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Richard, a young foot soldier with short brown hair, blue eyes and a slim body, stumbled up a huge hill in a bright, sunny day. Only to him, not everything was so bright and sunny. He was holding his hand to his side, a wounded side, cut by a sword during a enormous battle. No doubt he survived, but he was still hurt badly.

He was almost lucky.

He groaned as soon as he'd made it to the top, his feet feeling tired like he's been walking up a tall mountain. As he stood up top, Richard scouted the landscape, and found a forest not very far from his postion. Perfect...He can hide there. But after his eyes judged the distance the forest was, his mind was on the feeling in his feet. He whined. Oh, if he only could just rest here a bit. Richard mentally brushed that relaxing thought aside and toughened himself up. He can't...Not yet...The enemy might be after him. He shot a glance over his shoulder, seeing nobody. No one's coming, but he's not taking any chances staying out in the open for a long time. He has to get to that forest, NOW.

Richard started traversing down the hill, careful not to slip and fall since it was a bit steep going down. His feet almost like their footing, but he caught himself and regained his balance. He resumed his pace till he made it to the bottom, and continued on for the forest, quickening his steps. Soon he made it there without incident, his form hidden from the outside world. Richard slowed himself down, breathing out and gazing down while still walking.

The young man groaned when he felt his side reminding him the pain he's gotten. He cursed to himself, "Cripes..." He stopped and checked his war wound out, noticing crimson still oozing out of the big cut. It was still bleeding. He uttered, "Damn." He still has strength to go on, but he has to get that wound fixed soon. If he don't, he'll die.

Richard looked around the forest, nothing but the bushes along with the tall, beautiful trees surrounding him, and the tranquility he was feeling within this place. But how is he going to do that? There's nothing much here that can help him. What's he going to do? Richard moaned out in pain, and pushed himself forward. Well, he'll just have to keep moving till he finds someone to help him. Maybe he might run into a hermit who lives here. He wasn't sure if that was true, since he hasn't been here before, but he was hoping that's the case.

That's one of the two things he can do now...Walk...And hope.

*****

As the full moon night dawned over the forest, Richard, still alone, stumbled across a few steps, then leaned against a tree for support. He moaned as his hand held to his forehead. His mind felt dizzy, enough that he'd collaspe to the earth like his deceased comrades. He felt really tired too...He wasn't sure he could go on.

For a very long time, he'd traveled through this seemingly vast forest with the hope he'd find someone to help him. But ever since he arrived, he hadn't found ANYONE. All he did the whole time was walk, walk and walk. Not take one break whatsoever. Richard pushed off the tree and stumbled across the grass some more. His breaths were coming out strained as he felt his strength about to give out. After all that, not only was he losing strength in his legs...But he was already losing hope.

He'll die...All alone in this place.

"Oh...Ughhhh..." Finally after taking one final step, his legs wobbled and gave out. He fell down to his hands and knees, and then laid down on his back, "Ugh...Oh." As his heavy breathing was the only thing he heard other than the crickets, Richard was just laying around and watching the stars shining up through the canopy. Internally...He didn't care anymore. He was taking all this without fear.

Well...Least he tried. Least he didn't die in a horrible death like the others. Dying here in a quiet place seems better. It was very...Peaceful.

He can live with that.

Richard could swore he heard something walking toward him, but he didn't want to move his head to look what it was. He couldn't move it if he tried. Then, something unexpected loomed over him in his sights. It was an animal that came to see him. It was a horse, a pure white horse...With a lone horn sticking out from its forehead.

Richard opened his jaw to let out a weak, stuttering gasp. He couldn't believe his eyes. He was staring right...At a UNICORN.

He was mumbling as he was staring up at it, "Wow...I'm dying so badly...I'm seeing things now." He chuckled a bit, then let out a pained groan when it hurt his side. Not too long after that, that's when his mind was getting more dizzy than before, and his vision began to get cloudy.

And then...Everything went dark.

*****

Richard moaned with a closed mouth, slowly opening up his eyelids in squints. As his vision adjusted a bit and when he fully opened them, the blue cloudy sky and tree branches were all he can see.

"Huh...Wha...?" It's...Morning. His torso rose off the grass and he sat up now. He glanced around, seeing everything around him was still the same forest he had wandered around in for hours. Richard finally got up to his feet, darting his head around some more. He began talking to himself as his mind tried to recollect what happened to him, "Did I...What happened?" That's when he actually noticed something about himself. He didn't feel any pain in his side.

He immediately shot his eyes down to the spot where his cut's at...And found that it was gone!

His eyes went wide, a surprised whisper shooting out of his lips, "What?!" It was...Healed! There's no cut, no wound! He wasn't bleeding anymore!

How can that be...?

Richard pinched himself to see if he was dreaming, but he wasn't at all. The revelation surprised him even more. He's awake...Still alive with his wound all gone. He didn't die...He must've just passed out. That's when he tried to recall the events that happened to him again. All he can remember is...Wandering through the woods for a long time, wounded...Feeling dizzy and tired and falling to the ground last night...And dreaming about a unicorn or something...And that was it.

But what could've healed him? There was no way something would heal that fast...

Richard's hand rubbed the spot where he was hurt at, a smile forming on his mouth shortly. He didn't know how it happened...But it was a miracle. He's alive to live another day! He almost couldn't believe it. He let out a sigh of relief and then started wandering away through a bush. Well, now that's over and day's past...It's probably good to get out of this forest. Surely the enemy stopped looking for him by now.

*****

The young soldier strode through the woods for a while now, as morning seemed to had already pass. He sighed heavily. Richard wondered how vast this forest really is. Not to mention how far he was deep in it. He was even almost impatient, wondering if he would ever get out of here.

But leaving the forest was the least of his worries.

His stomach growled, loud enough for him to hear. He frowned and whined, rubbing his gut in a circle. He was hungry. He hadn't eaten anything since before the battle he entered and survived yesterday. He was so hungry he could eat the bark off any tree near him! Richard let out a frustrated growl, because of his hunger. Oh, now he didn't know which was worse. Dying from a war wound or dying from hunger. He's getting tired of the latter. He needs to eat something now or he'll start going nuts.

Richard gazed around the area as he strolled on. It's a forest, right? There had to be some berries or something to grab onto. Course there probably are some animals too, but he ain't a trained hunter. So, that meant he'll have to stick with finding something edible off trees or bushes.

Not very long later, after he suffered several more minutes of starvation, Richard did find something edible. A few trees filled with apples were straight ahead in his path. He cried out happily when he ran to them, "Oh yes! Hahahahaha!" Richard slowed to a stop near them, and since the branches carrying the apples were low enough for him to grab, he right away began to pick some off the branches one by one. All he wanted at the moment was ten and that would be it. If only he had a bag to carry a lot more, but he'll have to make due with plain ten of them.

As he carried five in his arm and before Richard was gonna pull the sixth one out, something struck him in the butt hard. He cried out from the sharp pain, dropping the apples, "OW!" Somebody hit him! He whirled around, but didn't find anybody around. He formed up a frown of confusion. Where'd they go? He could've sworn somebody hit him. It felt like it...He's sure. Richard decided to ignore what he felt, and went back to picking off the reamining number of apples he had in mind and then get the ones on the ground afterward. That's when he felt something hit him again, right in the same spot, "Ah! Bollocks!" He spun to face the person, but he got the same result.

This time, he barked, "Who did that? Come out and face me like a man you coward!"

That's when Richard heard a boastful voice, "Can't do that, we're not men, chap."

It sounded like it came from behind him. Richard whirled around again, but never found them. He asked, "What do you mean? Who are you?" His bottom got struck by whoever the third time and cried again, "OW!" He twirled again, rubbing his butt cheek, "Hey! Cut it out!"

Shockingly, he caught a pair of glaring eyes off a tree. That's when he saw that tree having a mouth...And talking, "Cut what out? Our limbs?"

Richard gasped, stumbling back. No way! A talking tree! That's impossible! He pointed at it, sputtering out, "You...You talked!"

He saw another tree beside that one doing the same thing, showing its eyes and mouth. It was taunting him, "Yeah, and our bark is worse than our bite!" About three more trees near them showed their true colors and laughed at the one who made the crack.

Richard asked, scratching the side of his head in confusion, "Uhhh...Am I dead and dreaming of this? How is this possible?"

The tree that glared at him replied, "Who cares about your questions? You're stealing me stuff, you thief!"

The human glared back at him, "Me? What was I stealing?"

"What else?" One of his apple dangling limbs shook hastily, "You're taking away ME apples! They're supposed to be mine!"

Richard defended, "I didn't know. They just looked like ordinary apples to me."

"Well they're not. They're specially produced."

"Really?" He eyed at the apples he dropped on the ground, then casted his eyes back on the tree, "Still look ordinary to me."

"I don't focking care what they look like in your view. Now put the ones you left on the ground back where they belong and scram, you scrawny thief!"

The other trees joined in the fight against the thieving human, "Yeah! SCRAM!"

Richard fought back with words, "Hey, fuck you, wankers! I'm hungry! That's why I was trying to take them! Besides, I don't think you were going to eat them."

The glaring tree shot back, "That's because we don't! We cherish them and watch them dangle from our limbs!"

He raised a brow, calmly asking, "And not share them for a weary traveler?"

That tree heatedly reply, "No."

"...Not even let go ten of them?"

All of them shouted in unison, "NO!"

Richard's stomach rumbled again...And he couldn't take this anymore. He snapped, "Well I'm taking them!" He dashed and ducked low, catching the trees off guard.

"Hey!" The closest one was trying to swing its limbs right at Richard, but he was careful to dodge them as he was quickly picking up the five apples that were already picked off the limb and dropped to the ground. He managed to grab all of them and ran out of reach of the angry tree. They all hollered at him angrily, "COME BACK HERE, YA BASTARD!"

Richard yelled over his shoulder, not looking back as he ran as fast as he could, "No thanks, but thanks for the lunch!" The wailing anger soon died out when he was very far away from them, and he finally slowed to a stop. Richard gazed back, breathing in and out. He said through gasped breaths, "Bloody hell." What just happened back there? Those trees literally came to life and tried to stop him from taking the apples!

Then he came to a startling conclusion. This wasn't an ordinary forest he was in. It must be enchanted! That would explain the lively trees. He never knew that sort of thing was possible. He glanced around cautiously. Well, he knows this ain't a dream. He'd better be more careful around here. Who knows what else could come alive and hurt him. Whatever else probably wouldn't be as welcoming as those trees were.

After he caught his breath, he went on further away from those angry, inanimate objects. He glanced at the apples he got away with in his arm. Well, five of them oughta be enough for now. He shot his gaze ahead. After going through all that, let's hope he'll stay out of trouble from here on out.

*****

As he was sitting on a rock, Richard was chewing on a apple, while satisfied that his hunger was being satiated. He felt a whole lot better.

