We are back. I am here in the America, living in New Jersey.
I still haven't many Q&A questions sent in so I am going to keep it open and if i don't get any more questions I will scarp the idea of an Q&A idea in general.
The next chapter will be out once I work out what to do with it. I am still trying to work it out.
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Sky Raiders Pirates
Bonus Chapter: Halloween Special
"Hey, captain?" Ryu asked the black-haired male that was standing near him. "Where is Sarah?"
"Sleeping," Levi told him.
"Please tell me you aren't in charge of navigation right now," Ryu groaned. He honestly thought Sarah was doing it right now.
"I am," Levi said to the redhead. "I'm following the directions she gave me."
"You still get lost even with directions," Kyousuke pointed out. "I think you should give those directions to someone else captain."
"I think it's too late Kyou," Ryu told him. "We're already lost. I think we're way off course. Okay so Soju, Eris this is a new experience for you, and this is why we don't let Levi handle any navigation. Because he gets us lost."
"We are not lost. We are here on the map, I think," Levi said looking at the map. "This way is East right?"
"No, it's south," Ryu groaned. "We are lost."
"And we're going South West," Soju commented, correcting the redhead.
"See?! This is why we don't let him handle directions!" Ryu sighed. "We better get back on course. I have a bad feeling about where we are… Kyousuke? Do you have that same feeling?" Knowing that Kyousuke seemed to have a sixth sense about these things.
"Yeah," Kyousuke nodded agreeing with the redhead. He had a bad feeling. "Once I work out where we are, I'll find us a way to get back on track. It wouldn't surprise me if the captain made us go multiple different ways before going south-west like we are."
"Probably," Ryu agreed. "I can see an island in the distance though. We could ask for directions there."
"Sounds like a plan," Kyousuke nodded.
"Should we wake up Sarah?" Kent asked the others as he had Eren hanging off him like a monkey.
"Not at the moment, no," Ryu shook his head. "Let's wait until we are at the island."
"Alright," Kent nodded as he looked to Levi. "Can you please get him off me? He's making me uncomfortable."
"Eren, get off Kent," Levi told his brother who shook his head.
"No! We're playing!" Eren told his brother.
"We are not playing, you just started hanging off me randomly," Kent sighed as he looked to the redhead. "Can you get him off me? I'm trying to do some work."
"Come on Ren," Ryu said. "Come over here and play with me. I can even fly with you on my back if you want."
"But Kent is my tree, and I'm climbing him like a monkey!" Eren whined.
"You being a cheeky monkey?" Soju laughed at the eight-year-old.
"Yes!" Eren grinned.
"I can be your tree then Eren," Ryu told him.
"But Kent is taller than you!" Eren whined.
"Not in his dragon form," Levi smiled to the boy.
"Exactly," Ryu agreed. "I'm taller than everyone in my dragon form, and you can even use my tail as a branch." Shifting into his dragon form and prancing over to Kent. "See? I'm taller now."
"I can climb Ry's dragon form!?" Eren asked excitedly as he left Kent right alone and ran up to the redhead. "Ry's so big! Big! Big! Big!"
"As long as you're careful, I don't mind. But don't break anything you two," Levi told them as he was taking the ship into the port. Only because he knew if he didn't, that one of them would, and they would probably use Eren and Ryu to distract Levi so that they could do so.
"I know I am," Ryu smirked as he put Eren on his back with his tail and went away from Kent.
"Fly to the island! Fly to the island!" Eren told the redhead. "There are lots of lights and laughing, and I want to see it!"
"You'll have to wait till we get to port but I can fly up above the ship if you want?" Ryu suggested.
"No! I want to see what's going on the island!" Eren whined and complained to the redhead. "Please Ryry! We go there and come back! Please! I want to know what the persons are doing!"
"No," Ryu refused. "We will all get off the ship together. And it's people, not persons."
"But Ryry!" Ere said pulling out his puppy-dog eyes of doom. "We'll be really quick. I promise! Just there and back! please!"
"No, we are getting off together, and that is final," Ryu told him. Even if it was tough for him to say no to those eyes. But this was for Eren's own safety, whether Eren liked it or not.
"Meanie! I don't want to play with you anymore!" Eren said crossing his arms.
"Eren, what are you doing?" Levi said as he walked over to where the redhead and ren were.
"Ry being a meanie! He won't take me to the island to see what the persons are doing!" Eren complained to his brother.
"He's demanding that I fly off to the island without you guys. I told him we can all go together. He didn't like that, so he's upset," Ryu explained to Levi.
"But I just want to go right there and come back!" Eren whined.
"No, you would insist to go down and check it out. No. You are staying here and keeping hold of my hand the moment we get to the island. I swear you have a sign that says kidnappable on you somewhere," Levi told him as he flicked the boy's head. "And people, not persons."
"But there's a party or something going on!" Eren complained.
"Wait, what day is it?" Ryu asked suddenly.
"October 31st, why?" Kyousuke asked the redhead.
"It's Halloween. No wonder there are lights all over the place. Halloween isn't that well known of a holiday, and only some islands celebrate it. My island did. It's a holiday where everyone dresses up in costumes and goes door to door with a bag or something to get candy in. They say trick or treat at each door and get candy from the person inside. I mean unless said person isn't home or is out of candy or something," Ryu explained to everyone as they were listening to the redhead talk about the holiday. "I think there are only a few islands that celebrate this holiday. This island must be one of them."
"We should do that! We should do that! Candy! Dress up! It sounds like fun!" Eren said going to his big brother. "Please captain! Please! please!"
"Yes! Halloween is the best holiday of the year! Please, Levi!" Ryu joined in begging.
"You two just want candy," Levi sighed. "I'm not dressing up, and we're only going to the island to ask for directions. Since you all seem to be insisting that I got us lost."
"Because you did!" the crew told their captain.
