Warmth. That was all he felt despite being killed by some type of creature. But the thing is he didn't feel like he was dead. Was he dead? After regaining some of his thought he opened his eyes to a blurry light. 'I am dead it seems.' The man thought. His vision then cleared to two faces hovering above him. The salvage worker, and the girl. Screaming he then quickly backed away, flinging up sand as the salvage worker grabbed him to try and stop, "Whoa whoa! Calm down kid! She's deh one who bought yeh out of the ship!"

"B-But! But I swear she's not what she seems. She freaking killed me!" He remarked fearfully, trying to escape the grip of the man.

"Kid. She's completely normal."

"She had sharp teeth! And her movement was weird too!"

The salvage worker then slapped him. "She's normal. A normal damn girl. No monster teeth or whatever your imagination says. Yer' hallucinating" The girl then walked over like a normal human being rather than the odd movement he thought of. Her head was also tilted in confusion at his actions. He could also clearly see her clothing and what she looked like. "But I swear she killed me!"

"As he said. You're hallucinating. I should've turned on the lights..." The girl then stated.

"Then what happened." He asked as he leaned against the baked sand. The girl then looked at him before responding, "Well. Because it was dark you were quite scared so your mind was playing tricks. When you jumped down through the door you hit your head pretty hard and got knocked out. Thus you dreamed everything that you were seeing. My name's Roki. You?"

He looked at the girl and then the salvage worker who also stared into his face. "Uh. Corlind." He responded as he slowly got up. The salvage worker looked at him and then Roki, "Mind me askin' what ye were doin' on 'dat ship?"

Roki then turned to the black ship sitting on it's side, "Well It's mine."

"You own a warship?" Corlind asked.

She then looked back at him, "Well, It's more that I lived on it. We were caught in a storm and ended up here."

Corlind and the salvage worker looked at each other in confusion before looking back at her, "You do know that there hasn't been a major storm recently right?" Roki looked at them in surprise before at her feet, "W-Well. I got caught in a storm and holed up. I must've slept too long." The two continued to look at her.

Corlind sighed, "What type of excuses are those. They are highly invalid and there's absolutely no proof or logic behind them."

"I got attacked alright! And I had no way to fight back at all." Roki screamed at them, her face red. "Dattle' 'splain 'dem scorch marks." The salvage worker nodded, "But that doesn't explain how you ended up here with nothing ripped off. And how yeh did it so fast. Dunnit matter. If it's yours, try to get it out of here quickly 'fore someone else spots it. And before the military gets here." The salvage worker then strided off, leaving Roki and Corlind. Roki seemed to be distraught by this as she muttered, "How am I supposed to get off this beach... I can't die like this!"

Corlind looked at her, "What do you mean you're going to die? It's only the ship getting taken if it isn't moved out of here."

"That's the thing!" Roki cried before looking back down at her feet in sadness. Corlind sighed before walking up to her. He then placed a hand on her shoulder and tried to lead her off, "Come on. Let's go. There's nothing we can do."

She then backed away from him, "No! I will get off this beach!" She then looked around for something to get the ship off of the beach and back into the water. "But why though? Why do you want the ship so badly?"

"Something you wouldn't understand." She replied before looking back at him. She then pointed over to the other ships lining the beach, "Are these ships in use?"

"They're wrecks. Nothing we can use them for." Corlind sighed. He didn't know what was with this girl or what was going on. He then turned away and started to walk across the sand towards the other end of ships. His walk then turned into a run as he wanted to get distance between Roki and himself if she turned out to still be what he hallucinated. After a few minutes of walking he managed to put a bit of distance but it wasn't much as he could still see the ship and the small spec of her in the distance. Corlind then sat down and decided to look at the freighter in front of him, the rear of it sitting in the water. This was probably the best looking ships of them all.

More minutes passed by as he watched the ship before he heard screeching and some sirens. 'Shoot. I forgot that the military was coming!' The thought flashed through Corlind's mind as he quickly got up and started to run back towards Roki to warn her. He didn't know why he did it but by the time he got there the scenery was much different. Going from the side of the ship was rusted metal plates and then there was a giant ramp. And then there was another wedge on top of that ramp with a ship behind it. And on the top of the ship was Roki. The military vehicles then screeched to a halt and men started to get out, yelling orders at each other.

"Well gotta go! Nice meeting you Corlind!" Roki shouted from atop the other ship as chains then released. Corlind stared before he then started to run towards the black ship. He then grabbed the rails and held on as the wedge then slammed into the side of the ship, pushing it towards the water and starting to prop it up. Then the other ship slammed into the wedge, pushing them towards the water even more. Soon Corlind was jerked upwards and he lost his grip on the rails as he flew into the hard wall of the ship. He then groaned to see Roki jumping across from the other ship onto hers as the ship then started to power up.

