Magic and Warships

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Chapter 4

10 January 2027

Loch Lomond

The sounds of water splashing was one of two noise that Campbeltown heard as she moved across the water, her rigging allowing her to move at over thirty knots as she banked left and right quickly. The other noise was more of a collection of noises as the sound of explosions being let off was in the distance however Campbeltown knew what those explosions were as she swerved to the side dodging a paint shell. Paint shells had been created by Nat who after some basic information on how powerful the effects was of an ordinary artillery shells had replaced the explosive inside to paint the surrounding area just large splashes of paint. While there was no danger to this activity and was all for fun she couldn't help but enjoy the challenge it presented her. Besides her initial seal trials when ser had first been given to the Royal Navy she had never been able to put herself under this type of manoeuvrability moving generally in a single direction. Returning to the current situation instead of drifting back into the past Campbeltown went back to avoiding the live fire as the artillery located at Castle Sword began to hammer down around her. Personally she found it great fun like she was playing a game called dodge ball where she tested her reactions and tried to prevent getting hit by one of the shells as they tried to strike her and blow her up.

As for the soldiers they would admit that they were also enjoying the time of not only trying to shoot at a ten year old looking girl as she seemingly skated on the water with complete and utter grace but didn't have to worry about running out of ammunition. Nat had very kindly in their word enchanted their ammunition supplies giving them limitless ammo something they very much appreciated. Not only that but this process of shooting at a human shaped target was good practise for them although it was proving harder than they had expected since a human was a far smaller shape than a normal ship and they didn't have. To the side of the artillery loaders were two people who under a newly transformed area which had become an observatory tower watched the girl's movements with great interest.

"I'm starting to have few doubts about the girl being a ship, the tests we ran on her equipment all checks out and she seems pretty nimble on that water there the only thing we're missing is some actual ammunition to go with her." Speaking normally the thirty year old man watched closely as the ship girl known as HMS Campbeltown danced around the shells as they occasionally splashed around her. Some were narrow misses and some shells exploded early however it had been stated that she had suffered a fake serious injury yet since while the paint would splash onto her that didn't mean that a real explosion would hurt her.

"Its only been ten days admiral and apparently the government wants' to give her the ability to kill us all" Replying in the typical calm voice as he normally did Nat watched very closely the girl as she changed her speed moved left and right to avoid shells. Some did explode early splattering the girl with bright pink paint so it would be visible but he doubted it was a kill shot, after all the girl had several millimetres worth of armour to protect herself. As for the other shells they either missed or were dodged by the girl who at this point seemed incredibly natural on the water just like she would have been if she had been in her original form as she stated. However today that would change, somehow the government had managed to get a factory in order to produce the ammunition they required in only ten days. In all honesty he didn't particularly care since while he personally would have liked to have kept the girl under observation for several more months they had been sent a notice stating that they were only allowed two weeks at the maximum before she was to begin tests at sea.

"Perhaps you're worrying a bit too much" Despite it being made in a humorous way George couldn't help but understand the wizards complaints, when he had joined the navy he had been given six weeks of training before he was sent out on a ship but even then he knew roughly what he would be facing. In contrast Campbeltown was still getting to grips with modern life especially with the internet being the thing she had spent the most of her free time on. It was to be expected for the girl to be curious about what had happened during the war and was researching it fully either by reading books, accounts or watching documentaries. Mostly she had been focusing on the Royal Navy and what it did but because she was still stuck in the actual war years she wasn't aware of what had happened to the ships after the war.

"Sooner or later she's going to want to know what happened to her fellow ships and since most of them were scrapped I don't think she's going to take it too well. One Light Cruiser, One Destroyer and a few Submarines no Battleships or Carriers" Unfortunately the truth was that unlike the U.S.A the U.K hadn't been able to save a decent amount of ships and use them as museum ships, HMS Warspite which had been the most decorated warship of the Royal Navy hadn't even been saved instead just being sold for scrap. Of course things were different back then and nobody had ever thought that a second world warship would be resurrected as young girl yet he couldn't help but think that the young ship girl would feel betrayed for the rest of her ships in arms.

"Can't say I'm looking forward to it" Being a family man George couldn't help but truly feel for young Campbeltown and was honestly debating that when they eventually took Campbeltown to London since wit matters of national security it was bound to turn up that Campbeltown would want to visit Belfast.