"You have to dress up! It's part of the tradition!" Ryu cried in horror. "And if you won't approve then me and Ren are just going to do it on our own. Right, Ren? You'll come with us, right Soju? Kent? Kyousuke? Eris?"
"Of course Sugar," Soju grinned, seeing what the redhead was doing and join in on it.
"Sure, why not? It's not like we have anything better to do. Rhys can watch the ship-" Kyousuke dodging the mast as it came at him. "Sorry, sorry. Rhys can watch Skye and Sarah can sleep."
"I'm coming too," Sarah said, yawning, clearly having just woken up. "I don't want to miss Eren's first Halloween. I went to an island that celebrated Halloween before. It was, and I know Eren will love it."
"I agree, I want to come too," Rhys told them.
"I'll watch Skye then, even though she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself," Zero told them. "I've already seen my first Halloween with my hatchling. Kyle organised it, so the whole island did that when Ryu was especially down one year."
"Sounds like a plan! Kent can even stop his camo!" Kyousuke grinned.
"No," Kent said. "I would rather stay here."
"You can say you are just pretending to be a Fishman and that it's just paint," Ryu told Kent, having just transformed back to normal. "There's a lot of costumes out there, and people would easily buy it. They won't question anything. Just trust me Kent, please?"
"I would rather not," Kent told the redhead. "When I get nervous I can't always control my poison…"
"Though you could always be something else," Ryu smiled. "Ooh! I'm going to be a demon!" Summoning his dragon tail and wings. "Now I just need pointed ears… Eren! Let's find you a costume and complete mine!"
"Yes!" Eren nodded. "I want to be a demon too! You, me and Levi can all be demons! Mama and Papa and baby demon!" Smiling brightly at the redhead.
"Alright," Ryu nodded. "Well, Levi? Are you going to join us?"
"You realise he said we would be a family of demons, right?" Levi said looking at the redhead seriously.
"It's fine, I'll do it Sugar," Soju said as Levi got between them.
"I didn't say I wouldn't do it. I was just pointing something out to Ru," Levi said not wanting the archaeologist near the redhead.
"It's just dressing up," Ryu told Levi. "It's not like we're an actual family. I'll dress up as the daddy demon, and you can be the mommy demon, Levi! You looked great in a dress in that photo after all! It'll be awesome!"
"Yes! Ryry is papa and Levi is mama!" Eren nodded happily in agreement. "Pick me up, papa!"
"Okay Ren," Ryu chuckled lightly as he picked him up.
"Fine," Levi sighed as he was feeling tired already. Leaning against the redhead. "I guess we can be a demon family and I'll dress up then."
"I'm going to be a witch," Sarah decided. "What about you Rhys and Eris?"
"I'm going to be an angel," Eris told Sarah. "See?" Summoning a pair of wings to her back.
"Woah…" Sarah said. "I didn't know you had a devil fruit."
"Because I never said anything. I didn't really see the point, you know?" Eris commented. "It's not like it's important or anything." At least she didn't really see it as being important.
"What kind of devil fruit do you have?!" Eren asked Eris in excitement.
"One that lets me turn into a bird," Eris smiled to the boy. "I'm a Thunderbird."
"Awesome," Ryu breathed in awe. Levi looked at him strangely, and the redhead blushed. "What? I'm not allowed to be impressed? I love Thunderbirds! And phoenixes! And all other kinds of elemental bird. Though I think dragons are still the best though."
"You didn't seem to like Marco, and he was a phoenix," Kyousuke said to the redhead.
"His devil fruit is cool, and I was only teasing him," Ryu told him. "I honestly wanted to see what reaction I could get out of him. It was fun!"
"Of course," Kyousuke sighed at the redhead. "You coming or not Kent? I mean, it could be fun. Doing this treat or tricking thing and getting candy."
"Please, Kent! It'll be fun!" Ryu begged.
"I don't know," Kent sighed as he was really unsure about this.
"Please!" Eren joined in begging. "I want you to go!"
"Guys, you don't have to force Kent to do something he doesn't want," Levi sighed.
"Make it an order that all have to go get candy, big brother!" Eren complained to his older brother as he pulled on him his from the redhead. "Please!"
"Eren, I'm not going to make anyone do something they don't want to do," Levi told his little brother.
"But I want to go get candy with everyone!" Eren said with tears gathering in his eyes.
"Don't cry Eren," Kent told the brown-haired little boy. "I'll go."
"Yay!" Eren cheered as he got out of Ryu's arms and hugging Kent happily. The tears seeming to have dried up instantly.
"...I didn't expect Eren to do that," Ryu said, blinking. "I mean I may have commented offhandedly that he could probably get you to do a lot more than he wanted if he pretending to cry but I didn't expect him to do that. Has he always been able to do that Vi?"
"He only does that when he really, really wants something," Levi told Ryu.
"There's that Vi comment again," Kyousuke commented.
"Uncle Mal taught it to him. He used it against Henry a lot," Levi told the redhead while ignoring his First Mate.
"You comfy captain?" Soju asked the black-haired teen who nodded his head as he was lending against the redhead.
"Very," Levi yawned.
"I'll take over and dock us in. Maybe Levi should rest before we go to the island since he seems so tired," Kent suggested.
"We can all work out costumes then too," Soju nodded as he liked that idea.
"I'll help with that then. Just don't rely on me to sew or anything," Sarah told Soju. "It's about time I got up." Stretching as she said this. "How can you be so awake though Kyou? You were up all last night with me."
"I'm used to staying up for days on end without any sleep, so I'm used to it," the ex-assassin answered.
"I've never done that before, and I can barely pull an all-nighter," Sarah told him. "I get cranky and whatnot if I do that. And one time I passed out on the ground. Rhys was so worried."
"I'm sure he was," Levi yawned.
"He refused to let me ever pull an all-nighter again after that. We were shopping at the time, and I just fell to the ground and passed out," Sarah told Levi.
