Chapter 204 – Iron Chains Are Far From Unbreakable (Act 1)
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As was his typical reaction to things he didn't understand, S sprinted towards the front of the cart with intent to engage in gleeful, culturally accepted violence. 

'Right, HOOOOOOOOLLLY CRAP!' He thought to himself as he ran across the field, rapidly pumping his fists with both fear and excitement, 'THE THING'S ALL BONES! HE'S GOT HIS INSIDE CRAP ON THE OUTSIDE! THAT'S FUCKIN' NUTS! AND IT'S TALKING AND STUFF!'

"NYAH!" Said the skeleton from atop his horse, very skeletonilly, as Beyes so elegantly put it. "LITTLE BOY! COME TO SURRENDER, HAVE YE?"

"Right, you're barely taller than me." S said as he approached the front of the carriage and as Todd gathered his things. "And, no, no one on this cart is surrendering anything. To you, anyway. Now, why don't you and your oddly quiet friend behind you climb off that horse so I can properly beat the crap out of you?" 

The skeleton paused for a brief moment, and his eye sockets contorted as if he was doing a thoughtful eyebrow raise. At around the same time, the bald and mustachioed 'oddly quiet friend' on the back of the horse looked down at S with a slight smile and a quarter of a laugh, though he remained, as his title suggests, oddly quiet. 

". . . NO!" The skeleton said after a while. "I GET THE FEELING THAT BEING ON A HORSE GIVES ME AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE! WHICH I ENJOY! YAR! NOW STAND STILL WHILE MY HORSE REARANGES YOUR SPINAL VERTABRAE!" The skeleton concluded as he raised the reigns up over his head and turned the horse towards S.

"Whaaat? You don't even wanna use that big 'ol hammer?" S said, as he slightly turned his head towards the cart, quickly scanning the drivers seat where Todd had his things fully prepared for confrontation, though he silently remained seated and in control of the horses. He and the oddly silent man behind the skeleton made eye contact and nodded at one another, feeling an odd sense of kinship between each other. 

The skeleton's face contorted once again, and he gently lowered the reigns.   

"YES, BUT NOT ON YOU!" He concluded after about a second and a half, looking over at Todd and reaching up and slamming down the reigns on his horse, causing it to charge towards S.

"Right, that kinda stings." S said as he leapt towards his cart and right on by the charging beast. He hopped off the first step and began to climb to the top of the carriage, using Todd's knees and broad shoulders like pegs on a rock climbing wall. 

"Why'd they go over there?" Todd wondered aloud, paying no mind to the boy currently using his body to enact the fantasies of being a certain red oversized spider guy. 

S deftly maneuvered across the roof, and in a flash leapt into the air once more, with his sights dead set on the speeding horse. 

"BYEAH! BACK UP, BACK UP!" The skeleton shouted, tugging at the reigns, causing horse to reel back and almost making the ill-prepared oddly quiet dude slip right off.

S, as he was falling, barely managed to grab hold of the horse's neck, and scrunched his legs to basically wrap himself around it.

"BYNEYEAH! AGILE LITTLE BUGGER, AIN'T YE?" Said the skeleton as the horse, who was reasonably upset about their current predicament, started thrashing in an effort to throw S away.

"Right. When I need to be, anyways." S said as he waited for the horse to swing inward so he could reach for the cold and boney legs of the skeleton man, eventually pulling himself up and grabbing hold of the exposed pelvic bones. 

"QUITE THE MANEAUVER TO JUST GRAB HOLD OF MY LEGS, NEH?" The skeleton asked, mockingly. "MAY AS WELL HAVE JUST TUGGED ON ME LEGS FROM THE GROUND!"

"Right, well, it wasn't supposed to end up like this. I was planning on just kicking you off, but dragging you down with me suits me fine." S said, looking up with a grin. Ordinarily, he would have been apprehensive, perhaps even terrified of the fact that he was grasping seemingly human bones with his bare hands. However, he found himself distracted, as his eyes ended up drifting downward as he noticed a certain peculiarity in this particular region of the body. 

And, while S didn't notice, the quiet man in back was vigorously trying to get his attention, rapidly shaking his head with an uneasy look on his face.