"What are you doing Corlind?" Roki asked as she then pulled him inside of the ship. The military soldiers started to fire at them, the bullets whizzing past their bodies. The other ship and the wedge offered protection from the weak bullets as the two of them got up onto the bridge and the ship started to move. Roki then skimmed over the controls, the main cannons rotating and fired into the sand. The secondary cannons and CIWs did the same. This sent up massive amounts of black sand and dust as a smokescreen, Letting the ship start to move out of range and blinding the soldiers.

Corlind stumbled around before he grabbed onto a chair, staring at Roki, "What the hell is going on!"

"Everything is going on! You were the one who boarded in the first place so deal with it!" Roki remarked back as the ship then lurched and Corlind felt the ship starting to move faster. He then looked outside to see the land moving away before it disappeared completely. But that wasn't the only thing that confused him as the ship then descended underwater and he felt the ship slow down. Roki then sighed before sitting down on the floor, "Damn that hurt!"

"Of course it freaking hurt!" Corlind growled, "What's going on anyways?!"

"Would you believe if I told you?" Roki breathed, tilting her head backwards to face him.

Corlind shook his head, "How should I know."

"Well... This ship you're standing on... Is a Fog battleship... And I'm the ship itself." Roki replied, taking breaths between her sentences.

"How'd I get myself into this mess?" Corlind questioned.

"Don't ask me. Oww." Roki then laid down with a hand on the left side of her head, "Those bullets hurt like hell."

Corlind then looked at her in worry, "You didn't get shot in the head did you?"

"I feel what the ship feels, since the bullets were hitting the side of the bridge I have a bad headache. And it hurts like hell." She sighed. She then put her arm over her eyes, "I'm gonna rest for a bit. Wake me if something happens. And try not to freeze to death." He was going to ask a question but she was already asleep by then. Or she was ignoring him. He didn't really like the sound of the last part though. "Welp. Whatever I got myself into will be including my soul as collateral."

-Meeting room-

"Captain Riber, Fog ship Eudi. Good to see you are well." A man then shook hands with another man and woman.

"Admiral." The Captain greeted. "So what calls for me and Eudi sir?" Images then started to pop up on the screen of the room with a ship and the different scenes posted in them. The Admiral then spoke, "At 0620 today, a man called in about a ship. The ship seemed like a normal ship until he mentioned the color and we sent out a squad. 0634, Our squad arrives with some type of thing set up." The image then showed a ship and a wedge pointing at a black ship.

"This.. Thing, was used to get this black ship back upright and in the water. Two people were on the scene and although we didn't get pictures of the mental model, we got pictures of the other person who boarded with it." The screen then showed a picture of a man in his teens.

The captain then spoke, "And where is this ship now?"

"It is unknown. And saying it shot the sand rather than our guys we are not sure if this Fog ship is hostile. Or if it is fog at all saying no Fog markings came up." The Admiral answered.

"Then that doesn't explain how the ship and ramp were built." Eudi replied.

"Yes. That is where you come Eudi. Are you able to tell if this ship is Fog or not?" The Admiral asked.

"I'm not sure. It seems to be a newer ship for one. And no markings appeared either. And I don't remember the Fog being able to make their own designs." Eudi replied.

"About design. Our development team says it's a Protobat class. Shortened from prototype battleship because they can't come up with clever names. The thing is there is no history of a Protobat being launched and there's only one that has ever been built. And that single one has been scrapped for other prototypes so we are unsure of how or why one appeared. Here of all places too because the shipyard it was being built at is a long ways off." He then remarked with a stern look on his face.

"Admiral. Is it possible that a large chunk of the prototype was still intact and all the pieces were in the same place and the Fog used those pieces to rebuild the ship like it was a puzzle?" Riber then asked.

"Unlikely. The ship was built in secret, scrapped in secret. Messages were all sent by paper. No pictures exist and all blueprints were burned and deleted." He answered. He then cleared his voice, "We do not know the capabilities of this ship, and with Fog tech we don't know what secrets it may be hiding except for these pictures. Your mission is to make contact with this ship and establish if it is a friend or foe. If it attacks then you are to sink it. Dismissed." The Admiral replied before turning around to face the screen.

Riber then saluted as did Eudi. Eudi then asked a question, "Admiral sir. What of the civilian that boarded the ship? It may be that he has some information."

"Retrieve if it is possible. I hate to say it but if you can't retrieve him if the fog is shown to be hostile then you are to kill him. If he holds information then we can't let it get to the fog. Any other questions?"

"No sir. We'll be going now." Eudi finalized and the two of them left the meeting room.


Looks like Corlind's getting hunted. What is Roki's mission and will she turn out to become a friend of Corlind. Or will she follow the mission she might have?