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The scouting party of 3 that left the main army group of Bolshevik soldiers, they came across the bodies of the group of 20 who were lead by Pyotr Zakharovich Ermakov one of the soldiers who killed the royal family. They were all impaled by spike poles that were jabbed into their anuses and came out of their mouths, which some of them were still alive. Pyotr was the only one who wasn’t impaled having been placed in a prone position, his ribs severed from the spine with a sharp tool, and his lungs pulled through the opening to create a pair of "wings". (1)

Pyotr told the scouting party that the one did this was Anastasia Romanov who used magic who did the deed. She had lifted them up in the air and pulled their weapons away while the she devils with her made poles to impale the others with. She had personally gave him a blood eagle, while he was held down by her she devil servants. Then she left with her servants taking all of their supplies with them. The soldiers put him and the other soldiers out of their misery.

The tale spread as more and more Bolshevik forces being killed and their supplies taken. A reign of terror as soldiers are found impaled on spike poles, with the lucky ones dead, the unlucky ones still alive and died a slow and painful death. With always at least one soldier left able to talk to spread the tale, or any prisoners that the soldier had with them. All telling the same tale of princess Anastasia of the house of Romanov still alive and followed by demons in the form of beautiful women. The soldiers fired their guns at the women who the bullets did nothing to them and who have the strength of the devil making trying to fight them hand to hand useless. (2)

Then came the darker tales, of the legendary witch of the dark forest of Russia having come out of the shadows, the witch Baba Yaga. No longer the old woman who lives in a house on chicken legs and flys in a mortar, she now a younger woman who flys in a flying wooden sloop of war. The flying warship’s cannons fired glowing cannonballs and firing beams of light that destroys all. The ship would appear and disappear at will, seeking out Bolshevik forces in the field and strongholds, raiding and slaughtering the forces before continuing on, towards the Black Sea where it disappeared.

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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire -

In his palace the sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin was shaken by the news of a heavily armed yacht flying the Russian Empire flag appearing at the port. The ship had sailed down from the Black Sea by Haydarpasa Chornomorsk, the ship has been identified as the royal yacht of the Romanov family of Russia the Standart. He has been hearing rumors from the north of entire companies of Bolshevik forces being impaled on spike poles and wilder tales of the witch Baba Yaga being seen.

But what’s the real shock is the one onboard the ship, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia last surviving child of the royal family. A letter from the ship was sent to ask for an audience with him, which was carried by the ghost of Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin, from what the people who had seen him in person and from the photographs taken of him could tell. He had walked off the ship in full view of everyone and just walk through anything that was in his way as he headed for the palace.

Mehmed hearing this went out to see it for himself and witness his guards trying and failing to stop the ghost who just walk through them, while holding a letter in his hand. The ghost saw him and walk to Mehmed offering the letter to the sultan. Taking the letter and reading it, Mehmed told the ghost that he will send a car to drive the duchess to the palace. The ghost nodded and walk back to the ship, without saying a thing.

In his throne room Mehmed and his staff prepared to greet the duchess and her 3 of her retainers in tow, all women. Word has already spread to the diplomats and the embassies in the city, with a number of the staff having seen it for themselves. In the throne room also watching are a number of diplomats from other nations who want to see the duchess themselves as rumors of the survival of the last heiress of the royal house of Romanov, has been spreading.

The doors open and Anastasia Romanov entered the room with her 3 retainers. The people in the room who have seen the young woman before, recognized her but for the fact she’s very skinny and worn from what they remembered, with a haunted look on her face. She wore a white long sleeved dress with white gloves with large chuffs. The dress hugs her body with a large v cut in the front and a smaller one at the back, showing that she’s wearing white pants underneath and wore white boots. The people who had seen her or talk with her before, recognized her but there was something off about her. (3)

The 3 older women with her are a sight to behold. The one standing behind the duchess is a gorgeous woman with long gray hair that she keeps in a long braid that goes down to her knees. She wears a long skirted grey maid outfit with an apron. Which does little to hide the voluptuous body.

The other two women also has eyes on them, the one standing on her right is a tall and powerful woman with long white hair that reaches her legs. And the one on the left wears a black button blouse and a white long white skirt and a long doctor’s coat. She has shoulder length blue hair and has a busty body.

