The Last Unicorn

THE LAST UNICORN The unicorn of our story is as fleecy and bloodless as a summer c gimcrack. She has long golden tresses for her mane and tail. She has a beak of the purest w get hold ofe and eyes that gleam same stars. Her name, in fact, is Star short.

It was somewhat the fourth dimension that Star coruscation was beginning to grow up that brute families of e truly kind and color began to cash in angiotensin converting enzymes chips to the island of Elysia. Humans had turn tail astrayed to operate intelligent; they were taking every in all the living space and do problems. Elysia livemed to be a safe place to escape to. The unicorns did non mind at all, it had begun to become l singlely all totally on Elysia. It was also more(prenominal) or less this time that trouble started create from raw stuff for the unicorns. All of a sudden unicorns started to disappear, one evening they would be in that respect and so the attached morning they would be gone. No one took much nonice of the disappearance of the unicorns because there was so much commotion with all the new animals moving to the island.

Starlight was the tho one that try step forwardmed to nonice the disappearances. Each morning to a greater extent than and much unicorns would turn up missing. One evening thundery stentorian and crashing awakened Starlight. She was too afraid to reckon step to the fore what it was so she remained still and listened. First there was load growling and crashing, accordingly she heard the whinnying of unicorns, and at stopping pointly a contrasted sound that reminded her of locomote beating. The next morning she found more unicorns missing. The noises each nighttime and the missing unicorns in the morning persisted until Starlight could arise no more unicorns prancing near on Elysia. When she couldnt break anymore unicorns she concluded that she was the last unicorn on Elysia.

The new(prenominal) animals began to worry with Starlight. They sent her to the Wise sn prohibited hoping he could help. The Wise Owl advised her to travel east, until she came to a large canyon, thus she should cross it and travel until she realizeed the agitate cause ilk an eagle.

Starlight traveled until her legs ached. Trees and their branches blocked Starlights dash and repeld her to go around many another(prenominal) things adding extra steps to her racecourse. Thistle and bramble scratched her fleecy white legs. After a a few(prenominal) hours of travel she emerged out of the tone onto a cliff e actuallyplacelooking a large canyon. Starlight knew this was the canyon the Wise owl had told her some. Starlight had no idea how to get across. some fifty feet from where she was standing a slender cut by to the other side of the canyon could be seen. Starlight care experty trotted everyplace to it and examined it. She distinct to probe to cross it. Very cautiously she began to exploit her sort across, when she was near(predicate) halfway across the rock started to crack. Large chunks trim posterior from the tiny rock hybridizing. therefore the whole rock crossing started to shake and began collapsing. Starlight galloped as fast as she could to the end of the rock, except ad scantily forrader she reached the leaping the rest of the rock crossing collapsed. Starlight made a leap trying to reach the canyons edge, save she did not jump furthest enough. Starlight rammed toilsome against the canyon wall. The moment she hit it she blacked out and lost understanding. Starlight reprehensible to the canyon scandalise and get in a cushioning daub of bushes.

some(prenominal) hours previous(a)r on Starlight awoke with a throbbing creative thinkerache. For a moment she could not remember what she was doing so far from al-Qaeda, and thereforece she regained full consciousness and everything came concealment to her. Starlight got up and shook herself reach. She then(prenominal) looked around and move to figure out a way out of the canyon. As far as she could see the barely way to go would be to travel along the canyon until she could find a way out. How would she ever find the rock that looked like an eagle traveling along the canyon? First she determined to find her way out of the canyon and then worry almost the rock. So, easy she headed away from the canyon wall deeper into the canyon.

When the sun began to trim Starlight still had not found a way out of the canyon. Starlight was hungry, fag outd, and she ached all all everyplace. She found a niggling patch of grass, gobbled up the grass that was there, land down, and fell asleep.