"You're not the one who's going to have to repeat that ritual and summon forth more ship girls" Without doubt all parties knew that more ship girls would have to be summoned the difference was that it would only occur if during her very limited seal trials at Portsmouth Campbeltown proceed to be utterly useless forcing the government to shut down this entire plan. Otherwise if this plan did succeed than more ship girls would be summoned forcing the government to open more factories to produce ammunition and likely aircraft for the carriers not to mention diverting food towards the coast.

"Yes well we all have our jobs, how's that repair gel coming along" The repair gel was a substance of Nat's own making years ago to repair wands to their best condition, like how to get magic to work with technology Nat had kept it utterly secret until somehow this Japanese witch had discovered it. Since it worked by repairing things on an atomic magical scale it was incredibly useful and highly powerful however the costs if creating the material were rather high still the result was useful and more gain could be gotten from the gel if it was watered down.

"I have the consistency right and I've had a few words with some... people shall we call it and with any luck I should be able to get the materials I need" Looking over to the wizard with concern in his eyes George instinctively lowered his voice to prevent people from hearing what the two of them were currently discussing.

"Its not illegal right this gel?"

"No, the materials are difficult to get hold off and only people with certain talents can get them but they prefer to stay secret. Even if the gel was illegal the government would cover for us as much as they are pushing us for speed on this project they really need this to work and so are letting things going unnoticed" There was no response from George as he realised where Nat had gotten all the information from, after reading the wizards file alongside other documents on magical's he had discovered that they could read minds and as such he likely knew that Nat hadn't asked for this information.

"That's a little extreme don't you think" Not bothering to look at the admiral since his eyes were still on the warship sailing in the loch Nat just gave a short but rather telling reply.

"Never underestimate the lengths a politician is willing to go to keep themselves in power. The labour government banked their entire election on getting back control of the oceans if this fails their party is utterly finished plus the other old parties stand don't stand any chance of being elected into power." There was silence as the two of them reflected on the current social situation, with over half the country's population dead there had been several riots as well as multiple attempts at forcefully over throwing the government by the now illegal communist party. It was of little doubt to most analysts that while the recent elected government had five years in theory before they had to start panicking for another election in truth they had a year at the most before the country went into revolt again. So with the current circumstances it was of really no surprise that despite the sheer amount of problems the government faced with funding this naval project was at the top of their concerns. It was why every recourse they needed was being provided but at the same time it was also due to this why they were on such a short schedule since they needed this plan to work.

"In that case how long do you think we have to sort things out?" Speaking honestly George had no care for political manners his job was to sort out this new naval plan and how to make it efficient where as Nat was a person born into politics therefore giving him a better insight into this type of scenario.

"I would say a year for us to retake the channel, the northern seas of Europe, and down to Gibraltar, After that if it succeeds I would then later say we would have to take Mediterranean and create a straight path to North America, with if it's possible the Arabian sea in the second year". George looked at Nat with a small amount of surprise they hadn't even began actual operations yet and somehow the teenager had an idea of what would need to be achieved all within a year, In his personal opinion just the first year sounded rather ambitious especially with one ship and no idea what the enemy was.

"A bit farfetched don't you think" Nat noted the slight amount of disbelief in George's reply at having to take and hold so much area all within the span of a year, Thinking about it further there was no doubt in his mind that for this operation to carry on the Channel would have to be taken at the absolute latest by the end of March. Otherwise without any progress being made the next grab at power would be made which could end up in a full civil war; of course he didn't say that to George because the man would need to not have that type of pressure on him else it could fuck everything up.

"We don't have much time and as much as I hate it, we have to get some kind of hard proof if we want to keep our jobs and perhaps our lives" George didn't reply as he thought about what would happen in a civil war without access to the seas the navy was useless forcing them to either join the army or run away and hide.

"She'll get the job done I believe in her" With a worried smile George carried on to watch as Campbeltown headed back to shore likely since she had run out of fuel then again that was to be expected as she had only eaten a small breakfast rather than the proper amount she would have needed for a full voyage out to sea.

"We can only hope George" Lowering his binoculars Nat alongside the admiral turned around and began to make their way down from the observation post before heading down to the docks where Campbeltown had just arrived with large splotches of paint all over her body and clothes from where the paint shells had detonated in the air.

