My name is Destroyer Princess.
Besides that...I really don't have anything else to say about myself. I have a feeling I was never really good at self-introductions...well, it's more that I really don't know a lot about myself yet...as weird as I feel that is to say about yourself.
I woke up today on an island somewhere. Somewhere hot...maybe somewhere near the equator. I don't know where I am. I guess I can just check my GPS, but...my head still hurts a bit, so I just want to take it easy for now. I woke up on a very comfortable bed of straw and clean, torn cloth. It was a lot more comfy than I thought. I almost didn't even want to wake up, because I felt like I was having such a good dream...
...but all I remember from that dream is that I felt like it had a bad ending, so I became a bit scared to go back to sleep.
Midway Princess was the only one with me at first. When I woke up, she told me that the others had gone off to forage for food. She asked me how I was feeling, and I said I was feeling okay, except for a small headache. I also realized that I was missing my legs...I don't even have any knees. This shocked me a lot. I asked Midway why I didn't have any legs, but she wouldn't say. She claimed she didn't know. Something tells me she does. But I don't want to press the issue...she seems like she's my superior.
It feels...strange. I feel really strange. It's like this body doesn't even belong to me. I don't know what's going on, but Midway took good care of me. Her pet Floating Fortresses were also really friendly too. They played with me like they were my pets too. I like them a lot - I asked Midway if I could eventually get some of my own, and she said that it would depend on how strong I would become in the future. I suppose I'll just have to get stronger then.
At first, I was worried when I found out that my legs were missing. I didn't know what I would do to move around, but Midway told me that apparently, I had my own way of getting around. She pointed at my leg stumps, and I saw that there were things like look like fans there that I could control. So I turned them on, and I found out that I can just hover. I can't fly...which kind of sucks. I wish I could fly like airplanes. But hovering is fine too. At least I can get around without having to rely on someone else to move me. That would...just be kind of pathetic by that point, to be honest. Always having to rely on someone else...I couldn't bear to be someone like that.
I had a lot of fun hovering around. The island we're on is very small, and I'd woken up in a little hut that Midway said she and Harbor Princess and Northern Princess and Re-Class had built together, just after noon or around that time. I asked where the others were, namely Harbor Princess, Northern Princess, and Re-Class, and Midway had to explain to me again that they were out foraging for our dinner. My mind is still a bit shaky, so I get the feeling I'll be really forgetful a lot. Anyway, I played a little bit of tag with Midway's Floating Fortresses. They look scary, but they're actually really fun to play with. They like to lick me, especially my arms. Midway explained that for some reason, the Floating Fortresses like the taste of sweat, so they'll always lick it off our skin, herself included. And because their tongues don't salivate unless they want to, it's not like we need to worry about wiping anything off. It's like they're drying us. It's cute.
Harbor, Northern, and Re-Class arrived back home a few hours after I'd woken up. Re-Class is a fun person to be around. She's very cheerful, and she welcomed me to their little group. "Hope the Abyssal life treats ya well!" she said, or something. "Better than - " she also tried to say, but Midway threw one of her Floating Fortresses at Re-Class to get her to shut up. I suppose Re-Class was about to tell me something I shouldn't hear, but I won't ask, since I feel like it'll be rude. Her tail is also quite friendly, just like the Floating Fortresses. It seems like they're good friends with each other, and her tail gave me a friendly lick on the face too.
Harbor is like a big sister to us. Midway treats her like a younger sister, though. I wonder why. The two of them seem pretty older sister-like, though. Maybe it's because they look older. Or is it because of their chest size? Is that it? Does chest size determine who's older among us? I guess I shouldn't put it past me. But regardless, Harbor has huge claws that make her look scary, but she's the friendliest out of everyone I met today. She even offered to feed me our lunch, thinking that maybe I wasn't feeling so well since I just woke up. When I asked what was going on and how I got here and why I don't remember anything before today, Harbor said that I was a new Abyssal ship girl recently constructed to fight against our enemies for the sake of our Admiral. So I asked who our enemies were and who our Admiral was, and Harbor said that everyone and anyone who wasn't an Abyssal was our enemy, and as for our Admiral...it was better if I didn't know who he was. That sounds scary...but at the same time, I don't know if I can fight with my only reason being that everyone is our enemy. I suppose I can fight for the sake of my friends and everyone here who's taken care of me, by the looks of things, but it would be nice if I knew who our Admiral was.
