--BRAND NEW AND SHINEY, REVISED AND MODIFIED! Hope you like the update! (Includes all chapters!) :) (Nov. 12/06)--
- Reason for revision: I can't stand my own mistakes. And I realized there were people who wanted more, so… well, the beginning should at least be of more quality!
Now at the end of all the re-submitted chapters I will outline any revisions to the actual plot I made, so you don't have to re-read everything if you do not want to. ;) -
Authoress' Notes: Hmmm…. It's been a while since I read the trilogy, so correct me if I've written something that is incorrect! . . Anyway, I hope you enjoy! ;
PS: This takes place long after the actual books have, some laws were changed, so on and so forth. (Aljan is basically a myth now:p) Also, I modified it so some unicorns decided they wanted to go back to the vale, and that the griffins previously residing there had moved on.
Most unicorns continue not to get along very well with the Plainsdwellers either (yet!)…. And that's 'bout it.
Saber88
A Warrior's Tale
By: Saber88
()()()()()()(Prologue)()()()()()()
An Unclear Destiny
Terrible, boiling black clouds lowered their bellies onto the earth, spilling huge rain drops. They crushed the more diminutive plants as they thundered down in sheets. An awesome tempest struck up its eerie chord, howling through the sparse trees and dried fields.
A unicorn struggled through the gale, far from the merciful shelter of the forest. Her belly was round with impending childbirth, but still she staggered forward valiantly, oblivious to the terrible wrath of the thunderstorm. Her chocolate mane whipped viciously across her countenance and the rain stung her eyes. The fae's spiral horn was soon tangled with in a gruesome mixture of blood, hair, and mud, and large droplets of water clung to her black fur.
But she collapsed suddenly, unable to move another hoof. With a dull smoosh, her bloated body landed on the sodden plain and quickly became coated in brown muck.
Another plainsdweller observed the female's plight. With a form that was hazy in the femme's eyes, the stranger approached her. She gave another shudder and descended into blackness born of death.
...Three years later, the Plainsdweller who had come to the fallen unicorn that dark day died...
...A young foal remained without a family, for his mother and foster father were now gone...
...Two were welcomed into the world, destined to be shoulder-friends for the eternity of their lives...
...And many more experienced an exile like no other; they were the Goriths.
Ok, I admit, it sucked - but never fear! The following chapters will be much longer.(You can't blame me, it's ten minuets after midnight! . ) that was just the foal's past, in a way, the next chapter it skips ahead to when he's older, and then it starts his 'life's story'.
PS: Like I said before, let me know if I make incorrect statements based on the trilogy in this chapter or future ones.
-EDIT----
Not much was changed in the prologue; I just rephrased things to sound better. It's still wimpy, but that's okay. ;)
Saber88