A few things before I start.
First, sorry this took so long, I got super busy all of a sudden but I will write when I can. Next is that I'm not French and I can't speak French so sorry if I miss something from French culture. Last but not lease I don't have all the shipgirls and I don't know all the ins and outs of their personalities so sorry if there out of character.
Gabriel woke up to the sharp noise of his alarm, he immediately turned it off and stretched.
"Yawn"
He then stumbles out of bed and into the bathroom. After he finished up in the there he dragges his feet down stairs and plops himself on his couch.
Knock Knock Knock
"Capitaine it's Dunkerque I made you some morning sweets"
"5 more minutes" Gabriel groans
"Capitaine please open the door"
"Under the stairs" Gabriel says remembering he put his spare key there.
Clink
Gabriel hears as Dunkerque opens the door.
"Capitaine is something wrong?"
"No, i just woke up thats all"
"Would you like me to make you some coffee?"
"I don't have any"
"Well how about I give you a lap pillow?"
Normally Gabriel would say no but he just woke up so it didn't matter to him.
"Oui"
Gabriel layed his head on her thighs
"I made some cupcakes, cookies, all kinds of things Capitaine, would you like any?" Dunkerque kindly askes.
"Yes please" Gabriel says as he opens his mouth as Dunkerque puts a cookies in his mouth.
For the next 15 minutes Gabriel was laying his head on Dunkerque lap while she feed him until Gabriel woke up enough to realize what was happening and immediately jumped up.
"Is something wrong Capitaine?"
"Non non I'm going to get ready for the day" he says as he runs upstairs.
Gabriel came down into the living room dressed in his horizon blue naval uniform
"Alright Dunkerque I'm ready to go"
"Capitaine what are we going to do today?"
"Well we need to decide on a fleet name, we need to pick a fleet representative, and pick a secretary."
"Can I be your secretary?"
"I don't see why not."
"Merci capitaine"
Knock Knock Knock
Then Arthur walkes in.
"Morning Gabriel!" Arthur Excitedly says.
"Salut Arthur, what brings you over?" Gabriel replies.
"Me and Heinrich just saw a plane land, you know what that means?"
"A new capitaine."
"Spot on, me and Heinrich are making bets about what country there from wanna join?"
"Oui I'll be out shortly"
"Alright, me and Heinrich are waiting"
Arthur then leaves
"Capitaine are you sure you can trust him?" Dunkerque asks
"What do you mean?"
"The British have betrayed us before along with the Germans, so are you sure you can trust them?"
"Who are you concerned about?"
"You, me, the french fleet, all of France"
"Concerned about your country and will protect your country? Correct?"
"Oui, I will protect France with my life"
"There do the same for their country. I'm not excusing what they did, they need to and have paid for what they did I just wanted you to understand"
"Oui I understand"
"Good, now can you get all the French shipgirls to meet at the French dorm at 10:00?
"Oui capitaine, I will get on it" She says as she leaves.
Gabriel then followed Dunkerque out and saw Heinrich and Arthur in a jeep talking so Gabriel approached them.
"The new Kapitän will be Russian" Heinrich argues.
"Non there will be Italian" Gabriel jumps in
"How much you willing to bet?" Arthur challenges
"Well I haven't looked through the resources that the French government sent me but I'm willing to bet 2,000 gold coins, 2,000 barrels of oil, 20 red gems, and I'll throw in 20 euros I found in my pocket just now."
"I'll bet 10,000 barrels of oil, 30 quid, and 5 red gems if the captain in Japanese" Arthur replies
"10,000 gold coins, 20 euros, and 10 red gems if there Russian" Heinrich says
"Then none of you would win"
"Who said that?" Arthur asked
"The new captain, Captain Matthew Sparks"
The three look at Matthew he has on a navy blue uniform that matches there's and next to him stands one of the shipgirls in a lighter blue color then Matthew's.
"Bonjour, I'm Gabriel Renault. Capitaine of French forces"
"Arthur Payne, British division"
"Heinrich Wenzel, German division"
"It seems like none of you won, sorry I'm not Russian, Italian, or Japanese but American." Matthew apologize.
"Non non it's fine, but who is this lovely lady next to you? Gabriel questioned.
At that the shipgirl bushed
"I'm Arizona, I was just showing the Captain around because the Admiral was busy."
"Fredrick always has something to do"
"Well Matthew and Arizona would you like to have a breakfast with us, then Arizona can continue the tour later?" Heinrich asks
"That sounds great! Arizona?" Matthew responds.
"I would love too" Arizona responses.
Gabriel, Heinrich, Arthur, Matthew, and Arizona eating breakfast.
"Gabriel is that all your going to eat?" says Arthur as he sees Gabriel eating just a croissant and coffee.
"Yeah, already eat earlier" Gabriel says blushing a little at the thought of laying on Dunkerque's lap eating her delicious pastries.
"Have a nice breakfast?" Heinrich jokingly asks noticing the blush.
"You know what? Matthew do you want to go drinking tonight?" Gabriel suddenly asks.
"Yeah, we took Gabriel drinking last night" Arthur says.
