“We did,” a blue one said.
She paused at that as relief swept through her. They weren’t enemies. They were his soldiers who’d come to help him.
Thank the gods.
Smiling, she turned toward him.
Until the brown leader spoke again. “And we hate you, you worthless fuck. Kill him!”
Tanis gasped as they rushed in unison toward Dash. Wait. What? Why? What was wrong with them?
Fury consumed her as she did the only thing she could think of, she unsheathed her sword and ran back to join the fray.
“Here, horsey, horsey.” She used the sword to spank the flanks of the first one she reached.
She probably should have stabbed him, she realized, as the smaller blue unicorn turned on her with fury in his dark eyes. Growling, he tried to pierce her heart with his horn.
Tanis quickly parried the horn.
But what she didn’t expect was for him to turn human and swing a sword at her throat. She barely caught that stroke before it decapitated her.
Stunned, she realized that unicorns didn’t fight the way anyone else did.
Oh, I’m in serious trouble.
They had unique fighting skills. No wonder other species had fallen so easily to their ranks. They fought with magick fire and ice balls and shifted constantly between their unicorn and human bodies.
Whoa...
Impressive and terrifying. You never knew what was going to be thrown at you or which form you’d be engaging.
Cursing, she jumped at the gray’s back and would have landed on him had he not vanished and left her to sprawl on the ground.Veryundignified.
Dash ran over to her side to give her cover. “I regret taking your powers right now.”
“Not as much as I do.” She pushed herself up and grabbed the sword. “Any advice?”
“Run.”
“Not happening. How do I kill them?”
“If they’re human, same as any man or woman. If they’re unicorns... best to wait until they’re human.”
Beautiful.
A shield appeared on her arm.
“That will keep their magick from harming you. It will also shield you from their magick weapons.”
Nice.
Dash grabbed her with his arms and threw her in the air as he turned into a unicorn. She landed in a saddle on his back. They ran at three of the unicorns. Thankfully, this time he’d given her a bridle to hold onto.
Tanis’s heart pounded in time to his hoof beats, especially when her sword changed to a lance and the tip began to glow.
“Aim for the horn. Slice it off and they’re dead.”
Good to know. And that explained why they wore the armored face plates as unicorns to guard them.