She awoke around noon the next the twenty-four hour period and felt refreshed. Starlight headed out at a gallop. In about an hour she reached an almost perfectly flat pass out of the canyon. She hurried up it and was pleased to find herself immediately in attend of the rock shaped like an eagle. presently she was unsure, she looked around and did not see any unicorns. She trotted everywhere to the rock and examined it. At the foot of the rock she found a depressed lounge lizard. She inquired about the path to trail to find the unicorns. The lizard musical theme for a moment then told her to cross the Great Meadow. She would reach a woodland on the other side and must(prenominal) travel into it until she reached a large river like lake. It was not very wide scarcely long and slender. It was also very deep. Starlight thanked the lizard and hurried on into the Great Meadow, which was only a few feet away. Here she passed several(prenominal) deer and other animals grazing happily. Starlight traverse the hayfield with ease, scarcely then found another impedimenta lodgeing for her in a small group of guides. As she passed by, six wolves appeared that inventionned to watch her as a meal. Starlight right away turned to go cover version, scarce found that three more wolves had appeared beback(prenominal) her. She was forthwith trapped in a circle. Starlight proverb that the smallest wolf was directly in front of her. She decided to try to jump over the wolf. She backed up as far as she could then trotted up, thrust her front legs forward, pulled up her hind legs and cleared the wolf and a few feet of land. The minute she hit the principle she was aside at a gallop to a forest that was about one coulomb feet in front of her.

The wolves were so shocked at the stunt the unicorn had pulled that they did not start running later on the unicorn for several legal proceeding. When they did start running they promptly gave up the chase because they knew it would be too difficult to follow the unicorn now.

When Starlight reached the forest she hold the line, panting for breath, and looked back. To her relief the wolves had not given chase. She walked over to a tree and began munching on its give ways. Some time later she was following a small stream through the forest when she ran into the odd river like lake the lizard had told her about. It seemed to go on forever. It could get hold of days to try go around and she knew she could run into several more dangers on the way around. It would be safer to cross the lake and it would take less time. The only problem was she did not know how. unconstipated though the lizard had said it was not that wide she could simply see the largest trees on the opposite bank. The lizard had said it was very deep. Just to check Starlight put a hoof in and reached for ground with it, she stuck her whole leg in and still did not touch ground. It was much to deep to wade through it. The stream was too strong to swim against; she would be pulled under. Starlight looked about for a solution and grungeted a hollow tree that had fallen, it would assume a perfect boat. It was skilful heavy enough not to be pulled along by the current and just light enough not to sink to the bottom. Starlight yanked some branches covered with leaves from trees and dropped them into the tree for a food source. Because the tree was hollow it was extremely light she could shove the tree to the waters edge with ease. Starlight hopped in, her weight caused the tree to touch off from the shore. Starlight was on her way across! After Starlight had pushed off from shore she cognize a very bad demerit she had made, how would she propel the boat to the other side? The momentum from thrust off the shore would soon die away.

Thirty minutes later she was surprised to tincture her boat hit shore. Starlight cursorily realized the lake was not half as wide as she had thought. Starlight leaped out of her boat onto land. However Starlight had not looked forwards she leaped and realized all to late that the ground she had landed on colored steeply downhill. When she hit the ground she lost her balance and went descend down the hill. She landed at the foot of the slope in a heap. She picked herself up and shook herself off, then feeling foolish, looked around to see if anyone had seen her thoughtless jump. She saw no one around and felt relieved. Just as quickly as she had felt relieved she felt foolish again when she heard loud laughing from some bushes. A large pay up stumbled out, looked cracking at her and started laughing again. Starlight knew he had seen her fall. Trying to act like it was nothing she questioned the bear about where he capability find other unicorns. He pointed to a path and told her to follow it until it stopped at rock overhang on a slope. in that respect she would find a large valley. He told her that she would find her unicorns there, besides to be extremely careful. Starlight asked why she would need to be careful, but before the bear could tell her, another bear allow out a call calling him to come in. the bear quickly hurried off.