"Admiral what did you think was I good out there" Looking up brightly at her admiral Campbeltown barely noticed as with a quick flick of his wand Nat had cleaned the girl off completely. The spell didn't give off the nice clean feeling that a shower did but it was actually better than a normal shower but Campbeltown had discovered that she liked the feeling of a bath or shower depending on how much time she got to enjoy them.

"You were brilliant Campbeltown" Giving a warm smile at the ship girl he gave the girl a quick pat on the head before pointing back to the large castle on the banks of the loch. "Now let's get you fed I bet you're hungry" Vigorously nodding her head Campbeltown quickly grasped her admirals hand and walked with him completely dry off the dock and towards the castle so she could not only begin to stuff herself full of food but also take a nice shower to feel clean.

When they reached the entrance to the large house both Nat and George turned to watch as a large truck made its way in followed by a few others and guarded rather heavily with vehicles that had machine guns on the roof that were being manned. Once the large trucks had stopped the driver got out of the vehicle before than heading towards the back and opened the doors allowing Nat and George to see into the backs of the multiple vehicles and see what they were carrying.

"We have the main ammunition, torpedoes, and anti air ammunition you requested sir where would you like it placed" It was a new experience seeing so many shells and ammunition types just in one place, it wasn't anything special to Nat it was just that besides a brown Bess musket, and bakers rifle he had no experience with firearms. It hadn't interested him on the occasional trip he had to the U.S and he had even once had to obliviate a muggle after stating that he had gained a free assault rifle for being the one hundredth thousand customer. Thankfully there were no witnesses or cameras. As such his first instinctual response was to back away from this much dangerous weaponry which if someone attacked could make it go boom.

"Please move it into those warehouses we have a quartermaster to help you sort them out" With a quick reply of thanks the driver quickly got back in his vehicle and led the other vehicles to the warehouses where they were then met by other people who began to unload the ammunition and transport it into the magically expanded warehouses.

"Great we have a potential hour to live before Campbeltown decides to kill each and every one of us" There was a silent glare that George sent to Nat as he heard the insulation that the cute ten year old looking ship girl would just go out and murder the entire group of them as soon as she was given ammunition and torpedoes. "In the meantime if she doesn't try to kill us I'm going to start putting some targets up, you enjoy your lunch" With that stated Nat quickly apparated away to one of the warehouses and grabbed some of the practise targets before apparating away again to the sides of the Loch where afterwards he then put some on the water's surface using a boat as well as putting some under the water. With the amount he put down the hour that George and Campbeltown had soon passed leading to George holding the hand of what seemed to be a ten year girl who had gone hyper.

"I get to fire my guns yay" Following from a safe distance behind the group Nat kept his wand out just in case the ship girl did decided to kill them all now that she had access to her old ammunition back. Of course as they all walked towards the largest of the shells for Campbletowns main guns all the humans were wondering how she was going to actually place them in her hold. Some soldiers thought that the shells would be the wrong size, some thought she would swallow the shells, one particularly perverted soldier mentioned another way of getting them into her body before he was then quickly shut up by a spell courtesy of the wizard.

Looking at the shells with happiness on her face Campbeltown couldn't help but feel incredibly excited after so long she would be able to fire her guns again. Placing her tight hand on one of the shells she instinctually used a sort of magic that sucked the shell into her hold although to the people looking it was like the shell had disappeared entirely. This process carried on for a little bit as she placed her hands on more shells placing them inside her hold before she moved onto the different types of ammunition and torpedoes until she had eventually filled up her full stock of weaponry. As she did this though she felt heavier as the ammunition she was now carrying began to weigh her down but she didn't care at the moment because with a determined look on her face she followed the admiral out of the base and towards the docks.

Stepping onto the waters of the Loch Campbeltown began to move ahead and to the side so that she could face the first set of static targets. Unknown to her though while she got ready to shoot her guns the soldiers manning the artillery replaced their paint shells to live ammunition, the Tanks locked their barrels on her all of which was joined by a few set's of secretly hidden missile launchers. Naturally it was all a defensive measure in case the girl acted up and tried to kill the people who were located at Loch Lomond, if this failed and they all died then an emergency would be called forcing for a large force of the military to come in and sort the situation out. As a very last resort mission a small nuclear bomb would be dropped on the girl but that was the absolute last resort when all else had utterly failed.

