Anthy: A fic!
Anshi: Um…yay…
Anthy: Well…I was bored.
Anshi: Okay.
Anthy: Mew. I'm going to be using things from Diablo II
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Ivory
First Steps
Look and remember
Look upon this land
Far, far across the factories and the grass
Surely they will let you pass
Speak to them and ask the forest and the missing
What do you hear?
What does this land command?
The earth is taken: this is not your home
A young boy stood motionless on the banks of the Nile. No one else could see what he saw, and no one could understand why he was so still. The boy's red-violet eyes were watching two white horses across the river.
They were like horses. They had long slender necks that made them appear taller than they actually were, and they had long graceful legs with split hooves and had fine ivory colored feathers about them. They had lions' tails and ivory colored manes. But the boy also saw that these horses each had one straight spiralled horn in the middle of their foreheads.
They lifted their heads and looked at the boy. There was a moment of peace and understanding.
Something hard connected with the boy's head and he fell. He heard his father's cruel voice and felt blood trickle down from his forehead. The boy glanced across the river…
But the white horses were gone.
Yami woke from his terrible nightmare. It had been plaguing his mind for almost a month and it was always the same. It was like a memory, never good and containing a past he didn't know.
Something moved in the darkness.
"Keiko…are you there?" Yami asked.
A fairy appeared wearing a frilly pink dress and blue hair. She seemed very distressed. She was Keiko, Yami's only link to the other yamis and to Malik and Ishtaru in Egypt.
"Bad news from Malik."
"What is it?"
"A group of gravekeepers have resurrected your father to rain hell upon you."
"Shit. Does Kinta know about this?"
"She left already."
Yami was silent for a moment, waiting for his messenger to continue.
"I have instructions from Bastet. She sent Kinta off first."
"What are they?"
"Return to Egypt through the Land of the Forgotten. There are troubles there that are directly linked to the current troubles in Egypt."
"Can I leave whenever I want?"
"You leave now."
Yami found himself in a forest that had become black and dead. It was the fourth one that he had come across in the past hour. Each one of them had obviously been a unicorn's forest.
It was if they had vanished.
But that was a stupid thought. Unicorns do not "vanish". They could be hunted or trapped, they could even be killed if they left their forests, but they did not "vanish".
So Yami figured out that he probably had to find them. And he had a pretty good idea what he had to do.
"I hate my father,
More than you hate me.
My father stole the unicorns
And is trying to kill me."
Yami traveled in this Land of the Forgotten for days. On the fifth night of travel on what he called "man's road", he finally found himself a time to sleep.
He did not hear the rattling of carriages coming up the road. Nor did he hear the carnival witch walk up to him. She was short, like her helper Rukeh, and she was old. Her hair was long and white and her hands were more like an eagle's talons. On her had sat a single black crow.
"And here I though I had seen the last of them. Here! You two!"
Rukeh was as short and as fat as the carnival witch was. A patch covered his left eye and his clothes were ragged. The other, whose name concerned no one, was a tall, thin boy with brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a dark blue tunic and black leggings. Over that he wore a black coat the spread out behind him in the wind.
"I won't bother asking you what you see. I want him for the carnival."
"He's waking." The other boy said.
The carnival witch clawed at the night air, chanting a spell to herself. And Yami lay still once more.
"Now cage him. He'll sleep until sunrise."
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Anthy: End chapter one!
Anshi: The last unicorn cop-off fic!
Anthy: I finally read the book. So there. But it was a fun idea to play with.