"Sounds like something that I would do," Levi yawned again. He hadn't had time to have a nap during the day as they were busy and every time he tried he was interrupted by someone or something.
"Then you need to get some sleep petit frère," Sarah told him.
"I'm fine. I'll just go to bed early," Levi yawned as he just closed his eyes and was lending against the redhead's shoulder. The redhead was comfy.
"Nope," Ryu said as he picked Levi up bridal style. "To bed, we go. Eren, you coming? We can let the others deal with the costumes, and we go to Levi's room to sleep. And make the captain sleep."
"The captain already looks asleep to me," Soju laughed as Levi was half-sleep against the redhead's shoulder as he was being carried. The captain's head moving from the shoulder to the redhead's chest/neck.
"Organise costumes first! Then sleep!" Eren told Ryu. He wanted to make they had their costumes worked out. That way they can get changed after the nap and go straight to treat or trick and getting candy.
"I'll head to bed with Levi then and without you," Ryu said, teasing Eren. "Who knows if I'll lock the door or not." Starting to walk off.
"No! Don't be mean papa! No sleeping with mama without me! No babies either!" Eren told the redhead as he hugged him.
"Wh-what?!" Ryu sputtered, his face red. It was clear he wasn't expecting the baby comment. Kyousuke was laughing his ass off at that.
"I must agree with Eren. No hatchlings Ryu. I will not have you growing up that fast," Zero huffed. If he had it his way, Ryu would never date anyone either.
"What's dating?" Eren said looking at Zero, having read his mind.
"No reading minds Air..." Levi muttered sleepily. Clearly very tired.
"Dating is what people do to see if they are compatible to eventually marry. Sometimes it takes people years before they figure out if they found the right or wrong person. OThers only a matter of days. During that time the people are boyfriends and girlfriends," Ryu told Eren. There really wasn't a problem with Eren knowing this it wasn't like him knowing what the s-thing was. So Ryu didn't really see any reason not to inform Eren.
"Oh, but you and mama aren't dating. You're boyfriends already, right?" Eren asked looking up at the redhead.
"No," Ryu told Eren. "Unless we start dating we are not boyfriends no matter what some people may tell you." Glaring at Kyousuke for this part.
"Then married? Mama and papa act like Uncle Mally and Uncle Henry," Eren commented. "And how Uncle Malic acts with Uncle Archie too."
"No, we are not married, Ren. Me and Vi don't even like each other like that. We are just friends," Ryu told him, blushing. Even if it almost psychically pained him saying this.
"Why not? Mama and papa are perfect for each other," Eren said.
"Just because," Ryu said. "I can't really explain feelings. It just happens. When you're older, you'll understand."
"I don't get it. Does mama or papa have to say their feelings to each other or something?" Eren said looking confused.
"They're Ryu and Levi, Eren, not mama and papa," Kent told the boy.
"No! Ryu is papa and Levi is mama! We demon family!" Eren huffed as he hugged the redhead harder.
"Just let him have his fun for tonight Kent," Ryu told him. "And yeah we have to say our feelings." Figuring that lying to the little mind reader was futile. He refused to believe Levi liked him back though.
"I have a feeling that if we don't nip this in the butt now Ryu, that is is going to keep coming up later on," Kent told the redhead.
"I highly doubt that it's just for tonight," Ryu said.
"I have a hundred belli that says otherwise," Soju said to Kyosuke.
"I'm not dumb enough to take that bet," Kyousuke frowned the archaeologist. He knew all too well from the short amount time they have been together that Eren was going to be randomly switching between Ryu, Ry, Ryry and papa for the redhead and going big brother, Levi-nii, nii-san, captain and Levi with the black haired pirate captain.
"I'll take that bet then Soju," Ryu told him. "I'll be a hundred belli richer when he stops."
"More like end up a hundred belli shorter," Kyousuke sighed as he just left it alone. "Okay, go have sex with the captain or whatever it is that you're doing. We have costumes to organise."
"Not going to happen!" Ryu blushed deeply. "We are going to sleep!"
"You sure?" Kyousuke grinned and teased him.
Sarah hit the ex-assassin in the back of the head. "Leave them alone Kyou." Levi looked to need the rest, though, the captain was already asleep. "Eren, is it normal for Levi to be like this?" Wanting to check, she will admit, she was a little worried. She didn't think it was normal but wanted to double check with her little brother.
"Only when he misses his nap. He normally has a few short ones during the day when he's finished his work," the boy answered. "We're normally docked somewhere, or we drop anchor. I normally join big brother, or I'm reading a book or playing if we have people travelling with us. Sometimes we have people travelling us, and sometimes we don't. Levi normally does an early night when we don't have guests with us."
"Levi said he didn't have his nap," Ryu said, speaking softly as not to wake Levi.
"He probably saw things that needed to done and decided to do," Kyousuke laughed lightly. "that's just how the captain is."
"That's true," Ryu sighed. "Let's get him to sleep. I'll see you guys later. You coming or not Ren?"
"Coming!" Eren said grabbing the redhead's pants.
Sometime later
Ryu smiled as he looked over at everyone's costumes. Eren had a little demon tail sowed into some pants under the dress he was wearing with strap-on wings, and demon horns on a headband, the same type of headband Ryu was wearing. Levi had on the same thing as Eren, cute dress and all. Ryu knew mommys could be boys too but honestly he just wanted to tease Levi. He didn't expect him to actually wear a dress though. Or that he looked like a really pretty flat chested female. Eris was dressed in a white dress with a headband that had a halo on it. She obviously had her wings out. Sarah had a really cute black dress and a pointed hat on, showing that she was a witch. Kyousuke kept stealing secret looks at her though. Ryu found it amusing.
Speaking of Kyousuke, he was wearing a black ninja costume. Kent had a little brown dog tail sowed into his pants and was wearing dog ears on a headband as well as some brown gloves that had small black pads on the bottom and a brown long sleeve t-shirt as well as brown pants. He had been talked into being a dog by the others, and Eren loved it.