Oblivious to all the plans about her destruction if she ever went rogue Campbeltown lined up her first shot, it was at a range of one hundred metres since unlike normal human guns her ammunition was not only bigger but more deadly. Her guns had been set up in a particular order two of her main batteries were located on each of her shoulders while another was poking out what could only be described as a small box that had a trigger grip underneath as a handle with a trigger itself. Remembering back past the decades to when she had originally gone through her sea trials she began the process of loading up her main batteries although it wasn't seen on the outside. After, her range finder turned towards the target and began feeding her information such as the distance, the speed she was going at and the wind trajectory. Finally when she was sure of her shot she pulled the trigger of her main gun resulting in a roar as the gun fired its shell directly at the target forcing it to spin in the air before smashing into the target and exploding.

"Yes" Pumping her arms up excitedly the ship girl couldn't help but feel proud that her shot since coming back to life had scored directly and blowing up. Not only was this experience nostalgic but it made her think of the future that would come when she was finally able to sail upon the seas and fight whatever this mysterious fog hid. After allowing herself a quick celebration Campbeltown remembered that she still needed to impresses the admiral and so began to fire her other main batteries from her shoulder at the same target.

"Well that's an interesting sight" It was really odd in Georges opinion seeing how the girl operated, he knew to expect it but again since he only had his time when he was a sailor on a non sentient warship it was all he could compare it to. As such seeing a little girl fire what was roughly the equivalent in terms of firepower as a Type 45 destroyer was both strange and terrifying especially if Nats fears became true.

"You should see the anime events in Japan those are bizarre" Nat didn't know whether it was a good thing or bad thing that this entire scenario didn't seem too weird to him. As a person who had grown up around magic the fabric of reality being changed was an everyday thing for him since that essentially was what magic was. Therefore seeing a human like being doing sort of magical things due to her existence didn't bother him in the slightest but on the other hand it did make him start to seriously think about sentience. If Campbeltown was sentient that likely meant that the other warships from that era were as well and since they were the ship itself he couldn't help but wonder if they would have things like PTSD.

Campbeltown currently was the only ship girl in the world and therefore other ship girls could react in different ways but the fact still stood that they would have seen action lost friends and crew members perhaps they were sunk. In fact Campbeltown was already an obsolete ship when she had entered the war and she was then smashed into a German held facility abandoned by her crew and then blown up as some makeshift explosive. In a sense it was like going on a mission in war with some friends only they've stuck a bomb to you abandoned you and now you're expected to blow up some kind of object. Having seen Cambeltown's memories he wouldn't be surprised if the girl didn't trust them at all yet she was incredibly happy not just be alive as she had said but to be serving with the Royal Navy again.

"I take it you don't like anime than?" Making small talk with the younger man George found a way to keep himself occupied as he watched Campbeltown continue to fire her main guns at a set of targets. They changed in position height and distance as well as some even moving, there was the occasional missed shot but it appeared that the girl was rather determined in improving herself so that she could fight against the fog.

"No I rather enjoy it, it's just that I've seen some weird things but what happens at anime conventions is something else entirely. What about you." Anime had been one of the more interesting things Nat had taken an interest to now that his education was done and he had a lot of spare time in fact he would even say that with the sheer amount of creativity that went into some of the things that he preferred anime over Western TV, films, cartoons and the like although not books.

"My wife was the one who was originally into it when we began dating she made me watch a lot of it and I have to admit that I like it although I'm not obsessed with it." With him talking about his past George gave a fond smile as he remembered the early days with his wife when they had been younger and enjoying life despite the situation of economic and social collapse. "You know this entire thing summoning warships in the form of young girls seems very much like it would belong in an anime don't you think" If anyone had told George that he would one day be an admiral working with a little girl who was apparently a warship from World War 2 he would have called up the police and have that person sent to the insane asylum. Yet now it was his very reality as he shared a giant Victorian castle with a large contingent of soldiers a wizard and a ship girl it was almost like the start of a joke.

"Considering the country of the person who wrote the initial ritual I can't help but think that she actually wanted this exact scenario to happen" Japan had many jokes about it due to their strange culture when viewed by the West such as their apparent addiction to tentacle porn, utter lack of commitment for a proper military, the complete bizarreness of anime, strange themed cafes and much more. Of course though Nat really liked the country and had visited on many occasions with Magical Britain and Japan having a very strong and old friendship that went back thousands of years. "In fact considering Japan I think we should be lucky that it isn't Godzilla or Chutulu since at least ship girls are manageable" Chuckling slightly at the joke George couldn't help but wonder what they would have done if instead of ship girls they did get a giant lizard monster.

