Azur Lane: A Lucky Wish (Discontinued)

Chapter 1: A Wish Coming True

Snow's POV

I woke up from my nice nap, just to see I was in a different room.

Snow: Where am I...?

I look around to see that looks like to be a vintage room. I then get out of bed, and for some reason, I realized my height changed. I then see a mirror near the bed to see a different reflection. I thought at first it was a different person but I realized it was me.

Snow: Wh-What happend to me!? I look so different now. What even happened...? Wait..

I was thinking something if my theory was correct, so I go to the door and opened it to see another room, that looks like to be a room for a captain or a leader. I then see a window and I look at the other side to see where I was. I was in a ship in the middle of an ocean.

Snow: Okey, this is not normal at all. What kind of ship even is this?

I then looked for clues in the room to know what ship I was riding on, and I found the name written in a name plate at the top of a desk. The ship name was Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta.

Snow: Well... now I know the name. Let's find more clues then.

I then look for more clues to find a book inside one of the desk drawer. The book titled was "The Condottieri-class". I then open the book to see different ships that has the information of its weapons and its history, but the one that got my intention the most was the information of the ship that I was riding on. I then read it's information.

Snow: Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta was an Italian light cruiser of the fourth group of the Condottieri-class, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. She survived the war, but was ceded as war reparation to the Soviet Navy in 1949. She was finally renamed Kerch and served in the Black Sea Fleet until the 1960s.

I then continued reading it's history.

Snow: The ship joined the 7th Cruiser Division and in 1938 departed on a circumnavigation with her sister-ship, Eugenio Di Savoia. The deteriorating world political situation caused this to be cut short after visits to the Caribbean and South America, and the ships returned La Spezia in March 1939.

In World War 2 at the Italian entry into the war, d'Aosta was part of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron and participated in the Battle of Punta Stilo between 6-10 July. In addition, she protected North Africa convoys, took part in a fleet sortie against British cruisers and bombarded Corfu on 18 December.

During 1941, d'Aosta served mostly with the 8th Cruiser Division, laying minefields off North Africa and protecting convoys. One of the convoy duties, in December, led to the First Battle of Sirte, in which d'Aosta took part.

Her duties in 1942 were much as before, but with aggressive actions against Allied convoys, including the Operations Harpoon and Vigorous, in June, to resupply the British controlled island of Malta. She sailed in August to intercept the critical Pedestal convoy, but, being without air cover, this sortie was abandoned. On 13 June 1942, d'Aosta survived a torpedo attack by the British submarine HMS Unison, while south of Sardinia with the Raimondo Montecuccoli.

In 1943, d'Aosta was inactive due to fuel shortages for most of the remainder of the year, but in August, she attempted, unsuccessfully, a bombardment of Allied positions around Palermo.

d'Aosta was a "lucky ship" in that she never was damaged in any of the naval actions in which she participated nor was she ever damaged by air attack or submarine attack.

After the Italian Armistice, d'Aosta had a minor refit at Taranto and in October 1943, with the cruisers Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi and Giuseppe Garibaldi, she sailed to the South Atlantic, to serve with the Allies on shipping blockade duties, based at Freetown. While in front of South America, the sailors broke up in mutiny, because of too long time (six months) without a single port call. There were seven patrols between November 1943 and February 1944; she returned to Italy in April and, thereafter, was used only for transport.