Hello and welcome back I guessfor those of you who read the original story
Since I started writting here I went back to my first story a few times well that one is gone now.
However with the help of my trusted editior Killroy122496 I will be rewriting the entire story from the ground up
I do hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did when I was writing it
Back to the sea for there is no peace where we are
Chapter 1: The destroyed family
In a night with a full moon a happy family of five young children and two parents enjoyed their holiday time onboard a Luxus cruise liner they had been onboard the ship for about a week by now after it had left port.
However now the parents where nowhere to be found as were the three young girls of the family as no matter where you looked you could only find screaming and panicking adults that tried to reach the life rafts as the two boys of the family watched from the water and safety of a life boat.
The ship had been attacked by pirates but they didn´t want money or take the ship as hostage no they wanted nothing more than kill anyone that they could find.
Akeno Misaki and her two younger sisters Mitsuko and Kishiko were running away from some scary people as fast as their small legs were able to carry them until five men wearing green combat uniforms blocked their way.
"We found the three you have asked us to find we will withdraw while keeping them save" the men with a beard spoke while holding the side of his head as the other four looked at Akeno and her two sisters.
Akeno didn´t trust this at all as two of them approached her and her two sisters but just as they were about to speak again in that moment a group of five pirates ran around the corner behind them "there they are get em" one of them yelled before firing his pistol towards them.
Akeno only had a moment to register that someone grabbed her shoulder before pushing her to the side causing her and her two sisters to hit the ground before the sound of four automatic rifles joined by a shotgun started up above them.
Only seconds later it was completely silent once more but for some reason Akenos vision was getting a bit blurry "Sarge one of them got hit!" one of the men in green that was holding a machine gun yelled.
Akeno barely noticed that someone told her to keep her eyes open as well as the scarred voices of her two younger sisters at some point one of the men in green uniform picked her up before the group of five men and three young girls started to run towards the bow of the Luxus liner where an American torpedo boat was waiting for them.
As soon as the five men and three girls were onboard the torpedo boat started to move away from the burning and now sinking Luxus liner before picking up speed as the burning ship disappeared in the distance.
Akeno was feeling a searing pain from the side of her shoulder as the same man in green hovered over her after laying her down on a simple bunk bed as he started to cut apart her shirt on her shoulder before looking at something closely before he injected something into her arm before bandaging her shoulder.
At that point Akenos eyes closed as she couldn´t keep her eyes open any longer even as her two sisters screamed at her in worry to stay with them.
Preston Marlowe thought this was going to be an easy job as he leaned against the door to the small crew cabin where they had left the three girls after Nomad patched one of them up it sounded simple enough just get onboard a ship find three girls before withdrawing but of course everything went wrong the instant they found the ship.
Pirates attacked the ship they did find the three girls onboard rather easily as they literally ran into them only to deal with a group of about ten pirates that were following them and after one of the pirates fired on them they engaged them only after the small firefight was over did they notice that one of the girls had been hit by one of the stray bullets the pirates fired at them.
Luckily the bullet hat pierced right through the girls shoulder without damaging any of her muscels or bones but still it was a dangerous wound for a girl her age to receive she had only lost a little bit of blood before they were able to bandage the wound onboard the torpedo boat the client had prepared for them.
"Marlowe how is the wounded girl doing after Nomad is done with her?" Sarge asked over the radio with his usual gruff voice.
"She is sleeping right now thanks to the painkillers Nomad gave her the other two girls we brought with us Sarge are asleep as well" Marlowe replied a few seconds later after he stepped out into the next room pulling the hatch closed behind himself.
"Well I already spoke with the client he ain´t to happy that one of them was wounded during this but he also told me to make sure nothing else happens to them until we meet with him" Sarge answered as Marlowe walked out on deck to see that the sun was rising once more on the horizon.
"Who is this guy anyway I mean we never heard of him and just suddenly he has a job for us?" Sweetwater asked suspicious of the whole thing "that's the only thing you can really do complain about every little thing can´t you Sweetwater" Haggard replied over the radio causing Preston to laugh with him for a moment before Sarge cut back in.