Soju was wearing a lot of makeup to help him look like a zombie, and his clothes were even ripped to show he was a zombie.
Ryu personally thinks the ripped clothes was the whole reason he chose a zombie. After all, it clearly showed off his abs and body nicely. Ryu knew he was as red as a tomato looking at him. Levi was glaring up a storm at Soju.
Finally, there was Rhys who was wearing a lot of white makeup and a white suit, white dress shoes, white gloves and a red tie. Rhys was a ghost. The makeup he was wearing gave him that effect.
"Like what you see Sugar?" Soju teased the redhead.
"U-Um…" Ryu got even redder as Soju got closer to him, giving him an even better view. The redhead really didn't know how to respond to him right now. "I-Is it hot in here or is it just me?" The redhead knew his voice squeaked as he looked for something to distract Soju from that. "Wait no! I didn't mean that like it sounded!"
"Soju looks cool!" Eren told him. "How do I look? How do I look?"
"Levi, I am jealous. You make a seriously convincing cute flat chested girl," Eris told the black-haired pirate captain who just shrugged. "Seriously! If I didn't know any better, I would swear you're a girl!"
"You look amazing Eren," Sarah told him smiling. "And Eris isn't wrong Levi."
"I've always been told I like my parents, so I don't really care. I would rather be told I look girly like my mum than being told I look like Eric," Levi shrugged again.
"Why are you and Eren both wearing dresses?" Kent asked a little confused as Kyousuke was trying his best to not laugh.
"You look like a perfect little devil," Soju told the boy who smiled and cheered brightly.
"Eren insisted," Ryu laughed lightly, though his cheeks were still tinged pink. He was glad for the distraction. "He said he wanted to be like Levi."
"You kept on insisting that I am mama Devil here I am dressed as a mama devil," Levi told the redhead.
"Demon! We're demons, not devils!" Eren told Levi and Soju.
"Yep, demons and mamas can be male you know Levi," Ryu pointed out to him. "Though I'm honestly surprised that you make such a cute little female demon Eren."
"Most mums are female," Levi said as he noticed they were docked. "Let's go get this over with. And no more than ten pieces of candy air. Or you won't get any more for a week." The last thing Levi wanted was a sugar-crazed Eren.
"We need our candy collecting bags!" Ryu said as he went and got plastic bags and handed them out to each person.
"Why don't we buy some?" Kent suggested. "So they are proper bags?"
"I don't think we need to waste money on something that only happens once a year," Levi muttered.
"Because this is more fun! And these are bigger!" Ryu said. "The buckets are way too small."
"I don't think people will notice or care," Kyousuke shrugged as they walked off the ship. "And everyone can think our ship is haunted with Zero and Skye here to look after it." Skye let the ship comment slide as she understood he didn't mean anything terrible behind it.
"Zero and Skye, be sure to use protection okay?" Ryu teased the two of them. Zero quickly went beet red as the redhead said that. He decided to ignore the comment though as they all left Skye.
"What's protection?" Eren asked the redhead.
"Nothing you have to worry about till your older," Ryu told him.
"Can ghosts or klaubbermans even get pregnant?" Soju added in.
"Pregnant? Like when Henny had baby Ally?" Eren asked with stars in his eyes.
"And I honestly have no idea," Ryu responded to Soju. "And yeah like that. I honestly don't know if Skye can have a baby Eren."
"I don't even know if Skye knows if she can have a baby," Levi sighed as he was glaring at people. "I hate people staring."
"They would be starting more if they knew you were a guy dressed as a girl," Soju laughed at his new captain. "Instead of them all thinking, you're a cute girl."
"Maybe if I break a few skulls they'll all stop staring," Levi said with a manic grin.
"Captain," Kyousuke said in a stern voice. "Not breaking skulls, no killing or injuring or seriously maiming people either."
"If someone starts getting handsy feel free to injure them though," Ryu told Levi.
"Isn't that why he has you, Ryu?" Kyousuke smirked at him. "To break people's hands? Papas are meant to protect mamas after all~"
"Yes!" Eren nodded in agreement. "Papa protect mama!"
"This so cute, like a family handing out together," an old lady said noticing Levi, Ryu and Eren walking with their crew.
"Hello young one, would you like a candy apple?" An old man smiled as he offered the brown-haired demon girl, really a boy, candied apples. "Aren't you a precious little angel."
"Demon!" Eren huffed but took the candy apple. "But thank you for your candy!"
"Your daughter is quite cute," the old man chuckled at the pair.
"We're not dating!" Ryu cried, blushing very red. "And Eren here is a boy. He just insisted he dressed up as a girl. He's not technically my son though."
"Mama dressed as a girl, me dress as a girl too!" Eren huffed as he was eating the candies apple as the old man gave them all one.
"What does he mean by that?" The old woman asked.
"Levi here is male," Ryu said as he motioned towards his captain as he started to munch on his candy apple. He looked rather happy with it. "This is so good!" He was getting so on his face, but he practically lit up as he ate it. It was by far the best-candied apple he's ever had. The best sweet he's ever had for that matter.
"I'm a boy," Levi said right after Ryu saying that to stop them from asking if he was sure. Though couldn't help but blush at the look on Ryu's face. It was way too adorable. "I can prove it if I need to."
"What you going to do captain, flash then your private's?" Soju joked until he saw the look on Levi's face. "He knows I was kidding right?"
"No, because that's what he was planning," Ryu groaned, beet red. "Please don't do that Captain."
"Why not? If they see tingley -tingelys they will know I am a boy," Levi said.
Kyousuke was laughing in the background. Tingley-tingleys. It was too funny. Where did the captain come with that name for the male genitalia?
"Nope! You're not doing that! Never, nuh-uh! No way!" Ryu cried. "Don't make me hold your arms to stop you!"
"You want them all to yourself do you Dragon~" Kyousuke teased the redhead.
