You grudgingly trailed onto the offput faint path that lead to the back of the school with a sluggish walk, grumbling slightly to yourself to just get on with it and be done for the day. You could hear loud bickering loading into your ears behind you from kids leaving the place to go back home or leave to somewhere else. A large metal chain fence stood looming before you while you went to the far corner to crawl through the broken off hole that laid there secretly behind a small shrub who you hid.

After a few minutes of leisurely taking your time to arrive, you finally came to the meeting place as you quickly spotted Cross kicking some gathered rubble with a bored expression on his skull. He perked up abruptly when catching sight of you, walking over softly where his skeletal face carried a solemn frown instead.

“You finally ready to settle this petty war? Only hand to hand, no weapons to make it fair.”

The skeleton remarked with an intentional loud scoff sounding out in the quiet air surrounding you two, taking his bony hands away from where they had first laid gently to put them in a defensive position against his chest. His eye sockets narrowed heavily while staring coldly back at your gaze as Cross’s arms became more firm against his sides to get ready for a fight.