Unicorns New World
Jola had been thinking, that the evil creatures were so prevalent in Uni’s world because there were no unicorns there to protect and inspire the good souled creatures. It had been on her mind for days, and finally she asked Uni and the children if they wanted to go there again.
Also she had a maddening thought running through her mind. If that door had been opened on purpose, who opened it, and why? Her smile widened as the thought came to her that for whatever reason the door had been opened, only good had been spread, they had silenced the song of the siren, with her immortal lover, Chenny had no need to ever sing her song any more, and she had earned the respect and friendship of a unicorn herd with her quick actions and her intelligence in interpretation.
Sheen had earned a reputation far above anything she could have imagined with the gentle dryads, to them he had become almost a God when he risked his life to save one of their own, even though he was still a child, even the trees seemed to bow as he passed.
Recently her parents had been divorced, so Jola wanted to take her mother with her, Uni did not understand divorce, he could only see the two people who had given him so much love, had been there for him when he needed help, they had become HIS parents too, and he loved both of them very much, she had tried hard to explain it to him, but he was incapable of understanding. So she had decided to tell him that her father would join them later.
Saying goodbye to friends took a long time, but when at last all the tears had be cried, and all the hands shaken, they set off to find a doorway, to a new life.
Uni had his arm around her, the children followed with their grandmother, all were happy and excited, but Jola was a little worried when the door they found was in a different place, and it was open. Inside they saw a huge icy palace, with a woman standing in the doorway, fighting with all her might.
Uni became the white unicorn again, Jola the black, Kasandra a pretty Piebald unicorn and Sheen a young, black unicorn stallion, and together they charged as a herd, a family, into the crowd of harpies surrounding the embattled woman.
The woman, wearing a huge fur coat looked at them in shock, she said her voice showing that shock, “Unicorns? What magic is this? The unicorn herd died off a thousand years ago, in the battle against the demons.”
Uni sad in a sad voice, “Then we are truly the last of the unicorns?” as his horn speared an attacking harpy from the sky.
The stench of the harpies was terrible, but he found the breath to ask if Jola’s mother could shelter inside, and he explained that she was an older human and could not help in the fight.
As she approached the doors with the woman still fighting just inside them with a spear made from ice, Jola’s mother said, “Just give me a spear like yours and I will show you what a human will do to save the lives of her grandchildren.”
The woman gestured and suddenly there was a spear in Jola’s mother’s hands, and within seconds she had buried the icy head of it in a harpy that was attempting to claw Kasandra’s eyes out.
Uni had six or seven harpies attacking him, Jola had three, the children had only one each because both the woman in the fur coat and Jola’s grandmother were now protecting them. Suddenly a harpy came from nowhere, screaming and heading straight for Sheen, the strange woman gestured, and it turned to ice, falling to the ground and shattering.
Jola managed to gore one of her attackers as it dropped filth on her and tried to claw her, just before it’s death it had started to swear, and the thought ran through Jola’s mind that their filth was not only on the outside.
Uni twisted and his horn flashed, killing two of the evil shrieking harpies in one blow.
The rest retreated, showering them with curse words, but then flew towards the safety of the hills.
With the danger passed for now the strange woman introduced herself as the Ice Queen, and almost immediately, a flock of red fairies popped into view around her. These are my babies she said with a proud smile. They went to look for help when the harpies attacked.
“Come inside please. “ The Ice Queen asked them all, but when he stepped inside the large double doors Uni felt his hooves begin to slide and told everyone to change to human form. Following the now human Uni they all gasped with wonder as they saw the splendour of the Ice Queen’s palace.
“It’s like a fairy tale.” gasped Kasandra, who had been reading all the fairy tales she could put her hands on lately.
The Ice Queen turned to Uni and said, “There is much need for unicorns in this time, evil is growing out of control.” Uni nodded and soon they were all disgusting the nature of the world they had decided to make their own.
Uni put his hand on Jola’s, and smiled with love into her eyes, she had brought him home again, it was something he needed, in his heart and in his soul, and his beloved wife had recognised that need and made plans to fix it.
His love was growing even more for this wonderful woman.
