How This Started: Chapter Seven

Unicorn Princess awoke to Handsome Prince shaking her desperately.

"Get up. You have to get up *now*." His eyes were wild and desperate. Something was wrong, Unicorn Princess could tell. Something was very wrong.

She sat up. "What's going on?" she asked, her voice fearful.

"Meanie Boy's army. They're attacking for no apparent reason. We have to get out of here!" Handsome Prince exclaimed.

"We're not going to 'get out of here'," Unicorn Princess insisted. "We're going to do what we meant to do when we started this rebellion. We're going to fight them."

"They'll beat us!" Handsome Prince worried. "They'll kill us all! We have to get out of here!"

"What use is a rebellion that doesn't do anything?" Unicorn Princess asked, growing angry. She opened the door and began to walk out into the violence. "You can run away if you want. But I'm going to do something good."

"Then I will too," Handsome Prince agreed.

They walked out the door and saw that most of the rebels were already fighting. One of them, a purple mare, beckoned to them. She had a small magical shield around herself which was shooting beams of light at the human soldiers. "Get over here, I can't hold them off much longer!" she screamed.

Unicorn Princess soared to where the mare was. She shot a beam of deadly magic at one soldier fighting her. He fell to the ground, dead.

The mare thanked her and her magical shield disintegrated. "I'm Shiny," she said. "Thanks for saving me. Wanna go kill some more of them?"

"Yes," Unicorn Princess agreed. She and Shiny flew to a ring of humans surrounding a small yellow unicorn, who looked like one of the younger members of the rebellion. He was bleeding from a wound on his head and shaking from fear.

"Alright, horsey," a human soldier said. He had red hair and a large scar on his face. His mouth curled into a wicked smile as he lifted his sword. "Time to say goodbye."

"Stop!" Unicorn Princess screamed, barreling into him and knocking him over. "Don't hurt him!"

"Oh, you're the princess," the soldier said. "I thought we'd killed the whole royal family. Meanie Boy will be angry to hear about this. Unless, of course, you're just uncannily similar to her."

"I am the princess," Unicorn Princess growled. "And you will stop hurting unicorns. You can take your horrible species and leave our kingdom."

"It's our kingdom now," the soldier said. He raised his sword once again, but just as he was about to strike, but Unicorn Princess hit him with a large bubble of magic. He fell on the ground, still, but she worried he was not dead.

"Look what you've done," another soldier spat furiously. "You've killed Commander Asher, you vile unicorn."

"She'll kill you, too," Shiny said, emerging from behind Unicorn Princess with the young unicorn floating behind her in a protective bubble of magic.

"I will," Unicorn Princess said, using a beam of white-hot flame from her horn to scorch the remaining human soldiers. When she was done, she knew they were dead.

"Retreat!" she heard a human voice call. "Retreat!"

Unicorn Princess looked at her rebels, satisfied. "We won our first battle. We might just be able to take back our kingdom after all."

"That's great!" Handsome Prince yelled from somewhere in the crowd.

"On a sadder note, is anyone dead?" Unicorn Princess asked.

"We lost twelve," a voice yelled.

"That's more than I would like," she said. "But we'll become better at fighting. Everyone here has fought in and survived battle. We're going to have many more battles. But in each one, we will be a step closer to putting me on the throne and restoring our land."