Chapter 1 : respective viewpoint
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelinn, it was my name since I born in this new human form. I have a long black hair, wearing some black t-skirt and long pants, and a cheest my previous life I was great aircraft carrier made in Deutsche Werke naval base. I the only aircraft carrier on german and represented part of the Kriegsmarine ' s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas.
But…it all a lie…
When I first made I have many obstacle and I was not completed and was never operational due to shifting construction priorities necessitated by the war. remained in the Baltic for the duration of the war; with Germany's defeat imminent, the crew scuttled me just outside Stettin in March 1945.
In the end The Soviet Union raised me in March 1946, and I was ultimately sunk in weapons tests north of Poland 17 months later. The wreck was discovered by a Polish survey ship in July 2006.
pathetic is not it?
I felt very shame you know? I just made to become a target ship, a tool that be use to weapon test. I always having a daydream to figh along side Bismarck-class and other ship of kriegsmarine but no matter I try the past wont changes and they will not stop laught at me.
I felt very odd…
Kure naval arsenal : Ui office room.
I enter the admiral room and saw young woman sitting on the chair, from the look I can tell that she was the admiral in this naval base. Beside her there was another girl standing on her said, she wearing a maiden cloths with blue short dress and a chest protector.
I walk and stand In front of admiral "my name is graff zeppelin! I was a part of kriegsmarines…I made at deutsche, I was made to attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas….. oh one more thing….i am a boy"
The admiral smile at me "okey…my name is Ui kannagi, I will become you admiral…and here is kaga…she will be your teacher, I hope you can getting a long"
Kaga look at me she then taking a step toward me " I am the first carrier division kaga….i will become you teacher…."
"okey….you guys may leave and having fun"
We give admiral a salutation before left the room. I walk beside kaga, damn she look beautiful. She look at me, some how she look unhappy.
"listend….."said her.
"yes?"
"did you know the reason why you moved here?"she ask.
"i…umm, to study about the first carrier division, to increase the skill that I have and the top of that…to…to match akagi!"
Kaga remind silent for a while she then stare at me with a cold eyes. Anger has been fully her heart. I start shiver when her cold eyes meet my eyes.
"whats make you think that you can match akagi?!"
"i..umm..i.."
"why every one said some think like that…..they forget about akagi and then they send a new kid, just what the admiral thinking is? I don't understand….we gonna start the training but I will not make you to surpass akagi-san or match her!"
I remind silent for a while, i didnt know that japanese aircraft carrier can be this scary, she also become hate me.
"what are you doing…we gonna start the practice!"
"ah..so..sorry, I will be there soon"
Aircraft carrier training room : 12:00 pm
After a long walk from admiral office we arrived at some training area. Its located neer the ocean cliff. The training room was more like a Japanese inner house with tatami floor, white paint wall,and many arrow and bow on the shelf.
"we start the traning now..let me see what can you do….."said kaga while sitting on the floor. I take a bow on the shelf and one arrow from the small barrel beside the bow shelf.
Slowly I pull the bow string along side with the arrow. I take deep breath and stare at the target that located on the top of the ocean. Be patient and make your selft calm.
"what..are you doing?"ask kaga.
"i..i try to aim at the target…"answer me
She make a big sigh and then she glare at me "if this is not a training you will be same as dead" she taking her bow and a single arrow " if you want aim the target at least its need taking only for a 10 second" she shoot her arrow, it turn into a single zero plane and then the plane shoot directly to the target.
"woahh…."said me.
"just what every one suspect from you….you even don't know the basic of shooting arrow, I cant believe why the admiral order me to train you"
She grab another arrow and then glare at me "you better sit and watch….make sure you study and remember every thing because one week later there will be a big scale of sortie and assault to seize every thing that lose before"
"yes..maam"said me while sitting on the tatami floor like a child that get scolded by his mother.