Speaking of which, I don't even know how to fight. What exactly am I supposed to do? Midway said that a couple friends were on their way here to give me my loadout, but I don't even know what it is. She reassured me that I'd know what to do with them when I saw them, but...ugh, there aren't a lot of things that aren't making sense. It's just better to not have to think so hard about things...I'll just go with their word on these kinds of things.
Dinner was delicious. Harbor and Re-Class caught all kinds of wonderful fish for us to eat. But strangely, I don't feel thirsty at all. I thought maybe we would have water somewhere, but it turned out that we didn't need any. Re-Class told me that Abyssals like us don't need to drink water because we desalinate seawater automatically and hydrates us subconsciously. It's like our hearts beating or our breathing, we don't need to think about it and it happens. Apparently. I don't remember spending a lot of time on the water, though, until after dinner.
After dinner I played around with Northern Princess a bit. She likes to call herself Hoppo, and so does everyone else. It's such a cute name. It's better than mine, anyway. Everyone actually calls me "Destroyer Princess". I wish I can get a nickname soon too. Hoppo is a cute little girl, and she was really interested in me, asking me all sorts of questions. I think she just wants to get to know me better, which makes me happy. She asked me how it was possible for me to hover around like I do, which I didn't know how to answer since I don't know how I'm able to do it. Apparently, though, according to Re-Class, Hoppo is the strongest Abyssal we have, and that it's probably our little secret mission to make sure she never falls into the hands of the enemy like several of our other Abyssal sisters before me had.
I found out that I could just water-walk like everyone else. It's a bit awkward for me, since I don't have legs, I'm a lot shorter on water than I am on land, since my hover ability doesn't work on water. But it's alright, it's something I can get used to.
Before we went to sleep, Harbor asked to see my hair, so I let her. After she felt my hair a little, she said that I easily had the best hair out of the Abyssals. Even Hoppo's, which was pretty nice, couldn't compare to mine. I'm not exactly sure how Harbor was able to determine that with those huge claw-like hands of hers, but I didn't ask. But I did feel my own hair for myself. For some reason, it didn't look right. For my hair to be so white...it was a bit unnerving. It's like it was supposed to be another color...like the whiteness of my hair wasn't the result of a natural pigment but because it was the result of another color being drained out. That's what it looks like to me. And my skin, too...was it always this white? Somewhere in the back of my head, something is trying to tell me that I wasn't like this before, but...no matter how hard I try to think about what I might've been like before today, I just can't do it. I really don't remember anything before today.
It scares me that I don't remember anything before today. Maybe this is all just a bad dream too. But if that's the case, when will I wake up? And to who? This feels too real to be just a bad dream. I guess I'll just have to figure things out along the way and find out what exactly is going on and what my purpose really is. I'll try to fit in...for now, for as far as it'll get me. As much as I want to make friends with everyone here and repay them for all that they've done to take care of me, it's all too clear that something is being kept secret from me that absolutely must not be revealed to me, lest something truly dangerous happens. A part of me wants to find out what that is, but another part of me doesn't want to know, that my life will just be ruined even further if such a secret is ever revealed.
Midway seemed to know that I was having some trouble getting used to my situation here, so she sat with me at the shore of the small island as we watched the moon. Tonight is a clear night, so the moon was beautiful to look at. She told me that everything would work out, that I would successfully adjust to my new life with them very soon. "The world will be ours for the taking, the rightful property of us, the Abyssals," she promised, "a world in which we can live in peace. That is why we fight." For such a cause, I guess I can't not fight. Being able to have peaceful, happy nights like this with my new friends and family...it would be wonderful, wouldn't it?
I'll do my best, regardless. It's a bit daunting, but I'm sure everyone can help me make it through, and some day I'll be able to return the favor.