You are probably wondering where I get the time to write so much its rather simple I have been sick for the last ten days and with me having nothing else to do than lying around I had some time on my hands.
Anyaway thanks for Killroy122496 with the help on this chapter
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Chapter 13: Path down to Hell
On the high seas just outside a massive storm front three ships were moving as a group two aircraft carriers and a battleship of Japanese design those ships are IJN Battleship Haruna and Carriers Shoukaku and Zuikaku.
Onboard the battleships bridge stood a Caucasian Japanese Male with short black hair with having graying silver white on both sides of his hair and chocolate brown eyes. He wears a white and red wolf kabuki mask with a silver grey mouth guard piece, orange haori with a old faded white scarf around his neck and a black hood while underneath is a grey and brown flat jacket, grey kimono shirt, dark brown samurai/Shinobi hakama trousers, a brown robotic prosthetic arm on his left arm, and black Jika-tabi Shinobi sandals.
The young man looked towards the storm front before he took an old golden locket he had hidden underneath his scarf and inside the locket was the only picture he still had of himself and the one girl he had ever seen as his one true friend but due to her and her family moving away from Tokyo.
"Just where did you go Akeno?" he whispered sadly as the wind started to blow around the bridge of his ship he noticed that someone was trying to contact him over radio so he picked up his headset and turned on a voice modulator in his mask before connecting the headset to the radio.
"This is Wolf what is it" the young man asked in a deep mechanical voice as someone else connected to him over the radio "This is Apollyon we are approaching the Island once we attack you are to patrol the surrounding area and attack and capture anything that might try to escape understood?" asked the male voice of Apollyon.
"Yeah yeah I know the plan just let me do my job and you do yours" Wolf replied but a moment later the voice of a young girl spoke up again "Still didn´t find anything about your lost friend Genichiro?" asked the girl.
The young man sighed at that turning off his voice modulator "Yeah I was unable to find anything I did find out where her Uncle is living but even he has disappeared from the planet before I was able to talk with him you know that much Riya" the young man called Genichiro replied with a small tear falling from his eyes.
"If we can get our hands on this Red crow and she is the real deal we just might find something so don´t give up" Riya added before the connection was lost but onboard the H-44 Dönitz a girl cursed at herself for some reason that no one but her knew of even as her fleet continued to plow through the rough waves of the storm they were sailing through.
Back with Mitsuko, Kishiko and the rest of B-company:
They had been following the strange ship for several days by now but by now they needed to resupply with fuel but for whatever reason the strange ship didn´t stop at all and headed straight into a massive storm while Mitsuko and Kishiko were busy refueling their two cruisers from a tanker Shirayuri had send their way.
They still were able to see where the unknown ship was going as Sweetwater and Nomad had planted a GPS transmitter onboard that was powerful enough to show them the ships location as long as they were in the two hundred kilometer radius.
Claire had called in a few times over radio and told them that Shirayuri had started training like mad and at one point even asked Claire for help with her training that did surprise everyone onboard the cruisers a bit but for now they concentrated on catching up with the unknown ship.
On the Pirate Island in the early evening hours:
Akeno and Oleg had slept for most of the following day and no one disturbed them however when they did wake up there was a warm lunch waiting for them on the desk in the office room.
Oleg and Akeno ate their meals and after they were done with eating they both went back to Olegs room mainly for Oleg to get a shower and a change of clothes while Akeno checked over her two pistols while she waited for him in the bedroom.
Oleg took quite a while to get ready but when he did emerge from the bath he was wearing a simple white suit with a black tie and a red rose in his breast pocket "We have a gathering to attend to Red just follow me and only speak to anyone if you have my permission understood?" Oleg asked as he made sure Akenos outfit was good to go.
"I understand however I am with you at this gathering to protect you correct?" asked Akeno as they were about to leave the room "Yes that is correct but your cover is that you are one of my pets so play the part you know" Oleg replied before the two left the bedroom towards Olegs office.
But instead of staying in his office Oleg walked into the elevator Hanin had used to bring Akeno and the other two girls up here however Akeno did not question why they were going down there.
But once the elevator doors opened Akeno saw a lot of activity with various men moving bound girls down to the pier before putting them onboard one of the transfer boats and moving them over to a part of the other pier that had even more Luxus ships docked at it by now.
Oleg simply walked down the pier and every single person that was there saluted him with the exception of some of the bound girls that were glaring at him but at the end of the pier waited Kenri in a simple black military RHIB boat and once Oleg and Akeno were onboard Kenri drove the boat rather slowly over to the other pier before stopping the engine and tying the boat to the pier.
