"You should be fine, come on, just do what you've learned so far."

"U-unghhh… I… I don't know… this is the first time I'm doing it for real…"

"You're pretty good at the basic you know, just follow my lead and everything should be just fine ok? Now dip in slowly…"

"U-unghhhh… kay… B-but what if it happened again…"

"Don't worry, I'll carefully watches every steps that you make and corrects you when necessary ok?"

"O-ok… s-slowly… a-aahhh"

"A-ah, wait…" –splash-

…

It was a cloudy day when a new Makigumo joins our fleet. She seems rather inexperienced at first, and I didn't really expected her to excel at handling the submarine warfare equipments on the training pool but well, she actually did. Still though, she's still too far from ready to be engaged with the Abyssal Fleet for now. Knowing so, the admiral told me to give a simple tour with Makigumo around the scanned sea nearby our base.

"Ok you're steady now… I'll release my hand as you try to stabilize yourself ok?"

"O-ok instructor…"

With that, I slowly lets her hands which is covered by her sleeves slowly. I keep my glare at her eyes as I smile to ensure her that everything is going to be fine, and by the time I completely let her hands go, she's already standing tall on the sea's surface.

"Yes! That's a good one, oh and by the way, you could just call me by name you know."

"Instructor Inazuma?"

"U-uhh… yea.. you could also leave the 'instructor' actually"

"U-uhhngggh.." Makigumo could only shook her head to that so I decided to just let it slip and pats her head.

"Alright then, let's just get started." I say before I start my engine and leads her to a nearby island.

The mission starts pretty early in the morning. The sun had just rise several minutes ago and the sky is still painted in dimmed blue with some of it still being covered by the clouds from yesterday. The two of us traverse the sea, leaving white trails on it as we cover some of the naval's basic movement practice which looks as if we're painting a sort of mural in the vast blue sea. Slowly, I managed to gain Makigumo's self esteem which shown up by a stretched smile on her previously gloomy face. But suddenly…

"ah, huh?" I can feel a fairy nudging my neck for a bit while, then I realized that it is the Compass Fairy… she fixes her magician-like hat as she jumps to my ear and carefully whispers some words "I uh.. but we're not that far from the naval base…"the fairy insisted me to look at the Compass and surprisingly indeed, it looks like there's a change of Z Particle waves right ahead, so I let the compass fairy does it job by putting her above the compass which I put on my palm.

"E-eh wh-why are we stopping..?"

"The node shift is happening."

"N-node shift?"

"A-ah yes, you've just been transferred here right, yea well, I didn't expected it to happens here

but well… to begin with, you knew that the reason why we could stay afloat like this without a proper ship-like hull is because of the Z Particle Waves right?"

"A-ahah.." Makigumo nods in confusion.

"Basically this particle wave is what keeps us shipgirls afloat in the sea and these compass fairy which was entrusted to the flagship is the one who could tell when and where the wave streams goes to… no one particularly knew how this waves works yet, but it is said that the Abyssal Fleets are also using this to stay afloat and is able to manipulates its route. So where there's a Node Shift, there usually is an Abyssal Fleets." I keep my focus at the compass which is still rotating and the fairy above it whom looks kind of worried, she bits her right hand as she sees the rotating compass hand.

"E-eeehh!? So, we're going to face an enemy already?"

"Note that I did said usually."

"B-but then there's a chance right?"

"I doubt that there'll be an abyssal fleet girl here today though, Hiei usually ran a patrol here and if you looked at her back at the naval base, she's pretty much all shining. I bet she had took all available abyssal here."

"I-I see…"

"and if anything happens you have me…" as I tried to looked back, I could see a shocked face of

Makigumo as she points somewhere…

"H-Ha Class!" I said and at almost the same time, the compass stopped spinning and is pointing directly to where the small dots, which revealed to be an enemy, came from.

"N-no that's not the main problem, look above…"

"O-oh dear…. Uh, Makigumo, remember when I said that there's still much mysteries as to how the Z Particle Wave's route work?" Makigumo nods with a nervous hums, "well, one of the mystery is that sometimes natural phenomenon like tidal waves; whirlpool and such could also affect the route…"

"I… I see… uhh… then… shall we run?"

"Indeed, we shall." With that, the two of us, followed by the Ha class, make a full speed advance to anywhere but toward the gathering tornado behind us.