Title: The Last Unicorn

Pairing: Kurogane/Fai, Syaoran/Sakura

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Yaoi, language

Notes: The Last Unicorn and Tsubasa don't belong to me, rating may go up if asked.


"I'm sorry Syaoran-kun." The princess is walking beside the teen as the three of them travel through a barren valley.

"N-no it's fine, I was going the wrong way." He doesn't stare into her eyes. The unicorn walks in front of them looking at their surroundings.

Off in the distance they see a jagged cliff. A tall, almost dead looking castle rests atop it. They can hear the waves from the sea crashing against the bare rock.

"Ashura's castle, we'll reach it by tomorrow."

"Where does Ashura keep the Red Bull?" The unicorn turns his head to look at the boy.

"I've heard that he comes out at night and during the day rests under the castle." Syaoran helps Sakura over a pile of cracked and broken rock.


As night fell the travellers managed to come across a forest, as Sakura sleeps against a tree, Syaoran sleeps close by in case something happens. The unicorn rests further away as the moon shines through dead leaves.

Red light glares on Sakura's face, green eyes slowly open and look around the dark trees. As her eyes adjust to the darkness she gasps loudly.

"Syaoran, the light!" She quickly gets to her feet as Syaoran leaps into action.

As the words escape the princess the Red Bull comes crashing through the foliage. The unicorn cries shrilly before galloping off into the woods. The teens watch as th Red Bull corrals the unicorn, never once losing ground.

"We have to do something!"

"The Bull's driving him, he won't kill him. He's taking him to King Ashura!"

"Please Syaoran, please help him!" She's clutches onto his arm pleading with him. The unicorn's cries and the Bull's roar's echo through the forest.

"If I could change him into some other creature, something the Bull would ignore, I would, but that would require a true magician."

"You have magic, it's there, please Syaoran-kun." He stares with wide eye's at Sakura.

They see the unicorn slowing down, his head bowed, too tired to run anymore. The Red Bull follows close behind. Even as the teens yell for him to run, go on deaf ears.

"Syaoran!" Syaoran casts a spell, tendrils of magic flowing towards the unicorn wrapping around him. The teen falls to the forest floor. Sakura stares at the Red Bull as it nudges a white shape on the ground. It snorts and walks away. Sakura runs to it as once the Bull is gone.

"What have you done?" Sakura says to Syaoran as tears threaten to fall down her face.

"What? I used magic to save him, now I'll simply change him back."

"But you turned him into a human."

"He had to become something else, I didn't choose his form."

"You trapped him in a human body, he'll go mad." Sakura whispered lightly. The man begins to stir from his sleep.

"I can change him back, don't worry." The man falls, when he tries to stand, a large white coat falls around him as he goes on all fours.

"What have you done to me?" He asks, blonde hair falling in front of the new face. Sakura cries as she looks on.

"I couldn't think of any other way to save you."

"What've you done, I'm a unicorn!" The now blonde haired man hugged himself, his voice sounds musical to the others despite the saddness in it.

"Please, you'll hurt yourself." Sakura grabs hold of his arm.

"In this shape you'll have a chance to meet King Ashura and at finding out what happened to the other unicorns." Syaoran tries to make things better as he watches his two companions.

"I-I wish you'd left me to the pheonix, I wish you'd let the Red Bull take me, without my magic...I can feel this body dying around me...I'm mortal." Golden eyes stare at Syaoran.

"But it's only for a little while." Syaoran and Sakura help the unicorn turned human up. The blonde man stands on shaky legs. His heavy clothes hindering his balance. The three slowly walk forward through the woods in silence.


"A man, a boy, and a girl?" A guard questions as he sees the weary travelers approach the castle gates.

"The blonde man, he looks strange." Garnet eyes glare at the white clothed figure between the two younger ones. As they make their way to the castle gate, they're stopped by the two armored guards. One holds a sword pointed at them.

"Your names."

"I'm Syaoran. This is Sakura, my friend and this is...this is..."

"Fai, Fai Flowright. We wish to talk to King Ashura." The blonde spoke as Syaoran stuttered for an answer.

"Then we'll take you to him." The first sentinel goes ahead, the second lingering behind to stare at the downcast man in the white and blue trimmed coat. The five of them go up a dark stairway that suddenly begins to tremble violently. Fai yells out, startling the others.

"It's just the Bull." Red eyes dare them to say anything else. Before long they're taken to a large room with a single window.

"This is King Ashura's throne room."

"But this looks like a tomb, please take us to King Ashura." Syaoran doesn't like the feeling of the castle.

"I am King Ashura and this is the prince Kurogane, my son." The guard then takes his helmet off, long ebony hair flows from it. The second guard takes his own helmet off, revealing garnet eyes and black spiked hair.

"What is it you wanted?" Ashura moves to his throne, Kurogane says nothing only stares at the travelers.

"We wanted to enter your service."

"I have no need for servants."

"But sire...a magician, a fine cook, a-"

"Your losing my interests and that is very dangerous. My court consists of only four men-at-arms." Ashura's glare freezes the teen for a moment. The prince keeps his distance from them, but he keeps his eyes trained on the quiet man.

"W-what about the pleasentries of the court? The feasts, the -" Syaoran had to get the king to listen, it wa their only chance.

"They don't make me happy. I want nothing near me that doesn't keep me happy, besides I already have a magician."

"What's his name?"

"Clow, he is known as the magician's magician. There's no reason to replace him." Ashura gazes out the window.

"But he doesn't make you happy." The princess says as she moves from behind Syaoran.

"Sakura-san." Ashura looks at Sakura thinking of what to say.

"Do you hear that, Clow?" A vast array glows on the stone floor, before a man with long dark hair in long robes appears from it.

"What does his majesty wish?" The glasses wearing man bows before the king. He turns to look at the travelers.

"He's come to take your place, the boy is now my mage."

"May I ask why?" The man smiled warmly as he looked to Ashura for an answer.

"The girl's right, you don't make me happy, so I'll see if this incompetent boy can." A wind errupts from the room as Clow summons another array to appear. Syaoran stands in front of Sakura ready to protect her. Kurogane moves, his sword unsheathed as he jumps in front of Fai. The blonde simply walks past the prince, walking towards Clow. The older wizard stops as he looks closely at the man.

"Ashura, you have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way." Clow disappears the same way he appeared a smile across his lips that misses his eyes is cast to the king before he vanishes. Fai ignores the commotion as he walks towards the lone window. Ashura leaves his throne to stand beside the blonde.

"Don't." Fai shys away from the king, his golden eyes wide.

"I won't touch you. what are you looking at?"

"The sea." The blonde turns his attention back to the currents swirling around the coast below them.

"It's the only thing I can look at for hours on end." Ashura looks into Fai's golden eyes. He sees nothing in them.

"Why can't I see myself in your eyes?" Fai doesn't answer as he continues to look out the window. Ashura turns to Syaoran a glint of anger in his eyes.

"Who is he?" Ashura looks back at the blonde, his mind trying to figure out who the man is.

"Fai is my uncle."

"What difference does it make, you've already hired them." Kurogane says as he sheaths his sword and walks towards his father.

"Your right, They're here and whether Clow was right or not, I'll look at them for awhile. All of you can come and go as you please." The king brushes past his son as he leaves.

"Come on idiot, let's find you something besides all those layers to wear." Red eyes meet gold before Fai nods and follows the prince, careful not to get too close. Syaoran and Sakura follow behind, giving each other a worried look before proceeding through a dark hallway.