Ever since he ran into those angry barks of wood, he wandered around finding a place to sit and eat. Took him a short while to even find a good spot though since he was purely cautious of things around him...And had a few encounters with things around him too.

For one thing, one leafy bush actually came to life and tried to eat his apples. LITERALLY! It acted like a dog or some other animal when it had those odd characteristics and didn't speak to him one bit. Later after that, he found a big rock to sit on, and it was alive too! That inanimate object did speak to him, but like the trees it was angry at him. It was mad at him for sitting on it for that reason. And then he encountered another tree, as he was sitting down at the base of it. It accused him of stealing the apples he had from other trees and accused him of stealing his, but the dumb part about it was he didn't have any on his limbs! So after Richard tried to convince him otherwise and that angry piece of bark didn't believe him, he left to eat somewhere else.

He thought that he'd stay out of trouble after those group of trees...But boy was he wrong. He's practically surprised he hadn't ran into that much trouble yesterday when he got to this forest.

Finally a bit after that, he found a place to settle down and eat without any more trouble...Which was another big rock.

At first Richard thought he got turned around and came across the same rock he already talked to. But it wasn't. It never came to life once. Lucky for him. He wolfed down fruit after fruit, until he was down to the last one. He ate slowly on that one since he wasn't feeling that hungry anymore. As he got to the core of the apple, he tossed it away like trash. He sighed, getting his hiney off the rock. Now he just needed to find something to drink to wash it all down. His face made a swipe around the area. There's got to be a river or lake around here somewhere. Hopefully neither doesn't come alive and swallow him up or something.

With thirst driving him, he headed for one direction, trekking past bushes and trees. While on the way of searching for a source of water, Richard was about to step on a bed of flowers on the ground, but suddenly he heard them yelling at him, "STOP!!!"

"Yike!" He shrieked, jumping back in time to not step on any of them. The non-magical being looked down at them with a wide face.

All the flowers on the ground made angry faces and shouted, "Watch where you're stepping!"

Richard chuckled, "Heh heh..." He scratched the back of his head, "Uh, sorry." Without another word, he moved himself past them, back to searching for water. Well, guess he should look down when he's walking from now on. He should have known this would happen.

Flowers, trees, rocks, bushes...What's next?

After another long, aimless stroll Richard finally found a source of water in a form of a stream. He jogged toward the water, kneeling down to the edge of it. Cupping his hands together he scooped up some of it and drinked the liquid. Another source of relief washed upon him as his thirst was starting to get quenched. When several gulps were down his throat he only just settled down on the grass, deciding to have a break from all the walking he endured.

He gazed at the area across the stream, trying to decide which way to go next after the break was over. Which way should he go? Every direction he takes seems to not take him out of here. He's more lost by the minute.

Then, he heard an unexpected, echoey kind of voice that sounded like a woman behind him, "I feel you are anxious to leave my home."

"Huh?" Richard quickly got off the ground. When he turned around to face whoever had the voice...He was facing a white horse with a horn on its head.

A unicorn.

The human gasped upon the sight. No way...A Unicorn. There's a unicorn in the forest! A real-life one! He thought back to his 'dream' from last night. Wait a minute...What he saw last night wasn't a dream. There was one that showed up and found him lying around. Guess he should've known that to be true too.

A question sprang in his head. But...Who made that voice? Who was the woman talking to him? He shot glances left and right. He didn't just hear it out of nowhere...Did he?

He heard it again, "It was me." It sounded like it came from right in front of him.

He put his eyes on the only thing in front of him which was the unicorn. Richard frowned at it and tried to ask, "Are...You-"

"Yes." The unicorn actually nodded, "I'm the one that's talking." Richard's eyes went wide. There's a real unicorn and it's talking to him! Unbelievable! He thought they would only whinny like an actual horse. That explains the voice...The unicorn must be a girl. Strange thing he noticed is he didn't see the mythical creature moving its mouth at all when it...'Talked'.

How odd. It must be speaking to him with its mind.

The unicorn spoke to him without moving its mouth again, "What's the matter? Are you frightened of me now? Don't worry...I'm nothing to fear."

Richard replied finally after heaving out a breath, "Um...Sorry bout that. I just...Didn't expect any of this to happen."

"Never expected me, huh?" The unicorn blinked, "I know I'm not the only thing you've least expected. You haven't expected a lot of things here. From those trees you found all the way up to me. You haven't really grown used to things around here, not to mention get along with some...You're definitely new."

Richard wrinkled his brow, "...You were watching me?"

It answered, "Since you woke up. And you oughta be thanking me."

"For what?"

"For waking up to this fine day...I did save you from death after all."

He pointed it out when he remembered his healed wound, "Wait a minute...You were the one who healed me? But...How?"

"With the magic of the horn." Speaking of that, the tip of the creature's horn glowed, making Richard slightly gasp in surprise, and dissappeared a moment later. It said, "You were very lucky I found you that night. Without it you would've been gone by now."

Richard started to smile at it in gratitude, "Wow, uh...Thank you...For that."

It replied, shooting up its head, "It's my pleasure. I never liked seeing a creature dying without any help. It seems tortorous in my eyes."

He raised a brow, "Did you just call me a creature? Uh, I'll have you know I'm not a creature. I'm a human."

"You look like an ordinary creature to me. It does not matter what you are. What matters is I saved you."

Richard stared at her for a little bit more before saying with a tiny nod, "Yeah...Still, thank you."

The unicorn bowed her head, "You're welcome."

When it raised to look back at him some more, the young man spoke, "Look, um...I don't mean to ask for another favor, but I want to get out of here. I'm kinda lost."

The unicorn mentioned without moving its lips, "I know. I'm surprised you haven't found a way out. You were kinda walking in a few circles here and there."

He formed a dismayed frown, "Really?"

"Oh yes. But I think it's understandable for a weary traveller, as you put it."

He stated, "You really have been watching me."

She replied without modest, "I was curious about you. Actually I still am. I was watching to see what you'd do."

He asked, "Well, since you know I was wondering through your home for a long time, can you help me get out of here? It's like you said, I keep getting myself lost."

It was turning its body so the side has faced him and swished its tail behind it, "Of course. I do not mind helping you again. Follow me." The unicorn's hooves stomped across the grass as it moved towards a direction it was taking him.

Richard raised his hand as he was starting to follow her, "Hey, hold on." She stopped short and moved her neck to gaze at him when he caught up and stood beside her, "If you don't mind...Would you let me ride on your back? My feet are kinda killing me."

The unicorn stared at him for a long moment, and gave him an answer, "I apologize...But I don't give rides like a horse. Best you keep up with me." With that, she resumed her pace, walking away from him. Richard whined, then shortly caught up once more when she was about a couple feet ahead of him.

*****

Richard strolled alongside the unicorn as it was leading him out of the forest. Both of them were just quiet cept for their footsteps, never saying a word to each other. He was surprised that thing wasn't asking him any questions about himself, like why he was in the forest and why he was hurt at all. Guess she must thought it was none of her business. Actually he had questions to ask her like how does she speak to him mentally. He admits that really was...Odd and mysterious.

Finally the edge of the enchanted forest was in sight and they both stopped right on it. The unicorn said as her gaze pointed outside the woods, "Ok...There you go."

Richard put on a smile for it, "Thank you so much. I was afraid I'd never get out."

The beautiful mythical creature turned her face towards him and spoke with that mental voice again, "You can always get out of my forest. Just got to have a good sense of direction."

He rolled his eyes, "Yeah, well, I guess I got a bad one." He then nodded at it, "Well...Nice meeting you...Unicorn."

"Guess I can say it was nice meeting you, too...In such a short circumstance."

He gave her another nod, "Right." Richard began to back away from her and the woods as she was watching him leave, "Well..." He gave her a wave goodbye, "Goodbye, then." The young human swung himself around and was walking forward this time without looking back. Ready to get back to his village.

But then...He suddenly stopped himself. His mind thought about before he came to the forest, and it was making him apprehensive. No...He can't go back home. Not after what happened in that battle. If any of the men in his army had saw Richard do it, and survived and told the king about it, he will not forgive Richard for that.

The king might have him executed...

Richard let out a wary sigh. Well, where is he supposed to go? What other village can he go to? He doesn't have an idea where to go... Then he looked back at the forest about fifty feet far from him. Well...Guess he doesn't have much of a choice. Maybe he can stay in there...Ask the unicorn where he can stay. Perhaps a cave or something. And besides, there are angry trees with lots of apples in them, maybe the creature can help him get some from time to time. And maybe perhaps the unicorn could teach him how to hunt and survive in there.

He nodded to himself. Sure...He can try living there. And who knows, maybe he and all the inanimate objects he met so far will get along together...With the help of the unicorn of course. Richard turned around and jogged back to the forest, entering in it several moments later. He put himself to a stop after jogging several yards in it, and cupped his hands to his mouth to holler for the unicorn, "Unicorn! Unicorn! Unicoooooooorrrrn!"

"You called?" Richard looked over to his left and found the white horse with a horn bounding towards him. When she stopped near him, she asked, "What's going on? I thought you couldn't wait to get out of the forest."

He turned to fully face her, "Yeah, uh...I change my mind. Can I stay here? In the forest I mean?" He looked down at his hands while they were fidgeting his fingers, "Look...I know I ain't some magical being or anything like that, but-"

The unicorn asked him this question, "Does it have something to do with you being wounded?"

The human's hands stopped moving and he lifted his head to look back at the unicorn. He slowly nodded as his look of apprehension appeared in his eyes, "That partly has something to do with it."

It pressed when it made one step forward, "Now I'm curious...What happened to you? Why were you hurt when I found you?"

Richard waved his hand, declining, "I don't really want to get into that right now. I just want to stay here. Can I?"

The horse creature only looked at him momentarilly before it said, "Sure. You can."

He beamed, "Great." He gestured his hand back at the area, "Do you have a place for me in the woods to stay? A cave?"

The creature shook its head, "I'm sorry. The forest doesn't have a place like that."

His face went a bit glum from her answer before he lowered it, "Cripes."

The unicorn got more closer to him, and he found that its eyes got upclose to his, "But don't worry...I'll help you out in any way I can."

Richard smiled, then nodded, "Yeah...I trust you can." He raised a finger, "And I have another favor to ask...Can you help me get some more apples from the trees? I'll probably need more for today."

"Of course I can. They always do listen to me. Probably a lot better than they do for you."

He rolled up his eyes, "Yeah...I can imagine."

She shot her head to her right, "Let's go."

*****

Night arrived again and this time Richard was in a round clearing with the unicorn, who stuck by him the rest of the day. It went by without incident, except the unicorn had gotten him some more apples for him to survive in the wilderness.

It was more easier than he tried to before, he can admit that. When he and the unicorn met up with those trees that gave him so much crap, they were not happy to see him. They were even threatening to throw apples at him just to have him scurry away. But the unicorn stood up for him, saying that he was not a thief and he is trying to survive like everything in the woods does, and demanded they give him more of the fruit. They declined at first, then, with her glowing horn, she threatened to use her magic to turn them into NORMAL trees. That came quite a shock for him, believing that she may have made those trees come to life with that magic. Could she be the reason this forest was enchanted?

