AN: So here's yet another chapter. Took a while to write as I had a bunch of classes to go to. (I'm in uni over the summer :P). So yeah, I've got two days off coming up so I should be getting some more writing done, hopefully. Again, reviews would be very welcome. Till next time! Cheers!

Found

"Rhett, what in the name of all that is good is going on here?" Came a voice from outside in the halls. Rhett was in his room with the doctor and the unconscious unicorn girl lying on the bed. He hadn't told the doctor anything about the girl, figuring the doctor wouldn't have believed it even if he'd told him.

"I'll be right back." He said to Dr. Adrian and hurried outside closing the door swiftly behind him.

"Rhett! There you are."

"I'm sorry, Sir."

"Would you mind telling me why Dr. Adrian's horse is in my stables and why I found your cloak stained with blood in the middle of the floor?"

Rhett began to scratch his head, wondering how he was going to explain what happened in a way that would make any sense at all. He was still having difficulty believing what he had seen with his own eyes. "Um . . . well . . . you see," He took and deep breath gathered his thoughts and then spat it out. "When I was out in town today I went by that caravan parked in the square and I saw something. So on my way home tonight I thought I'd pass by it again, and just see if I could maybe glimpse whatever it was again. But when I reached the square again there was a big commotion and what I saw there was a black unicorn fighting the men from the caravan. It had broken free of its cage. And then I don't know what came over me but I jumped in and tried to help the creature. Then there was this old man who stepped out telling me to back off, but I didn't and the unicorn and I fought the men together, but then in the middle of the fight it started glowing and the men backed off afraid. When the light was gone there was a girl in place of the unicorn. The men from the caravan left saying they were not sent to retrieve a girl. So I brought her here and she was injured so I called for the doctor, and that's what happened, Sir."

"Where is the girl now?"

"She's in my room. The doctor is treating her wounds."

The lord pushed past Rhett without warning and walked into Rhett's room, only to stop abruptly in the middle of the floor.

"Ah, Lord Lir, you've finally returned. It seems master Rhett has gotten himself into some trouble while you were away. But what young man his age doesn't every now and then? Don't worry about the young lady, she'll be fine." Said Dr. Adrian.

"Has she been unconscious the entire time?" Lord Lir asked.

"Yes, my Lord. Seems she's gone through quite a lot tonight. If it weren't for master Rhett she would probably have been in a great deal more trouble."

"I see." The lord replied turning back to Rhett.

"Well, I've done about all I can here. I'll leave you all so you can get some rest. It's been quite an eventful evening. If the young lady has anymore problems let me know. I'll check on her again in a week or so. Good night my Lord, master Rhett." And the doctor left.

Rhett remained in the doorway, unsure of whether or not he should say something to Lord Lir. Meanwhile Lir walked up to the girl's bedside and leaned over. His hand brushed over her forehead, clearing her ebony locks away to reveal the star shaped scar there. "It can't be." Rhett heard him whisper, causing him to be even more confused than he already was.

"It can't be."

Lir stared down at the girl before him. A black unicorn. At the moment he had many thoughts racing through is mind, but he could think of only one reason a black unicorn had come into existence.

"Did you speak to her?" he asked Rhett, but not turning to look at him.

"No, she hasn't woken since I brought her here."

"I see. We'll have to wait then."

"My Lord, are you alright?" Rhett asked.

Lir straightened himself and turned back to Rhett. The boy really did look concerned. Lir had been living in the town of Ardent since the fall of his father's kingdom. The people there were some of the few people brave enough to live off Haggard's land and knew of him as a hero that fended off the wild beasts that prayed off the people and their livestock. Therefore, when Lir was left without a home they helped him build one on the outskirts of the town and in exchange he had continued to protect the people and handled any financial troubles the town ran into.

Once he'd moved in Lir, like his father, ended up adopting a child. That child was Rhett. Rhett was a young boy who'd just lost his family to a dragon which attacked them while on their way to the town. Lir took him in, educated him, and gave him a job as his assistant. He'd told Rhett stories of his past, where he came from, of his father, everything . . . except for one thing. He had never told Rhett of Amalthea, the unicorn. What she had done to him. How she had left him, and how he had never been able to move on.

