Chaos (The Power of Five)



"The Five...!"

- Chaos

"The power of the Five has been defeated... One of you has been trapped far from here and another of you has been killed. He died painfully. Now lay down your arms and I will give you a quick death. The rest of you I will allow to serve me. There is no need for this battle. You know it has already been won."

- Chaos challenging Matt before his first defeat

"Two of the Five! But not enough! Three of the Five... but not enough, still not enough!... Four of you!"

- Chaos' last words before his first defeat and imprisonment

"Mwa ha ha ha lel ha ha!"

- Chaos upon his return in the [[wikipedia:Nazca Lines|Nazca Desert|undefined

Chaos, aka the King of the Old Ones, is the main antagonist in Anthony Horowitz's novel series The Power of Five.

Origins
He was created along with the Earth. He existed for billions of years, and it was possible that all the mass extinctions empowered him; because he fed off pain, displeasure, and the suffering of others. He was a deceitful shapeshifter and he was able to manipulate the environment, the elements, and humanity to his will.

Later he came to Earth like a black nightmare like the nightmare of the world bought into daylight. He appeared first in China along with his followers, the Old Ones, infernal demons he had at his call. He had come because humanity had come, and he wanted to cleanse Earth of humanity, seeing them as horrible. Chaos landed in China and had all the old people killed, then enslaved the children, and gave the rich and powerful all their wishes granted, such as having land, riches and power, and he falsely promised that they could rule with him. But he was lying, because in his plan all humans had to die. Chaos showed his true intent when during a battle, he had the rich upper class as being in the front lines. Chaos ruled Earth for many decades, with the Old Ones, his followers, wrecking human habitation all over the planet.

However, in the middle of the war, Five children were born, around the world, who were called Matt, Inti, Sapling, Flint, and Scarlett, (but everyone called her Scar) and these children were born in England, Peru, America, and China respectively, but this was in ancient times so the countries were very very different, even more so as the Old Ones were invading. Chaos, in his power, drew clouds round the Earth so the Sun wouldn't shine properly, these clouds were black and purple, and darkened the globe and put rubbish in the oceans so life wouldn't grow. The planet was slowly dying.

Yet, when Matt played a trick on the Old Ones by sending Sapling to his death, Chaos thought he had finally won, but little did he know that the Five could be reborn in the future - so the future Sapling (called Jamie) was sent back in time to complete his mission. Jamie succeeded in fighting the Old Ones in the First War, and he ended up by meeting all the other Five, and defeating Chaos by stabbing Chaos' heart with his sword. The five swords stabbed Chaos' heart, and then Chaos disintegrated into black ash after screaming all over the Universe. When Chaos disintegrated, it was as if "he had turned into night  that was slowly fading away." A gate into Hell opened up, and then Chaos and all the Old Ones were sucked into the gate which closed behind them.

Matt and the other Five went about securing the world for humanity, such as making gates all over the world, one in England and the other in Peru, to keep out the Old Ones and their master Chaos, who, although dead, would soon return.

Modern times
Chaos returned in modern times when a cult of witches in Yorkshire, England, wanted to free him and the Old Ones - so they captured Matt, who had been reborn. They took him to their coven but failed; only a drop of Matt's blood (they needed all his blood) freed Chaos, and so the ritual was incomplete. Chaos was free in the nuclear explosion, but athough he killed his servant, Sir Michael Marsh, Chaos was unable to escape the vacuum which sucked all the energy back into the gate, so Chaos was imprisoned again with nothing to show for it.

All the other Gatekeepers (which is what the Five were called in modern times) had been reborn too, so Matt met Inti, who was now called Pedro, in Peru, when the second gate was opening, and they set off to stop Chaos' release, but failed - Chaos' servant, Diego Salamanda, freed him, and Chaos came out of the earth after the Nazca Lines opened up and released the Old Ones from their prison. Chaos just laughed when Matt challenged him, because Chaos knew there needed to be Five to defeat him, and then Chaos punched Matt near death when Matt wounded Chaos with his powers. Chaos then turned him and the Old Ones into two suns, and disappeared into the night.

Chaos had turned Hong Kong into a city of the dead, a Necropolis, and was going to use it to dominate humanity and start a war that way but then Scarlett destroyed it when she found out her power was controlling the weather, and she summoned a typhoon which destroyed Hong Kong but then Chaos just shrugged off the loss of his headquarters, he had a grand palace in the Antarctic, where he ordered World War Three and the End of the world to begin.

He did much the same thing as before - he set about manipulating, brainwashing and killing humanity; he promised the rich they could be rulers but then betrayed them in war. Chaos was able to do whatever he wanted for ten years due to him stopping the Gatekeepers from teleporting, because he had destroyed all their portals from working when Hong Kong's portal was destroyed. Chaos summoned Matt to his palace where he captured him and tortured him. However, Matt's guardian, Richard, remembered that there were two Gatekeepers at once and he needed to kill the present Matt to bring back the past Matt (they were the same) so he killed Matt, and then the past Matt was bought back, and the Five stabbed Chaos with their swords, killing Chaos and sending him to Hell.