The Crimson Judgement Island was buzzing with all sorts of activity. Of course, the most interesting thing was a messenger bird that had Eve's name on the scroll. It was a message from Veil who was currently stationed in the walled city close to the free pirate market. Alexandria was going to allow Eve her space in order to take care of the walled city sailor they captured. She needed to see how things went with Valentina and Tyra. That situation needed to be looked into since there still wasn't any word from the harbor yet. Alexandria left the main hall making her way to the harbor to check in on that situation.
Alexandria could see the ships docked in the harbor which hopefully was a good sign. A playful giggle escaped her lips as she saw Tyra walking towards her. She sped up a bit excited stopping short in front of Tyra. "So how did everything go with the ships on this side of the island?" All Alexandria wanted at the moment was good news. There wasn't much time left to enjoy themselves before everything went up in smoke. Of course, after all the dust settled and the walled city government was gone, they could fully enjoy themselves once again.
Tyra let out a soft sigh looking up at Alexandria. "We were successful with our end as well. The ships that approached were from different settlements scattered around the larger area. There were no pirate crews or clans among them. However, we did get a bit more information on those messages that Fina was talking about before. It seems they have been sent to every single large area that isn't a walled city. The walled city government really has it out for us at the moment." Of course, this news wasn't a huge surprise since they did sink an entire walled city island. There would be no lack of enemies which meant they could count on maybe a few more allies before the larger war began in earnest.
She clapped her hands together quickly glad to hear about the new allies. There was no time at the moment to meet them since Eve's interrogation along with planning the next steps should be top priority. Alexandria needed to bring the core crew together to discuss their next move. "I'm glad to hear this news. I want you to get Valentina and whoever else is nearby from the core crew. We are going to have a planning session at the main hall. Hugo will be busy with other matters at the makeshift dock for the moment. I will find my mother and Judy. Once the planning stage is over, I would like you to go back to your tower. If anyone else makes their way here within the next few days should be considered an ally. After that however I want the waters around the island on lockdown. We need to prepare to either go on the attack or be ready to defend."
Tyra nodded in agreement turning around and making her way back to the area she had come from. Alexandria turned around as well making her way back to the main hall. If she was correct Fina, Lorelei, and Judy should all be there. Hopefully Eve took the interrogation down below since she could get rather messy. A devious smile crossed Alexandria's lips as she moved quickly. The messenger bird above caught her attention immediately. It had just made its finally descent to the main hall. This was the first messenger bird in quite some time so the information inside that message was most likely top priority.
Eve's ears perked up hearing the faint sounds of a messenger bird. It wasn't an issue at the moment since the prisoner had said some things that needed to be probed. If it was something important, she was sure Alexandria would come down to let her know. A sly smile crossed her face as she drove a dagger into the man's leg pinning it to the wood of the chair he was strapped to. His scream echoed around the room as Eve closed her eyes taking in a deep breath bathing in the sound. She twisted the blade a bit tilting her head to the side looking at the man. "If you would just tell us what your mission was or at least the location all this would be over. I'm not going to kill you because that would be way too easy at the moment. I prefer to see how long you can last before the pain becomes too much. Just as my captain said before death isn't an option and I will keep that promise."
The sailor did his best not to move. It was just as the captain had told him before the pain would be immense. His eyes started to roll back a bit as the chair creaked feeling the weight of his body against it. He took in a ragged breath looking up at Eve. "Even if I gave you what you wanted there is no way in hell you could do anything against the defenders might." His eyes widened as his breath started to become erratic.
A devious smile crossed Eve's lips as she moved closer. She took her hand off the dagger in his leg pulling another one from her coat tracing the point carefully along his cheek. "If this mission you speak of has other defenders does that mean it is a facility of some kind?" Eve wasn't going to allow him to backtrack now. He was in a state of panic which she needed to fix. There was a chance he could die like this, and she knew they were close to getting his secret. He didn't give a response, and Eve could feel his body twitching underneath her.
Letting out an exasperated sigh Eve took the dagger she was using and placed it into the fire not too far from them. She stood up for a moment allow the blade to get hot. Eve grabbed the blade quickly with an insulated glove pulling the other dagger out of the man's leg quickly and pressing the heated dagger against the wound. A blood chilling scream erupted from the man echoing around the walls flooding into Eve's ears. She shivered with excitement as she removed the heated dagger placing it on the table nearest them using the insulated glove as a mat for the dagger. Eve waited for a moment allow him to get himself together.