"I don't want to see the captains manhood," Eris groaned as she covered her eyes and ears.
"You see why I call them a sausage fest right?" Sarah said to the other female. "And I'm with Eris. Don't want to see Levi's privates."
"Kyousuke!" Ryu cried, his face getting redder. "It's not like that! I don't like Levi like that!"
"Yes you do," the crew told the redhead.
"Everyone is conspiring against me," Ryu said as he drew circles on the ground in a little anime style depression.
"I'm not," Levi muttered.
"You made one hell of a convincing girl young man," the candied apple old man laughed and told the pirate. "Since you, young's have been him, captain, can I guess your all pirates?"
"Oh!" Ryu sprung right up. "Can I please have the recipe for this amazing candied apples? And what would you do if we said yes?"
"We have a retired pirate couple living in town and a few others as well. We wouldn't do anything," the old man said. "It's a small island, so everyone knows each other rather well. My wife is a retired pirate captain herself. As for the recipe, so many trick or treaters asked for it every year that I have tons of spare copies of it made just for halloween.." Handing a piece of paper to the redhead who took it eagerly. Looking it over and reading it then putting it in his pocket. He went ahead and read it that way in case it got lost that he could write it down on a different piece of paper later.
"As long as you don't cause trouble we won't cause trouble for you. Halloween is a time for everyone to enjoy," the old woman smiled to the young crew.
"We played on getting candy, sleeping and maybe doing some shopping before we leave for the next island. You will get no trouble from us," Levi answered.
"Candy!" Eren whined as pulled on Levi's and Ryu's arms to try to get them moving. "It won't collect itself!"
"And you forgot we need to ask for directions. What time do you stop giving out candied apples?" Ryu asked.
"Of course the captain forgets that he's the one who got us lost in the first place," Kyousuke snickered in the background.
"Around midnight," the old man answered. "I stay out as late as the trick or treaters."
"We should be done before then so do you mind if we come by later and ask for directions? I don't think Eren wants to wait for directions to get more candy," Ryu chuckled lightly. "And do you think I can have another candy apple?"
"Of course, of course. More than happy to help," the old man laughed lightly as he handed the redhead another apple. Ryu smiled happily as he started munching on the new one. His old one having already been finished off.
"Eren should be passed out by ten, eleven the lastest if he's not running around like a madman," Levi commented.
"Don't let him eat any of the candy until later," Ryu said as someone suddenly bumped into him, hard. Causing him to drop his candied apple in the dirt. "My candy! My sweet sugary goodness!" The redhead was literally crying over the apple. The person that had bumped into him not even stopping to say sorry.
Levi kicked the person into the ground easily, looking rather irritated as the crew was working out if they look scary enough to back Levi up or if they should try to stop their captain. "Where do you think you are going?"
"Get off me, you crazy bitch!" The guy shouted.
It seems the crew was going into scary/intimidation mood then. No-one is allowed to call their captain a bitch. Crazy, sure, but not bitch.
"Papa okay?" Eren asked the redhead. "Papa shares with me!"
"You can have another one young man, it's okay," the old man told Ryu as he offered another two candied apples.
"You shouldn't mess with us dude," Kyousuke told the guy. "We have a real ninja, a real witch and a real demon in our ranks. And our dog isn't as nice or weak as he seems."
"Papa go dragon on your ass!" The little one said as things were floating around.
"Oh, and we have a physic kid too," Kyousuke laughed like it was an afterthought. The guy just took one look at the group and ran off like a dog with its tail between its legs.
"Thanks," Ryu said to the old man as he took the candied apple and brightened up considerably. "I wasn't hurt. I was just upset my candy got ruined. It was so good! Now I have a new one! And an extra!" placing the other candy apple in his bag.
"Your welcome. I'm happy to see that you like it so much," the old man laughed lightly. "They're fresh apples that we grew here on the island ourselves."
"Cool," Eris smiled.
"We should buy some before we leave tomorrow. Apples are always good," Levi told the crew. "Thank you." Cleaning the mud and dirt off the redhead. "You sure you good Ru?" Cleaning the redhead with his ice.
"Yeah, I'm alright. I was just more worried about my candy. I mean at most I have a scrape or two," Ryu told Levi. "Though my tail does hurt a little. But I've had worse."
"Those are real?" The old man asked.
"Yeah, I ate a dragon devil fruit," the redhead explained.
"Papa is cool! But mama coolest because of the ice!" Eren told the old man. "Let's go now! I want to go!" Dragging this away to start knocking on doors and get candy.
"We're coming, we're coming," Levi sighed as Eren was easily dragging them off to a house. The crew followed after them.
"Oh, I forget to add we have real-life ghosts too," Kyousuke laughed as it came to him as they were walking to a house.
Eren knocked loudly at the door. Waiting for someone to come to the door. "What is taking them so long?" Eren said impatiently.
"Patience Air," Levi sighed at his brother.
"But I want candy!" the boy complained. "Now!"
"Eren, patience is a virtue," Levi told his little brother.
"Pot calling the kettle black," Kyousuke coughing in the background.
"Levi is only impatience when it comes to things involving Ryu and Eren," Sarah pointed out to Kyousuke.
The door opened, and a woman dressed as a witch answered it.
"Trick or treat! Trick or treat!" Eren repeatedly said as he put his bag up.
"Aren't you guys other this little sweetie a little too old for this?" the woman smiled to the group.
"He begged us into it," Levi responded as he pointed as to Eren who was smiling happily.
"Candy!" Eren said holding the bag up higher.
"Of course sweetie, I'm sorry," the woman laughed lightly as she put the candy into their bags. "It's nice to see you guys out. I like to think one never grows out of trick or treating."
"Yep! I think so too!" Ryu smiled brightly. "Trick or treating is the best! Besides these guys minus Sarah and Rhys here have never been trick or treating or experienced Halloween so even if they were too old it wouldn't count."
