A White Eagle Stained in Blood | Azur Lane

Chapter 2 - Disheartening News and a Cruiser of War

--Disheartening News--

| Baltic Sea | 3rd Person/Narrator POV |

Burza was currently lying in an infirmary bed inside of Blücher's ships. The shells from hood caused massive damage to his rigging and him as he could no longer feel one of his rear guns alongside feeling noticeable discomfort in his leg additionally, the feeling of tiredness meant that Hood also damaged his engines and his steering which explained why he could no longer fully stand on water at the end of the fight. As Burza continued to watch the ocean outside of the infirmary's window he heard the sound of footsteps getting closer outside in the hallway, he sighed as he closed his eyes and hoped to hear some good news since he quickly realized he was asleep for some time, his compass told him they were somewhere else since he saw land to his west instead of south. But now as he thought about what led him here he was forced to abandon his thoughts as he heard someone clear their throat, then Burza opened his eyes to see two girls in front of him, one wearing a white naval officer uniform with a neutral and somewhat cold expression "Hello, Tirpitz and..." Burza waited as he looked at the other girl, she was shorter than Tirpitz but her expression was a lot more cheerful "Blücher I presume" He said with a formal tone expected from someone who represents his navy "Guten tag, heer Burza" Tirpitz said with a similar formal tone before the Heavy Cruiser spoke, "Hi Burza, I heard Eugen and other talks about you alo..." But before she could finish Tirpitz shot her down with a stare as she stopped talking "I'm sorry for her behaviour, Blücher is very energetic" Tirpitz said as she looked at the mentioned girl before Burza spoke "There is no reason to be mad at her, from what I heard she must have been pretty excited to see me, besides I don't think I meet any of you before" He said as he sat straight up on the bed as he noticed that he still wore his uniform which looked patched up thanks to his Wisdom cube which indirectly told him that he somewhat recovered from the fight "I'm sorry we had to meet in such a difficult and stressful time" Tirpitz started as Burza responded, "And I'm glad we meet otherwise I don't think I would meet anyone ever again." He said as the implication was so visible someone would need to be denser than a neutron star not to understand what he meant "That may be true but I guess you would like to know where you are" Tirpitz said as she got closer with a map in her hand "I would gladly hear that Information and what happened during my time of 'Inactivity' He said those words as Blücher's expression turned sour for just enough time for him to notice it, which told him that this information wouldn't be too good. "We are currently on our way to Hamburg and we are going to pass thru the Kiel canal in a couple of hours." Tirpitz said as she sighed and prepared to answer his question "You were unconscious for 2 days during that time you stayed on Blücher's ship while your Body healed and rigging repaired all the damages it could, that was also the fact why we didn't arrive at Hamburg already as the fastest and safest way would be thru the canal but as you know it would take to much time in our ship form and with your injuries at the time we had to wait for you to wake up..." Tirpitz said as she hesitated to tell the rest "And what happened during those two days?" Burza asked as he prepared for the bad news he knew he was going to hear by just looking at Blücher "Once you escaped from Gdynia a Northern Parliament assault occurred which saw the entirety of 'Neutral Territory's of Polonia' razed to the ground, not one city, town or village was spared as the Northern Parliament army advanced, at the same time in the Atlantic a battle took place which saw the two Grom class destroyers fighting against each other... both of them perished striking the killing blow against one another... in other word's you are the only ship of any of the Polonian lands and the only living successor to Wicher" Tirpitz said as she stood closer to the bed as Burza only looked down "I guess you already decided or was forced to do so" She added as Blücher also got closer and hugged the destroyer which caught him off guard "I'm sorry for what happened to you and everyone you knew... But I- no we the Iron Blood are ready to help you if you only accept us to help" Blücher said as Burza only sighed knowing that he already knew what he was going to do... the only thing he could do, and that was to officially join the Crimson Axis