The ship glided with the steady breath of the calm waters as the members of the Red hair Pirates celebrated after the amazing haul made after successfully raiding a Marine ship
"This is was definitely worth the trouble"
"Right?!"
Two pirates members yapped at the far front of the ship deck where the treasures were temporarily held
"Now I can finally get that knife that got those shiny diamond thing at the handle"
"Knife?" The other wasn't all that impressed. He stopped and looked at his partner "Wait a minute, the one back at logue town?"
"Mhh hm" He nodded
"You know that's a total rip off right? Thirty thousand berries for something that you'll likely drop into the bottom of the sea"
"Like I'm that careless"
"Say that to your previous blade, and the other before that one"
"Come man why you always have to be a joy–"
"Shut up"
Both of them went quiet, with noise only coming from the rest of their crewmates still dancing and singing.
His partner tilt moved his head to the side. "What's wrong–?"
"Can't you hear that?"
"Hear what?!" His partner was already dying of the suspense
He looked at the hip of treasures stacked in front of them. Bags of gold, jewellery and chest also containing gold and other valuable items.
He dug into treasure and forked out a chest box. Big enough that he lifted it with both hands. From a single glance one could tell it didn't hold any kind of treasure, the wood looked clean, red brown and sturdy. The decorations glittered, its edges were embedded fine gold that plastered a reflection of the sun on their faces.
It was jaw dropping, but what made their jaw dropped even further was the infant cry that escaped from the chest.
"Go get the boss he gotta see this" He said to his partner's face. His partner bolted while he remained looking at the fine chest, he wondered why there was a baby locked in a chest and why was it on a Marine ship.
However the case may be this wasn't any average child.
While on a long chain of thoughts another cry came from the pile of treasures.
I must be hearing things. He thought, however after some seconds of self doubts the cry was still faint and audible. He carefully dropped the chest on the cabin floor and entered into the pile of treasures following the directions of the cry.
He stumbled upon another chest box almost as big as the other, however the second one looked a bit different in the designs. He picked it up gently and placed it side by side with the first.
***
In a matter of minutes almost all crew members had gathered round, circling the two chests and casting long shadows on the two infants soundly resting on their backs
Murmur filled the air. They thought among themselves why a Marine war ship was in possession of two babies, and what to do with the babies here on after, that decision was to be concluded by the captain of the Red Hair pirates.
"So? What's going on?"
There was a break in the circle. A young man walked through casually and came to a halt right in front of the two babies. He wore a white long sleeve shirt that hung on his straight shoulders and tucked into a brown patched trouser. His hair, straight and crimson red, on his left eye were three mark scars that ran all the way from the top of his brows to his cheek. The Captain of the Red Hair Pirates, Red Hair Shanks
"What is this?!" His eyes shot open
"Boss they are babies–"
"I know they are babies but…what is this?" he gestures with his hands "Where did you find them?" He asked
"They were among the treasures we hauled from the Marines" The pirate who had found them stepped out.
"What is a Marine war ship doing with two babies?" He asked, this time no one answered directly only murmurs filled the air
"What are we to do with them Boss" A young man with loose dreadlock hair walked up to him. Yasopp.
"We should raise them, it would be nice" Lucky Roux said tearing a chunk of meat with his teeth
"Raise them?!!" Shanks and Yasopp exclaimed together,
"As in raising a kid?" Yasopp asked which attracted a side look from Shanks.
He sighed, walked up to the babies and picked them from the chest, they had mucus and saliva dripping from their nose and mouths. One of the babies was bigger in size, having a weird hair color mixture with half being white and the other half red. The other baby on his right was soundly asleep his hair color was blood red
"They look like they're related" Yasopp commented at the hair color
"Maybe" Shanks said
A voice came from the top of the foremast, "I think Roux is right." It was a man with long dark hair and a stern look. Beckman, the Vice Captain of the Red Hair Pirates. "We should raise them for now and besides they look just like you Boss"
Shanks sighed weakly, not like there was any other option around than to raise the two mysterious babies.