Princess Fantaghiro and king Romualdo are traveling to the kingdom of Torelia where the inhabitants will give them a splendid feast in gratitude for having brought peace. On their journey, Fantaghiro and Romualdo stop and camp for the night beside the deep Battle-ax Gorge, unaware of the perfidious plans that the fearsome Darken and his faithful servant, the evil Black Witch, are preparing against them.At daybreak, Fantaghiro is drawn by the sound of a neigh and enters the gorge to soon come upon a beautiful unicorn and her offspring. What the princess doesn’t suspect is that these two fantastic creatures are the bait in a trap into which she has just fallen and that Drakonian, the Black Witch’s servant, is about to cause a rock avalanche to fall down on them.Fantaghiro manages to save the young unicorn but its mother is buried beneath the huge mass of rocks. The princess is also caught by the avalanche that pins one of her legs down. Alerted by the sound of the avalanche, Romualdo tr
