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For the hell of it, I wanted to also include my other ongoing fiction. This fiction is in a third-person perspective and not only will have multiple plots but also multiple pairings. So I'll upload the prologue + first two chapters of it. :hee:
I hope it's okay. :err:
[Prologue]
“Get ‘em!”
In the dark, rainy crowded area of a rural town, there was two short girls running through the crowd. Pushing and shoving the pedestrians aside, there were a couple of red coats following after them. Dressed in a red suit, black buttons keeping their jacket closed above their thick, white shirt, the black decorated shoulder pads had their hanging designed yarns wildly moving right and left. White pants were worn with their heavy leather black boots, hearing it clomp and splashed against the wet cemented ground of the city. They had wooden rifles with a sharp knife-like object at the end of the exiting hole, holding it close to their side as they chased the girls.
“Come back here you two!”
They continued to yell at the two girls. However, the girls only got faster and faster, putting more distance in between the two of them. Stepping in puddles, they did not even think about looking over their shoulders at their pursuers.
“Crap! Yuko, this is all your fault!” the shortest of the two, Takahashi Minami, blamed as she broke out of the huge crowd. The white ribbon that attached to her brown-haired ponytail bobbed up and down with every step that she took forth. Dressed in same exact uniform as the red coats, the other girl following behind her wore the color white with golden designed colors accompanying on the pads and button. “If you hadn’t bumped into me, everything would’ve gone according to plan!”
The taller of the two now ran right by her side after breaking away from the clump of pedestrians, grinning with her dimples showing on her cheeks at Minami. Oshima Yuko couldn’t help but let out a giggle when she saw her angry. “Mou, gomen gomen, Takamina~ Demo…” Her face then transformed into a frown. “You know… Why should I be bait while you get the money from the bank in disguise? Just because we’re wanted from the government doesn’t mean that I should go in there and distract the guards alone!”
“Agh, I already told you that if we both were to be disguised and go in together, the guards would definitely be suspicious and check us out!” Minami then shook her head. “But never mind about that, we need to get back on the ship NOW.”
When they both reached upon the harbor, they saw a couple of the crew members with their white uniforms like Yuko’s seen from afar. Minami and Yuko didn’t have to even say anything for they knew exactly what predicament they were going to be thrown into. There were a couple of commands being barked out from within the ship, the members beginning to be high on alert. All of the girls on board were rushing left and right, back and forth to their positions. Some of the members went below the deck to grab a couple of weapons and armory as others scrambled up to the deck to prepare the cannons. Black iron cannons were sticking out on both sides with their tip prepared and ready. The anchors were being lifted from the water as the two figures approached the ship at a faster rate with the soldiers following a good distance behind.
Two of the many members, Maeda Ami and Takajo Aki, quickly rushed over to the wooden platform that laid between the end of the harbor with their ship. Minami and Yuko managed to dash up and onto the ship with Minami running to the quarter deck of the ship as Yuko stayed behind to pull back the board. They managed to pull it back in the nick of time, seeing two of the soldiers fall forward and into the sea water.
Minami dodged the members that were in her way and gently shoved them aside. Reaching up to the huge wooden wheel, she heard the status from her partner that now stood nearby by her. “The anchor has now withdrawn and all canons are set and ready,” Maeda Atsuko spoke with her white gloved hands behind her back. Looking over at Minami, she gave a small smile and nodded. “We’re ready to set sail.”
“Yosha! You heard Acchan! Set sail and let’s get the hell out of here!” Minami announced, hearing a roar of agreement coming from down below and those around her. Very few members staying from below in safety, with the help from those above, closed the hatch.
Then four of the members, Miyazawa Sae, Akimoto Sayaka, Kuramochi Asuka and Yagami Kumi, split up into two groups and climbed up on the shrouds. “Drop it all on full sail!” Minami barked as she rapidly used both her hands at a fast motion to twist the wheel to the right 360 degree twice. The sails from above dropped both the foresail and the main, quickly the white sheets blown forward from the wind direction going forward.
She managed to drag the ship away from the harbor and using the strong wind to their advantage, they were finally a couple hundred feet away from land before them. “We can’t rest now, captain,” a somewhat high-pitched girl’s voice was heard on her left, seeing Watanabe Mayu readying her swivel cannon. With her so-called “goggles” placed on her, she looked prepared, ready to shoot down any close range enemies that came upon sight. Which they indeed did came.
