Authors note: alright, another chapter hits the seas, and it's weird. Like kind of weird as there's a lot going on. Maybe too much? It's hard to say from my perspective as I know where things are heading, so hopefully there's not too much going on.
Well I just hope there isn't, and I hope you all enjoy what this chapter may be revealing!
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"Akagi, are you admitting that you targeted civilian location on Azur Lanes base?" Amagi asked in noticeable distaste as she sat across from Akagi at a small Café table overlooking the Harbor. Nearby there were other Shipgirls having food or chatting, and the sounds of happy conversation could be heard on the air as easily as the sweet scent of Sakura petals.
Akagi merely shrugged. "I simply did what was best at the time to make it easier for Ayanami to Exfiltrate. And such damages will keep Azur lane busy, making them unable to act against us with speed."
"Your orders were to strike their defenses and harbor, and to avoid civilian casualties. Not only did you ignore that order, you also kidnapped one of their people."
"She is too important to leave to Azur lanes foolish incapability," Akagi said with a sure smirk. "I am sure our allies will agree with me when I have a chance to meet them."
Amagi faltered ever so slightly at Akagi's word before sighing, knowing that while her timing was good, speaking to Akagi in the morning after their allies from the Ironblood forces that had arrived. "Akagi, it has been decided that nothing will be spoken of about the prisoner. And if somehow it is brought up, they will only be told that she was captured due to circumstances. Nothing else, understand?"
Akagi looked at Amagi from a few moments before taking a sip of tea and looking out at the harbor as if musing over something. "So Nagato has taken to hiding things like a little mouse, afraid of those who would actually work for our homelands sake has she?"
"Akagi!"
"Hmph, very well, if see wants to show us as weak and unwilling to do what is necessary, I will play along, right up until it can no longer be hidden," Akagi said as she looked back at Amagi. "I will not speak of her whatsoever to our allies from the Ironblood."
"Good," Amagi said with a thankful sigh.
"Well, if that is all I believe I shall be going and speaking to my little captive," Akagi said with a smile as she got up from her seat. "It is time to make her begin spilling what she knows!"
"I would not be so hopeful, Akagi,"
"What do you mean?"
"The girl was less than cordial to us when we spoke to her last night, hurling insults, racial slurs and scathing comments, and apparently did the same to the one who was sent to bring her food this morning.
"Hmph, that will not be hard to fix then, all she needs is to understand her situation properly."
"Akagi, she is a prisoner, and is not to be harmed."
"She is also a perfect research specimen to find out how she came to be," Akagi said as she looked at Amagi and smiled. "I will play along, but simply keeping her here and asking her questions will only go so far. We will need to go further if we are to unlock her secrets and our own future potential."
"Akagi. Do not go too far. Lady Nagato is already wary of project Orochi, we all are."
"You do not need to worry. My project will do what I said it would. It will guarantee the Sakura empire a future in the world and make it better for all of our kind."
". . . . Akagi?" Amagi spoke up just as Akagi began walking away.
"Yes?"
"You . . . . No. please do not push yourself so far you lose sight of our goals."
Akagi merely nodded as she walked off, tails waving about lazily.
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Akagi stepped down the stairs into the Prison area and scowled. The dim light of the prison served a purpose, but it was not great for anything but making it difficult to know the time of day, something countered by the fact that Amagi had said the girl had been given a meal this morning. An annoying fact considering she had wanted to hold off on such a thing to make her more compliant.
Still, she was stuck in a cell and Amagi had mentioned her hurling insults, so she was probably frantic and frightened. It would be easy to make a little girl like her, without a vessel and unable to form rigging, to understand her place.
With a smirk of knowing she controlled everything Akagi stepped down the hallway until she found her captive. And found herself staring in confusion into the cell.
In the center of the Cell laid the girl, but she was not laying there in fear, or panic, or sleeping. She was instead, doing crunches on the floor with her hands behind her head, unbound. Beside the cell door was an empty tray. And she quickly noticed the chopsticks that would have been given alongside the food were embedded in a wall. Outside of the cell.
"What do you think you are doing?" Akagi said out loud before realizing she had initially spoken.
What surprised her further was that the girl did not answer and did not even react to her presence or voice, as if she had not even heard her.
"Hey, I am speaking to you," Akagi spoke up again, angrily this time.
