A year

In a place with utter darkness, two ethereal green dots were floating.

As the green dots increased in intensity, a loud stretching voice of a man sounded in the darkness.

As the screeching of the man slowly came to an end.

The ethereal dots suddenly disappeared, The place once again emerged in complete darkness.

In the darkness, the walking sound of a bipedal creature reverberated.

As the walking stopped it was followed by a crack in the darkness, the crack eventually expanded into a door shape, revealing a dim place filled with ice, and a human body lay in a corner with an unknown condition.

Through the door-shaped crack, a skeleton with an afro wearing only black trousers walked out.

The skeleton slowly walked and climbed a stair leading him to the topmost cabin of the ship.

Through the cabin door, he was greeted with the sight of a tired child, sweating and panting, along with a human male in his mid twenty leaning against the gunwale of the ship.

As the human male saw the skeleton, he immediately clenched his cutlass sword and stared at the skeleton.

The skeleton acknowledged his gaze and walked past him.

The skeleton walked to the rear of the boat and froze a part of the ocean by blowing cool air through his hollow mouth.

Jumping onto the frozen platform, he held a purple cane, he had grabbed along along the way.

The brown-haired guy jumped along, but landed in the cold ocean and swam to the ice platform.

He hastily claimed the ice and held his sword in his right hand, and looked toward his opponent.

As the staring continued both of them suddenly vanished

'clang'

The skeleton attacked laterally downwards, while the man defended the attack with a sword above his head, held in both his hands.

"Aargh", releasing a grunt the human rolled away and released an air slash.

The skeleton used his sword to deflect the air slash.

As the back and forth of the sword continued, mostly the skeleton attacking and the man defending or parrying with difficulty.

While the human seemed desperate and giving it his all in the battle, the skeleton on the other hand the skeleton seemed like he was playing around.

As they fought the human started to accumulate scratches in his body, giving him a bloody look.

As the human was about to reach his limit, in a last attack he created a flying slash using all his strength.

A green flying slash materialized from his attack and flew toward the skeleton.

The skeleton also responded with his flying slash.

The two attacks crashed

'Clang'

As the two attacks clashed, the blue one cut through and made its way toward the man.

The man held his sword with both his hand, ready to block the attack, but was immediately thrown back on contact with the attack.

He flew back, bounced a few times on the ice, and lost consciousness.

When the man opened his eyes again,

He was laying in a bed, in a room very familiar to him.

A boy of around 10 years old was laying in a bed beside him, the boy looked at him and asked

You Hungry?

The man nodded with a "hum"

The child stood up from his bed, with bruises all over his body, and walked out of the room.

Looking at all those bruises a sigh escaped his mouth.

A year had passed since he was bought to this ship.