Kinda sappy I know... not as bad as the last one though I don't think. ^^
Hehehe.. They're getting better. ^^
Chapter 5
Yet another month later...
Northstar and Thrax were rideing side by side. She was on a white winged horse by the name of Mystic and Thrax was on the back of a black and tan stallion by the name of Firewind.
She was amazed at how quickly he'd learned to ride. It took him less than a week to learn the basic movements and advance to the next level and now he was as skilled as her. Obviously being a fast learner had been a necessity in his life.
They lept over a ravine, both horses spreading their wings to catch the air thermals to glide accross. When all four of her hoofs connected with the ground she reared up and flapped her wings. Northstar held on with one hand as she held a fist in the air, letting out a playful battle cry. Thrax chuckled and trotted Firewend toward them.
"You're somethin else you know that?"
"Yeah well I..." She stopped abruptly and drew her sword.
"Horde Prime?"
"Horde Prime..."
Thrax's left forefinger glowed bright and they both prepared to dismount. Horde Prime rode up to them on the back of a galloping black flame stallion. Each step of it's hoofs kicked up soot and embers. It was a strange hybred of Nightmare, Darkdrake and the natural enemies of Unari known as wolits.
He pulled his smokeing mount to a stop just before them. Acid dripped from it's mouth and it's hollow eyes gleamed deep blue. It's torn batlike wings flapped maliciously and smoke rose from it's nostrals and mouth. "Greetings Northstar... we meet again dear princess... It's been a long time since I approched you on Magma's back..."
Magma opened his mouth and blue flame spurted out his mouth toward them. Thrax backhanded the ball of fire just before it got to Northstar. It slammed into a boulder, turning it into a molten, smoldering heap. Thrax never had been effected by fire, aparently magical flames were no exception.
Horde Prime drew a flameing whip and galloped toward the two. Northstar was ahead of Thrax on this one and held her sword high as he charged her. When they passed each other half of the firewhip fell to the ground, it's flames immediately extinguishing.
Bringing his mount back a few steps Hord Prime grinned and disgarded the useless whip handle. "Take them..." He ordered, "Bring the virus and the girl to me... I don't care about the baby or the horses!"
"Why don't I like the sound of that..."
"Because it's reallybad!" She pulled Mystic to a rear, "Let's go!"
From behind their master a number of robotic creatures that were beyond count marched forth. They were both reptilian and equestrian in appearance and had obviously been created to both mock and fight the Unarie. Their bodies had dragonlike wings and from their shoulders toward their haunches their legs went from being horselike to lizardlike.
Their tails were long and serpintine and there were long evil-looking scythe blades on their tips. Their eyes were all red, with spiked ridges along their necks. The back legs had savage looking talons and the forlegs had what looked like deformed lion's paws under them. Their Horns were twisted and mallformed and there were spikes stuck out at odd angles. Horde Prime may have designed them with both Dragon and Unicorn features, but it was obvious that they posessed none of the true characteristics of the wise Dragons or gentle Unicorns.
The rode quickly away from the onslaught. It looked like an entire army of the creatures were after them and it didn't help that some smaller animals that resembled a gross combination of a mangy coyote and a rabid sewer rat... Then again that coyote could also be werewolf...
"What are they?!" Thrax asked frantically. If only they could get the upper hand, but they were severely outnumbered.
"The robots are called Alinoids... They have three variations of their forms... Kinda like those Transformers I always watch."
"And the rat things?"
"Wolits... natural enemies of Unicorns... Watch their tallons!" She punched one of them into a tree. "They contain a poison that not even the oldest Alicorn can neutralize... It's designed specifically for us."
Thrax wasn't entirely clear on everything she'd said, but what he did understand was that these creatures were dangerous. His longest tallon glowed orange and passed through the shoulder of one of the Alinoids, nearly severing it's leg. Northstar's eyes widened surprise that it could melt through metal.