Oleg climbed up the ladder before he helped Akeno up to the pier and right behind them Kenri climbed up before the group of three walked towards the luxurious restaurant that was pretty loud as a lot of people were inside.
Oleg went through a door with Akeno but Kenri stayed behind and a moment later Oleg and Akeno stood behind a black curtain and someone handed a ear mounted microphone to Oleg.
"I have to give a speech before the auction can really begin just stay hidden behind the curtain until I join the rest of the crowd" Oleg explained and Akeno stepped away to the side allowing her time to do something she was not able to do as of yet.
Oleg rambled on for about ten minutes and in that time Akeno was able to not only take off the collar around her neck but also mess around with its internals mainly the electric shock function the collar had but that had been disabled now before she put it back around her neck.
Oleg walked down the side of the stage and Akeno seemed to simply appear at his side as soon as he reached the normal floor of the restaurant Oleg was greeted by various men mostly in business suits but each one of them had some kind of bracelet on their person with a number.
Oleg and Akeno almost made it to an elevated table that was off to the side of the restaurant until someone grabbed Akeno causing her to yelp in pain and Oleg to turn around before sighing "Brother please get you hands of off Red otherwise I might be forced to allow her to free herself" Olegs voice definitely held displeasure as he spoke to the slightly taller teenager with short gray hair.
"Oh your new pet something special then relax she can spend some time with me and I will return her good as new" the teen said his voice sounding so slimy it almost Akeno to gag.
"No either release her now or I will give her permission to take matters into her own hands" Oleg replied but the older teen did not release Akeno so Oleg looked directly into Akenos eyes and gave a nod to her.
Before the older brother knew what happened he was lying on the ground with the wind knocked out of her and Akeno simply joined Oleg at the table with Kenri "You got to be kidding me" the older brother mumbled as he got up from the ground dusting off his jacket before disappearing into the crowd.
From the elevated table Akeno could see that a swimming platform took up most of the deepest part of the cavern and that was where the bound girls were all brought before being shoved into cages.
"The auction will soon start Master Ikushuka" Kenri reported handing both him and Akeno a menu of the restaurant that had the name the Free Seamen they both ordered something but just after their meals arrived several lights turned on that illuminated the entire swimming platform.
And on the platform was a Podium with a massive screen hanging right above the stage and a man in a simple gray suit took the stage "Good evening Gentleman we welcome you to our yearly auction of rare pets. We have provided each one of you with a tablet to view information about the various pets on sale today so be sure to check over them if there is one pet you wish to get" the man spoke into a microphone.
Akeno watched as five bound girls were lead on the stage and the man telling some story about how the girls had been trained and various other things before the screen showed who had placed a bid on the girl and a simple number before the sold girls were moved away from the stage but as the sixth girl was lead on stage Akeno couldn´t take it anymore as she placed her fork and knife down and got up.
"Red where are you going?" asked Oleg but as Akeno turned around her eyes became similar to those of a cat but her red eyes also started to glow "Doing what I should have done the moment I arrived at this restaurant with you" Akenos ice cold voice replied and in the next instant she had summoned her AK-74 to her hands.
Akeno opened fire on the guests without warning and only two minutes later the entire restaurant was filled with dead bodies of course various guards tried to stop Akeno but they were killed just like the rest of the guests.
Akeno made her way over to the stage and released some of the girls from their bindings before she moved deeper into the training facilities of the slave camp no matter where she went she found various rooms and those that were busy with taking a break in those rooms didn´t live for much longer with a few exceptions mainly those that Akeno knew had no other choice than be part of the slave trade or those that were to be sold as slaves.
At one point Akeno arrived before a door that had the symbol for Bio hazard in yellow and black upon it and right before the door Akeno found a room full of hazmat suits so without thinking twice she put one on before picking up her assault rifle again and walking through the doors.
But as soon as she was through the disinfection room Akeno wished she had never entered this room it was a long hallway with four laboratories that were separated from each other and at the very end of the hall was a completely black cube like room.
The first thing Akeno did was make sure no one would be able to leave this place if they decided to run before she silently killed all of the guards and hiding their bodies out of sight before she made her way to the black cube.
She got in without trouble but as soon as she saw what was inside Akeno almost threw up as in various glass capsules were girls some alive but most of them dead and the skin of those that died was cracked in several places with blood pouring out of their eyes, mouths and almost everywhere else where the skin had cracked open.
Akeno did not hesitate any longer she aimed her rifle and started killing every single one of the men that were wearing hazmat suits until only one of them was left alive but he must be the one who was keeping things going down here so Akeno kept him alive for now.
