The Adventures of a Chair, Chapter IV

The Adventures of a Chair

Chapter IV

Enemy Territory

I hope you enjoy the ending of The Adventures of a Chair! This was fun!! Read the others here: Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III.

Lucy looks in shock at the chair. Wo... work? Pa... papers? Where is everything?? Where is she?

The chair knows her questions. “No matter”, he says. “We are leaving.”

Lucy is confused. Who is this chair and what does it want from her?

The chair goes towards the back of the classroom and looks at a map of the world. Focusing its mind on it, the continents move. On a small island are the 128 soldiers moving the island towards the continent formed from the rest: enemy territory. A little piece of land is behind the trajectory of the island: the abandoned homeland. The homeland is no more, being the Object World. The island is what is now, the Human World, and the enemy territory what is to be, the goal, any other world, or place. A fight is to arrive and the enemy territory is closer and closer to the approaching island.

Lucy is still near the greenboard and looks in shock at the entrance of the classroom, from where a shark appears, swimming as if air was its water. The soldiers have arrived on the enemy territory and are raiding an enemy camp. The chair took the decision to fight and it will now fight. But he will now protect Lucy, the goddess.

The shark heads for Lucy who looks scared at the shark. Near the greenboard sit 5 pieces of chalk: one long, brand new, two medium-sized ones and two little cubes, barely even usable. The chair controls the long, brand new chalk piece towards it, penetrating the shark's insides in the process. It then pushes the chalk piece back towards the greenboard and pierces the shark again. It falls to the ground. The chair goes towards Lucy. Lucy looks at the chair, trembling. “We need to move”, says the chair. Lucy sits on the chair and the chair leaves the school.

Outside is a grotesque view: Lucy and the chair are in the “enemy territory”. It looks like the Human World, except the sky is dark red and sharks are swimming everywhere through the thin air. Every human is running everywhere, trying to save their skin. But little do they know they are not living in the normal world, like their separate identities are.

Out of nowhere appears a giant chicken and swallows Lucy, and leaves. The chair needs to find Lucy. The chair closes its eyes. Everything turns dark. Opening its eyes in the darkness that is now surrounding him, he sees the enemy camp shaping in full size. His soldiers are... dying. Fighting, but losing. Is all hope lost? Is this it?

The darkness suddenly breaks as out of the dark red sky appears a shark and swallows the chair. And everything turns dark again. But now there is no enemy camp. Just dead soldiers. The journey is over. There is no more Lucy. There is no more Object World, Human World, Enemy World... just darkness.

Meet Henry. He is wearing a cardboard cubic box on its head. In the box are his head, a can of spilt soda, an egg, a map, chalk, a shark plushie, a doll, an apple, a coin, a miniature chicken and a miniature chair. Everybody tried talking to Henry, but he would never answer. He wouldn't move, but he still lives. So nobody bothers him. But to him, these objects have a meaning. To him, these objects have a story. Here we have the spilt soda a chair dived in, an egg a chair fought, a map a chair looked at, chalk a chair used, a shark a chair fought, a doll a chair cared for, an apple a chair used, a coin a chair received, a chicken a chair hated and... a chair. Together they created The Adventures of a Chair, a story only spoken to him, by the life of objects.