Mentions of kidnapping and rape
Mentioned death
Malnourishment
Starving
Mentioned Abuse

Yeosang is a slave that had been saved by captain hongjoong, devoting his life to hongjoong makes him make some scary decisions.

The boat was rocking as Yeosang laid on his bed staring up at the wooden planks. From one place to another Yeosang was forced to please people, his body was seen as beautiful for a male so when he was 18 he was kidnapped by a group of rebel men and forced into slavery. Its been three years now and Yeosang has grown used to it.

He was regularly placed in high pressure situations causing him to panic and grow numb to hide his irregular breathing and tears.

He hated what he had to do. He was classed as exotic and many payed millions just for a night with him. His owners manipulated that making billions in one night just for selling someone's body.

He was disgusted with himself, he could always feel their hands all over his body and could still feel them inside him. He was never permitted to wash or change clothes so most days he goes without clothes. He's rarely fed making his skin cling to his bones like an overstretched elastic band. If he didn't do as they asked everynight hed be beaten black and blue and of course for those perverted old men that just made him more breath taking.

He wanted this to end. He wanted to escape so much but he couldn't. He hadn't eaten properly and barely moved other than during sex. So his body was too weak to defend himself.

On occasion he'd be let outside in a cage but other than that nothing. It wasn't until the ship was attacked de he have his chance of freedom.

He was found by a very attractive male short with beautiful lilac hair and sharp eyes. He gasped when he saw yeosang but quickly picked him up and carried him out.

After months he can feel the sun on his skin and smell the salt of the waves. He smiled and looked around escaping reality for a few moments.
When he came too he was placed gently down onto the planks of a black boat with red and black sails. The inscription of the sails held the word ateez. Now yeosang had no idea who they were having been kept in one place but he could remember the colours. These colours are given to the pirate King when he first prevails.

There was no significance with it, it just showed who was more powerful so yeosang believed that this was worst than the ship before. He had no understanding of how they would treat him or if they would keep him for their pleasure. He could only hope nothing happened to break him more or worse kill him.

He stared at the growing group and gulped. Three of them looked really intimidating. One of the three had a tall stature and sharp facial features, the second of the three was only a bit smaller than the first with sharp features as well. The final one had more of a baby face but was held in an intense glare he was shorter than the other two but he had a decent amount of muscle mass.

Yeosang gulped once more before turning to the one who saved him seeing him cling all over a male who was slightly taller.

The one the lilac haired male was clinging on had sharp but soft featured and looked too innocent to be a pirate, he had black hair with red streaks in and he didn't have much muscle from how lithe the male looks under his clothes.

Yeosangs eyes drifted over to the smallest guy and gulped as the male smirked at him. This small me had light blue hair and cuter features, however the sword and gun in his hands drenched yeosangs thoughts of the man being innocent.

Turning to the last guy who was most likely the tallest as Yeosang couldnt really tell from his position, he saw the male look increasingly child like but held an aura that screamed maturity, he had a small coy grin on his face making Yeosang lower his head.

He stayed with his head facing the planks until one spoke or he was moved. From the years of being a slave he knew not to question anyone who owns him and at this moment in time these guys were his owners even if they didn't file a contract or pact.

It was a while of awkward silence before one of them spoke.
"well, I want to ask why were you on that boat" it was the lilac haired boy.

"I worked there" is all he said simply.
The lilac haired boy grimaced.
"as a prostitute?" the boy spoke and yeosang nodded. This earned him sneers from a few of the men but he ignored them.

"you'd throw away your dignity to bed some rebels for cash.?" the tallest male asked and Yeosang glared.
"I was never paid" yeosang hissed and the lilac boy snorted.

"so you let them have your body for free?" he mocked and yeosang sneered in his direction.
"I didn't have a choice" Is all he said making the lilac haired boy slam his jaw shut.
"oh" is all the boy said with an apologetic loo on his face.
Yeosang rolled his eyes before facing the others, he was sick and tired of bowing to someone so he decided to change that. What the lilac boy said hit his pride hard and he wasn't going to give up and let the boy win.

There was a chuckle to his left coming from the smallest person.
"fasciasting, well you guys can leave now ill speak with this boy in my quarters, dear come get us for dinner when it's ready" the short man said to the second intimidating male who nodded and a small smile formed on his face.

The small man led yeosang to his quarters where he locked the door.
"so you were a slave then?" the small man asked as soon as the door was locked.

"yes"

"hmm? Well then let me introduce myself, I'm captain Kim Hongjoong of ateez, the king of pirates and self proclaimed father of five." hongjoong said and yeosang shuddered before nodding, something about the way he said it made Yeosang uncomfortable.

" so tell me what's your name? " hongjoong asked and yeosang gulped.
" it's Yeosang, kang yeosang, former blacksmiths son and victim of kidnapping and slavery. " he introduced and hongjoong popped a chuckle.