"So speak," the girl said in response, still doing crunches as if it was nothing.
"So you can hear me, and here I thought you ears were full of wax," Akagi said with a smirk.
"At least they are not full of fur."
Akagi blinked at the girl but merely shook her head. "What is your name, girl?"
"You kidnapped me, shouldn't you know?" was all the girl said in response.
A response that irked Akagi. "You do not realize your situation, do you girl?"
"I have been kidnapped by half animal bestiality sluts who think declaring a surprise war gives them some sort of moral high ground when no one in their right mind wants war in the first place. I am in a cell in the Sakuran homeland most likely due to the fact that your leaders insisted on trying to get information out of me, and it will likely be weeks before Azur lane even has a chance to do anything that could lead to my escape due to your choices to gun down civilian targets during the attack like the animalistic monsters you are," the woman said as she stopped her crunches, crawled over to the back wall and then pushed herself up into a handstand and began doing pushups against the wall. "I know exactly what kind of situation I am in."
Akagi found herself staring at the girl in confusion. Ayanami had told her that the girl had screamed in fear when she was capture, so why was she now managing to be so stoic, despite that normally one would be in more fear when their capture was a reality, rather than a possibility?
Ultimately it did not matter though, as she still held all the cards.
"So you are not truly dim like most of Azur Lane. I suppose that is only proper as you are a Shipgirl as well. Or at least half of one," Akagi said slyly. After all, Azur lane seemed to be hiding that fact well with how secret they had been trying to be. Making that fact clear and unhidden would make anyone part of such secrecy worry. "Are you surprised? You didn't think we had kidnapped you on a whim, did you?"
"Bark, bark, bark, is that all you do? Dogs must like hearing their own yapping. Does it help you find a mate for a cur like you?"
Akagi tensed her tails stiffening as she felt her entire body fill with anger at the mere idea of being compared to a mere dog, to a cur. "I could kill you right now," Akagi stated as she willed a trio of ball of Foxfire into the air above her, illuminating the Prison area with the light of flames.
"No you can't," the girl said simply as she continued to do pushups as if it was not a challenge at all. which was odd considering her slender frame. "You kidnaped me because your spy found something that told you what I'm supposed to be, and you think it's important. You cannot do anything to me that would inhibit your ability to research me in the future."
"If you understand that, then you should also realize we do not need you alive to research you," Akagi said sadistically as she willed one of her Foxfires into the cell, making it move very close to the girl, so close she could certainly feel its heat. "The only half Shipgirl ever seen would provide much data, even dead after all, so why not cooperate and answer my questions, if not to extent your pathetic life, hmm? So, your name."
"Figure it out yourself. If you truly did not care about if I lived or died, you would have killed me already," the girl said as she let herself fall to the side and caught her feet on the floor before shifting to sitting position on the floor, finally looking at Akagi, and smirking. "Ah, is the whore fox angry?"
"Excuse me?!"
"You are glaring at me," the girl said with a smirk on her face. "And with an outfit like that how could I call you anything else? I bet the Sakuran men love imagining shoving their faces into those tails of yours while they rail you like an animal. Do you howl, bark or purr during it?"
"How dare you!" Akagi roared as the foxfire in the cell flew into the wall by the girl, just shy of hitting her head and leaving a burn mark on the wall. "As if a Union Bitch knows anything about our culture! I should burn your flesh right now!"
"Do it. Make my day, Fox Harlot!"
Akagi trembled in rage before stopping and snapping a finger, making her foxfire disappear in and instant. "I am not a fool girl, I am not falling for such simple provocations. You will tell us what we want to know eventually whether you want to or not!" Akagi claimed as she then turned and began walking down the hall to leave the prison.
"Do you believe what you did was right?" the girl suddenly asked, making Akagi stop in her tracks.
"Of course I do. Everything we do is for our future, something that Azur Lane cannot comprehend. Perhaps if you cooperate, you will see that future, and have a place in it!"
The girl chuckled. "No, I just wanted to be sure. Having you watch your entire country burn, and your plans crumble all around you would mean nothing if you didn't believe you were right."
". . . You talk big for someone in a cage like an animal."
"You bark a lot for one outside of a cage."
" . . . . . . . I will make you realize your place, soon enough," Akagi said as she walked down the hall way from the cell, and then up the stairs to the upper prison guard area.
