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came to him. He pulled a lighter from his jeans
pocket and began to laugh. He bent over to pick up a dried stick,
but lost his balance and fell. “I’ll smoke you out!” he shouted
from the ground.
    Still on the ground, he lit the lighter to
some leaves and sticks and began to laugh. As dawn arrived, the
fire grew.
    * * * *
    As the sun lit the world, it was added in its
duty by the flickering flames of what was now a major forest fire.
They could not return to the village because soon it would be
engulfed in flames.
    “What do we do?” Ellie asked tears streaming
down her face. “Our home will soon be gone.”
    Mirabella looked around her to see the faces
of everyone she loved. Many of them were crying and all of them
looked at her with eyes filled with fear.
    Before she could say anything Jollah, Nadia
and Majik emerged from the trees. They paced back and forth
nervously. Jollah neighed loudly.
    “They want us to follow them. Everyone, stay
close together,” Mirabella said.
    Rom took Ambrosia’s hand and they led the
others in the direction the unicorns had gone. When their journey
was over Mirabella understood.
    “The Rainbow Waterfall. You’ve saved us my
friends!” Mirabella kissed each unicorn on the nose. “There is a
huge opening behind the waterfall,” Mirabella told Ambrosia.
    “I know. It’s in my book,” Ambrosia said.
    Mirabella smiled, “Of course it is. The rocks
are very slippery so everyone be very careful.” As they lined up
and made their way through the waterfall, Mirabella looked back.
The fire grew closer and the air was growing hot. Soon it would
surround the waterfall and everything they knew as home would be
gone.
    They all huddled together along the rock wall
inside the waterfall clinging to each other for comfort. Several of
the smaller children clung tightly to Rom. He looked down into
their scared eyes and it pained his heart.
    Patting each of their heads Rom asked them to
sit. He sat down beside them and they formed a small semi-circle
around him. “Would you like a story?” he asked.
    Even inside the waterfall, they could smell
the smoke. The roaring of the waterfall did spare them the
crackling and popping the fire made as it destroyed their beloved
Mystical Forest.
    Rom had to speak loudly to be heard over the
waterfall’s roar. A long time ago a mighty black dragon once
reigned over the Mystical Forest. Merth was the last of his kind
and his heart was black as coal. Each day Merth would wake up
ravished with hunger. He would take to the sky in search of food.
He would swoop over the village and pick someone to eat.
    The Great Fairy knew that unless they were
able to stop Merth soon there would be no mystical creatures left
in the world. Merth was gobbling them up one at a time. So the
Great Fairy made the long journey to the edge of the Mystical
Forest where the Goddess of Nature lived within the soul of the
Tree of Life.
    The Great Fairy asked the Goddess how they
could stop Merth. In a voice that was, but the whispering wind the
Goddess explained that the only way to stop Merth was to seal him
inside the Tree of Life with her so should could forever ensure he
could not escape and wreak havoc upon the world.”
    Despite the devastation going on everyone
lost themselves in Rom’s story grateful for the distraction. For
the next half hour, Rom told them of how Merth came to be sealed in
the Tree of Life by the Great Fairy and how everyone lived happily
for hundreds of years until Nog.
    * * * *
    They spent the night inside the waterfall.
They laid close together taking comfort in each other’s presence.
When they rose in the morning they knew that they had to leave
their shelter and see what remained if anything of home.
    Carefully they left the waterfall. The air
was still smoky and it took a moment for their eyes to readjust to
the light. No words were spoken; no words could ever describe the
devastating loss they felt. Their world was gone. Nothing remained
except ashes