"Quit you blabbering after the army threw us out this was our best option so better get to know the three girls once they wake up again and Sweetwater just shut up" this caused all five of the men to start laughing again for a while until they turned off the radios to get some sleep while Sarge stayed on the bridge with Sweetwater staying in the radio room to keep an eye on the radar to avoid any patrols of the blue mermaids they might encounter.
The next morning Preston checked on the three girls only to find that two of them were awake while sitting on the bed of the injured girl that was still asleep with their heads hanging down.
"Hey you girls want something to eat?" Haggard asked as he walked up from behind Marlowe however the two girls seemed to not respond at all for a moment until their bellies responded for them causing the two girls to blush while the third groaned something as her eyes opened partly.
"Onee-Chan are you okay" the two girls yelled in worry as the third girl with short brown hair slowly sat up "Hags get Nomad in here to check on her while I watch em" Marlowe whispered to Haggard who started running down the hall.
Marlowe watched the three girls and offered a glass of water to all three of them which they reluctantly accepted although one of the girls had to help the injured one by holding the glass to her lips to allow her to drink as she was still pretty weak.
Only a few minutes later Haggard returned with Sweetwater and Nomad walking right behind him "hello there you three my name is Cheveyo Miyamoto just call me Nomad though. Could you show me your wound for a sec?" Nomad asked softly as the silver and dark brown haired girl scotched back on the bed as the wounded girl showed her shoulder to Nomad.
Cheveyo is a Japanese Native American male with short brown hair in a ponytail and amber-red eyes. He wears am old green military officers jacket while underneath is a white and black naval undershirt, black Kevlar combat gloves and a vest, black Kevlar naval jeans, and black padded naval boots.
"Thank you for that you just need to keep the bandages clean thankfully the bleeding has already stopped but if you feel any pain let me know immediately ok?" Nomad gave a small smile and the light brown orange girl returned it.
"So our little princess decided to finally wake up?" Redford asked as he entered the cabin but only got a nod from Sweetwater as answer "good well time to introduce ourselves my name is Redford or as these three idiots still call me Sarge" Redford started "names Sweetwater I´m the radio guy in our squad" Sweetwater simply said as Haggard was fumbling around with something on his tactical vest.
"My name is Marlowe the sniper on occasion as well as the driver or pilot when it comes to any kind of vehicle as those two can´t seem to get us anywhere without us blowing up" Marlowe simply introduced himself while he pointed towards Sweetwater and Haggard as Haggard got up from his seat.
"Names Haggard Explosives expert of this ragtag group of no good sons of guns" Haggard almost yelled causing the three girls to look at him as if he was crazy "already told you my name but my role is the squads field medic and I also know my way around almost any kind of large scale weapon system" Nomad added still giving the three girls a warm smile.
"From what my sisters told me you already know our names and probably a lot more so let me ask you where are you taking us?" Akeno the injured girl asked while looking at Redford with suspicion in her eyes.
Redford sat down on the chair that Haggard had used before pulling a brown cigar from his chest pocket "we have been contracted to bring you to our contact and nothing more" Redford replied as he cut one end of his cigar with a combat knife that he returned to a holster on his leg.
"Bring us back to our parents!" Mitsuko yelled immediately but Akeno placed her left hand on her shoulder to calm her down "sorry we can´t really do that since your parents didn´t survive the attack of the pirates on the ship" Sweetwater's words caused all three girls to look at him in disbelieve before they all started crying.
"Well done Sweets" Haggard mumbled as Marlowe tried to comfort the girls with Nomad while Sweetwater slowly left the room in silence before pulling the door shut behind him as the three Misaki sisters continued to cry their hearts out.
Haggard and Nomad brought some food Marlowe made to the girls room a few hours later but only Akeno who was still injured thanked him as the other two girls were starring at the wall of the room while lying on two of the beds.
"Have you heard anything about our brothers?" Akeno asked her voice barely above a whisper but Haggard only shook his head as answer before Akeno went back into the room before closing the door behind her.