"How could they not have experienced Halloween before?" the woman said in shock.
Kyousuke-assassin by trade so he moved a lot for missions.
Kent- half Fishman. Menfolk don't really do Halloween, and where he lived with his parents before they were killed and he was on the run to not get killed, the island didn't celebrate Halloween.
Eris-didn't celebrate it at her island then was kidnapped and then saved by pirates. She sort did a trick or treat thing on the ship, but doesn't really think it counts.
Soju- don't get him started.
Levi- moved around a lot and isolated himself from people to not get hurt when he had to move around again, or in case they died.
Eren- pretty much just hang out with Levi and Henry and Henry didn't do Halloween as he never celebrated it. And the island him and Sarah are from originally didn't celebrate it plus he would be too young to remember even if it did. Not to mention he lost his memories in the first place. Sarah and Rhys only knew about it because they travelled around a lot.
"Halloween isn't a well known holiday," Ryu told her. "It's easy for them not to have experienced Halloween before. We're all from a different island."
"I suppose that is true," the woman nodded. "Everyone around here celebrates it. So you will end up with lots of candy in your bag."
"Is there a spot where we stop and get food?" Kent asked. "I just realised we skipped dinner." They could all hear Kent's stomach growl. Ryu's stomach seemed to follow afterwards as did the others in the crew. Sarah blushed, embarrassed by here loud stomach growl. But at least she wasn't the only one.
"There's a festival with games and food stands at the end of the block where the town square is," the woman answered. "You can get all kind of food there. They have eyeball sandwiches, finger salad and things. "
"why would you eat an eyeball? Yuck!" Eren said sticking his tongue out.
"Odd choices of food," Levi agreed with his little brother.
"It's not really an eyeball," Ryu laughed at the Raiville brothers. "It's just made to look like one or just named that for Halloween. It wouldn't actually be made out of that."
"He's right, it's like meatballs with an olive in it to make it look like an eyeball," Rhys told Eren. "Fingers are normally chicken stripes with sauce on it to make it look like a finger and all of kind of things like that."
"Or hot dogs made in the shape and design of fingers," Ryu said. "There was finger dogs in my town one time."
"Oh, they sound yummy when you explain it like that," Eren said as they all heard his stomach. Levi handing him the candied apple he had gotten. "food!" Eren said happily as he took it. "Thanks, captain!"
"Let's go to this festival now than and eat since we're all clearly hungry," Ryu laughed lightly.
"What about you Levi?" Eris said looking at the captain.
"I'm not a sweets person," Levi told Eris as he wasn't worried if he had the candied apple or not.
"We get mama another one later! Right papa?" Eren said looking to the redhead as he was eating Levi's candy apple. "Finish street then get dinner!"
"Yep!" Ryu nodded. "And that'll take forever Eren, we are getting food first. Food is more important than candy."
"you guys order and get food, we'll meet there," Levi told them as Eren looked upset and the pirate captain didn't like it when Eren was upset.
"you're going to get lost," Kyousuke stated to the captain.
"no I won't," Levi told him.
"Levi," Ryu sighed, looking both annoyed and upset. "We can finish the street later. And I want to go trick or treating on the street too! And yes you will get lost; besides I'm Eren's babysitter. I'm supposed to keep an eye on him. That's all you wanted me for after all." Okay, he may or may not have let his bitter feelings about the fact Levi only wanted him to join his crew for the fact he wanted a babysitter/guardian/someone to look over Eren come out. He had honestly thought that Levi had wanted him as a jack-of-all-trades as well as a babysitter.
"You can do lots of things that I can't do, like cook," Levi told the redhead. "And Eren and I both like you. That's why your Air's babysitter. I don't trust anyone else with my baby brother's life but you. Fine, whatever. See if I care." Walking down the little steps, they went up to get to the house.
"I think you upset the captain, Sugar," Soju commented.
"Wait, Vi!" Ryu called as he went after him. He hadn't meant to upset him like that. The redhead honestly hadn't expected to say anything about his feelings on that matter. He liked being Eren's babysitter, but he just didn't like the fact he felt that Levi thought that was all he was good for.
"Mama?" Eren said looking at Levi as they went to the next house. "Captain? Levi?"
"I'm fine Air, you wanted to trick or treat right?" Levi said with a fake smile. Eren could easily tell that his big brother was distraught.
"Yeah…" Eren nodded as they got to the door.
"Vi! Please!" Ryu said as he went over to him. "Would you please stop walking? Look I'm sorry for saying what I did."
"Why? You only said what you meant didn't you?" Levi said not looking at the redhead.
"I like being Eren's babysitter Levi, it just hurt that it was all you wanted me for at first," Ryu sighed and told him. "I mean it would be like if all I wanted you for was for your devil fruit powers and nothing else of you. It would make you upset right? I was trying to keep from blowing up on you like that. I'm sorry." And he had been holding it back so well until right this moment. To be honest, he was also a bit upset Levi wanted to go trick or treating without him, given how much he likes candy.
"People have wanted me for my devil fruit before, you get used to it," Levi told the redhead as he leaned his head against the redhead. "And why does it matter if all I wanted you to start with was to be Eren's babysitter and my friend? We could have worked in another position for you as we went."
"Like the captain's boyfriend," Kyousuke voiced up as the rest of the crew was there.
"Technically boy toy since Ryu is younger than Levi," Soju told Kyousuke. Kent groaned as that meant that Kyousuke had a new name and thing to tease the two of them about.
"We don't like each other like that!" Ryu cried, blushing. "And why exactly did you follow me?"
"We're not going to leave you and the captain alone," Kyousuke said. He honestly had a bad feeling about what might happen if they left them alone. "We'll finish up this street like little E wanted and then go get food."
"Alright," Ryu sighed.
