Free Skeleton Wars by Desire Luminsa

night.
    By the morning, the winds had intensified
into strong dust devils in all major US cemeteries. Gravestones
from most of the graves were blown off, leaving the graves open.
Skeletons of the dead who had been buried there arose and jumped
out of the open graves. They started running in different
directions following the winds which were blowing towards all urban
centers.
    The whirlwinds were blowing strongly over the
houses that had been unknowingly built over old graves. Deep cracks
developed in the floors of such buildings and skeletons of the dead
rose out of them. Occupants in these houses were shocked by the
sight of human skeletons cropping out of the floors of their
bedrooms or living rooms. Such skeletons would run out of the
buildings to join the others that had started occupying the
streets.
    A tragedy had befallen the nation! Sudden,
panicked predawn order to evacuate from all streets was given to
the civilians by the authorities. Sirens from speeding police cars
could be heard in the vicinity. Numerous police helicopters were
also roaming above the buildings in all major US towns. They were
dropping papers with worded warnings to the civilians, urging them
to stay indoors. Local televisions and radio stations stopped their
normal programs to broadcast guidelines which the citizens could
follow to escape the danger.
    The military was quick to console the
civilians with a promise to contain the situation. Foot soldiers
from all US Army divisions were deployed on the streets to fight
the invading skeletons and to provide rescue and first aid to all
those that been injured in the attack.
    The soldiers started shooting at the
skeletons but at first, the skeletons were not shooting back.
Instead, they were just running aimlessly in all directions and
causing chaos wherever they reached. But with time, the skeletons
started attacking nearby gun stores and police stations from which
they obtained different firearms and started shooting back at the
human troops.
    Taking a precedent from the first two raids
which the skeletons had performed on earth, all US Tactical Forces
had been given orders to concentrate firepower on the skeletons’
joints especially the knees and ankles. It was the only assumed way
of causing casualties to the skeleton ranks.
    Though the soldiers were trying hard to put
the above order into effect, the skeletons were hard to hit because
they were not standing in fixed positions. After firing stray
bullets to disperse the human soldiers they would run away before
the latter could respond appropriately.Unlike the US soldiers, the
skeletons were not fighting to win but to confuse and disrupt the
US Army, a mission which they had achieved. However, very few human
soldiers were being injured because many of them were moving
through armored vehicles. Others were snipers who were shooting
from a distance, especially from the top of tall buildings where
the skeletons could hardly locate them.
    As soon as the shooting began on the streets,
the US Federal Aviation Administration issued an order to all
civilian planes that had taken to the air that morning to take
emergency landing on nearby airports. The airspace was cleared for
the military planes which were planning to rise into the skies.
NORAD issued standing orders to all USAF airfields to have ready
squadrons of military planes, armed and prepared to take to the air
to the defend the skies in a moment’s notice.
    The US President decided to drop the
Continuation of Government Readiness Conditions from level four to
zero and all US armed forces were ordered to DEFCON 3. The
president was evacuated via the White House Tunnel System to the
underground bunker at Camp David. The Secret Service took the US
Vice President and other top ranking White House officials down
into the White House bunker.
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency
issued an order directing the 1 st Helicopter Squadron
from Andrews Air Force Base to the Capitol to evacuate the