From the corner of Minami’s squinted eyes, she saw on the left side that there were a couple ships spotted from a couple miles. “Shit! They’ve called upon the ships to come after us, huh?”
She then felt a hand smack from behind her head, causing her to momentarily release her hold on the wheel and grab her now-throbbing head. “I-Itai!”
“Watch your foul language, Bakamina and look to the right,” Atsuko scolded, pointing at the direction of the opposite side of Mayu. There was Shimazaki Haruka at the second swivel cannon on the right side, who was aiming at a dangerously fast huge ship that came at them. If this was a cartoon, Minami’s jaw would’ve dropped till it reached down to the wooden floor of the ship. “M-M-MAJISUKA?!” Frustrated, she quickly screamed out to the remaining members, “Fire! Fire your cannons at both sides!”
The other members scrambled around, quickly hearing the thundering sound of the cannons firing out at the linearly aimed at the approaching ships. There were a few sounds of explosion given off followed by flames that flared through the night despite the heavy amount of rain pouring down upon them all.
“Reload!” another member, Minegishi Minami said to alert Minami as she and the others quickly grabbed more cannonballs. On both sides of Minami and Atsuko, Haruka and Mayu were frantically shooting and restocking their ammos at a faster rate than the other heavy duty cannons. From the very front of the ship, Minami saw faintly the other two members that were assigned to the other two swivel cannons, Matsui Jurina and Shinoda Mariko, firing their cannons in fast successions.
Atsuko from beside heard firings of the cannons from the other ships on their right being heard, forcing her to command the others to duck down. “Stay down! Down down down now!” All of the members on board quickly laid low, ceasing all of their reloading activities and dropping all equipments. Black cannonballs zipped past over their heads and the sound of the balls landing in the water could be heard.
Assured that the enemy won’t be firing anymore on the right for a short amount of time, everyone got back up and finished reloading their guns. “Captain! Reload is finished!” Yuko announced, waving her hands in the air for Minami to see.
Nodding, Minami made another fire on both directions, hearing more explosions coming from their left. “All enemies have been wiped out on this side!” Mayu announced, pumping her fist into the air as though she had won a huge gambling contest. “We just need to take care of this big bad mother ship,” Minami whispered harshly under her breath, twisting the wheel so the ship would have a better aim at firing against the opponent. Though to common sense, the enemy could also have the same advantage as them.
Their cannons began spitting out the cannonballs again and even though the members braced themselves for the attack, some of the balls managed to knock out a couple of wooden parts of the ships.
“C-Crap! That was too close!” Minami from above heard Kitahara Rie scream in alarm, who nearly had the 24 pound cannonball come right at her direction. Shuddering, it instead blew off the railings of the deck she was on. Luckily though, all of the cannons were locked into place, so they weren’t sliding forward and toward the raging water below them.
“Tch, we need to either get on that ship or blow up that ship into pieces…” Minami pondered on her next plan, trying to think of it as fast as possible for the big head ship of the group could be firing at any time. “Ah, I got it!”
To Atsuko’s surprise, she had to hold onto the railings in front of her when Minami quickly turned to the right, making the ship tilt at an angle where members were forced to steady themselves with an object. A couple of ‘HEY!’ were heard from above, the four members desperately hanging for dear life onto the shrouds. “W-What are you doing, Bakamina! Are you seriously going to go directly up to the ship!” Atsuko was met with a grin from the captain, then a chuckle. “Just watch me, Acchan.”
“MOU…” Atsuko rolled her eyes as Minami ordered the members.
“I want those on the swivel cannons to fire any possible explosive gunpowder! If there isn’t any, then we’ll use the cannons combined to sink the ship!”
Their ship soon came upon the enemy’s in a short amount of time. From the swivel’s users viewpoints on the left, they saw a couple of gunpowder barrels in a heap in the center of the main deck. “Bingo,” Mayu playfully commented before firing her cannon along with Jurina. Seconds later, there were met with the burning and crumbling ship that slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.
“I-It’s over?” Kashiwagi Yuki said, fixing her white sailor’s hat. All of the other members cautiously watched their surroundings, hoping to see that the coast is clear in the rainy weather. After a couple minutes of silence, Sashihara Rino then responded, “I think so…” All eyes then fell upon the captain, focusing on Minami. Smiling, she bobbed her head and raised one fist into the air. “It’s over!”
I need to know what will happen to WMatsui!! :panic:
PLEASE Update soon! :thumbsup :bow: