It's just a scarecrow in the middle of a Port

Little prawn and the old rag

"Come on Lothar, we don't have all night, throw the bodies in the water, the fishes will do the work!"

Osbert said with annoyance while watching the red water.

Lothar, with his slim and weak arms, struggles to drag the bodies near the water, after they are put on very end of the wharf he gives them a nice shove with a kick, pushing them in the water where the water beasts feast.

Lothar, with his trembling, a shy tone: "O-Osbert, I feel like someone is watching us."

Osbert is even more annoyed of the young boy statement:
"Of course you feel watched we are at Bilgewater, surely some sea monster is watching an easy orey that is trowing food in the sea, or maybe some bandits that want our possession, even so we must dispatch the victims of Coombs frenzy, you know how much captain Mathian hates seeing corpses on the street of his territory!
Coombs... even if she's a good asset of the crew, she always provokes annoying scenarios that need to be cleaned up, ugh that stupid woman with muscles in her brain, can't be mindful of what she does, always mauling on weakling like a shitty shark."

He scoffs, while little Lothar pushes down the last corpse.

A feeble light of a lantern approach them.

Tallis, with her wrinkles accentuated by light, says:
"Hey, pufferfish and anchovy, are you done? Captain whaleshark will arrive soon from theirs looting activities, a lot of metal lot of goods, I would like a new hand."

She stares at her old wooden prosthetic hand, and then she grabs a mop and starts cleaning the blood from the street

Lothar: "I-I am thankful for the help, Miss Tallis, I am glad we got s-some help."

A quick and loud screech was heard in osbert direction, as both of them turned around, they became confused, Osbert is missing, mostly like vanished

Lothar with a scared voice:
"T-tallis where Osbert go?"

Where he was standing a trail of fresh blood mixed with the blood of the corpses they make, a trail that leads to the water, from behind a pile of wooden boxes comes Osbert voice:
"Always mauling on weakling like a shitty shark."

Lothar let out a sigh of relief:
"I-It was just a prank, eh?"

While approaching the pile of boxes, he says:
"I know I'm a newcomer b-but is not time for pranks Osbert sir."

While Lothar gets near the boxes, Tallis has  a bad feeling, she starts to run, struggling with her wooden leg, and tackles Lothar just in time.

In that excat moment, the pile of boxes broke down like if something ran through them.

Lothar squirm in fear, while Tallis stares in disbelief at the standing beast behind them, it was tall too tall to be human,  it turned around revealing a mass of several corpses fused with metal while the golem like creature wears usual captain's clothes.

The voice of Osbert is heard again, is now hoarse, ugly, as if his vocal cords were half metal and half rotten flesh:
"Always mauling on weakling like a shitty shark."

His head, commuter under the beast neck, spilling blood on the floor, Tallis with her disbelief screamed:
"RUN!!"

Lothar trip but then starts running with all his might. After several minutes of running, he stops his spleen hurt, his lungs feels like exploding, his nostril burning from the cool air, he hides in a barrel, praying for some God that might listen.

Then he feels something dripping from the top of his hiding. It's some sorta of liquid it stinks like iron. He looks up and see 2 glowing eyes on a poorly made face of a some sort of predator made of beast, but this predator was alive, his eyes red and glowing in the dark as he drop in the barrel the hand of Tallis:

"RUN!!"

But the payers were listened, in that moment a cannonball hit directly the face of that monster sending him flying in a house.

Lothar takes the chance to run towards the ship, jumping in the water, not caring of the normal beasts of the water, he climb desperately the ladder of the ship, his hand bloody from Tall

A loud, thunderous but still feminine voice comes from the stern of the ship. It was Coombs :
"Hub! What in the bloody fuck happend on the street, the hell was that monster, and where is old rag and my little prawn"

Lothar in tears and shaking:
"Dead vice-captain"
He sobs not believing how close was the silver arrow of the grim reaper kindred
"I-I saw... their head, and the beast mimicking their voices, he was not hunting for food, but for fun!!"
He said desperately, while squirming on the floor, he pukes and urinate on himself.

The other crew members point the lanterns on the hole of the hole that was made from the cannonball that hit the iron beast

"He disappeared!!"

As the lights of the sun start brightening the streets.

Lothar was traumatized, he sighs, maybe in groups, the beast won't attack.

Another night another day, the little prawn sighs in relief as the danger was avoided this time.

with a whisper tone, a creaking, and metallic voice

"In the canals of the pirate town, innocent or criminal they both innocently talk,
as the one whose danger always stalk,
while hunting them all down."

Air passes through holes in the bloody metal mimicking a whistle.