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The air smelled like salt and sand in the small town of Zhirra, Captain Hongjoong had decided to take a break of the big and overwhelming ocean, leading them to a coast island. Hongjoong and his left hand, Jung Wooyoung, were enjoying of drinks and meal the tavern could provide, talking to themselves and watching people, the rest of the crew staying in the safety of the ship. The tavern was small, just likes the small town, people asleep on tables and even on the floor, the bartender bored out of their mind and praying to just go home, light music could be hear around the tavern, the little windows open to let the air in.
"You think we could take food to the ship? or they'll kick us out?" Wooyoung ask in a whisper to his captain, who just looked at him with an raised eyebrow, his drink in hand "what? they could be hungry... stop looking at me like that, stop" Wooyoung whispered/yelled at Hongjoong and then looked away in fake offence, making Hongjoong laugh a little.
Wooyoung stayed looking away from his captain, instead looking out the little window to the street, just a small amount of people passing by, the night falling above them and the moon and stars coming up, he stayed like that for a while, just looking out the window, waithing for something, someone, anything to kill the boredom, then he saw it.
a drunk man... fighting the air?
Wooyoun got the attention of his captain again, tugging on his sleeve he said "look at that guy outside, he's fighting the air" after he said that he started to laugh of how stupid that sounded, Hongjoong laughing with him, both whatching the man fightinh the air with laughter still coming. They stopped laughing when they see the man fall to the ground, knocked down by the air.
air?... yes, air, no, it was not the air, it was a man? where did the man even come from?!
Suddenly, above the drunk man was a smaller man, who seemed to appeard from thin air, the smaller man was all dark, just like a shadow, a ghost. Wooyoung and Hongjoong where left in shock when the smaller turned around slowly, looking directly at them with bright purple eyes, smiling at them and putting his index finger on top of his smile, an obvious sign to keep quiet, and then he just disappeared.
The light music of the tavern, yells and the smell of salt and air is the only thing they could feel, the both of them slowly turning theit heads to each other, four pairs of eyes widened and scared, communicating with just their eyes, they stayed like that for several seconds and then, at the same time, they fleed out the tavern towards the safety of the ship.
The rest of the crew that stayed at the ship just heard heavy running foots getting on the ship, running towards dorms and then the loud shutting of two doors.
The morning came and with it came the noises of an awake crew, yelling, talking and noises coming from the kitchen, Wooyoung and Hongjoong slowly came out of their dorm, still wanting to sleep, both forgetting what they saw last night.
"Hey, good to see both awake, sit, breakfast is about to be done" said the sweet voice of Seonghwa, who'd been waiting for them to wake up, Wooyoung and Hongjoong seated down, still half asleep, the rest of the crew already seated down, Mingi and Yunho talking, Yeosang and Jongho yelling over the breakfast, and seonghwa going to sit in front of them "soo, what exactly happened last night? you both came running to the ship, not even saying hi" suddenly, as if Seonghwas words were a spell, Wooyoung and Hongjoong remembered what happened, the drunk man, the smaller man and, those purple eyes, Wooyoung and Hongjoong look at each other, then at Seonghwa, who raied an eyebrow, and then both of them were vomiting their words, loud and unclear.
"There was a ma-"
"Purple eyes"
"Was fighting the air!"
"Then another man appeare-"
"Just standing there!"
The words were flying of both mouths, rapid, loud and unclear, this maked Seonghwa confused and dizzy, and he yelled at them while hitting the table with his palms "SHUT IT, BOTH OF YOU" all of the table silenced, even Yeosang and Jongho stopped fighting and stayed quiet, Seonghwa took a deep breath and ask again "Wooyoung, what happened last night?".
"Ok, so, we went for drink and food right?, yea, Hyung was still eating when I ask him if we could take a little of food to you guys, and he looked at me really mea-" "That's not true!" "Of course it is, don't lie!" Seonghwa was sure his head was gonna explode in any moment "Wooyoung, to the point!" Wooyoung looked at him and started again "Right, so, I looked out the window and see this drunk man, I told Hyung to watch him and then we were laughing at the man, feel pretty bad now, oh! then another man appeared, like out of nowhere, from thin air!, Hyung and I kept watching and then the man turned around, he had this bright, bright! purple eyes, and then he smiled at us, and, and just disappeared in thin air, like a ghost, but I don't think we saw a ghost".
After saying all that, the crew just watch them in silence for several seconds, and they... burst out laughing?, they're laughing?! "Why are you laughing?!, it's true!" Wooyoung squealed at them, Seonghwa, drying his eyes from the laughter said "You know what I think?, I think both of you had a little bit to much of drinks" left speechless, Wooyoung and Hongjoong just grabbed their plates and left to Hongjoons cabin, both sitting down and eating right away.
After they were done eating, both started talking about last night "You think it was real? or maybe we were super drunk?" Hongjoong asked Wooyoung with doubt "Hyung, our drinks weren't even that strong, it was real" Wooyoung told Hongjoong with a 'duh' voice, but now they're both confused, who was that man? what did he want?
Hongjoong, wanting to stop thinking of that, opened his drawer of maps to trace a new route, but he didn't expect to see all the maps gone and to be just a bright purple envelope there "Hey... Wooyoung, come here, now", confused, Wooyoung got to Hongjoongs side and looked at the envelope, Hongjoong and Wooyoung shared a look "Open it" Wooyoung said with a shacky voice "Why me?!, you open it!" Hongjoong told his youngest "Your the oldest! you open it!", taking a deep breath, Hongjoong grabbed the envelope and opened it slowly, there was a piece of paper inside, he unfolded it slowly, the blood from both men draining from their faces by seeing the words that were on the paper.
I signed for you to keep quiet, and you didn't, that's bad :(
-G
Hongjoong and Wooyoung looked at each other, thinking the same thing.
"SEONGHWAAAAA!!!"
In a deserted island, where only sounds of the nature and animals could be heard, was a man, that when he heard the terrified scream of the men, smiled like a crazy man, the man picked up the tiny kitten that was on his lap and he hold it facing him "They didn't keep quiet", then, he burst out laughing, crazy and loud, his laugh resonating in the darks forest of the island....