Day 4, Part 2

I left Maze's house and started watching the roads that intersected the street that Maze lived at. Once I saw Red's figure, I immediately began walking down the path, as if I was coming from that direction. Red and I finally crossed paths at the junction of the roads, but to my surprise, the person we had seen the night before was also there. The new person seemed to ignore me at first, and glared at Red. However, before anyone could say anything, Maze came outside and invited us into his home.
 
Maze then explained to us that we were going to become a crew; his crew in fact. We all agreed, and then Maze called in his friend Mammon.
IT WAS THE MASKED BEING I HAD SEEN ALL THIS TIME
 
I immediately got into a defensive stance. I did not trust this being one bit. But now that he was visible to everyone, I was able to identify that he was an Oni. I had only seen one before in a traveling circus cage. But it seemed that Maze had hired Mammon to bring us all together. I felt a bit of relief upon hearing that, but I was still quite concerned about... well, everything about them. There was nothing off, that I could tell. I just had that... feeling...
 
But we eventually boarded a ship and made our way across the sea. During the boat ride, we had a celebration for our success with defeating the pirate that had stolen his money. I happily provided my services and baked a cake for everyone. But then Maze had all of us stay in one room and insisted that we have some "bonding time". I did not mind, of course. I sat down on the carpet and just sat there, waiting for everyone to sit down. Red took one of the bunks in this room, and claimed the top for himself, and had his dog sit at the bottom bunk.
 
I went over to the dog, and started petting him, talking to him as I did so. We had a nice conversation, but I may have forgotten about the others there for a while.
 
Then a lady walked into the room that seemed to be in charge of the ship, along with Maze, and told us to hand over our weapons. Thankfully, they did not ask me for any, so I was able to keep my gauntlets. Not that I would have used them, haha. But we found out that we were going to help this lady out, with some guards that had surrounded the ship at the place we had docked. The person we saw from before, who I learned was Jyrone Xanos, walked up to negotiate with the guards, when suddenly, one of them asked for Red.
 
To everyone's shock, this soldier turned into a huge black dragon. It created a gust with its wings, and knocked Jyrone unconscious. But before it could do anything else, it shriveled up, and fell to the ground. I realized that this was necromancy magic at work. Red walked up and grabbed a piece of paper from the shriveled body that I had not noticed before, read it, and looked up with fear in his eyes.
 
"We have to run, now!" Red said. We all ran, with Mammon carrying the unconscious Jyrone. However, we were stopped by about forty guards, and were promptly brought into a prison cell for questioning