Ship Girl Collection 01
Ship Girl Collection: 01
The soft breeze that moved the trees across the shore plus the warm rays of the sun in the sky made this a perfect day of summer for everyone out of school; but Sunset didn’t have time to enjoy it, right now she was spitting out the sea water on her mouth and dragging herself out of the water before crashing on the sand.
With the strength she had left she pushed with one hand until she was capable of turning around, her back now on the sand and for the first time in minutes she could breathe easily, even though the simple action made her chest hurt and her throat burn.
Sunset had been barely capable of regaining her breath before another sound besides the waves appeared on the beach, in this case a blonde girl that had lost her Stetson in the open sea; opening her eyes with difficulty Sunset saw Applejack drag herself to her side before simply crashing in the sand.
“Ah can tell you, farm work doesn’t prepare you for having to fight for your life on the sea” Applejack said barely able to breathe and Sunset knew well how the farm girl was feeling.
“Neither building computers and machines it seems… what happened to the rest of the crew?” Sunset didn’t remember well what happened after the explosion and her falling to the water.
“Rares and the rest got into the boats and Ah hope they are alright… Ah saw one of the cabin boys floating face down… is a good thing Ah didn’t see his face” Applejack answered knowing that she would have nightmares for months.
“So besides some passangers we probably won’t see many survivors, great” Sunset said in a whisper, her body had lost all strength and she could feel sleep closing down on her. The last thing she saw was the face of a small child looking at her.
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Sunset woke up and her body sprung up; looking around her she found herself inside a room made out of wood, the way it was made and the furniture around it seemed alien to her; looking down at herself and hound herself in some kind of white robe, even the bed was weird considering that it wasn’t a bed but what seemed more like a bedroll.
To say that Sunset was confused was an understatement considering everything that had happened… who know how long since she had been knocked out by sheer exhaustion; thankfully she was interrupted from her thoughts by someone coming into the room by sliding one of the doors.
“Oh, okita desu” the face of a man that seemed to have lived on the sea his whole life entered the room, immediately Sunset caught up on the language used, but usage of that language was centered around just one country, how was that possible?
“Yeah, I… woke up just now” Sunset said thankful that she had learned several languages when she was Celestia’s student, among them Neighponese, although she was sure it wasn’t called that way in here. Answering on his language seemed like a good idea after the man threw his head backwards and started to laugh as if he had something extremely entertaining.
“Well, I am glad to see you well, you should have seen how surprised my granddaughter was when she found you on the beach, saying that she had found two spirits of the sea, after all, is not every day we get visitors from other countries in here” the man said making Sunset even more confused about her situation, and when she heard what the man said about her friend made her worried return; it must have been very obvious because the man continued talking “don’t worry, your friend is alright, she just woke up before you and we all ended up in quite a situation. You see, no one in the town knows how to communicate with your friend” he said shrugging his shoulders and Sunset could imagine how flustered and enraging could it be for AJ not being capable of understand everyone.
The man helped Sunset up and he helped her walk outside of the room, after all, unlike Applejack who was always working her muscles, Sunset had let herself go a little bit while researching new things with Twilight, after all this she swore that she would get back in shape.
Going outside she was received by the lights of the sun; according to the man, who had introduced himself as Tadao, both Applejack and herself had been asleep for a whole day; and talking about Applejack, Sunset found her in front of the house of their host while the girl Sunset remembered seeing before blacking out was talking a mile a second. The look in Applejack’s face said it all and Sunset felt bad about her and the situation.
“Sunset! Oh boy, am Ah glad to see you up! Do you have any idea of what the heck is she saying?” Applejack said pointing down at the little girl who was smiling a storm; she had the same type of tan as her grandfather, no question of how much time she spends outside in the beach.
“She is saying that she likes you hair and that if you want to play Daruma with her, is basically green light, red light” she said still feeling extremely confused about what they were doing miles and miles away from home and in the wrong sea.
The girl, Megumi, left to play with other kids after Sunset promised that they would play with her later on but they had to talk with her grandfather, the three then entered the house and went to the living room as Tadao’s wife prepared tea for them much to Applejack’s confusion at the language, customs and feeing like the proverbial fish out of water.
“So girls, please tell me, how did two foreign girls ended up at our shores?”
“Would you believe us if we told you we have no idea? We were on a cruise ship on the Bahamas with the rest of our friends when suddenly the sky turned black with thick dark clouds and then… then the cruise started to sink” Sunset told their story, still remembering how happy Rarity had been when they found out that Fluttershy had won a prize from one of the restaurants around Canterlot, being a 6 people trip through the Bahamas. Who would have thought darkness would have followed them?