"Well it would be more interesting" Nat didn't respond to that the magical world had many dangerous creatures most of which couldn't be controlled so he didn't think the situation would be interesting as it would be suicidal. There was a particular reason wizards had a general dislike of deep sea diving, unlike the muggle's wizards knew what lurked down there in the depths which was why they preferred to travel by air than sea.

"I boring in that case I wouldn't want to deal with some kind of super Neisse" George blinked as he heard that word, after all quite a few people knew the name of the supposed legendary sea creature that hunted in Loch Ness. There was no proof and most people who thought that if it was a creature than it would have been from one of the dinosaur eras although he couldn't remember which one.

"Nessies real"

"Yeah she's a Kelpie who's rather taken to the form a giant sea serpent. Suffice to say don't mess with her because Kelpies are water demons" While George would admit that he knew nothing about magical creatures the way that Nat had described it did match the description of the creature in the lake, added to this was that if Kelpies were water demons then they could be highly lethal.

"What do Kelpies do" Inquisitive George started to wonder if it was safe or not to be on the water, if a famous lake like Loch Ness had a water demon residing in it what was to stop another making its home in Loch Lomond.

"Typically they try to kill people but they can take many forms like water horses, sharks sea serpents they have the ability to change their forms. They've been known to gently get young children into the water by putting up a kind image before then dragging them down to the bottom where they're devoured" There was a very large look of horror on Georges face as he heard that, like most people he had heard of sea serpents and believed them to be a mythical animal but with him work with magic it turned out that a lot of old stories were true.

"So if sea serpents are real are you know things like krakens, dragons, ogres and all that lot" Waiting for a response George found himself torn on which one he wanted, on one hand the existence of magic made the world feel different yet on the other there was far more danger to the world now. He had never heard anyone regularly speak about things like monsters unless it was related to some type of entertainment like books, TV, film or when fanatical religious people droned on about the end of the world. Yet ever since taking this post he had to quite literally worry about demons escaping onto the earth which could kill them all.

"There's also giant spiders, snakes, sharks, as well as Cyclopes, medusa, Minatours, Nuckaleeve pretty much all fairy tale monsters exist they're just well hidden" The look of horror didn't come of Georges face as he tried to think of every single bedtime story he had been thinking of telling his daughters instead now he could only start to see danger. One of the most apparent things would be keeping his daughters away from Loch Ness as there was no way he would allow them to go anywhere near monster infested waters.

"Brilliant now I can't tell my daughters any bed time stories". Also how the hell did you magical's hide this amount of shit from people around the world and why haven't satellites picked up on any of it?" In all honesty he knew that the world's government had to know about it he was only informed when they asked Nat to help them with the project before that he was blissfully unaware of the dangers that the world possessed.

"One you can still tell them, unless something drastic happens you will never be able to tell the people you know about magic. Second there are very few muggle governments which are aware of magic in truth there are only three, They are Japan, Greece and the British isles since not all magical governments are the same as muggle ones" Blinking slightly as he heard the last one George couldn't help but wonder why the Irish Government wouldn't know about the existence of magic when Nat had stated the British isles then again since magical governments and muggle governments don't exist as one entity he had a theory.

"I take it for the British isles than that they only inform Britain"

"Yeah there were attempts at telling the Irish government but they ended horribly. They either make the argument that the southern Ireland part of the magical British Isles should be Independent not understanding that despite sharing the same landmass they were very different. The fact that despite the odd one or two Irish magical's all of which are muggle raised most consider themselves British by nationality. Then there's the multiple attempts of multiple Irish Governments to either tell more countries about the existence of magic or to try and expel anyone who had any relation to magic at all. As you can guess Magical Britain gave up muggle Southern Ireland" George nodded while he wasn't a person who did politics he could understand why after so many apparent disasters that the British Magical Government had no wish to cooperate with the muggle Irish people but there was still another question on his mind.

"Why do you call Ireland Southern Ireland?"

"Partly due to its location on the man since most of it is south of Northern Ireland, Partly due to magical history, Partly because normally when a person thinks of two countries that have a geographical location in them they refer to both by that geographical location and partly because it helps to identify them easier without using the words Loyalists and Traitors" George gave no response to that instead focusing back onto the ten year old looking girl who was in a dress now skating across the Loch shooting at targets.

