Stained Blood Red

The yelling of his crew didn't sway him from jumping off the side of the ship. Oro Jackson was already so close to the shore, where the papers said they were. The cards can't be lying about them being safe? They have to be safe, so help me. The man couldn't even stop himself from stumbling over rocks and things as he ran without care for himself. Only cares about his cabin boys' safety on this destroyed island.

There was smoke coming from the island when Erio saw it in the distance. As the raven-haired man keeps running through the jungle, he comes to a blood scene. Everywhere he looks, there is at least one body of a marine or bandit in the direction. This makes the anxious man more adamant about finding his boys than he is already. Guided by the vivre cards, the mustached man comes to a clearing and there is where he finds his cabin boys.

"Shanks... Buggy... there you are!" The man huffed out after running the whole time, putting his hands on his knees to catch his breath. He sees them on a giant rock in the middle of the clearing, which to the man's dismay is surrounded by bodies of the dead. Both were turned away from him, but he knew Shanks would be polishing his sword and Buggy would be licking his knives clean, even though Rayleigh and Gaban had told him many times, not to lick his knives clean.

"CAPTAIN!!!" The man let out a sigh full of relief as the two gremlins realized that he was there. His cabin boys hop down and dodge the bodies all around them to get to their captain. His cabin boys come to a complete stop from him, stumbling a little bit over each other.

"Are you two all right? Are you two hur-?" The large man with a mustache stops mid-sentence as he takes in their appearances. They seem all fine and dandy, their eyes shine with happiness that their captain came for them. Both only seem to have a few cuts and scratches that have been cleaned by a medical kit.

The thing that was out-place... or more like shouldn't be there is the blood stains surrounding their grinning mouths. Like they eat something raw... without it being cooked "Buggy... Shanks... Why is there blood around your mouths?" Uneasiness feels the captain's stomach as he thinks the worst, as well as a feeling he doesn't know the word for...

"...Because we were hungry?..." The children turn to each other in confusion and worry about their captain's reaction to the blood around their mouths and answer. Which in-turn makes them worry even more when the fretting man seems displeased and even more uneasy with their answer.

Because you were hungry!?! I know Rayleigh wants them to stop being so picky. Even though having a few foods and dishes you don't like is fucking normal. The worried captain himself thinks that Rayleigh shouldn't be so hard on them for that.

"Why would eat another person?" the captain finally asked silently to the children...

"Wut?" - "Huh?" - 'Wut?" This continues for some time as the children are as confused as their captain. The children continue to dumbly stare at the man with confusion, and the same goes with Roger as well. "...What are you talking about?" the redhead asks, breaking the sounds of dumb confusion and the silence.

"Uhhh, there's blood around your mouths..." the raven-haired man scratches his back nervously. "There's a lot of bodies litter around here, so if it's not them then where did the blood around your mouths come from?"

"Ummm, from the weird-looking creature that we hunted down." The bluenette huffed out, fiddling with a curl of hair between his fingers. Then the cabin boy rolls his eyes as he flicks his curl of hair over his shoulder. With a disappointed sigh, his youngest boy sets his hands on his hips and looks at his captain with annoyance. The redhead soon followed after, placing his hands on his hips as well.

A sigh of relief ripped through the man, as his uneasiness disappeared in a stance. Thanks, Davey Johns, they didn't eat anyone... well, they ate another creature. From there, the raven-haired captain crosses his arms and arches his eyebrows in a questioning manner towards the bluenette and redhead children before him.