A deep green view of a street covered by a blanket of fog beside the street slept a boy as he cuddled in a thin piece of cloth that barely gave him any warmth in the cold temperature.
Shivering the child dreamt.
Dreaming about his mother whom he met not long ago which might have been or is the last meeting.
"Ma.. Ma?"
Said the child as warm drops of tear fell from his cheeks.
The kid slept for few hours until barking of dogs woke him up with fright covering each nerve in his body. He opened his pitch black innocent looking eyes to see somthing horrible.
A group of dogs sat in front of another larger dog as it approached the dogs. The bigger dog who a cat between his jaws. The cat screamed as loud as it's tiny vocal could give it. Seemed that the cat was in pain looking as the area where the dog held started becoming redder by the passing second.
The larger dog stopped in front of the other dogs dropped the cat and the dogs stared at it.
In a few moments the moved their head on the cat and all that could be seen was a small puddle of blood and some splattering of it.
The cat was eaten Alive.
After they finished the cat all that remained was small pieces of bones and it's intestine and skull and pieces
Seeing that the boy couldn't help but be even more frightened. Without thinking twice he grabbed the piece of cloth and ran.
In a gap between two houses the boy saw an alley where multiple garbage cans laid fallen and all the trash in them were spill all over the ground.
The alley lit by a small light coming from a window of a house. The boy passed the place filled with garbage.
It was painful for him as he walked bare footed.
He walked till he found a man with thick and worn out clothing searching a garbage can ferociously then he pulled his head out of the can and he stared at a piece of bread covered by fungus and dirt.
The man looked at the boy and then he stared at the piece of bread which he tore a small piece and pointed it towards the child. The boy stared at it for a moment then then his stomach grumbled.
He walked a few steps and took the offered piece of bread which he tore a piece and put it in his mouth.
The boy looked at the man. He wore a lot of dirty cloths and dust filled cloths and there was dirt and mud all over him, He had a huge brown beard and a black eye patch.
"So? where yo parents?"
Said the man. He had a very rough voice and deep yellow teeth
They both chewed on the pieces of bread as they both sat opposite to eachother.
The boy looked at the man with a deep sigh.
"Father dead, Mum lost."
"Hah, it can be tough...Remember them?
Said the man as he put the whole bread in his mouth because of his hunger.
"Not ma fatha, only my ma."
"That so, waz she like?"
"I dunno."
"hmm, so when you loss 'er?"
"Yesterday."
"Then why can't ya remember em?
The boy stared at the man for few seconds and then looked away.
"Dunno."
"Ya got Amnesia?"
"Wuzzat?"
The boy spoke immediately.
"When people lose their memories it called Amnesia, i guess, some doctor was helping us beggars and one of us had it."
"...."
"Does ya remember summin she said."
"I guess."
"Wuzzat?"
"Whatever happens never give in to the darkness."
The boy said after which a pindrop silence fell execpt few dogs barking and the whistle of the wind.
The man burst into laugh after the silence.
"Haaa, Big words for a beggar.... so What yo name boy?"
"Dunno."
Said the boy as he looked at the sky filled with stars shining.
"Then imma name ya....Yin."
"Huh? sounds stupid."
"ain't yo mum say?
"whatever happens never give in to the darkness."
The boy looked at the man and rolled his eyes.
"Stupid."
"Huh, so can you think of a good name of your self?"
Said the man arrogantly looking at the boy.
"..."
The boy hearing that looked away .
"That's what I thought."
Silence fell after the conversation. Both of them seemed to be in deep thoughts about each other then the man looked at the boy taking his attention.
"Do ya have anywhere else to go?"
Asked the man after which the boy shook his head as he looked down on his legs.
"So, ya wanna join ma crew?
"Crew?"
the boy said with a confused look.
"Yes, a crew is a-"
"I know what crew means."
Interupted the boy.
"Then?"
the man asked the boy scoughing at him.
"Do I not look like filthy swine, a Pirate, huh boy?."
The man said laughingly as he stared at the boy.
"When you put it like that,.... yes you do."
There was long pause after that. The man looked at the boy and said.
"Come with me."
"Huh?"
"This is the last time Join..Ma..Crew."
"Alright."
The immediately answered with no hesitation.
"You don' wanna find yo' mum?"
"What will happen after I find 'er? I have to continue living like a beggar anyways so it's better to join yo crew."
The man stared at him and burst out laughing.
"Hahahah, I like ya.. The ship's coming tonight we gon' board it but for now we sleep."
"Mmhm."
The boy nodded and covered his upper body and his head with the piece of cloth. He closed his eyes and immediately went to sleep in the cold while the man kept staring at the pale face of the boy.
After staring at the boy's face for a while the man closed his eyes leaving a deep sigh.
..
few hours late a few men in thick red coats came in the alley talking about getting people
"There's one boy in there, i saw 'im run here."
wispered one of them
All of them walked in and saw the boy and the pirate man sleeping.
"Sir, that's a pirate."
Said out loud one of them.
"keep your voice down, kill the pirate use your sword make no noise."
One of the man neared the pirate and swiped out a sword making a screeching sound which made the pirate wake up.
Without a thought in his might the pirate jumped back and threw a heavy piece of metal to one of the men who pulled out a gun and then grabbed a brick and threw it on the head of the man with the sword in the head.
The pirate quickly jumped forward and grabbed the collar of the dead man with the sword and used him as his human sheild.
The pirate then pulled the gun out of the man that was his human sheild and shot the other people on their hand with precise aim.
He pulled out his sword and sliced off their head as the men couldn't think of what they could, it was all in an instant.
The boy slightly woke up from his sleep and went back to sleep.
the pirate looked at the boy and cleared the area as he gave out a deep sigh and cleared the bodies and went back to sleep
the sun rised and and went down until the sky had a orange shade and another chill air fell the boy and the man kept sleeping until the boy woke up as the man wailed out a huge yawn which woke up the boy.
the boy yawned and stood up to streched his body after the good sleep.
And the man too stood up.
"Le's go now we need to go, first we needta check the time."
The man now slowly crossed the river of litter and so did the boy."
as they got out of the alley the boy looked at the area the cat was killed and it was the same except flys were all around it.
A man stood just beside the alley who wore lots of dark coloured cloths and huffed air which could be seen in the cold temperature.
The pirate looked at the man's direction and walked towards him and the boy followed. be the man waiting by the alley hesitated for a minute looking at the boy and the man walking towards him.
"Aye man, wuz the time?."
The standing man looked at them for a second and put his hand inside his pocket in his coat and pulled out pocket watch.
"U-Um, it's four A.M"
"Ight, now gimme all the money and that pocket watch."
Said the pirate man as he pulled out a small gun with wings as designs on it.
The boy looked at the pirate man and burst a small laugh and he gave back a smile.
The standing man hurriedly took out all the coins from a pocket and grabbed the watch and handed it to the pirate man.
"The cloths too, keep the undies."
"Sir?"
the frightened man said.
"Ya not hear me? the clothes too."
The man hesitated for a moment and started taking off his clothes and handed them to the pirate man.
The pirate man looked at the boy and handed him the thick cloth.
The boy greatfuly took it.
Without saying another thing they both started walking.
..