"She's not bad needs a bit more time to work on her accuracy" Taking one hand of his binoculars George reached down for one of the radios that could blast information across the Loch and allow the girl to carry on with her job without constantly coming back and forth to the docks. "Okay Campbeltown now try your torpedoes" With the new orders given George went back to watching the young girl

Hearing the instructions her admiral had given her, Campbeltown began getting to work, finding one of the targets there was slightly submerged underneath the water she targeted the enemy and moved her torpedo tubes. This was shown by the torpedo tubes which had been strapped to her legs move from a face up position to down at the sides allowing for a full spread which was quickly unleashed as the torpedoes seemingly jumped from their holder and into the sea. Once this had been done Campbeltown watched as the metal fish began to swim merrily on their way before crashing into the target and explode leaving large gouge marks out as the force from the explosives tore holes through it. Moving onto the next target she attacked from multiple angles and speeds as well as how many torpedoes she had left until eventually she ran out and heard the voice of her admiral again.

"Okay Campbletown anti air training shoot down the targets" With her gaze fixed upon the Victorian castle the warship only watched as what could only be described as paper planes begin to get closer. Realising that this was the target she focused the small browning machine guns she used as anti air defence on the paper planes before firing. As bullets started to fill the sky attempting to strike down the paper plane army that was now becoming more relentless Campbeltown really started to wonder where all of these planes were coming from and why were they so big.

Back on Shore Nat watched calmly as he transformed the A1 pieces of picture fold themselves into the shape of a plane via magic before then taking off to assault the ships girl. The planes had no means of attack just dodge but it seemed to be working if the anti air gun tracer rounds were anything to go by. Of course though that just meant that he had to expend more magic to keep with the ship girl or at least until she ran out of ammunition. Back from his position George couldn't help but wonder at the bizarreness of the current situation as a small girl shot down planes with full size yet miniaturised browning machine guns. The amount of progress the girl was making was rather minimal but after a check of her specifications he knew that the girl was not designed to fight aircraft and had only week defence against them only two browning machine guns.

On the other hand if this plan did work and they started to summon more ship girls it would mean that more updated warships would possess the Orleikan and Bofors guns which were far more efficient at fly swatting. That made him chuckle as he thought about what ship girls would do when they discovered that there were games where they could play as themselves and fight other players. There would likely have to be a few updates when they retook the channel but after that actual ship girls could fight other ships without being damaged in the slightest. Actually now that he thought about it wasn't Campbeltown a ship in that World of Warships perhaps he should show her the game and let her have a little go and see how good she was.

"Come on stay still and let me hit you" Back on the water struggling as she failed to hit many targets Campbeltown couldn't help but feel embarrassed, She had been doing well enough against the larger opponents with her main batteries and torpedoes yet right now she was struggling to hit the planes. She knew this was partly because she didn't have anywhere near the right amount of guns needed to undertake such a job but it still hurt not being able to perform her duties. Deciding she had enough in her frustration the ship girl began to point her main batteries at the paper aeroplanes flying around her almost as if they were trying in purpose to embarrass her. It seemed to work as she hit more targets but even so Campbeltown knew that it was a rushed job since besides either getting better equipment or having entirely new ship girls to help her in that roll there would be very little she could do as she simply wasn't designed for large anti air batteries.

Both George and Nat the latter of which had finished making paper planes had realised this as well and both had similar thoughts as the ship girl on the water the problem was getting either of the two possible ways to upgrade the ship girl. In terms of better equipment the amount of work that would be needed to remodel the girl if that was even possible to hold something like a Phalanx system would be incredible. There was the possibility that they could try and find some old Bofors and Orlikean guns in the country but even then it was finding active ammunition for the guns. On the other hand no one knew what lurked in the water so having the ability to put up a good defence either way was incredibly important something which would likely include anti air guns in case they needed less powerful guns at sea. As for summoning other ship girls they still had to wait and see if Campbeltown was any good at sea if not then there was no point and this project would be shut down.

"You're going to have to put in a request for some Orlikan ammunition" With a sigh George knew Nat was right As much as he didn't want to say it Campbletowns anti air performance was pitiful and since they didn't know what was out on the water it could be devastating.