Northstar and Mystic neighed as one and took flight, Thrax following close behind. The wolits lept high into the air after them as the Alinoids went after them. Wolits couldn't fly, but they could jump very high to allow them to take down a Unicorn as it was takeing off. They felt their sharp claws brush their legs as the wind caught the wings of their mounts.
"Thrax!" Northstar called. "When I leap from Mystic you leap from Firewind towards me!" Thrax opened his mouth to ask why, but she cut him off. "Just do it! When you do clasp your dominate hand to mine!"
"My what?!"
"My right hand... your left!"
"Oh..."
"Now!"
Letting out a battle cry Northstar placed her feet on Mystic's haunches, who bucked. She used the force to help gain momentum in her leap toward's Thrax, who followed suit. As they came to each other They clasped hands as she'd said.
Northstar still had her sword in her left hand and shoved it into Thrax's right so that they both held onto it. "Fire and Ice.." she murmered. "Element's twain come two times twice... Dispatch our foes with Fire and ice!"
She pushed the blade aloft over their heads, were it took on a bright golden glow and then pointed it at their enemies. A bright beam of light shot from the tip of the blade and towards the onslaught of Alinoids approching them. It took out several of them at once, but most of them easily avoided it
They were still comeing, but together they lifted the sword skyward again. Just then two pillars of light surrounded them, begining at their feet and stopping above the tip of the sword. One a bright, whitish blue, the other bright red. The blue one broke off breifly to encircle around her raised arm alone and the red one the same with Thrax, returing together again at the hilt of the sword. They were made of fire and ice.
The light grew brigther and their upper bodies leaned away from each other as if motivated by an unseen force and their eyes closed. The light became blindingly bright, narrow beams of light rushed at the Alinoids, shorting out their optic sensors and stunning them temporarily.
The stone at the base of the blade glowed white and they flew off to a gathering of stones not far away, but well hidden. To the Alinoids it looked as if they had completely vanished. "Blast them!" Horde Prime roared as he bashed one of his warriors into a thousand peices. "I'll get them next time... Return!" With that they all dissapeared in a flash of white and green, Hord Prime fully intending to vent his temper on anyone foolish enought to get too close.
At the stones...
The pillar's dissapated and the sword lost it's glow. Northstar, who had been primarily focussing the sword's energies, collapsed to the ground. Thrax, who was also feeling a bit drained, knelt beside her and lifted her head in worry.
Her eyes opened for a moment and her hand weakly lifted to touch his chin then fell back down to her side. Her human form melted halfway to her natural one and her head fell against his chest. She was asleep.
Thrax sat down and pulled her against him, gently caressing her face. She was alright, she just needed to rest and get her energy back. He kept a close watch on her and at every sound he was ready to leap out to attack the Horde, but they never came.
Thrax woke when he felt her stir. He had laied by her on the ground and wrapped her in his trenchcoat and lifted his upper body to allow her to sit up. Northstar breathed a deep sigh and leaned her head on his chest. She had regained her strength, but was still emotionally tired.
"What the heck was that?" Thrax finally asked.
"Hm?... Oh..." She rubbed the back of her neck. "The sword has a good deal of defencive powers, but all of them are tricky to use. A lot need a partner... Like that one. It needed two elements, prefferably opposet."
"Like us?"
"Aye." She nodded.
"Fire and ice..."
"Water actually... But ice is basically frozen water anyway."
She sat up and cracked her back.
"What now baby?"
"Let's go to my pool. We need to stratigize and the best place to do it is there."
"Your pool?" Somehow he imagined tile and chlorine.
"You'll see."
She smiled slyly and took hold of his hand, pulling him northeast. After walking for less than a minute she broke into a playful run. Thrax chuckled and ran after her. She certianly seemed happier in her own world, and it showed clearly in the way she ran through the trees.
She easily avoided any roots, stones or trenches in her path without looking. She lept over a branch, onto a tree trunk, flipped over it and landed on the ground, running faster. Thrax picked up his pace as well to keep up with her just as easily. He enjoyed simply watching her in her own world and he didn't just mean the multicellular world. She belonged in the forest. She was part of it.