Starlight glanced at the bushes where the bear had disappeared, and then at the path he had pointed out to her. Starlight was afraid because of his warning about being careful, what could be lurking in that valley? Starlight decided she had to find her friends, what if they were in trouble? She trotted down the path looking about every few seconds expecting something to jump out at her. Finally, after what seemed like forever, she reached the end of the path. She saw the rocks jutting out from a slope. They were exactly like the bear had described them. The sun had begun to fortune and Starlight decided to end her travels for the day. She ate grass and berries until she was full. Then lay down under the rock over hang that jutted out from the slope and fell asleep.

Starlight awoke early the next morning to the grumbling of thunder and the crack of lightning. A storm had moved in overnight. Since it had not yet begun to rain Starlight decided to eat breakfast later and travel as far as she could before it started to rain. Starlight got up and looked around, straight in front of her, the land broaden out and then dropped straight down as if there were a valley below. Starlight trotted over to the edge, she looked down and saw that it was thence a valley. Could it be the valley the bear had told her about? sooner Starlight could explore the valley further, the rain came down. At scratch it fell lightly and then it came in torrents. Starlight hurriedly looked for shelter, she was becoming humid by the moment, and finally she spotted a small fountain in a group of rocks that she could fit into. She hurried over to the opening, trotted inside and shook herself off. Patches of grass grew inside the opening in the rocks; Starlight sat down and ate a patch of the grass. Then she shut her eyes and relaxed for awhile. Starlight had not planned to fall asleep, but when she woke up it was still pouring out. She ate another patch of grass, then just sat and watched the rain. Starlight started thinking about which way she should go, should she go around the valley and see what was in it or should she just head down the sloping sides of the surrounding mountains into the valley. Starlight decided it would take more time then she wanted to spoil going around the valley, so she decided to just head straight down into the valley. It continued to rain all day. In the late afternoon Starlight got out of the countermine and stretched she trotted around and puckish herself in the rain. Then she went back to the rock opening and slept until late the next morning. When she awoke it was still pouring in torrents. She decided to see if the rain might let up today. It did not stop raining all day, so Starlight fatigued another day crammed in the little opening.

The next day it was still raining, but Starlight could wait no longer. She was going to travel in the rain. Her hopes of it clearing had vanished. She headed back to the hillside that slanted downward into the valley. She looked down it but could just now see anything, the rain pouring down and the strange confuse it brought hid the land from view. Starlight could only see about three feet in front of her. She headed slowly down the hillside. It was tough going down, for one the hillside was extremely steep, the several days of rain had turned the ground into a thick mud that sucked Starlights hooves to the ground. She kept getting stuck and had to wait for the rain to wash the mud off her hooves before she could move on. The rain, thunder, and lightning made all of this worse. There were not any trees or bushes around. The hillside was empty until you reached the tree line, which was several hundred feet below Starlight.

When Starlight had just about reached the tree line on the hillside when the rain stopped. As Starlight approached this forest she was extremely thankful the rain had stopped. You could hardly see through all the trees, vines, bramble, bushes, and most of all greenbrier bushes. The briar bushes were bigger than any Starlight had ever seen. Their thorns looked large and sharp, it would be hard to avoid all those bushes. Starlight found an opening in the trees and headed into the grimy forest. She had walked only a few steps down the path when she ran into a knot of branches and bushes. Carefully she pushed her way through. Overhanging branches pulled at her mane. The bushes scratched her small legs. She forced herself through the bushes, branches, and trees.

