Unicorns and Dark Elves
The White Wizard insisted on taking them to see the Elf King herself, as the elves were besieged by thousands of evil creatures the probability of being noticed and attacked was high, but she knew back ways they could travel in more safety.
As they neared the elf citadel they could see its white spires rising high over the surrounding forest, and they could hear the sound of the horde surrounding it. Even at a low volume it was deafening, with squawks and growls, roars and bellows, and the most fearsome of all, the sounds of their great war machines throwing massive rocks, and shooting huge bolts into the elf defenders.
Just as they were about to enter a small grove a young nymph stepped forward, she immediately fell to one knee in front of Sheen, and addressed him as My Lord.
“My Lord,” She said with her head bowed low, and said in a voice full of admiration, “Every dryad throughout the land has been asked to give you whatever help was in their power to give. I have been waiting in case you decided to pass this way.” Sheen was so stunned at being treated this way that he could not think of anything to say, he was, after all, little more than a baby, so Uni stepped forward in his stead.
“Do you know of a way to get inside the citadel and see the elf king?” asked Uni, in human tongue as this dryad seemed to speak and understand it well.
“Yes Sire, there is a tunnel that was built for the elf King many years ago a few feet from my tree. The fruit I have chosen to grow was given to me by the lady Cookie herself, and also the elf king. He is so fond of it that he has given me his personal protection, even as his own citadel is besieged. That is why I am the sole survivor of the many dryads who used to have trees here.”
She walked a few feet to a small outcropping of rocks, and drew strange symbols on one with her finger, and suddenly o door opened and she quickly led them through, closing it again after them. Inside the tunnel was dimly lit by glow balls attached to the walls, and the dryad led them along the twisting pathway towards their destination, the elf king’s chambers.
Suddenly as she started to round a small bend she gasped in horror, and motioned everyone to stand against the tunnel wall. She whispered, almost as quietly as breathing, “Dark Elves, betrayers from below.” as the muffled footsteps came closer.
“You will die in screaming agony on the point of my own blade, with it’s poison turning your blood to molten fire.” Said a twisted, evil, feminine voice.
As they passed within inches of the unseen unicorns, Uni’s hand shot out and grabbed the Dark Elf speaker by the throat, lifting her into the air, crushing her airways, stopping her from giving a warning.
Jola reached out of the darkness and grabbed the wrist of the captive elf girl the Dark Elf had been threatening, and with a scared gasp from her pulled her beside herself against the darkened tunnel wall.
A military voice came from further away in the darkness, “Double pace, we are falling behind the Mistress Assassin, we will be flayed alive if anything happens to her.” their footsteps increased their tempo with military precision as their pace increased and Uni was forced to twist the neck of the struggling assassin, before she managed to give their position away.
Uni grabbed the assassin’s sword, being the only weapon available, it was light in his hand, extremely easy to manipulate, and he stood ready in the centre of the path, waiting for the battle to come.
The warriors, when they appeared were uniformly dressed in black armour, that was already covered in blood, they were not black of skin, but rather a dark purple, and as they spotted Uni they moved into formation, reasdy to fight this intruder.
