Chapter the Eight
Scyler sighed looking over at the cat with deep distrust.
"Kallana, are you sure we can trust him? He attacked me and could have killed me?"
"Yet we owe him our lives. He saved us, I saw him as we ran past."
"Will you please stop talking over me like I'm not here? I'm intelligent you know."Rumbled a deep baritone voice from between the unicorns.
Kallana and Scyler looked in surprise at the cat.
"Me apologies sirrah, ah wasn't quite sure 'cause you haven't talk afore." Said Kallana politely.
But once again the cat had sunk back into his own mind and wasn't listening.
They broke out of the forest onto a great plain.
"Well cat, can you run?" Challenged Scyler. Kazheo looked up at him and bared his teeth, looking like he was ready to either tear someone's throat out or to burst out laughing.
"Does yonder Hippogrif have wings?"
With that he leaped out onto the plains. Scyler gave a trumpet and followed with Kallana behind him.
They had been running for some time when a stallion's whistle pierced through the air.
Stopping immediately Scyler, Kallana and Kazheo looked up to the hill were a huge unicorn reared and called out the challenge again.
The stallion charged down the hill followed by fifty other unicorns.
"Kallana."
"Yes?"
"There's something wrong with these unicorns." As they were surrounded.
"What do ya mean?"
"Look at all of them they're all different shades of red. There's not one blue or black or green. There's something very wrong about them."
He pondered that, till a cloying smell wafted by his nostrils sensing danger he threw his head up.
"Kallana don't brethe this stuff. I think it's.. Kallana?"He looked around only to see her fall limply to the ground beside the cat.
"Kallana!" He couldn't hold his breath for look and soon his vision darkened and he too fell to the ground.
It's so dark, and theres and odd smell in the air like.. like when we killed those wolves. Blood! It's blood. And that odd rustling noise, it sounds...annoying... really annoying. like a hive of bees. Wait! What happened? We were surrounded by those unicorns and then... I can't remember, it's blank. Where am I? Where's Kallana! I can't move!
He forced himself to his feet and set a foot out of the circle.
Only to get thrown back to the center. He shook the pain out of his leg and tried again with the same results.
A unicorns stepped out of the shadows. His red colour was mixed with black, swirling in dizzying patterns. And huge! At least twice the size of Kallana who was full-grown and large for her age. Kallana. Where is she? And the cat too? Have they been put into circles like this?
And deep grating voice brought him back to the present. "Who are you and why do you trespass on our land?"
" I am Scyler son of Damer son of Dhattar, King of the Unicorns." He lifted his head and stared down his nose at the unicorn before him.
"Such insolence!" The other the other sneered. "We'll take care of that soon enough." They stared each other down for what seemed like many minutes till a smaller bright red unicorn approached the larger one hesitantly.
The big one flicked his ear nochalantly in his direction and the other whispered something.
Turning his gaze back to Scyler, he nodded. "The Fanged One has summoned you. Follow!" He commanded forcefully.
The blood encircling Scyler soaked into the ground and more unicorns came to flank him.
Nipping and shouldering him, they herded him over to the mouth of a large cave.
They stopped and milled about, not willing to go in.
"Enter!" A deep voice commanded stopping all the unicorns in their tracks.
Scyler, with one last look around stepped forward and disappeared into the darkness of the cave.
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