The Adventures of a Chair, Chapter III

The Adventures of a Chair

Chapter III

Lucy

The human in the bed yawns and wakes up, opening its eyes. It gets up. It's wearing pijamas. It gets to the bathroom to get ready for work.

Given by the make-up on the table near the chair the human must be a female. The chair notices a small square nightstand near the bed. The chair slowly goes to it, and focuses its mind on it. An 8x8 grid appears, revealing a grotesque view to the chair: its entire army, massacred. The king, lying dead on the ground. The Egg's Kingdom even stole the king's crown. The battle was lost. The chair is crushed. It meant his life was ruined. Something else was going to happen. He needed forget the past life from whence he came. This is it now.

The human gets out of the bathroom, all suit up. It looks to pick up its bag from the... chair. But it is not there. It looks and sees the chair sitting by the nightstand, looking at a dead army of little 2 inch tall soldiers and a crownless king. She lets out a scream, and the chair moves out of its place in shock. Then, something least expected happens, something the chair would never think it ever could be able to: the chair talks. The chair lets out a scream.

-Y-you... says the human, c-can.. talk?

-I guess so...

-And those are...? it says looking at the dead army.

-My army. It died. Now my life changed. I am unable to reach the place I left from. I belong here now.

-O.. oh... m-my n-name is.. Lucy...

-I guess my name is... Chair?

-Y-yeah... Look, I gotta go to work, we can.. discuss this later..?

Lucy leaves. The chair, amazed by its recently discovered speaking abilities, decides to speak to itself. It murmurs sentences such as 'I am a fox running over a lazy dog looking at the sun covered with a tissue'. The chair finally becomes bored and decides to head for Lucy.

It gets out on the street. But nobody seems to notice the presence of this chair wandering about. It slowly crawls on the streets and reaches the main road. It is a Sunday early morning and the presence of 7 cars driving very close to each other, as a group, on the empty roads seems weird. The chair looks at them and asks:

-Who are you? What are you doing?

Out of each window comes out a man, near which stands another man driving. They all say in a choir:

-Visiting our sweethearts! We all have an affair!

The chair looks at them and thinks. Finally, it speaks:

-Don't your wives notice you're leaving?

-They sure do, but they don't mind! They know!

-Why are you all going in the same direction?

-We are going to the Affairs building!

The chair looks and tries to understand the oddity of this world it has reached. At last, it looks at them and says:

-Good day, gentlemen.

-Good day to you too! They reply as they get out their hats and throw them on the street, get in the chair, close the car windows and leave.

The chair goes at the hats and picks them up. By which it means they sit stacked one over the other on the chair's seat. It continues to walk on the street. A man comes by: bald, with a thick mustard yellow moustache, white blouse and yellow vest, with the same color as the moustache. He gets a hat from the chair, then gets out a coin and puts it on the chair's seat. Then a lady comes by: high-heeled shoes, with curly ketchup red hair, black clothes and a red dog, with the same color as the hair and shoes. She gets another hat from the chair, then gets out a coin and puts it on the chair's seat. Same do a bearded guacamole green man, a mayo white lady with a cat, a moustached curry yellow man and a barbeque brown lady with a parrot. Now the chair has one hat with 6 coins inside on its seat.

The chair walks inside a school besides the road. It enters a classroom and sits there, looking for Lucy. The school bell rings and the children get up. 6 of them get a coin from the hat on the chair and put an apple inside. The teacher dresses up and gets the hat from the chair, eats an apple and leaves. There are five apples on the chair, sitting in a pyramid form.

The chair goes towards the teacher's desk and finds a bowl of 3 golden fish. The chair focuses its mind on them and they are cut into squares. The fish squares now sit horizontally in the bowl, floating and forming a little board, with coordinates of X from 0 to 15 and Y from 0 to 7. On each square of the rectangle between X=0 and Y=0 to X=15 and Y=3 appears a soldier, facing positive Y, ready for battle: a new army. “Onwards”, says the chair, as the soldiers start jumping from a square to another, trying not to fall. They are heading for an enemy camp. The chair is looking for a purpose.

It then puts the 5 apples on the teacher's desk with his mind, one by one. Then gets chalk from the greenboard and draws a stickman. At each hand and foot sits an apple, also does one where the head is. The chair looks and focuses its mind. It thinks and travels through the most complicated of mind tunnels, searching within the depths of the Human World, focusing his mind on...

Lucy. Where is Lucy? Where could she be? Where can he find her. Entering an office building far away, with his mind, getting to the 4^th floor and turning right twice, he finds her.

On the teacher's desk is miraculously formed Lucy's body, replacing the chalk and apples from the teacher's desk, growing and growing more in size...