Chapter 80: Bones
Time had passed, and it was finally night.
I looked at the final moments of daytime, watching as the sun sank closer to the horizon.
'Well, I guess it's time to go deal with that old man's problem.'
{This is going to be fun!}
'Your opinion means that this is going to be the opposite of fun!'
{You don't know that!}
'Yes I do!'
{Why are you yelling at us?}
'I have no idea!'
{Then stop!}
'Never!'
{Can you go fight whatever the old man is going to summon now?}
'Yeah sure.'
And so I walked towards the castle that I will always call pink and approached the old man.
"Yo, I'm here to solve your problem." I said.
The old man looked at me.
"You're late." He stated with a serious tone.
I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"How the hell am I late?" I asked with confusion.
He just looked at me and said two words:
"Not you."
I looked around me for a moment, trying to figure out who he was talking to.
And then it hit me.
'Yo are you going to respond to him? Or are you going to ignore that he just said that you were late for something?'
{We're busy.}
'Alright then.'
"They said that they're busy." I responded, a small amount of amusement lacing my voice.
The old man simply frowned.
"They always say that... Seriously did they think that sealing me in this body would do anything?"
My eyebrows rose extremely quickly at the remark.
"Wait what?"
He simply leveled his gaze on me.
"I assume you're the one who's supposed to kill me?"
I nodded mutely.
"Then I better return the sentiment. It's too bad I go insane once I lose this brain. It would be so fun to see your reaction once this whole 'transformation' is over."
"what tran-" I was cut off by what happened next.
And then he inflated. Although inflated wouldn't be the right word for what I saw.
The body of the old man began to bulge in a grotesque manner, and then he started to 'tear'.
The sound will haunt me forever.
What came next was even worse.
His torn body began to grow giant bones out of it.
First a fingerbone, then a finger, then a whole hand, and then an entire arm.
the arm was both complete and incomplete, as it ended at the point where it connected to the shoulder, only ending in a bleeding end.
A second arm came soon after, tearing the already destroyed corpse further.
And finally, the head appeared, leaving the body absolutely devastated due to its appearance.
Imagine a water balloon popping. Now replace that water with spoiled milk that had been sitting too long. That was what it sounded and felt like.
Thick, wet, and chunky. And absolutely traumatizing to watch.
'what the actual fuck did I just watch.' I mentally spoke, my face absolutely frozen in shock.
{An explosive death.}
'That is not an okay joke right now.'
{It is for us, si-}
The Gods were cut off by an inhumane roar from the currently floating skull.
'Of course, it can fly. What were you thinking when you created this monstrosity?!'
{Mostly "Oh that would be cool".}
'It was a rhetorical question!'
The conversation was interrupted by the very angry skull immediately after my mental exclamation.
I had to quickly dodge a very fast flying hand, immediately rolling out of the way.
'This is going to be annoying, isn't it.' I thought matter-of-factly.
{It's a good thing you can use ranged weapons then.}
'That's... not a bad idea to be honest.'
{You did get a weapon that's the bee's knees, after all.}
'And I'm right back to being annoyed. Couldn't you try to stop joking around for 1 minute?'
{That would make me a boring character in this story.}
I was confused for a moment, absentmindedly dodging another 'slow-moving' hand.
'What story?'
{A secret isn't a secret if everyone knows it.}
'So you're not going to tell me?'
{Nope.} They said, popping the p.
'Figures.'
The Gods' reply was unheard over another inhumane roar of the skull.
'That doesn't sound good.'
I looked towards the skull and noted a single thing.
'Why is it spinning?'
And quickly realized another thing.
'And it's flying at me.'
It was quickly nearing me... And I knew exactly what to do.
I pulled out the slimy saddle since even though I despise how uncomfortable the ride is, It is useful.
I summoned the mount and waited for the skull to approach me, determined to make my plan work.
The skull reached extremely close to me, and I jumped.
I fell and bounced off of the skull, dealing a bit of damage.
'This may have been a bad idea...'
I watched as one of the arms flew towards me, and quickly tried to think of any way to get out of the situation.
So I decided to make use of where I was.
An open area to move wherever I wanted.
I pulled out my hooks and threw them towards the skeleton's hands.
they quickly grabbed on and I was pulled towards them, which I used to my benefit.
I made the hook disappear and I flipped in the air so that my feet were facing the palm of the bony hand.
'I hope this works...'
And I hit the hand feet first, with a solid thud.
This landing was followed by a quick jump off towards the ground, where I grabbed onto a nearby tree using my hook.
'That... Shouldn't have worked at all, to be honest.'
{We tried to enhance you as much as we could since you really needed it to be able to survive in this world.}
'Well I would thank you for that if it wasn't you who put me here in the first place.'
{We randomly chose someone since we like to make gambles.}
'I think the bees gave me a good example of that.'
~He's right you know.~
'Where the hell did you come from!?'
~Nothing.~
'I meant just now, not the beginning!'
~Then we never left in the first place. Aren't you supposed to be focusing on this fight?~
'Probably.' I thought.
~You should probably try to hit them back then. The clock is ticking... Don't wanna run out of time and die too soon, do you?~
The remark caught my attention, and I decided to refocus on the battle to avoid seeing whatever Uni was talking about.
~Uni? Really?~
'It gets tiring having to think about saying 'the universe' every time.'
~I like it!~
'Cool.'
And so the battle truly begins now.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Cold_Housefire
Cold_Housefire I have no clue what the hell just went down in this chapter tbh. The whole skeleton release thing was a little too easy to write, and all the talking was making it hard for me to keep pushing the actual fight to the next chapter.
P.S.: I may or may not have been asleep for the latter half of yesterday, and that may or may not have been the reason that there was no chapter or update.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed today's chapter!
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