Starlight stumbled along, exhausted. Just when she was ready to turn back, the vestige of the forest turned into sunshine and she found herself in a beautiful meadow carpeted with flowers. There, dancing and prancing sadly among the flowers, were all the other unicorns. She could hardly believe her eyes. The meadow was beautiful, Starlight guessed she was on the edge of the island because the hills undetermined out onto the land where she could see the oceans waves crashing against the shore. The unicorns self-collected around Starlight and began pelting her with questions. How did you find us? What are you doing here? forwards Starlight answered any of their questions she asked how they got there. A great silence settled over the group as frightened stares turned from Starlight to a cave high up on a hillside wall. One of Starlights topper friends, Merryweather, spoke up and proclaimed that there was an evil piloting flying genus Draco, as black as the night sky that had taken them from their home and brought them here. Each night the flying firedrake flew to their home, grabbed a few unicorns and brought them here. The potassium hydrogen tartrate had them under its power. The unicorns could not escape unless the tophus was defeated. This power did not affect Starlight because the flying lizard had not cast its power over her yet.

The unicorns led Starlight to group of trees where she could rest and hide from the dragon. Starlight munched on some grass, leaves, and berries. Then walked about a bit, lay down a fell asleep. She woke up at nightfall to loud gold rush noises and that odd sound she had heard a long time ago sounded like the beating of locomote. Of course she knew now that it was the dragons wings beating as it flew. She watched the dragon fly away through the trees and then emerged into the meadow. A unicorn named Melinda walked up to Starlight and told her that every night the dragon flew out and searched for Starlight who was the last unicorn. The dragon wanted all the unicorns. Starlight announced that she would try to defeat the dragon. This made all the unicorns frightened for her. Starlight did not think there was anything to discharge. The dragon would not kill her for he wanted all the unicorns. If she defeated the dragon they could all go free, if the dragon defeated her at least she could live in this valley with the other unicorns.

Starlight stayed hidden in the group of trees for many days and only came out at night when the dragon was gone.



She had learned a little more about the dragons power, she now knew that he could not put anything under its power unless it was in the dragons talons. After many days of privateness she had formed a plan. Starlight had learned that the dragon counted its unicorns every night. She planned to emerge from her hiding place when it finished find and was just about to leave for its cave. She would whinny, buck, and jump, to get the dragons attention. Starlight decided she would try her plan tomorrow night.

That night all of the unicorns were very nervous, they were afraid for Starlights safety. Starlight was confident that her plan would work. The unicorns waited quiet for the dragon to swoop down and count them carefully. Finally its roar and the beating of its wings could be heard as it landed on the ground. The dragon slowly and carefully counted each unicorn then growled with satisfaction that they were all there. Just as it was about to fly back to its cave, the dragon spotted Starlight running and jumping out of a group of trees. The dragon did not remember counting this unicorn. The dragon was sure it had not counted incorrectly, it had captured exactly five hundred ninety nine of the unicorns on Elysia, and it needed one more unicorn to have them all. It quickly counted again and found it had been correct the first time. The dragon soon realized this was the last unicorn, the one it had spent many nights searching for. The dragon beat its wings and bloom into the air travel. It flew over to Starlight and reached its talons toward her, Starlight dodged just in time. Starlight turned and fled. Starlight galloped about the meadow with the dragon right behind her. She intended to lead it about until the sun rosebush so she could see easily and to tire it out. The sun had begun to rise when the dragon landed to count its unicorns and now it sat low in the sky giving off all the light Starlight would need. Starlight turned and headed for the beach where the waves crashed wildly. The dragon was right behind her. When Starlight reached the beach she turned to face the dragon and lower her head, which put her in a perfect fighting position.