"What is it you are creating down here?" Akeno growled at the scientist that was on the ground but after he didn´t answer Akeno shot him in the knee at point blank range causing him to scream.
"We were tasked with creating Bio chemical weapons that could be used in the future" the scientist gritted out holding his bleeding knee but that was the moment Akeno spotted one girl that she recognized immediately.
Angels eyes were bloodshot and her entire body looked as if it was decaying Akeno closed her eyes with tears of rage running down her face she turned back to the scientist and grabbed him before throwing him towards a wall were various ampoules stood on a table.
"Death would be a mercy for you so I shall give you a taste of your own medicine" Akeno hissed before slicing apart the hazmat suit of the scientist with Asuramarus blade the effect was immediate as the scientist started gagging for air before clawing at his own skin before collapsing to the ground bleeding from his mouth before he laid still.
With the last scientist dead Akeno stood before another task but before she did anything Akeno talked with Asuramaru "there is no way for you to save any of the girls they are already dying as we speak the least you can do is to finally end their suffering" Asuramaru simply said before Akeno was back in the underground laboratory.
With determination in her eyes Akeno went from girl to girl and if they were alive she thrusted her blade into their hearts and each girl she killed went with a smile on their face until Akeno came to Angel.
"I have to thank you for getting me out of this but on the other hand you are also the one who got me into this mess" Angel coughed blood for a moment before settling down again "With my belongings you will find a silver medallion that has a skull and two blades upon it. Take it as a thank you for releasing me and the others from this suffering" Angel added before closing her eyes.
Akeno simply nodded before she ended Angel in the same way she had done with the other girls but before she left the laboratory she took the medallion Angel told her about and all of the research data and copied everything before destroying and burning all of the original files while the copy was stored in Asuramarus realm for safekeeping.
With the laboratory destroyed Akeno left leaving the hazmat suit where she found it but before she left she took Asuramarus blade again and pointed it straight at the ceiling above her.
"No one will ever find this cursed place" Akeno seethed before the ceiling of the tunnel started to cave in burying the entrance to the laboratory so that no one would be able to find it ever again and just to be sure that no one would even try to find it Akeno continued to collapse the ceiling until she was near the training rooms again.
Akeno continued to walk but even though she knew she had done the right thing she still felt terrible but before she could walk back into the cave with the restaurant she was pulled by her arm into a side room.
Akeno had her gun trained on her attacker only to find Kenri and Oleg before her "You did me a favor with what you did I made sure that no one involved got away so before you leave at least tell me your name so I may help you in the future if I can" Oleg simple said confusing Akeno completely.
"This slave trade was build up by my father and his son but after my mother married that man he took his time to get me ready to take over this place and with my mother dead he had no one standing in his way anymore" Oleg continued to explain as Kenri kept an eye on the door.
"I will not keep this place open any longer and in the future I will make it my goal to destroy any organization that tries to replace it" Oleg swore with his left fist over his heart before he looked at Akeno again.
"I already know you disabled that collar but if I am to help you at any point in time use this to contact me" Oleg added handing a simple silver box with a red rose on it to Akeno "this is goodbye if we do meet in the future you will have my help no matter what it may be" Oleg turned around and his butler walked with him down the hall.
"Wait" Akeno yelled causing Oleg and Kenri to stop walking "I will tell you my name but it will probably just cause you more pain" Akeno took a deep breath before her hair returned to its natural light orange brown and her eyes turned a deep ocean blue.
"I see so it was you after all" Oleg sighed as Akenos hair and eyes turned red once more "you should get going Akeno there is a warship that arrived a few minutes after you started shooting up the place" Oleg continued to walk down the hall with Kenri giving Akeno a bow before following his master.
Akeno went back to the harbor only to find every single of the girls that had been kept as slave onboard the various Luxus ships but one of the older girls spotted Akeno and approached with two other girls that were the two students from the Admiral Spee.
Akeno slung her rifle over her shoulder with the small silver box and gave the three girls a small smile "You already have the situation under control I see take care of everyone I made sure no one that had something to do with this survived" Akeno simply said before walking right past the three girls.
Akeno took the black RHIB boat and headed out of the cave only to find her ship the Tsukuba waiting for her however the sky was turning a dark black overhead as she got onboard she used a crane to get the RHIB boat onboard and after that she went to the bridge.
By the time Akeno started to move away from the Island it had started to rain heavily but the rain was comforting to Akeno right now as she sat on the roof of her bridge after she left her rifle and the silver box inside the bridge.
But a few minutes later Akeno heard some kind of whistling noise and a moment later massive columns of water were thrown skywards all around the Tsukuba but by then Akeno had already spotted what had caused it as there just on the horizon were three German battleships that fired another salvo at her.