But he never asked that question, since he was quite happy they'd given in and gave him as much apples as they wanted. There were some tears, but they weren't going to eat them anyway.

Finally, after many hours passed, the first night of him to officially live in these woods arrived, and he's about to settle in, after he went off to urinate. He saw the unicorn, who was laying on her stomach, watching him strode up to her. Richard stretched up his arms and yawned as he stood close to her. The unicorn's mental voice said in playful tone, "Tired now? I wondered you ever will since night came already."

Richard giggled, "What, do you have a specific time to go to bed?"

She replied, "Yes...When night comes, I sleep."

He was shaking his head, "That's not what I really meant." Then he shrugged, "But oh well, I guess it doesn't matter."

"Well sleep does matter. It matters to everything."

"Yep." He tilted his head a bit as he focused on the ground, "Well, looks like I'll sleep right here." Then he eyed at the unicorn and asked it, "What about you? Don't you have a place to go and sleep at?"

"Actually, I'm about to. Why do you think I'm lying here?" He heard the unicorn actually giggle, "I sleep anywhere in the forest."

He rolled his eyes, "Don't know why I even bothered asking. So, do you want to spend the night with me?" He both waved his hand and shook his head, "Listen, you don't have to sleep close to me. If you feel I'm taking up your space you can go somewhere else. I'll be fine. I'm sure I can handle it alone."

"That's what you think, but I don't feel that. I do want to keep an eye on you a bit more until you're used to living here. And besides...I don't mind sharing like the trees do."

Richard let out a laugh, "...Right." Then he made a frown, "You know, I don't understand why they like those apples so much and don't share them. It doesn't make a lick of sense."

The unicorn stated, "Well, things around here never make any sense to you, I'd imagine."

He chuckled that time, nodding, "You got that right."

That's when the unicorn snorted and tried to give him the answer, "I sometimes have that problem with them, but I honestly don't know why the trees don't naturally share their fruit. It's probably a part of their nature."

He shrugged, "Probably." He let out another yawn, "Oh, damn. I'm getting this over with..." He dropped to his hands and knees, to lay on his side using his hands as a pillow. He smiled at the creature laying close about a few meters from him who was still watching him, and said, "By the way...Thanks for letting me stay here. I...Had no place to go."

The mental voice sounded concerned, "You mean you never had a home?"

Richard replied with his eyes rolling away from her gaze, "Used to...Not anymore probably."

The unicorn said this, its tone glad, "Well, I'm happy to help. You're welcome to stay here as long as you want."

Richard was a bit surprised by that statement, and it made him wrinkle his face, "You serious? You mean this isn't like a temporary thing?"

"Do you want your stay to be a temporary thing?"

"...Not really. Did you?"

"Well I did say a minute ago that I'd keep an eye on you a bit more until you've got used to living here. Do you not remember that? What did you think I meant?"

Richard smiled at that, "...Thank you...Um, goodnight."

She finally brought her head forward and laid it down on the grass, replying, "Goodnight, human."

That's when right as he laid the side of his head on his hands, Richard realized he hasn't introduced himself yet, "Oh, I forgot to tell you...I do have a name. My name's Richard."

He watched the unicorn shifting her form a bit on the ground, "Hmm...Richard..."

He closed his eyes, "Uh huh." With that, Richard shifted around too to prepare himself for slumber. And very soon...He was in it, just like the unicorn with him.

*****

As the sun shined above the forest and the birds were singing their cheerful song in the trees, Richard, out in the open and naked, and in a bit of a rush, dunked his pants into the lake water as he worked to clean it. He let out a breath. Almost done.

It was long during morning after he had rested in his first night in the enchanted forest. He slept good on the grass, even though he felt a bug or two crawl around on him, but that was only a minor inconvenience. Least it was just a good idea not to sleep on the grass WITHOUT his clothes on. He'd be feeling itchy!

Speaking of his clothes, after he woke up alone while the unicorn was still asleep, kept himself quiet and ate a couple apples, he realized he hadn't cleaned them since his battle. He wore them now like over two days in a row. Surely they'd be stinkin by now, and he was surprised the unicorn didn't acknowledge him on it yet. Not only that, but it has been a while since he took himself a bath too.

Well he decided to fix both issues right away. He snuck off alone, leaving the unicorn alone since she was STILL sleeping, and found the lake that the unicorn showed him yesterday. For starters he was gonna clean his clothes off and dry them up by hanging them from a tree that wasn't alive, then he was going in the lake and wash himself off. Simple enough tasks. Frankly he never knew in his life that he'd be crouching down naked and cleaning his clothes out in the wilderness. It was a good thing nobody wasn't around to see him like this...Or his face be probably turning red. He had made sure of that...

So far Richard had gotten his undies, socks and tunic cleaned, and now he was working on his leg wear, rushing to getting the last piece of clothing done before anyone would see him. Course he knows he was the only human in the forest and shouldn't be rushing himself like that, but he was still in the forest of enchantment and anything that isn't human could be watching him...Like a unicorn. It may be an animal, but it was no ordinary one. It was pretty sentient, and thinking about it still felt uncomfortable to him.

And as a result, he was still pressured to finish up.

The young man thought back the part when he was watching the unicorn snuggling on the grass while eating earlier. He made a tiny smile as his hands continued to work on his pants. He may have seen horses in the village, but frankly he hasn't seen one sleep before. He's always seen them gallop and trot around, eating grass and everything, but he never caught one of them sleeping. Not once. Even though the unicorn wasn't really a horse, but watching her sleeping seemed cute to him. She looked so gentle. It kinda made him think he should've laid more closer to her last night.

Then again...Maybe it wouldn't have been a good idea. Who knows if she would've moved on the grass...And accidentally rolled on top of him and crushed him with her weight.

Richard giggled...Then shortly had another thought cross his mind. It was having him frowning. Throughout yesterday, he has only met and been with her. She was the only unicorn he met. Weren't there any other unicorns in the forest? If there were, then how come she hasn't introduced them to him yet?

Guess she was just waiting for the right time. He hummed to himself. Well, he'll probably meet them later today. Best give her time.

That is...If she ever wakes up.

As Richard was ABOUT done with his pants, a familiar, mental voice came from out of nowhere, "Good morning, Richard."

He yelped, dropping his pants in the water and shooting up from the ground and covering both his buttocks and privates with each hand. He twisted his body a bit to see the unicorn he was thinking about standing behind him. He wondered how long has she had been standing there.

Richard's face turned apple red as he cried out, "What the fuck are you doing here?!"

The unicorn swished her tail behind her, "Greeting you. I woke up finding you were gone and I've looked for you...Till now. I was wondering if you had left the forest." She tilted her head a bit, "What are you doing? Looks like you've shedded those things that were on you."

He knew she was talking about his clothes. He replied, "You got the part right that my clothes aren't on me right now and I'm just bare naked. They were dirty and I was cleaning them. And I was going to take a bath too."

"Oh...I see."

He groaned as his eyes were trained back on the pants he accidentally dropped in the water, "And look what you made me do! I dropped my pants in the water!"

She apologized, "Sorry. I didn't mean to cause trouble." Then her tone became questionable, "But why are you covering your butt? Is there something wrong with it? And how come you're not turning around fully when you're talking to me?" The color on his reddish face went more pinkish as he slowly turned around with his hands still on his private parts. After that, she was still pressing him with questions, "And why is your other hand right at that spot there? It's between your legs...Is that where your-"

He responded embarassingly, "Look, can you please go off and do something while I'm doing this? I'm not really in the position to talk right now."

But she didn't relent, "Why?"

He spat out after a brief hesitation, "...Because I'm naked."

"Naked? Why does that matter? I think that's what I am too come to think of it."

Richard let out an impatient sigh, "It's just very uncomfortable for me to stand here with my buttocks and nuts showing when I'm talking to you."

"But I'm not."

"I guessed you weren't, but people don't do that normally." He added shortly with his head shooting, "Well, except at times when two pairs of them are intimate."

The unicorn asked, "I guess you mean...When they're mating. Correct?"

He nodded swiftly, "Yes, correct."

He heard her chuckle, "You were wearing that stuff on you ever since I first met you, and I had wondered if humans like you would EVER mate because you wear them. I think that answers my future question."

Richard screamed with his cheeks glowing pinker, "WILL YOU BLOODY GET OUT OF HERE AND GIVE ME SOME SPACE ALREADY YOU JACKASS!"

The horned horse twitched from his outburst. Her eyes seemed to have shown hurt.

He saw what she probably felt and took a deep breath, and lowered his voice, "Oh, I'm sorry about that. It's like I said, I don't feel comfortable talking to you when I'm naked. Really, I'm very sorry I yelled."

The unicorn stared at him for a little bit, before she replied, signaling that she took his apology, "It's ok...I probably should have left you alone." Her form turned on him a bit, "I'll just leave you be and come back-"

He quickly shot his hand out then swiftly shot it back down to hide his nuts, "Wait!" She did. He shot a glance at the water behind him and shot it back toward her, "Here...I know how to fix this." And he probably should have done that a long time ago instead of just turning around gawking at her. He began backing himself into the water, till he was waist deep and his hands were finally free from his private areas. He sighed to himself as his pink tint was slowly beginning to fade away, "There we go." As he watched her stood still at where she was, Richard called out and beckoned her with his hand, "Alright, get over here. Come closer and see me."

The unicorn giggled, trotting closer to the lake, "You sure change your mind quick."

Richard shrugged his shoulders as she made it to the edge of the water and looked down at him, "Eh, I was going to get in the water anyway."

"At least your hands are not touching yourself. That means you're comfortable now, right?"

"Yep. I am."

"Good." She politely asked, "And, if you won't mind, can I join you? I could use a bath myself."

He accepted it with a smile, not seeing why not, "Sure. I'll even help you take one. Not like you have hands like me."

The unicorn's voice sounded happy about that, "I think they'll help out quite nicely. Thank you."

Then he remembered his pants that are still in the water, and he found them within his view, submerged under the liquid. Before the unicorn could wander into the water, Richard waddled through the surface a bit, snatched them up, wringed them out, then held them up high for the creature, "But first, can you hang these at that tree over there?" He shot his head to show her where that tree he was talking about is at, "It's about right there. Can't miss it, it has all my other clothes on it. I would do it myself, but-"

"It's alright. I'll do it." The unicorn snaked her head closer to the fabric and grabbed the wet garment with her teeth. Hanging by her teeth, she carried them off to the tree he was talking about, where the rest of his garments were at, hanging from a long, low limb.

He giggled deeply as he watched her leave with them. He's got to admit...Other than she was cute during slumber...Her naivety also amused him.

Don't think he ever had a friend like that.

Friend...He's only met her since yesterday and he's already thinking of her as a friend.

