Against the clock

At the entrance to the village of Narhad the fight between Marlon Steel, John the Leech and Mr Smith the Bloodlust continued...

BLAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHH!!!

BLAAAAASHHHHH!!!

BLAAASHHH!!!

CLANCK!

CLANCK!

Marlon was fighting against two dangerous, experienced, unscrupulous and extremely dangerous for the West Blue pirates at the same time… a quite complicated situation for many people, but despite this he hadn't yet received any injuries in that 2 VS 1 combat

BLAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHH!!!

BLAAAAASHHHHH!!!

BLAAASHHH!!!

CLANCK!

CLANCK!

In fact, the Leech pirates were having the most trouble defeating their enemy in this fight.

Marlon's sheer size and strength, the range and weight of his weapon, and his prowess in wielding it made each of his attacks deadly devastating!

The feeling that any small misstep could mean a horrible death put the two pirates in great tension. Both had ruled out blocking or parrying Marlon's swings after experiencing several attacks in which they were thrown several meters behind with their hands numb, with the bones and muscle of his arms and practically his entire body screaming in pain, just like their weapons that could break at any moment

"DAMN!" Smith yelled, being forced to block one of Marlon's attacks with his saber as he couldn't dodge it in time.

BLAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHH!!!

¡CLAN!

BROOOOMMMM!!!

Marlon's attack was so powerful that despite having blocked it, Smith flew several meters, falling to the ground and being defenseless for a few seconds.

An opportunity that Marlon didn't miss to finish him off, charging in his direction to smash his skull with his metal bat! "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

SLASSHHHHH!!!

CLANCK!

However, he was unable to achieve his goal, as he was forced to block one of John the Leech's attacks, who quickly came to the aid of his best minion.

"Stay focused, Smith!

This guy is especially after you," John the Leech yelled as he used all the strength he had in his legs to steady himself, the mere fact that Marlon had blocked that attack had taken its toll on him.

"I know captain!" Smith answered as he stood up and tried to wipe the cold sweat that ran down his forehead

Their numerical advantage didn't seem to help them much in beating the mayor either!

Marlon, after training almost every day fighting Fred and Stephen, had developed very good reflexes and intuition when it came to fighting two elusive enemies at the same time, so that training was being very useful to him right now

Without making unnecessary moves and using very little energy, he was able to not only avoid the two wanted pirates' attacks and strategies, but also gain the upper hand.

Nevertheless...

'Shit...

SHIT!

SHIIIIIITTTTT!!!

DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!'

However...

That would only be the case if this was a simple 2v1 battle...

'I have to kill the weakest as soon as possible...

Or else...

Or else...

DAMN!' Marlon thought as he attacked and defended at the same time and tried his best not to let his nervousness could hindrance him

Although Marlon could win sooner or later against those two, the situation for him wasn't good at all!

While he was fighting against the captain and the vice captain, about twenty pirates were advancing like a plague of locusts towards the village!

A poor village of barely twenty inhabitants, of whom five were children and fourteen adults, , most of whom were women and old men unable to fight where apart from him only two other men had weapons in their house even though they barely knew how to use them

PAM! PAM! PAM!

PAM! PAM! PAM!

Among the older men and adults, there were only rifles in two houses, from which Grandpa Hamilton and Mr. González fired at the pirates who tried to cross the street and enter the houses. Very experienced and logical pirates who returned the shots while taking cover where they could until it was possible for them to advance.

However, neither Grandpa Hamilton nor Mr. González were great marksmen, nor did they have a large supply of bullets with which to slow the pirates advance

Sooner or later those monsters would enter their homes to kill them...

Or what was worse, they could be used as hostages to get their families out of the underground shelters that Fred proposed to create years ago...

'Please…

Don't find the secret shelters...

You can't find a way to enter the shelter...

And please, don't be so foolish as to leave the shelter believing that you can save your families if you leave there...

