Mythics

Copper And Smoke

Chapter 3

Bellamy blinked, his face never hinting at any emotions or thoughts underneath. He just stared at Kora.

"OK, say something." Kora snapped her fingers in front of his eyes.

"Is he still alive?"

"No, he died before you were born." Kora remained stern and answered far too quickly, which made Bellamy think there was something more she wasn't telling him.

"And my mother.....?" There was hesitation in his voice, as if this were a question he didn't want to know the answer to.

"I don't know. She disappeared when the war broke out." Kora continued walking and didn't stop, leaving Bellamy behind in a cloud of more questions and bitter disappointment.

So what now? Bellamy thought to himself; he could make his own way, but something deep inside was telling him to follow Kora.

"So where are we? Where are we going?" Bellamy quietly caught up with Kora, again. She turned suddenly and jumped, which made Bellamy chuckle to himself.

"Stop doing that!" She snapped back at him. "We're just outside the former city of Richmond in Virginia and I can't tell you where we're going. Not yet."

"What do you mean 'former'?" Bellamy asked.

The answer he wanted didn't come for Kora stopped so suddenly he almost ran into her. She was smiling and looking straight ahead at something that moved in and out between the trees.

Bellamy walked slowly forward.

Roughly being eighteen hands high at the withers and the color of a new penny, the unicorn snorted and stamped it's hooves impatiently. It's golden horn looked sharper than a knife and threatened to skewer Bellamy if he didn't move out of the way.

"It's....... It's a unicorn." Bellamy said, looking open-mouthed back at Kora's grinning face.

"Yes, we assumed you wouldn't be able to Change for very long so I made a deal with the unicorns." Kora spoke while the unicorn curiously sniffed Bellamy's hand. "Her name is far too complex for our language, but we took to calling her Ember."

"Ember." Bellamy murmured. "Are we sharing?"

He turned around to see Kora approaching another unicorn, this one looked older and seemed to be made of smoke.

"Come, we must leave now." Kora tapped the gray creature's shoulder, signaling it to kneel, and swung onto its back. "Get on, the girls are ready to run and we must get to the refuge before evening tomorrow."

Bellamy turned back to see Ember already kneeling."How am I going to ride without a saddle or bridle?"

Kora snorted and answered, "You would have to be stupid to try and saddle a unicorn."

Bellamy grabbed a fist full of flaxen mane and swung astride the smooth, coppery back. He yelped and almost fell off when Ember jolted to her feet.

" You might want to hold on tight because unicorns don't stop for anything and are faster than regular horses." Kora grinned mischievously.

"Wha---" Bellamy's protest was lost to the wind as Ember and Kora's unicorn took off like a bullet shot from a gun; taking Bellamy's screams with them until the only things that hinted they were there at all, was the settling dust and the excited chattering of squirrels.

Hey guys, here is part three of Mythics! As always if ya'll see something in here that you think needs changing then let me know and I will try to fix it:).