Well...Why not? As of right now, he has no reason not to.

*****

Richard, after a couple long hours of letting his clothes dry from that tree, and long after he gave himself and the unicorn a bath, was being led by the same unicorn he helped bathed. He just looked at her as he strolled behind her. He honestly doesn't understand why she needed a bath. She didn't seem that dirty at all. She looked clean and silky. Course he couldn't deny her that bath...It was the least he could do after giving her that rude outburst.

She may have a horse's ass, but she wasn't a jackass. She was just curious about him, which he can understand deeply.

The unicorn's hooves trampled through a bush and he still followed behind. Since he thought about the word 'jackass', well they were heading for the rude group of jackass apple trees so he could have some apples for the day. Frankly he was already getting tired of eating the same thing over and over. Sooner or later he'll have to ask the unicorn how to hunt. She seems smart, maybe she might know how. He can hope.

Suddenly, the sound of her hooves was overrun by the terrifying screams of a bunch of talking, pretty flowers. Turned out the reason why they were screaming in horror was because the unicorn was about to make another step ONTO THEM. Richard watched her whinny and stop herself in time before one of her hooves could squash them. The unicorn stepped back, and she looked down at them with apology in her eyes, "Oh dear, I'm sorry." The flowers were all smiles as they all looked up at her. She twisted her neck to look at the human behind her, "Best we go a different route, Richard."

He nodded, "Good idea." The unicorn went off for another route to get past them. But before he would go after her, he gave the flowers a friendly wave as they spied on him staring at them, "Hi." Then he followed for the mythical creature before he would get a response from them.

Finally, after a long trek through the forest, Richard and the unicorn made it to where those talking trees were settled. Their eyes were already opened and their mouths were opened too as they were chatting before they showed up. When they heard the human and the unicorn coming, they stopped their conversation and turned their attention towards them.

The unicorn came up and greeted them with a cheery voice, "Good afternoon. How do you all do?"

One tree replied with a witty hum, "Oh, you know, same stuff, different day."

Another one put on an angry face, "Yeah, if only we do different shit like you do instead of being rooted to the ground and not ever move."

The unicorn lowered her head a little, "Have a little common sense, my friend. There's only so much a tree can do."

The tall thing moaned, "Yes, but I would like to have a walk instead of being stuck here in the same spot day in and day out."

She remarked, eyeing at his apples dangling from his branches, "Then you'd lose these with every step you took. They probably can't take the physical force of your steps well."

The tree dipped his eyes low to the earth and sighed, "I guess it makes sense."

A third tree narrowed his eyes at him and said, "Hey, we talked to you about that many times and you never listened to us. But suddenly she tells you and you listen? That's a load of bark."

The tree he talked to rolled his eyes to meet his, "She has feet. That means she makes much more sense than you morons." Richard held a wrist to his mouth, snickering. Then he gazed at the human, and glared at him, "Let me guess, he wants to steal our apples again?"

Richard replied with a glare of his own, "Cut the crap. I have to eat something."

The unicorn pridefully said, "He's right. We all must have to eat something." But then she pointed out, "Except for you guys."

All the trees in front of them bellowed, "We get it."

The unicorn made one trot to one of them and demanded, "Now, be nice and give the human what he wants. Or otherwise if you don't I'll follow through with my warning I made yesterday." Her horn glowed, "Do you want that?"

"No." The tree answered right away and that glow dissappeared the minute he said so. He looked at Richard once more, "You can take me apples, lad."

Richard smiled appreciatively, walking up to him, "Thanks."

That's when the tree told him what to do as soon as he was under the limbs, "You take good care of them, laddie."

He giggled at that while he started picking one apple off the tree, "Don't think I have to take care of them much." He pulled it off after a hard tug, then glanced at the tree's face, "And if there's any consolation, if I didn't have a taste for them, I'd give them back to you right away." Then he eyed at the tree limb as he thought about it, "Well...That is if you can get them stuck to your limbs again after I pulled them off."

The tree actually made a tiny smile on its bark face, "I appreciate it. And I wouldn't worry if I were you...Me and the boys will find a way."

Richard frowned, "Right, but honestly...How?"

The tree's voice deepened to an annoying tone, "I SAID WE'LL FIND A WAY."

Richard's face widened up for a moment and he was waving his hands in surrender, "Ok, ok. I gotcha. Don't spank my ass again."

Another one of those trees complimented, "I'm kinda thinking we ought. It's a little hard to resist not to. May not be as big as the unicorn's, but it looks a little fun to smack."

The unicorn snorted when she glared at it, and Richard faced it and asked, "Hang on...You smacked her butt before?"

It replied with a smirk, "Oh yeah! It does entertain us when she chats with us."

Another one joined in, "Gives us something to do."

The unicorn retorted, "Which is something I don't find entertaining. Your limbs do hurt me when you do that."

That's when one of them made a playful remark, "But that is what you get for having a huge bottom."

The unicorn gave him that same angry stare before she turned her horse's ass to them, "I see you're getting acquainted with them, Richard. Why don't you stay and chat with them while I'm off for a minute?"

As she was starting to pad away from the group, Richard called out, "Hey, don't leave me alone with them! I don't want to be spanked by them! I had enough bark hitting my rear end for a lifetime!" The trees laughed while the unicorn just ignored him and left. The human turned to the trees and pleaded with that expression and him waving his hand, "Listen, I know you loads of bark like spanking things, but don't do that to me anymore. I'd rather sit straight with a healthy bottom."

One tree said, "Eh, it doesn't look that tempting anyways."

Richard crossed his arms and narrowed up his eyes, "Really? It seemed tempting when I was stealing your apples yesterday."

He insisted, "That was just to scare you off! Honest! There was no entertainment behind it."

Another just remarked with a hearty chuckle, "Was to me."

Richard rolled his eyes, "Oh, bollocks."

The tree that gave him that angry stare earlier reassured him, "Relax...We won't be doing that to ya again. We'll only do that to the unicorn."

Richard smiled, "Thanks."

"You're welcome, uhhh..." It frowned up, "Richard? Is that your name?"

Richard replied, "Yeah. And listen, about before, how we started off, me calling you wankers, I am sorry about that. I can understand that it's in your nature to not share your fruit."

That tree made a truthful remark, "Yeah, but it's also in your nature to eat them. And you did make a good point before...We weren't going to eat them anyway."

That's when the human asked slowly, "So...Does that mean I'll get to take your precious apples whenever I want without asking?"

He answered with another angry look, "Don't press your luck, lad. You're still a thief."

Richard rolled up his eyes, breathing out, "I thought not." Then he asked the inanimate objects, "Well, since you guys know my name, what are your guys's?" He added with his hand shrugging, "I'm getting acquainted with you guys as the unicorn said, so might as well get to know your names."

The tree beside the one with the angry expression stated, "Actually, none of us have names. We don't see the point in having them."

That shocked him, "Really? Then how do you guys tell each other apart? All of you guys seem the same to me."

The one at the far left said with narrowed eyes, "C'mon, really? We never wandered and met other talking trees other than us, we only know us. So I think there really is no point for us to have names."

Richard waved them off with his hands, "Alright, alright." A question popped up in his mind and he wanted to spit it out. He said, "Well, I'll probably come up with names for you later, just because I want to. But I got a question to ask you boys...If that's ok?"

One of them replied with a happy face, "Sure, mate. What is it?"

"Well..." He thumbed to the direction the unicorn trotted off to, "I've seen this unicorn and spent more time with her than I would think...But the question is where are the other unicorns?"

One tree answered that question with a question, "Other unicorns? I don't think I've seen any other unicorns except her, lad."

Another one replied with a sure look, "Yeah, we only know her, for as long as we can remember. For as long as we've woken up from her magic."

So she was the one who charmed these trees to become alive and chat whenever they please. Guess that explains it...She must've been the one who really put a lot of enchantment in this forest. Very interesting. Richard asked another question, "And I got another one too...What's her story? I mean, if she's the only unicorn in the forest...How come she's here alone instead of living with her kind?"

"Uhhhh..." A tree said with a limb gesturing toward the young human, "You'll have to ask her that question. Feels like she's the only one who can do it."

Richard looked at it for a short moment before nodding, "Ok, fine. I'll do that." He shifted his gaze to the direction the unicorn gone off to, realizing she had been gone for a long time. Then he looked back at the trees as he began to move away from them, "Look, I'm gonna go now. Catch up to her. I'll see you around."

A tree limb swiped down and stopped him, "Wait a moment!"

Richard was a bit surprised by the motion when he replied, "What?"

The tree who moved the limb smiled and asked, "Don't you want some more of our apples? You only got one in your hand."

Richard gazed down and saw he was right. He gave the trees a nod, moving up to pick some more, "Right...I'll get to it." Not long, Richard grabbed about six apples and carried them all in his arms. He was smiling and backing away from them as he said, "Well, it was nice talking to you guys without any animosity in your...Tongues."

One of them said with a smile, "It was nice talking to you, lad. Maybe you oughta tell us more about yourself later."

"Sure. I'll do that sometime." He whirled around and hollered over his shoulder, "Bye!"

He heard them saying this back as he walked away from them, "Bye!"

"See ya, lad!"

"Take care!"

"You make sure you don't waste those, you scrawny thief!"

Richard made way on a grassy trail as he was trying to pick up the trail of the unicorn who left him. He was thinking about the trees who for once had a civilized conversation with him. They weren't so bad...For a bunch of bark. Maybe he'll fit in well in the forest after all. It's a start anyways. Perhaps he'll make more friends with the other inanimate objects in the woods.

Probably won't take long for that to happen.

Richard can hear grunting as he was still strolling through the woods. He formed up a frown. What was going on? Who's making that noise? About several feet later, he caught the unicorn rubbing her butt up and down against a non-talking tree. Like she was desperate to get rid of something. She didn't notice he was coming up since her eyes were shut tight. The young human came up to her and said quizzically, "Unicorn?"

The unicorn's ears shot up and her eyes also shot open, finding him staring at her. She restrained herself away from the tree and said in that mental voice of hers, "Richard. How'd it go with the trees?"

He responded, putting on a tiny smile, "Pretty grand." Then he wrinkled his brow again, "What are you doing? Got some kind of itch in your butt or something?"

"...Yes. I was rubbing it on that tree so I'd get rid of it."

For some reason in her eyes, he thought that she didn't seem to be telling the truth. It seemed like she was hiding something. But he can't quite put his finger into it. Richard wanted to ask, but he suggested instead with a giggle, "Well if you wanted a tree to scratch it you could've asked the blokes you left me behind with."

"And let them spank me again? No." He let out a laugh. The unicorn asked, "So, I take it you're done with them and want to be with me again?"

Richard replied, "Yeah...At least show me some more of your forest and introduce me to some more of your friends. I want to see what else you have."

"Alright. Let's go." With that, she began to lead the way again with him following her from behind. But while Richard was right behind her, he was staring at her huge butt, wondering what was going on with her.

