The Pirate King of Wellerman (Woosang)

Chapter Two

With every book that he had in his room, Yeosang cycled through each one once before he had run out of books to read. It left him spread out on his bed, some of the books filling in the empty spots that he couldn't fill. He could reread them again, but at the same time, rereading them in the same day might be over doing it. Everyone in Nam-gu knew about his little reading sprees and peaked interest of the Wellerman pirates. A little sigh left his lips as he got up from his bed and placed all of the books on it back onto the book shelf, placing them out of order than he originally had them. He could rearrange them back later when he had the effort and the will to do so. Maybe, if he bribed Yookyung, Yeosang could go out and get another book on the Wellerman pirates, one that may be more up to date.

While he doubted it, he could hoped for one that was more or less biased compared to the ones that he currently has. He thought about bribing his sister for a moment, though in the end, he decided not to. It would be too much effort and it would cause him to get into trouble with his parents for getting one more to add to the already book collection that already hit double digits. Each one being about the pirates. Letting out another sigh, Yeosang made his way out of his room and around the two story house. His footsteps were loud enough for himself and Yookyung to hear.

"Why are you walking around the house?" she asked, peeking her head out of her room, "I thought you would be reading those books of yours."

"I already have," he answered, "I've cycled through all of them once and now I don't know what to do."

"Wow," she said, "You don't have something to do? That's a first. Why don't you go do something outside for the next ... half an hour?"

"No chance," he replied, "I'm not getting into trouble."

***

Most of what Wooyoung had looked it seemed to be in good working order and everything seemed to be in the place it had been since the day before. Yet, seeing a group of his fellow pirates huddled in a small group with the same expression of fright, it gave him some concern. He made his way over to the group of pirates, not needing to make himself known. The silence pf the group gave him the impression that they had already spotted him coming over.

"What are you talking about over here?" Wooyoung asked, "And why do I get a bad vibe from here?" None of them spoke, not a single word or a sound.

"You're not going to be in trouble," he said, "I just want to know what is going on and why there is a bad vibe here."

"The four of us," Chanyeol replied, "Went into the building that keeps our spare cutlasses and noticed that there are two of them messing."

"What?" Wooyoung questioned, a little bit of anger in his tone, "How is that possible?"

"We talked to Jisoo and Soobin," Chanyeol said, "As well as the few of the other guards. None of them saw anyone come in and none of them heard a single noise last night." The facial expression on the pirate king's face was one of frustration and the pirates near him deep down felt frightened of what he would do. None of them had seen Wooyoung frustrated before.

"I might have an idea," he said, "Of who might have taken it. Those idiots of a government at Nam-gu. We all know that government has it out for us. Think about it. Out of every city and town, which one has hated us the most and gone out of their way to occasionally annoy us and make our lives a living hell? Nam-gu. Everyone else surrounding us has left us alone." The pirates around him thought about it, realizing that their pirate king was right about the situation. There was no one else that still hated them enough to do something like this. At the same time, it seemed like Nam-gu was the scape goat.

"What do you want to do, your majesty?" Seulgi asked.

"Firstly, please don't call me your majesty," Wooyoung answered, "And secondly, I think we should go into Nam-gu and demand them to give back what they stole. If they don't give it back, then we must declare something we haven't done in many years." He didn't have to say the words and the small groups of pirates already knew what he was talking about.

"Chanyeol and Seulgi," Wooyung said, "Go get Jooheon and Ryujin, meet me near Jisoo's and Soobin's guard point. As for the rest of you that know, I want you to let the others know and be on the look out in case someone decides to come back to steal something else." Before anyone else could say anything about the plan, Wooyoung had already started making his way to the guard point. No one could object to it, though they wouldn't have anyway. Chanyeol and Seulgi went to look for Jooheon and Ryujin while the rest of the pirates began making rounds to tell the rest of the Wellerman of what was going on.

***

Yeosang had walked around the house enough times that Yookyung had become annoyed with her younger brother. He had been walking around the house and going up and down the stairs for what seemed like an eternity. Though, it had only really been fifteen minutes. Still another fifteen minutes before their parents would get home from whatever they were doing. To make the last fifteen minutes go faster, a little idea had come to mind, even though it would be feeding into Yeosang's seemed obsession.

"What do you think it's like in Wellerman?" she asked. The younger sibling stopped halfway up the stairs and looked at her with some confusion evident on his face. He wondered if he heard the question correctly.

"Yes, you heard the question correctly," she said.

"Well," he replied, "I think it is not as bad of a place as everyone thinks it is. Yeah, sure, the pirates are outlawed to Wellerman, but I feel like it is not as bad as everyone thinks or makes it out to be. I feel like it might be a nice place to be and everything that we hear and read about the pirates that live there are not bad. Everyone just makes it out that Wellerman and the pirates within it are these people that would do anything to start a fight with someone outside of their town. Since we were born, have we seen them come into Nam-gu and start anything?" Yookyung didn't have to think that hard. She already knew the answer.

"No," she said.

"See?" Yeosang asked, rhetorically, "How do we know what they are actually like and what Wellerman is like if one, we've never been there and two, we've never actually seen them nor had an interaction with them? The accounts of other people might have either been over exaggerated or might have been a complete lie all together. Maybe even they just exaggerated somethings or lied about other things to keep people away from going there. Possibly even becoming one of them." Every single thing that came out of his mouth made sense to Yookyung, other times it didn't make that much sense. She never really understood where his interest in Wellerman and the pirates that lived within the town. Their parents never really understood it either.

"So, in the end," he continued, "How do we know what we have heard or read is really true if we haven't experienced it ourselves. Or have been to the town. Think about it." He didn't say anything else as he continued to walk around the house once again like he had done so beforehand. Yookyung watched as her younger brother did so. To her, Yeosang was a complete mystery. Her attention didn't last that long on him as the front door opened and had slammed shut the moment it had opened. Their parents were home, but from the looks of it, something was going on outside.