Baird the Carnivourous Unicorn: a story (gore)

The squirrel scurried across the branch, and hopped down to another one.  Beautiful fall leaves surrounded him, as he stopped at clusters to pick up acorns.  Somewhere in the same tree a bird chirped and sprung into a beautiful song.  Below him a chestnut horse with a single golden horn on its head silently waded through the piles of leaves.  Its head was bent over so low that the mud colored mane lightly brushed the leaves.  He stopped as he saw movement about a hundred feet away.  For any normal creature this would be impossible, through the trees and all, but for Baird the unicorn, anything was possible.  The movement that had made him stop was a wild dog that was coming this way.

"Wonderful" thought Baird.  Barely making any noise he buried the golden beauty atop his head under leaves.  Then he stood for a moment and concentrated.  Seconds later his chestnut coat had turnd to splotches of reds and golds and browns to match the forest around him.

The wild dog, unaware of the beast hiding amidst the background, kept on coming.  Soon he was right in front of Baird.  With a loud snort, Baird jumped out of the leaves, his horn goring the wild dog who made one last little yelp as he died. 

The colorful flurry died down and Baird removed the dead dog from his horn.  He gathered up the body in his mouth and began dragging it.  Behind them trailed bloodstained leafs from the bleeding body.  When they reached a smalll stream Baird set the dog aside and began dipping the golden spiral into the current and quickly removing it.  He did this several times for a half hour before his horn was clean.  Only then did he turn his attention to his kill.

The hole in the dog was rather pronounced, being about three inches in diameter.  Around the wound was matted down blood-stained fur.  It had been gored straight through the side at a slanted angle.  The unicorn nelt down and sank its razor-like teeth int the softened flesh of the dog, and pulled a way a chunk.  It continued eating it away until all the skin and fur was gone.  Then Baird began on the meat and the organs, stopping every now and then to drink from the stream beside him.