Theory of nothing

by Elidjz


The storm

"That's not flying it's falling with style"-Buzz


I was thrown against the wall. Multiple knives and pans slammed against me. Luckily I wasn't hit. I also saw the fridge leave a dent where it had slammed against.

Before I could do anything I was thrown against the ceiling. And then the wall again. And then another wall. And then the floor. Wall, wall, door, floor, wall, wall,... And so forth. I don't know how, but I managed not to get hit by the heavier and sharper objects. I was hit by a few pots, spoons and plates, but none hit me in the face. About my face, my snout was without a doubt broken. It was usually the first part of my body to hit any of the surrounding walls.

I managed to get a good look at Cosmo. I wasn't really surprised when I saw him smiling as he hung onto the floor. I managed to thrown myself at him, slamming hoof first into his back out of spite. He still clung onto the floor, but I saw the air go out of him. My satisfaction didn't last long as I collided midair with a chair.

It caused me to slam into a wall. Centimeters away from the window. I could feel my heart going up my throat. If I had hit the window, I would have been sent falling to my doom. I couldn't think much about it, as I was sent slamming into the kitchen.

I kept slamming into anything and everything for the next few minutes. Wait, minutes? I might not be a physicist, but from my experience (involving catapults, fireworks, angry pegasi and other miscellaneous ) falling happened very quickly. Meaning that we had been thrown kilometers away or... 
A thought then krept up my mind. Well more like remembered, when I first woke up. How I had very slowly been falling towards the ground. Was the same thing currently happening? 

Had we been thrown so hard into the air that we were rotating midair while theoretically falling very slowly? I'm going to assume yes as we still hadn't crashed onto the ground. Also I gave myself a pat on the back because I had managed to come to that conclusion (even if it might be wrong, as it was only a theory) while I avoided being hit by everything that flew around. There's a reason that I was the great and powe... 

I slammed into the fridge after it had slammed into the ceiling. 

I saw Cosmo grinning so hard that all of his pitch black teeth were visible, through his mouth that seemed to appear and disappear all the time. He then pushed himself off the ground. "Weeee...." The fridge then slammed into him crushing him against a wall. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight as I clung onto the opposite wall. The window lay on the same wall. A pan slammed into his face as he pushed the fridge off him. Which made me laugh even harder. 

I was then interrupted when something slammed beside me, on my left. From the outside. I looked to my left. I could see the outline of a thin four limbed, clawed creature dented into the wall. Like if it had very violently slammed into the wall. Something could then be heard skittering towards the window. It then slammed one of its arms through the window before poking its stubby head with four horns.

It made the mistake of jumping inside. It was immediately caught into the strange gravitational well that the kitchen had become. A blender which was flying around slammed into its face.

Another thump could be heard. And then another. And then more and more faster and faster. Some left dents into the wall, others could be heard crashing through windows all over the house. Cosmo and I stared awkwardly at each other as screeches could be heard. As I flew around the room I grabbed a pan and then hit the first creature that came in through the doorway. It fell over backwards knocking another two over.

I tried to use my spells but the backlash almost sent me flying into the claws of a six armed creature, if it hadn't been hit by the fridge. Because my spells weren't the best solution for this situation, I had to grab anything that flew nearby and throw it. Or hit them if they got close enough, as I hit another one with a pan smashing its tooth out. 

Cosmo did not have those troubles, as he simply punched anything that got close to him. I took a slight amount of pleasure as he hit his head on a cabinet. 

It didn't last long as I flew out the window. gravity shifted the second I exited the house. I managed to grab onto the windowsill. Which wasn't a good idea as the building was rotating on itself fairly quickly, dragging me along. I Got a very dizzy look from the outside. I could see ourselves slowly moving towards the ground. Only possible because of the many fires which now littered the ground. I could also see two or three dozen creatures, mostly pony sized, crawling around using their claws to hold onto the building. Which had seen me and were rushing towards me. Well, at least my theory was correct.

I kicked one that got too close to me with my rear hoof. It was flung away as it let loose of the building because of its fast rotation. Not very far as it now awkwardly floated near the house, but not close enough to grab onto it. I tried slowly lifting myself back in. 

Something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. One of the massive creatures in the horizon lifting its arm up. It then made what looked like a throwing motion. I then saw a tiny blot heading in this direction. Which then turned into a tiny creature as it got closer. A creature which was now flying towards here at a breakneck pace. Which shouldn't be possible because of the strange gravity which had stopped the house from crashing and held it in the air and should thus be stopping it mi...