Where she promptly closed the door and growled in anger.
"That bitch, how dare she speak to me in such a way! How dare she even speak without answering my questions she. . . . . . How, how did she get under my skin so easily? It was like her every word cut deeper than it should have. A skill or ability of some sort maybe?" Akagi asked herself before starting to smile. "Interesting. Despite being a half breed she has access to some sort of skill or ability? Curious. Perhaps I should have her move to a more secure location so my ally might pull the truth from her mind. Sirens technology is that useful after all!"
Smiling at the idea Akagi opened the door to leave the Prison building.
And very nearly ran into another girl.
"Ah, Lady Akagi, I apologize!" the woman said with a bow.
"Ah, Kongou," Akagi said in an uninterested tone as she looked at her for a second, then noticing the tray of food in her hands. "What are you doing here?"
"Lady Amagi asked me to deliver food to the prisoner, as she managed to make Hanazuki cry this morning, and she felt I would be, less emotional and susceptible to such slanders," Kongou explained carefully.
"Hmm, yes I suppose that would make sense. Who better to attend to a half breed than another half breed," Akagi said with a smirk as she looked down on Kongou with a smirk. However, you do not need to worry about bringing her food."
"May I ask why that is? I was asked to do so after all."
"It is simple, she will not cooperate if she feels safe, so I will only deliver her food once a day and see how starving her makes her submit."
Kongou looked at akagi in shock for a second before composing herself. "Lady Akagi we must treat prisoners properly, so I will be delivering this food to her. I do apologize."
"Unfortunate, luckily it is hard to deliver food when you have none," Akagi said as she turned to walk away, her tails then suddenly swooshing upwards and catching the tray in Kongou's hands, causing it to flip backwards onto her. "Good day Kongou, and as I will be speaking to Nagato and Amagi about how we shall treat my prisoner, so do not feed her!"
Kongou merely stood there in shock for a moment before looking down, noting how the bowl of rice had scattered everywhere, the fish had landed against her blouse, and the soup had soaked her lower blouse and skirt in dark brown.
She simply let out a sigh.
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Aggy Hyperventilated as she laid on the bedroll in her Cell, trying to calm her heart and body. Slandering the first Sakuran she had seen in the morning who had brought food had almost been fun. It wasn't of course, because slandering and hurling insults was not the best thing ever, but it did have a purpose, especially since the one from the morning seemed to have no idea about what had been done to Azur Lane and the slander and insults had been very effective in making her emotional to the truth.
Escape had seemed, unlikely considering the location of her cell and the prison, so instead, why not harass the Sakurans so much they move her elsewhere? Maybe a place easier to escape from. It wasn't much of a plan she admitted, but it was all she had at the moment, and considering how the first girl had known nothing of what her people had done to Azur Lane, it seemed valid. Yell, swear, and insult them while revealing how terrible they were and maybe she could cause some kind of schism among them.
Again it was unlikely, but she didn't have a few options, and it at least kept her mind busy.
And then that Fox harlot had come. Her very presence made Aggy fear for her life, and it had taken every iota of restraint to control her reactions and act like her presence was nothing while hurling insults at her. She had correctly guessed that she was the one responsible for the attack on Azur Lane, but all that did was make her even more worried.
"How the fuck can she just summon fireballs like that? That's bullshit," Aggy grumbled to herself now that her heartrate was mostly normal.
It seemed unfair being able to do something like that, but maybe it was normal for Sakuran Shipgirls? They all seemed to have animal ears it seemed after all, and she was sure that Helena and Warpsite, and all the other Union and Royal Shipgirls could probably do insane things too. Probably.
"I really don't actually know that much about Shipgirls, do I?" Aggy muttered to herself in sudden stark realization. "I spend all that time on an island full of shipgirls, and I'm so focused on myself that I don't learn anything about them other than what I already knew."
Voicing her thoughts made it hurt even more, but also put Aggy into an odd state of mind. She, couldn't really argue what she was anymore. Not after she could seemingly sense peoples positons, not after she could break wood with her bare hands and not get splinters. Not after he found her historically lackluster vitality and physicality to be now so great she could exercise near nonstop without feeling tired.
She wasn't human at the very least.
