Leroy ran over to the Railing and looked up to the frantic looking face of Eddie, his boney features were scrunched, bone brow furrowed down and the eye sockets islands inwards with the teeth curving down, those icy blue eyes sharply piercing.
Without a second thought, Leroy crouched and took a leap of a few meters up to the rotting ship "What's up Ed?"
"Come." The Skeleton spoke as Noir and Dezzi followed along after their Captain. The wood creaked as they followed Eddie to the back of to a tall door on a four wall structure similar to the one on the Ember, but instead of being a part of the ship's frame, it was like another structure on top of the deck.
There were small windows with at one point full curtains that were now ragged.
Eddie approached the large door "Brace yourselves…What Lies beyond this door…I'll need your help with handling…"
With a twist of the nob and the loud creaking of the old rusted hinges. The door opened into a dark room.
The room at first was just that, pitch black. It was clearly a barracks. Or used to be something similar. Beds stacked on one another. They were all empty. Leroy was about to ask what was wrong when he heard a strange sound
It was hollow and harsh, raspy like sandpaper on wood in a set of vocal cords. It made Dezzi's ears twitch as the smoke of Noirs cigarette idly rose into the air.
Red sparks of light suddenly appeared at the far end of the room, followed by a louder sound of a groan! And in a flash something dashed across the room! The group all turned to the side, causing a group of 8 to fall and topple to the ground
"What the hell?!" Noir shouted as he saw the figures on the ground, all piled on top of one another.
The groans quaked through the air as the figures were now in the dim light. They were–
"Zombies?!" Leroy shouted as he clenched his fist. But Zombies weren't right. They were indeed undead of some kind with rotting skin and decaying bodies, but there was something off about them…Those eyes, they were jagged while other eyes were 'normal'. Horns came from their heads, spikes across the flesh.
"Demons?!" Dezzi shouted in fear
Close enough.
Demonic Zombified corpses. They all were Vastly unique in their bodies. One of them was skinny with spiked shoulders and a hollow looking head with sharp snaggled teeth and a large horn in the middle of his head. "Tune" Eddie announced his name
Then one with two flat horns like a buffalo covered where the eyes would be with a hollow head in the back, a large chin and jagged rock like teeth "Hymn"
Rotted teeth, eye socket exposed with a eyeball inside other side of her face was coated in a strange chitin material that had deep line texture to it hiding the other side "Ryth"
with a large but chin, two skewer like horns, large brow, rotten shoulder with exposed bone and rotted away arms. The Same snaggletoothed maw as the others. "Clef"
A single one that looked like three was actually three morphed and melted together. One large arm with veins and musculature bulging with spikes coming from their skin, the other arm emaciated with a larger forearm. The head of the Zombie Demon was a hollowed eyed trio of heads fused together, the middle screaming in pain, a small head from the neck with one large eye while the other eye was shrunken and covered with skin like melted cheese and a small horn
The far right head a cycloptic head, mouth stretched wide with a curving horn on its head "Hip, Hop and Pop…"
The final of the eight was "Key…" Key was a mummified corpse with a hollow looking face, no eyes or nose. The mouth was now an accumulation of knuckle like bones, the same bones covering all of her torso, neck, and shoulders.
With a roar of vigor the Creatures finally were able to get back to their feet, and attempted to launch forwards at the group! Claw and talons bared like rabid animals!
"Don't Hurt them! I have a plan! Just Hold them!" Eddie shouted as he pulled a staff from below his cloak, where it had been hanging the entire time
"Gum Gum! Manacle!" Leroy stretched his arm and wrapped it around all of the necks of each of the zombies, causing them to stop in mid motion
"I've had over a hundred years to figure out just what my Fruit is capable of…" With a twirl of his staff, the tip folded out like a pocket knife to form the blade of a scythe!
"Soul Slayer…Rend!" Then, like a farm ready for harvest Eddie slashed through the air! The tip of his blade began to radiate a strange aura, deep icy blue much like his eyes in color.
The moment the tip came within mere centimeters of connecting, it seemed to meet resistance as another color formed, a paler white grey color mixed with blue like seeing blue in snow.
From one to another, the scythes tip pulled from each of the corpses. It looked to be, the souls!
Their eyes began to fade, the light flickering out as the strange misty fog was pulled from the bodies and into the air! All of the Zombified demonic bodies going limp as they were!
"Take you? Are you sure…Oh…I understand…Thank you. May you travel on in peace, my friends…" Eddie muttered to himself as he gripped the apparitions by his hand, the fog slinking towards and absorbing into his body…
At the same time, the bodies of the undead pirates began to revert back to their original state. Bone white skeletons with rags hanging from their bodies…