They passed through a small herd of her kind and as they caught sight of her their horns bent toward the ground and their wings spread in greeting. They would stand back up once Thrax passed them. Clearly they knew that he was her consort and would respect him as such.
Northstar climbed onto a boulder and slid down the other side. Thrax simply jumped down from it. Smiling she led him through some thick hedges and bushes. What he saw amazed him. The water was crystal clear and all life around it was thriveing. He remembered Northstar once explaining to him that her alicorn could purify even the filthiest water and giveing it healing properties. Apparently this is the result of this happening repeatedly in one water source.
She knelt down and filled a cup with the sparkleing water and handed it out to him. But he refused, backing away with his hands in the air.
"What if it's like the alcohol?"
"Well... I do use it for clenseing wounds." She admitted. "But it won't hurt you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want it to."
Still skeptical, but trusting Northstar, he put the cup to his lips and let a small sip pass them. He felt a warm heat immediately spread from his lips to the rest of his body. He blinked twice and looked at Northstar, who smiled and pushed the cup to him again. Curiously he drank the rest of it, ejoying a more intense sensation than before.
He handed her back the cup and she placed it back in her bag then she hugged him and took his right hand with hers, placeing her left on his chest.
"Hold your hand out like this." She streatched her hand as if she were allowing birds to eat seed from it.
Thrax did so.
"Now... concentrate."
There was a soft golden glow that transfired from her to himself. When it reached his outstreatched left hand it became a soft red. Thrax started the heat in his claw and in an instant he found a deliciously hot ball of fire in his hand. He stared at it for a moment then turned to Northstar and smiled at her for his gift.
"I didn't give you anything you didn't already have Thrax." She smiled. "I just opened up some potential that probably never would have surfaced otherwise."
"In any case... Thanks baby."
He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her up against him, pushing his lips against hers. He heard a soft sigh escape her lips as she returned it. Smiling he placed his hand behind her head and she nuzzled into his neck.
Chapter 5
Yet another month later...
Northstar and Thrax were rideing side by side. She was on a white winged horse by the name of Mystic and Thrax was on the back of a black and tan stallion by the name of Firewind.
She was amazed at how quickly he'd learned to ride. It took him less than a week to learn the basic movements and advance to the next level and now he was as skilled as her. Obviously being a fast learner had been a necessity in his life.
They lept over a ravine, both horses spreading their wings to catch the air thermals to glide accross. When all four of her hoofs connected with the ground she reared up and flapped her wings. Northstar held on with one hand as she held a fist in the air, letting out a playful battle cry. Thrax chuckled and trotted Firewend toward them.
"You're somethin else you know that?"
"Yeah well I..." She stopped abruptly and drew her sword.
"Horde Prime?"
"Horde Prime..."
Thrax's left forefinger glowed bright and they both prepared to dismount. Horde Prime rode up to them on the back of a galloping black flame stallion. Each step of it's hoofs kicked up soot and embers. It was a strange hybred of Nightmare, Darkdrake and the natural enemies of Unari known as wolits.
He pulled his smokeing mount to a stop just before them. Acid dripped from it's mouth and it's hollow eyes gleamed deep blue. It's torn batlike wings flapped maliciously and smoke rose from it's nostrals and mouth. "Greetings Northstar... we meet again dear princess... It's been a long time since I approched you on Magma's back..."
Magma opened his mouth and blue flame spurted out his mouth toward them. Thrax backhanded the ball of fire just before it got to Northstar. It slammed into a boulder, turning it into a molten, smoldering heap. Thrax never had been effected by fire, aparently magical flames were no exception.
Horde Prime drew a flameing whip and galloped toward the two. Northstar was ahead of Thrax on this one and held her sword high as he charged her. When they passed each other half of the firewhip fell to the ground, it's flames immediately extinguishing.
