Chivalry Reborn

Chapter 4:

More Weird Mail

This has got to be the trippiest thing to have ever happen to me. Honestly, I think my brain is going to have a massive meltdown before I get out of this forest, due to overexertion from trying to piece together what has happened to me for the last 30 minutes. I go through the events of the day in my head for the hundredth time, while I leave my legs on auto pilot and have them walking down the silver stone trail.

Go to college: normal

Work: normal

Get a package from a recently deceased relative: Uncommon, but still normal

Go on a walk and be a hero for a second: Rare, but awesome and acceptable in life.

Suddenly falling out of the sky: not really normal

There’s the link that didn’t make any sense. How the hell did I fall from the sky, FROM THE GROUND? It’s completely impossible! Did my brain finally switch to whacko mode? Did I hit my head on the pavement too hard, and now I’m in some sort of freaky pony-themed coma? Or maybe I was high. No, of course I wouldn’t be high, I don’t even smoke!

“Damn. It.” I groaned in dismay, knocking the side of my head after each word in the sentence. This did not compute.

I suddenly yank my legs from auto play, and stop them dead in their tracks. My eyes shoot down at the ground to see a miniature meadow of small, light blue flowers. They fluttered in the breeze in my direction, inviting me and my legs to allow them to graze against my skin. I stared at the fence of plants with a blank look. I glanced up at the opening in the woods. Light was flooding out of it. That had to be the way out of here. I looked back at the plants guarding the way.

……Light Blue…..

The horny midget had a light blue jean jacket on.

The sky I just fell out of was light blue

Even the damned winged horse named Rainbow Dash was light blue!

No, I am NOT touching that. Not after this aqua-colored nightmare. I decided to walk my way around the dreadfully blue field of evil, finally reaching the exit they desperately tried to keep out of my reach. Suck it flowers. I quickly sauntered my way through the exit of the forest, ready to see the next area of this new strange place that I’m now basically stranded in.

I breathed in the now treeless air, striping off my jacket. Ahhhh~ Normal air. Not a pinch of sap invading my nostrils. I’m still confused about where I am, but at least I don’t have to get my ass kicked by nature while I try to wrap my mind around this place.

I look back up at the sky I had just fallen from. Yep, still blue, still bright, still quite vast. As I stared up at the clouds some more, comparing the clouds here and the clouds back home. I noticed yet another object hurtling in my direction. It was small, somewhat round, and had straps at the end of it.

“Is that a backpack?” I asked aloud to no one in particular. Well, it fit the description, so it must be. I stepped back, and held my hands up, catching the aerial parcel from above. I look at it for a second, and looked back up to see just what threw this down. It wasn’t mine, and I’m sure that Pegasus wasn’t carrying anything on her, so who dropped it?

There was nothing in the sky, apart from a very happy looking sun, and clouds that looked like they wanted to hug you. No birds. No Shadows. Nothing but clouds and sun. Oo-kay, then. Totally not weird.

I look back at the bag, examining the exterior quickly. It was scarlet red with a black button in the flap, keeping the bag closed. There was also a small symbol of a weird-looking planet on the front.  It seemed to be made of some sort of leather, but the weird part was that that it didn’t feel like any kind of leather I’ve touched. No company could make a material this fine.

….Wait. Weird looking planet? I look down at my pendant that I had just gotten in the mail. Are these from the same company or something? I could feel my mind race for a second at possible connections. Maybe this wasn’t a coincidental drop. Did someone want me to get this..? Nah, couldn’t be. I threw the idea out of my head, as I unfastened the button and glanced inside for a peek. Maybe there’s a map?

It didn’t seem like there was, unfortunately. Instead there seemed to be metal pieces all over and multiple scrolls at the side. The one thing that really stuck out, however, was the ring of keys at the very top. I plucked them out, perplexed.

My first thought was “who the hell leaves keys in a backpack, and drop it HERE?” I stared at the craftsmanship of it. The handle of the key in front was made of wood, smoothed out wood, was shaded dark blue (finally a deep blue I can trust), and had the symbol of that weird planet again. Again, with this planet....

The key behind it, was of similar design, however it was light red and had the symbol of…Earth? Why was Earth on this key? What the hell is with all the damned symbolism? Give me a REAL DAMN CLUE!

At the other end of key ring, there was a small panel. It was wooden, just like the keys, only dull gray, and had the symbol of a house on it. The house had a box around it too. Was this a button?

Not sure what else to do, I did what a certain character used to do in my youth, and did it with genuine interest.

“Ooh! What does this button do~?” I cooed, jabbing my finger against the buttons. It slipped down smoothly, making a very mechanical click, despite the design, and quickly came back up.  Wow, I can see why little kids liked doing this again.

Suddenly I heard the click quickly followed by a poof. It was made even weirder by the following bang that came from somewhere above. I looked up at the sky, kind of nervous of what would fall out of it next.  My slightly bored expression quickly went back to shock and awe as I realized just what was falling in the distance. I let go of the bag, letting it dangle in my fingers. I remember my first words in reaction. I think they were:

“AHHHHHHH! MY HOUSE!”

It’s one piece of bull to another around here.