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"Now as you can see, I'm pretty good with torture and I won't allow you to die so easily. Answer my question and I will give you something to drink. If you refuse, I will bring another one of your sailors in here and you can watch them, be cut up into small pieces." A playful giggle escaped Eve's lips hoping that was the key to getting this man to finally give them everything he knew. There wasn't a solider alive that she interrogated so far that wouldn't give up information to save a fellow comrade. If this was a facility lead it would be a huge win for them. Of course, if he told her to go ahead killing his friends, she would have to go find one of the other prisoners.
The room went silent for a moment as the man looked up at Eve. "Wait, please don't kill them so needlessly. I don't know everything, but I can give you one important piece of information." Tears started to pour down his face. It was clear he wasn't doing this because he wanted to. Eve was glad to see that she was still right on the money when it came to what could break a soldier.
"If your information proves to be true, I will keep my word and not hurt your friends. However, if you lie to me or give information that leads to a trap, I will not only cut them up in front of you, but I will feed them to you. Is that understood?" Eve spun her dagger by the loop in the handle waiting for the man to continue and give her the information he was hiding.
He nodded lowing his head a bit as he continued. "The place is a small island that used to be an active volcano. The facility is only known by members of military and the reigning council leader. I'm not exactly sure who is imprisoned there since we were just the guards for the water route to the facility. However, I know that whoever is locked up there are no friends of the walled city government and are most likely part of the project to find a permeant cure for the virus effects on not only men but women as well."
Eve let out a playful giggle glad to see he was finally seeing reason. Of course, this information didn't give them the location of the facility or the strength of the defenders. However, just knowing this place is real means that they would potentially gain powerful allies in the fight against the walled cities. "Well, this is a good start. If you have any other information, we can wait a bit to get it from you. You just sit tight there while I go figure out what is going on upstairs."
She was curious about the messenger bird and now with new information to give to Alexandria they were finally making more headway into killing all those damn morons inside the walled cities. Eve made her way up the stairs entering the main hall area. Her eyes widened when she saw everyone else was already there. Alexandria, Lyric, Veronica, Isa, Tyra, Valentina, Judy, Lorelei, and even Amina. There was a messenger bird perched on the table they were all standing around. However, no one had taken the message out of the container yet. Eve raised an eyebrow as she moved closer. "Why the hell is no one taking the message out?"
No one said anything as Eve got closer to see that the messenger bird was actually addressed to her. Letting out an exasperated sigh Eve took the message out of the container and unfolded it. Her eyes darted around the page taking in everything as quickly as she could. The message was from Veil, and it wasn't very long either. However, the contents of the message caused a sly smile to cross Eve's face.
Alexandria raised an eyebrow titling her head to the side. "What has got you so happy all of a sudden?" She wasn't going to just go over there and read the message. Even though she was the captain there was no reason to be so pushy. However, if Eve was smiling like that it must be something good. Alexandria wanted to know right away. There was also the fact that she was back from the basement sooner than Alexandria had thought.
"It would seem that Veil has given us a piece of information that will complete what I just obtained from our friend downstairs. However, I think we should all decide if it is a trap and whether or not we want to spring the trap." Eve let out a devious giggle looking in Alexandria's direction.
"How about you give us more context to go on before you giggle and talk about springing traps." Alexandria let out an exasperated sigh wondering how the hell she was going to deal with all these colorful personalities. Of course, there was no way she would ever get rid of any of them.
"This message has coordinates to a facility that is said to be unknown to everyone aside from top military leaders and the council leader you pissed off before when you blew up and sank that island. The prisoner downstairs told me about this facility and now we have the location. That is why we should decide how to go about this since it seems way too convenient not to be some kind of trap." Eve folded up the message and set it on the table in the middle of the group.
A confident smile crossed Alexandria's lips as she looked around the room. "I believe there isn't any other choice than to make ready to move on that facility. If there is in fact others like us there, we could be looking at the most powerful ability users alive at the moment. Besides if it is a trap, we can thin their numbers even more and show everyone that nowhere is safe from Crimson Judgement."
Cheers erupted around the table echoing all over the main hall. It would seem that everyone was in agreement. There wasn't much of a choice in the matter plus the stronger they became the faster peace would come to this new world of theirs.