𝓕𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓣𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮; (ateez)

𝓛𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓙𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝔂

I realize I'm not on any ship, but a pirate ship. Yeah, I'm gonna die. I think maybe if I can stay alive in this barrel, I'll be alright. I feel the ship start moving and frown, maybe I'll never see home again. 

"All ten barrels are full and sealed, Seonghwa!" 

"Nice work guys, take the tops off of them, I'll report back to the captain that pickup was successful."

My eyes widen when I hear that and I grip onto the lid of my barrel and pull it down from the inside. Gosh, if they open my barrel I'm good as dead. The footsteps come closer and the nervous sweat starts coming down my forehead. Finally, the footsteps stop at my barrel and someone tries pulling the lid off. I use all my strength to keep the lid down.

"Hey, what gives with this one?!"

"Let me try, Wooyoung hyung."

The person is pretty strong as he almost pulls the top off but I manage to keep it down. 

"Geez, you're right. Haha, I thought you were just playing."

"Well? Can you take it off?"

"Apado!!~ Annyeong~ Jamshiman~ Annyeong!!!~"

The singing pirate successfully yanks the lid off of my barrel and the barrel falls forward, making me pop out of it and fall to the deck floor. 

"Oh my gosh!! We have a stowaway!!" One of them yells. 

Welp, this is the end for me. The whole crew surrounds me and talks amongst each other on the situation. 

"Hey! If she was in there then where was the gold?" 

"I don't know, Seonghwa hyung! Jongho had the barrel!"

"But Wooyoung hyung you helped me!!" 

"Maybe she took our gold?"

"Yeosang has a point, she could've switched it out to fit in it!" 

I look up slightly to get a glimpse of who was around me. It was only 7 pirates. Smaller crew than I thought, I could probably take on each one!

"Move aside." A deep voice says and two of the pirates move to the side to let their captain through. 

A total of 8 now. The captain's big black leather boots stomped across the light brown deck and stopped in front of me. He bent down to my eye level and gave me a good intense staredown. I took notice of his soft looking dirty blonde hair, which was grown into a mullet in the back under his black pirate tricorn hat, his many ear piercings which had silver earrings in each one of them, he wore a red velvet coat with gold decals and a white dress shirt tucked into black pants held up by a thick red sash. 

"You're Princess Iridessa of KQ aren't you?" He asks me and I just look down and nod my head. 

"She's the princess?!" One of the crew members said in surprise, getting a chorus of gasps from everyone else.

"What are you doing on my ship? Are you spying or something?" 

I quickly shake my head in denial, "N-no! I was chased by bandits and I hid in that barrel a-and the next thing you know I'm here o-on your ship. I'm just begging you...p-please don't kill me." 

He lets out a light laugh, "Killing you is a bad move. The king would have a whole fleet on us. No, we won't kill you."  

I sigh with relief, I'll live after all. 

"As much as we want to though, we, unfortunately, can't take you back right now. We're already a little far from KQ and we're on our way to the next kingdom. You see, we do gold trades with other pirate crews and we're on a schedule right now. Guess that means for you, that you'll have to stay with us for a while." 

I blink my eyes a few times in disbelief, "S-stay with you?"

He grins and stands up, "The life of a pirate is nothing like your little princess life. You'll hear the sound of the wind blowing from the horizon, feel the warmth of the sun hitting the ocean waves, feel the vibration of sand beating like the hearts of youth, we're at the starting point of this long journey. The freezing winds may make you shiver, the heat of the sun may make you thirsty, the vibrations of the sand may swallow you, but we'll never stop. So let me ask you, princess..."

The captain holds his hand out to me, "Will you join us?"