82 Kidnapped

Rein groaned slightly as he trudged through the aisles of the ship. He had been here for close to a week and had long lost count of the number of times that he had cursed his fate.

Everyone on the crew had started to look haggard with the only exception being the monstrous duo that were the captain and the first mate. Over the past few days the ship had been assaulted by a host of sea kings, though they were young for their race they still would have posed a significant threat to most ship crews that he had been used to.

The sea surface had begun to look so eerily still that Rein had begun to fantasize the effusion of different colors from it. In his addled and tired form he had sometimes begun to hallucinate the appearance of will-o-wisps on the watery surface taunting him at his every step.

Luckily however, the ship's crew though barbaric were nothing like the pirates that he had heard of. They did not have a scummy bone in their body of this he was sure. Though they had asked him to work on the rowing, they had never once mistreated him and oftentimes treated him as they would their own.

Rein resolved that he would avoid them at all costs after he paid them back for their generosity.

A tiny woosh echoed against the base of the ship as the lookout ,the youngest child on the crew, loudly got the attention of the crew.

"Sea king in sight!" he roared loudly. His warning was met with a host of grumbles as the crew hastily assembled on deck. Within a few seconds the crew was waiting prime and attentive as they assessed the situation.

"Ok how big are we looking at?" the assassin of the crew asked. He had been the only one who hadn't 'awakened' the observation thing that the crew often spoke off.

"It's a pretty big one, enough to last us for tomorrow's breakfast at least." The first mate said simply as he looked over at the only women on the crew. " Think you can handle it Angella?"

"Sure but I want first pick of the cooked results." she answered seriously. Lorean pouted as Fawkes nodded.

Immediately Angella shot off the deck of the ship, landing firmly on what looked to be the neck of the huge eel like beast. Her rapier gleamed in the faint moonlight as she stabbed towards it. As the rapier penetrated the outer scaly layer of the creature's skin, she jumped off riding the dagger downward and into the beasts internals.

"Aha! A perfect fillet! " Terrick remarked as he tried to imitate Fawkes much to the rest of the crew's amusement.

Fawkes merely grumbled under his breath as he walked towards the floating body of the creature. It had been killed almost instantly.

"Humpf the fact that the creature was an infant saved you, otherwise with the noise you made we would have to deal with a whole colony of them!" Fawkes remarked sourly as he threw in the fishing line to get the sea kings body on board.

"That is all I could manage to get, so yes it better be otherwise I'll have to blare my Haki at all times to avoid the little critters." Lorean replied tersely as he nodded.

A loud yawn punctured the silent night as the crew's resident fatty stretched his pudgy hands.

"Ok, back to bed! Scipio, come wake me up in an hour I'll take watch then." I called out.

As the crew began to disperse however a strange sound began to sound from the corner.

The sound was rather foreign for most, it sounded akin to soft metal rubbing against the hard ground, the water parted quickly too as the crew stiffened. A strange mist had begun to form around the crew, the mist quickly swept over the deck of the crew causing the people on board to retch.

Rein shuddered silently as his eyes began to grow heavy. Sorren had just enough time to cry out an unintelligible warning before he crumpled to the floor. Angella shuddered lightly as her shoulder scraped against the side of the ship.

Lorean narrowed his eyes as he took a tentative breath of the surroundings, immediately his expression soured. "Fuck, poison!" he called out. His exclamation was met with the weak and groggy movement of his first mate.

Lorean could not help but look helplessly at the crumpled forms of all his crew members. Terrick was the sole member that remained standing, and even he looked like he had been afflicted with a terrifying stomach ailment.

At the stern of the ship he could see as the mist parted enough to display a lofty silhouette. "Fuck, Yuda!" Lorean could not help but roar before he ran towards his assassin and jumped into the water.

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I could not help but stiffen as I looked at the huge snake like figure docking on the side of the ship. The water around me sought to suffocate me and it took all I had to breath beneath it. The water surged into my pores, the air in the water permeating my rhythmically pulsing pores.

A stout figure's bare frame could be seen getting onto the deck of my ship. The figure had a head full of matted hair, weather it was red or green could not be said though the moon was able to illuminate enough of their person for me to identify that it was female.

She took a large net from what seemed to be a pouch that hung on her back. She wore what looked to be a long robe of scales, possibly taken from the poisonous Yuda.

She threw the net over the forms of the crew before she pulled the hook at the net's mouth closed. She pulled the hook over to the snake, that had its teeth bitten into the rails, reaching for a hoop on its head.

With a flurry and a swish she jumped onto the snake's head before the snake elegantly swam away. Terrick floated next to me his eyes burning in rage as he looked at the women who had ransacked the place that he had gotten used to calling home for the past few months.

If not for me holding tightly onto his hand he would have already swam after them. The loss of Angella and Scipio had obviously taken its toll on him.

I frowned as I contemplated. 'Amazon lily? but how? they are on the other end of the red line what would they even be doing here?'