Fury

[Fraroc]

SURPRISE!! NEW CHAPTER!!!

Chapter Twenty-Five





The mood at the stables has been rather melancholy as of two days ago. Mike, Karilla, Jennifer, Jack and Marissa try to carry on like nothing happened, a tactic to keep their minds off it. But they couldn’t avoid the elephant in the room forever. There was someone missing from their gang, their own “Saddle Club”. Mike could hear Karilla sobbing softly next to her, so he put his arm around her and they proceeded to cuddle, just like a married couple.




Jack has been on the phone all day talking to a certain someone. If he had the money, he would have gladly bailed out Jason in a heartbeat, but unfortunately, he’s well off but not THAT well off.

“Uh-huh? So....you want that? Good.....”




Jack walks into the room, his face showed a somber facade, but underneath that was a glimmer of hope in his eye.

“Guys, I just got done talking to Jason’s father.....(sigh)...he agreed to bail out his son on one condition. That he speaks to the person that was with Jason when this whole thing happened. Mike, he wants you to be there tomorrow....”




The next morning, Mike made it over the palatial Roaring 20s-like mansion that was Jason’s home. He could easily pick up that Mark, Jason’s father was both disappointed in his son and want him to learn a lesson and in the same vein, wanted him out of prison.

“Mr. Weiss, I have no idea why you are so reluctant to bail out your only son.”

“Jason was always a stubborn pain in the ass, that’s how he always was. But each time he would do something stupid, it always seems like he had good intentions. But waltzing onto someone else’s property, beating the owner up, and stealing his horse?! How the f*** can anyone defend that!?”

“I can.”





“Oh yeah?”

“Mr. Weiss, I’m under the impression that the cops only told you half of the story. I can tell you what really transpired that night. Jason saw these videos uploaded on YouTube of this guy training his horses in a very abusive way, and he saw a white stallion in one of the videos that seemed familiar to him. He knew damn well that white stallion was being subject to absolutely horrific abuse by that man. So he decided to risk everything, now even his freedom to save that stallion from his abusive owner.”




It took Mark a while to let Mike’s story soak in, but then he spoke up.

“That....sounds like my son...”

“Now you see?”

“Yeah....At first I didn’t believe you, but....you basically fit my son to a T. That was indeed very noble of him....and I do plan to bail him out...”




“Thank you so much Mr. Weiss....”

As Mike was about to walk out of the mansion, he notices a picture. It was a photograph of Jason riding the black stallion known as Dante.




“That’s another fine example of my son’s stubborn-yet-noble nature.”

“What, Dante?”

“Yeah......”




“When I first met Jason almost a year ago, he said that you disapproved of Jason getting Dante.”

“(sigh)....Yes...Yes I did......When Jason was eighteen, my wife and I took him to the Equestrian Center to pick out his very own horse as a graduation present. Out of all the gorgeous mares and geldings he could have chosen, he chose the horse that had to be isolated from the others. The black stallion was known to be wild, dangerous and unpredictable. In fact the Equestrian Center had him scheduled to be euthanized. And like he told you, I did flip my sh*t when he told me that he wanted that beast. That horse seemed completely untamable and there was one time where he actually attacked Jason while he was trying to break him.......After that incident, I was ready to get my hunting rifle, put a bullet in that stallion’s skull and end it right there. And then one day...it was like he was never wild....the black stallion calmed down and began to trust other human beings....pretty soon, Jason was able to ride him!





“How did Jason do that? Earn Dante’s trust?”

“If you want the truth, around that time, he got really interested in Alexander the Great of Macedonia and he learned about the legend of Alexander The Great’s horse, Bucephalus. And I guess that the deadly nature of Bucephalus, caused by his fear of his own shadow reminded him of the wild nature of Dante which was cause by a fear of people....and that inspired a way to tame him...because after he earned the stallion’s trust, the two of them became INSEPERABLE. That’s why I was so shocked to find out that he turned him loose months ago!”

“Dante was escaping the stables at night to be with a palomino mare. He found a girlfriend in the wild and Jason decided not to hold Dante back anymore and he set him free to roam the plains and be with the wild mare.”




Mark’s eyes scanned Mike up and down before smiling and patting him on the shoulder.

“Mike, thank you so much for making me realize so much about my son. Even though he is stubborn, impulsive and prone to stupid decisions.....he really is a good person....And when I bail him out, the first thing I’m gonna do is wrap my arms around him and give him the biggest, most gigantic bear hug a man can give to his son.”



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“So this is life on the outside.....you all look much older!”