Living the dream

"You ready to meet your new partner?" my trainer Lucas asks. "Why can't I just stay with Caldera?" I ask him. "You need a new challenge, you have been working and competing with Caldera for 5 years now." he says. "Yeah okay, I guess." I say as we walk towards the one barn. We enter the barn and walk past about 7 stables before we come to a stop. I read the name plate on the stable door, 'Power Jewel'. I look up and saw a pitch black horse with a white star on his face. "Meet Power Jewel, a 7 year old Dutch Warmblood stallion." Lucas says. "He's quite challenging, but we all feel that you're the right person for him. He really needs a person of his own and you have the right personality for him." I nod and step closer to the stable door. He pops his head over the door and I reach my hand out for him to sniff. He seemed relaxed. "Where's his halter? I want to take him for a walk, get to know him." I say. "In his tack box there." he says pointing it out before leaving. I slip the head collar over the stallion's head and lead him out of the barn. "I guess we're partners now boy." I say rubbing his neck. I take him to the round pen as I wanted to work with him a little bit. I start lunging him and he was snorting like a dragon. He then gets a sudden outburst and starts running around and bucking like crazy. I manage to get out of the round pen and just stand there after I had quite the scare. "What was that?!" I yell at Lucas, "I told you he was challenging." he says. "I thought you meant he gets hot over the jumps, not become a bloody rodeo donkey!" I was frustrated as he could've given me a fair warning. "You need a proper challenge and something to bring you back to earth, you've became spoiled since you got Caldera who basically does everything for you. I'll see you in the jumping arena with him in an hour." he says before leaving.