I just wanted to stop by and get warm, now I'm in this mess! I grumbled about it for a short moment then looked over towards a bag sitting right next to the bed. Bewilderment at its best you can say, picking the bag up, plopping it onto the bed and opening it.
"Bare and empty.."
Looking around the room, I supposed I should pack everything up before that man comes back yelling at me. I don't even know there name, man my head hurts like hell, I immediately walked over to the desk from before.
Picking up all the letters that were scattered across the desk, I'll read the rest of them later. Placing them gently into the bag in it's own small area, after that I took anything that looked important. Clothing, the ink bottle and feather writing utensil? Where have I seen them before...
Oh I remember from my one history class, where they had an old dude on the screen and the teacher talked the entire class ear off. I finally remember what its called a quill pen.
Placing the ink bottle and quill pen into the bag, I believe I have everything important looking in the room. Now the only thing left is to find my way to where that man is, maybe I'm not to late like he said.
Closing the bag and picking it up, I walked out of the room into a long hallway with multiple doors, just down the hall was stairs. I went down the stairs and found that it seems the bottom half of this building is a pub.
Right as I got off the stairs one of the floorboards creaked and the person who was cleaning one of tables looked up over at me.
"Your knight friends are outside waiting for you, and good luck out there."
After saying that she got right back to work, taking that as my sign to get going I immediately went for the front door. Opening it up to find many more men just like the one who burst into the room. Some of them grooming their horses, the other half already mounted on them.
"Over here man we've been waiting for you!"
The man from before called out to me again, I walked over towards him.
"Ah yes sorry.."
He looked at me with a confused look, shrugging and pulling a horse over.
"Here's your horse Phalton but you alright? You seem down."
I guess my response wasn't like the original Phalton at all, but the real question is. How do I mount a horse? I grabbed the reins and patted its head.
"No just not feeling the best, that's all."
He patted my shoulder,
"You'll get through it man we've been through worse together, right?"
I nodded in response, while he mounted his horse.
"Get on your horse Phalton or we'll be left behind by the others who went on ahead, we all waited for you!"
"Ah, no man left behind?"
The man simply chuckle and started racing away with the others who where already mounted onto there horses. Looking at the horse, it was quite cute I patted it one more time, walking over to it's side.
It felt like my body or well this persons body went back to being controlled by the original person who owned it for a few short seconds.
I Immediately, like automation, belted the bag to the back of my back, then saddled the horse like it was nothing. What in the world just happen? How did I do that, my head hurts even more now.
The pain felt like my head was splitting as new information entered my head like nothing, like a normal Tuesday going to work. I leaned over on the horse holding my head down while the information continued to pour into my head, how to saddle, how to hold a sword, sword play. It felt everything that this Phalton kid knew went straight into my head, it hurts, why does it have to hurt this much?
Then just like before I moved the reigns and the horse started moving, I feel awful, as the horse moved, my motion sickness felt like it was burning up from below. Again my body moved the reigns again and again, until the horse was running at full speed.
I held my head low in hopes that whatever that was building up would not come rushing out like a volcano. Trees rushed passed in a breeze, honestly I'm not sure where we were going but me and the horse ended up right behind the others.
Maybe if I keep my head low no one would notice the motion sickness spreading across my face.
Many of the others where playing around almost slamming their horses into one another, we quickly made our way closer and closer to the original group who left before us. The horses paces didn't slow it seems we'll be riding like this for awhile...
We continued to ride for minutes, when I finally looked up, the man who originally talked to me was looking at me with a worried face. He quickly started placing his horse next to mine,
"You okay Phalton? We'll be there soon I'll tell the captain your not feeling well, maybe he'll extend our stay at the next stop."
I looked up at him and nodded, then looked back down, man motion sickness is the worse...
The man quickly went back towards the other people he was with.
"Hey Tuner is he doing alright?"
"Nope he said he wasn't feeling well before we left, I think he might have caught something."
"Poor Phalton, I'm surprise he's still riding in that condition."
I stopped paying attention after that, at least I learned his name, Tuner, I really should say thank you to him later. Without him, I think I would be left behind at this rate, who knows what would have happen.
Time passed by in a flash and we where already at our next stop, it was a small village or something of the like. I quickly made my way off the horse and sitting on the ground, trying my best to get this motion sickness off.
After the some of the motion sickness went away I got up and steady myself, looking around, I found Tuner talking to the captain or well what looks who would be captain.
I walked over there slowly,
"Captain we should rest for a little longer, we mi-"
"Tuner!"
I grabbed his shoulder,
"Stop bothering the captain, I'm feeling all better now anyways."
Tuner looked over at me and looked me up and down, like he didn't believe a word I was saying. I looked over towards the captain,
"It was just a stomach bug no need to rest for longer, best we make haste."
The person we call captain finally opened his mouth,
"Tuner we'll continue with the schedule, but if you see Phalton falter at all during the next ride. Stop immediately and take care of him, I'll allow for both of you to fall behind, only this once by yourselves."
Tuner looked at me with a grin and hit my back, why was there so much force behind it!? God that hurts! I made a weakly grin towards him.
With that Tuner walked off with me in toll behind, dragging me over, then shoving a brush in my hands.
"Go groom your horse my princess!"
Pushing me over towards the horse I rod here, did he just call me princess? I looked over at him in confusion and sighed walking over towards my horse.
Right when I got near it the book reappeared,
"Congrats Yoku! You have successfully made it to the first stop on your journey!"