Aircraft carrier dorm : afternoon,16:00 pm
I walk at the dorm, man I feel very tired and want to goes to the dock for relieve my self after having a rought training with kaga.
"hey you there how the training goes?"
I turn around and saw two young lady approaching me. One with long white hair and one with brown hair with two pony tail. I know them, they are the carriear from division five, shoukaku and zuikaku.
"hey whats up?!"said shoukaku.
"are you alright look likes you need to goes to the dock?"said zuikaku with a worried face.
"yeah..but the dock was full and the other is more need than me"answer me "anyway..you guys look mess up too….so…how does it feel?"
"feels what?"ask zuikaku and shoukaku.
"the sortie….how you guys feels when fight the enemy?"
They both stare at me " well…some times its will be scary you know, but well it will be fun some time when you saw the enemy was sunk and burn in the same time"said zuikaku, this actually bring some bad memory for me.
"oh..well, thank you to worry me..i will leaving now"said me while walking away from them.
"it's a weird guy"said zuikaku.
"don't said that zuikaku…he look some how a nice personto me"said shoukaku "I am sure…he just need more time"
"his teacher was her….just what admiral think is?"
"I wonder too zuikaku..anyway his right, we probably need taking a bath too"sugest shoukaku "fine, but this time let me comb your hair shoukaku-nee?!"ask zuikaku.
"fine..just only this time"
The first carrier division room : 19:00 pm
The night finaly come and this mean the time to the fleet to sleep, well I little surprise that they apply a curfew in this naval base, Japanese seems to be very strict in enforcing the rules very different with german.
I was sitting while writing on my diary on the big desk, the room in here was nice, it have a tatami floor, one big wood cabinets,one wooden bed and one bunk beds. The wall was paint with blue sky color.
"…zzzz….zzzz…"
I heard kaga snoring, she must be very tired after teach me over and over again, I felt very guilty ,its realt hard to shoot the this keep up I cant achieve my goals or even worse get scuttled again, I need to more practice over and over again.
"…hmm..didn't I tell you to goes to sleep?"
Suddenly kaga was awake from her sleep. I try to hiden my diary, its not like I am hide some thing very suspicious from her, well I guess you guys will understand when you want some one to not knowing your secret.
"..i will soon sleep..i..i just need to goes to the bathroom"
"I see…please sleep, because tomorrow we gonna start the practice in early morning…"said kaga while bend over her selft under the blanket "…and..graft zeppelin"
"just zeppe is fine"said me
"fine….i just want to say..sorry about what I told you this morning….i should not let personal matter getting mixed on admiral order…I may not make you match akagi but I will make sure to make you a real aircraft carrier"
"I see..thank you kaga-san"said me with a big smile on my face "then excuse me..i will soon come back and get sleep"
Kaga just nodded, she then close her eyes and fall into a big slumber. I close my books with smile that still sign on my face.i hide my diary book on my suitcase , hope no one will find out.
Morning, aircraft carrier training room : 06:30
"again! You do some mistake…..you keep miss shooting from the target!"
Again and again I keep miss shooting the target. Its was damn hard to aim the target and kaga always disturb me by calling my name or something that can distracted me.
After 3 hours we get some rest, I am glad that finaly she stop scolding me and yell at me. Why I keep fail and fail again? I wonder if this related to my past as a real ship. To be honest I doubt my self that I can made it.
"listen….i will ask the admiral to give you other teacher.."
"what, but why kaga-san?"ask me.
"you difficult to be taught…the prove is that you keep making same mistake"
"but i-!"
Kaga suddenly stand up "if you want me to keep teaching you then you must proved to me that you can shoot the target….it will be useless if you can't do some basick level…I give you a time to practice until the sun almost set…if you cant do it then I ask the other from carrier of two division"
"i…"just when I want to talk kaga left me "will try..my best"said this is so…uneasy, no matter what I try it over and over again I cant shoot the target accurately. I need a help, should I ask this to others carrier? No wait….they went for a sortie today and will retun on the next month.
