Somewhere Between the Sea and the Sky.

Episode 0: Chapter 20

Three experimented pirates, two new ones and a church boy. It sounded like a good team, a useful one, but there was a problem.

That ugly animal that surely wasn't a cat.

It had white fur so it was easy to see in the darkness, and it also wasn't too big.

But it managed to freeze all of them, no one knew what to do.

It didn't make any animal noises, it just repeated what had heard before.

"Should we just kill it?" Mingi finally said.

"Maybe take it with us." Mark replied. "If it just says random things he could give us important information—"

" Random things. " The animal repeated.

That made the group take some steps back. They didn't know why, the thing was just ugly and creepy.

While the others decided what to do, Jongho offered the confiscated weapons he took before. There was a sword, but for some reason Seonghwa decided to take a gun.

The first thing he did was making sure it had bullets, of course.

Then Yeosang remembered. The sword.

"Oh, you got my girl." Seonghwa said as soon as the prince offered him the weapon. "Perfect."

"Excuse you, we're having an issue here." Mark said.

The animal just sat on the floor.

" Random things. " It said one more time. Then it looked at the pirate with his empty and soulless gaze. " Captain Mark Lee. "

The animal managed to get everyone's attention once more.

That wasn't very random, uh. The thing knew well what it was saying.

"Wait, you're a captain?" San asked, amazed.

"Do you understand us?" Jongho said without giving Mark a chance to answer. "Do you have a name?"

"Why the hell do you wanna know—"

" Oh! " The animal interrupted Seonghwa. " I'll call you Vernon Junior! You look like him! "

So the thing really understood them and actually had a name. And the most important part, apparently the jailed soldier gave it said name. It was Joshua's voice, no doubt about it.

They didn't know what to do with those facts, Vernon Junior was scaring them to death. They had to move, but ignoring the weird animal was so difficult.

"Maybe— Maybe it will just stay here. I don't think it can fight." Yeosang said, then started to quietly move.

It seemed to work, the rest of the group joined him and started to keep going again. The animal stood there until they couldn't see it, but definitely could hear it.

" Captain Mark Lee. " It said once more, the voice echoing through the place. " Lieutenant Park Seonghwa. " Everytime it spoke, it used the voice of a different soldier. " Did that bastard escape again? "

"Oh, that's me." Mingi said. "I HAVE A NAME! HUH!" He shouted.

"Shut up, idiot." The lieutenant muttered.

Suddenly the animal stopped speaking. It was nice, having those voices behind them wasn't very amusing. But then another sound took Vernon Junior's place.

Iron. Steps. More voices.

Oh no.

"Soldiers." The prince said. "A lot of them, we better hurry up."