My concentration won't waver if they take Grandpa Hamilton or Mr. González

But…' Thought Marlo, who was still fighting those two disgusting pirates while trying to get closer to the village while they were fighting

However, John and Smith tried to stop him...sometimes with success and sometimes without...

After fighting for a few seconds against him as a team they realized that they couldn't beat him even that way, the mayor of this shitty town was superior to them together and sooner or later he would end up defeating them if they took risks to try to end his life

Therefore... they stopped going after his life and focused on buying time...

"Do you want a little break Mr. Mayor, I notice that you start to sweat...

Wait...

Is that cold sweat?

Leech! Leech! Leech!" John the Leech said as he backed up the path to reach the village, provoking Marlon in several ways...

John and Smith knew perfectly well that if they could gather hostages valuable enough to make Marlon surrender or at least lose his focus, leading him to make mistakes, Marlon could be defeated.

For this reason, both focused all their strength, speed, cunning, concentration and ability to synchronize to hold Marlon until his lackeys managed to gather the entire village, where they would surely find someone from his family and use them against him.

"DIE!" Marlon yelled as he charged at John instead of Smith, in order to be one step closer to the village, from where he could better control the situation and even kill some filler pirates

SLASSHHHHH!!

SLASHH!!!

CLANCK!

CLANCK!

However, they didn't make it easy for him...

Both John and Smith realized that although Marlon was very agile and had great reflexes, he only had one useful leg with which to move quickly from one place to another, so they used that weakness to their advantage.

While they couldn't exploit this advantage too much to kill Marlon, they could run to increasing the distance and ultimately lengthening the fight, making it harder for Marlon to finish either of them off.

They couldn't finish off Marlon either and would surely get tired before him with such a strategy, but it was worth it if their subordinates achieved their goal.

'WHY THE HELL COULDN'T THEY BE STUPID LIKE THE 99.99% OF THE PIRATES' Marlon thought desperately as he continued to attack John now, the stronger, smarter and more elusive of the two in order to advance towards the village.

From the beginning his strategy was to kill Smith, the weaker of the two, in order to have a 1 VS 1 match with John, whom he could defeat in the event that no one helped him. However, the filler Leech pirates were getting closer to the village, so he had to catch up with them as soon as possible while fighting.

John and Smith understood that, so Smith positioned himself towards the harbor and John towards the town!

Every time Marlon tried to finish off Smith, he would quickly flee towards the harbor and John would attack Marlon so that he wouldn't reach Smith. In this way, Marlon would always be moving away from the village and the Leech pirates would sooner or later achieve their goal.

'DAMN COWARDLY SCUM!' Marlon thought with fury and resignation as he charged at John again and tried to predict how Smith would assist his captain now

Because of this, Marlon was forced to do the opposite of what he originally wanted. In order to advance towards the town he attacked John, who defended himself from his attacks much better than Smith, giving Smith more opportunities to attack him...

This way he couldn't get rid of those two, nor have a clear advantage like he had at the beginning, but at least this way he achieved some of his goals, while otherwise he didn't achieve any, at least in the necessary time.

'Damn!

DAMN!

Roxanne! Norman!

keep us safe

...

Stephen! Fred!

Don't approach here!' Marlon thought, advancing with difficulty towards the alley while trying to finish off his elusive opponents, who were doing everything possible to buy time.

Time that Marlon lacked right now, he couldn't hear the sound of gunshots anymore.

And that could only mean two things...

That Grandpa Hamilton and Mr. Gonzalez had run out of bullets or had already been killed or taken hostage... although the first option would necessarily end up becoming the second one

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For a few minutes the main street of the village had been filled with the noise of the shots, the impact of the bullets against the ground, the walls of the houses and of course against the flesh of the pirates, some of whom fell dead or injured when trying to cross such a wide street with hardly any places to take refuge

However, after a few seconds, when Grandpa Hamilton and Mr. González bullets had run out, the sounds of gunfire were replaced by doors crashing, stairs cracking, and most of all...

POOOM!!!

"AAAHHHHH!!!"