Well I need a some one but who? There is no carrier now except kaga here and it will be not a good Idea since she look angry to me. I keep thinking but could get answer.
"guess..i will goes to library"
When I walk on the hallway I meet with shoukaku,she wear a pink yukata judging from her appearance she must be taking a moderate damage.
"oh, hai there..umm..what is your name once again..umm..zepp…zeppe.."
"its zeppelin..but you can call me zeppe if you want"said me.
"okey…then zeppe, how is you practice with kaga?"
"….it didn't work at all, I keep doing same mistake again and again. She must be dissepoint with me, she even said that she will ask other carrier to teach me!"
"I see…that must be tought for you…."said shoukaku.
"by the way shoukaku-san..whats happend to you, did you get shoot or bombed by the abyssal?"
"no...you see..some time i doing some thing reckless and put my self into a trouble..you know the rumor arent you?"
i thiking for a while until i figure out what shoukaku means, if i'm not mistake there was a nickname that kanmusu give to her but i could not recall it. the name that related to unlucky girl or some thing..umm oh i know.
"its unfortunate kanmusume!"
*crash!*
she sudenly falling into ground with depression aura coiling on her. slowly she then crying in loud voice.i must be hitting the spot that make her become very desperate and her despair switch was turn on and make her get into sulky mode.
"..ca..calm down shoukaku-san!i..ii..i dont think that you are less fortunate,for me you are quiet luck one..i..i mean..you have beautiful face, silky hair, anyway from any point of view you are good looking..but not just that..i mean you already makes a good record! like..umm..oh yeah, like the Battle of the philipphine see!"
"uwaaaaa!"she screaming even more louder from look like mentioning the philipphine sea is a taboo word.
"p..please calm down..i..umm,thats it, shokaku-san how about i treat you some food on mammiya cafe?!i have a lot voucher that i get from admiral yesterday!"
"sob...sob..realy...then i can order anything that i want?"
"umm...well..yeah.."
"yeah!then what we waiting for let go to mammiya cafe!"
Mamiya café
When we enter the café its look empty, well almost empty because I saw kaga was sitting near the window while eating some parfait. we then walk away to some table which is not far from kaga table.
Mammiya then walk to ours table while holding some note and pen on her hand. She write our order, shokaku takes some special breakfeast and I take some parfait with me, she then left us and running away to kitchen and start making ours order.
"so..what kind problem that bothering you?"ask zukaku.
"well…I just cant iam the target very well, I keep messing around over and over again…kaga said that I should not taking so much time when aiming the target but the result makes me shooting throuht the target and not hitting it!"
"I see…well, its normal its fine you know…I remember when zuikaku still in level 1, she always making same mistake like you, she couldnt aiming the target very well"
"she did, then how many time she need to fix her problem?!"
"we see..umm…I guess its take five or six month to her.."
No way, that's to much from the time limit that kaga gived to me. I need to figure out some way to solve my problem before the sun was set, that's mean I have six hours left before the time is up.
"here is your order..is there any you want to order again?"ask mammiya.
"no, thanks mammiya-san"said shoukaku then mammiya left us. shokaku seems enjoyed her breakfeast, the food that she order are quite luxurious looking, i hoppe the voucher was enought so my wallet will not taking a heavy damage. i eat the parfait, its realy delicious. Its realy sweet and cold, I like it very like it.
"did you enjoy the parfait?"ask shoukaku.
"yess..i like this parfait, mammiya-san must be very skill full on cooking"
"yes indeed, she realy know how to makes some food"
"I see….but, I wonder if she not lonely…from what I heard she always spend her time in this café and never went for a sortie,thought she was also kamusu, but did she ever felt boring?"
Shokaku smile to me " well…once in a while I have that question on my mind and then I ask her, that time she said that she was never boring and lonely at all…the reason is quiet simple..its because she like it…she like when we gather around and having chat, she like when we can makes a big smile while eating ours food…thought she never going on sortie with us but as long she can cook for us she always feels that she always with us"
"I see…."
