This is the story of the magical unicorn who could fly.

Way, way up north near the Arctic Circle, near the North Pole, was a country called Greenland. It’s very close to the North Pole and it’s got snow everywhere. It’s minus 30 degrees centigrade, very, very cold. If you take a glass of water and throw it in the air, by the time it comes down it turns into snow. It is so cold there.

Not too many human beings lived there, only very few. But there were a lot of ponies, and also unicorns—about 500 in the city. The city was called Gamla Stan. Inside Gamla Stan, there was a smaller city called Slussen, and Slussen had only unicorns.

These unicorns were very special: big unicorns with a big horn in front, able to run very fast. They had unicorn ears and came in many colors: blue, red, green, rainbow, pink, and purple. Some unicorns could even fly—these were the really magical ones.

Every year they had a race to see who was the fastest flying unicorn in Slussen. The fastest was a unicorn named Rivia, and the other fast one was Lightning. Rivia always won because she practiced a lot, doing loops, somersaults, back lumbers, and side shuffles in the air.

Lightning Dash could not do so many tricks at first, but he decided to practice hard, eating healthy and exercising every day. Finally, on race day, both Rivia and Lightning were neck and neck, performing all their aerial tricks. In the last leg, Lightning overtook Rivia and won the trophy. Rivia congratulated him and promised to practice harder next year. They became very good friends and flew together all the time.

One day Rivia said, “Lightning, we need to help people. How can we help if we just fly around?” Lightning explained that it had been very cloudy, blocking the sun, making everyone cold and depressed.

Rivia suggested they fly fast and move the clouds. But clouds were too light to push with just their legs. So they decided to take a big bed sheet and hold it with their teeth to move the clouds. They covered the cloud and slowly moved it away. Suddenly, sunlight reached Gamla Stan, and everybody cheered for the magical unicorns.

After that, Rivia and Lightning helped other cities the same way, using bigger bed sheets to remove bigger clouds wherever the sun was blocked.

So that’s the story.