.:: Everyday's a surprise ::.by =noblestallion

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Theeere we go.
Fox needed to finally get into the business, right?

Just a little filler story in between the actualy story-line.

Story

_{“Just do it!” Lionel pushed, moving to the side and gripping the reins. “Come on, dude, he has the blood to go over a jump this small!”

Joey grimaced at the blonde man and glanced down at the creamy, muscled neck Ramiel was currently rounding down into the reins. Calm, dressage training. That’s what he wanted out of this riding. Just a normal work-out before going back to the stables and saddling another horse. Apparently though, Lionel had other plans, trying to get him and the young stallion over an X jump. He didn’t mind jumping, really. He even competed in show jumping few years back, but he wasn’t the guy for that.

“Nah, not today.” He said calmly, smilling towards the blonde. Lionel was sitting on Toby, the chestnut stallion parked to a side with one of the jumps, chewing on his bit. “You can do it instead.”

“Not happening. I’ve already had my dose of flying with this guy. Your turn.” He insisted, patting the chestnut’s shoulder. When Lionel saw Joey’s expression, he just pulled a face. “I mean, come on, I just want to see that horse’s potential.“

Joey sighed and ran a hand trough his hair. The risks and gains, that’s what show jumping was to him because of course any horse could jump. He just wasn’t a fitting rider to start a horse into show jumping. Joey liked to stay in his discipline. Ramiel lifted his head, licking and chewing on the bit as he swiftly walked around the arena. Joey knew Fox. The stallion was full of surprises and he damn well had the potential.

“He’ll just trot over it, don’t be scared!”

“I’m not scared!” Joey shot back, his voice coming out higher than normally. “Jesus, Lionel, you’re an idiot, seriously. I haven’t jumped in over a year.”

“About time you tried again.” Lionel pulled that smug, teeth showing grin of his and Joey knew then, that there’s no way wiggling out of this. Rolling his eyes he sat straight in the saddle and pushed Fox into a rhytmic trot, feeling the stallion’s endeavour for anything that would happen next.

Fox leaned down into the bit, relaxing in the muscles and pulling gently on the reins. This is gonna be just fine, Joey thought and moved his weight, leading the horse to the right. He circled him for a bit before setting his eyes on the small –wow- really small jump in front of them. Fox perked up a little when he saw the poles creating a nice ‘x’ and shot his ears forward. Joey felt the mass of muscles under him tense up a little, but murmuring soothing words more or less to himself, Fox snorted and pulled on the reins before speeding up again. Joey started to count their distance. Yeah, that was one, two, three, four and –whoa! Fox sped up even more, kicking his rider out of the counting. He kicked the dirt under himself and jumped. Joey was more than glad for his incredible balance, because what the stallion did wasn’t just going over the jump, he flew over it. Pulling himself up, he leaped over the jump as if it was a four feet oxer. Joey pushed himself up and released the reins as much as he could, since he didn’t exactly expect to be flying over an invisible grand prix jump. They landed smoothly, to everyone’s surprise, and cantered to the side, Joey wide-eyed, Fox lifting his head in a ‘did you freaking see that’ manner.

Well.

“O-kay?” Fell out of Lionel’s mouth as he straightened up and wore a very similar expression to Joey’s. That was just… unexpected. He took a moment to stare for a bit longer before bursting into a genuine laugh. “Wow! See? I told you he has a potential. How is your ego doing?”

“Shut your mouth!” Joey said back, but there was a smile on his face as he patted the stallion and glanced back at the blonde. “Everyday’s a surprise isn’t it?”

“Indeed.” Lionel grinned again.

“Well I’ll have one for you tomorrow.” Joey continued and it was him who pulled a smug grin this time. “I want to see him over some jumps, you were right, he might actually do pretty good in show jumping.”

Lionel quirked an eyebrow. “Yeah… and?”

“You are going to be the rider.”}

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-Tools Of Trade-
Paint Tool Sai ; GIMP 2.0
Wacom Intuos4 S A6
20+ layers ; about 6 hours of work
Joey, Lionel, Toby and Fox© Michelle Grün aka *noblestallion
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