"zeppe..listend to me…every one have their own respective viewpoint, maybe you need to find some you respective view point"
"I see….then I should not wasted more time, I shall soon start my training again"
"glad to heard that..then i gonna watch you today..i will help you"
"realy?!"
"yes indeed..anyway i gonna help you...i want to watch you surprise her and the top of that..ufufu, i want to make her fealing desperated when she from the vital fleet cant even teaching a single aircraft..fufufu, wathing her become upset while me laughing behind her, isnt it the best?"
"uh..umm"
"just jooking"
Kaga who was sitting not far from them was watching over zeppelin and shoukaku, a glimpse of memory was sighted on her mind. That time she ate with akagi and it was exactly like zeppelin and shoukaku right now.
"hey akagi-san, whats makes us different than any other fleet?"
"hmm…lets see..kaga why you fighting?"
"…I fighting for you sake akagi-san…you are my sister…"
"see…. there you answer"
"…..i don't get it"
"then let me put it simple….we may be almost same with other, the only thing that makes us different is our class but I think some thing is much much more different is the intention…the intention with many version is some think is diffrent and yet bounding us"
Kaga remind silent and a tears was falling into her cheek. That time is almost exactly like this time, the place and the time almost same. Odd, very odd that was kaga thinking. Is he some how connected to her? Its almost like a de javu to her.
(akagi-san…if you are here just what will you be said….)
Kaga look at her parfait, she a eat the parfait with her spoon. Its taste just like a ordinary parfait, thought it taste very delicious when some one very important eat a longside her. At first it taste very sweet, but know….its just ordinary. She want to come back at that old time, the time when she watch over her beloved sister eating the parfait and left some little remaining ice cream on her cheek, then she will wipe it out and makes a such hot scene but end up with laught.
Kaga then rise from her chair and walk toward me. She touch my shoulder "..i will wait…make sure don't waste much time…and one more…please don't push your self" said her then left the café. I remind silent, did she just say some thing to support me or insult me? I wonder.
Aircraft carrier training room : afternoon, 05:00 pm
Again and again I fail again. Shoukaku look very worry, she afraid if I fail and kaga will ask other to teach me. She wouldn't mind to teach me but kaga was refuse.
"I will not let the carrier of grub five for teaching him….its only make it even worse than before" that's what she said.
Kaga just remind silent, she just sitting on the tatami floor and watch over me. I take one arrow from the barrel, it's the last arrow, that's means I only have single chages and if this arrow miss I also gonna lose my changes here.
"you better hury up…the sun is almost set"said kaga.
Damn! She was right, the sun start set and the sky color slowly turn into orange. I pull my bow string and sweat start wetting my forehead.
One more time…but I know this will gonna miss from target again.
"you need to find some respective point"
I opend my eyes and figure out some way, though it maybe work or not but I guess this is worth it. If I gonna fail I must fail with pride full.
I flip the bow horizontally and aim the I can cleary see the target now, I will made it. I shoot the arrow and it turn into a zero plane. The sun was now completely set and the ligh was off.
Did I fail?
*bam!*
I heard a loud voice from the ocean. Did the plane shoot the target? I hoppe it is because if doesn't then I will jump from the tip of the clift.
"did it works?" ask shoukaku.
Kaga than stand up from the floor and then she shoot some burning arrow. When the the arrow hitting the target, we saw some hole in it, yess I made . kaga then makes a big sight before stare at me and walking toward us.
"you made it…as my promise I will teach you again…"
"the..then, that's mean that you still accept me as a student?!"
"no..i didn't "
I got startled. Why? I thought that I already made it and she promise to me that she will accept me "why?! I thought that you said that you will teach me!"yell me. Kaga just remind silent for a while.
"listend..since when I said that I will accept you as my student?"