"If I thought about it simply, I'd be, the same as her," Aggy said as she lifted a hand and looked it over. "These odd abilities, only appeared with that last shard," she then said as she lifted her pendant up above her. Its case looked no different, but the vibrant blue gem now, much to her wonder, looked as if it was liquid that flowed and ebbed within its shape. "There's only one missing now . . . will I stop being who I am when I get it?"
There was no way she could know the answer, but as she questioned it her odd almost in-built radar, or sonar, whatever it was, activated and she knew there was someone entering the building. In a few quick motions Aggy put her pendant back in her shirt, hidden from view, and got comfy on the bedroll before closing her eyes.
She tried to imagine how she knew the person positions, and with her eyes closed and concentrating she managed to almost see a sort of top down view watching the person. It was not easy.
After a few moments the person was upon them, and Aggy opened her eyes just as the woman came into view, and found her stating at the woman as she stared at her in turn.
The woman before did not look Sakuran whatsoever. She wore an almost Royal looking uniform and skirt, complete with an Ascot around her neck and a sailor's hat on her head of long blonde hair. Her skin was paler than any Sakuran, the wrong tone and look, and her face looked Royal as well. Her blue eyes only enhanced it, and the only thing that marked her as possibly a Sakuran was that poking out the sides of her hat were two small white horns.
For a moment it was surprising, and then Aggy's thoughts shifted and it made her angry. "What, you think some costume is going to make me lower my guard and be all friendly?"
"I . . . pardon?" the woman outside the cell asked in confusion before trying to a table outside the cell, placing a tray of food upon it.
"Your costume. Did you think hiding your Sakuran Heritage under an insulting attempt at looking like a royal would make me just spill information?" Aggy said before shaking her head. "Disgusting. You Sakurans will do anything, won't you?"
"I am not sure what you are meaning, but this is how I look, I am not wearing a costume," the woman said with an exhausted sounding sigh.
"So a Sakuran who just happens to look like a royal, yeah, sure, like I'll believe that,"
"I do not look like one, I am one. Partly I mean," She said as she did something in one of the desks drawers and pulled out a small key. "I am Kongou, first of the Kongou class of fast battleships. My original Vessel was designed and built in the royal isles."
"Is that so? I'm surprised you can live with yourself then," Aggy said with a disgusted shake of her head.
"You are meaning the Attack our forces have done upon Azur Lane, most of us have only been informed of it today. It was a decision of our leaders, to secure our future they say."
"And you believe that crap?"
"I believe our leaders know what they are doing," Kongou said as she took the tray off the desk and walked over to the cell door, kneeling down in front of it before using the key to unlocks a small latch that opened a barely half foot tall door, perfect for sliding food through.
"Because starting a surprise war, gunning down innocents and kidnapping people is so respectful," Aggy said as she rolled her eyes.
"Lady Nagato would not do something so-"
"Do not lie to my face you Sakuran Bitch!" Aggy yelled as she went from lying on her bedroll, to standing right in front of Kongou, hands gripping the wood of her cell with a hateful look on her face. "I was there! I was in the middle of it as your operative broke in and kidnapped me as sirens and alarms blared. I overheard the confusion and fear in peoples voices, and even half unconscious I recall hearing screams and death all around me! Defend your nation and ideals all you want, but do not lie to my face about the very situation I was in when I was kidnapped by your people away from my home, and my family you Sakuran Shit stain!"
Kongou stared back at Aggy, but unlike Aggy who was full of anger; her eyes were wide with shock and fear, her whole body trembling. In the next instant she opened the latch, pushed the food into the cell, the tray striking Aggy's bare foot, and then closed the latch and stormed out of the cell block and out of sight. Disappearing from Aggy's weird sense a few seconds later.
After a few more minutes Aggy sat down on her bed roll with a scowl and began eating the food, hating every second of how bland Sakuran food was, and wondering what that Sakuran had been so terrified of her merely being angry at her.
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Kongou ran down the streets of the Sakuran Home Island faster than she had ever moved, uncaring for how she looked. She passed shops and Shipgirls, buildings and entire groups of people that tried to call out and greet her, and did not even let the door to her home stop her, busting through it rather than taking the time to slide the door open.
All of her sister ships looked properly Sakuran, and one of them, Haruna, happened to be near the doorway when she burst through, looking at Kongou in shock and surprise even as Kongou collapsed to the floor almost instantly upon coming through the door.
