Somewhere Between the Sea and the Sky.

Episode 0: Chapter 25

( Some days ago, Oxpass. )

The ballroom of the palace was a huge party moment ago, but time passed and the nobles moved to see their dear show on the gallows.

While it happened, numerous soldiers took their place in the room for an emergency meeting, including Yunho and the strangers, now the three of them wearing the black and red uniform jacket.

Joshua and the blonde one seemed pretty relaxed, the other was the last soldier to enter the ballroom. He had his weapon with him, a huge bow that seemed to be of a pretty good quality.

As soon as he closed the door, the weird ass white animal jumped to Joshua's lap and kinda went to sleep. With its eyes open.

"What the hell just happened?" One of the oldest soldiers said, probably from a high rank.

"Rats are smarter than your soldiers, it seems." The blonde soldier, Jeonghan, replied with a soft voice.

"You." The old guy looked at him, outraged by the disrespect from the young man. "Your stupid black uniform doesn't give you the right to—"

"Yes, yes, I know. It's not the uniform, It's your incompetence."

The guy almost took out his weapon to stab the blonde, but he took a deep breath instead. Jeonghan laughed while his companion took the chance.

"They escaped your shitty prison with ease, just like I did." Joshua then stood up, the white creepy animal jumped to his shoulders. "But we failed to stop them too, we are part of the disaster."

"One of them is pretty resistant." The one with the bow muttered, concerned that his arrows weren't enough.

"So we used our magnificent brains." Joshua ignored it and kept speaking. "You know, me and the blondie here are part of the Specialists strategists—"

The blonde waved and smiled as he was mentioned, happy to show his superior condition to the irritating old dudes in white uniform.

"We got a plan." Still Joshua. "It would be useless to keep following the Aurora like idiots, you guys lost a few times. We need some stealth, some strong and lucky soldier who's willing to bring his captain to us."

"And the one they helped to escape too." Jeonghan added.

"So... Any volunteer?"

Then they both smiled, a fake smile full of poison and malice. Some of the soldiers really believed them, but not Yunho. Yunho felt the white animal's gaze on him since his owner started to talk.

It was not a plan, it was a threat to him.

He didn't know much about the Specialists, but some of them really had a name in the Army. Those two were called the devil twins and, oh god, those demons surely had him on the edge of the abyss.

The animal heard him, the animal could repeat everything, the animal could get him killed. His two options were being executed as a traitor or die following some pirates on his own, he had to choose a fast or delayed death.

Yunho raised his hand.

"I'll do it. I had some luck finding them until now."

Everyone in the room looked at him, the two specialists (only two since the archer stayed serious) seemed pleased. A lot of soldier's didn't see it as a good plan, but since their crewmate trusted the Specialists they did too.

A mistake, actually.

But there was no turning back, he had to do it. Any death the pirates gave him would be better than the devil twins plans for him.