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Gryphos:
--Eastern wall--

Nidhogg and Tristan stood on the wall near the batteries and scanned the skyline. Nidhogg kept one hand over the hilt of his sword, and the other over his holster. Both brothers had been equipped with body armour and pistol ammo a'plenty. Their bodies and minds were ready for war.

Tristan
"I guess this isn't what you had in mind when you sought 'adventure'"

Nidhogg
"No, not really. And I think, if I survive, I'll return home with you, I'm not cut out for the frontier life."

Tristan
"I'm glad."

The two shared a last brotherly hug before the battle.

Sgt. Spoon:
Spoon stepped up alongside a bunch of guards on the wall, looking out on the horison. They were far too preoccupied with the scene in front of them to notice him.

and so it begins...

BdrLineAzn:
--Dawn Break--

BdrLine is on board with Niko on his cousin's ship. It's the only galleon in the small five ship formation, the other four, two pyramidions and two junkers, are formed up on either side of the ship. As BdrLine goes to the port side of the ship with his telescope out, he notices the poped blue smoke coming from the defected Baron ships.

At least their friends are safe.

He retracts the glass and heads up to the helm where Niko and his cousin, Gang, are at the helm. As he walks up the stairs, BdrLine is wearing some light body armour for some protection. Over his shoulder is the rifle he and Yiski had made, while on his forearms he wears the extendable blades, modified to have metal bracing on the top. Finally a small pistol is holstered on the right side of his hip.

Niko
"How's it goes so far?"

BdrLine
"Well, a few Baron ships manage to defect and are going behind the wall for cover, I assume that majority are old friends of Zill's. But the majority of the Fleet is still there and their squids are attacking."

Gang
"Damn, well what are we waiting for, *he goes to the radio on board* Shogun, Fallen Leaf, bare port sides and fire away at the squids with the mercuries. *to crew on board* Alright get the flaks ready we're shooting as well."

The galleon and the two pyramidions then turn to port, and soon mercury and flak rounds start exiting the barrels of the guns. Rounds fly as they race towards the attacking squids, some manage to hit, but with the speed, majority of the rounds flew behind them.

As the Niko and BdrLine watch on, a beep on BdrLine's radio come to life. He turns to look and answers it.

BdrLine
"Zankif Melin, that you?"

Zankif
"Yup and looks like we arrived to the party, do what's the sit-rep."

BdrLine
"Before the attack, we manage to get some defector ships on our side, but now their squids are attacking. How about you guys?"

Zankif
"Well we are coming from the east side, so we may have a shot left and rear flank. For firepower though, we got two galleys, two hawacha and a lumber fish, three pyras, tow Junkers, and the two squids Melin came on."

BdrLine
"Speaking of Melin, you have word of their attacks plans?"

Melin
"Sorry Bdr, my men didn't have a chance to get on the command ship and hack their comms, they left port as they were about to get on. But we have other news, my men back in the Barons manage to find the old king, King Gregor, he is being held in a prison somewhere, they are making plans to break him out. Keep this battle going as long as you can, we can't have word of some ships returning to help stop this prison break out."

BdrLine
"Okay, so you guys are going for an attack run?"

Zankif
"Yeah, we'll try to disable some transports and fire ships, but no promises."

BdrLine
"Roger, out."

He radio turns silent as BdrLine looks to the east and sees rounds coming out of a cloud bank hitting the rear flank of the Baron formation.

BdrLine
Gods help us all.

Gryphos:
--The Wyvern--

The Wyrm looked through his spyglass at Zankif's ship, emerging from a cloud into the rear flank of the formation.

Wyrm
"Watch out, looks like we got ourselves a maniac. Ready on port guns! I'm bringin' us back to the rear!"

He adjusted course to fly towards the rear of the fleet, nearly crashing into about a dozen ships on the way. Noticing some change in course, Lord Gallafell emerged from his quarters.

Gallafell
"What are you doing!? You're meant to stay in formation with the rest!"

Wyrm
"Screw the formation, I'm gonna save our asses!"

The Wyvern pulled up next to the exposed transports, shielding a few of them from the flanking menuevour, while letting off some hwacha fire into the attackers.

RearAdmiralZill:
-But then it broke-

Shots from his starboard rang in his ears and Nova and Jun'ko took aim at the encroaching squids. The merc fired with deadly precision, and the artemis whistled into their weak spots. Despite the hits, only six squids had gone down to the batteries. Zill looked back at the main body of the fleet so see them at 5 km, still closing. Assessing the situation, he gave new orders over the radio.
Zill
"All batteries target the main body, with troop transports a high priority. All squids are to hop over the wall and engage the remaining squids. We need them off our guns."

Seeing a flaking run being commenced by another group of the Baron's, Zill tugs out a tar bomb, and lights it with a short fuse. He tosses it overboard. Moments later it explodes in mid-air is a large plume of tar. Shortly after, a mercenary unit of three junkers, two goldfish, and two squids rises behind a chasm in the mountains. They commence a bombardment on the main body with their long range, taking the baron fleet by surprise. Chaos was beginning to ensue, but they maintained a rough formation, and while damaged, weren't going down quickly.

Once over the batteries, Zill knew the fight was going to get bloody.

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