A/N: Sorry this took forever to be updated, but I couldn't log on to Fanfiction.com But now, I'm able to again...so I'll try to update more. Here's chapter 10. Sorry it's so short....I'll have to start making the chapters longer.

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The night was still young when the beautiful girl and the sacred unicorn fled through the valley, quickly but almost silently fleeing the valley of such corruption. The two seemed to glow among the night, the girl's golden hair shining in the light of the moon...making her hair like an angel's halo around her beautiful face. And the small unicorn's horn glistening with her pure magic, with the small Firefly glittering around her horn. They were the only light in the dark valley, and they quickly fled from the darkness...never to return.

"We seek a small mortal child...a girl...that lives among royalty. Do you know where we could find such a child?" the small unicorn asked Catherine, her voice not even a breath short, though she had been fleeing the valley for some time already. Catherine sighed.

"I do not know, unicorn. This land is so immense, even if I had the gift of traveling all over this earth, I would never be able to see every village and every kingdom that this earth has to offer. Yet, I know of a kingdom that lays east of Shadow Valley....It is not far from here at all, because I have been there many times beforehand," Catherine spoke in a whisper. "There may be a chance that your child resides there."

"Then we shall go there," the small unicorn said to her. " But what shall become of you?" she asked the beautiful girl.

Catherine's eyes closed and she sighed deeply, letting her breath slowly out of her sweet mouth. "I do not know, unicorn. It seems like my life has faded away and I am living in a dream...a dream that never subsides and I will forever be sleeping within it. My father has changed so much and I do not know what to do with him anymore."

"Will you come with us?" the small unicorn whispered suddenly, her voice seeming to echo in the night air. Catherine stopped suddenly and faced the small unicorn.

"What?" she asked the unicorn. The Firefly then glowed before her face and spoke to the girl, finally making his presence known to her.

"We need your help, Catherine," the Firefly spoke to her, and Catherine's mouth hung open in shock. "We cannot do this without you, for you can speak to your kind and to the immortals as well. You are pure of heart and we need those such as yourself to help us find this special child. What do you have here? Only a father who had lost his morality in this corrupt earth. Please, Catherine, will you join us? I have spend my last hundred years in a forest...all alone with only my thoughts to comfort me in my times of need. But now, now I have finally found my only purpose. For some reason, I happened to come upon this unicorn in her time of need...and now I've come to realize that my entire life has been for this. I was made to help this unicorn...and to save her race...and all that is left of morality and goodness. This is what I was created for. If not, why was I ever made? And I cannot fail....I cannot fail my purpose...and my only friend. I need you."

The small unicorn felt her heart beat faster than it ever had...and she looked up at the Firefly that was floating in the air, knowing that she could never have found a better companion. And then she looked at Catherine, seeing the girl's face soften as she held her breath. "But I must help my father. That is my purpose," she whispered. As she spoke, the Firefly glowed near her face and rested upon her shoulder.

"Catherine, all the purity that is let in the world are the unicorns. They are all that is left. Your purpose is to help them, too. And maybe your recompense is the help that your father needs," the Firefly explained to the girl, who lifted her finger to the Firefly and felt the heat of his glow on her fingertips. She smiled slightly and promised in her heart that she would never let the unicorns die. Though, what she did not know was that the small unicorn heard her promise...as did all of the immortals who were watching her with hope. But Mother Earth only closed her eyes and let one of her crystal tears fall from her pure face...still in awe that after all of these thousands of years, she finally let herself cry.

And without another word, the unicorn, the girl with the golden hair, and the glowing Firefly turned from the valley of darkness and stepped closer to the Lost Mountains, where they knew that the child was beyond. The tall, soaring peaks of the Lost Mountains loomed over the group as they walked onward to the corrupted world before them, yet they did not fear what they were about to cross into. We depend on you were Mother Earth's final words that still lingered in the small unicorn's mind. And she, too, promised that she would never let her kind die.