"You really fucked up this time Sweetwater and not in a good way so you better pray that those girls don´t get any stupid ideas otherwise I will make sure you sleep with the fishes you got me?" Redford yelled and even though the door to the radio room was shut it was pretty loud so Haggard, Nomad and Marlowe simply waited until Sarge came out of the radio room before following him to the bridge in silence.
"Listen you three I want one of you to stay with the girls at all times until we arrive at the meeting point you got me?" Redford mumbled as he lit a cigarette before breathing a thick cloud of gray smoke into the air.
"You got it Sarge but what are we going to do once we are done with this job?" Nomad asked as Marlowe sat down on a chest that stood by the wall of the bridge as Haggard leaned against the wall beside him.
"The guy who is paying us to make this delivery also wants to extend the time we are spending in his service of course with quite a good payment but I don´t have the details of what exactly we are going to do" Redford replied catching a can of beer that Haggard threw to him before throwing one to Nomad and Marlowe.
"Sounds fishy if you ask me even if he is willing to pay" Marlowe mumbled as he took a sip of his beer and Haggard agreed with him "I say we demand the details from him before we hand over the girls to him" Nomad added as he downed the rest of his beer in one go.
"Yeah let´s do that so keep your eyes open in case he wants to pull a fast one on us" Redford ended the conversation as they toasted to each other with a new round of beer from the freezer.
The torpedo boat continued its journey for the next five days but no matter what Haggard, Marlowe, Redford or Nomad tried only Akeno who was still injured talked with them while Mitsuko and Kishiko stayed completely silent and unresponsive unless it was Akeno who talked with them.
They did eat everything Haggard or Sweetwater cooked for them without complaining once even if only Akeno thanked them for the food they brought to the small cabin three times per day.
On the sixth day the torpedo boat started to approach a small Island chain that had a black modern frigate anchored close to the shore in a bay the torpedo boat slowed down before coming to a stop right behind the frigate "you guys know what we are here for if it looks like he wants to pull a fast one on us grab the girls and run back to the boat understood?" Redford asked getting the conformation from his four squad mates over the radio.
Marlowe and Nomad went to get the three girls while Sweetwater, Haggard and Redford waited on deck for their contact to arrive and a few minutes later a girl jumped down from the now open cargo bay of the Frigate "did you complete the mission we gave you?" the girl asked looking directly at Redford.
The girl was wearing a grey and red naval sailor girl uniform shirt, grey naval skirt with two naval anchors on both sides of her skirt, a white and golden lily flower on her ponytail, red stockings on her legs, and grey padded naval boots.
At that moment Nomad and Marlowe came on deck followed by the three girls with one of the girls helping the injured one to walk "we did however one of them was injured due to pirates attacking the ship before we got onboard we patched her up and she will be fine with a few weeks of her taking it easy" Redford replied and the girl simply nodded at that.
"Pretty well done my captain would like to speak with you about another job if you are interested" the girl handed a gray steel case over to Redford who checked the content before nodding "might as well you kept your part of the deal so we will hear what your captain has to offer us" Redford replied before following the girl with his squad and the three Misaki sisters.
The girl in uniform showed them to a small conference room before leaving with the three girls down another hallway "well we got paid as we were supposed to so any idea about what this second job we are supposed to do might be?" Sweetwater asked getting no reply from the other four as they waited.
Akeno, Kishiko and Mitsuko followed the girl in uniform until they arrived in a room with three walls that were lined with computers and other equipment and in the middle of the room stood a chair from which someone stood up from "thank you for bringing them here Shirayuri please wait outside until we are finished" the man in white uniform spoke his voice sounding more like a command than a request.
The girl named Shirayuri simply nodded before leaving the room closing the bulkhead behind her leaving the three sisters alone with the unknown man "hello there you three you are probably wondering why I wanted to speak with you" the man in white uniform spoke his voice sounding a lot more like a caring father now, Akeno simply nodded as she was still being supported by Kishiko holding her right arm over her shoulder.