"Kongou?! What, what happened? Why did you-" Haruna began to see, only to see Kongou frantically trying to scramble up to her feet and across the floor, her face plastered with an expression of horror. "Hiei, Kirishima, something is wrong with Kongou!" she called before she rushed over to Kongous side and dropped down beside her, grabbing her to stop Kongou from trying to scamper away and cause more damage in her seemingly frantic state.
"Haruna what is-, Kongou?" Kirishima exclaimed as she came through a nearby doorway of the home all four sisters shared. "What happened?"
"I don't know," Haruna said as she struggled to hold back Kongou. "I just saw her burst through the front door looking like she just saw a spirit!"
"No, not a spirit," Kongou managed to speak as she suddenly stopped trying to struggle. "Amagi, call Amagi."
Haruna and Kirishima shared a glance and nodded. "Go, Hiei and I will-"
"Hiei is out at the moment," Kirishima interrupted as she turned for the door, I will go alert Amagi."
Haruna nodded as Kirihsia darted off, disappearing almost as if a ninja, very similar in a way to how she dressed. She then looked down at Kongou, who now had an almost dead look in her eyes. "Kongou, can you hear me?"
Kongou nodded slightly, but said nothing else.
"Can you get up? We can wait for Amagi in the Tea room, okay?"
Again kongou did not say anything, but simply nodded as, with Haruna's help she managed to get to her feet and head for the Tearoom.
It took hours until Hiei returned, and hours longer, long past dinner time, when Kirishima returned to the home with Amagi in tow. No one said anything as they joined the three other sisters at the table, but once they were seated Amagi spoke up in worry. "Kongou, I am here. What happened? Has Akagi reverted to her old ways?"
"She, she knocked the food I was bringing to, to the prisoner, but that isn't it," Kongou said, her eyes still wide and dead looking as she held a cup of tea, her fourteenth since returning home, in both of her hands so tightly it looked like she would break the cup.
"She came home with the food spilled all over her front and had to change her clothes while we cooked some replacement food for the prisoner," Haruna spoke up. But then about an hour after she left, she came back like this, came right through the door, literally, and has been like this ever since."
Amagi took in this information and then looked back at Kongou. "What happened with the prisoner?"
Kongou twitched at the word and swallowed while nodding. "She, she insulted Lady Nagato, and all of us, mocked my looks. But that was nothing. When, when I told her that Lady Nagato . . . would never attack someone without declaring the war first, she shouted and yelled and screamed and, and I didn't even hear the words. She, she isn't like us. That thing can't be a Shipgirl!" Kongou yelled, her breathing becoming faster.
"Kongou, I need you to take a deep breath, and calm down, before telling me what happened, okay?"
Kongou nodded and tried to calm herself. It seemed to have little effect upon her mental state, but did slow her breathing after a few minutes. "That, thing, cannot be a person, or a Shipgirl. She, she got angry, and as she did, it was like the prion was turning in on itself."
"What does that mean?" Hiei asked curiously.
"The, walls seemed to bend, there was, some sort of glasslike bend in the air behind her," Kongou began to explain. "The air felt electrified and warm, her clothing seemed suddenly different as it glowed and changed shape only to not, and I felt like I was standing in front of a siren for the first time all over again. Like my mere existence was being looked down upon. Like everything I was, everything I could do, was meaningless. Incapable of leaving an effect or mark. I saw, I saw something that shouldn't be seen. That I couldn't understand. It still doesn't make sense!" Kongou nearly shrieked as she shook her head, seemingly on the verge of becoming Frantic again.
"Kongou, I will look into this. I promise. So get some rest, and do not even worry about delivering food as I asked you to, okay?" Amagi said calmly.
Kongou nodded.
"Okay, get some rest," Amagi said as she moved to get up, only for Kongou to suddenly almost throw herself against the table and grabbed Amagi's hand. "Amagi, I, there was something else. A shadow or a burn. It, it looked like a person inside the cell with her. It, it smiled at me!"
"I understand. I will look into this, so do not worry, and get some rest," Amagi said as she patted Kongou's hand calmly. This simply act seemed to make kongou calm down enough to let go, allowing Amagi to get up and silently leave the room.
As she left the home however, she turned to find Hiei standing in the doorway behind her. "Lady Amagi, do you know what is going on?"
"I will look into it."