Later
"Eren?" Ryu asked as he looked around him. He took his eyes off the little boy for a second and then he disappeared. Seriously the redhead didn't think that it was this bad, regardless of what Levi had said before. He and Eren had gone to get cotton candy and now he was gone. Levi was going to kill him. "Eren! Where are you?!" The redhead started to frantically start looking for the little boy, unaware that Eren had just been taken right under his nose. "Vi!" Ryu cried upon seeing him. "Eren is missing! I took my eyes off him for just a second to get the cotton candy and then he just disappeared! I can't find him!"
"Why didn't have him to hold onto your shirt or something?" Levi said pinching the bridge of his nose. "I told you he gets kidnaps or disappears on you in a blink of an eye."
"Because I didn't think it was this bad! I thought you were just exaggerating or something," Ryu said, panicking. "I've looked for him everywhere, and I can't find him!"
"Calm down," Levi told the redhead as he wrapped his arms around him. "Panicking will make it worse." Looking at the others. "You heard him. Eren is missing. Go find him. Eris go with Sarah. Rhys go Soju and Kent, and Kyousuke go together. I'll go with Ru."
"How are we going to communicate with each other captain?" Kyousuke asked.
"We won't be. Ru and I will search east, you guys work out where you going to search." Levi told him as he stopped hugging the redhead and started dragging the redhead towards the cotton candy stall.
"That's south!" Sarah shouted at Levi before sighing.
"I think the captain just waits to start where Eren was last," Eris laughed lightly.
"Looks like we're searching south," Ryu told the others over his shoulder. "I'll make sure we search south. And keep the captain from getting lost."
"Rhys," Sarah said looking to him. Who nodded as he handed them all a den-den mushi. Rhys even handed one to Ryu, especially seeing how he didn't trust Levi with it. "We'll use these to communicate while I am waiting for the specialised ordered ones to come in. Me and Eris will go West. The two Ks can go East. Soju and Rhys can go North. The captain would lose this anyway."
"And he'll be easy to find too," Kyousuke laughed.
"How?" Soju asked the Senior First Mate.
"I gave one to Ryu," Rhys told Sarah. "I don't think he'll lose it, I don't trust Levi with it though."
"Because Levi would have lost it," Sarah nodded in agreement with Rhys not trusting with one of the den-den mushis.
"Because there will ice everywhere and the coldest spot in the island will be where the captain is," Kent informed Soju before Kyousuke could say something stupid.
Meanwhile with Eren
"My mama and papa are going kick your asses," the boy in the dress said calmly.
"Your calm for someone who is going to be turned into candy," a man said looking to the girl.
"Mama and Papa won't let that happen. How do you do turn people into candy anyway? That's just stupid," Eren told the man. "You're stupid! Baka Baka!"
"You sure this kid is sweet?" the man said looking at the group who brought the child to him.
"Yes sir!" one of them nodded. "You said sweet, innocent and cute. This one covers all of that. Even has been filling up with sweet food."
"Innocent I get, cute I suppose," the man said as touched a piece of wood and it turned into candy. "Sweet though, I'm not so sure."
"You have a devil fruit!" Eren said in awe a little. The man could turn things into candy by touching it. Ryu would love him! "You should join our crew! Papa would love you! He loves candy! Then we can have candy all the time! You can be our candy maker!"
"Crew?" the man said in confusion. Though the kid was now proving his men's point of him being sweet. She was adorably naive.
"Pirate crew! Mama is captain!" Eren smiled.
"Really now? Which crew are you in?" the man asked the boy.
"Sky Raiders!" Eren smiled brightly as the man flinched. Was that the crew with the Ice Demon?
"As in Ice Demon's crew?" the man asked as the men were all kinda of freaking out a little.
"Yep!" Eren nodded.
"I am working out if turning you into candy is worth my life or not," the man said thinking about it. "Why did you bring a cabin girl of a pirate crew here any way you idiots?!"
"I'm a boy!" Eren said, his cheeks puffing out.
"Why are you wearing a dress?"
"Why not? Mama is wearing a dress too!"
"Wait… are you telling me the infamous and cold-blooded Ice Demon, is wearing a dress?"
"My mama isn't cold blood. He just doesn't like people, not in our crew!" Eren huffed again.
"Wait a sec, you said papa before," the man realised. "Does that mean Ice Demon is dating someone?"
"Yep! Papa!" Eren nodded. Even if his papa said differently. Kyou said they liked each other like that! And from what Ryu said that means that they were dating!
"Oh really? And what's he like?" the candy man asked the boy in the dress.
"Papa is playful and funny and sweet! He loves candy too!" Eren told him. "And he has red hair with black bangs and snowflakes in his hair and two different coloured eyes!"
"My death will be worth it if I turned the two things that Ice Demon loved most in this world into candy," the man said looking at his men. "Bring this papa." Looking at Eren. "Why is Ice Demon mama and not papa?"
"You can't call him Papa!" Eren huffed. "His name is Ryu! He's my papa! Mama looks better in a dress compared to Papa. Mama looks like a girl! Everyone says so!"
"What an interesting twist," the man said as he touched Eren with clothed hand. "You might be more useful to me not as candy. Get more innocents for me to turn into candy. It's always good to see people getting my candy." Putting a piece into Eren's mouth.
With Levi and Ryu a few minutes later.
"And here I thought we'd have a hard time finding those responsible," Ryu whispered to Levi. There were people following them, clearly wanting to take the redhead, but not wanting to risk doing it while Levi's around. "I mean here they are trying to capture me at the risk of your wrath getting worse. I say we let them take me and you can follow them back to their hideout okay?"
"I'd rather force them to tell us," Levi growled.
"This way is better Vi, please just do it my way this once?" Ryu begged. "And if it doesn't work then you can bash their heads in."
"Fine," Levi said, begrudgingly.