The flying creature then slammed into me before I could give myself a headache thinking about the rules of this world. I was hit at such an angle that it threw me back into the kitchen. It was a wonder that I didn't fall unconscious after the change of gravity, the pain I now felt after being hit into the back and the fact that I hit that damn fridge snout first. Cosmo grabbed me before I could fly into a creature covered in spikes and then kicked it. 

I tried not to puke.

Cosmo then spoke. "I'm feeling dizzy." Fan-freaking-tastic. I managed to glare at him without puking. His eyes were cross eyed. "I thought this would be fun." "You're stupid for thinking that." I slurred back angrily. He uppercutted another spiky creature in the jaw, which I will now call hedgehogs from now on, causing it to impale a winged creature behind it.

"I blame the fridge." Said fridge then slammed into Cosmo. I fortunately avoided it and was sent flying. Which made me feel sicker. The fresh fruit that flew past my face made it worse. My stomach felt upside down. I wasn't the only one to feel like that. As the hedgehog and the other creatures all looked sickly. Some tried hanging onto walls, while others had seemingly turned a sickly green.

I froze as I felt something press against my back. I fearfully turned my head around. I saw a tiny creature with slitted eyes whose body ended into a legless tail hugging my back. From the look on its face it was clearly too sick and confused to bother attacking me. It actually looked cute. But its weight on my back made me feel even sicker, so I kicked it off my back. 

The kitchen rotated again. The fridge was thrown into the doorway sending half a dozen creatures that were trying to cross it back into the hallway. Another three then slammed into the fridge. Cosmo slammed snout first into the ceiling. And I slammed into a shelf. I suddenly felt a horrible pain in my right ear. 

As I was thrown away, again, I felt an atrocious tug at my ear before feeling an even worse pain. I was thrown through the room and slammed into the opposite wall. I regained some of my bearings and looked back to the shelf I had slammed into it. It was filled to the brim with knives. I stared into disbelief at my ear. 

Four knives were stuck through it, still on the shelf. It had been ripped off. Blood gushed through my wound. 

A hedgehog leaped at me. I didn't notice it as a chair knocked into it. I slammed into a wall, but didn't even flinch. My amulet shined brightly, but as far as I was bothered it didn't even exist. I put a hoof on my severed ear. Pain coursed through my head. My eyes welled up with tears. Everything slowly turned black. All noise fading out. The amulet growing brighter and brighter.

I was woken up as a pan hit me in the gut. I puked. 

Everything was fuzzy. I tried to cast a healing spell, but all the slamming and flying around made that impossible. Cosmo was busy throwing a bunch of rodent looking creatures off his back. I grabbed onto the doorframe and held on. I blinked multiple times and noticed the bright red glow on my neck. I also noticed a bigger creature, the size of Cosmo, climbing in through the window. A smoking blue goo dripping of his mouth

It suddenly screeched in pain as it was thrown into the room with his lower body gone. The sound of wood scraping against stone could then be heard. It seemed that we had landed.

Violently.

As the house we were all in hit the ground gravity shifted again, pulling us all down. I held onto the doorframe and Cosmo had his claws dug into a wall, both holding for dear life. Another dozen or two creatures also hung on. One of the walls, the one to be in contact with the ground, disintegrated turning anything unlucky enough to be on it into a bloody pulp. Same for anything that was in the air, as they were dragged back down to be shredded into pieces. 

Unfortunately, the fact that we had landed didn't mean that we had stopped. The force with which we had landed was so powerful that the building kept going, grinding against the ground and smashing anything in its path.

The ground got closer and closer to me as all the walls keeping us up where being torn apart by the solid stone ground. The creatures closest to the ground were turned into paste as the piece of wall they held on broke. I tried to lift myself up, but failed because of all the pain I felt. My rear hooves were dangling dangerously close to the ground. 

And then we fell again. The entire building tilted suddenly. As everyone and everything was thrown into the water.  The building slowly sunk with me still inside. I tried to swim out, but was too weak as the currents dragged me down. I tried to scream, but only succeeded in swallowing water. A clawed hand then grabbed me and dragged me along. 

It pulled me out of the sinking building, smashing through a wall. I coughed as we surfaced. Once my coughing fit had ended i looked at the claw that was holding. It's ethereal glow instantly told me who it belonged to. I turned my head around and saw Cosmo with a wide smile showing all of his teeth. The second he saw my face his expression shifted. He now looked a little bit worried, but his smile never went away.

We were in a river being dragged by its current alongside a dozen other creatures. A whole bunch jumped into the river and started swimming after us. Cosmo twisted around and in one smooth motion I lay on his back. He started swimming, humming to himself and wagging his tail at our pursuers. He acted like nothing could hurt him as he swam alongside the current. The river was going underground and so were we.

I pressed my head against his back.

And I sobbed.