Akeno had started turning away even before the ships fired but that was the moment an idea came to her mind Akeno turned off all of her lights onboard her ship and headed at full speed into the storm at first the three battleships followed her but soon after they lost her as Akeno used the massive waves to hide from their sight and radar.
Akeno was still tense for about another hour before she checked her position and headed out of the storm revealing the dark black night sky above and a moment after Akeno knew where to go.
Akeno changed course and went to half speed to give her engines a bit of a rest as they were almost running at full speed the entire time she had been in the storm and thanks to Asuramarus power her outfit was dry a moment later.
Just outside of Akenos radar range was a Japanese floatplane that spotted the Tsukuba and sends the information about her position and heading back to a fleet of one Kongo class battleship and two aircraft carriers.
Akeno had no idea what was coming for her as she reduced her speed a bit further as the sea was really peaceful but about an hour later Akeno heard some kind of deep humming noise and her radar was telling her that about seventy two contacts were heading towards her with over three hundred kilometers per hour.
And as Akeno got on the roof of her bridge she knew what those contacts and the deep humming sound were as the stars were hidden by the mass of aircraft that were approaching her Akeno increased her speed to maximum and turned towards the aircraft and a few minutes later all of her anti aircraft guns started firing.
Akeno managed to take down some of the attacking aircrafts but in the end the Tsukuba took numerous rocket and bomb hits and even a torpedo hit to the stern that caused one of her propellers to be destroyed.
But instead of finishing her off the planes turned away and a moment later the radio came on but Akeno couldn´t answer it even if she wanted to as one of the rocket attacks had hit the bridge the explosion caused all of the windows to shatter and all of the glass to become shrapnel that hit Akeno in numerous areas of her body.
Onboard the Haruna a young man that went by the name Genichiro Nomura was confused he attacked the ship Riya told her about but with the ship dead in the water Genichiro tried to radio them but got no answer on the way towards the unknown ship the planes of the Zuikaku returned and landed without problems however about fifteen had been shoot down by the unknown ship.
Genichiro was also worried according to Riya the Red crow they had been chasing had escaped but what if the ship he had just attacked was the one the Red crow used to escape for now he concentrated on keeping an eye on the radar and the reports from the scout plane that was still keeping an eye on the unknown ship.
It took him about two and a half hours before he arrived at the location of the unknown ship that was still dead in the water the ship reminded Genichiro of his own battleship but the different turrets and torpedoes told him otherwise he called out to the ship via light signals and radio but got no answer at all.
So he decided to put on his mask and board the unknown ship by pulling alongside it with the Haruna and from the deck of his ship he was easily able to land onboard the unknown ship but as he got up as saw that most of the ship was covered by black sooth from the rocket and bomb attacks on the ship but there was no one around and that was what caused Genichiro to start running towards the bridge of the ship.
It took him a few minutes but when he arrived on the bridge he almost wished he hadn´t the entire bridge floor was covered by glass shards but the ones that were near the ruder wheel were covered in crimson red blood and on the ground in front of the ruder wheel was a girl.
But not just any girl she was wearing a beautiful dress made out of red and black frills but it were the half open eyes of the girl that had Genichiro run to her side in worry and fear as he remembered those beautiful ocean blue eyes all too well.
Genichiro got to work on checking over Akenos wounds and he realized that the worst of her wounds were centered on her forearms, chest and belly that all had glass shards of various sizes sticking out of her skin but with every glass shard Genichiro removed his worry only grew but after he was done with an area he bandaged it thoroughly before moving to the next injuries.
Genichiro was done after over thirty minutes of taking care of the wounds on Akenos body but just to be save he brought her back onboard his ship the Haruna before he connected the Haruna to the Tsukuba and started towing the damaged ship behind him.
Genichiro knew he had to tell this to everyone as he sat in his room on a chair while Akeno was lying in a bed covered only by a simple blanket Genichiro was still worried so he had decided to hook Akeno up to a heart rate monitor and gave her some pain killers before his satellite phone started ringing.
With a defeated sigh Genichiro picked up the phone only to hear various voices discussing something until it went dead silent "Genichiro did you intercept the unknown ship?" Riya asked causing Genichiro to sigh before looking at Akeno again.
"Yes I intercepted the ship however the Red crow we were chasing is someone I know quite well" Genichiro replied but without giving anyone a chance to reply he continued "she was injured during my attack however I did manage to get her stitched up but once she is awake she will be really pissed at me unless we can repair her ship" Genichiro added getting only silence in return as his fleet continued to head home while towing a badly damaged ship with them.