The submarine was filled with laughter and cheers, knowing that an airship wouldn't have sonar equipment, they regulated the silence rule loosely. Dawn had retired from his spot at the periscope as Jane sailed them towards Traitors bay. While Dawn was making his way towards the front of the vessel, where the cargo hold was located, he was pulled aside by a not so happy member. "Where is he?" Brynn asked with anger dripping off her words. "Don't worry Brynn, he's safe and sound." Dawn responded calmly in hopes of calming the angry mechanic. "Where. Is. He." Brynn repeated, already striking a small bit of fear in the belly of Dawn. "He's in the cargo hold. You're going to check if he's wounded?" He said while pointing down the corridor to the cargo holds door. "Oh, he'll be wounded alright." Brynn said as she hurried off towards the hold. Dawn used a little too much time to register the threat and quickly sprinted after her. But the thick steel airlock was slammed in his face. "Brynn!" He yelled knocking on the door. "Open up!" But no response came.

Ray was laying in the cargo hold, eyes closed, resting from the jump he just made. He had done a fair bit of crazy things in his life, but this one took the top. Jumping from an airship into the freezing sea, only to be saved by a submarine. Today was one hell of a day. And he got off fairly well, his hands were starting to hurt by the rope that was around his wrists and he bruised his leg when jumping into the hold of the sub, but besides that everything went fairly well, he still had his pride, his life and his dagger, which was still strapped to his chest, unfortunately out of his reach. He opened his eyes to look around the cargo hold. It was filled with crates of different kind, some were food others were ammunition, a torpedo was suspended by some kind of pulley system that hung from the ceiling. He closed his eyes again when he felt the throbbing of his leg.

His attention then focused on the sound, besides the gentile and light mechanical buzz of the sub there was muffled yelling and a large slam. Like a door being shut, a heavy steel door that is, but that's not unusual for a submarine. He listened as he heard footsteps from what he thought was some kind of airlock, since once the second door opened a small hiss was heard, indicating some difference in pressure. He then heard clearer footsteps, coming his way. They sounded heavy, like thick leather boots. "Hey Dawn." He said with his eyes still close. "Quite an entrance, no?" Since he got no response he decided to open his eyes, only to meet the lovely face of his crewmate, and she looked pissed. "Hey," He began, but she was quicker, she pulled him up from the ground and slammed him into one of the crates, before pulling out his knife and pinning his shirt to the crate. "Brynn." Ray finished, feeling his leg very evident now.

"You piece of," Brynn began ranting at the gunner. "You could have died you absolute" And she accompanied her reasoning with a colorful rainbow of curses. "And not to forget the fact that" Ray stood there, careful to not lean on his bad leg, but also to not show that he was wounded, since he would seriously be in trouble then. Brynn continued to throw curses and harsh words at the gunner, shunning him for his reckless behavior. After a while she slowly started to calm down.

She then looked at Ray, standing there in dirty and wet clothes, sheepishly smiling, in the hopes of calming her. Maybe it was the light, maybe it was the alcohol, but he looked, nice. She had always tried not to get her hopes up too high, since Ray didn't like the idea of relations with crewmembers, pleading that it would distract both parties into not doing their jobs perfectly. But right now? Right now he couldn't do anything, he was trapped. Like a dog on a leash, a grounded dragon. Right now he had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

his gentle smile disappeared into a face of misunderstanding and fear as she walked up to him. He reacted like any trapped animal would, panic. He started to squirm and struggle, trying his best to get loose. He pushed and pulled agains the flat side of the blade, slowly wiggling it out of the wood. But his attempt at escape was proven futile when Brynn took a strong hold of the knife, keeping it in place.

"Brynn calm down, think about this." he began in his feared state, she just took a step closer and was now leaning against the crates that he was pinned to. Ray turned his head, expecting more shouting or maybe even some punches, the last thought reminded him of the ones he received on the ship of the Berkians, which he still felt clearly. Brynn had other plans though, she moved her head to his ear, so that he could feel her breathing in his neck, she was maybe a few centimeters away from him, and then she said. "Looks like you're trapped." Ray felt all hope of coming out of this relatively unhurt leave his body. "You've done some stupid things tonight, didn't you?" She asked with a soft and calm voice. Fear made way for confusion as she pulled back from his ear, he now looked her in the eyes and noticed something that he could never have hoped for. In her dark eyes he noticed multiple things, one of which was worry, the other one being anger, but hidden behind furious look in her eyes, he noticed another emotion, lust.

"What? No stupid deals now?" She asked as she got closer once again. "No dumb jokes?" she added as she slowly closed the gap. And then, when she was just centimeters removed from his face she added. "Speechless." before finally letting their lips meet. At first Ray was paralyzed, he must have hit his head really hard on his way down here to be imagining this, but as soon as he felt a tongue trying to pry his lips apart he returned to reality. And for once, he really liked reality. He opened his mouth to let their tongues meet, and started a battle of dominance. Which Brynn was clearly winning.