The man nodded before walking over to a small long box on a table "for now you can call me Tosa Takanaka Tosa. The reason I wanted to speak with you is that I wanted to confirm if you are part of an old family clan that has become a legend over the years or not" Takanaka explained taking something from the small box before approaching the three girls.
"What kind of legend are you talking about mister Tosa?" Akeno asked her voice holding simple curiosity as Takanaka laid down three small rather long packages on the chair in the middle of the room before he turned towards the three girls again "the legend tells of a clan that protected the seas against all kinds of danger along with a kingdom that disappeared as soon as the clan was lost due to war but who attacked who is unknown as no one that could tell survived the war. With the protectors of the sea gone the blue Mermaids were created to continue in their stead" Takanaka explained.
Akeno, Kishiko and Mitsuko sat down on the ground as their legs got tired but continued to listen to Takanaka talk about the clan that protected the sea before the blue mermaids were created for several more minutes before Kishiko spoke up "and how exactly are you going to confirm if we are part of this old clan?"
Takanaka stopped talking as he picked up the three packages from the chair again handing one to each of the girls "unwrap them once you are in your quarters and get some rest for now" Takanaka simply answered before Shirayuri entered the room again.
"Shirayuri please show them to their room so they can get some rest alright?" Takanaka asked and Shirayuri gave a salute before guiding the three girls down the hallway before walking around a corner and opening a door on the right "this will be your room until further notice make yourself comfortable dinner will arrive for you in a few minutes" Shirayuri explained before the three girls entered the room.
There wasn´t much three normal beds stood by the wall with a wooden desk on the opposite wall and a book shelf behind the desk Akeno, Mitsuko and Kishiko sat down on one of the beds each before Shirayuri left the room again "now let´s see what this is all about" Akeno mumbled as she started to unwrap the package Takanaka gave her so Mitsuko and Kishiko did the same.
After the cloth fell away all three girls were holding some sort of curved wooden thing in their hands but before they could question what they were supposed to do with them their eyes got very heavy and all three of them slumped over with a symbol on each of the wooden objects glowing a crimson red before fading away again.
Takanaka made his way down a few ladders before he entered a conference room in which five men in green uniforms were sitting "good evening gentlemen I am the one who hired you to get those three girls but seeing as you are still here you wish to know about the second job I have for you correct?" Takanaka asked as he sat down in an empty chair.
Redford was the one to speak up first "yeah we would so what would this job be exactly?" he asked and in response Takanaka turned on a big screen behind him "then please listen until I´m finished and once I am you may ask as many questions as you want" Takanaka spoke before he got up and started to explain that he wanted the five men squad to train and protect the three girls for about a year before he would contact them again and give them a new location to move the training to he also explained almost everything he knew about the clan of legends.
"You seem to have big plans for those three girls but for now the only thing we want to know is how much are you paying us for doing this and for how long are we supposed to train those girls and in what exactly?" Nomad asked as he looked at the pictures of a modern mansion that was located at a beach on a private Island "you may name your price as for how long I want you to train them and what I want you to train them in. I want you to teach them the knowledge around everything you did before the army decided to get rid of you all and I want you to teach them for as long as you think it is necessary of course should any of you five require something to train one of the girls I will provide it along with food and other essentials that you will need to live with the girls as you train them" Takanaka answered causing the room to fall dead silent.
For several minutes the room stayed silent until Nomad spoke up again his voice hard and ice cold leaving no room to argue "why do you want us to train three girls that are barely old enough to be called teenagers to be soldiers?" Nomad asked and his four squad mates agreed with him "I hope to give them all they need to survive as they continue on their own path in the future" Takanaka replied as Redford pulled out a cigarette from his left breast pocket.
"So far you gave us a few good reasons why we should take this job but have you asked those girls if they want this and if you did not we will decide after they tell us about their decision" Redford replied before getting up "we will be waiting on our boat until they tell us of their decision until then" Marlowe, Sweetwater, Nomad and Haggard got up as well before following Redford back to the torpedo boat.