"I'm afraid, Rhett, that I may not be." He sighed. "This girl. I think I may know her."

The Unicorn woke up, and as soon as she did so she knew something was wrong. Her heart began to beat faster as she took in her surroundings and then as she realized where she was she realized exactly what it was that was so wrong. She went to move her forearms before her and instead she found herself looking at a human hand. She held the other up next to the first and stared at them for a while.

She had changed on her own, without the assistance of a wizard, but why? She could have fended off the men without changing into a human. Was it like her mother's first run-in with the Red Bull? Was it to deter it long enough to find something? What was it she was looking for? Her head was throbbing and it was hard to think about anything for more than a few seconds before being distracted by the pain.

'Father!' She thought finally. That was why she left the forest in the first place. She needed to find her father. Was this why she had transformed? She gathered her thoughts for a moment and then looked around the room she was in once more. It was rather large but sparsely furnished. There was the bed she was sitting in, a desk in one corner next to a window, and a wardrobe, a dresser, a full length mirror, and a chair placed next to the bed on which a nightgown and housecoat were draped over.

She got up slowly, still feeling somewhat woozy and pulled on the nightgown and housecoat preparing to go out. Opening the door to the room slowly she peered out to find no one in the corridor. She then walked slowly down the hallway hoping to find someone who could tell her exactly where she was and whose house she was in.

Then as she turned a corner she came face to face with a man's chest and nearly stumbled to the floor but for the arm that caught and steadied her. "Forgive me." Said the man and she looked up to find a tall, brown haired, green eyed man staring back at her and it was as though they were caught in that moment for an eternity.

Suddenly the Unicorn recognized him. "It's you." She said abruptly. "The one from the square. You came to help me. Most people are afraid of me."

"Yes that was me." The man said. "My name is Rhett. I brought you here. The men who had captured you left. But it sounds as though they'll be back sooner or later."

"Where are we?" she asked.

"You're in Lord Lir's house. It's just on the outskirts of the town."

"Di-did you say Lir?" The Unicorn asked.

"Yes, have you heard of him?" Rhett asked.

"Yes . . . I have. May I see him?"

"Of course. He's been waiting for you to wake. He said he might know who you are." Rhett said taking her arm to steady her as he led her down the hall.

'He knows me? Could it really be him?' Her heart began to race once again in anticipation. She had no idea that she would have found him so early in her journey. She followed Rhett into a study and waiting there was a tall, thin man, with graying blonde hair, his back towards them.

"Sir, she's woken up." Said Rhett.

The lord turned around to face them and as soon as his eyes met hers, the Unicorn knew the truth. "It's you isn't it?" he asked quietly.

The Unicorn couldn't speak. She was so overcome with emotions that she had never experienced before that the words just wouldn't come out. She nodded quietly in response and Lord Lir couldn't hold back the joy in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Rhett but there is something I haven't told you in all the years you've lived here. I didn't tell you because it is the most painful memory I have of all those I've collected over the years.

"What I've never told you is that I fell in love with a unicorn just before my father died. That unicorn was the last there was on the earth. She had come to my father's castle in search of her people and there she found them. My father had called upon the Red Bull to herd all the unicorns there were into the sea for his delight, and his alone.

"But the unicorn did not come to the castle as a unicorn. She had been changed into a human girl by the wizard Schmendrick. He'd done so in order to save her from the bull. He called her Amalthea. The longer the unicorn stayed in human form the more human she became, and eventually she was able to love me back.

"But it was all cut short. She was destined to save her people, and I was destined to help her end my father's reign. She was changed back into a unicorn and left to return to her forest. She did leave me with one last gift though."

"And what was that?" Rhett asked in awe.

"His life." Said the Unicorn. "He died trying to protect her from the Red Bull. And once the unicorns were free, she didn't leave with them at once, but came back to bring him back to life."

"And you. Are you really his daughter?"

The Unicorn looked to her father and said. "Yes."