The
Horses of the Moon
Today, Princess Serena and her family
were at the horse race track. A horse race was about to start. “I wonder which
horse will win” said Serena, excitedly. Princess Serena liked the horse races.
She liked riding horses herself and of course she liked horses as well. “Mother
after this race is over; can I go see the horses?” She asked her mother. “I
don’t see why not,” said Queen Luna “besides I know very well that you like
horses”. Today’s horse race turned out to be very exciting, and in the end a
brown horse named Chestnut won.
After the race, Queen Luna asked Peter
Brown the stable master if her daughter Serena could see the horses. Peter
agreed; he knew that Princess Serena adored horses. While Serena and Peter were
on their way to the stables, Serena noticed two big statues near the stables. Both
of them were white statues and were in the shape of horses, but different. One
of them was a statue of a pegasus, with wings. The other was a statue of a
unicorn, with a horn. “Are they new statues?” Serena asked Peter. “Yes they are,”
said Peter “I decided to have pegasus and unicorn statues as decorations for
once, instead of normal horses statues”. “I call that a good idea,” said Serena
“besides there are no laws saying that you’re not allowed to use mythical
statues as decorations”. “I agree” said Peter.
There were lots of horses in the
stables; black ones, white ones, brown ones and grey ones. There were even some
horses that were tamed and some still a bit wild. Then suddenly Serena spotted
two horses in a stable together. They were beautiful white horses, with light
greyish manes and tails. “Those two horses are beautiful” said Serena to Peter.
“Those two are our newest members,” said Peter “they’re also still wild. Funny
thing is though, we caught them on the same day we received the pegasus and
unicorn statues. I’m telling you they were hanging around the statues, as if
they were attracted to them”.
Serena started to remember that the
Moon Eagle did the same thing with the eagle statue at the library, when it was
still a pigeon. ‘I wonder if those two are really moon spirits’ Serena thought.
“May I pet them?” Serena asked. “Go ahead your highness,” said Peter “but do be
careful”. Serena slowly and carefully moved her right hand towards the horses.
On her right hand wrist she was wearing the silver bracelet, with the moon
eagle bead on it. She decided to take it with her, just in case she found any
more moon beads. The two horses saw her bracelet and nickered happily. One of
them pressed its face against Serena’s hand. “Well I’ll be,” said Peter “normally
these two don’t like to be touched by strangers. But they are certainly not
scared of you”. “I think they are just interested in my bracelet,” said Serena
“but I think they are still a bit upset, since they were captured in the wild”.
“I think they are too,” said Peter “that’s why I’m going to set them free
tomorrow after the race”. “Are these horses going to be in the race?” asked
Serena. “No,” said Peter “they are not tame enough to be in races, so they will
be staying in the stables all day tomorrow, until the race is over”. Just then
Princess Diana came into the stable. “Serena, Mother says it’s time to go” she
said. “Okay” said Serena. She bid farewell to Peter and set off for home with
her mother and sister.
The next day Serena and her family
were watching the horse race. Last night Serena had made a plan; since she was
seeing the race with her family, she had decided that while everyone was
distracted and congratulating the riders after the race, she would go into the
stable and let the two horses out and turn them back into moon spirits. Since
the horses liked Serena’s silver bracelet with the moon eagle bead very much,
there was no doubt that those two were moon spirits. Serena was secretly hiding
two dull looking beads in her right pocket. Yesterday she saw the dull beads on
the bases of the pegasus and unicorn statues and she secretly took them out of
the statues and took them home with her.
Soon the horse race had begun, there
were fences for the horses to jump over during the race. The riders were racing
their horses like crazy to get to the finishing line. In the end, it was a
black horse that won the race. ‘Now’s my chance’ thought Serena. Serena told
her mother where she was going and then she ran over to the stables.
Serena walked over to the two white
horses and opened the door of their stall. “Come with me you two” she said to
the horses. The horses were obedient and followed Serena. Serena led them to a
wide open field, outside the stables. She had a good look around to see if
there were any people around. “Good, no one’s here” she said. If people were
there, Serena would have trouble turning the horses back into moon spirits; she
didn’t want people to see what she was doing in case it would freak them out.
She took out the two plain beads from her pocket, and when the horses saw the
beads they magically transformed. The first white horse turned into a beautiful
animal, with a white mane, two large silver wings and silver hooves. It was a pegasus.
The second horse also became white, with a white mane, light grey hooves and a
silver horn. It was a unicorn. “Wow,” gasped Serena “they’re so beautiful”. She
held out her hands to pet the Moon Pegasus and Moon Unicorn. The Moon Horses
bent their heads towards Serena and let her pet them.
After Serena petted them, the Moon Pegasus
lowered its back towards Serena. Serena looked at the Moon Pegasus in
confusion. “Do you want me to get on your back?” she asked. The Moon Pegasus
nodded, as if it just said yes. So with no hesitation, Serena got onto its back.
As soon as she did that, the Moon Pegasus galloped across the field, and then with
the flap of its wings, they took off into the sky. “Wow!” gasped Serena, while
they were in the sky, “this is amazing!” The Moon Pegasus flew over trees,
fields and the stables. Serena was worried if anyone would see the Moon Pegasus,
but luckily no one did. “Come on Moon Pegasus,” said Serena “it’s time for us
to land now”. The Moon Pegasus nodded its head and then flew back to the field
where the Moon Unicorn was waiting for them.
Serena dismounted from Moon Pegasus,
stood in front of the two Moon Horses and then took out the two dull beads from
her pocket. “Time for you two to get back into your beads” said Serena. The two
dull beads and the Moon Pegasus and Moon Unicorn glowed and then the Moon
Horses got sucked into the two dull beads. The dull beads turned into two white
beads, with pictures of a pegasus and a unicorn at the front, and then they
attached themselves to Serena’s bracelet. “I wonder what moon spirit I’ll get
next” Serena said to herself.
Serena went back to the stables in
case anyone had been looking for her, but no one was at the stables yet. She
was worried though; what would Peter say when he found out that the two wild
white horses were not in the stable anymore? Just then Peter turned up. “Ah
there you are your highness,” he said “your mother says that it’s time to go
now”. “Okay” said Serena. Peter checked his stables. “A new horse will be in
that empty stable soon” he said, pointing to the stable where the moon horses
used to be. “Huh?” asked Serena “but didn’t that stable already have a horse
in?” “No,” replied Peter “that stable has been empty for a while now. Serena
was confused; ‘He doesn’t remember about the horses that were in there
earlier,’ she thought ‘it must be something to do with the magic of the Moon Pegasus
and Unicorn beads after I captured them.
Serena went home with her mother and
elder sister, thinking that she had a lot more to learn about the moon beads.
