Chivalry Reborn

Chapter 3:

Skydiving with….Ponies!?

“Crap! CRAAAAP!”

I was still shrieking as loud as I can. Suddenly finding yourself falling out of the sky for no reason kind of does that.

“Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!” I kept uttering the same word over and over, while trying my best to swim through the air. Not like it was working, but still…

A few seconds later, I realized that I was probably going to die anyway, despite my best efforts. I simply huffed, pushing my chains into my jacket, so they wouldn't blow off of me. I glanced over to the side to look at the landscape. If I’m gonna die, then I may as well enjoy the damned scenery.

From what I can see up here, everything looks….drawn. Like this place shouldn’t be real. It’s even  more unrealistic once you see just how fluffy the clouds (which I just fell out of) really look.  Not to mention how the sun looks.  Don’t get me wrong, it was beautiful, but still, what the hell?

I cross my arms, starting to get used to fall. I start to look down at the town below, when I noticed something.  A rainbow suddenly popped up into the sky. All the colors you can possible think of, I could see in that ray of light. It was actually pretty awesome to get to see a rainbow of all things before I turn into mushy pa-

Wait, why is that Rainbow not going in an arc..?

Why is it coming in my direction!?

IS THAT A FRICKING HORSE IN THE FRONT, FLYING RIGHT AT ME!?

I have no idea what’s going on, but I am pretty sure my eyes are telling my brain that a rainbow-maned horse (a girl, I think) is racing towards me while leaving behind a freaking rainbow.

To say the least, I was kinda confused.

I knew for sure, though. That thing was going way too fast to stop in time so we don’t bash heads. I wave my hands in front of me frantically, trying to tell it to stop.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! What is that thing!?” The mare yelped, in an abnormally natural human voice, suddenly realizing the situation as well. Well that, and maybe a little confusion and a few other things from seeing a human, I guess. She flapped her wings desperately to slow down in time.

“Oh no….no, no, NO-OOF!”

Mission failed, we slammed into one another in mid-air.

Glad I held my hands out, though. I managed to grab the mare by the torso to spread out the force. I kept my hands gripped in her fur, rather feathers…wait, FEATHERS? Why does this horse have wings in the first place!?

“What the hell are you, a pegasus!?” I yelled aloud, completely and utterly baffled by what’s happening.  I can’t hear myself think anymore with all this turbulence.

“What the hay am I!?” The Rainbow mare scoffed, pushing her body away from mine just enough to look at me with a confused, yet irritated look. “What the hay are YOU!?”

“Holy crap, you can speak English too!? “ I stared at her for a second, even MORE confused. Then I remembered where we were. ”I don’t think now’s time to play 20 questions!” I bellowed, the grounds getting kinda close now. I can see a  lot of trees and a stone trail. Oh dear sweet lord, please let us hit the treetops….

Apparently the young Pegasus got the drift and started flapping her wings to try and soften the landing. It helped quite a bit, see that we slowed down to about half the speed we were falling just before, but this landing was still going to sting.

Seeing the ground properly, I quickly decided to just aim for an open tree branch. “Okay that’s enough!” I barked at the mare, wrapping my arms around her, making her close her wings and letting us to fall normally once more.

“Hey!” She apparently didn’t appreciate that, and kicked me in my stomach. I ignored the sharp pain shooting throughout the central point of my body, and let my back slam into the trunk of the tree and let myself set it self into the tree branch, the light blue Pegasus still in my hands.

“Let me go, you big freak!” The rainbow-maker was squirming in my grip now, not exactly enjoying being manhandled. I just let go, seeing that I didn’t really need to hold her there anymore. I let my head rest against the trunk, expelling all the breath I held in. I seriously thought I was going to die in a cartoon-like world.

I paused, feeling like I was being stabbed at by foreign eyes. I slowly looked ahead to see the Pegasus now hovering right in my face, staring at me like I was some kind of vicious looking dog.

I just stared back, but I wasn’t glaring. Oh no, I was actually intrigued and still baffled. How am I even seeing this right? I’m looking at a light blue horse, with wings and a rainbow colored mane and tail.

Looking more carefully, I could see she had more features. Her hair was cut short, making it only long enough to touch the back of her neck, and only enough length from the front to be bouncing above her eyes. She had big pink eyes (which were being used to basically impale me in all the ways they could), as well as a marking on the side of her hip. It was a cloud shooting out rainbow colored lighting. Wonder why that’s even there.

After a little while, it got awkward, so I decided to say the first word.

“Hey,” I said, waving my hand at her and smiling sheepishly. “My name’s Winston,” I scratch the back of my head a little embarrassed, now that adrenaline's gone. “Thanks for the help, I would have been dead without the brake.”

She backed away as soon as I spoke, seemingly surprised that I could even properly talk.  She glared at me again for a second, and pointed her hoof at me suspiciously.

“I’ve got my eye on you,” She warned me, an edge in her voice. She then decided to take her leave and boosted off into the sky, with even more of that weird (though totally awesome) rainbow of hers.  Well, there goes a first impression.

I sigh, thinking of what kind of world I could possibly be in, with talking Pegasi horses. I mean, what kind of logic does this make? Pegasi are merely a myth, right? So why did I just see a rainbow colored pega-

Seemingly out of nowhere, the Pegasus that had just left me in wonder and just threatened me popped out from the leaves above me.

“Yipe!” I jump in my spot, snapping out of my thoughts, riveting my eyes right on the mare.

She was looking to the side, a slight huff on her face.

“My name is Rainbow Dash,” she muttered under her breath. She didn't look like she wanted to say this at all. She slowly looked in my direction, still kind of pouting. “And…..thanks for taking that fall for me…”

She dipped her head back through the canopy, and I heard another whoosh to tell me that she left for real this time.

I looked up at where she just was, letting the name sink in.

Rainbow Dash, the light blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane, a rainbow tail, and a rainbow trail when she flies.

….Clever.

Well, no point in wasting time just sitting in this tree and gawking about seeing a mythical creature.“Okay then,” I spoke to myself, swinging my legs out. There’s a sting in my lower back, but  I’ve had worse.  “Time to see just where I am.”

I glance around myself to see if there’s anything to use to get down. No surrounding branches, no vines, nothing. Crap…

Oh wait! I still had the knife I took from that dwarf-like rapist. I quickly pull It out from under my belt. My belt should be fine. I didn’t pad it just to make it comfy, you see. I'll explain more about why I even have a padded belt when I can relax. I stab the blade into the trunk, only deep enough to break through the outer wood.

Swinging myself off the branch, letting gravity do its work, as I slowly slid down the tree, using the knife as a brake and my legs to keep my clothes from getting anymore dirty than they already were. Thank you, convenience, you have served me well once again!

I pluck the knife out and put it back in my belt, and just let out another breath. This is just too damned surreal. I just traveled out of my house to go around the block, and now here I am, in some sort of forest, from which I landed it by free-falling and using a blue rainbow Pegasus as a brake.

I shake my head free of these thoughts and start walking down the stone paved trail. I should be near the edge of the forest, if my little guess from that aerial view of the landscape was anything to go on. How bad can this place possibly be?