“Ah, yes, the dark storms” Tadao told them with a grimace “we know of those dark clouds, they only bring destruction and disasters” he said taking the ceramic cup and blowing on it “those storms are not natural, they come and go as they please… and what arrives with them is the stuff of nightmares, I am happy to see you survived them, but to be able to change seas in an instant? That is quite curious”
“Can you help us reach the main island? Or at least get in contact with our friends?”
“I could try and see if your friends survived; maybe they were also transported to another place and are already looking for you, but to help you leave the island… I’m afraid it is impossible” Tadao said making Sunset worried about he had said but Tadao simply raised a hand showing he had more to say “you have to understand, I’m not telling you that so you could be a prisoner in this place… but leaving the shore and going into open sea… well, you must have seen what kind of monsters lurk under those dark waters by now”
Sunset relied what she had been said and both high school girls weren’t very happy with the news, but both couldn’t contain the shiver through their body remembering the glimpse of what they would swear was the number one reason for the ship to sink and the pair of red eyes that may or may not have been under the water.
“I can see it in your face that you know what I am talking about… monsters that look like human beings, we have seen them several times, with skin as hard as steel and with oil instead of blood, they are aberrations” Tadao said almost spitting that word, it was obvious the hate he had for those creatures.
“Does anyone know where do they come from?”
“No, they appeared out of nowhere, neither machine nor human, they attack everyone in the sea, the government tries to keep under the lid but if they attacked you in the Caribbean then the world is not safe”
“How does he know so much about those things?” Applejack said once Sunset finished translating and it was a good question, fortunately for them Tadao had no problem answering all their questions.
“Is simple, my son works alongside the Navy, he is one of the engineers in charge of studying these monsters but no matter what they do they haven’t been able to find a weak spot, normal weapons are ineffective and radars cannot pick them up, these are truly troublesome times for humanity” Tadao said making Sunset feel the silent despair that he felt; for a man that seemed at home at sea as him it must truly feel like a nightmare to be banned from it.
“Shire-kan” It was something that she heard for only a second but Sunset could swear it was a young voice; she quickly raised her head and tried to look around but she couldn’t see anyone that could fit the voice, maybe there was a TV on?
“Are you alright Sunset?”
“I… did you hear a voice Applejack? It was young girl’s voice” Applejack simply shook her head, she haven’t heard a thing but Sunset was sure that it wasn’t her imagination and the face of Tadao when she asked him if he had heard a voice was of someone that knew at least a bit of what she was talking about.
“So you can hear it, I guess it wasn’t a simple coincidence that you arrived here, come with me both of you” Tadao said standing up making the situation even more confusing for both girls.
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Their steps echoed across the metallic construction making them feel as if they were I another place instead of an island.
“Well Ah’ll be damn, this thing is huge, and Ah can’t believe it hasn’t been used since World War II” Applejack said while looking at the hangar and the great condition of it, there were no structural damage or even dust accumulating in the whole place.
“Tadao… he told me that no one comes here except for his son and his son-in-law and that was several years ago, no one comes and cleans this place, it just… stays like this”
“You mean like magic?”
“I think so, I can even feel some kind of resonance in this place, but is not equestrian magic” Sunset said closing her eyes trying to pin down where she felt the pull of magic, one that didn’t feel like the energy coming from the portal back in Canterlot; the energy there seemed happy, like a kid skipping along but this one felt more raw, as if it was filled with emotions like rage and sadness but also of hope and love, and in the background, as if trying to hear something imbedded in the static there was a call.
"Shire-kan” She could finally hear clearly the voice that was calling for her. Sunset started to run in the direction the magic was pointing her with Applejack right on her heels, running through the corridors of the building until the stopped in front of 5 curious metal constructions in the middle of the floor.
“What in tarnation? Those things look like riggings of a destroyer” Applejack said looking at the five constructs.
“A what now?”
“Well, kind of, you can see the chimney in one of them, reminds me of a Destroyer chimney, also the communication antenna in some of them” she continued saying pointing at several parts of the (supposedly) riggings until Sunset finally caught on.
“Right, I forgot for a second that you knew a lot of ships”
“Well, comes with the family, almost every generation of the Apples have been in the army or the navy; Grandpa Smith fought in World War II and he told me a lot about his ship, the Missouri”
“So, what do you think about these things?”
“Like Ah said, they remind me of parts of a destroyer, but Ah don’t understand what are they?”
“These are the riggings that are waiting their rightful owner” a small voice came from somewhere around Sunset and Applejack putting them in alert, of course, once they saw who have talked both stood watching in complete surprise. Right there, on top of a box stood a diminutive person with a small smile on its face, it looked vaguely female with the long hair and was also wearing a lab coat “we have seen people who have been able to hear her voice, but so far none could make her return to this world”
“Who are you?”
