Solstice Chapter 19

As I neared the fireball my outer casing began to simmer and crackle and pop.  Large fissures and vents ripped across my surface as what little life essence I had left boiled into steam and burst out here and there like little jets, twisting me first this way, then that...

There was tangible resistance as I Plunged into the fireball.  Abrasive resistance, friction.   Raw matter sanded and blasted across my fissures and vents, grabbing hold of them, tearing off sheets of me left and right, stripping me down to delicate and tender parts....

Then even those began to heat up, glow cherry red, melt...

I couldn't find my Voice, it was tucked away somewhere... there but not there.

Then I burst through the other side of the fire ball.  Some miles below me was the ground, rusty red, boulder strewn, craggy mountains and deep valleys, and it was coming up to greet me.  Rather Rapidly, actually *laughs*

I searched within.  There had to be SOMETHING inside me that would get me outta this, some bit of knowledge or skill that could save me...

It Couldn't end like this...

My life began to flash before me.

Ancestral and genetic memories bubbled forth...

...

And a square masted vessel swam into view, with a stout dragon carved on the prow and fully two dozen scruffy, furry, men and women manning the oars.  The vessel climbed up the swells in the ocean, dove down into the trough beyond...

...

I latched onto the memory, embraced it, became it...

I am Viking.

Instantly there was a bone jarring SNAP! and I was suddenly swinging wildly about like a toy on the end of a string.  I focused up and noticed a huge canopy hanging over me, billowing madly in the winds.  Ropes from the canopy led down to me... Below I noticed that the ground was much much closer, but it wasn't coming to greet me quite so quickly now.

Then four spidery legs sprang into view below me, as if they were a part of me...

And I began to fart *laughs*

And I Kept farting!  It just kept coming and coming... steady, hard, Hot... for an eternity gas blasted from my sphincter...

And it felt AWESOME!  The Power behind it was incredible.  There was no forcing it, no change in volume or density, no chunks, no wetness...

It was PURE, CLEAN, PERFECT flatulence.

And then it stopped, *snap* just as suddenly as it started.

I felt my spidery legs settle firmly into the  sandy soil.

The Viking had landed.

When I focused again I noticed I was on the ground... a dusty red plain strewn with boulders and what Could've been the remains of some ruins in the distance...

Something seemed oddly familiar about my surroundings...

Just then the whole world went black.