On board! [stray kids pirate AU]

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At that moment, Bangchan thought he heard something: the shuffling of clothes. He thought they were going to be ambushed, but that wouldn't make sense. It was probably just a citizen.

Once they got to the warehouse Beady Captain has designated, Bangchan felt as if a giant weight had been taken of his shoulders. Going to this trading post had been a huge risk and everything had worked out as planned... for now.

He had send Eric back to ship to get more hands. With the number of food crates here, they definitely wouldn't have to come back for a while. Changbin had already started loading some of them up when the mist started to dissipate. The sun cane in view, warming the pirates and lifting their moods as well.

Bangchan directed everything until the last barrel of wine was being loaded onto the ship. By then, the mist was no more and the sun was at it's zenith. He could see the multiple other ships docked around, but he noticed that the one with the carved shark was gone. He hadn't seen it's crew on board or anywhere in town. Well, it's not like it was out of the ordinary, but Bangchan knew those pirates, their background, their hunting style. He was glad they weren't around anymore.

Near port, Hyunjin led Seungmin and Felix on the way back to ship. They tried to stay unnoticed but still fast enough the reach destination before it sailed away. Their escape plan had been destroyed the second they found out they weren't really on land. Now, the three probably wouldn't get any chance the escape again, unless they made a kind of raft.

They stopped next to the last row of shops before the docks and crouched. Felix pointed to pirates that were bringing big crates and wine barrels to the 3Racha.

"Those are probably the provisions, we have to be quick." He said, already getting up.

Seungmin pulled him down, "Not yet! let's try to not be noticed."

The others both nodded as the youngest made up a plan. A minutes passed and the shop owner was beginning to wonder what those three strange looking pirates were doing there.

"You know that net on the opposite side of the ship?" Seungmin asked without expecting an answer, "let's climb those to get back on board."

"Won't that be above water?" Hyunjin remarked.

"We may bave to jump a bit."

Obviously, getting there was the easy part. It's when they reached the right side of the ship from the parallel dock that they knew it wouldn't be just a little jump.

Just when Seungmin was preparing to leap, a head with a hat appeared over the railings of the ship. Han was there, he probably had just noticed that his captives were missing.

The pirate glared at them, "You better get on quick. The captain's gonna noticed you left soon and I won't be the only one who'll get punished!"

Hyunjin frowned but had to nod, he really didn't want to stay on this dirty floating town. Staying with the pirates might've been not fun, but being confined on what was basically a dock with house? That was torture.

The brunette prepared himself to jump. Backing away a little, running and finally, leaping over the water. Everyone held their breath. Not that it was dangerous, just scary.

For Seungmin, time went fast forward. His feet had barely left the dock and he already had to catch the net. That was harder than it seemed. The ropes were dry and hard to grab and when he finally did so, his feet were in the water.

Nonetheless happy the have succeeded, he started to climb. Once the marine had reached to the railing, Han lend his hand to pull him up.

Felix went after, quickly. Just as Han helped the blue hair boy up, Bangchan appeared behind him. The captain cleared his throat to get their attention. Han turned in sursaut* to face his superior.