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Post by echo on Sept 21, 2007 23:15:04 GMT -8
"For about 3 years now", Maya answered pulling on Lionhearts mane gently, coaxing him back into a trot. "So you have only seen 3 unicorns in your life?" she asked turning down a track. She had a plan in mind.
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 21, 2007 23:28:22 GMT -8
"Yep, one time I had the fortune of riding one. I was six. The next time I saw one I was 12, and the third time was just now." He noticed the path she was taking.
"Are you trying to tell me something?" He asked.
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Post by echo on Sept 21, 2007 23:40:37 GMT -8
Maya just smiled and continued up the track. Lionheart broke into a rocking canter as he headed up the path and cleared the fallen logs in his stride. Maya knew where she was going.
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 21, 2007 23:53:09 GMT -8
"I knew it." Peregrine said, laughed slightly. The nervous young thoroughbred broke into a flowing canter, his refined but muscled legs moved into the ground with conifdence, soon the rest of his body followed and he forgot to be spooky. He cleared the log effortlessly.
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 0:09:45 GMT -8
Lionheart snorted and burst ahead swiftly. Unicorns were naturally faster than horses. Maya laughed and pulled on his mane. "Steady boy", she said. "We dont want to loose them". Lionheart snorted and slowed his pace before they came to the clearing. The stallion halted at the edge and Maya turned around to watch for Peregrine. The sight before him would be a grand one.
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 22, 2007 8:43:13 GMT -8
Peregrine kept Dogstar at a controlled canter, as the horse was still green. He came up at trot.
"My apologies of not being able to keep up with you." He said, "Dogstar is still quite green, usually I am on a horse whose very name means speed."
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 16:33:20 GMT -8
Maya nodded. "Lionheart was only going half his top speed", she said before looking out across the clearing. She dismounted in one swift motion and slapped Lionheart on the rump. "Go get them boy".
Maya looked up at Peregrine, noticing the look that was questioning her. "You'll see".
Lionheart trotted out into the middle of the clearing and halted, with his head and tail held up high. Then he reared, sounding out a mighty whinny that seemed to echo through the trees. Then other whinnies answered his call and several other unicorns trotted out into the clearing. Stallions, mares.... and even foals. There were too many to count without starting over again.
Maya smiled and looked up at Peregrine.
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 22, 2007 19:07:20 GMT -8
Peregrine watched as the unicorns entered the clearing.
"Won't they be afraid of me?" He asked, "I mean, I'm a guy."
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 20:07:49 GMT -8
Maya smiled at walked out amoungst the unicorns. Lionheart was busy grazing beside a pretty mare.
A little filly trotted up to Peregrine and whinnied at him. She sniffed noses with Dogstar before galloping off. She halted and bucked about with some of the other yearlings and tossed her head about. Then she whinnied at the newcomers again.
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 22, 2007 21:27:45 GMT -8
"Obviously the books were wrong." Peregrine said as the Unicorn sniffed Dogstar's nose. The horse lowered his elegant head and blew suspiciously.
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 22:31:57 GMT -8
Maya smiled before she spun around looking around warily. Then she gasped and ran off into a tree. A net fell short at the base of the tree.
Lionheart lifted his head and whinnied angrily at the men that had thrown the net. He reared up and galloping at them with his head down, horn down low. He would have killed on of them if the black unicorn hadn't shown up. The two stallions reared at each other... determined for the other to die.
Maya came out of her tree to move into another, but the dryad was grabbed from behind and a black hood pulled down over her head. Maya screamed as her vision fell into darkness...
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 22, 2007 23:01:21 GMT -8
Peregrine saw the dryad fall and immediately shot a jet of flame at her captor, then, in an instant, he strung his bow and fired an arrow at the black hooded figure. He did not even notice the appearence of another unicorn.
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 23:05:16 GMT -8
Maya pulled the hood off her head and scrambled to her feet. Then she made vines grow around the black unicorn. The white unicorn threw up their heads and galloped into the trees. Maya caught the mane of Lionheart as he galloped to her. She swung up onto his back and galloped onto a track. "Peregrine.... leave them".
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Post by Peregrine Alexander on Sept 22, 2007 23:12:10 GMT -8
But Peregrine did not follow her. Pity had once again stirred in his soft heart. He turned and growled at the men.
"Flee if you value your lives." he snarled at them.
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Post by echo on Sept 22, 2007 23:20:00 GMT -8
Maya halted Lionheart and turned to look at Peregrine. "Peregrine", she shouted. "Leave them.... they are nothing but hunters. Dryad's are what they hunt. It's normal.... leave them be".
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