"I'll send the message along but if we get this it's doubtful we'll get anything else until we prove ourselves. We're also going to have to get hold of some old naval guns from the museum" While he was not a politician George could already start to feel the menacing gazes of the prime minister as he asked for yet even more precious resources with no results to show yet. As he prepared what he was going to say to the Prime Minister George began to think about what he was going to day and how he was going to say it as well as show the hidden camera footage they had to indicate why they needed such weaponry. "Be honest do you think we can actually give her new weapons?"

"According to the diagnostic spell yes while she does have some functions as a human she also has those of a ship so I would guess like the ammunition from earlier Campbeltown could get rid of her old guns and replace them with the new more modern ones". There was no retort from the admiral about it being theoretical both of them knew this was the first time something like this happened forcing them to go on educated guesswork if something worked than good if something failed then it could be noted for future use.

"I hope that spell of yours is right otherwise we're going to have the pen pushers screaming at us" Joking slightly George still couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the plan went wrong and they had to stick with Campbletowns poor quality anti air guns. It wasn't the first time since working with her that he wished she had been a modern warship like Daring packed with missiles high tech equipment and more powerful weaponry instead as Nat had called her he was dealing with an obsolete destroyer even during her time during the war.

"If they try that I'll talk to them as much as they want to complain about having to fork out so much funds to a military despite clearly stating in their election pledges Campbeltown is the best shot this nation has for the future. The last possible resort used by the muggle government in Nat's eyes was to on purposely break the statute of secrecy so they could use magical's to deal with the problems that controlled the world's seas and oceans.

"In that case remind me to be nowhere near" There was a small chuckle from George as the two remained quiet and focused on the girl as she destroyed the last paper plan and headed back in likely to collect more ammunition and have another go. With factories building more ammunition and a wizard which could cast spells to give unlimited ammo the ship girl didn't have to worry about conserving ammunition"

"So Admiral did I do good out there I know it's my first time but I want to do well" It was dinner at Castle Sword meaning that Nat, George, Campbeltown and some other members of the armed services were all eating their dinner. The service members had taken one end of the table and were happily chatting amongst themselves while Nat alongside George and Campbeltown were eating rather silently at the other table minding their own business.

"Very well I think some more practise in general as well as a focus on your anti air guns will be our main focus until you get onto the open seas. After all we don't know what we're fighting so you're going to need to be prepared as possible" Talking gently to the girl George saw no reason to yell, she was young physically and mentally plus she was well behaved and only ever wanted to do her best so being harsh on the girl was cruel in his picture.

"Okay Admiral I'll do better" With a sigh George locked eyes with the ship before talking compassionately allowing him to calm her slightly worried feeling and injured self pride.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about you were never designed for the anti air role and even then your weapons aren't up to the proper quality so you should be proud of yourself" Looking up at the admiral Campbeltown smiled as she heard the compliment she had constantly thought that she would never be allowed to stay with her pathetic anti air abilities after all according to one of her history lessons specifically the one on Midway had informed her that carriers had made battleships themselves obsolete.

"Thank you admiral I'll make sure I'm ready for when we return home to Portsmouth until then I'll train every day" With a large beaming smile Campbeltown began thinking of the best training scheme she could but no matter how much she tried she couldn't help but feel excited. In a few days she would finally be back on the sea as a ship for the Royal Navy ready to engage the foe of her country.

"Don't worry about it Bell you'll be excellent I know" There was a small amount of tears in the ship girls eyes as she realised she had been given a nickname a real nickname without any warning she dropped her cutlery on her plate before jumping over the table and landing on the admiral hugging him closely. With the extra weight the chair the two were now on fell backwards with a loud noise drawing attention from the servicemen all the while Nat ignored the tearful situation and carried on eating his own dinner.

The rest of the week went by with no event consisting mostly of Campbeltown having target practise which involved her both shooting her guns and avoiding the paint shells of the artillery. At the same time George and Nat had managed to get a better hang on the girl's abilities such as how far she could shoot, what her top speed was in both a straight line and in corners, the right amount of ammunition and food she needed to go through. There were many things that they went through with Campbeltown including history lessons about the war and what had happened afterwards such as the Korean war Vietnam war the multiple wars in the middle East The Falklands and the modern day. Of course it wasn't in full depth but it allowed the girl to have a better understanding of what was going on as well as hopefully prevent her from freaking out if she ever needed to visit a city and saw that things had changed so drastically. So it was after Bell had finished her final bit of practise on the fourteenth that she was put in a car again and drove south path to Portsmouth where she would finally be put to sea for the first time.