He knew what he saw in her eyes...What was she hiding?

*****

The unicorn was leading Richard again, taking him some place in the woods during the night. Her voice floated behind her, "You still after me?"

Richard replied while following her, "Been after you since many minutes ago. And tell me again, uh...Why are you acting so rushed to take me somewhere?"

He heard her mental giggle, "What do you mean, human?"

"Well you were kinda rushing me to get my butt off the ground and practically urged me to follow you. You're kinda trotting fast, too. Haven't you noticed?"

The unicorn ducked below a branch while she led on, "Oh yes, I have."

Richard did the same thing behind her, "So what's going on with you?"

"Because I have something to show you." She swung back her head to look behind her at him, "I haven't shown you it last night, and I think tonight is the time I show you."

He frowned, "Show me what? You've shown me around your forest all day. I think I see everything already. Not to mention it's getting late. What else could you possible show me?"

"You'll see." Her long face swinged back forward as her hooves still carried her over the ground, "And believe me, you'll like it."

He'll like it, eh? Richard wanted to press her but he decided to let her do what she wanted to do. He shrugged with his hands as he kept on after her, "Ok..." He'll play along with this.

A long while has passed since he had that decent conversation with the group of trees, and since then he's been with her. Walking with her, talking to her as any conversation came up, letting her show him around some different key areas of the forest. She even introduced him to some more of her friends she's made. Other inanimate objects including a few more trees, some rocks and flowers, especially a few beautiful tall roses. When the unicorn told them that Richard is a new friend among the forest, they've come to give him a warm, friendly welcome. Richard upon talking to them in a non-hostile conversation seemed to have become better acquainted with them too just like he did with those trees earlier.

Compared to the trouble he had after the day he first arrived here, with the unicorn's help, Richard was really starting to fit in this forest. He may be an outsider, a non-magical outsider, but he was starting to feel accepted here. It was a very nice start.

Hours later, a little long after the sky totally darkened up for another night, was when the unicorn seemed to have some excitement and urged the human with her head bopping against him to follow her. He felt a little tired from today and was ready to sleep for tonight, but thanks to her that had to wait. Now, a lot of minutes have gone by and he was still following her.

Other than he wondered if he'd ever see what she was showing him, Richard was rather curious about that. It must have been very special. And in his gut, he can't wait to see it.

At first, at a distance he can see something glowing ahead of them. A strange kind of glow of sorts. What could it be? It couldn't be a lantern, he hasn't seen any huts or anything around here. And he hasn't seen a glow like that before. The unicorn made her way through the edge of the path they were on, and she stepped aside for Richard to go pass her. She mentally said to him, "Here we are."

As soon as he stepped past her, that's when Richard saw what she was showing him. A look of awe was plastered on his face, along with a soft gasp out of his lips.

It was a very huge tree in the middle of a clearing. And it wasn't just that...But it was doing something that he hadn't expect any trees that aren't alive and talking to ever do.

Glow.

That tree was glowing, shining like some light in the darkness. The base of it, the limbs, even the leaves were all glowing a bit brightly. It seemed like a magic tree.

So that's what that strange glow was...

He muttered in astonishment when he took another step toward it, "Wow..."

The unicorn seemed to held a happy voice when she asked, "You like it?"

He answered, "It's...It's beautiful." Richard turned to her, "So that's what you wanted to show me." He chuckled a bit, "I thought I've seen everything here."

Another giggle appeared from her, "Now you've seen more. Never saw anything like this, have you?"

Richard shook his head, "No. Never." He glanced back at the glowing tree, "Is that the only tree that's doing that?"

The unicorn padded up a few steps to stand beside him, "No, there are other trees that are doing that right now. This was just the closest one. Even the lake we were in together can cast that."

He shot his wide eyed look at her, "THAT lake?! You're telling me THAT lake can glow too?"

"Of course."

"...Blimey." He can't believe it. Trees and a lake that can glow. But why are they doing that? After he got himself composed he asked, "I don't understand...How is all that possible? And how come they haven't glowed earlier?"

The unicorn explained, "Because the sun was out. I'd imagine they do glow during the day, but we can't see that glow because of the sun shining. It's bright too as you know, which I believe obscures that beautiful sight you're seeing. And how they came to be as they are now, it was because of-"

He figured it out, "You. Because of your horn."

Her ears perked up as she nodded, "Why you're correct."

Richard just smiled. He figured right. Like using her magic from her horn to make objects come to life, she also used her magic to make objects glow in the night. It's amazing. He went up to wrap his arms around her neck and press his head against her chest, hugging her. The unicorn seemed surprised by the gesture. Richard said while still embracing her, "It's very wonderful...Thanks for showing me this."

He heard her fond voice, "You're welcome."

He finally let her go and backed up a few steps without taking her eyes off her. He said with him shaking his head, "I don't think I'll ever forget this...For the rest of my life."

The unicorn made a playful remark, "I'm sure you won't considering you'll be staying here. This won't be the last you'll see of this."

He nodded with a chuckle, "Right." The young human gaped back at the tree, then spoke shortly, "Well...I guess I can feel comfortable sleeping around here."

"I like the way you think, Richard." She joined his gaze, staring at the tall, glowing object too, "Before I met you, I sometimes sleep near something that's glowing. It feels more peaceful to me."

"Heh heh...I see what you mean." He moved around, searching for a spot to sit around on, "Well, thanks to you, I don't feel tired now. I'll just find a spot to sit around and try sleeping later."

The unicorn followed with her hooves planting near him, "That's what I do myself. I sit and watch the glow till I'm sleepy. Mind if I join you?"

He looked at her with a fond smile, "Sure. I wouldn't dream of watching this spectacle without you."

She complimented with her eyes staring back at his, "You're a very kind human. You know that?" He modestly shrugged his shoulders in response.

Shortly, he seemed to have found a nice spot to sit on the ground, and planted his butt on the grass, him facing a good view of the glowing tree. The unicorn laid on her stomach very close beside him, sharing the view with the human as her side barely touched his.

For a long time, the two of them sat in silence, not ever once taking their eyes off that amazing tree. Richard, who was sitting with his legs crossed, finally broke the silence, "You know...I've been kinda thinking..."

The unicorn twisted her neck to look at him. She blinked as a quizzical hum was heard from her mind, "Hmm?"

He continued, "Since I don't have a house to live in, and this forest seems like a nice place to live...I've been thinking about building a hut here."

"Really?"

"Yeah...I've also thought of making my own bed. Make my own chairs. Make my own table. Make everything. That way I would eat without the sun on me. I wouldn't have to bathe in that lake a whole lot. And I wouldn't have to sleep out in the open all the time like you do."

The unicorn tried to nip at his ear. He yelped and pulled his head away, giving her a glare and pushing her big nose away. She giggled after his hand drifted off her nose, "You make it sound like you don't want to stay close to me anymore. That you want to be all alone without me from now on."

He formed a grin, patting her side, "Oh, I don't mind being with you, you silly horse." He was just rubbing it back and forth as he went on, "And if it makes you feel any better, I'll even build a stable for you. That way I can sleep by you in the night, and we can BOTH not sleep out in the open anymore."

Her head shot up, "But what's the problem with sleeping outside? I do that all the time."

"I know that. But uh..." Richard pulled back his hand and used it to rub the back of his neck, "I really think I should build something like that here. I might as well since I'm staying in your home. I mean think about it." His other hand shot up to the sky, "What if a storm came by and rained here? I don't have a blanket to keep me warm, and if I get really wet and cold, I'll probably end up getting sick. And that's a bad thing."

The unicorn shortly nodded in agreement after his statement, "In that case, I think I understand. You do seem more susceptible to getting sick. After all you're not like me."

Richard's head shook back and forth, "Nope. You can tolerate rain, but I can't risk that."

She repeated, "I understand. And if you want, maybe I can help build it."

He stared at her, unsure if she can. He stated, "I'm not sure how you can...But sure. I guess you can try."

The unicorn nickered, "Perfect. As soon as day breaks, we'll get started."

Richard chuckled, "You're real serious about that, are you?"

"It's like you said. Might as well since you're staying in my home." Then she brought her eyes back on the tree and so did he. After a moment of silence passed, she brought them back to the human and asked, "Richard?" He looked back, seeing in her eyes they're curious. Her curious tone of voice was evident too when she said, "I'm trying to understand...Why is it that you can't go back to your own home? Back to where you came from? What happened to you before we met?" She eyed at the spot where he got wounded from his battle, "I still don't know what happened to you."

Richard sighed, dropping his gaze onto his lap, "...I guess I can get into telling you why now. I probably kept you waiting for that answer long enough." He locked his eyes up to the sky and began his tale, "Well...I was from a village, in a kingdom ruled by a king named Radcliffe." Richard gazed at her with a solemn face, "I didn't have much of a home really. No family...No mother and father...Just me. I grew up in an orphanage. Then when I got older I started working in places to make some coin and lived in a motel. Just for me to try to live my life, you know."

The young boy glanced down at the ground again and continued in a soft tone, "One day...A war began. Another kingdom from a land not far from this one wanted to take over the one I'm living in. And so, Radcliffe sent his knights and gathered up any peasant, any man who was very low in society, to become foot soldiers for his army, and fight to protect his kingdom. That included me. But..." He groaned as his eyes narrowed, "Working for the king wasn't all it was cracked up to be. He was full of bollocks. He treats us peasants like we're not that important to him, yet we're in his army. And not only that...I was even...Afraid to fight."

The unicorn mentally asked, "You were afraid to fight?"

Richard confessed, "I was nothing but a coward. I wasn't meant for that." He stared straight at the tree again, "In battle, foot soldiers were supposed to fight first and protect any knights that were in it. And that always came with death. I was in a few battles. I hardly did what I was supposed to do because I was so frightened. Luckily nobody found that out around the time. And I admit...I only managed to kill a few enemies. Not as many as everyone else. I've been lucky in a couple of battles...But the last one I was in could've been my last."

He let out a quivering breath as he thought back to his battle, "That battle I was in was much fiercer than the others. I got so scared...More scared than I already was. One enemy came and started fighting me. He was good...Too good in fact, and I was afraid he'd kill me. He was actually the reason why I was hurt."

The creature beside him said one word in pity, "Oh..."

Richard sighed, going on with his tale, "He almost did kill me, but I got to killing him. At that moment, that's when I had it. I was so fearful for my life, I decided to desert the army and the battle. There were still so many of us fighting amonst each other, but I managed to run past them, not fighting anyone else who dared tried to fight me. I ran till I was out of the range of the battle, but I kept running and running...Till I came to your home."

He looked at her once more, "Basically...I came to the forest to hide from the enemy. I was afraid they saw me running during the battle and a few were trying to track me down. But...I don't think so now. Other than that, since I was wounded I was also trying to find someone to help me."

The unicorn said, "I figured that was what you were doing before I found you."

"Yep." He nodded a bit after finishing his story, "So...That's how I ended up here. Guess I'm stuck here longer than I originally planned."

