Relationship: James Bond/Alec Trevelyan
Characters: James Bond, Alec Trevelyan, Q (James Bond), Female M (James Bond), Franz Oberhauser | Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Tags: Alternate Universe - The Last Unicorn Fusion, Magic, Supernatural Elements, Canon character deaths, Bond WIP Amnesty
So I wrote this for the 2017 Bond WIP Amnesty where folks donate an idea or partial fic and end up with someone else's to finish. I hadn't seen the Last Unicorn before this, but here's what happens when I merge Bond and the Last Unicorn, I look forward to anyone's thought on the subject.
Q's POV
He grew up hearing stories of magic and wonder. His grandfather had taught him every word and spell, each bit of magic known to him. Only magic is fading from the world. Despite all of his training and lessons, he's not much more than a parlor trick magician, as much as he hates to admit it. Someday he hopes to discover why, to return the magic to the world, to be something so much more than a parlor trick magician.
Then his grandfather had died and he hadn't known what to do with himself. His grandfather had been his only living family. His only connection to the small village he lived in. The only person who encouraged both his magic and his tinkering. The person who accepted him as is.
He's not sure how he ended up with Mommy Fortuna and her hunchbacked assistant Rukh in a side show carnival with fake magical creatures that are truly just abused animals with enchantments on them. They travel from place to place, village to village, tricking people into giving them money to see the 'magical beasts'. Each time he swears this will be the last, and each time it isn't.
He does his best to care for the animals, if only to lessen their suffering a tiny bit. Sometimes he considers putting them out if their misery, but he doesn't know if that would be of any use. She would only find other animals to abuse. That is, if she isn't keeping them alive through artificial means using her dark magic.
Then came the day the impossible happened.
Mommy Fortuna managed to entrap a small, majestic stallion with magic and a massive vulture that screams in fury.
It takes him several hours before he can see through the illusions she has cast on the stallion to see the truth beneath it. He's horrified to realize that it's not just a beautiful small horse, but true real unicorn. A beautiful stallion with a shimmering horn that appears almost like glazed porcelain encased with crystal and glowing with an inner light. He feels young, as if he hasn't been in the world very long, an innocent soul.
After he realizes what the stallion is, he knows what he must do. There is no choice but to free the unicorn. He knows this and will do it even though he knows that it will bring the wrath of the old witch down on him. It will be worth it however, to free such a creature.
Never should a unicorn be trapped within a horrible cage. It's wrong in ways he cannot put to words.
It seems as soon as he realizes what the stallion is, he realizes what the vulture is as well. A harpy, an immortal whose purpose is death and decay. The opposite end of coin from the unicorn. He's torn between feeling the urge to free the harpy, verse leaving it in the cage and fleeing with the stallion.
So he formulates a plan. Carefully trying to consider all of the details for how they will escape from this horrible place.
Only it doesn't go as expected because the stallion frees the other supernatural creature caught at the same time. The harpy who then kills Mommy Fortuna and Rukh by ripping them apart, spreading their bodies all over the carnival. Fury pours from every pore of the harpy, filling the surrounding area with it's dark aura.
He leaves with the stallion. Following the direction not to run because running will only draw the harpy's attention. Miles away they stop for a time to rest. He learns of the unicorns quest, of the other missing unicorns, and the journey to find them. After that conversation, he declares he will help in any way that he can and they decided to make their way to the Castle of King Haggard. The home of the Red Bull, the creature that has chased the unicorns and erased their paths upon the world.
Surely their answers will be there.
Maybe the missing unicorns is why the magic is seems to be waning. If that is the case, it explains so much. Perhaps though, that's not the reason, perhaps there is some other reason that magic has been diminished over the years. He doesn't know.
Throughout their travels they meet many people. The vast majority of which do not recognize his companion for what he truly is, a unicorn, and instead see only a beautiful colt or young stallion not yet grown into his body. There are several people try to buy him and a few who attempt to steal him, but he refuses to give his companion up. He promised to help the unicorn find the others in any way possible. He wants to keep that promise.
If they manage to bring back the magic and he becomes a true sorcerer, well that's just an advantage.
They are halfway to their destination when they are practically kidnapped by a group of highwaymen. There they meet an older woman with shimmering silver hair and stormy gray eyes. She immediately sees his companion for what he is, much to his surprise.
He manages to trick most of them into thinking that the story of Robin Hood is true, and they leave with the illusion, thinking that they have joined the merry band. The only one who is left is the stormy eyed women.
"I will come with you," she tells them, "To help you however I can."
"Why?" he asks, curious because she was living with a band of brigands, many of which seemed to answer to her.
"Because it is the right thing to do. You're going to the Red Bull. To find the other unicorns. You will need help. I can be that help," she answers firmly with a nod.
He's doubtful but agrees anyways, they can use all the help they can get. "Alright. Welcome to the quest Molly."
"M," she retorts, "My name is M, not Molly, I'm not sure where they got Molly from."
I like you, the unicorn stallion declares, head dipping, You remind me of someone from long ago.
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