" very well, we didn't expect you on the ship which is why we were surprised however, I'm willing to make a deal" hongjoong proposed and yeosang nodded hesitantly.

"you can restart your life aboard my ship and become my weapons dealer or we can drop you off at the next port as long as you keep quiet. If you choose to stay you will work for your survival, you will eat with us and raid with us and even kill with us can you do that? Is there enough rage hidden inside that malnourished body to set aside all humanity? " hongjoong spoke. And yeosang pondered for a few minutes before nodding.

" very well then" hongjoong spoke before tossing yeosang some clothes and letting him bathe.

"be sure to wash thoroughly who knows what seonghwa would do if you treck any dirt in his kitchen" hongjoong said lightheartedly and winced, yeosang just raised an eyebrow in confusion before shaking his head and entering the bathroom, starting his bath, surprisingly they have hot fresh water.

After bathing, Yeosang changed into the outfit before leaving the captains quarters. Once he closed the door behind him he roamed his eyes over the deck. On his right were the two tall people and on his left was the male the lilac male clung onto.

In from of him Yeosang could see hongjoong and another male entering the kitchen, he assumed that was seonghwa as they were very touchy and seonghwa giggled a few times.
Confused of where to go yeosang opted to just lean against the rail of the boat until someone came and got him.

It didn't take long for that to happen as hongjoong walked up and rolled his eyes at Yeosangs tense posture.
"come on kid it's lunch time and seonghwa hates people wasting food." he said and grabbed Yeosangs arm and pulled him to the kitchen.

Yeosang followed limply and mutely before settling into one of the empty seats on the side of the table. Hongjoong sat at the head of the table. The giggling male he saw with the captain earlier brought out some plates of food before returning to grab more.

Once everyone had a plate, the group started chatting and being loud. Yeosang just slowly ate the food silently and watched them. His eyes kept going back to hongjoong and seonghwa they were undoubtedly flirting from the blush on seonghwas face was anything to go by.

Yeosang has no idea who is who as they haven't really introduced themselves but he decided to let them do that when they want. He didn't care that they forgot a vital piece of information.

After lunch everyone dispersed and yeosang got frustrated, he was bored and wanted something to do so he climbed out of his comfort zone and talked to the crew members.

First he spoke to the two tall men.
"is there anything I can do?" he asked and the two grinned.
"sure but first let's introduce ourselves I'm mingi and that's yunho." the intimidating male said instantly softening with a grin.

Yeosang nodded and awkwardly smiled not used to the bubbly behaviour.
"I'm kang yeosang" he replied making mingi grin wider. Yunho chuckled and patted yeosang head.
"can you help us pull the canons, we need to put them away so they don't get in the way, they just need to go in that indent there." yunho explained and yeosang nodded though he didn't understand why they didn't just turn them on their sides but he stayed quiet. The three pushed the heavy canons onto the indent and yunho and mingi hi fived and thanked him which he only nodded at.

Once he helped them he left and wandered around before bumping into the lilac haired male and what seems to be his 24/7 pillow.

He just apologised and walked off. He didn't get far before he was grabbed by the shoulder and spun around.
"Yeosang right? I overheard you talking to Yungi" the one with red streaks said and Yeosang nodded.
"I'm San and this is wooyoung" the boy said motioning to the lilac haired male tucked into his chest, surprisingly the red streaked male didn't seem at all bothered.

"everytime I look at you two he's always glued to you" yeosang muttered making you San laugh.
"well there's two reason part is that he's my boyfriend the other part is he's just a very touchy person, when you become friends it'll happen to you" san said and yeosang nodded but internally sighed.

"oh! Right! Jongho will need some help sorting through the weapons we took from that boat, the boy has brawn but isn't the smartest when it comes to what works best, if it was up to him we'd only use hammers and mallets." san explained and yeosnag nodded.
" where can I find him? "Yeosang asked and San smiled.
" he's usually in that room there, that's the storage room good luck the boys very stubborn" san said before him and wooyoung walked off.

Yeosang went towards the direction of the storage room and opened the door to see who he presumed was jongho holding about six swords in his arms as if they weighed nothing to him.

Yeosang raised his eyebrow before closing the door.
"hmm? Oh your the person from the ship! Why are you here?" the younger male asked and yeosang just smiled slightly.
"san told me you could use some help" he spoke and jongho sighed in relief.
"oh thank god because I have no idea what needs to be kept or not." he spoke before eyeing the pile of swords, knives and other sharp metals. Yeosang looked to the right to see only mallets and hammers pulled up, he sighed and sat on the floor making jongho drop the swords and join him.

He picked up the swords one by one and examining the quality of the weapon before deciding if it should be kept or not. After two hours there was a large pile of unusable weapons and a smaller pile of one's to be kept. Even some of jonghos previous hammers made it into the insusable pile either due to weight or overall type of metal.

Surely enough, dealing with a pouting jongho constantly tugged at his heart strings but he ignored it and carried some of the unusable weapons and took them outside. They can be stored somewhere else and possibly melted down to proceed of another job more fitting for their quality.

