Skies of fire chapter 9
A/N: This will be a holiday chapter with action and maybe a few references tossed in. Still don't own strike witches and happy holidays everyone
Humming silent night to herself belle and Taylor were sitting on the castle wall of the fortress that they had built in the mixture of the karlsland and fuso styles watching for if the reinforcements they were hoping for to arrive before the fighting they expected. Not having been in contact with the enemy for a while they all jokingly called it the Christmas truce of 1943 which had been discouraged by the brass who had heard of the Christmas truce of 1914 and they were afraid that it would be made the normal thing in the worlds armies but the Neuroi may not be so cooperative and the brass didn't want to foster resent amongst the fighter units as one was fighting and the other had a break under a so called truce. Thinking about that drake was piloting his mustang as David flew along his wing in his lightning and they were talking absentmindedly "when do you think we will have a break from the fighting and do you think we will have the ability to travel to manila or Tokyo when we-"and he was cut off as the alarms in the lightning started to blare and they saw what they thought were landing craft only for the fighters to have to veer out of the way from a blast of lasers. As they started to dive to the deck they pulled up right at the deck and came in with all weapons armed and neither firing yet hoping they were wrong.
"Hey I'll call this in and brother don't get shot down ok?" and they thought it was just themselves fighting the landing craft and the air support they had and the yell over the radio was sharp but panicked "you to wont be on your own and to be honest the lightning is the better choice for the anti-ship but it's up to you boys how to approach it also there is going to be support for you" and David heard the roar of a corsairs 6 .50s and the flair of the rockets from a corsair nearly blinding him. "Damn I really need one for Christmas thank you" as they watched to neuroified landing craft go up in a ball of fire as the zeroes and thunderbolts with FW190s in reserve all laid in on the threats only for it to get more interesting as 2 U-boats a Fuso submarine which was a patrol submarine based on the I400 class and a couple American submarine which made the boys happy knowing they had the support they wanted for Christmas.
Watching the battle unfolding Belle and Taylor ran back to where their girlfriends were based and said that there was a battle going and they heard a message over the radio "we need all witches in the area to respond the closer you are the better with coordinates to follow" which were right outside the HQ and so that had all the witches being called on to help lend a hand and that in turn triggered an alarm and trude gave a yell of "god damn it why the fuck did it have to ruin my holiday" as chris had been flown in via specially designed transport which Ursula had hitched a ride on stating to chris "home is where the family is together and why don't we visit our sisters and let them know what we have been up to" as they touched down after being escorted by Erica after she saw it was a karlsland transport and she decided that it carried the men they needed.
As the Neuroi were being dropped they saw the last one hit the ground with a nice burn they decided to escort their allies back to base and the pilots all were in a more relaxed mood at least until they spotted another wave of what they thought were enemies and started to call it in. Right as they keyed the mics Drake saw that they were frantically flashing a message and he translated it and screamed over the radio "do not fire and if anyone thinks that I'll send them into the drink myself so I dare you to test me right now" and after hearing the response they asked why can't we take them down its kill or be killed only to be relieved hearing with a slight bit of rage "they are friendlies damn it so I dare you to fire on them" and Taylor heard that and smiled. Yelling out with excitement Taylor yelled to yoshika "babe the reinforcements are here and I think we can go in". As the girls ran in Erica bumped into her sister and they held on to each other for dear life they heard yelling and tears and saw chris and trude embracing as they haven't seen each other in a while and after seeing her "sister" yoshika chris saw Taylor walk over and introduce herself then walk over to the bar grabbing the champagne and a bottle of Jägermeister and ignoring the scoffs from Perrine who was looking for a reason to ruin the holidays Taylor and Belle poured the glasses for the girls and began singing carols into the night with the boys helping them if they forgot the words or errors caused by drinking too much. Watching the girls drinking and celebrating with their sisters some they saw every day and some they only saw sometimes Mio looked at her lover and asked Minna "do you think the girls will remember this in the morning and most importantly do you think the other girls will stay for a while?" and wondered why Minna bit her lip only to see that they were below the mistletoe and laughed before kissing her love with a passion that they kept pent up for a while while the girls gave Dave a rainbow patch on a leather jacket and they called him rainbow and he laughed at that
A/N: that is the holiday special so happy holidays and I had drop a reference even if it was on the end.
