Battle of Bones (Anomaly Saga #5)

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Chaos sat down in his room, eating from a large popcorn container. The popcorn fell straight through him. He grumbled, getting up from his throne. "Lousy human snack foods," Chaos said to himself, throwing the container of popcorn against the wall and spilling its contents on the floor. He sighed, pretending to rub his eyes. "I have tried everything! Seen every possible outcome. They win and triumph over me in every scenario. In every written path, I am too dubious to actually appear threatening. There's just too many of them! And not enough m-"

Chaos was interrupted by a loud drum sound. He stared at the direction the sound came from.

A big cube with two large googly eyes and a wide, almost creepy grin emerged from the walls. "Chaos! You scoundrel! You're not glueing dimensional oysters together! We made a deal, Chaos! I give you some of Chaps' epic powers, and you glue my oyster clams together on Sundays and Fridays. But guess what?! You've skipped it for a week straight now!"

Chaos was a bit panicked. The cube menacingly rolled towards him at a slow pace. Chaos didn't know what to do, too worried about losing his abilities to think of a plan. The cube let out a high-pitched "RAWRRRR!"

Chaos was teleported back to earth, but he was extremely high up in the sky-And he was plummeting down quickly. So quickly that he caught fire and crash landed on the ground in a dramatic fashion.

Chaos spat sand out from his mouth and cleared out local crab life that had gotten inside his ribcage. He looked around and realized that he was on a tropical island, and a large ship was nearby.

He walked towards the ship, but was quickly met with a pan to the skull. Chaos turned around to see who hit him, and was greeted by a bullet that didn't harm him at all.

Two people were standing together, one man, and one woman.

"Sandy," said the man, "you wanted skeletons-and look, we found one. Only took till after we stole the golden crown for one to appear!" He kept his gun trained on Chaos. "Well, you think he's a protector or something? Maybe he's a final foe!"

Chaos was met with another pan swing from the woman, but this time it smacked his jaw. "Grr!" the skeleton growled. "You humans are so idiotic. I just plummeted down from a great height. I have very little interest in stealing your silly golden trinket."

Sandy wasn't listening. She did a somersault, pan in hand, and attacked the purple skeleton once again with a more powerful blow that made him fall unconscious to the sand.

"Y'know, Locket, this skelly doesn't seem very dangerous," Sandy said, looking down at Chaos. The skeleton's eyes would've been swirling if he had any.

Locket smirked and pulled a sack out of his backpack. "Hm, a talking purple skeleton could give us a bit of exposure, huh, Sandy?"

Locket picked up the skeleton and forced him into the sack, carrying him towards the boat. Locket threw the sack onto it with a hefty sigh. "Geez, skeleton . . . More like skeleton!" Locket exclaimed. Sandy smirked. Both of them got onto the boat, ready to set sail and return to civilization.