Unbeknownst to them, the airlock door opened and Dawn and Emilly rushed into the hold, weapons in hand, only to be standing there like two grinning fools, looking at their friends. Brynn and Ray didn't notice them until Dawn cleared his throat. "Everything alright here?" He asked with a huge grin on his face, turning both crewmembers of the Skywhale, who were panting heavily, red. "Yea, just fine." Brynn replied as she pulled the knife out of the box, making the dazed Ray fall to the ground, face first, before sticking it back in the box and leaving the room with a big smile. Emilly rushed after her, hoping to hear the details of what happened while they were trying to open the shut airlock.

Dawn rushed to Ray's side, and turned him around so that he was facing the ceiling. "Hey" He said as he lightly slapped the gunner. "Wake up." One eye slowly opened and the other one followed shortly after. "How are you feeling?" He asked as he moved back to pull the knife out of the box. "Amazing." Ray responded dreamingly. Dawn pulled his arms just from his back and cut the ropes that were bound around his wrists, before helping him up. Ray groaned loudly upon standing again. "And now?" Dawn asked with a grin on his face. "Like shit." Came the response from Ray. "That's more like it, let's get some food." Dawn said as he guided his friend through the airlock.

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The bay was calm, the three leaders were calmly sitting around a campfire that they had made, eating the last pieces of meat from the deer that they caught. "They should be back any minute now." Marcus said. "Yea, as long as nothing went wrong." Ellia quickly added and threw a quick glance around the group. "Yea, and what are the odds of that." Hicca sarcastically added, earning laughter from the group. They passed a drink around and tended to the fire as they noticed that the submarine was slowly sailing into the bay. "Wow," Hicca began. "maybe nothing went wrong." "I wouldn't put my money on it." Marcus said as the submarine approached further and further. Since it was tide was in the water was high enough for the submarine to dock near a small rock formation, now functioning as a formidable dock. Slowly the members of their little force streamed out of the submarine and made their way to the beach to hear the news of the discussion. Once everyone was around Hicca stood up one of the logs again. "Attention everyone." She yelled, silencing the crowd. "I hope you all had a nice evening." This caused every single person to look at Ray, Hicca shook her head. "I'm sure I'll hear about that soon." She said. before continuing. "We have discussed our needs and made a plan, a plan for something almost everyone likes. Tomorrow night, we will be having a joined operation, a raid on the military port of Hemel!" This earned a loud cheer from everyone. "Now, go to your bunks and hammocks and rest, tomorrow will be briefing and training!" She added, and everyone slowly began to walk towards their respective craft.

What she was left with was just her own crew. "Now, I'd like to know what happened tonight." She said sternly, looking at Ray, who had gotten himself some spare clothes from the members of the Tidebreaker. "Well, Dawn said that the Berkians have been asking around 'bout me." Ray began. "And we kind off bumped into them later that evening." Hiccup found her hand striking her face once again. "What happened?" She asked with a sigh. "We were sitting in a bar, just drinking and talking." Ray began. "Then the Berkians blocked the door. Dawn went back to warn the others and I fled, they eventually caught me and we left Freezin' with their airship, me as a prisoner. I then saw the periscope of a submarine, jumped into the water, the lads opened the cargo hatch and I jumped in." Hicca had listened with great admiration. "That's one daring escape." She said. "Good job." She looked at Sithera and gestured that she could go to the airship. When she left she turned back to her two remaining crew "Did anything else happen?" She then asked with a grin on her face. "No, not that we know off." They both replied. "You do know it's better for me to hear it from you guys then from rumors right?" She asked as she crossed her arms. "Well," Brynn began. "I might have taken advantage of the situation." Hicca looked at both of them for a second. "She kissed you first?" She then asked. "Yes, she did." Ray responded. Hicca threw her hands in the air. "Sithera owes me a gold one!" She yelled

They walked to the ship in silence, Ray and Brynn in disbelief that they actually had a bet going on, and Hicca overjoyed, not because she won the bet, but because those two finally got together.

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The sun was rising from the seas as the beach had already filled with the men and woman form their little army. Hicca was standing next to a crate this time, while Marcus stood on top of it. "Listen everyone!" He yelled. "We have planned this yesterday and I will be explaining it to you all." He began as he had a map of the area. "This is how we'll do it! The first attack will be by plane. You need to hit the coastal guns, that your priority, you'll be out of reach from the anti air. Then the sub comes in from a distance, we'll hit any ships that are docked, which shouldn't be many and hit the anti air with the mercury. Afterwards, we dock and set up a defencive perimeter at the harbor, where we will wait for the goods, Hicca will drop her crew in the storage and they will bring us the target. We are going for a few things, numbered on priority. One, 2 crates of Typhon rounds. Two, 4 Seashark torpedo's. Three, a crate of gun grease. If you find anything that might be important that grab it, if you think we can use it ask for it first. Is that clear?"

Different kinds of confirmations arose from the group, indicating that it was well understood. The group then slowly dispersed into small packs, some having duels to train, others having contests, and others just discussing strategies. Tomorrow would be a big day.

AN:

Sorry for the later chapter, I had this finished a while now but wanted to add the attack into the chapter but kept changing things about it. I hope you all can forgive me.

I'm getting myself a new pc so I should be able to write a lot more and better in the short future. I don't know when this will all be done.

I hope you enjoyed! And take care!

R4y