Sailing The Seven Seas -Joshua x Niles-

Chapter One The Gambler's Luck

The rippling waves of the ocean swayed on the sides of a peculiar ship. The wooden planks creaked as the sailors enjoyed another's day work of conquering treasure on a near by island, but no one was as happy as Captain Joshua.

"Oops, that's tails, I guess I win this one."

"Aye, nu fair mey Captain!"

Joshua snickered as he once again won the bet by the toss of a coin. Just my luck, he thought.

As he was collecting his fair share of the bet from his pouting companion, he heard one of his fellow sailors cry out.

"Up ahead there's a ship Captain, it seems to be stolen too, it's waiving the black flag."

The black flag was indeed a common symbol of stolen property, but that wasn't what got the Captain fired up, nope, far from it.

"Well, well, well, then full speed ahead my boys, lets show them who's the real boss of the seas!"

"Yes Sir!" The crew yelled in unison and whipped the ropes of the sails towards the near by ship.

As it approached the unknown ship, Captain Joshua yelled out orders to prepare for an attack. This day just gets better and better.

Once the ship was closer to sight, Captain Joshua yelled in delight for some action.

"FIRE!"

But it was as if the Captain of the mysterious ship read his mind, as within the split second, both ships were critically hit.

"AGH! Captain They are on to to us!!" The sailor stumbled along with the Captain trying to regain their stance from the impact. "Yeah, no kidding!"

And just like that, both ships were now at full view and without another thought, Captain Joshua regained his posture and slashed out his sword.

"INVADE THE SHIP!!"

"AHHHHH!!!" All the crew members did a war cry while swooping in with ropes and others ran on the plank they pushed over to get to the other ship, for an all out war commenced.

Captain Joshua clashes his way through with skill in search of their Captain like a predator on prey.

From behind, a sailor came in tackling with his own weapon, but Joshua dodged it with ease, being able to remove his weapon and shove the man up a wall with his sword up his chin.

"Care to tell me who your Captain is?" He hissed out.

"N-Never!" But soon regretted his response as he winced in pain at the cut under his chin from the sword.

"Then it's your lucky day, prepare to di-"

"CAPTAIN WATCH OUT!!" One of Joshua's sailors cried out, tackling him out of a clear shot of an arrow, hitting the man that Joshua retained.

The man wrinkled his face in pain yelling and falling to the floor from the shot. The archer gritted his teeth at how he missed and worst of all, hit one of his comrades instead of the invader.

But Captain Joshua's expression was priceless. Not only was he shocked, but winced at the sight of the bow nailed into the man's body.

It was a perfect shot to the heart. A killer shot, and he knew only one person who wielded this power of the unique gray iron arrow of dark, red, feathered ends.

"N-Niles!?"