Screams of pain...

"This happens to you for resisting, you fucking piece of shit!" One of the Leech pirates shouted as he hit Mr. Gonzalez again and again in the face and torso while another of his companions immobilized him

¡PLASSHHHH!

¡POOOM!

¡Crack!

"UAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Mr. Gonzalez was screaming in pain due to the brutal beating he had been subjected since two minutes ago

The Leech pirates treated him with unrestrained brutality and it wasn't surprising...

Since they had arrived on this insignificant island they had lost 7 companions at the hands of Marlon and 2 at the hands of the two gunmen, not counting all those who had been injured... if you add to that frustration that they were psychopaths who enjoyed causing pain and that there weren't enough valuables to steal to compensate for all their losses...

The violent urge of those human-like monsters increased exponentially!

¡PLASSHHHH!

¡POOOM!

¡Crack!

"UAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

The only reason Mr. Gonzalez was still able to speak was because for now he was needed alive to carry out their captain's orders.

"Tell me...

Where's the rest of your family?

Have they gone off the island for the weekend or are they hiding somewhere in this house or on this island?" Asked one of the less idiotic filler pirates as they showed Mr. Gonzalez the family photo of the Gonzalez family they found on a table to help him remember

They needed as many hostages as possible, and a woman and two children were extremely ideal candidates.

"...

Fu… Fck you!" Mr. González responded with fury by spitting out some of the blood that had accumulated inside his mouth at his interrogator.

Something that the interrogator didn't like very much, so he let him know instantly in a non-verbal way

POOOM!!!

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

"That's right, yell louder, bitch!" Yelled the pirate in charge of the interrogation, increasing the power and cadence with which he hit Mr. Gonzalez, who was only able to stand up because they were holding him so that he acted like a punching bag.

POOOM!!!

POOOM!!!

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

POOOM!!!

¡PLASSHHHH!

POOOM!!!

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

POOOM!!!

¡PLASSHHHH!

POOOM!!!

CRASHHHH!!!

"UOHHHH!! AAHHHHH!!! AAHHHH!!!"

POOOM!!!

POOOM!!!

¡PLASSHHHH!

A beating that was stopped when another pirate entered the room

"We have entered all the houses and the only person we have found is the old man who was shooting at us and this one

The village is empty except for those three people." Said the pirate who had just entered, reporting the situation to the rest of his companions, who were also looking without success for valuable hostages in the other houses.

"That's impossible!

It's evident that there are more people living here than this guy, not only from the photos, there are four dishes prepared on the kitchen table

It's evident that he was waiting for someone and curiously this guy has two children and a beautiful wife" Said another of the pirates while eating the dinner that the Peterson family couldn't enjoy before the attack

"We haven't seen anyone leave this house and I doubt they are outside the village, at least the woman

Break the ceiling, the floor, the furniture and the walls!

They must be hiding somewhere in this shitty house!

AND KEEP PUNCHING THAT ASSHOLE UNTIL HE TALKS!" Said the pirate who seemed to set himself up as the leader of that gang in the absence of another commanding figure.

POOOM!!!

¡PLASSHHHH!

POOOM!!!

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

And following his orders the pirates began to search for any trace of life... or savings... throughout the house, destroying everything in the process.

Cupboards were thrown to the floor, walls were opened, furniture was destroyed, holes were made in the ceiling, the floor was ripped out.... it was as if a violent and chaotic hurricane was taking place inside the house

A hurricane that the rest of the Gonzalez family could hear even from inside the underground shelter that Fred almost begged years ago for all the villagers to build under their houses.

"Sara, Edu, keep quiet...

Don't cry...

don't make noise

Hug me and cover your ears..." Mrs. González whispered, trying to hold back her tears as she hugged her two children to convey tranquility and security, a tranquility and security that she lacked right now

"Mommy...

Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!

Dad... they're hurting dad...

Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!

They're hurting dad...

Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!" Sara and Edu sobbed as they listened in horror to all the catastrophic noises that reached them from above, especially the cries of pain from their father, who was being tortured a few meters from them precisely to protect them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"Cover your ears...

Don't listen...

Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!

Don't listen...

Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!" Mrs. Gonzalez insisted, who could no longer contain her tears when she saw the reaction of her children, whom she hugged more tightly while trying by all means not to listen to what was happening outside that hole either.

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Seconds later...

"Not a trace...

We have turned the house upside down and we haven't found anyone..." Said one of the pirates, who had already tired of ransacking the house without finding anything at all, there wasn't even money saved

A statement that the leader of that gang didn't like at all, who continued to hit the wall of the house with his ax in search of any sign of life "THEY HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE!"

CRACK!

CRACK! CRACK!

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Even finding a rat would comfort him at this point!

"We found a trapdoor in the floor of the dining room, but there was nothing underneath, just cables, pipes and below sand, stones, grass and in general the same ground of the street

There's no trace of them... they may have escaped into the forest through that hole over there..." Said another of the pirates, who made everyone go to him to show them the trapdoor he had found under a carpet, which was nothing or even less than nothing for the other pirates

Everyone would expect that under a trapdoor like this there would be a tasty shelter with some succulent hostages inside, however they found the disappointing street floor, some house structures from the house and a hole through which one could reach the forest

Something as disappointing as opening the box of cookies and only finding threads and needles inside!

A disappointment that they took out again with someone...

"IMPOSSIBLE!

WE MADE SURE THAT THAT WASN'T POSSIBLE!

CONFESS YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!!!" The leader of the group shouted as he grabbed Mr. Gonzalez by the neck, who was almost unconscious and unable to move due to the concussions and blood loss...

And he brutally beat him again in front of the hatch

POOMMMM!!!

"AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

POOMMMMMMMMM!!!

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

POMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

Until Mr. Gonzalez was kicked out of the disappointing hole the pirates had discovered in the living room, falling to the ground in the street below his house

CRAAAASHHHHHH!!!!

A brutal fall that rumbled violently in the pirate shelter, surprising the frightened children and causing one of them to let out a scream

"KIAAAHHHHHH!!!"

A short cry that didn't go unnoticed by the pirates

"Heard what?" One of the pirates asked rhetorically, who was very sure that he had heard what he had heard.

"IS THERE SOMEONE UNDER THERE!?" Yelled another of the pirates, who with his weapon was digging as far as he could around the area where he had heard the slight noise to see if he found anything.

"There's a false floor below the false floor below the false floor that's covered with stones, plants and sand?

Cunning bumpkins" Shouted another of the pirates surprised by this fascinating discovery

As much as they moved the sand, they were unable to find signs of an artificially created structure similar to a door that led to a shelter.

However, after thoroughly analyzing it and knowing what they wanted to find they realized that the edges of the door had been covered with stones with a lot of weeds around it which helped hide the edges even better

Not only that, the door itself was also covered with gravel, plants and stones and built in a very solid way, so much that no matter how much they jumped on it, it didn't move, as if there were no trapdoor underneath

It was like real mountain soil!

This haven was so well hidden that it wouldn't have been found if it hadn't been for that scream, much less in the time their captain and sub-captain needed to blackmail, distract, or weaken Marlon's resolve with hostages.

"Indeed, there's a hatch.

A hatch that they have covered almost perfectly so that no one would realize that it existed" Said another pirate, who finally found under an almost hollow stone attached to the door, the crank with which he could possibly enter the shelter.

CLANC!

CLANC!

CLANC!

A crank that didn't seem to work, but that didn't deter the pirates, things like this were part of their job after all

"It seems that it's closed from the inside, we will have to force it open

As usual! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Let's get to work guys! And someone tell the others!

You should look under the floor of every house for a hatch like this one!" Said the leader of the gang, pleased to know that they could fulfill their mission ordered by their true boss...

Soon, once they figured out how to pick the lock on that door, they could safely take the entire village as hostages.

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