She asked, "But I don't get it...Why won't you go to your village? You survived, and you wanted to leave my home to go to where you belong, but you didn't. Why?"

He explained, "Well...I was afraid someone from the army I was in saw me leave, saw me not do what I was supposed to do, and told the king about my mistakes. That was a bad thing for me to do. I was afraid if I went home...He'd find me and have me executed..." He grapsed around his neck, "By choking me with a rope."

She shook her head, apparently knowing what he was talking about, "God..."

Richard dropped his hand onto his lap, "So yeah, that's why I have no home. Because I'm a coward and not a fighter."

She spoke to him in pity, "I'm sorry all that happened to you. It sounds terrible."

"Yeah." His lips were forming a smile, "But you know what? I don't care what I did. I think I did the right thing. I'm glad I came here. This forest may not have much now, but it certainly seems better than living at where I used to live. Better than fighting to the death for the king who doesn't do much for ya."

Her tone sounded happy, "And you ought to be glad still that I saved your life. Without me, you wouldn't be here."

He nodded profusely, "Oh yeah, I'm glad for that. And can I tell you something?"

"What?"

Richard told her, "...To tell you the truth...I had a few friends from where I came from...But none were like you. I never met anyone quite like you. Among doing great things, you're very easy to talk to, and I do find your personality a bit amusing too. Other than glad that I came here...I am very happy that I met you too."

The unicorn replied after staring at him for a minute, "I've seen other humans before, and you're the first one I met...But I never met anyone who was like you myself. You seem to be very special."

He giggled, "I'm not special. You are."

But she said, "But you are in your own way. You don't seem to be like everyone else. You're one of a kind."

That warmed his heart. He spoke, "...I guess you are too." Then he curiously asked, "But speaking of that...Are you the only unicorn here?"

That kinda surprised her a bit, "Huh?"

"Well...I haven't seen other unicorns in the forest since I arrived. I mean...Are there others like you here?"

The unicorn's mental voice didn't sound cheerful when she responded, "Not really. Only me."

So she was the only one living in the forest. He asked, "Why is that? Are they...All dead?"

"I don't think so. I wouldn't say that."

"Then...Why are you the only unicorn here?"

"...I talked to you about the trees and their nature last night...But I didn't tell you about my kind's nature." The unicorn looked up towards the sky, and explained, "Unicorns don't live in herds like horses. Each of one of us live alone in a forest. We're always born with two things to do. Bring enchantment to a forest they live in, and keep the animals who live in it safe from the outside world. Only one unicorn can do that. A lot of us don't have to be together for that to happen."

Well that tells him that he can't hunt at all in the forest. Guess he'll put up with just eating apples and other things that aren't animal. Richard mentioned, "So you really don't have family here."

"No." She gazed at him, replying, "I used to. I only had my mother as family. My father met her years ago, who came to her forest that is very far away from here. He mated her, stayed with her during her pregnancy, and days after I was born he left because the forest he was at was already habited by her."

That kinda angered him. He spat out with his eyes glaring, "He abandoned you and your mother because of that? That's stupid."

"But you must understand, it's part of our nature." The unicorn dipped her head, "My mother raised me till I was fully grown. Through all those years she's told me stories of what's like outisde her home. Not only that but she also taught me the ways of the unicorn, how to use the power of my horn. Finally when I knew I was ready...I left her and her home, and went to look for mine. And after so many days of traveling...I came here. This was my forest. And I lived here alone ever since...Probably for a very, very long time, judging by all the seasons that go by here."

Richard softened his look, then pointed out with him smiling and gesturing to her horn on her forehead, "Well you weren't alone the whole time, right? I mean, your horn brought things to life. You know, the trees, the rocks, the flowers. You had lots of company while staying here." The unicorn shut her eyes on him. He noticed that and got concerned, "What is it?"

The unicorn said after opening her eyes, "...My mother had said that bringing things to life with your horn will make everything less lonely. But the truth is...Despite that, I still felt lonely."

Richard wrinkled his brow, "Why, what do you mean?"

She looked at him, her tone sad, "It wasn't like that the whole time. Most of the time, being with friends that I brought to life, I didn't feel that. But...There are times when I do feel alone. I think it was because there weren't other unicorns around me. I'm not sure if my mother, my father, and other unicorns living alone feel the same way. Maybe they do, or maybe I'm the only one who feels it. Perhaps you were right that I'm one of a kind, Richard." Richard thought he saw a tear fall out of her eye when she snapped her gaze up to the night sky. She admitted, "I know that the objects I bring to life have limitations...But sometimes I wish...I had someone galloping with me through the forest...Swim with me in the water...And ma-" She cut off her own word and her white form quivered.

Richard felt bad for her. He never knew she felt lonely here. And that hurt him seeing her like that. He reached out and stroked her neck, "I'm sorry..."

The unicorn let out a breath through her nose and turned to look at him, "It's ok." He can tell that her voice gained some light, "Least I found someone to do all those things with me. I hadn't felt this happy in a long time." Richard smiled at that. Then to his surprise the unicorn quickly got on her hooves and stood high above him. She asked as she looked down at him, "Richard...Would you care to do one of those things with me again? You're getting tired I know but...I have something else to show you."

If Richard felt any tiredness inside him, it probably would've been replaced immediately by excitement after he heard that. Richard put on a exicted smile for her and got on his feet too. The human pressed, "What is it? Is it the glowing lake?"

The unicorn shook her head, "Actually no...Something else."

He wasn't sure, but he could swore he saw that look in her eyes. The one he saw earlier in the day. The one that indicated that she was hiding something. After Richard found her rubbing her butt against a non-sentient tree to get rid of a scratch, through the rest of the afternoon he wanted to ask her what she was keeping from him. But he never did since something else always came up.

He wanted to ask her now...But he kept it to himself, thinking maybe he read her eyes wrong. Richard as he still held that expression on his face nodded, accepting the trip, "Alright, let's go." The mythical horse turned and led the way once again.

*****

Richard kept up with the unicorn in front of him till they ended up in a certain spot somewhere else in the woods. It turned out it wasn't as long as the trip she took him on earlier. The unicorn stopped, turned her neck to look back at him, then stepped aside to let him pass her. She said, "Here we are."

The young human stepped forward a few steps and found what they both came across.

A tall tree stump.

Richard made a frown of confusion. He asked without taking his eyes off it, "Is this it?"

She replied, "Yes."

He was bewildered, "That's it?" He faced her, "THAT'S what you wanted to show me? A boring, old, tree stump?" He chuckled, gesturing to the object sticking from the ground, "Heh heh. I suppose you wanted to show me that you can also make trees grow after it's been quote, 'cut down and murdered'?"

"Sounds fascinating, but no."

Richard wrinkled his brow again, "Then why did you bring me here? Why bring me here if you ain't gonna show me any amazing tricks?" Looking at her, he noticed the expression in the unicorn's eyes again. That odd look.

"Well..." The horse creature took a few steps toward him till she stood in front of him. She said, "Richard...I didn't bring you here to show you something...I brought you to this place because I am in need of your help."

For some reason, her voice seemed kind of nervous, and he got curious and concerned from that, "My help?"

The unicorn responded, swinging her tail behind her, "It's not too hard I don't think. It's quite simple actually."

"Ok..." He asked after he reached out to pet her cheek, "But what's wrong? What do you need my help for?"

"...You'll understand." Her eyes moved to the tree stump, "Right now, I need you to stand on that stump over there. Just for starters."

He was actually finding himself getting suspicious of her. She was definitely hiding something and she's not telling him anything...Yet. Why does she want him standing on that stump? And what is it does she need his help for? He doesn't understand.

Well, he probably will very soon.

Richard slowly pulled his hand off her, nodding, "Alright." He turned his back on her, and made his way to the stump in slow, tentative steps, with the white creature trotting behind him. For some reason, he felt that he was about to walk into a trap, set up by the unicorn. He had a feeling that once he steps on that stump, it'll become like a gaping hole, like a mouth, and the stump will swallow him whole, eat him alive and never to be seen again. But he dismissed the thought. She wouldn't hurt him. Has he gone crazy? No way she would do something like that to him.

But as a sign of precaution, as soon as he stood close to it, Richard was checking out the top of the stump. It looked normal to him. Not alive and no mouth at all. He even tested it out by running his hand across the soft wood. Nothing. It never did anything. Never bit him at all. It's just nothing more than a normal tree stump.

Looks like he'll throw that suspicion away now.

Now it was the unicorn who was left wondering behind him, "What are you doing?"

Richard giggled, looking over his shoulder to see her face, "The wood looked smooth, so I just wanted to know what it felt like. Doesn't feel bad." It was the only explanation he could come up with. It was pretty better than his suspicious one. Don't want her to feel offended or anything.

The unicorn seemed to have buyed it, "Oh." She replied with amusement, "I never cared how smooth a tree is. I always knew the tree's bark was so rough...Like some we know."

He let out a tiny laugh, recalling her tree friends, "They do have slightly rough personalities, I'll say." He eyed back on the stump, his voice throwing over his shoulder, "Alright, I'm getting on there." He grunted a little as he climbed on top of it with quick ease. Standing on it he turned himself around to face the unicorn who was standing where she was watching him. He was pressing her to know what happens next, "Okay, now what?"

The unicorn didn't say a word. She seemed to have some apprehension in her eyes.

What is she thinking about? If only he could read her mind.

Richard asked again, "Unicorn?"

She finally spoke, "I'm sorry bout that. I was momentarily lost in my own thoughts."

He nodded, accepting the apology, "It's ok. So, what am I supposed to do now?" He looked around with his hands shrugging, confused about this, "I mean how does me standing up here, for starters, help you any? I don't get it."

"I told you...You'll understand."

Richard was getting tired of the suspence. He wanted to help her, but he seriously wants to know what's going on with her. He can't help her if he doesn't know the problem. He wanted to interrogate her again but he put up with it some more. He sighed, "Alright. Fine. What is it you want me to do now?" Right away, she slowly turned around, her hindquarters facing him. He frowned up his face. What does she think she's doing turning her butt on him like that?

The unicorn looked behind her and instructed, "Now...I know you'll find my next request odd, but...I want you to take off your pants."

His face went wide, taken aback by her statement, "WHAT?!"

She begged, "Please...I know you don't want to be naked out in the open near me, but please do this...For me."

He didn't like this idea one bit. What does she want from him? With that tone of voice of hers, she must really want his help. Don't know what, but he knows she needs it. Richard had a tiny idea of his own, and he decided to use it for his own sanity, and also to play along a bit. He spoke, "Fine." He twirled his hand, "Just don't look at me, alright? Stare straight ahead. No eyes on me. Understand?"

"Got it." She did what she was told, not looking at him one bit. A part of him thought that was why she was turning around on him. She must've figured Richard would tell her to turn around and not look at him at all while he was naked. Richard let out a huge sigh, kicking his shoes off his feet. Then after a moment of confliction, he began to pull his pants and undies down till his legs were out of them. He laid them down on the stump beside his leg.