“Like you, Sunset Shimmer, I am a creature that belongs to two different worlds, but you can call me Fairy if you like”
“Wait a minute, a Fairy? This makes no sense at all” Applejack was at her wit’s end with the revelation of this creature “what is going on here?”
“I thought you might have that kind of reaction but after all the different adventures you have had you cannot say I’m the weirdest thing you have seen” both Sunset and Applejack turned to look at each other after hearing that and after a few seconds of consideration they had to agree on that.
“So, what are you doing here then?”
“The same reason why you are right here Sunset Shimmer, destiny has plans for all of us” the Fairy said making Sunset flinch at that word.
“I don’t have a destiny; I threw that one away years ago” it still hurt to think about that image reflected on the mirror, no matter how many years that had been, it will forever serve as a reminder of her mistakes.
“It was never your destiny; it was only your desires reflected in a mirror”
“How do you know that?”
“Is like I told you, as a Fairy I’m part of the human world and the spirit one, just like you belong in this and the world of the sun” the Fairy said in a voice that left no chance to debate, it (maybe she?) sounded as if what she was saying was set on stone like 2+2.
“So Sunset’s destiny wasn’t to be a princess, what does that have to do with everything that is going on?”
“Applejack”
“What?”
“How did you understand her? She is speaking in Japanese” Sunset said making Applejack blink at that piece of information.
“The magic that you both have is working, without it you wouldn’t even be able to see me; the boys that came here before heard the voices but they never had the ability to see us, they never had the powers of two worlds”
“Because we are human beings… but have magic from Equestria, is that why Applejack can understand you and why we can see you? Because we are of two different worlds?”
“That’s right, is because of that that both of you could meet the five girls” she said pointing at the riggings on the floor “they have been waiting for the moment they could continue doing their job since the moment the Abyssal appeared on the sea”
“Abyssal? You mean those crazy things that destroyed the boat?”
“Not to mention your hat”
“Ah have enough replacements back home, believe me, there’s enough to fill a whole closet, but what are those abyssal thingies?”
“Have you heard the term ‘Tsukumogami’?”
“Isn’t that from that story Cherilee made us read?”
“Yes, they come from the Japanese folklore; they are objects that after a long time become alive”
“Indeed, the Abyssal are like them, Tsukumogami that have resided on what once were warships, tainted with rage and hate; but it has taken too many souls, they have become monsters with no real drive besides spreading the hate and rage they feel to wherever they go”
“Tadao told us they were immune to human weapons, is it because they are in part spirits? That’s why creatures like the Sirens or Discord couldn’t be hurt with simple weapons, they were never alive as humans or ponies, they were in part spirits, so how can this Abyssal be defeated?”
“By calling upon the power of those souls, to make them see that there is someone out there guiding them to the surface and granting them a body and voice once again, to be the commander of the fleet, their admiral” the Fairy said making Sunset understand the purpose of the voice.
“Shire-kan… commander”
“I cannot bring them to this world, I can only function as help to armament and weapons, a sort of helper and crew, we need someone in a similar position as ours to complete the ritual” Sunset nodded at the words of the Fairy before walking closer to the middle rigging and with every step it started to shake as if it couldn’t contain itself and just as Sunset touched it a bright light filled the hangar. Both girls blinked several times trying to regain their vision and once the spots finally disappeared from their eyes they just couldn’t believe what was in front of them.
A young girl, barely reaching Sunset’s chest, stood up giving Sunset a military salute; the girl seemed to be wearing a standard Japanese high school uniform and had a short pony tail, but the smile that she was giving to Sunset was full of happiness.
“Nice to meet you Shire-kan, I’m Fubuki, thank you for having me”
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I just hope that the rest of the HuMane 6 are safe in this universe.
i was expecting one peice with the tittle i should have known also the fairy link dont work
Nice chapter
Its weired that the spirite name is the same as my Pony/EQG OC.. Well his first name
7229271 Well, technically speaking your OC is named after a World War II destroyer ship
7229777 .... I guess. Earth/world histoy is not my cup of tea.
Huh didn't take you as a shipper
7230389 That pun literally hurt, and this kantai so just wait until Sunset meets Kongou
7230434 Eh what can I say but that love is a battlefield or battleship as the case may be.
So no Kongo?
I was hoping Sunset would get some 'Burning love!'
7327919 Sunset just got her starting ships, she will meet Kongou and her sisters, what kind of Kantai story will that be without the England ship?
Ah, Kantai girls. I play World of Warships, myself, and love my St. Louis!
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She definitely puts the "broad" in "broadside"!
7328534 what is kantai girls? and why am i getting a harem anime vibe?