The Misadventures of Led Zeppelin: Chapter 7

Jimmy feared for his life as the ground around him started to vibrate, the vast sky around him now pitch black.

"ROBERT! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Jimmy hugged the trunk of the tree next to him, crouching down, knees over his head. Whatever this thing appeared to be, it would end up killing him. He would die out here in the woods, lost and alone, surrounded by everlasting darkness.

"Bonzo...Jonesy...help me...please..." His voice grew to a final whisper, he was certain this was the end. He squeezed his eyes shut and waited for the tidal waves to storm him, the beast to claw into his body, but he felt no wind. No pain, the trembling came to a sudden stop. The uttermost silence he's heard all night, he couldn't even hear the wind blow, or the leaves rustling in the breeze. The eye of a hurricane, this had to be. He swung himself up, dusting himself off and trying to find some logic in the mass confusion. He took a look towards the west, there was some sort of subtle glowing...light. There was LIGHT here?! It was so late in the night when the dark clouds swallowed the stars he wished on before, what could possibly be the source to all of this? His legs having minds of their own, Jimmy Page found himself heading towards the blinding light.

Meanwhile, the rest of the brigade searched the woods for some grub. It being so ever dark out there, the task was almost impossible.

"It sure wasn't this dark when we started out here." Jonesy said.

"God, I'm starving. No beer and no food...I'll die out here for sure." Bonzo groaned, his stomach did the same.

"Easy, Bonz. We'll surely find something." Said Robert, though he was feeling a little light headed himself.

"I don't wanna go cannibal on you Percy, but I can't just starve out here..." Bonzo said, Robert backing away from the hunger-driven drummer.

"No need, Bonzo. Look at what I found!" The band turned to some strange looking berries, they were a dark purple color and were abundant in the trees and bushes of Evermore.

"FINALLY!" Bonzo ripped the branches off the tops of the trees, snatching whatever he could until the berries seeped in his monstrous hands.

"Jesus, Bonz. Save some for the birds!" Said Jonesy, grabbing the ones that fell off the trees.

"The birds?! What about us?!" Robert picked the left over berries from the bushes that Bonzo didn't manage to see.

"We need a bucket..." They carried berries in their pockets, inside their shirts, the rest were stuffed in their mouths.

"These are good...sure they ain't poisonous, Rob?" Jonesy asked.

"I ate these all the time as a boy, just forgot where they were...I don't even know where I'm at. We should get some for Jimmy, he's got to be starved by now."

"Good idea. He better eat these anyway..." After filling themselves with the fruit, the all carried a handful and went out to find Page.

"JIMMY! We've got you a snack!" Robert swore that tree was the last place he's seen him, though he wasn't there anymore.

"Come on, Jimmy. Don't stay mad at me forever, you've got to eat something!" The front man grew worried when he searched the dark woods and couldn't hear a sound.

"Pagey...come out wherever you are!" The berries were melting in their hands, they needed to find him fast if they even wanted the slightest chance of getting out of this place.

"Maybe he just got eaten by a bear or something." Bonzo said, licking his lips.

"We've only looked for thirty some minutes, don't lose it now!" What the gang didn't know was that they were walking in big, winding circles around the trees, the fog and dark of the night made every site they made a visit to before look identical, every place was the same.

"It seems like forever though...our gig has to be cancelled by now."

"It has probably been cancelled for hours now..." Jonesy sighed.

"We don't know that for sure, guys...lets just find Jimmy so we can get the hell out of here." Robert led the group forward towards a path they had yet to travel, they heard sounds of fish splashing in the brook. With that, they saw streaks of water glisten.

"Light, guys! Right by the water too!" They all ran back to the stream, instantly being struck with a sudden brightness that came from nowhere, the unknown.

"ROBERT! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Bonzo stumbled backwards and fell into Jonsey.

"I don't know..." The three were dumbfounded, a blinding, illuminating sight coming from the sky above them. Hurling in closer at rapid speed, the light reached the trees and woods behind him, that's when they saw a shadow.

"...Jimmy?" As quick as it appeared, it was gone. With the light came bold, vivid colors; shades of blue, orange, purple, green, yellow, red, magenta...hues that widened their eyes, streaming across the universe in the new, lucid sky. Just a minute ago they were surrounded in fog, now they looked to the sky and saw the heavens above. It was all so real. Like a dream, a hallucination perhaps...

"You sure there wasn't any acid in those berries, Rob?" Jonsey asked.

"I...maybe there was..." An explosion of mystifying light and a creature falling out of the clouds, it was graceful, majestic, magnificent. An angel in the form of something else. It had wings, a horse like body, a horn on it's head. This surely wasn't happening...

Out of the shadows came a rather calm looking Jimmy Page. The stallion landed at last, tints of luscious colors shaded his pupils. It's light, sky blue skin contrasted with the vision above them. His look of pure innocence resembled one of a small child; what young Robert was when he first set eyes on the steed. He trotted towards the awestruck group, none of them daring to even slightly move a muscle of theirs. He bent down to the stream, licking the water the gang had played in hours ago. After washing himself, he wandered off until he glanced at that face. His golden hair, those deep blue eyes. The same creature that approached this boy ten years ago recognized the only owner he had. In joyful tears, Robert Plant was the first to stroke his mane.

"Hey, boy."