Rosewood and the legend of the Unicorn

Chapter 25- The book of Legends

Nixon and Ashton decided to go home with Falcon that night.
They stayed up all night with him, hoping their Ariana would return.

Ashton sat there with guilt over-running his mind, knowing that he was the one who told Ariana to run away and never come back. He felt responsible for the bad state that Falcon was in, and now the entire town is devastated about her disappearance.

It is now the next morning, and there has been no sign on Ariana's return.
Falcon remains sat in his arm chair, staring at the empty wall in front of him, contemplating everything he has ever said to her.
"All this time... she was special and I knew it. I just couldn't quite grasp what it was. If I could have just said something to her then-"
"It's no ones fault Falcon. No one knew she was a Unicorn. And that's probably for the better." Replies Nixon from the kitchen as he starts making a warm cup of tea for Falcon.
"I still just can't believe it... my daughter, my own daughter, is a unicorn. And all of this time I've talked about how much of a dark soul they were, and should never be talked about. And my daughter was one of them."
"It's alright Falcon" Ashton says and sits on one of the arms of the chair and wraps his arm around Falcons shoulder "none of this could have been helped, it was dragons who made us believe that Unicorns were the evil ones. When In fact, this whole time, it has been the dragons."
Nixon walks over to falcon with his cup of tea firmly in grip, but suddenly, a monstrous thump is heard from just metres outside Falcons home, causing Nixon to shriek and drop the China cup spilling tea all over the wooden floorboards.
But none of them react to Nixon spilling hot tea all over the floor, but instead remain staring at Falcons front door, expecting something to happen at any point now.
And within just a few seconds, something does...

A mentally broken, worn out Ariana comes thrashing into the living room, stumbling around and then collapses onto the ground.

"ARIANA!" All the men shout simultaneouely.
But the first and only one to actually run over to her is Ashton. He picks her up from the floor so she's sitting up, and make sure she's actually conscious before he speaks.
"Ari what are you doing back here? I told you it's not safe." He mumbles in her ear.
But before Ariana can reply, Nixon has finally made his way over to her rescue, and lifts her off the ground completely, and plonks her onto the sofa.
With heavy breaths, Ariana eventually begins to speak.
"I'm so sorry - I - I had to - I had to go away -"
She glares at Ashton with anger filled within her eyes.
"Are you injured? Is my Ariana hurt?"'asks Falcon however still glued to that chair.
"No dad I'm fine. But I have traveled far in these past few days and I'm slightly knackered." She says still hyperventilating. "There's something I need to tell you guys-"
"I've already told them." Says Ashton looking extremely guilty.
"You what?"
"I told them everything... about the forbidden books, the purple rose, our break into Ridges castle... and about you."
Things suddenly go rather quiet. All looking down to the floor worried what Ariana might say.
"Well... thanks. That saves me the job of having to explain everything."
They all look at her in shock, as that is certainly not the reply they were all anticipating.
As falcon still seems frozen to his seat, Ariana decides to get up and make her way over to
Him. She leans in for a hug, and eventually falcon wraps his arms around her and squeezes her tightly, not wanting to let go.
"I thought I had lost you again Ariana. I didn't know what had happened you had me going crazy I-"
"And I'm so so sorry dad. I didn't meant to hurt you, I just didn't know what to do. I knew that Ridge would kill me if he found out my true identity, so I had to leave."
"So how come you decided to return so quickly?" Asks Ashton, but regretting every word he just said, as it didn't come out in quite the way he had hoped.
"Because I found out the truth. I didn't have to worry about Ridge discovering who I was because he already knew."
"What?" They all echoed eachother.
"I went back to Rosewood. The one in England that was burnt down when the humans discovered our secrets."
"But why?" Asks Falcon.
"Because that was the only place I could think of that may have some answers. It's where I found the small unicorn, the one where there are only 3 in the world. I knew I couldn't have just found it coincidentally. It meant something. So I went back there and it wasn't long before I was greeted by someone. Her name was Parisa... and she was a Unicorn."
"Wait what? Another Unicorn? I've spent my whole life believing only one could ever exist, and now you're telling me that my own daughter is a Unicorn and now there are more?"
"You've been lied to your whole lives. Dragons have been lying to our people of Rosewood for hundreds of years. They've always known that Umicorns still existed, our queen ran away, she wasn't killed, but she didn't go very far."
"Ari you're going to have to expand all this because I dont-"
"Let me finish Nixon. Parisa did something and the whole world around me transformed. It was a beautiful place, a buzzing village, filled with many happy looking souls. No more charred rubble, and obliterated homes, it was the place that our queen flew to after she ran away. She never flew away after all, but instead used a power she never knew she had and created a new dimension to the world we knew. She watched over us for years, and if a Unicorn was ever born or brought into Rosewood by the Roses she would take them from our normal society and bring them to her dimension to keep them safe from the dragons. The dragons remained in power and never knew where all the Unicorns were being taken too. But they always knew when one was there. Parisa told me they have the dark power to detect a soul by the smell of their blood. So from the day I was born, Ridge knew that I was a Unicorn. And he knew that mum was one too..."