"I think we can cover more ground if we split up, Vi. I'll go this way, and you go that way," Ryu told him, basically meaning for Levi to hide. The black haired teen nodded as the two of them 'split up'. Levi actually following along, hiding as best he could. Which Ryu honestly couldn't help but be impressed by. Who knew Levi could be so sneaky? When the men following Ryu deemed him far enough away, they surrounded him. It took all of Levi's willpower not to fight them when they 'defeated' Ryu. Tying the teen up and carrying him like a sack of potatoes. They even put a gag on his mouth for extra precaution.
"Note to self, murder them all," Levi said as he was following them.
Later
"Was the gag honestly really necessary?" Ryu asked the men that brought him here once the gag was removed.
"Papa!" Eren called as soon as he saw him.
"Eren! Thank god you're okay," Ryu breathed a sigh of relief.
"He's a candy man! He has a devil fruit that lets him turn things into candy!" Eren told the redhead as he ran to him. "He has been giving me lots of candy to eat!"
"Why did you need to kidnap Eren to give him candy?" Ryu asked, confused as he looked over at the man. "I mean you could have just given it to us to give to him."
"I took him to make him candy, after all, the best candies are made from the sweet and innocent," the man said as his clothed finger ran along Eren's face. Ryu felt sick to his stomach as soon as he heard that. Had the man been feeding Eren people that had been turned into candy? "Then I learned he was Ice Demons little pet. Just like you are. Couldn't it be sweet to turn you both into candy and then have Ice Demon unknowingly eat you? It would worth my life."
"Vi doesn't like sweets, so you're outta luck," Ryu glared at the man.
"Not even if I told him the only way he would get you back is to eat the candy?" The man smirked.
"How about let's not and say we did," Ryu said as he was about to use his tail to break the bindings. The idiots honestly had no idea that it was real. The redhead cried out in a bit of pain as one of the men stepped on his tail. "That hurt you asshole!" His tail curling around him to prevent it from being stepped on again. The man looked interested that it was real and was he also irritated. The fact that it was real also means he probably could have escaped at any point during this. Which only meant that Ryu had lead Ice Demon here.
"Where's Ice Demon?" The man asked the redhead as he grabbed Eren, pulling him away from Ryu.
"Papa!" Eren said trying to get hold of him.
"Let Eren go!" Ryu shouted, as one of the men suddenly put sea-stone on the redhead, causing the appendages to vanish and the redhead to sag, weakened.
Ice shot up around the redhead to protect him from any further harm as the room was getting steamy.
"You made mama mad," Eren said in an almost creepy Halloween kid sounding voice.
"You won't really like it when he's mad~" Ryu smirked, mischievously. "He's gonna kill you~" Saying this in a sing-song voice, literally singing the words as if he was singing it to the tune of ring-around the rosy.
"He won't do a thing while I have his precocious little cabin boy," the man said as ice spiked up everywhere around the man and his people.
"He can hit you without touching Eren moron," Ryu told the man. "There's nowhere to hide that he won't find you~ And no-one to hid behind that can protect you~" Ryu was having too much fun messing with this man. The man was freaking out, clearly terrified.
"I give you to the count of ten to release my brother before I kill you where you stand," Levi's voice said echoing throughout the room. "And give you to the count of five to drop the key to the sea stone on my Ru. One." Levi's ice killing one of the candy man's men. "Two." Ice going through the man's leg, making him scream as his hand went to his leg where it was bleeding. "Three." Ice going through a machine that only made more steam.
The man dropped the key to the redhead's sea stone and let go of Eren.
"Should I kill them, or give them a chance to change their ways?" Levi asked the redhead as he appeared next to him. "Eren, key and here now."
"Kill the man that was possible feeding Eren… That kind of candy the others give them a chance," Ryu said. And by that kind of candy, he meant possibly candy that was humans before the man turned it into candy.
"You said you weren't going kill me if I let the boy go and gave you the key!" The man said.
"He never said that," Ryu said. "He said he gave you to the count of ten and then five before he killed you where you stood difference. There was a chance he'd let you go and a chance he wouldn't."
"Ask, did you feed my baby brother human candies?" Levi asked the man as he took the key from Eren and took off the sea stone from the redhead. "And how did you manage to take Eren from Ru when he was standing right next to him?"
"It's amazing what kids will leave people for and not ask any questions," one of the men responded. "We offered him candy to come with us."
"Air, you are grounded for a week. No candy or sweets or desserts," Levi said looking at his brother. "Ru, I will cut your candy in half if you even try to give him some while he is grounded."
"But mama!" Eren whined as he was pulling Levi's dress. "That's not fair! It's Halloween! I thought getting candy from people was okay!"
"Only when we knock on their doors Ren," Ryu told him. "Otherwise you don't take candy from strangers. And even then you don't eat it right away. We have to check and make sure no-one put anything into the candy before you eat it. Why do you think me or Vi looked over the candy before we gave it to you?"
"Oh… sorry…" Eren said hugging Levi.
"He's right, you do make a convincing girl," the candy man said, and Levi killed him and his men with a snap of his fingers.
"He avoided the question and didn't answer it, I am taking it as a yes," Levi said as he was checking the redhead over after getting the sea stone off him. "You okay Ru? I should have acted sooner."
"I'm fine, don't worry Vi," Ryu smiled at him. "Let's just meet back with the others then get more candy! The night isn't over yet! And I'm determined to end on a high note!"
"Yes! Can I eat candy and have the ban start tomorrow? Please!" Eren begged.
"Fine," Levi sighed as he fixed the redhead's clothes a little and took his hand with a smile. "Let's go then. You said the night is still young right?"
"Thanks, Vi," Ryu said as he pecked Levi's cheek. "That was a thank you for rescuing me." Sure him and Levi weren't dating, but he could get away with a thank you kiss! Besides he really wanted to kiss him. And Levi's blushing face was so cute. He was falling hard for the other male. The pirate captain standing there in semi-shock as his hand was over his cheek and blushing up a storm.
Eren was chatting away as he was dragging the two out of the building to continue their trick or treating.
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