Unicorns and Centaurs
The elf king suggested that they might start to gather the good creatures in the world, before each was attacked in force alone and destroyed. Winter’s Blossom the dryad handed Jola a large bag of seeds, and whispered in her ear, going bright red as she did so, “Before any of you go to the toilet,” she went redder still, “could you plant one of these and fertilise it please? They are dryad tree seeds, if new trees are grown the dryad race will be reborn once more.”
Sheen took the bag himself, he had taken the dryads survival as a personal quest, and although he was young, Winter’s Blossom was so honoured that she started to cry. She hugged Sheen so hard that he almost cried out, but he put the seeds carefully inside his tunic, where they would remain safe until planted.
She then left to go back to her tree, dryads could not survive long outside their tree, and the elf king winked at Sheen, “Your honest and quick action have won you many friends young unicorn,” he said with a smile, you will make a wonderful stallion. Uni’s smile could have lit the room, to hear such words said by the elf king himself was a father’s dream.
The elf king turned to Uni and Jola and said, “This mission will be dangerous, some of you might die, so if you would like to travel alone and come back for your family later, you are welcome to leave them in my care.”
Jola answered before Uni could open his mouth, “We travel as a herd, united we stand, divided we fall, Uni is strong, but there are many creatures here stronger and more deadly, as a herd we will survive where as individuals we would perish, and my love for Uni is so great that I would never let him go into danger without that love. It is an advantage that the evil creatures lack, and we can dearly use such advantages.”
Uni put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close, there was no doubting the love between them, and that with that love hey could achieve miracles,
Then the White Wizard said that she too must go home, there were things she needed to do, and after hugging everyone, she waved her hand, and disappeared.
As Uni and his herd prepared to leave, Princess Aurora approached him and removed a necklace from around her neck, she put it around Uni’s neck and told him, “This necklace is imbued with magic, it will deflect one mortal blow, but only one, then it will revert to just a simple decoration.” She kissed him on the cheek, and wished him good luck in his mission, “Before you return you will have set things in motion that will possibly change the face of this world, brave unicorns, we will be forever in your debt.”
The elf king gave them simple directions, head west from the dryad’s tree and about a day’s march, Jola figured at the speed unicorns travelled it would be less than an hour, and they headed back through the tunnel, they stopped briefly at Winter’s Blossom’s tree to leave their manure there, and headed straight to where the elf king had said the centaurs could be found, Jola was right, even travelling at a slower speed for the children, they arrived in less than an hour, and were greeted by the centaur guards.
Jola asked if Melicity was in the camp, but was disappointed when they said no, that she had left earlier that morning on important business for her father. Uni asked for an audience with Velocity and it was immediately granted.
Velocity bellowed in excitement as he saw Uni, “Change to human form so I can hug you and shake your hand, he shouted to all the centaurs within hearing range, this is Uni, the out of time unicorn who saved my life so many times during the great war against the witch. And who are these lovely unicorns/” he asked looking at Jola.
They all changed to human form and Uni introduced Jola first, “This is my wife Jola.” He said with a huge smile and a look of absolute love to Jola, “and these are my wonderful children, Kasandra and Sheen.” He glowed with pride as he looked at each.
“You have already met my filly, Melicity.” Velocity looked just as proud as Uni had, and both began to talk about old times.
Jola was surprised at the massive size and musculature of Velocity, whichever way you looked at him he was at least twice the size of Uni, and every inch a leader. Even the spear strapped to his side was the size of a small tree.
Velocity’s ears has stood up when Sheen’s name had been mentioned, and he asked Uni if he was the same as had saved the life of a dryad.
Uni almost exploded with pride, and he nodded and smiled at Sheen. “He will be a mighty stallion one day,” he said, and Kasandra is wise and brave as well, and my wonderful wife has saved my life so many times I can not count them all, “he said with so much love that Velocity looked at her again, to see the woman who had caught his friend’s heart so firmly.
