[IC] The Western Cowgirl Mystery

[RanchGirl100]

She laughed and shook her head "sorry but I'm not in the department of boyfriend listing. I want to be free and wild" smiled as her horse whinnies

[fer1323]

"Fair enough. By the way, does your mare have a name or don't you do that?" says Russell with a tone of curosity.

[RanchGirl100]

"I never wanted to give her a name but I eventually did give her a name of Tylia Hooves up in heaven"

[fer1323]

Russell looks confused until he clicks. He start to laugh. Russell recovers with teary eyes "I hope that was meant as a joke. If not, please don't break anything important."

[RanchGirl100]

"I'm not planning to" grinned as she allowed her horse to gallop off and enjoy her freedom she then sighed gently trying to remeber where her old family ranch was and then remebemer "well i should go to my ranch and see how everyone is doing"

[fer1323]

Russell remembers the cowgirl telling him about her folks. "Do you mind if I tag along? You have done so much for me so let me return a favour."

[Dragon princess]

Whoops

[RanchGirl100]

(dragon you silly XD)

The female looked at the other before nodding slowly "if you like to see my old house lets go" said getting up slowly.

[fer1323]

"I am going to call them for us" says Russell. He whistles and his horse and her mare arrive with two others. He mounts his horse and waits for his companion.

[RanchGirl100]

She nodded an grinned gently getting onto her horse and trotted down the forest path leading them and they came down the larhe ranch with endless horses walking around

[fer1323]

Russell looks around at the ranch. This is what he daydreams of all the time. He knows this one has personel ties so the chance of him getting is low. "This is quite a nice ranch. One of the best I have seen. So this is yours, I am guessing?"

[RanchGirl100]

"old family ranch" said smiling looking around gently a smirk laced on her face before they stopepd the horses and she walked in and coughed at still the dust everywhere

[fer1323]

Russell walks in after her. The stuffy air hits him like a train. He coughs too. When he manages to compose himself, he says " We need to show this place some love. The air is suffocating. It is almost sucks the life out of a person."

[RanchGirl100]

"Well sorry have not been here since my family was killed" said smiling sadly looking around.

[fer1323]

"I am here if you need me. I will not see you as weak if you cry. I will know why and if anyone says that you are weak for showing emotion then I will personally feed them their feet."

[RanchGirl100]

As they walked around she took one look in the kitchen and stumbled away in horror. In the kitchen laid the burned bodies of her mother,father,little sister and big brother. She slumped against the wall and cries

[fer1323]

Russell looks in the kitchen and sees what she saw. He goes over to her and opens his arms. "I can not bring them back but I can try ease the pain. Come and cry in my embrace. I will not allow you to walk that path alone. You say that you do not need my sympathy and I do not know what you are feeling. The latter is true but I am here to help you get though this long, dark tunnel and see the light at the end of it."

[RanchGirl100]

"All I hear are their screams my brother shoving me out the door demanding I leave " she hissed in sorrow and sadness. She looked at him eyes burning with tears and anger "I can still see that monsters face"

[fer1323]

Russell has seen that look of "out to kill" on many people but this one is more like blood-lust mixed with intense grief, not a healthy combo. It makes his skin crawl and his every part of him tells him to just back off and leave. All but one. This solitary part makes him stand his ground and tells him to help her with everything that he has. He whispers to her "Tell me more. Tell me how the monster looks. Tell me the look in the monster's eyes when you broken him and you have a gun aiming at his head. Tell. me. everything."

[RanchGirl100]

She shuddered and shut her eyes, his face too clear to painful to....happy watching her family burn "he wore black jeans and brown shirt, he had a large scar running down his face, his name was brendi, He was a huge cattle rancher but arter seeing ...my skill with the wild horses he demanded i teach him, i made the foolish mistake of allowinh him to learn. One morning I heard the cries of the wild horses and rushed out and all his men had taken the horses the ones that had refused where shot and killed. I was so man I wanted nothing more then to shoot him, but my father demanded I let him go, I never understood why he said it. but my heart just sunk so eeply seeing my mare in the mix. I couldn;t let it happen i really couldn't. One night I learned where he was at and I found him one night though his group was asleep. I grabbed my mare and all the horses and got them free and back to the ranch till few days later he was back and man was he pissed. he demanded to my father i give back all the horses I stole but my father instead of agreeing, looked at him and i just looked at him with those eyes like they are my friends you give them away I'll never forgive you. He turned back and told him bluntly "No, i will not give you back the horses, they belong to no man" but the man onyl laughed and sore by the ends month if he didn't have the horses back he kill all my family and i would watch them die. Month later the house was set ablaze, my big brother shoved me out o th kitchen door and told me to grab my mare and run, he said to me even if we die , you got out legend behind you and we shall always love you. Go now. I turned and ran off and i ran grabbed the mare and galloped off and watched the house durn in the flames. The next few months my only goal was to find the man and kill him make him pay something. About a year later i found him and I beat the pulp out of him but...i just couldn't do it, i couldn't kill the man. As much as i hated the guy it just felt very wrong to even kill the lowest of the low so i swore to him if he ever came back near me, the horses or my ranch again, i kill him on sight. i never saw him again but I fear history likes to repeat itself and i fear he might come back later" said finally explaining the entire story to the man she decided to put enough trust in to tell this story to.