The last unicorn is a great book and movie that's NOT MINE….

Ok, Rand is on fire (kina sorta), the Unicorn is charging, and Tanis is confused (what else is new?) and the author is excited to get on with it….just making sure the reader is up to date…

Earth's loss of innocence

Run you foolish girl!

"um…huh?"

Should anything intelligent be said at a time like this? Rand is screaming like the little girl he is (his cape is aflame), Amalthia (the supposed enemy) has the notion that Tanis' virginity is at stake, and Tanis doesn't want to leave whilst her mate is pummeled to a pulp. The girl tries to gainAmalthia's attention,

"My Lady?"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

Rand is definitely in touch with his inner female child.

Any other opponent besides Amalthia would be facing the wrath of an ancient Vampire, but the unicorn's style of attack is nothing Rand is used to. To top it all off, she's a woman! He can't hurt a girl…his mother would be so upset. His cape billows around him as he rolls, dodges, and dives around the clearing.Several shrill screams from the pearly throat of the immortal mare cause both vampires to cringeduringher outbursts. Randwould liketo transform into the flying rodent to escape,but a hoof connects to his arm, snapping the partial wing near the elbow. He can't fly now...

The agony of thebroken apendage wieghs him down but for a moment. Rand is up on his feet,setting his arm on his own power.Pain is temporary. Pride is forever. Rand kneels back down and begs for mercy.

(A.N: interruption Rand: "Shut up, Tanis and save me already!")

What did I say about pride?

"Lady Amalthia! My Lady, please hear me out…don'tkill him. He is my companion...andI love him."

Youthink your soul is savewith Belzebub? Young girl, in this, the turn of killing this monster, I do you a favor-

"NO! No, by killing him, you will surely kill me, too."

He possessess your Soul...

"Erm…sure."

I exact revenge for the deaths of my friends. This…this creature murdered them for…sport.

"I was hungry?"

Rand's squeak was hardly audible under the throaty outrage. Tossing her mane and flicking a whip-tail of resentment, the queen of the wood advances on her quarry.

This was the real deal. She is charging…!…Amalthia was going to end Rand's life at the point of her stalved headto create aBlood sucking shish-kabob…

Casting aside an innocent bystander damsel-in-distress charade, Tanis throws her body over that of the battered lover laying on the terf. The unicorn snorts in disgusted surprise, rearing sharply midstride.

Move, girl! I will not hesitate further, only kill you both.

The white mare's words hold no trace of warning. Itis a statement of a likely future.

"Tanis,stand aside!"

"No. This is a ridiculous fight that doesn't need to take place.Amalthia, please, I am just as lewd asThis creatureis.Maybe you can't sense my nature because I am younger than him, but Rand and I are the same. We're both Vam-"

"Don't tell her, Tan!"

"We're vampires, Lady. Rand is my mate and lover. We were traveling through your woods to find sanctuary-"

Silence…I will hear no more. Tanis, you cannot hide your true essencefrom the pure in heart. You are no morecorrupted by his taintthan I. Stand aside; i will only say this once more...I will let you live, Tanis.He, however, must atone for the death of my refugees.

" THEN I WILL DIE, TOO!"

Like an echo on the wind, a whisper of the past pierces a heart long in forgetting. Had notAmalthia's ownlips uttered those same words once? Shmendrick. That's a name she had pushed from herthoughts ages ago. Shmendrick remembered Amalthia's true form while the woman's Love for a mortal man had blinded her to it. Please, please don't change me back! I'm not a unicorn…I'm a woman. Lir, Lir, I'm a woman and I Love you…Lir is mortal and will die one day…THEN I WILL DIE TOO!

But it was not meant to be.

Lir, my heartremembers you...achesfor you.

I haven't forgotten.

I remember.

I remember you…your memory will last forever.

…In my immortal Heart.

I remember…

The live coals of the scattered camp fire take advantage of silence to pop their depleting heat up into cold night wind.

"You remember what, Lady?"

The unicorn's eyes fill with starlight sapphires shine down on the worn out duo. The vampiresrecoil, criminals awaiting the inevitable verdict. Tanis' limelit eyesmeet the mare's stare, and the vampiress cannot suppress tears of her own. The Lady's soul is wailing. Deep sorrows had befallen this magnificent creature.As a unicorn's time is forever; no one can share her pain with her. No one can understand the sweltering anguish of imortality with outthe one youLove.

Lady Amalthia…would you force Tanis to understand what you are going through?…

The girlleans gently toward the lowered head. Unicorns are not supposed to cry…or feel pain…or…regret…and yet this eternal mare has sorrow dripping from her furlined eyelids.

"Tanis?"

She signals Rand to remain where he is. And shut up ...The whisper is meant for the mare's ears alone,

"My Lady?"

A single touch is like lightening to both recipients. The immortal gasps as an icy flow of corruption washes over her in an avalanche of filth. Like wise, Tanis cringes in pain from the purity flooding her senses with turmoil. Delicious…yet repulsive. The girl severs the connection. They Hold eachother's gaze for a moment.The forehead of the innocent buries againstTanis' shoulder. With the spiral horn pressed close to her ear, Tanis strokes the neck and face of Amalthia, meshing dark and light into silverous union.The two immortals wrap themselves together under a blanket of Yin and Yang empathy.

Rand sits back, brow furrowed. If this unicorn can lament over heartache, what is left i n this world to lose? Earth is finally raped of innocence. Existance of all is defiled, foul, and cruely cheated. Unicorns are the last pure relics of life. Guardian over all; perpetual servitude to any.

Discouragenot the way of the Fates. They pull in a fresh future in their hollow nets. Do not Weep for the past. Its time is done with. The end comes far too quickly for any one of us to comprehend. Purety ceases to exist. and unicorns do cry. Vampires do Love.

Fires of the child like past die slowly into the embers of the monotonous tomorrow.

Chills

I love it when my hands to this! Yea!

luvs

Tanis