Bringing his mount back a few steps Hord Prime grinned and disgarded the useless whip handle. "Take them..." He ordered, "Bring the virus and the girl to me... I don't care about the baby or the horses!"
"Why don't I like the sound of that..."
"Because it's reallybad!" She pulled Mystic to a rear, "Let's go!"
From behind their master a number of robotic creatures that were beyond count marched forth. They were both reptilian and equestrian in appearance and had obviously been created to both mock and fight the Unarie. Their bodies had dragonlike wings and from their shoulders toward their haunches their legs went from being horselike to lizardlike.
Their tails were long and serpintine and there were long evil-looking scythe blades on their tips. Their eyes were all red, with spiked ridges along their necks. The back legs had savage looking talons and the forlegs had what looked like deformed lion's paws under them. Their Horns were twisted and mallformed and there were spikes stuck out at odd angles. Horde Prime may have designed them with both Dragon and Unicorn features, but it was obvious that they posessed none of the true characteristics of the wise Dragons or gentle Unicorns.
The rode quickly away from the onslaught. It looked like an entire army of the creatures were after them and it didn't help that some smaller animals that resembled a gross combination of a mangy coyote and a rabid sewer rat... Then again that coyote could also be werewolf...
"What are they?!" Thrax asked frantically. If only they could get the upper hand, but they were severely outnumbered.
"The robots are called Alinoids... They have three variations of their forms... Kinda like those Transformers I always watch."
"And the rat things?"
"Wolits... natural enemies of Unicorns... Watch their tallons!" She punched one of them into a tree. "They contain a poison that not even the oldest Alicorn can neutralize... It's designed specifically for us."
Thrax wasn't entirely clear on everything she'd said, but what he did understand was that these creatures were dangerous. His longest tallon glowed orange and passed through the shoulder of one of the Alinoids, nearly severing it's leg. Northstar's eyes widened surprise that it could melt through metal.
Northstar and Mystic neighed as one and took flight, Thrax following close behind. The wolits lept high into the air after them as the Alinoids went after them. Wolits couldn't fly, but they could jump very high to allow them to take down a Unicorn as it was takeing off. They felt their sharp claws brush their legs as the wind caught the wings of their mounts.
"Thrax!" Northstar called. "When I leap from Mystic you leap from Firewind towards me!" Thrax opened his mouth to ask why, but she cut him off. "Just do it! When you do clasp your dominate hand to mine!"
"My what?!"
"My right hand... your left!"
"Oh..."
"Now!"
Letting out a battle cry Northstar placed her feet on Mystic's haunches, who bucked. She used the force to help gain momentum in her leap toward's Thrax, who followed suit. As they came to each other They clasped hands as she'd said.
Northstar still had her sword in her left hand and shoved it into Thrax's right so that they both held onto it. "Fire and Ice.." she murmered. "Element's twain come two times twice... Dispatch our foes with Fire and ice!"
She pushed the blade aloft over their heads, were it took on a bright golden glow and then pointed it at their enemies. A bright beam of light shot from the tip of the blade and towards the onslaught of Alinoids approching them. It took out several of them at once, but most of them easily avoided it
They were still comeing, but together they lifted the sword skyward again. Just then two pillars of light surrounded them, begining at their feet and stopping above the tip of the sword. One a bright, whitish blue, the other bright red. The blue one broke off breifly to encircle around her raised arm alone and the red one the same with Thrax, returing together again at the hilt of the sword. They were made of fire and ice.
The light grew brigther and their upper bodies leaned away from each other as if motivated by an unseen force and their eyes closed. The light became blindingly bright, narrow beams of light rushed at the Alinoids, shorting out their optic sensors and stunning them temporarily.
The stone at the base of the blade glowed white and they flew off to a gathering of stones not far away, but well hidden. To the Alinoids it looked as if they had completely vanished. "Blast them!" Horde Prime roared as he bashed one of his warriors into a thousand peices. "I'll get them next time... Return!" With that they all dissapeared in a flash of white and green, Hord Prime fully intending to vent his temper on anyone foolish enought to get too close.