"that's…you right"
"don't get it wrong…..i said that I teach you but not making you to become my student…you are now more enough than that….you are my comrade…"
Kaga then walk toward door and then stand still for a while "its start getting late…I will went to mammiya café for dinner..feel free to joint me graf zeppelin"said kaga then vanishe throught the door.
I look at shoukaku and then I hug her very thigly "thanks shoukaku!i will pay you for teaching me..so you can ask me anything!"
"t..then, please let me go….its very embarrassing if some one see us like this"
I let go shoukaku and jumped on the floor, I finaly made it now I just need to keep practice along side kaga. In other side Shoukaku seems very enjoyed my achievement, she smile with big red on her cheeks. I pull her hand and that makes her got little surprise.
"w..what are you doing?!"yell her to me.
"today lets celebrate my achievement!i will pay for the food so don't hold it, order any food you want shoukaku!"
"w..wait, just calm down please!"yell shoukaku.
The first carrier division room : 19:00 pm
I was sitting on the chair and once again I write my day on my diary. Today I made it! I made it! With this I am sure that I will achive my goals and fullfil my objeck.
I took some picture from my bag. It have a brown frame with a picture inside it. On the picture there was a girl with golden blonde hair, she wearing a battleship costume while holding my hand. She was some one very importand to me before and she was the reason why I am so persistent to never give up.
"Bismarck.. did you know, today i manage to hitting the target!"
Just when I spacing around kaga entered the room. She wearing some pink yukata and her still soaked with the water. She look at me who was now sitting on the window, for once she ignored me but then she speak to me.
"….is there something wrong zeppelin?"
"ah kaga..no…umm..nothing"
"I see..then you better sleep soon because we will having more practice tomorrow"
I put the picture to my suitcase and then lie down on the futon, I hold my bolster pillow very thigly while cuddle my face on it. Kaga then dooze off the ligh and lie down on her bed. She look at me who was still cuddle my face on my bolster.
"…hey…."said kaga who was break the silence "whats are you fighting for?"ask her "hmm…what I fighting for huh…..hmm, I guess is for my existence"answer me, kaga then look at me "you..existence?"said her "yes…you see, I was build in german Deutsche Werke naval base, but I never have any pride at all. no one or any body that notice me, they always laughing me and always said that I was useless"
"maybe I just exist to getting suffer….such fool of me"said me "but..if the time have come when I was needed by every one I will make sure that I will coming…."
Kaga then get startled, her eyes was widen open and some pices of memory was sighten on her that moment zeppelin said some thing that akagi said before and that make kaga want to cry, but she endured it and turn her head.
The one who always act cool and solid that was kaga before akagi left. She is now more centimental, easy to cry, her pride as the carrier of division one was washed away with her sister death.
"you…some how reminds me to her"
"what?"said me
"nothing…we should sleep soon….good night"kaga then curly up her self with her blanket and pretend to sleep.
"well…good night, kaga"said me then fall to sleep.
Mean while :Ui office room
"admiral,are you sure about this..to send aircraft carrier kaga and graf zeppelin to joint in AMO (just fanmade) operation?" ask nagato "well..we don't have any option, the enemy has increase their air territory…that why the H.Q order me to send a back up"
"but admiral…from my point of view, graf zeppelin is not ready to launched yet..if he does..i afraid he will be sunk….and kaga, she still have some trauma from previous operation…"
"that's why nagato..i want you as the flagship to protect them..i want you to escort them to turk island, I already makes the assigned group to escort the carrier a long side of you..when you arrived, please give this to her"said yummy while lend nagato some scrool.
"please don't opened now…promise me no matter what, you should not let anything happened to that scrool"
"yes..i will protect this scrool with my all life"
"good now you can go now"
Nagato then give the admiral salutation before left the room. Mean while yummy seem very concern about some thing. She opened the window and look at the moon, she claps her hand and then pray to the god.
"hoppe they will coming home…all of them"said yummy.
To be continue!