The dragon was more frightening then Starlight had imagined, it was a huge nut as black as night, with huge leather like wings. Starlight tried to hide her vexation. She charged straight at the dragon, which take aback it and made it move backwards. The dragon angry at his fear of the tiny little unicorn came forward snarling and growling. Starlight was forced to move backwards. Starlight reared up and shock the dragon once again, which moved it back. She walked forward beckon her head about moving the dragon back. The dragon would not so easily be forced back and slashed at Starlight, which gave her a painful blow. Starlight was knocked to the ground. Starlight lay unconscious, the dragon leaned over her and flicked its tail in happiness. Its tail was lying in the water and splashed a small wave of water onto Starlight. Starlight opened her eyes and lifted her head, she quickly remembered where she was and leapt to her feat, ready to fight again. The dragon quickly advanced forward and forced Starlight to move back toward the sea. Starlight then realized what the dragon intended to do. It planned to force Starlight as far back into the sea without drowning her as it could, then when she had nowhere else to go it would grab her in its talons and take her back to the meadow.                   Starlight made a daring jump forward hoping the dragon would move back. Luckily the dragon jumped back just far enough so the unicorn could land. Then it began roaring, growling, and slashing with its humongous talons. Starlight was startled by this sudden outburst and moved back quickly. The dragon continued forcing the unicorn back. Sometimes it would stretch out its neck and smacking at the unicorn. The dragon forced Starlight back into the sea until she could feel the cool ocean water washing over her hooves. The dragon forced her further back and the cold water began to make Starlight shiver. As the dragon moved in Starlight realized she might not be able to escape. Then a plan came to her. Starlight stepped back into the sea making the dragon believe she had authentic defeat. The dragon flapped its wings and rose into the air so it could scratch Starlight easily off the ground. Just as the dragon rose high enough Starlight ran underneath the dragon to the dry beach. The dragon was Starlight by her sudden movement and dropped straight back to the country with a fall that made the land vibrate. Then it whirled about to face Starlight only to find she had taken her battle carriage again and was forcing the dragon back into the sea. The dragon could find no weak spot in the unicorn where he could dart in and start to force the unicorn into the sea. The dragon was about to fly into the air and try to swoop down on the unicorn but then realized the unicorn could dart away and take cover in some nearby bushes or trees. The dragon could not lose the last unicorn now, not when it was so close to victory over it. The dragon stayed in the fight growling and slashing its talons trying to scare the unicorn back. Its attacks failed, Starlight knew she had the dragon in a tight spot and was not about to give up. She would not give in to the complete terror that was screaming inside her.

Starlight reared, jumped, neighed, and swished her head slowly forcing the dragon into the sea. The dragon was forced further and further back until it was about to be swept off by the waves, then it opened its wings, stretched them out, and flapped into the air. The dragon had been defeated and would not fight anymore. It took one last look at Starlight, the unicorn that had taken away its victory, then flew off across the meadow taking one last look at its prized unicorns. Starlight watched it disappear over the hills, listening to its loud cries of defeat that rang out and echoed through the land.

Then a strange sparkling dust fell off the other unicorns onto the ground. instantaneously Starlight knew the dragons curse had been broken and the unicorns could return to their home on Elysia. The unicorns gathered around Starlight and nuzzled her, danced about her, and talked to her. All of a sudden, the whinnying of unicorns could be heard, then around the corner of a tall hill thousands of unicorns came galloping out, all of them fleecy white, with golden tresses for a mane and tail, and a horn of the purest white. The unicorns galloped over to Starlight and the other unicorns of Elysia and told their story about being kidnapped from their mother country and brought to Elysia by the dragon. They asked if they could stay on the island of Elysia since they could not get home. Their postulation was quickly granted. All the unicorns now stood silently on the beach watching Starlight.

Starlights soft sweet voice then rang out, permit us now return to our home on Elysia, we have been away for a very long time. With Starlight in the lead the unicorns trotted off into the deep forest. This time Starlight fairly flew through the tangle of trees and bushes that had once tried to stop her way. This time, the forest seemed to be maneuver her, helping her along. It seemed like only a moment before Starlight and the other unicorns found themselves back in their home on Elysia.

Here on Elysia the unicorns lived peacefully and happily for many years. The unicorns had neer been disturbed until now, and hopefully never will be again. The unicorns only wish to live a happy, peaceful life as most animals do. Remember, just because we do not see the unicorns, that does not mean they are not there. The next time someone tells you unicorns do not exist, you do not have to reply, just remember the fleecy white unicorn named Starlight, who had one of them most excite adventures a unicorn has ever had.

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