At the stones...
The pillar's dissapated and the sword lost it's glow. Northstar, who had been primarily focussing the sword's energies, collapsed to the ground. Thrax, who was also feeling a bit drained, knelt beside her and lifted her head in worry.
Her eyes opened for a moment and her hand weakly lifted to touch his chin then fell back down to her side. Her human form melted halfway to her natural one and her head fell against his chest. She was asleep.
Thrax sat down and pulled her against him, gently caressing her face. She was alright, she just needed to rest and get her energy back. He kept a close watch on her and at every sound he was ready to leap out to attack the Horde, but they never came.
Thrax woke when he felt her stir. He had laied by her on the ground and wrapped her in his trenchcoat and lifted his upper body to allow her to sit up. Northstar breathed a deep sigh and leaned her head on his chest. She had regained her strength, but was still emotionally tired.
"What the heck was that?" Thrax finally asked.
"Hm?... Oh..." She rubbed the back of her neck. "The sword has a good deal of defencive powers, but all of them are tricky to use. A lot need a partner... Like that one. It needed two elements, prefferably opposet."
"Like us?"
"Aye." She nodded.
"Fire and ice..."
"Water actually... But ice is basically frozen water anyway."
She sat up and cracked her back.
"What now baby?"
"Let's go to my pool. We need to stratigize and the best place to do it is there."
"Your pool?" Somehow he imagined tile and chlorine.
"You'll see."
She smiled slyly and took hold of his hand, pulling him northeast. After walking for less than a minute she broke into a playful run. Thrax chuckled and ran after her. She certianly seemed happier in her own world, and it showed clearly in the way she ran through the trees.
She easily avoided any roots, stones or trenches in her path without looking. She lept over a branch, onto a tree trunk, flipped over it and landed on the ground, running faster. Thrax picked up his pace as well to keep up with her just as easily. He enjoyed simply watching her in her own world and he didn't just mean the multicellular world. She belonged in the forest. She was part of it.
They passed through a small herd of her kind and as they caught sight of her their horns bent toward the ground and their wings spread in greeting. They would stand back up once Thrax passed them. Clearly they knew that he was her consort and would respect him as such.
Northstar climbed onto a boulder and slid down the other side. Thrax simply jumped down from it. Smiling she led him through some thick hedges and bushes. What he saw amazed him. The water was crystal clear and all life around it was thriveing. He remembered Northstar once explaining to him that her alicorn could purify even the filthiest water and giveing it healing properties. Apparently this is the result of this happening repeatedly in one water source.
She knelt down and filled a cup with the sparkleing water and handed it out to him. But he refused, backing away with his hands in the air.
"What if it's like the alcohol?"
"Well... I do use it for clenseing wounds." She admitted. "But it won't hurt you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want it to."
Still skeptical, but trusting Northstar, he put the cup to his lips and let a small sip pass them. He felt a warm heat immediately spread from his lips to the rest of his body. He blinked twice and looked at Northstar, who smiled and pushed the cup to him again. Curiously he drank the rest of it, ejoying a more intense sensation than before.
He handed her back the cup and she placed it back in her bag then she hugged him and took his right hand with hers, placeing her left on his chest.
"Hold your hand out like this." She streatched her hand as if she were allowing birds to eat seed from it.
Thrax did so.
"Now... concentrate."
There was a soft golden glow that transfired from her to himself. When it reached his outstreatched left hand it became a soft red. Thrax started the heat in his claw and in an instant he found a deliciously hot ball of fire in his hand. He stared at it for a moment then turned to Northstar and smiled at her for his gift.
"I didn't give you anything you didn't already have Thrax." She smiled. "I just opened up some potential that probably never would have surfaced otherwise."
"In any case... Thanks baby."
He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her up against him, pushing his lips against hers. He heard a soft sigh escape her lips as she returned it. Smiling he placed his hand behind her head and she nuzzled into his neck.