Unicorns and the Lone Wolf
When Velocity was drawn into urgent centaur business, Jola, Uni and he children took a walk around the centaur village, and Jola was surprised at how well organised it was. She put her arm around Uni’s waist and held his hand. The day was sunny and she felt a wash of love running over her, it was a wonderful feeling that she had no intention of wasting.
As they walked, they saw many unique sights and many common ones that she had not expected to see here. It seemed that the centaur taste was more expansive than she had imagined.
Turning the next corner Jola’s hand suddenly tightened on Uni’s and a look of fear appeared in her eyes. Ahead of them stood a half grown wolf cub, it snarled at their approach and readied itself to run. Uni sniffed and then smiled gently at Jola, “It’s alright my love, this is just an ordinary wolf cub.”
Jola looked at him with surprise, “Then what were the others that attacked us so viciously?” She asked .
“The souls of evil men reborn to the ferocity they lived.” Explained Uni.
Jola gasped at hearing the knowledge that had been eluding her for so long, and stood on her toes to kiss Uni on the cheek. His eyes widened and he looked at Jola as if to say. “What did I do for that?”
“Can we keep him? Can we keep him?” asked Kasandra, followed quickly by Sheen. Uni squatted beside them, still holding Jola’s hand, he loved her so much that even little things like holding hands were of great importance to him, and began talking to their children in his quiet, soft voice, “He is a wild animal, and it would be cruel to remove from the life he knows, but he is welcome to walk beside us for as long as he chooses.” The children clapped at hearing this, and the young wold jumped, startled, but remained where he was.
They walked towards the treeline outside the centaur camp, and it was there that they were attacked by a chimera, with his red lion body, his fire breathing lion’s head, a goat head beside that of the lion’s and a poisonous snake for his tail
It attacked by ambush, catching them all by compete surprise, roaring and breathing fire on the closest, Uni. He was forced to let go of Jola’s hand to put the flames on himself out.
All four changed to unicorn form and charged, Sheen went for the poisonous snake tail, and barely escaped being poisoned, Kasandra attacked the goat’s head, skipping sideways to make it’s razor sharp horns miss, Uni and Kola both went for the lion’s head, which was still belching fire at them. They both attacked from different sides, each goring the chimera’s body deeply, making blood pump from the wound, and causing the beast to stagger, but not fall, finally the young wolf flashed by, taking the wounded lion’s head by the throat, and tearing it deeply.
The chimera tried to breathe fire on the wolf, but it was too agile, darting and twisting out of harm’s way. Uni thrust his horn deeply between the lion’s and goat’s heads, finding the beast’s heart, and this time causing it to drop to the ground. Sheen had killed the snake’s head with his fore hooves, and turned to aid Kasandra with the goat’s head, the pair killing it together. When they changed back to human form they both hugged each other, still the best of friends. Uni and Jola hugged each other and kissed, Jola started to cry, she had needed this for so long, just to be in his arms, the times to show each other their love were small, yet precious. Uni gently kissed the tears from her face and gently rubbed her back, and stroked her hair.
The children said nothing, each knew how important their parents were to each other, and didn’t want to disturb that. It was special to a child, although embarrassing, to know that their parents were so much in love, and each felt that deeply.
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