Eve appeared out of nowhere and held a knife to the representative throat as she whispered in his ear, “You need to think very carefully before you do anything else you may think you have a numbers advantage but I have been standing amongst your men this whole time and you didn't even notice so how about you put your arm down and we can conduct the rest of this conversation like civilized people.”
The ambassador lowered his hand with a furious look on his face but Eve did not drop her blade. “Would you be so kind as to ask your subordinate to put down her dagger down if my suit is punctured and I take one step outside this tent and I'll be dead in moments. Do you have any idea what would happen if that were to take place?”
Alexandria little slight giggle escape her lips and she made eye contact with the ambassador and a Sly smile crossed her face as she replied, “I don't give a damn what happens to you and Eve doesn't have to put her blade down and she doesn't want to since I trust her judgment I don't know you so if you don't like it you can back away and leave and tell your city that we are coming and there's nothing they can do to stop us.”
The ambassador let out a hearty chuckle making sure not to get cut by Eve's dagger as he raised an eyebrow and responded, “That is very humorous since our world city is one of the oldest next to the capital city we are large you would need a force of over a thousand to even think I'm about taking us down so how about you take your threat and shove it up your tiny little ass.”
Alexandria was about to say something but Eve was Fed up She sliced his suit and stabbed him in the jugular ripping the knife up through his jaw and out the top of his forehead his body hit the ground withering has the ambassador's guards Drew their weapons Judy got in the middle of everyone putting your hands up as she spoke, “Now wait just a minute you're ambassador insulted our leader he also threatened us with violence he's dead it's over I'm sure all of you have families you would like to get back to so I suggest you take your leave and take this filth with you I may not be the leader of the settlement but I am her wife and I will not stand idly behind that more blood be spilled in this room now get the hell out of here.”
The guard she's the weapons picking up the mangled body of the ambassador and dragged him away he wiped her dagger on her sleeve and she stood and she looked up at Alexandria bowing her head and not lifting it as she spoke, “My apologies to you both but I will not sit idly by when someone insults you and you already declared war I just put an exclamation mark on the declaration if you wish for me to be punished I will take any punishment that you require.”
Alexandria let out a laugh and she walked over to Eve putting her hand on her shoulder as she responded, “Absolutely no need for that my friend you did what you felt was right and as I said before you killed the ambassador I trust your judgment if you need to die for his insult then he died and is in the past what I want you to do now is take a ship and go to the settlements and the fort that we control and gather every single fighting person there and bring them here I'm going to make good on a threat and we are going to burn that city to the ground.”
Eve nodded and left the building as quickly as she could, taking a few of the militia members with her and departing from the island. Now it was time for things to get started but there was also the matter of planning a wedding before the walled city fell so that first and then bloodshed.
Judy wanted Eve's help to plan the wedding, but she'd have to wait until the mission was over and all of the fighting warriors were brought to the current settlement for the fighting against the walled city. Of course, that was no problem because she was able to get all the colors, flowers and other things that she wanted and there was a nice area a little ridge by the water where the sun set where they were going to have the ceremony.
Alexandria stayed in the war room making plans and sifting over all the intelligence that had ever been gathered about their target and there was a ton some of it was much older and some of it was very recent due to the fact that the old man actually wanted to know the strength of the city just in case they ever had a fight with each other.
That surprised her maybe she wanted to seek him out to see if there was anything that he didn't catalog or write down that could be abused but that was something she could wait to do when their forces were assembled and the plan was set that way she didn't have to have him along when they actually planned everything because there was no telling if he would go to them and sell out their plan to the enemy and if he did that well then she would have to fulfill her promise to him and turn him into a flagpole.
Judy had just finished going through the service arranging all the flowers, getting all the colors ready and had a few choices set out for the meal. She was exhausted and leaned back in Alexandria's chair, closing her eyes for a moment and she heard footsteps into the room. “You seem to be taking a little break from the wedding planning duties.”
She opened her eyes to see Amina there bowing every so lightly. Judy threw her hands in the hair as she spoke, “There's no need to bow to me. I don't hold any type of rank.
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Amina let out a small giggle and she replied, “That's not true at all being married to Alexandria essentially makes you vice-Captain so I think you should get used to the admiration and the bows.”
Judy's face turned red, and she realized that Amina was right, that would essentially make her vice-Captain and she and Alexandria had already spoken about transferring her blood into Judy to help her to achieve a power of her own.
