Steven's Perspective:-

I hate to admit it but Captain Tanhaus was the last being I wanted to see before reaching 'ACE28072005'. "Hey, Steven What's with this Pirate thing?" Sheeran asked, "There's no time to explain it, Sheeran, not right now. I need to negotiate with him, or else we will regret ourselves for even being alive."

I closed my eyes, tighten my hands around my staff, banged it on the floor two times, and thought about losing my sense of breath for 15 min. The demon inside me, 'Paimon- the learned' allows me to ask him for any valid wish by just banging my staff twice and then thinking about it. But there's a limit to it, Paimon can only grant me wishes about which he knows or has experienced them himself.

After a few seconds, when I felt that the effect of the wish has started, I went to the panel and called Sheeran to me, "Sheeran, listen if I didn't return here until another 15-20 min or so, you must press this thing right here." saying so I handed him a white-colored device similar to a Handy, the only difference was that it had just one large black button. "What's this?" he asked, "It's a Handynator, a device which the Yuris use to contact the Mindquarters." I said and I was ready for his doubt, " Hey, what's the Mindqua-" "I told you no doubts now, I need to deal with this thing first."

Saying so, I took Sheeran's leave and went to the main door. As said, Sheeran opened it. I walked outside and entered another chamber, which was more or less the same as the entire ship. I reached the door to enter the vacuum, or space to be precise, and pushed a blue button adjacent to the door. The door opened and thanks to Paimon, I was able to not breathe, As I entered the vacuum, I saw two guards or should I say the brainwashed spacewalkers floating across the Omniverse. Spacewalkers can be defined as the weird creatures which float in the Omniverse arbitrarily and they are termed as the most mysterious creatures all around at least in this Omniverse.

"Lleho, I ma envtse slociv." I communicated to them in their Language called Tsira and introduced myself as it is rumored that the people who speak in a kinder tone are spared by captain Tanhaus and the probability is at least 2% or so. " nSa. sloviC ew owkn oyu, own emco thiw su nda ew wlli tkea oyu to natCpa hausanT." I followed them inside their ship as they told me that they want to take me to Captain Tanhaus.

I entered the ship which was at least ten times bigger than my ship. Every corner here was painted in purple as it was Captain's favorite color.

The Spacewalkers took me to Captain's throne, saluted him by stamping their feet hard, and left the room. For the first 2 minutes, there was silence everywhere, Captain Tanhaus in his red scary devil mask was staring at me, and I got the feeling for the second time that this being wasn't straight. "Captain Tanhaus?" I said hoping to break the silence, on which he stopped his staring challenge and said, " Oh yes, San Steven Clovis, the Fox of Tvettay!! we meet again and I believe it has been around 15 years or so since we saw each other. "

"Yeah apparently. Anyways, I am in a little hurry, I have got a new Yuri from the earth and have to take him to Tvettay of ACE-28072005. So I would be grateful if you let me go, and as a token of trust I got this for you, Captain." Saying so I clicked my 4 fingers of the right hand with its thumb and wished for a pouch of helns and offered it to him.

He looked at me and then at the pouch of helns, and started laughing his ass off "Mr. Alpha Yuri do you really think I Captain Tanhaus the most feared pirate of the Unknown territory can be bought at the cost of a few helns?" he said still rolling over his throne with laughter. I had known previously that Captain was a strange guy [and definitely not straight] but I was surprised to find out that he entertained jokes.

"I told you, Captain, I am in a hurry can you please just let me go? or stuff," I said in some hope, he stopped laughing looked at me, and said, " Ummm, NO!!" and again started laughing, man damn these pirates! Why do they have to be so mad and sort of psychopath?!?

He again stopped laughing justifying my previous statement to myself and suddenly said"I won't let you go until you do me a favor and it has to be secretive got that you knucklehead?" "Yeah for sure" I agreed as I planned to backstab him and contact the mindquarters as soon as I reach my ship. "No Clovis you will not backstab me, you will do this for me and as a mortgage, I will keep the young Yuris with me, till you return and once you are done you can leave." I was surprised by his idea and also wondered how he can read my mind?

"I need some time to think," I said and closed my eyes. I concentrated a little bit and soon I was inside my mind. Just ahead of me was a huge prison. I saw two hands rolled around the bars which were pitch black in color. It was my devil, Paimon the learned. He was the chief advisor for the devils and Lucifer in the great war. "Hey, Clovis, long time no see, what do you want now?" He said in his astringent tone. "O come on Paimon, we talked just a day earlier, actually I just wanted to ask you for advice," I said. "For sure, go ahead." "What do you think I should do here? As the situation is too. F***ed up. It's either the ravine or the well. " I asked him.

"He said nothing for a few seconds and suddenly his single eye appeared amidst the darkness of the prison it was pure red in color. "Well I would say, you should accept this, if it was you alone I would have said to trick everyone else and contact mindquarters, but here it might not turn out as a good condition. "

I agreed with him, as I knew that, Paimon can be anything but not a liar. " Ok as you say so, Danke!!" I said and left my mind. I took a long breath and opened my eyes. "Ok I accept your offer, what is it? where should I go and what should I do ?" I asked half-heartedly as I believed Paimon but I lacked self-confidence. "Great! Before I tell you what you should do I want to see your new Yuri, what was his name again?" Captain asked and I replied, "It's Sheeran, Sheeran Lewis. I will bring him here but only on one condition, you have to vow that you will not hurt him. He is going to be an important asset to not only Tvettay or ACE-28072005 but our whole multiverse." I said, "Yes of course I understand the magnitude of the problem here, he is my responsibility till you come again." as he completed he stared at me for a few sec and I left to bring Sheeran.

I reached the exit door to the spaceship where I met the Spacewalkers at the door where they gave me 3 pills and said, "Htese lslip wlil pleh uyo eahbrt in vacuum fo epasc." They said that the pills help to breathe in space, and I swallowed one of them. They opened the doors and I went to my spaceship and I traveled to my ship. I reached the door where the scanner above the door scanned my body with blue light, and the door opened.

I entered the ship and called for Sheeran. I got no reply I rushed in and was terrified. My control room was devastated. The control panel was entirely broken and my things were scattered here and there. The Handynator was lying amidst the litter and Sheeran was no were to be found. I started looking for him everywhere but he was no were to be found.

"Search for some symbols or clues as I think Sheeran is abducted," Paimon said. I started looking for any clue, anything at all. As I was searching for stuff, I felt a drop of blood on my shoulder. As I looked above trying not to think what I was expecting, I saw a corpse hanging by the roof just above my head. I focused on the body and brought it down with the help of Paimon's summoning powers.

Its head was covered with a Wolverine bag, which can repair itself on its own in case of any damage. I removed it and found that the face's skin was removed apart the body was devastating, The body's hands were tied to its back. I felt that the corpse was wearing the same clothes Sheeran was wearing when I left him also its age seemed around 15-16 years, and I had a bad thought in my mind that it might be Sheeran's corpse. I punched myself in the face and said, "No it can't be he can't die!!" I investigated the body and found a note in one of the pockets of the person which I hoped was not Sheeran. It had a strange symbol on it as Paimon had warned.

I searched for the body for some more clues and turned it around when I found a thing due to which I was blown away. I grabbed the remaining pills given by the spacewalkers to me and raced to Tanhaus's ship if what I think was right even 50% of it, this and turn out to be very ugly!