Amanda looked up through her tears to see a figure getting off horseback, his short buzz cut hair was slightly hidden by the baseball cap he wore with the logo of their biggest rival university. He had a short beard as he got down, he wasn’t bulky per say but he had a muscular form which came from time in the gym but yet he got off his horse with grace and skill.
“Chris?” inquired Amanda, her voice shaking a bit.
“Amanda?” inquired Chris as Amanda jumped to her feet and rushed into his arms and hugged him like she had never hugged him before. He put an arm on the back of her head and held her close.
“I never thought I would see you again.” Cried Amanda
“Amanda…it is alright, I am right here.” Said Chris with love and concern in his voice.
“What to tell us something boss?” inquired a voice Amanda knew well as she turned and looked toward a women sitting on top of a horse with Leopard fur pattern, an almost pure white fur spotted with an almost per black spots across the body.
“Jenny.” Stated Chris as the women, Jenny chuckled even as she eyed the two of them.
“Should have known, you wouldn’t have turned down Aiko if you hadn’t had someone else.” Stated Jenny before shrugging. “Or you were gay, which is ok but I think you would have come out to us if you where.”
“Jenny, that is enough.” stated another female voice as Aiko, a Japanese international student gave her voice. Aiko was a breathtaking beautiful woman, with long black hair and while small in the chest she had a thin figure. She looked perfect on top of an equally beautiful Arabian horse that was probably worth more then any of the horses Amanda’s team owned. Then again the only daughter of very successful Japanese business men could afford it.
“Just let it go, I want to know where the hell we are.” Added yet another female voice as Amanda saw a third women, this one dressed in all black, with dark make up on and looking like a goth version of a horse girl sitting on top of a mostly black with some white spots horse.
“Zoey is right, we need to find out what is going on.” Said a male voice as Amanda noticed that he was hanging onto Jenny’s back riding two even though there was another horse without a rider.
Amanda didn’t know him, he didn’t look like a rider, he was sitting all wrong and looked almost afraid to be on horseback. He wore thick glasses and had a thin frame which contradicted the university blacksmithing club clothing he had on the shirt instead of the equestrian club like the others. He even had a belt with what looked like blacksmith tools on.
“Amanda, this is Fred, he was putting on new shoes on our horses when….” Started Chris
“When there was a blinding flash of light and you walked into it?” finished Amanda as everyone looked at her and nodded her head. “Let me guess you had gotten a painting of a centaur called the Joining the herd?”
“Yes.” Confirmed Aiko “How did you know that?”
“That happened to us, Marcus, Lucy, Luke, Ben and Wendy where all transported here along with a horse each.” Stated Amanda “How long have you been here?”
“A few hours.” Answered Chris “We saw some strange things in the sky, if I didn’t know better, I could have sworn I saw a second moon.”
“You did.” Confirmed Amanda “We aren’t on Earth anymore, we were transported somewhere else, we have been here going on three days now.”
“Not on Earth, are you crazy?” inquired Jenny
“It only gets more crazy, we are all becoming Centaurs, even the horses.” Said Amanda as the others looked at her like she was crazy.
“Right…have you been under the sun for a while?” inquired Aiko clearly not believing her.
“Amanda.” Yelled a voice as coming out from the wood like, clear as day was Wendy. Her human body coming out of a deep rich brown horse lower body.
For a moment everyone paused and looked at Wendy as another centaur, this one a muscular black man with a deep black horse body came out beside her.
“Over here, Wendy.” Said Amanda as she waved them over. “Looks like we got more people who got screwed over like us.”
“Wendy? And who is…” inquired Chris as he pointed at the male centaur.
“Midnight.” Answered Amanda “They are a couple now….”
“What the fuck?” inquired Aiko as the others looked on stunned.