The whole village was now succumbed in grey, heavy smoke as the raging red fire spread through out the village. Monsters, both men and women alike, were shrieking in terror as they sprinted out of their burning homes. Children were screaming and crying for their mothers as women and men tried to get their families to safety, but no matter where anyone ran, the flames were there to greet them.

The pirates had already gone into burning houses and took everything they thought had value. No one was safe as they began their slaughter on the innocent civilians that scampered through the streets, blinded by tears and smoke. The more monsters the pirates murdered, the louder they laughed as their blood lust grew. Helpless screams were music to their ears, black flames acted as a guide to a sadistic dance to their genocide. The blood and ashes from every fallen monster decorated their already ragged clothing. Every single pirate was howling in maniacal laughter, enjoying the mass destruction and genocide they were committing, but only one was missing from the group.

Ink was currently sprinting through the blood and dust splattered Streets, trying to make it back to the house hoping, no - praying that it wasn't just a pile of ashes yet. His breathing was ragged and heavy, his eyes brimmed with tears as his entire body filled with panic and fear. Behind him, Rus was holding a crying, shaking Blue tightly in his arms as he ran as fast as he could next to Ink. Both of Blues legs were bent and cracked, leaking small amounts of blood from the cracks despite being wrapped tightly from the cloth of Inks clothing. He couldn't feel his legs at all, so the only thing he could do was cling desperately to his brother as he ran. Dream was running behind them with the same terror and fear on his face as the others, averting his eyes from the blood, dust , and bodies on the streets. They were all in shocked states, but what stood out about all of them the most, was the burning scorch marks that covered all of their clothing and parts of their bodies.

At the start of the attack, the pirates had no hesitation as they started shooting from their guns and sending balls of flames into every building they could see. Market buildings and houses were combusting into flames in an instant. It was a wild and uncontrollable fire that spread onto anything it touched, and when it hit the tavern, there was almost no time to react. Ink sprinted toward the door that let him come onto the roof, avoiding the flames as they burned the top deck.

The party was still going on in full force, which made it even harder for Ink to warn them all. He couldn't find his friends anywhere in the crowd, which made him begin to panic. With him being a skeleton of such short stature, Ink had to climb onto one of the tables and yell over the crowd as loud as he could.

"Everyone! We need to get out of here! Evacuate the village! We're under atta-"

Before he could finish, the flames had gone through the ceiling and caused one of the heavy wooden beams to fall right onto a group of monsters that were in the middle of singing a cherry tune. Strong flames were dancing on the wood as it crushed and burned the monsters beneath it, who didn't even get a chance to scream. The only thing that could be heard was the sickening crack of their bodies being cracked, broken, and burned, effectively silencing the whole tavern.

It only took one shrill scream of one woman to snap everybody out of their shock and tumble into chaos. Monsters began to push and shove others out of their way, trying to get to the exit before the whole building burned down and collapsed on all of them. No one was showing mercy, being too blinded by their own fear. Ink only watched as the panic unfolded, desperately trying to find the faces of one of his friends. He was slowly beginning to lose hope...

"Ink! Ink over here! Help!!"

Inks whole body instantly turned around, his eyes catching sight of Dream. He was standing on top of the bar counter, waving his arms frantically in the air to get Inks attention. His clothing looked torn and singed by the flames, other than that he didn't seemed injured. Dreams face, however, sent the message to Ink that not everyone was okay. Without hesitation, Ink leaped off the table and did his best to run through the panicked crowd to get to his friends.

When he made it to his friends, he was met with a horrifying sight. There laid Blue, crying out and screaming from the pain of having a large wooden beam that was on fire had landed on both of his legs, crushing both of them and completely destroying the bone. Rus was desperately trying to lift the beam off of his helpless brother, his hands getting burned in the process. Ink had to think and act fast if he wanted to get his friends out of here. The building was coming down fast, and they were running out of time. Ink decided to rush over to where Rus was and helped him lift the pillar with the little strength he had.

"Dream! Grab Blue and pull him out!!"

