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Chapter Two: Ocean Bound

Rio took up a fast walk away from the clearing. Carefully placing her feet on the damp forest floor, she could not run, it would be too noisy. She did not want the unicorn's ex-captors to hear her.

'Why did the unicorn wade into the ocean and not come up for air? Perhaps the stories were true....the stories about how a unicorn would accept death. I thought they were immortal. But could it be that when it was time for a unicorn to die they wade into the ocean and their body disappears after their soul leaves? Is it also true that when the soul leaves the body that they are destined to lurk in the ocean forever?' Too many unanswered questions drifted through her mind.

Little did she know, the unicorn's ex-captors were stalking her close by. She heard a footstep and quickly turned to see....pirates! Pirates were following her! Immediately her body prepared itself for 'fight or flight' as she became pumped with adrenaline. She bolted through the forest with the pirates hot on her heels. She ran to the end of the path, starting to create a new one to flee from the pirates. She couldn't keep this up much longer, she was losing her breath, and in the dark she was bound to run into a tree or worse, a pirate. She thought about taking them on, but that was just stupid. She was way smaller, weaker, she didn't have any weapons and there was just too many of them. She couldn't keep running, she realized she had to hide somewhere. But where?

In the trees. Hide in the trees, her mind told her. So, Rio started climbing a willow tree, still breathing heavily from running. She was so thirsty and exhausted; Rio felt like every muscle in her body ached. She silently cursed at the willow for some of her long hair getting caught on the bark. While she was freeing a lock from the tree's grasp, a few of the pirates approached the bottom of the willow. She gasped, surprised, she did not realize that they were there. She did not hear their silent footsteps approach the tree. A shabby-looking pirate heard her gasp and looked upwards into the tree. Right at her.

"Well I'll be...." the pirate murmured before reaching upwards to grasp Rio's ankle. "Shit." Rio cursed. She did not want to be caught like this. Rio kicked her foot forward, and he did not let go. Instead, he yanked her right off of the branch. But she did not let herself fall out of the tree. She hung on to that branch. For dear life as it seemed. She tried to kick the pirate, but she was no superhero. Her foot did not make contact with his face, as she had hoped. Her ankle was yanked on again, and this time she -and the thin tree branch- came down right on the pirate's lap....

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It has been too long since I updated this. 2007!! This was all I had left over, not even a full chapter. I don't know if I'll ever finish this, I don't get many reviews at all.