"We could start a tradition! Except this time lets go into town, I don't want Eugen to try anything more." Heinrich says and mutters that last part.
"That sounds great" Matthew excitedly says.
"Alright we'll pick you up at your house and head out into town" Arthur says.
"Captain we better get back on our tour" Arizona gently reminds Matthew.
"Well got to go, it was great meeting you guys" Matthew says as he gets up.
"Au revoir" Gabriel says as he waves.
"See you tonight" Arthur says
Heinrich just waves goodbye.
Timeskip to Gabriel going to his meeting with the french shipgirls.
Once he enters he smells something delicious in the air.
"Oh capitaine its good to see you again" Richelieu says as she and the other girls sit around the living room"
"Dunkerque asked us to meet here at 10:00, that you had some stuff to tell us?" Jean bart harshly asks.
"I do but first wheres Dunkerque and wheres that amazing aroma coming from?"
"Dunkerque in the kitchen finishing the cake she made" Jean bart replies annoyed.
"I see we as Dunkerque already knows this I'll start without her. First we need a Fleet Representative, a Fleet Representative is often a capital ship, is field leader, 2nd in command, and will accompany me to meeting with other captains and fleet representatives. So I have sheets here with each of your names just put a #1 next to your first choice then #2 next to your second choice and so on." Gabriel explains as he passed out the papers.
"Just listen well you fill those out. Oh something I forgot they will gain rank of Lieutenant Commander and 2nd place will be Lieutenant and they just fill in whenever the Fleet Representative can't for whatever reason." Gabriel continues.
"Next is fleet name, we can't just keep going by french forces. We need something better so if you have a suggestion please put it on a peice of paper and put in this cup he says as he quickly dips into the kitchen to get a cup.
There he sees Dunkerque putting the finishing touches on the cake.
"Saute capitaine, how is it going out there?"
"It seems like its going well, hows the cake?"
"Done!"
"Nice, do you need help?"
"Non"
With that she effortlessly pick up the cake and Gabriel grabbed a cup.
"Oh Dunkerque that lookes delicious" Richelieu said.
"Yeah Dunkerque, whats the occasion?" Jean asked.
"For the capitain of course" Dunkerque replied.
Gabriel smiled and said "before I continue lets enjoys this cake."
"yay" a small girl who Gabriel remembers name was Le mars says.
"Oh I forgot to get a knife" Dunkerque says.
Dunkerque starts to walk to the kitchen bet is stoped by Gabriel.
"I got it" Gabriel says as he pulled out a large knife from his coat.
Everyone looked surprised.
"Thats a big knife capitain, are you compensaiting for something?" Surcouf teased.
Gabriel smirked and said "wanna find out?"
With that everyone was even more embarrassed then before and silence rained.
"So capitain why do you carry around such a large knife" Richelieu said trying to break the silence
"Well self defense. It appears that sirens are weak to stab damage and attacks, so this bayonet I can use to attack sirens and attach to my rifle for longer rang." Gabriel explains.
"Oh I see" Richelieu responses.
"Alright line up to get you're piece" Gabriel says as he starts to hand out pieces of cake.
After everyone got a peice they sat in the living room they talked and enjoyed the cake. Gabriel ended up next to Dunkerque and Richelieu.
"Oh wow quite good as always Dunkerque" Richelieu says.
"Well thank you Cardinal, capitaine are you enjoying your cake?" Dunkerque replies then askes Gabriel.
"I'm enjoying it a lot, Richelieu I have a question for you. Gabriel responses then asks Richelieu.
"Oh? and what would that be? Richelieu askes.
"Are you actually a cardinal?" Gabriel asks.
"Oui, but not in the way your thinking, I hold church services every Sunday morning in the chapel".
"Where is the chapel by the way, I haven't seen it?" Gabriel questioned.
"Oh let me show you capitaine, its breathtaking." Dunkerque cut in.
"I would love too" Gabriel responses.
Dunkerque and Gabriel then put there mostly eated cakes on the coffee table and Dunkerque led Gabriel down a corridor at the end where big doubel doors where. When Dunkerque opened the doors Gabriel gasped, it was small but beautiful. It looked like it was made out of marbel with a long red carpet going down and spilting into two to going inbetween three columns of pews. At the back there was a large stained glass window and under that was a podium where someone could give a sermon.
"What do you think?" Dunkerque asked.
"It's beautiful" Gabriel responses.
"Oui it is, we should go back and continue with the announcements".
"Oui"
At that Gabriel and Dunkerque when back to the living room.
"Alright everyone if you have an idea for a fleet name please put in on a slip of paper and put it in this cup and then I will decide." Gabriel started.
"Finally is secretarial duties, the secretary will help me will paperwork and it will allow me to get to know you better. You don't have to sign up if you don't want to so I'll leave the paper here just put your name down if you interested." Gabriel continues.
Richelieu then raised her hand and asked "Who will serve as your secretary now?"
"Oh currently its Dunkerque"
No one said anything but Gabriel noticed that Jean bart looked even angrier than before.
"Au revoir" Gabriel says as he leaves.