“The reason I'm here is because Alexandria is getting ready for a war council meeting with all the different leaders since the leaders of the other settlements have already arrived. She asked me to come get you if you're ready, that is?”
Her heart was all a flutter. The wedding was coming up and then directly after the planning was finished, they were going to war and after this meeting she was going to accept our future wife's blood in order to get a power which is going to change her life forever. Judy nodded and motioned for Amina to lead the way.
Everyone had made their way into the war room. Alexandria was already sitting at the head of the table, scrolls sprawled out all over the place along with some very old books that had been taken from a library from the old world and had survived all this time. She was ready and waiting as everyone took their seats; the leaders of the other settlements and the fortress were there along with the militia leader, the second in command to the council and the rest of her crew.
“You all are here because we are trying to remedy an offense that was made by a former council leader of the settlement and with our fortress guard two other settlements and this one we are prize of force of almost 1,000 so we should be able to make quick work of that walled City but we are not just going to throw our forces against the walls we are going to go there as if I'm going to surrender we'll take out the first two guard checkpoints and if we have to take up the third if we can't get the third and innermost wall open we will shoot it from the sea with cannon fire. All personnel between the ages of 12 and 17 will be used in our support unit that means that they will carry weapons on them for self-defense only, but they will not participate in the fighting your main objective is to make sure communication stays intact between each unit and the movement of supply stays fluid as the only way we get past this.”
Nobody said a word, everything that Alexandria had just said made sense and instead of speaking there were nods of approval and Eve gave a thumbs up with a goofy grin since she wanted to be different. Amina however looks like she had something to say. She was about to put her hand up like she was in school but acted like she had an itch on her arm and scratched it looking down at the table.
Alexandria knows this immediately and looked at her direction as she spoke, “Amina did you have something to add to the conversation or did you want to dispute something I know that you just joined my crew but you still have a voice if I wasn't going to allow you to speak here you would have never been invited in the first place so stand up and say your peace.”
Amina turned beet red for a second and gave Alexandria a soft smile and she stood she crossed her hands in front of her not much for standing and speaking even though it wasn't a large crowd, but she figured this need to be said and if her Captain was going to give her the go ahead then she needed to speak. “We need to make sure that the fleet isn't around when we attack I know that we have a dry dock now but there is no way in hell we'll have enough ships to take on that fleet there's only one and it moves around if it's close we'll have 20 ships on us each with three decks worth of guns I've only seen them once but it was terrifying it was a small pirate group they took them down within minutes everyone was dead no one survived and I do not want to see that happen the only reason they didn't see me is because of the fog I just want to make sure that we're taking every precaution to make sure that fleet is nowhere near the battle.”
This was news to Alexandria even though she heard that the cities had a fleet at their disposal for protection she never actually saw it and every time she heard talk from the military officials at the place she was being imprisoned no one ever said anything about it and nothing was ever documented which was probably what the higher ups wanted and she knew that Amina had spent a good deal of time out on the ocean so her word had to be credible and they need to take every precaution.
“Judy, if you had a month how many ships could you build me with at least two decks worth of guns?”
The room went silent as everyone turned to Judy. Amina had sat down so all the attention was squarely on Judy's answer to Alexandra's question. “Well two deck gun builds on a large ship take some time thankfully we already have a few single dicks set up that I could push together and then there's your flagship that's just about finished however if I had 2 months I could match the city's fleet that'll give you 20 ships plus the four that you already have. However I doubt you want to wait that long to attack this city the longer we give them to bolster their defenses and call and reinforcements and even possibly calling that fleet harder it's going to be for us to destroy the city.”
Those were not the words Alexandria wanted to hear but two months could give them an edge and maybe just maybe if they sent some dummy ships out in different directions possibly looking for more settlements to join their cause it'll split the fleet's attention have them chasing these ships that basically have nobody on them and are just drifting.
“Very well we will have two and a half months to prepare I want 25 ships made ready plus my flagship I know that the fortress has one ship which will now henceforth be under my command that will give me five ships which will give us a total of 30 and I know that I told you to make my flagship a three deck gun boat and I want to keep it that way so if we're all in agreements we will start planning we will send three ships out loud and for everyone to hear I want a fourth shift to go out and actually look for other settlements to join our cause if we're going to have that many shifts we need about double what we have now that'll take time that's what the half a month is for to find new recruits.”
The air in the room had changed but everything was moving forward the way Alexandria wanted it to and maybe just maybe after this was all over and that city was reduced to rubble her, and Judy could finally get married and start off on their adventure.