "Polaris. He looked like a Polaris." Lassan moved closer to Venom and the colt. "It's a shame his father can't see him, he sure is a lovely colt."
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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 12:17:27 GMT -5
Venom smiled. "Just what I was thinking."[/size] Polaris sighed and plopped down(You play him for now on) She smiled ad layed beside him. "You can come closer, I don't bite."[/size] she laughed. The vixen looked outside, it started to snow heavily. She moved the grass up closer to Polaris and scooted closer, making sure to keep him warm. "Lassan, I fear for my Polaris. The nights get below zero, and we have no where for him to stay or get warmth besides here, and I'll have to keep on finding foilage to keep it warm...."[/size] Polaris was rather on the large side, but very heathy. The vixen couldn't help but smiling again....[/color]
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Post by Wildfire on Nov 30, 2008 12:47:44 GMT -5
Saratoga wandered her homelands, straying farther away from the breeding grounds and Centibo. The wind and snow picked up around her, sending her mane and banner flying all over the place. The chill pierced her pelt like needles. Optics spied a cave, which she took off galloping to. Pillars stopped mid-flight as she noticed Lassan, Venom and a newborn. Her bodice twitched, even she could still smell Centibo’s scent on her. The river had done no good in cleaning her off for it was too cold. She was also probably pregnant now. She walked in cautiously. Hi Venom, hi Lassan… lyri trailed, scared of his reaction.
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 13:12:54 GMT -5
Lassan smiled at her and moved closer to the lying foal and mare. It was true, it did get very cold at night. "I willl help you with him, and I'm sure some of the other herd members will too. Just stay in the caverns, for they are warm in the winter, especially the small one like this. Maybe we could even get a few of the herd members to stay i nhere at night with you. I would feel so bad if somthing happened to Polaris." Lassan was just about to say somethig else when Saratoga came in and greeted them. Lassan turned around and looked her over. "Where have you been?" he almost demanded.
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Polaris snuggled closerto his mother. He was freezing! Why did this world have to be so cold?! He let out a little whuffle and closed his orbs to the sound of his mother's heartbeat and the sound of her and the other horse's voice. He was almost asleep when another mare came into the cavern. He let out a little squel and hid his frozen face in his mother's side.
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Post by Wildfire on Nov 30, 2008 13:20:56 GMT -5
Saratoga shrunk back against the cavern wall. She didn’t have the heart to lie to Lassan, and the evidence was written all over her. I’ve been in the breeding grounds. She admitted guiltily. Her dome dropped and her orbs glanced up at the stag. Harks swiveled over to the foal that squealed at its mother’s side. She would have apologized, but she didn’t want to risk saying anything more until she heard Lassan’s reply.
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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 13:36:59 GMT -5
Venom felt Polaris shivering, she pulled the straw over him and nuzzled him as he squealed. She nodded at Lassan, and her auds layed back at the smell and entrance of Saratoga. The essa licked his maw, and nudged him again. "Well, since your here, this is Polaris."[/size] she gritted her ivories and smiled slightly. Her auds swivled, and they lay against her skull again. "Why?"[/size] she cocked her tiara to the side, and stared at her...[/color]
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 13:58:51 GMT -5
Lassan flattened his auds at her reply. "I see." he said, almost to himself. "And why didn't you tell me where you were going Saratoga?" his voise rose as he spoke. "You could have at least told me you were going there, and I wouldn't have cared. Well I would have but I'm getting off topic right now. First Raine and now you. You would've been allowed to go if you just told me." He let out an angry snort. This was the last straw, no one was allowed out of the land with out permission. He had given them the freedom to go where ver as long as they told some one, now three equines had broken this rule and he wasn't going to put up with it any more. He just shook his head at her and kept his chocolate optics fixed on her form. "No one is allowed to leave Terra Delle Liberta from this point on, unless I allow them to." He would have to have another herd meeting, and soon.
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Polaris didn't have a clue what was going on, or why his 'father' was yelling. Polaris had figured that well venom was his mother, so the black stag had to be his father. It made sense to the little colt. He let out a grunt, becoming bothered by what was going on. He layed flat down in the foliage and shut his robs, not ready to give standing a try just yet.
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Post by Wildfire on Nov 30, 2008 14:10:51 GMT -5
She flinched at his harsh vocals. I understand Lassan. Please forgive me. Her orbs glanced to his for a moment and then back to the tiny foal. Polaris was his name? Kissers smiled softly to him and Venom. Lovely name. She commented, quietly and then turned back to her leader. I will do as you wish. Her bodice sagged against the hard rock wall and she slid to the floor. Her nares let out a huff and she craned her dome around to glance outside at the still snowing sky.
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Post by .r e e d. on Nov 30, 2008 14:12:30 GMT -5
Venom watched the vixen's every move. She turned and nodded, approving of his actions. Her kissers parted and let out a yawn, streched out her fron pillars and layed her tiara on them. She settled her tiara and her pink optics closed. Soon, she was asleep as her foal was. She mutterd in her sleep, "Pepper.."[/size] and sighed....[/color]
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Post by Vel on Nov 30, 2008 14:59:43 GMT -5
Lassan continued to glare at Saratoga. He just shook his head. He was dissapointed in her and Raine, but he could't change the past. "You are lucky I'm nice Saratoga, if you were with a dark, you probably would've been killed by now for doing that. Just keep it in mind, and no leaving the land. Understood? But one thing you could do to maybe help out, is help Venom with Polaris, for it ets codler each day and he will freeze to death of not looked after properly. Hows that sound?"
Lassan then turned around to face Venom and her colt. e smiled at them and turnedback around to Saratoga, waiting for her rply.
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Polaris had no clue what was going on as he pulled his little head up. He let out a whinny and looked to his mother. He didn't even want to try and talk yet, or even stand. He hoped that his mother didn't make him stand, even though she should.
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