Worldhopper

It was a quiet summer afternoon. The kind of summer afternoon when the entire neighborhood had collectively decided that it was much too hot to do anything of use. Finn could see people sitting in the shade reading cheap paperback thrillers and drinking ice cold lemonade. Finn made his way down the sidewalk towards the forest. The only reason he was doing this and not relaxing in the sun was that he thought he had seen a strange light appear above the woods only moments before. And Finn was not one to just ignore it, he was curious, so therefor, he had to find out what the strange light had been. Finn entered the wood, keeping an eye out for anything strange or mysterious. He turned on his camera, the light had been strange so most likely whatever (or whoever) caused it would be strange too. If he got a picture of it (or them) he would have proof of whatever this thing was. All he hoped was that it wasn’t something mundane like someone being dumb enough to light a firework in a forest. Finn walked through the forest, his keen eyes searching the area. The flash had appeared around here somewhere. Finn looked around – the forest looked like it usually did in summer.

Maybe it is just something normal, he thought, maybe it’s nothing.

And that was precisely the moment when a man fell out of the sky.

Finn yelled and dropped his camera in surprise. The man however looked unharmed despite falling thirty feet out a tree, he had landed as if he had JUMPED from the tree instead of falling from the tree. His skin was a slight orange color and had three eyes.

“Blithirfangot!” the creatureman said, stamping his foot. “Gotangraf: Yinfigird virhgare tonn!!”

Then he turned to Finn. “My apologies” He said, “My companions do not speak this world’s language”

Finn was so shocked that he was barely able to speak. “who are you?” He asked.

“I have many names; I presume you mean the one that belongs to this world”

Finn was completely bewildered by now.

“My name to you would be Kerk Meldenor, I’m the captain of the Worldhopper” Kerk nodded his head.

“What do you mean by ‘this world’” Finn asked, stepping back.

“I’m sorry my boy, I always forget that I’m one of the only worldhoppers! I can travel to different universes; I have been doing so for centuries. I am originally from this world but I have adopted features of other worlds as you can probably see…” Kerk said. “Now, I’d best get going! Good seeing earth again!”

The next thing Finn knew, Kerk was gone. Finn walked out of the wood with the feeling of someone who has seen something special.