Chapter 4: Incoming War

Flashback

Despaired Kisaragi suddenly got up to her feet when she detected the immense amount of demonic energy burst from the Admiral office's direction. Mutsuki was frightened by sudden reaction.

"Wha..Kisaragi-chan! What's gotten into you?!"

"Wait here Onee-chan, I'm going out a bit." She ran as fast as she could toward the direction. Along the way, she detected 2 more additional demonic power burst. This made her worry; this kind of energy should not exist in this world, even the abyssal fleet did not give off this kind of energy. If she remembered correctly; the first time she felt this kind of energy was in some strange another dimension, which she was in before resurrection, even though the presence was dilute. Wait a sec.!.! The dot seemed to connected into picture somehow.

'See you on the other side Kisaragi-chan' Someone face popped up inside Kisaragi's thought.

This was a JOKE, right!? Can it be HER?!...! ! ! !

When she got near the Admiral room, she heard some noise while noticing that the door was damage at the knob and flung open. She hid behind a stair corner to observe.

Then, she saw YUUDACHI (what was she doing here?), YUUBARI, and HARUSAME came out of the room with 7 people carried on their shoulders: Nagoto, Mutsu, Admiral, Oyodo, Akashi, Murasame, and Fubuki-chan?! Upon realizing that something was wrong and her friend was likely to be in some sort of trouble, she did not hesitate to devil trigger her power and came out of hiding.

She did not see her contractor anywhere along the way nor know what that woman was up to. But the demonic burst made she aware that some unknown had invaded the base, she could not careless to not go all out.

End of Flashback

Kisaragi confronted her suspicious comrade. The trio looked nothing like usual; they seemed calm, collective, and calculative which were very opposite of their normal behavior.

"YUUBARI, HARUSAME, you two go on ahead. I've something to settle with Kisaragi-chan~here" YUUDACHI suddenly spoke out to her friends with easy-going attitude.

"Oh~ so this is the Kisaragi destroyer you talked about the other day? Very interesting indeed, such fine aura coming from a New-born demon." YUUBARI chuckled.

"Ara~ara~ You just mention something that doesn't belongs here you know, YUUBA-RIN" YUUBARI got a little irritated from the nick name coming from HARUSAME. "I will thank you if you stop giving people such weird nick name, HARUSAME. Unlike your buddy, I don't have much patient to begin with." She emphasize the last past, threatened HARUSAME; 'Don't Test My Patient'.

While the two were arguing with each other, YUUDACHI heavily double facepalmed and sat on her heels. "Jesus! Our cover was blown out too early. What is the point of my planning if you two just babbling anything without thinking!"

Kisaragi felt very ankward… How should she put it? Just previously, she thought that she might end up in the fight against these Three, but what now; Why the hell did the situation turn into such a plain gag you mostly found in a manga?

YUUBARI and HARUSAME, just noticed what they had done wrong, turned their attention to YUUDACHI.

"So YUUDACHI/YUUDACHI-chan, what will we do now?"

YUUDACHI rose up to her feet, she barked sarcastically "You TWO just ruin everything! DO YOU THINK YOU STILL HAVE A GOD DAMN RIGHT TO ASK MEE!? ! ! !? SCREW IT!"

HARUSAME was depressed greatly, YUUBARI looked displease but she did not continue to press on the issue nonetheless. YUUDACHI, after burst out her frustration, calmed herself down and turned to talk to the confused destroyer, who sweated from the outburst.

"Kisaragi-chan, I can explain everything to you. Just let me finish my business with them first, and we can have a place for chit-chat later. Oh! Don't worry, they out of harm way."

"Why must I trust you?" She pointed her finger. "You aren't Yuudachi. (from the lack of POI) And you two possibly aren't Yuubari and Harusame either (from the way they talk)." No matter how complicate the situation was, she was still in devil-trigger mode.

YUUDACHI, who did not want to drag the conversation any longer, showed her evil-eye and declared the truth to Kisaragi with strong killing intent. "That's enough Kisaragi! I'm your BLOODY CONTRATOR! ! ! Do you recognize me?"

Even her physical form was Yuudachi, the image behind her friend she got, after met with that furious-burning purple eyes, was her contractor indeed. Her suspiciousness had been confirmed, Yakumo Yukari.

After seeing Kisaragi quieted down, YUUDACHI commanded "You wait here. We will be back after placing them at the infirmary with our cover story, they're going to forget everything happened a few minutes ago."

"Please let me go with you, I won't get in your way. I just want to be sure of their condition." Kisaragi begged.

"Suit yourself then." YUUDACHI gave an answer while leading YUUBARI and HARUSAME away from the spot.

"Oishiii~~~" in a certain dinner time of the day at Mayohiga; 2 destroyers, 1 light cruiser, 1 nekomata, and 1 kyubi no kitsune were having great BBQ meal, the quality of the meat is of the supreme grade direct from first-class meat store.

"I've never taste anything this delicious Poi~"

"I agee, Onee-chan~"

"These meals made me want to stay here for a very very long time"

The ship girls giggled among themselves.

