Annime: Ok, I'll try to make this chapter better that the last.

Chiro: Annime doesn't own SRMTHFG!

Antauri: Or anything belonging to someone else…

Kristy: Annime, what's up with Antauri?

Chiro: He's mad at her for making SK my granddad.

Kristy: Oh…

Chapter 10

Chiro kicked the punching bag a few times to warm up on his skills. His illnesses were finally gone and he could now focus on other things, such as training.

The team didn't know it, but he knew that they had been talking about what Skeleton King had told them. He knew they were nervous on what Skeleton King would do about the boy; some thought he might even try to bring Chiro onto his side.

"Get real, guys," Nova would reply. "He would NEVER even try to work for that bone bag!"

"I know this, Nova," Antauri would say. "My fears don't lie there; they lie with the fact the Skeleton King will do anything to get what he wants, including hurt the poor boy."

Chiro had been comforted with the fact that he wasn't looked at differently, and he sometimes even found that he had forgotten about the information entirely when Antauri would ask him if he was troubled by it and wanted to talk.

"Chiro, I'm worried that you may be bothered by what Skeleton King has told us," Antauri would say to the boy.

Chiro would just look up at Antauri with confusion.

"Umm, what are you…Oh!" Chiro would make a nervous laugh and say, "I honestly completely forgot about that."

Antauri would be very relieved that Chiro was ok and would float away with good thoughts.

Chiro continued to punch the punching bag even when he heard someone walk into the room.

"Chiro, are you ready for training?" Nova asked.

"Yep, just a second, please." Chiro continued (still) to punch the bag. He soon gave a nice blow that knocked it to the ground.

"Nice! You have accomplished much from your training," Nova said as she helped the boy hook the punching bag back on its hook.

"Thanks; I've been working on my training ever since I got better. I mean, you never know what's going to happen." Chiro slapped the punching bag and smiled at Nova. "So, are we going to go train or what?"

Nova smiled and led the boy from his room to the training room that he had been absent in ever since he got sick. She started him at a lower level to warm him up and slowly brought it higher and higher to level 9. Chiro did ever single level perfectly well. 9 challenged him, so Nova kept him there so he could get better at it. Chiro jumped, flipped, hit, and kicked as he worked to prefect his skills.

She had once thought Chiro was showing off with all his flipping and cartwheels; until he told her every move was made so nothing hit him and he could throw off the enemy. She had laughed in doubt at this until they tested his theory. She had been in shock when he had been proven correct.

She was watching him as he was close to finishing his training session when Antauri walked into the room. (She was in the room that held the controls for the training room.)

"How is he doing?" Antauri asked as he looked from her to Chiro.

"He's doing very well; especially with the fact that he was just sick in bed two days ago," Nova answered.

"We must still remember to be gentle with the boy," Antauri spoke again. "He may still be a little weak from being in bed for so long."

"Look at him, Antauri," Nova said with happiness. "Does he look like he's weak to you?"

Antauri was silent for a moment as he watched Chiro completely finish the training session. Chiro looked up at the two and waved with a bright smile.

"Yes, you are right," Antauri said as the two simians waved back at the child. "He is going to be just fine."

It was soon lunch time and everyone was excited to be together sitting down at the table. Chiro hadn't been sick for two days before now, but they had wanted him to stay in his room and rest. Now he was able to walk around like before he had gotten sick.

"Welcome back, kid," Sprx said.

"It's good to be back, Sprx," Chiro replied. "What's new today?"

"Well," Otto said, "Sprx and Gibson got into another fight and the fight made Gibson blow up the lab."

"Ouch," Chiro said. "Are you guys ok?"

"Yes, we are just fine, although no thanks to Sprx," Gibson stated.

"Hey," Sprx countered, "maybe you should have been paying more attention to what you were doing!"

The two were now bickering and arguing at each other while the others rolled their eyes.

"Sorry I asked," Chiro said with a chuckle to the non-bickering simians.

"Well, how are you feeling, Chiro?" Antauri asked.

"I'm feeling a lot better, thanks to you guys," said Chiro.

"It was no problem, Chiro," said Nova. "Now everything can go back to normal."

"Yea, even if we now know Skeleton King is your granddad." Otto looked from Antauri to Chiro. Chiro had a look as though he had just been stabbed or something while Antauri was giving him an angry look. "Did I say something wrong…?" Otto asked. Chiro shook his head and put on a smile.

"It's all good; don't worry about it," Chiro said. He soon went quiet and back to eating. Antauri looked at Chiro and relaxed when he felt the child's emotions were fine.

They were soon done eating and the bickering between Gibson and Sprx had settled down to a few mumbles. They were all in the control room talking and laughing together when the alarm sounded.

"Monkeys, mobilize!" Chiro commanded. They were all in their places in under a minute and were ready to fight the threat.

"Wait," Gibson said before they took off, "this threat we don't need the robot; see, we can fight them on foot."

Chiro took a closer look at the monitor and saw that Gibson was correct.

"Ok, team," said Chiro, "let's do this old school style!" Chiro unbuckled his seat belt and everyone else followed his order and they were soon on the ground outside ready to fight. The threat (a very small army of formless) made its way to the monkey team.

"MONKEY-FU!" Chiro cried out, attacking a formless. The rest of the team followed by attacking other formless clones; all was going well until a formless grabbed Chiro by his waist and started to take him the opposite direction of the monkey team.

"Put me down!" Chiro cried, but it was no use.

"Chiro," Antauri shouted, but it that was no use ether. Chiro and the formless were all gone. The team looked at each other.

"I think we just fell for one of the Bone-Bag's traps," said Sprx.

Annime: What's gonna happen next?

Antauri: Hopefully nothing that hurts Chiro.

Gibson: Please review.