"Hold on, where's your-"

"DRAG ME DOWN, WILL YE?" The skeleton interrupted, which caused the quiet man in back to sigh in relief. "WELL... GO RIGHT AHEAD!" 

As soon as he said that, S felt himself, as well as every bone in the skeleton's lower torso, plummeting to the ground as he maintained his grip on the pelvis.

After a moment, S landed flat on his back on the grass in the midst of a pile of assorted leg and feet bones, as he heaved terribly as air was forcibly expelled from his lungs.

"R-Riighight... Gahahahata say... Did not... See that one coming." S quipped between coughs.

"NYEAS! THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO MESS WITH MISTER C.E.O DOCTOR CHIEF CAPTAIN BONESWORTH!" Said the skeleton who's still just gonna be called 'the skeleton', thanks, as he lied flat on his chest with his boney arms wrapped around the horse and his head turned to face directly at S.  

"Sure is... A lot of titles..." S said, slowly pushing himself up as air returned to him.

"MAYBE I'LL ADD ANOTHER ONE TOMMOROW! IN THE MEAN TIME, I'LL BE NEEDING THOSE BACK, THANK YE VERY MUCH!" 

S watched as the bones surrounding him almost seemed to dance as they arose from the ground and flew back to their owner as if drawn by a magnet. Including the pelvis, which tore itself away from S's grasp after a moments struggle. 

'Right... This sucks.' S thought to himself. 'It's gonna be a pain to fight him if I can't get him off that horse. Especially without a ranged attack. Granted, unless either of them have a ranged attack of their own, they won't be able to do much to me, either. But that's lame as hell. And it looks like Beyes and that girl are busy dealing those two over there... Damnit. This sucks. What a lame-ass skeleton.'

"Hm. Odd that those guys just decided to go over there for so long." Todd said to himself, still sitting alone in the drivers seat. "Come to think of it, it seems odd that the guy would go over there just to be mean to his horse and talk to himself. You don't suppose he might be talking to someone, do you?" Todd continued, let me reiterate, to himself. "The one on the back doesn't seem too responsive... Hm..." 

Todd placed his hand on his chin and stroked it thoughtfully for a moment.

"Ah! He may very well be antagonizing someone!" Todd eventually realized. "I should peek over and see for myself what's going on."

And so he did, leaning over to the area with all the commotion, and in the process almost morphing his body into a 90 degree angle. Miraculously, he didn't fall off the cart nor did he break his back in half. 

"Good heavens!" Todd exclaimed, as he watched as the skeleton man cackled as he repeatedly tried to run S over with his horse. Of course, because horses are very big and not very good at turning on a dime, S was able to sidestep them with relative ease. "They're attacking S! That's contradictory to my job! I must intervene posthaste!"

Thus, Todd finally came to the conclusion any person with a brain would have arrived at in 13 seconds.

"Be still, friends!" Todd said to the horses, patting them briefly after he dismounted with his gear. "I shall be back momentarily!"

The horses let out a brief huff in response. They didn't really care that much. 

Thus, Todd lightly jogged over to the area where S was being harassed by the pair of rapscallions on horseback.

"RUFFIANS!" Todd shouted in his best 'knightly hero' voice. "STAND DOWN AT ONCE! Your fight shall be with me!"

"Dangit, Todd's finally got up? But I wanted to fight the skeleton..." S mused disappointedly, though more than little short of breath at this point.

The skeleton's boney head turned 180 degrees to face Todd behind him. "YOU!" He shouted as he pulled back the reigns, causing the horse to slide to a halt with a pained whinny. "AT LAST! YOU HAVE COME TO FACE ME! YOU, WHO HAS MOCKED THE GREAT C.E.O DOCTOR CHIEF CAPTAIN BONESWORTH!"

As the skeleton said that, S stood still and looked slightly to the sky with a thoughtful squint. 

"Indeed! Now, stand down, or I shall be forced to begin enacting violence!" Todd said, raising his morning star and shield in warning.

"BYEHEHEAH! YOUR TERMS ARE MOST ACCEPTABLE! YAR!" The skeleton returned, turning his horse along with the rest of his body to face him.

"Then have at thee!"

"GLLLLLLLLLLADDLY!"

. . .

"He forgot one of his titles." S concluded. 

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