Unicorns Returning to Mom
Jola after her close call with death asked Uni, if they could visit her mother, she had become intensely aware of just how short life was, and feared never seeing her mother again.
Uni agreed instantly, as he had been thinking along the same line. Jola’s mother had become his also, not through birth, but through her love for him, and like Jola, both had been missing her.
They all set off, as a family, to the Ice Queen’s palace, where Jola’s mother had been asked to stay, and all were excited to see her once more. She had been an important part in their lives, and each wanted her to be so again.
The trip was long, giving Sheen plenty of time to plant the seeds that Winter’s blossom had given him, and it was not long before he had planted and fertilized each seed. For him it was a chance to repay the dryads for fixing his leg and healing Uni, and he had taken it to his heart.
Lone was still with them, and while still wild, he allowed Kasandra to sit with him and stroke him, it had become an important part of each of their lives, Lone chose to walk beside her and she always looked for him when they were ready to being each morning, and he was beside Kasandra when the trouble came.
Kasandra had taken to frolicking ahead of the others, with Lone by her side, protecting her, and she was chasing a butterfly when suddenly three of the largest wolves she had ever seen stepped from the foliage and bared their teeth. Lone was instantly in-between her and the new wolves, his own teeth bared, snarling a challenge.
Lone saw the first wolf prepare to attack, and leapt for its throat, sinking his teeth deep, Uni, Jola and Sheen heard the fight before they saw it, and ran to their daughter’s rescue, but Kasandra had noticed the other two wolves surrounding Lone while he fought, and she put her head down and charged.
Her horn was still too short to kill a wolf outright, but Uni’s wasn’t and he was the first to arrive, and gored the third wolf, not killing it as it had twisted to avoid him, but making it run for safety. It was Jola’s horn that killed the second wolf, and then Kasandra turned to the first, who now gained the upper hand with Lone and had him on his back with its fangs around his throat, ready for the killing bite. She charged, and hit it as hard as she could in its side, leaving a wound, but not enough to really help.
But it had been enough to take its attention off Lone and he leapt to his feet and again attacked, and so did Kasandra. As Uni made to move in, Jola shook her head and he stopped, realising that this was her fight, to save her friend, and she needed to do this by herself.
When her small horn hit the wolf in almost the same spot, it howled, and Lone took a better grip on its throat. Kasandra again charged once more hitting it in nearly the same wound, and Lone bit hard, tearing its throat mortally. Seconds later the wolf died from its wounds, and Kasandra changed to human form to run and hug Lone, who licked hr face over and over again.
She sat beside him, patting and stroking with a huge smile on her young face. Jola walked to Uni and said, “I think they will be friends for life.” Uni smiled and nodded, the pride in his daughter was plain to see, and Jola felt so happy to have fond his love that she started to prance for him. It was perhaps the only time that Kasandra did not join in.
When they continued towards the Ice Queen’s palace it was with Lone walking so close to Kasandra as to almost be her shadow, Uni and Jola in human form, holding hands, and Sheen, also in human form, walking ahead, waiting to see his grandmother.
And shortly afterwards he did as she was working in a garden she had dug herself outside the Ice Queen’s palace with the red fairies, all tending vegetables that they had grown themselves, and stopping to wave when they spotted their visitors.