Richard with his dick hanging out the open nervously asked while his eyes were darting around the area, "Look, is this some kind of practical joke you're playing me here?"

"Joke?" The unicorn seemed to have had resisted to urge to look at him as she asked, "I never planned any jokes. What makes you say that?"

"Because I'm naked behind you and it seems to be a likely good view for any wandering eyes that could possibly be nearby."

"You're having a feeling you're being watched?"

Richard put his eyes at the back of her maned head, "Sounds about it."

The unicorn replied truthfully, "Don't worry. There are no things that I brought to life around this area. We're not within sight or earshot of anything. It's just you and me."

That comforted him a little, but it kinda didn't make him feel totally better cause of his nakedness. He nodded timidly in agreement, "Great...Okay, so I'm naked, now what?"

The unicorn seemed to hesitate again, but commanded, "Grab ahold of my tail...And pull it up."

His eyes widened up once more. Is she pulling his wang? What is-

Then he got even more suspicious of her as he was putting all the facts together for an answer:

Arriving here alone without anyone watching. Standing on a tree stump, which leaves him a bit taller than the unicorn at the moment...With his lower end reaching the height of her hind end. Standing behind her naked with no pants on. And...Her telling him to grab her tail and lift it up.

Sounds like she wants him to...

No...Is it?

Richard formed a look of suspicion, "Unicorn...Is there something you're not telling me?"

"...What are you talking about?"

"Why are we here? Why did you bring me here? And...What are you wanting me to do?" He let out a breath, "Listen, we're friends, aren't we? You gotta tell me what's going on. You said you want my help, but why? What have you gotten me into?"

The unicorn lowered her head like she was in shame. Guilt was laced in her words when she said, "Oh, Richard...I never wanted to deceive you."

That word kind caught him off guard. He asked curiously, "Deceive me?"

"But I didn't know what to do...How else to do this. I didn't think I had much of a choice but to do that." Despite what she was told to do earlier, the unicorn finally looked back and brought her eyes onto him, "Richard...I brought you here because I needed your help...To get rid of my cycle."

He was more confused than before, "Cycle?"

The unicorn answered his question, "My heat cycle...I'm in heat."

The young human nodded a bit, "Alright...But how am I supposed to-"

"The only way for you to help get rid of my cycle...Was to mate me." His mouth dropped open in shock while she continued, "I needed you to mate me like you were a unicorn."

Richard was flabbergasted from her explanation. So that's why she brought him here! Now he understands what she's been hiding. He muttered, shaking his head in total disbelief, "Cripes..."

"I knew that's what your reaction would be."

Richard asked with his eyes wide, "But...How could you think of wanting me to do that to you? I...I thought we were friends."

"We are friends. I merely only wanted you to do that to me as one. I don't feel that kind of love towards you. This is all supposed to be for you to help me."

The human looked down, letting her words sink in, "Oh."

The unicorn snorted and blinked, "I'm very sorry for this, Richard. I never meant to freak you out. You...You must understand why..."

Richard said, bringing it up, "You're wanting me to do that to you because...You're the only unicorn here. Right?"

"...Yes." The unicorn looked down at the ground, "It's never around everyday of every season. But when my cycle starts...It's sometimes unbearable...Even drives me a little crazy. I've been in this heat for the past several days and I feel tired of it." She glanced up at the sky, "Through all my years of staying alone in this forest, every time that time came, I had tried to put up with it, but I also tried some ways to get rid of my heat, such as rubbing my butt against a tree, as you have caught me doing today. But always at the end, I end up feeling suffered."

Richard's hand motioned to her, "And that was one of the things you wished you had this 'someone' to do with you?"

He sees her nodding, "Out of all the things I had also wished, yes, I wanted them to mate me." She gazed at him again, "But as you know that never happened. All these years I waited for a male unicorn to come find me and mate with me. Just so I'd feel better for once. But sadly, not one ever came here. But...You did."

Richard figured it out, "...When you first met me...That's when you started to have plans for me?"

She confessed, "From the moment after I saved your life and started watching you, I did. Nothing in the forest could do this to me...You felt like you were the only one who can. Though I was respectful enough to lead you out of my home, I had hoped you would stay here. And my hopes had been answered. Since then, while I was feeling my lust toward you building up with each passing moment, I kept trying to come up with ideas on how to get you to mate me. At one point, I wanted you to do that to me today while I was in the lake with you."

The human said, "When I was giving you a bath?"

"I had an idea...But I kept my composure." The unicorn went on with compassion, "You were a nice human who liked my company and you were becoming my friend...And I didn't want to scare you. Despite that though, I still kept thinking up ways...Until I thought of this tree stump. It seemed tall enough for you to reach me, since I noticed how short you are compared to me. And for your sake, none of my friends were around here, and I thought it seemed more nice if me and you were alone together. Bringing you here during the night seemed like a good idea, but I was pretty afraid you wouldn't do it to me unless...I knew a way to deceive you into feeling lusted toward me."

Richard stated flat-out, "I suppose getting me naked and lifting your tail for me to see your...'Portal' would do that?"

"It was the only way I could think of...But apparently I failed." Her voice was more guilty than before, "Richard, I'm really sorry about this. I just...Couldn't take this heat anymore, like I had many times before. I should have just told you the truth sooner. Can you ever forgive me?"

Richard smiled a bit, "I can understand why you did it. You don't need to be sorry." Truthfully, with the thought from seeing her rubbing her huge ass against a tree earlier, he felt sorry for her. Doing all this to have him sleep with her was a desperate thing to do. It's no wonder she wanted him to help her. Richard felt like he did want to help her, but she was a unicorn...and he wasn't sure he can do it. His smile melted away and he sighed, looking down at his feet, "I...I wish I could help...But I'm not sure I can."

Her mental voice sounded hopeful, "That's not true." He gazed back at her eyes. She went on, "I think you can do it if you've put away your conflictions. Besides that, we're alone here."

The human was surprised she hasn't given up on this even after he said he can't do it. He frowned, "Do you know what you're asking me to do? I mean look at us. We're-"

"I know what we both are...And I don't care." Her voice showed determination, "Richard, I can understand why you're thinking that, but I really do not care. I do respect your decision, but I can't take it anymore. I meant what I said before, there's nothing else that can do this but you. You think a tree has one of those things between the legs that he can use on me? No. Trees aren't meant for a physical thing like that. And I couldn't magically put one on it if I tried."

Richard sputtered, "But-"

Then she begged, backing her rear end a bit towards him as her instincts seemed to be really bothering her, "Richard...I don't want to let this go. I don't want to put up with this cycle for another minute. I'm your friend, and I'm asking you to do this one thing for me. Please...Mate me. Mate me, Richard. I'm begging you. Please...Help me."

Now her words are really getting to Richard. Being in one before, this felt like a life or death situation to the creature. He wasn't sure if he's ever seen a ordinary mare going through that, but he's sure seeing that now. She really was suffering. He thought back on how much he's done for her. The only thing Richard ever did for the unicorn was give her a bath, and it's a small thing to do. The unicorn has done so much for him, especially saving his life. Now thinking about it, he thought that no matter what else he does for her...It wouldn't feel enough.

He owed her. He owed her a lot.

And she's asking him to help her through that kind of situation.

And now...He felt compelled to REALLY help her. Despite that she's a unicorn.

She may be a unicorn, but she is sentient enough to be human...He can work with that.

Richard took a deep breath, "Well...I guess I can give it a try."

The unicorn nickered when her eyes lit up with happiness, "You will?"

He formed up a tiny smile, "Sure. After all, we're alone...Right?"

She replied, "We are."

The human nodded, "Okay." He looked over at himself, then chuckled, "Um...How do I start this?"

She let out her mental laugh, her tail lifting up a bit, "Well how do you think? You never mated before?"

Richard replied, "I have...With a human, of course. I just don't know how to start this with a unicorn."

The mythological creature said, "I'm different than your human, but I am certain the same rule applies. Just give it a try." She turned her head all the way around, staring ahead and waiting for what she wanted to happen.

"Alright..." He wish he could now, but his dick was, at the moment, limp and not long and hard. So he had to do something to make it happen. He thought of an idea.

Richard quickly took his shirt off and tossed it near his pants. Then, to start it off, he slowly reached for her bushy tail, and lifted it high and off to the side. He found her pussy, winking and in need of someone to pleasure her. Unfortunately, staring at it didn't do anything to change how his cock looked. A part of him was still nervous about doing this to someone who's not human. The unicorn, curious to what's taking him, mentally asked, "Richard?"

He responded sincerely, not looking away from her big hole, "I'm working on it. Hold on." The unicorn let out a snort but never said anything. Richard, kinda feeling curious about how big the inside her tunnel was, and partly inspired by what he saw back in his village, reached out with his other hand...And poked his fingers at her portal. It winked from his fingertips. He then, pushing away his tiny confliction inside of him with a sharp breath, drove his fingers till they dissappeared inside her.

The unicorn gasped mentally from the touch. Richard, feeling a little cautious for her well being, that time was pushing his hand in there, till it was gone from this world too with a tiny plop. He gasped slightly at his own sight, while the creature jerked a bit and whinnied from the unknown thing sticking in her butt. Her hole squeezed around his limb as well, welcoming it like it was a cock. Richard has never done this before, and he couldn't believe what he was feeling. The inside of her felt warm. And although she was a big creature, and he was sticking his hand up a big creature's ass, it still felt sorta tight.

The unicorn snorted from the pressure in her behind. She commented, "Wow...This feels very foreign. I never stuck up anything back there and it feels strange."

Richard giggled, "The feeling's mutual. Are you ok?"

"I'm fine." She spoke, turning her head to look behind her again, "Feels like your hand's inside me. What are you doing? I don't think that's going to fix my problem."

He told her, "Thought I try something that you never thought of before I...Ride you. This probably won't take long."

The unicorn never asked, never argued, she was only letting the young man pull back his hand a tiny bit and push it back in. He pistoned it back and forth like it was his shaft inside a girl. Very soon, after she watched him doing and feeling his motions for several seconds, the unicorn nickered, drooping her head down to the ground as she seemed to feel pleasured.

Richard was grinning at his own taboo moment. He can't believe he's actually doing this. He caught a villager doing that to a horse in a stable before one time, and never told anyone about it since it's really none of his business, and he never thought about how exhilarating this felt! There was no way he could do THAT to a woman back home.

The unicorn seemed to moan, "Ugh...Richard." Right then, he was beginning to get a hard on from the act he was doing, his cock stiff and throbbing in the night air. He was getting lustful to the unicorn more by the minute. With his hand holding the unicorn's tail and pressing it against her huge glute, he kept at his ministrations in her bottom, pumping away quick and fast with his newfound technique. The unicorn was shaking her head, driven crazy by this, her tunnel squeezing and her entrance winking around the human's wrist. For something inside her for the first time, she was liking it.