Takanaka checked on the girls only to find Shirayuri standing before the room with a frown on her face "so what is going on?" Takanaka asked and Shirayuri sighed "I went to the kitchen to get them something to eat but once I returned to the room all three of them are fast asleep I tried to wake them up but they are sleeping like the dead" Shirayuri replied with her hand going through her long auburn brown hair that she wears in a pony tail "then let them sleep just inform me once they wake up" Takanaka then left to get some sleep so Shirayuri did the same.
Akeno, Mitsuko and Kishiko had no idea where they were after they opened their eyes again they found themselves lying on black sand of an Island that was surrounded by a crimson red sea add to that that the sky was purple and you had the whole picture "where are we?" Mitsuko asked looking around "I have no idea but what I´m wondering more about are these" Kishiko mumbled pointing at the clothes she was wearing.
The only thing all three girls were currently wearing were two piece swimsuits in black and red with a black belt that was holding the three wooden objects Takanaka had given to them "whatever you desire to wear just think about it and it shall appear to suit your tastes" a voice that sounded very far away and yet very close by at the same time said frightening the three girls a bit.
Akeno, Mitsuko and Kishiko looked around trying to find the one who had spoken to them but there was nothing no matter where they looked "well might as well try this then" Akeno mumbled before closing her eyes imagining herself wearing a simple black school uniform with gray knee socks and shoes.
Akeno opened her eyes only to see Kishiko and Mitsuko staring at her before she looked at herself ´well this actually worked´ Akeno thought as she was now wearing the same school uniform except that the black belt with the wooden object was still there around her waist and a few moments later Kishiko and Mitsuko were wearing the same uniforms except that Kishikos was in gray while Mitsuko kept hers in a dark silver.
"The longer you train the more things you will be able to do once you learned how to" the same voice spoke but this time the three girls could actually see the person who spoke a man in a mostly black red uniform that was standing onboard a ship that was now right beside the small Island.
"You have questions and I shall answer them along the way for now come onboard and to answer where we are? We are currently in a space that is only able to be entered by those that are part of the Akai senchō" the man in uniform explained as a ramp was lowered from the ship.
Akeno, Kishiko and Mitsuko walked up the ramp and once they were onboard the ship the ramp disappeared and the ship started to move but except for the man in black red uniform there seemed to be no one else around "I will show the three of you where you need to go in order for you to truly believe the story I´m about to tell you so please listen closely. About five hundred years ago there was a kingdom that had vast knowledge about just anything you could imagine along with the skills to create things that seemed like magic to the people at the time. This Kingdom however had one problem they were defenseless against anyone who wanted to invade but in their time of need a clan that had existed even before the Kingdom that stayed in the shadows until then revealed themselves and after that a pact was made between the clan and the countries rulers" the man in uniform looked towards the horizon as the ship started to change its course "however about two hundred years after they made the pact a war broke out and once the war was over the clan with its power was completly destroyed and the country that they had been protecting until that point disappeared as well".
The man in uniform watched as several small Islands passed by the ship before he continued his tale "the clan that had protected the seas of the world was destroyed but with their backs against a wall the last members of the clan created a way to preserve their knowledge so that once someone with the true blood of the clan was found. That they could learn about what power they hold but leaving the choice what to with that power with them no matter for what they use this power" he spoke as the ship started to slow down as it went into a massive cloud of fog and after they pass through on the other side the three girls could see the remains of buildings that stood at the beach of the various Islands that seemed to stretch beyond the horizon.
The ship came to a complete stop at a pier that was overgrown with various plants "if you wish to learn everything find this place once you leave my ship you will know how you can come here" the man in black red uniform explained as the ramp appeared at the side of the ship again "before we leave please tell us your name" Akeno simply said as she got up from the deck of the ship with Kishiko and Mitsuko.
The man in uniform nodded at that "the name I was given is Fukushui for now remember what I told you and decide what it is you wish to do in the future" Fukushui answered before the fog started to come closer and closer so Akeno, Mitsuko and Kishiko left the ship but as their feet landed on the pier their eyes closed before they disappeared in the fog.
"May your choice reveal the truth in the future" Fukushui whispered into the fog as his ship moved on the surface of the crimson red sea with the purple sky above him away from the Island where he left the three girls.