After finishing that job Yeosang had nothing to do. He just wandered until called for dinner and he ate before heading to his bed which was shared with jongho. There was two beds in each room and they both had a small end table as a nightstand placed side by side. They also had two desks in the room and two large chests at the bottom of the beds for belongings.

Yeosang didn't have anything to put in it so it stayed empty. Yeosang stripped all his clothing and fell onto the bed and passed out.

6 months later

Yeosang has been free for six months. In these six months he has created a very close bond with all the members of the crew. He's taken part in everything.

During his stay, they've plundered forty other pirate ships. Sank two imperial boats and raided a small village to the west that were corrupted elderly people simply because a former general lives there.

Yeosang would be lying if he said it wasn't fun. In fact, he's never felt so ecstatic. He'd eagerly help in any way he can and usually they are never caught or had a need to make a great escape.

They became well known throughout the land which was good and bad. Many would try to attack them only to make home at the bottom of the sea.

Today was no different. They were attacked about an hour ago and were cleaning up the mess. Now they were just sailing to their next destination.
There wasn't much excitement when their not being attacked or chased.

Yeosang was sunbathing after they were done cleaning. He had nothing else to do since he's already sorted through the weapons they collected and he wasn't needed with anyone else so here he was laying on his back in the middle of the deck, breathing in the salty air and feeling the sun upon his face.

He ignored the splash of water from the sea. He was very much indepth with what he was doing however a particularly vicious wave of water flooded the deck sending yeosang into a panicked state, he rushed to the kitchen and spotted hongjoong and seonghwa in a position he'd rather not ask about.

"I think a storms coming, the waves are getting faster and higher" he spoke and hongjoong hummed before sighing.

"we can't do much just secure everything and make sure it can't be moved we don't need any casualties. When the wind picks up we shall raise the sails for now relax" hongjoong explained and yeosang nodded before taking a deep breath and relaxing.

"alright should I tell the others?" he asked and hongjoong nodded. Yeosang left knowing the two will get back to whatever they were doing. He first flagged down jongho and told him of the orders before moving onto San and Wooyoung. Finally he found San and mingi.

After everyone was informed they all set out to secure everything that can be secured. It took a good twenty minutes to sccure everything and by now it started raining just adding to the stress on yeosangs shoulder.

The rain caused the waves to become rougher and lurch the boat in every direction. The the wind picked up. Everyone had hands on deck as hongjoong steered the ship through the storm. They raised the sails and used the heavy waves to their advantage.
The ship took quite a beating before they escaped the storm and relaxed.

Hongjoong stayed at the helm rerouting the boat as they went off course. The storm had torn a sail and a little bit off wood snapped on the deck but they easily fixed it up.

They kept everything secured just in case making sure there wasn't another storm. After a good half an hour of no more rain or symptoms of a storm they could release everything and return to their rooms either for rest and to change.

Yeosang did this himself. He washed up and changed clothes before sitting on the bed and laying down for a quick nap.
A quick ball turned into a full six hour rest which noone complained about, the stress from the storm wore them all out.

When Yeosang woke up again it was dark. He could hear mumbling to his right and immediately knew it was jongho. He shifted in bed and willed himself to sleek again. He happily fell back asleep and woke up at a normal time of day.

Had he known today would mark the day of his death he would have gladly stayed in bed to rot.

At first nothing much happened but around six pm they were attacked by a much larger vessel. They were after the colours. Obviously they weren't getting them which enraged them. They swung over onto the crescent and started a battle with all the members of ateez.

The battle lasted for ten minutes before hongjoong was overpowered and thrown overboard. He was still alive as he reemerged from the water seconds later.

Yeosang had seen this and gasped. He quickly killed the guy who threw hongjoong and leaped into the water himself. Once he was in the water he grabbed hongjoong and helped him out.

They both got back onto the crescent fairly easily since everyone was distracted. So yeosang let hongjoong go
And watched as he immediately got up and grabbed Yeosangs sword ready to fight once again. Yeosang just shook his head before joining the fight with a sword he found on deck.

He raised the sword ready to strike one of the enemy when in the corner of his eyes he saw hongjoong be approached from behind.

Yeosang watched as the man raised his sword ready to end hongjoong. Instead of letting it happen yeosang threw himself in between the sword and hongjoong causing the sword to not be discouraged to attack. The sword had impaled yeosangs left breast and sliced his shoulder on the way down. He didn't scream or shout in pain he somberly smiled and reminisced his favourite memories before passing on.

The rest of ateez were devastated but knew they shouldn't mourn for forever they still had a battle to win. But can they win? They no longer have Yeosang who keeps them all sane. Without him their way of relaxation was limited to just books and socialising.

Something the latter wasn't too interested in. They hailed him a hero among their crew and gave him an official burial. 'This is what he would want' is all everyone was thinking. Yeosang had more impact than he thought.