Eren was so happy to be going to the island with Levi. It made him happy to be able to be useful to his captain in more than just cleaning the ship. And Eren hoped to repay his captain's kindness for taking care of the boy when he collapsed. So when the ship's anchor was dropped two days later and Levi's team was loading into the boat to head ashore, Eren was almost the first one in the boat.
"He's like a damn pup." Levi mumbled, but sitting next to Eren all the same. Levi hoped no one read into it too much. His heart was pounding as it was, but thankfully he has had years to perfect the art of hiding his emotions. Eren wasn't though, and was freaking out. Levi had willing sat next to him. Was it because the captain wanted to be near Eren, or to watch over him because he was worried about him. Or to watch over Eren because he didn't trust Eren off the ship. Eren didn't know, but he was happy.
Once ashore, Levi, Gunther, and Farlan took to the map while the others waited for instruction, but all stayed alert incase island natives came and attacked them. The last island seemed to either have been deserted, or the natives distracted to not notice them.
"We're heading north for 300 paces." Farlan finally determined. Gunther agreed.
"Alright, let's go." Levi said, calling to the others, and beginning to head in the direction Farlan and Gunther had directed. Eren followed, looking around as they went. He didn't pay attention to the last island, hurrying to find Hanji because of the pain. But this island was beautiful. Large trees, the ground covered in bright flowers, the sound of birds Eren has never really heard before singing to each other. It made Eren feel alive. This is what being a pirate meant. And Eren loved it.
A shot going off caused Eren to duck and pull his dagger, looking for the source. Everyone else had ducked as well, except Levi, who was standing tall with one of his flintlocks pointed at the back of the group. When everyone turned, they saw a man laying on the ground with a matchlock rifle lying just out of his hand.
"Looks like the natives aren't fucking welcoming." Levi growled out as he looked around. "Keep your eyes open. This haul's gonna be a little harder to transfer." Levi walked back to the man and checked him over, showing true pirate pride by looting anything he could off the man, before pulling him off the side of the rode and laying him on his back, arms crossed over his chest. "Poor bastard should've paid attention to the shore line and realized just which pirate crew had decided to land." Levi returned to the front, tossing the matchlock to Eren.
"Captain?" Eren asked.
"You don't have a gun. It's a little outdated, but it'll work." Levi said, before moving on. After a while of walking, Levi stopped and crossed his arms, waiting. For what, Eren didn't know, until he heard Farlan call out 200 paces East. They were on the move again. Eren was alert, wishing he didn't have the damn eye patch. Suddenly, his golden eye began to tingle. He cleared his throat lightly.
"Hanji." He said, the ship surgeon being right by him. She turned to him and he motioned to his eyepatch.
"Oh. Levi! Eren's eye seems to be acting up. You keep going and we'll catch up." Hanji said. Levi stopped walking.
"We can't afford to have any stragglers, shit specs. We'll all wait." He said crossing his arms and glaring. Hanji sighed and pulled Eren to the side, pulling up the eye patch to see the eye giving off a subtle glow.
"Does it hurt?" She asked. Eren shook his head, but then his head tilted slightly.
"We aren't going the right way." Eren said softly. He pulled his eye patch down, ignoring Hanji's attempt at questioning, and went off. Levi was yelling after him, but Eren kept going. He had a feeling, and he just had to follow it. He came to a mountain side, very similar to the one on the other island.
"Eren where the f-UCK!" Levi yelled sharply, hand flying to his eyepatch. Everyone else was hot on their heels, pretty pissed with Eren, but at their captain's action, grew worried. Hanji quickly pulled Levi to in front of the mountain without thinking and Levi pretty much through the eye patch off, his silver eye glowing brightly, and then the wall behind Hanji opened. Everyone stared as Hanji just stared, before turning back to Levi, a look of disbelief and intrigue on her face.
"Interesting." She muttered as she saw Levi's eye stop glowing, and quickly put the eye patch back on.
"Well let's empty this place out." Levi said as he went in. Everyone followed quickly to empty out the chamber. It was set up similarly to the previous room, so no one questioned it.
However, instead of having a golden orb in the center, it had a silver one. And Eren went straight to it. It was calling to him. In a way Eren imagined a lover would. When he noticed that most of the chamber was emptied, Eren grabbed the orb and left, the cavern closing behind him much like previous. Everyone watched, and checked, before turning to Eren.
"My cabin, Eren." Levi growled angrily. Eren nodded quickly as they began a slow trek back to the ship. Another gun fire and one of the crew members crying in pain stopped everyone, turning to see they were surrounded by the island natives. Levi's eye snapped to Erwin. He sighed as he lifted his hands slowly.
"We mean no harm. We just came for this, and we will be off your island as soon as we get it all back to our ship. Let's not get violent." He said smoothly. Eren knew Erwin was a smooth talker, and had seen it put to work multiple times. But it still hypnotized him every time.
"Treasure. Islands. Not. Yours." One of the islanders said. Levi sighed. Erwin kept trying to talk them out of a fight, but when it was obvious it wasn't happening, Levi pulled one of his flint locks and fired it in the air, getting everyone's attention.
"Listen. I'm not in the mood right now to deal with this shit. So you can hand it over peacefully, like we've been asking oh so nicely." Levi drawled. "Or, we can take it by force. Your pick." He waited for a response. An arrow in the shoulder seemed to be the answer. "Fuck!" Levi growled. Seeing an arrow in Levi's shoulder caused something in Eren to snap, and he didn't even register that he had pulled the trigger on the matchlock until the man fell out of the tree with a sickening thud. Everything was quiet as Eren stood straight.
"I think they just choose force, what about you, Captain?" Eren asked, reloading his gun quickly and efficiently, like he'd owned the gun his entire life than less than a day.
"Davy Jones's gonna love this bunch." Levi said, and so the fight began. Eren shot with dead accuracy, and when he was out of bullets, he flipped the gun, stock for barrel, and used the rifle as a bludgeon. Eren saw a man sneaking up on Levi and didn't think twice about throwing his dagger, getting the man in the nape of his neck. After Levi took down his enemy, the fight was done, but most of them were wounded.
"We're not in a good situation." Erwin said as he looked at everyone.
"We need to get everyone to the ship." Levi said. "Hanji needs to treat them. I'll stay back with the treasure." Eren was next to Levi quickly, growling.
"Oh hell no. You are heading back to the ship. You need to be treated too." Eren said firmly. Levi narrowed his eyes at him.
"Then who's supposed to help move the treasure to the ship?" Levi hissed back.
"Fuck the treasure! Your life's more important!" Eren barked back.
"I'm not letting this voyage end with nothing. The crew worked hard to get here, we have the treasure, and I'm not letting their hard work go to waste!" Levi said.
"Then let someone else stay back! It doesn't have to be you!" Eren was shaking with rage by this point.
"Dammit Eren. I'm the fucking captain and it's my responsibi-" Levi's response was cut off by Eren grabbing the sides of his face and kissing him.
Kinda realized this is a Pirate!AU and there's like, no fighting or anything. So I thought I'd try to rectify that a little (I failed I know, bare with me, I don't write much violence, and when I do, it sucks) So yeah...