Finally, the unicorn couldn't take it anymore. She stomped and snorted, commanding him, "Richard- Stop this!" He froze in mid-pump, gazing at her eyes to see her looking back at him. The unicorn begged impatiently, "Please. No more of this. I can't take this anymore. Do what I brought you here to do to me. Ride me. Ride me, Richard." The human smiled, softly yanking his hand out of her huge butt, all wet from her insides. She probably didn't feel whole back there now, but she will be again quite soon. The unicorn backed up a step, bringing her rear end closer to his throbbing shaft, and begging him some more, "Don't make me wait and suffer any longer. Ride me. NOW!"

Richard nodded, "Whatever you say." He brought his hips closer to her, gripping his stiff cock. He was trying to get himself positioned behind her as he was also trying to aim the tip of his cock at her waiting hole. Finally, standing behind her as close as he could on top of the tree stump, he brought his girth close to her entrance, and entered her. Richard's hand that was free of her gaping pussy grabbed ahold of her buttocks and pushed in deeper, not worrying about hurting her since she seems to take things in her butt well.

He was up to the hilt, her muscles making a bit of a squeeze around his organ. Richard huffed, looking down at himself seeing all of him's buried deep in her tunnel. The unicorn huffed too, glancing back to give him begging eyes, "Richard...Please..." He acknowledged by easily pulling his shaft back till it almost back out in the night, and shoving in there hard.

He was taking her softly, slowly starting his rhythm of thrusts. The unicorn looked back ahead again, her hum radiating from her mind, "Hmmm." As her pussy continued winking around his cock, Richard rolled back his eyes and closed them, feeling good by this experience. This certainly felt better than sticking his hand in her he realized. He can't remember the last time he stuck his cock into someone, but he remembers sticking it into a human holds no comparison to sticking it in his unicorn. This felt more fantastic.

And not to mention this was the biggest butt he stuck it into! No way any human girl would have a big ass like her!

Richard, feeling compelled to give her the ride of her life and make this feel more good than it already is, sped up his movements, his fingers digging into her silky hide for purchase. The creature he banged from behind was shaking away her head and stomping the ground, feeling crazy by his actions once more. The unicorn bucked back after his shaft gave her another shove. That almost pushed Richard back and put him off balance, but he held his ground and still fucked her in the same pace. He sensually rubbed her butt. He commented as he patted her softly, "You feel nice, girl."

Her pleasured mind cried while her pussy winked, "Oh! Richard! Don't stop!"

Richard was gasping in ragged breaths, his head already leaving sweat from this. His legs were feeling a bit sore too, but he kept at it. He wasn't stopping till he was at the end. He wasn't stopping till he was sure he had helped her through her tortured heat. The unicorn bucked back again, only she timed that right with another of his thrusts and didn't stop his rhythm again.

Richard raised his hand high and smacked it against her butt, his idea of not hurting her or scaring her but adding to the pleasure he was giving her. The unicorn neighed, but she didn't run, she still held her ground. Her mental words came to him, satisfied words, "Richard! DO IT AGAIN!" Turned out she liked that too! Richard did it again, only a bit more harder. The unicorn snorted, and moaned that time, "Ah!" Richard was amused by her behavior. She didn't like her tree friends spanking her butt, but she sure was loving her human friend doing that to her during this intimate moment.

What a turnaround.

He didn't let up, while giving it to her with his cock, his hand was giving her a few more slaps on the romp. After his hand stopped slapping her and went back to gripping her, the human still gave it to her at a hard, fast pace, sweat dripping off his nose and forehead. After a few more minutes of fucking her, he can feel the pressure building between his legs. He knew what that meant. He was almost done with the deed.

The unicorn spoke to him while he was at the final leg of their mating, "Richard...I feel-" Before her mind could finish the sentence, that's when she tossed up her head and whinnied. Richard gasped when her tunnel tightened a bit around his cock. She must have came, for the first time in her life. She hadn't expected that.

The unicorn dropped her head low to the ground, a little worn from her orgasm. Richard, while his breath labored, gave it to her again and again, not slowing down one bit at he was almost to his. Then, he gave one last thrust, burying his dick deep within her, and cried out. He felt his girth firing in there like several arrows from a bow, arrows of life-giving seed. He felt the pleasure washing up on him like it was going into the unicorn. His dick finally slowed down to trickles and he had nothing left to give her.

Richard was giving her rear end some fond patting as it was over, huffing out tiredly from the experience while his cock was softening up. When he caught his breath after a couple minutes went by, the unicorn finally looked back to him. She spoke in a playful yet satisfied tone, "So...Did you enjoy your first 'ride' on me? You did want to ride on me before."

Richard laughed a little, replying, "And you said you don't give rides."

"I considered it, only for a moment like this."

"Well in that case, I did. Quite fun honestly."

"That's good. Cause I also found it quite fun."

Richard finally got his shaft out of her pussy, finding leftover cum dripping out of it. He wiped the sweat off his brow with his wrist, "Phew...So...Do you feel better? I think I did all I could do for now."

She finally turned herself around fully since this started. She answered happily, "As a matter of fact, I do. After spilling your seed my heat isn't bothering me now. I haven't felt anything like that during my cycle in a long time." The unicorn's head reached forward and fondly licked his cheek once in gratitude, "Thank you."

Richard cradled her chin with his hands and planted a kiss between her nose, "Hey, you deserved it. It's the least I could do."

The unicorn asked, "Sure. And what about you? Do you have any regrets?"

Richard thought about it for a moment. Then shook his head, "No. I feel ok. Actually I feel amazing. I never felt anything better than the broad I banged before."

The unicorn giggled, "I'm happy to hear that, cause I might need you to help me out with this again. I am certain my heat will bother me again...Until it finally goes away for a long while."

He giggled too, "I'll gladly help out when the opportunity rises." His legs felt wobbly beaneath him, and he struggled to stand. He laughed at himself, grabbing for his pants and underwear, "I better get dressed before I collaspe." The unicorn stood and watched him put his shirt, pants and shoes back on and seen him topple offf the tree stump. He streched up his arms and said to her, "Well, where do you want to sleep? I'm feeling worn now. Plus we need to get up tomorrow to start building my hut."

She gestured her head to a spot near the stump, "How bout here since I can't think of another good spot to sleep together on?"

Richard chuckled, nodding as he went to where she gestured, "Right, of course." The unicorn padded with him, then they both lowered themselves on the ground.

Before he could lie on his back and rest, the unicorn stopped him as he still sat up straight, "Richard." He looked at her, "Can you at least sleep REAL close to me this time? I...I think this seems like the right thing to do...Considering what we did."

The young human smiled, "Sure." He stated while he was crawling his way to her, "Just promise that you won't accidentally roll yourself on top of me."

The creature responded with a giggle, "I won't squish the very friend who just helped me. I wouldn't forgive myself if I did." Richard got near her, pressing his body to her white form as close as he possibly could. The unicorn stretched out her neck and her nose nuzzled him, "Thanks again for helping me out. I feel VERY relaxed."

Richard replied, "It really was no problem. I'm just sorry I didn't know about your problem sooner."

"It's alright, it's done now." She glanced at her body, and said after a moment of silence, "But I am kinda wondering..."

He got curious to what she's thinking about, "What?"

She eyed on to him, "Well...This never happened before. Not up to my knowledge anyways. And I wanted to know...Since YOU were the one who mated me in my heat...Do you think that I'll...Have a baby?"

That got him blushing. Him? A father with a unicorn? He never thought of himself as a father. He giggled, shaking his head to answer, "No. I doubt it. We're not too compatible to make babies together." He added with a frown, "However, I think if a horse or a donkey came here and mated you, perhaps that'd be a different story."

Then she stated, "I'm not some ordinary horse or donkey or anything else that's ordinary. I think anything's possible since I'm a unicorn."

He shook his skull again, "I still wouldn't think so."

"Well, it is a big if, so I guess we'll find out when the months pass." Sure...Maybe the'll find out. He still isn't holding his breath though. The unicorn said his name again, "Hey, Richard?"

"Yeah?"

"Well...What else I was wondering is...What would happen if I did have a baby? Would you leave us like my father?"

Richard chuckled, then was rubbing her side affecitionately, "I doubt that too. I'm nothing like your father. I'll always stay and raise our...Heh heh, 'child' together. Besides, I have nowhere else to go anyways."

The unicorn said appreciatively, "I appreciate that deeply....Goodnight, Richard."

"You too...Roma."

Her ears perked up, "Roma? What's-"

"Your name." He explained with a smile, "That's the name I decided to give you. I think it was about time I gave you one."

The unicorn asked, "Why? I don't need a name."

"Because I think you deserve one like I do. All things have to have a name. And Roma's a pretty fitting name for someone like you."

The unicorn, who is now named Roma, replied in some amusement, "Roma...Well, I guess I won't mind it. I'll just have to get used to it."

He nodded at that, "You will, and so will all your friends in the forest when I give them all their names."

She asked curiously, "Really?" She snorted, "You're giving everyone in my home a name?"

"Well sure. Everyone here deserves one. I think it's also pretty fair that even the inanimate objects should have a name."

Roma's mental laugh came about, "You do whatever you want. It's your home now."

"Yeah...And Roma?"

Roma seemed to have almost comepletley forgot that she had a name now, and replied after a moment's silence, "Yes?"

He asked with a devilish smile, "Aren't you even curious where I got your name from?"

Roma giggled, "I suppose I am...Where did you get it?"

Richard answered, "From the broad I slept with a while back. Her name was Roma too. She was pretty into sex like you were...You dirty horse."

"Heh heh...I can imagine." Her eyes blinked tiredly and she finally laid her head down on the ground, "Alright...See you in the morning, Richard."

Richard felt like he had enough talking too after he let out a yawn. He laid down beside her, laying his head on the grass, "Goodnight, Roma." After that, he closed his eyes and let himself drift off to sleep.

His mind thought back on everything that happened to him. He sorta can't believe everything he had went through back home had brought him to this place....Brought him to the unicorn, in all her times of need.

He's happy he's found her. He's happy he's found a place where he feels like he belongs, happy there isn't no fighting, happy that he'll actually build a home for himself to live in for once. Funny thing about it...When he arrived in the enchanted forest, he wanted to find a hermit that probably lived here. The irony about it is he'll be the hermit living in the forest.

Well, Richard can live with the idea of being a hermit for the rest of his life...Till the day he's in the grave. He can imagine those days will be the happiest days of his life. He'll cherish everything he's got in the forest till he's gone from the world.

Then, Richard thought about what the unicorn with him said...About the possiblity of them having a baby together.

Can that happen, despite they're both VERY different? Will they actually have...A child?

With his eyes closed, he smiled. Well...He still doubts that it'd happen. But if it happened...He won't mind. That'd be wonderful. Shocking...But wonderful.

Oh...He'll certainly be looking forward to the day he'll be finding out if that will happen.