Time seemed to freeze as Suga locked eyes with the man that was staring at him over the top of the stall with a rotting grin. Suga's eyes followed the movement of the man's hand as it went down to the hilt of his sword, unsheathing it and holding it towards him. Suga closed his eyes as the man rounded the stall, pushing the tip of the sword against Suga's neck.

"Surrendering already?"

A small smirk slipped across Suga's face. He wasn't surrendering. Instead, he was going through all the defense programs he knew. Suga's eyes sprung open suddenly as he reached up a hand to grip the hilt of the sword, slipping back and away from the tip. With the grip Suga had on the hilt, he was able to yank the sword from the man's hand. The man stumbled backwards in surprise as Suga pointed the tip of the weapon at him.

The man - though he was shocked - wasn't about to back down. He instead shifted his patched overshirt aside to dig out a knife that looked comparable to a butcher knife.

From one of the filmy windows of the bar, Namjoon looked at the scene unfolding out on the street. The other two that had been busy ransacking the stalls were now alerted to Suga's presence as he swung the sword towards the one that had threatened him.

"We need to go help him. There are three of them. Three against one aren't very good odds. I don't care that he was once a security system," said Namjoon as he turned to look at Hobi who was standing near him peering out at the scene too.

"But I don't know how to fight."

"Well, now is as good a day as any to learn," he said as he turned from Hobi to look at the cluster of terrified villagers behind them. "We need something to use as weapons."

None of them moved. He had a hard time believing that - if pirate raids were this common - that they didn't have some sort of weapon handy. Perhaps they never fought back when the pirates came because they were too afraid. Worried about the ongoing situation outside, Namjoon didn't bother to wait for them to volunteer a weapon. Instead, he grabbed up a nearby bottle and smashed it against the side of a table to make it a jagged weapon. It would work good enough.

Moving towards the door with Hobi in tow, Namjoon stepped outside with the jagged bottle in one hand.

"Just stay with me," he started to say to Hobi, but the command was met with deaf ears as Hobi caught sight of a man coming up behind Suga to grab a hold of his arms before a sword could be swung in a deadly blow towards the one he was fighting.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

With a war cry worthy scream, Hobi ran at the man that just put his hands on Suga, jumping onto his back. The man was startled by this development, dropping his grip on Suga in the process. The man went round in circles with Hobi hanging from his back, trying to get him to fall off. Namjoon watched this for only a few seconds before turning his attention past Suga towards one of the men as they ran off down the path.

"Namjoon, go after him! He might lead us to Taehyung!" shouted Suga.

Namjoon nodded. He could see that Suga and Hobi had the situation handled at the moment. He took off running after the man, hoping that he would be able to figure out where Taehyung had disappeared off to.

- - -

Taehyung sat on the small boat as his eyes kept watching Jungkook move about the rigging as if it were some sort of choregraphed dance. Sitting behind him on the boat was a disgruntled Dunder who had the blade of his sword pressed into the small of his back as if threatening to skewer Taehyung if he so much as even dared to breath. Jungkook finished getting the sails ready again before turning to see how ramrod straight Taehyung was sitting on the bench. His eyes flicked from Taehyung to Dunder behind him; his gaze hardening in the process.

"If you damage the goods before we can get him back to the ship, it's on you," remarked Jungkook, causing Dunder to loosen the pressure Taehyung was feeling on his back. A small flicker of gratitude passed through his eyes before Jungkook lifted his eyes to the path. Taehyung turned then too to see one of the other pirates racing down the path.

"We have trouble!" the man shouted as he cupped his hands about his mouth to get his voice to travel further.

Jungkook wasted no time undoing the rope that tied them off to the rocks before throwing up the sail. Dunder looked a bit panicked, seeing the man trying to run faster to catch the boat before it took off.

"Aren't we going to wait for Tweedle to get here?" asked Dunder.

"It's every man for himself. We can't wait around to get caught. You know the rules just as much as I do."

Though Dunder wasn't happy about the turn of events, he didn't say anything. Everything that needed to be said was done so with his stormy look as he glared at the back of Taehyung's head. Taehyung kept his eyes on Jungkook as the sails caught the slight wind and moved in the direction of a ship that was currently nothing more than a dot in the distance.

- - -

Namjoon felt as if his lungs were about to burst as he chased after the man. He knew that he couldn't stop to take a break though or he'd risk losing Taehyung completely. Taehyung was part of his odd little family now, and he couldn't think about what it would mean if something bad should happen to him.

He ran downhill after the man; the water glittering into view before him. The man he had been chasing soon came to a stop on top of an outcropping of rocks, waving his arms madly above his head.

"HEY! What are you doing?! Don't leave us here!!"

Namjoon took this man's momentary pause to his advantage, running right up to him and grabbing him by the back of the shirt. The man looked at him wide-eyed as he was turned to face him; flicking his gaze towards the still half broken bottle in Namjoon's other hand. Namjoon only then seemed to realize he was holding the crude weapon, letting it slip from his fingers onto the ground as his grip on the man's shirt tightened as he moved to grab the front of his shirt.

"I won't hurt you, but I need you to tell me where they are taking him," said Namjoon, thinking of Suga as he added, "And trust me. You'd rather tell me then have one of my friends get it out of you."