"I don't mean just that," Hiei corrected herself. "We only find out we are now at war a few days after it happened, and find out Akagi brought back a prisoner who can seemingly drive people to madness. Who is she and what is going on?"
" . . . . . . . Akagi captured her, claiming that the girl was the child of a human, and Royal Shipgirl. Aside from that though, we know little about her, as Akagi did not grab any of Azur Lanes own documentation upon her."
"Do you believe she is actually some kind of new Weapon Azur lane has made? Some kind of psychological weapon perhaps?"
"I do not, no. but I will find out for sure," Amagi said with a bow, signaling her departure, before she turned and walked off, quickly heading down the street with a hand to the side of her head. "Lady Nagato, I apologize for my sudden call despite us having just been in meetings a short while ago, but a situation has arisen of some concern. I will be speaking with Lady Shinano about it, but I must insist we post guards at the prison or the prisoner and let no one in to see her under any circumstance."
"I see. Does that include Akagi? She was requesting to speak to her during our meeting earlier before the interruption," Nagato asked over the comms.
"Correct. I know it is presumptuous of me, but I do not want anyone to meet with her."
"What of meals? We cannot starve a prisoner of war."
"We can use a shikigami, or trained animal, I care not as long as no one sees her."
" . . . . I can tell you are serious about this. Very well, I shall make the commands known while you speak to Shinano about what this problem is. However, I do wish to be kept knowing what is going on."
"Of course, I will inform you as soon as I know," Amagi said as she hurriedly ended the call and continued making her way to Shinano's estate.
It took a while due to the fact that Shinano preferred things quiet, so by the time Amagi arrived the sun was already below the horizon and the darkness of night was already falling.
"Lady Amagi, what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?"
Amagi turned to see Kii standing by the entrance to Shinano's estate and hurried over as quickly as her body would allow. "I must speak to Shinano. It is urgent."
"Lady Shinano turned in for the night, so that will prove difficult."
"Then wake her. The situation is potentially that serious."
"Ah, I am sorry. I mean, she went to deep sleep."
Amagi sighed, knowing that meant she went to sleep to dram and look upon other possible futures, a state that was impossible to wake her from. "Then I shall wait for her to awaken."
"Of course, I can have a message sent as soon as Lady Shinano awakens."
"No, I apologize, but I will not be leaving, I shall be waiting here for her to awaken."
Kii was silent for a moment as the severity of the situation seemed to dawn on her. "Understood, let me allow you in and find you a room."
"Thank you. And I apologize for imposing."
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Aggy wanted to sleep, she really did. For some reason though it was eluding her. She didn't feel bad for making the Sakurans feel bad or run away, and while the lack of dinner was annoying it wasn't unexpected. She just couldn't sleep.
The fact she could seemingly sense three people just standing outside of the prison probably didn't help the matter either, but it also shouldn't have affected her ability to sleep.
No, it was like something was stopping her from sleeping.
"Or someone," Aggy grumbled, wondering if perhaps that Fox had cast some weird Sakuran magic on her to make something like a camera somewhere.
"Oh, you are a catch."
Aggy tensed and sat up; looking around in confusion for a few seconds before she saw what looked like a humanoid shape inside the cell with her.
Coming out of the wall.
"What are you?" he asked carefully, realizing a second later she was probably losing her mind as her odd sensing ability wasn't detecting anyone near her, just the three people outside.
"Not what, but who," The vice said as the entity fully came out of the wall, revealing white haired girl in an outfit that looked slightly battle worn.
Aggy stared at them as they looked at her expectantly for a few moments. "Okay fine. Who are you?"
The white haired girl smiled. "USS Bon Homme Richard. Tell me, do you want to get out of here?"
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"Enterprise. We have an issue."
"Our whole lives are issues. . . . . What have the Sirens done now?"
"Orochi again; but that isn't the problem. It's Bon Homme Richard. We've found her,"
Enterprise turned her blazing golden eyes toward Helena's blazing blue. "Where is she?"
"Contacting someone of great interest we had not known about till now," Helena said as she held out a tablet toward enterprise.
Enterprise took the tablet and looked it over for a time before tossing it onto the table to her side. "Inform every one of the situation and call a meeting. We will all decide what to do. She can't turn her until she is complete, so we have some time."
"Not much though."
"It will be enough."
"It always is."