Jollyrei raced to Horny’s stall, with Wragg hot on his heels. His worst fears were realised. Messaline was being chased around the stall by one extremely randy unicorn.
“Cor, just look at the ass on that!” eulogised Horny, who, unlike Jollyrei’s horses but like RR the squirrel, appeared to have the power of speech. “That’s one filly I’d love to get my horn into, and not the one on my head, either! Come on, love, get ‘em off!”
“We had a stable girl here once, name of ‘Dorothy Brown’”, explained Jollyrei.
“I see.” Wragg did see. The fourth years had told him all about Dorothy Brown…
Messaline giggled happily as she ran, but RR was less amused. “Can it, Horny. She’s mine. Touch her and you’re a gelding!”
“Oh yeah, Ratface? You and whose army?”
“Do something, your Lordship!” pleaded Wragg, “Before there’s too much blood! I can’t bear blood!”
“I’m not going to do anything,” announced Jollyrei. “You are.”
“M-me? W-what can I do?”
“You are going to bring order to this chaos before…” there was a loud ripping noise as Horny got hold of Messa’s dress “…it’s too late!”
But Wragg simply stood with his mouth open. The woman of his dreams, stark naked, who could blame him?
“WRAGG!” thundered Jollyrei, “For God’s sake! Haven’t you seen a naked woman before? Man up! You look like a goldfish!”
Horny had discovered it was fun whipping Messaline’s buttocks with his tail. Messaline seemed to be enjoying it too.
Wragg pulled himself together. “Really! Horny! You must stop that! It just won’t do!”
“Fuck off, Wraggie!” Horny landed a well-aimed hoof in the centre of Wragg’s chest, and he went flying backwards.
For a moment he lay there, stunned. Then he got a little bit cross. Then he got himself worked up until he was very, very cross indeed. He stood up, grabbed a whip, and in true Professor Primus style, he cracked it across Horny’s hindquarters.
“Owwww! Sonofabitch!” said Horny. He turned his attention from Messaline and glared at Wragg. “Ha! You think you can tame me with that?”
That horn suddenly looked extremely threatening. But Wragg did exactly as Primus had shown him, and cracked the whip right across the unicorn’s face.
That made Horny properly mad. He charged across the stable, head down, but Wragg was far too quick for him, and Horny managed only to spear a bale of hay. While he was attempting to extricate himself, Wragg rained blows down on the exposed flanks of the beast. Crack! Crack! Crack! Each stroke landed with millimetric precision exactly where Wragg wanted it.
“Bastard!” yelled Horny, finally shaking himself loose. “I will kill you! Come here! AARGH! Mmmph!”
Wragg had expertly got the whip across Horny’s mouth. The end flew round and round, and suddenly Horny was under his total control. He grabbed Horny by the horn and stared straight into the unicorn’s eyes.
“Listen very carefully, you scummy nag!” Wragg spoke slowly and clearly. “You are nothing more than a deformed mule! I was trained in whipcraft by the great Pilus Primus himself. One false move from you, one flick of the whip from me, and you will indeed be a gelding. Do I make myself clear?”
Horny glared at him.
“DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?”
Horny nodded.
“Good. Then we understand each other.” Wragg unwound the whip, and stepped back, gave Horny one last stare, and then turned to the others.
“Bloody jumped up little creep….” muttered Horny, behind him.
CRACK! Wragg casually flicked the whip behind him, and caught Horny right across his ears. Wragg didn’t even turn around.
“Very impressive, my boy!” said Jollyrei.
“I say, well done, Wragg!” cheered RR.
“Hum. I was enjoying that,” muttered Messaline, her face as long as a wet weekend.
“One question,” Jollyrei looked puzzled. “If you can do that with a whip, how come Prof Primus gave you a D- minus?”
“Professor Primus was an excellent teacher. But he would expect us to use the whip on…. girls. I mean, just look at Messaline’s, um, bottom! Such flawless beauty! Such perfection! How could I touch her with a whip?”
To Wragg’s consternation and absolute bafflement, Messaline broke down in tears.