Confetti effects sprawled out right after it said that, what the hell is this thing? and how come no one else is noticing it at all? Wait are they even moving right now!?
"We are currently in a time pause, for you to learn about your current situation and to go over the original story."
Can you please not read my thoughts!?
"...Sorry but that can not be done, without the reading I'm afraid you'll have a migraine without me. Not answering all your questions."
"How nice of you.. Alright then how the hell am I here? and why!?"
"How? Well 'we' transferred you here of course, and before you ask about your original body. Once you have completed your work here you'll be sent back, no time will pass there while you are here."
I stared at the book for a while trying to sort out my thoughts, so if I do what I'm supposed to do here I can go back? That's nice.. What the hell am I supposed to do though?
"Fix the original ending."
"That's it? How am I suppose to do that though?"
The book didn't answer me at all instead it sat there in silence, alright no answers that's fine.. Then the book disappeared with saying,
"Sorry! Your time to ask is up, wait until your next stop to ask more!"
What in the payphone was that!? Time continued, people started talking again and moving, everything was back to normal. With me standing there in confusion, I really should just give up on trying to understand the situation...
I groomed the horse, again though I'm not sure if I can say it was me or the original Phalton coming in handy again. As my body went into automation, right when I put the brush against the horse.
In no time I was basically finished with it. With that a man walked up behind me, one I haven't seen with the rest of the knights before. He walked over to a horse right next to me, grabbing the reigns and petting the horse.
He didn't pay no mind to me at all, in fact he didn't look at me at all, he was mostly interested in the horse.
Then something hit me, another wave just like before waft through my head. God!? That hurts man! At least give me a warning next time!! I stumbled around like a fool for a short moment grabbing onto the horse, now even the horse was looking at me with pitiful eyes..
"Don't look at me like that.."
I pushed the horse face to look somewhere else, I looked back over towards the strange man.
"So that's the protagonist from the original? What a sad way to go out.."
Pretty much a normal dude who got caught up in war trying to do his job, died in a ambush.
Should I make him stay in the camp and stop him from leaving? If that happens then he wouldn't die in the end, easy as pie.
After a short while the captain called out to everyone to get ready to depart towards the eastern gate, I grabbed the reigns of my horse and got on. I'm a little worried with how easy it is getting on and off the horse, I feel like I'm losing myself a little at this point.
I rod the horse over towards the man, to be honest even in the original he never had a name. So I guess that's the first question I could ask,
"Hey you, the person joining us, what's your name?"
Stopping the horse right next to him, he looked up right at me, with a worried face.
"Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking?"
It caught me off guard, for some reason I wasn't expecting that, was I expecting him to act just like how this information said? What the hell is wrong with me?
"The names...Phalton, yea that's right..."
He looked at me like I was saying something weird, and I couldn't agree more.
"..Well you can just call me Sam, I guess we will be riding together..."
Simply smiling at me and looking back towards his horse, yea that didn't go to well at all. Maybe I should try again once we start the ride just like how the original Phalton did.
Time passed and we started riding towards the eastern gate, he kept his distance from everyone in his own. I rode along side him, hopefully this try goes better.
"Hey Sam once we get there want to help me set up everything?"
"Shouldn't you focus on riding instead? but.. Sure I don't mind."
Come on find another topic even if I have to wrap my brain to find one, let's see, he loved the place he stayed in, let's ask.
"So what was it like where you used to-"
Before I could finish, Tuner slammed his horse into mine,
"Oh my little princess your not feeling sick are you?"
Tuner said it in a tone, that pissed me off a little, so I called out to him.
"Call me that one more time! and I'll throw you to the ground later!"
"Ohhh is that so?"
Tuner rode off away to the others, who where snickering away, saying along the lines 'Oh look it's Tuners beloved princess.' Blah, blah, blah, I couldn't care to listen anymore so I turned around to look back towards Sam. He was laughing his ass off about the situation.
"Oh come on not you to!"
"I-I'm sorry it was to funny not to laugh at, princess.."
It seems everyone was getting a giggle out of it, with that everyone was laughing calling princess Phalton.
Time passed by as everyone giggled away making small talk, hey I even got closer to Sam thanks to it, so I guess I should thank Tuner later.
We made it to the next camp spot, out in the woods, but at least there was a big enough clearing for the entire knight order. I found a good spot and got off my horse, Sam quickly followed behind, tying the horse reigns over next to a tree close by.
I take out off my bag and put on the ground, some other people came over handing me everything I would need for the tent. With everything now, Sam grabbed my shoulder,
"So should we start putting it up now?"
I smiled towards him,
"Sure if we don't we wouldn't have a tent to sleep in later."
We put the tent up together, seems all the info from the first time I got here has settled down well into my head. You know it feels weird having all this information in my head, that I never done before, and doing it so easily.
I feel like another person entirely, is that a good thing? Before I could finish my thoughts Sam called me over towards the horses,
"Don't forget to feed your horse brother."
With throwing a apple towards me, then handing over a knife, I looked over towards Sam and he was cutting the apple. Feeding it only after cutting the apple down into smaller pieces for the horse to eat.
"Compassionate are we?"
Sam looked over towards me,
"Well they helped us get this far and we still have far to go, shouldn't we show compassion towards those who helped us?"
"True."
I cut the apples into small slices, feeding it to the horse, this place isn't so bad. Maybe everything will go smoothly in the future, maybe this rewriting thing isn't so bad. Maybe I could live like this forever.