It only took a moment for Dream to snap out of his panicked state and grab Blues arms and yank him harshly out from the burning rubble.Blues screams of pain went unnoticed, but his please to stop dragging his bare, bleeding bones on the ground had to go ignored. When his whole body was moved from the beam, both Ink and Rus dropped it instantly and rushed over to Dream and Blue, doing their best to avoid the flames. No words could describe the look in Blues eyes, his mouth open wide as he was hyperventilating, filling himself with smoke.

Rus waisted no time in picking up the smaller skeleton and holding his shaking body close to him. He was whispering sweet nothings to his smaller brother, telling him that everything was going to be okay, making him avoid looking at his broken, mangled legs. Ink waisted no time in ripping off parts of his own clothing and rightly wrapping them around his friends legs, doing the best he could to wrap up the worst cracks. More wooden beams were falling all around them, their time in that building was up.

"We need to get out of here, NOW!"

All four of them sprinted towards the entrance, with Ink leading them and Dream in the back, making sure that no one got left behind. The smallest opening was still available in the front burning entryway, but it would collapse and trap them soon. With a burst of adrenaline, Ink rushed towards the entrance and forced himself into the small hole of the entryway and lifted one of the burning beams that had the entrance covered. Ink lifted it as high as he could above his head, giving his friends enough room to make it through.

Rus passed by him with a grateful look towards Ink as he got his brother outside. At this point, the fire had reached Inks hands, causing him to let out a shrill scream from the fire burning his bones. Sweat began to drip from his head due to all the heat around him and the panic inside of himself. Dream came up close by a few seconds and saw what was happening to his friend. Another wooden beam above Ink was breaking, and would come crashing down on him at any moment.

"INK!!"

Throwing his body at him, Dream forced Ink to let go of the beam as they both flew through the gap in the entrance. By the time they landed on the ground outside of the building, the burning beams had finally collapsed, closing off the entrance of the restaurant with a wall of flames. Ink and his friends could only watch as the building was nothing but a mass of fire, along with all the other buildings around it. They could waste no mournful tears as the surrounding screams of the villagers had them on high alert. Ink and Dream were immediately back on their feet as multiple gunshots were heard. Ink looked over at the shaking Blue in Rus's arms, trying to think of an idea as quickly as possible. Before he could say anything, Rus beat him to the punch as he spoke over the roaring flames.

"quick! everyone back to me and Blues house! we're gonna grab what we can then make a b-line to the docks! MOVE!!"

In all his years of living with the two skeleton brothers, Ink had never heard Rus raise his voice at anyone. He had no objection to his plan, and immediately started to run towards the place he called home, with his friends following behind him.

However, no one saw the shadowed figure that hid behind the flames and watched them all run away. A sinister smirk rested on his face as he watched the colorful skeleton lead the way for his little friends through the destruction his own crew caused. A dark chuckle escaped his mouth as he stepped out from his hiding spot as Error watched them run.

"There you are~ I'm not letting you get away that easily, my masterpiece~"

With a snap of his black fingers, three of Errors men went into action. One of those men, covered in a black hood with one glowing red eye, looked to Error for his instructions.

"Follow that group, and bring back the colorful one alive. You can decide what to do with the rest of them."

Red simply nodded and followed behind the group of friends quickly with no questions asked. Error then looked at the other two and pointed towards the docks with one finger.

"Do what you do best and destroy the docks. No one will escape."

Sinister smiles adorned the faces of the other two skeletons, one with a crack in his skull and the other with beady red eyes. They made their way to the docks, weapons and flaming torches in both of their hands. The smirk on Errors face never fell as he gripped onto the broken, blood stained coin around his neck.

"I've waited for this moment for 12 years now, there's no way I'm gonna let you go. This village will fall, along with everyone in it. Except for you, Ink~"

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Whew, FINALLY ANOTHER CHAPTER JESUS!! I'm so disappointed in myself for making you guys wait this long :(

I'm still glad I got it up however, I just need to work on better timing. Oh, and also

HAPPY (Late) NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! IT BE 2018 NOW BOIIIIII

Okay I'm done now. I will see you all in the next chapter!! (And hopefully it won't take forever to make again :/ )