About a week ago, they suddenly got abducted by Yuudachi's doppelganger. When they regained consciousness, they were greeted by 2 demons; and these 2 demons filled them in about the fact that they were here in the land of fantasy for some wick reasons of her Mistress. At first, they were truly shocked that demon existed?! plus some people from this land disguised themselves to act in place of the actual missing ship girls. They were very worry for their safety and their friend's safety base on their demon substitutes.

Well, NO LUCK of going back for the time being as the fox demon was strong. The 3 of them once ganged up to beat her in hope of returning, but they were absolutely defeated. Ran, went easy on the girls, explained that they would be here temporary. They were scheduled to be sent back after her mistress finished what she intended to do.

Realized that they had not much of an option, they decided to go along with this new world flow for now. Even this world looked like a Japanese feudal era of some kind, Mayohiga had many modern accessories, such as refrigerator, air conditioner, LED wide-screen TV, every series of Play Station & Xbox (which they enjoy the most as they were the best time killer). Ran and chen treated them very well .

"Ran-san, what's the plan for tomorrow poi?" Yuudachi asked.

"How about visiting Human village? You have been to the Netherworld, Hakurei Shrine, and Garden of the Sun, so I suggest we go there next. Maybe before my Mistress comeback, you three will journey to every famous place in Gensokyo already." Ran smiled.

The deserted area at the back of the base was chosen to hold the meeting between Kisaragi and her contractor's company.

"You really came here, Yukari-san"

"Well, why shouldn't I? I think I already told you before we made a contract clearly"

"And who may these two be?"

Yukari pointed to YUUBARI "The disguised Yuubari is actually my ancient acquaintance and rival, Kazami Yuuka. The disguised Harusame is Saigyouji Yuyuko, which you already knew her." She then focuses attention to Kisaragi. "Don't worry about your friends, I guarantee to send them back in perfect health once we satisfy."

Yukari continued with a frown "We desire some exercise with new attack pattern and enemies, since it's very boring that we know everyone in our land and how they will attack. We don't want to make a big mess over it so we camouflage as some of your ship girls."

"Did anyone know about your true selves?" Kisaragi was still concerned.

"You're the only one who knew right now, because I got rid of everything including memory alter those earlier knocked out. Well, we're fine by ourselves." Yukari wore thoughtful look before spoke more "Frankly, only your Admiral is out of the game for now .."

"Yukari-san, no matter what prank you planned, just don' make my comrade die. I SWEAR..I SWEAR that if your action leads us to DOOM. I WILL KILL YOU." Kisaragi cared for her friends so much that made her brave enough to warn her contractor despite not fully knew what she was up against.

"I'd like to see you try~" Yukari maliciously smirked, her eyes turned evil-eyes for just a moment.

"I have 2 announcements for all ship girls; First, due to Admiral got hospitalized from an accident, new admiral was assigned to this naval base. She will arrive here in a few days"

Ship girls chattered among themselves, throwing their opinion about the new admiral around. Nagato ignored their reaction and continued.

"Second, refer to many sorties we have done up until now (before Fubuki was assigned to this base though), we're now getting enough resources for full scale war. Our target is the Phantasma island; we got report that many Princess and Demons gathered there for some unknown reason, so it's best that we wipe them out in a single operation."

At the mentioned of war, many ship girls trembled out of excitement and fear, Yukari, who disguised as Yuudachi, observed their reaction with amusement while losing in her own ecstasy; It was quite a very long time since she waged war against the moon. Even she ended up a loser, it was worth it as that was the first time her adrenaline pumped to the maximum level herself can endure. She highly expected that this war should not be boring, or else all her effort would go to waste.

"The assigned squadrons list will be placed on the announcement boards in the base. Make sure to remember it well and report yourself in with the respective flagships at the actual time. You all, DISMISS"

After all ship girls digested every details about their group, they divided themselves to discuss among their warship sister or close friends. YUUDACHI, YUUBARI, HARUSAME, Kisaragi, Mutsuki, and Fubuki also grouped themselves up to chat about the incoming war.

After informed one and others about their respective position squadron and members, Mutsuki asked her sister out of curiosity "Kisaragi-chan, if you don't mind, when were you so close to Yuubari-san and Harusame-chan? I've never see you socialize with them. Oh! No offend you two, I just curious.?"

Kisaragi hiccupped from this question "Err….How should I say it?" He mind raced, what should she answer? Just thought of something….SOMETHING!

YUUBARI was the white knight who came to Kisaragi's rescue "Let me tell you Mutsuki-chan. I start talking to her after she luckily survived from the sortie that made her disappear many days ago. And during the conversation, our styles match up. So I continue our socialization ever since, that's leads to YUUDACHI and HARUSAME here too."

"However, don't you have any close fellow light cruiser? While we're happy to know more about you, it still looks weird that you're the only one who aren't the same class in our group." Fubuki remarked.

"Don't worry. I'm the only one in my class anyway, and my spec. is lower than normal light cruiser; my size, my speed, and my guns pack a punch as light cruiser, but my armor is placed as the destroyer class. Honestly! Just think of me as a BIG destroyer and it's fine." YUUBARI tried to comfort the destroyers uneasiness, her action completely backfired as it sounded like a sarcasm.

Huge awkward silence settled into the group. YUUDACHI, saw that their little meeting just ended in an absurd way, concluded "Before launching out, make sure you bring reasonable proportion and correct type of ammunition with you poi~"