“You honor me for this audience,” the woman claiming to be Anastasia said.

“You honor me as well. I heard that you were executed,” Mehmed said.

“Anastasia Romanov did died with her family. Let me show you her last moments with them,” the woman said as she held out her hand and a glass ball appeared on her hand and like a film projector showed the last moments of the royal family above the room for all to see.

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(This is what happen in real life.)

“Nikolai Alexandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you.”

Nicholas, facing his family, turned and said "What? What?"

Yurovsky quickly repeated the order and the weapons were raised. The Empress and Grand Duchess Olga, according to a guard's reminiscence, had tried to bless themselves, but failed amid the shooting. Yurovsky reportedly raised his Colt gun at Nicholas's torso and fired; Nicholas fell dead, pierced with at least three bullets in his upper chest. The intoxicated Peter Ermakov, the military commissar for Verkh-Isetsk, shot and killed Alexandra with a bullet wound to the head. He then shot at Tatiana, who ran for the double doors, hitting her in the thigh. The remaining executioners shot chaotically and over each other's shoulders until the room was so filled with smoke and dust that no one could see anything at all in the darkness nor hear any commands amid the noise. Alexey Kabanov, who ran onto the street to check the noise levels, heard dogs barking from the Romanovs' quarters and the sound of gunshots loud and clear despite the noise from the Fiat's engine. Kabanov then hurried downstairs and told the men to stop firing and kill the family and their dogs with their gun butts and bayonets. Within minutes, Yurovsky was forced to stop the shooting because of the caustic smoke of burned gunpowder, dust from the plaster ceiling caused by the reverberation of bullets, and the deafening gunshots. When they stopped, the doors were then opened to scatter the smoke. While waiting for the smoke to abate, the killers could hear moans and whimpers inside the room. As it cleared, it became evident that although several of the family's retainers had been killed, all of the Imperial children were alive and only Tatiana was injured.

The noise of the guns had been heard by households all around, awakening many people. The executioners were ordered to use their bayonets, a technique which proved ineffective and meant that the children had to be dispatched by still more gunshots, this time aimed more precisely at their heads. The Tsarevich was the first of the children to be executed. Yurovsky watched in disbelief as Nikulin spent an entire magazine from his Browning gun on Alexei, who was still seated transfixed in his chair; he also had jewels sewn into his undergarment and forage cap. Ermakov shot and stabbed him, and when that failed, Yurovsky shoved him aside and killed the boy with a gunshot to the head. The last to die were Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria (however, according to Yurovsky‘s note, Alexei, Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia who were the last to die), who were carrying a few pounds (over 1.3 kilograms) of diamonds sewn into their clothing, which had given them a degree of protection from the firing. However, they were speared with bayonets as well. Olga sustained a gunshot wound to the head. Maria and Anastasia were said to have crouched up against a wall covering their heads with pillows in terror until they were shot in the head. Yurovsky killed Tatiana and Alexei. Tatiana died from a single shot to the back of her head. Alexei received two bullets to the head, right behind the ear. Anna Demidova, Alexandra's maid, survived the initial onslaught but was quickly stabbed to death against the back wall while trying to defend herself with a small pillow which she had carried that was filled with precious gems and jewels. While the bodies were being placed on stretchers, Anastasia cried out and covered her face with her arm. Ermakov grabbed Alexander Strekotin's rifle and bayoneted her in the chest, but when it failed to penetrate he pulled out his revolver and shot her in the head.

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The image which was from the point of view of Anastasia ended, leaving the people in the room shock and horrified at what happen to the royal family, some weeping at the slaughter. The diplomats from the countries whose royal houses are blood relatives to the Russian royal family, would send reports of what happen that would weigh heavily on them.

“Anastasia Romanov died that day with her family. I was reborn with all of her memories thanks to the loyalty and devotion of Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin. He crafted a spell to bring the last member of the house of Romanov to die back to life, and paid the price that Baba Yaga ask for the spell to work. Now existing as a ghost serving the witch and myself,” the woman said.

“You were reborn?” Mehmed asked.

“It’s the reason why I look different from what I use to be. This isn’t the body of Anastasia, I have all of her memories and experiences up to the point of her death. You can’t just bring someone back to life without a body after all, Baba Yaga simply made a new one. It be like you die and all of the memories and experiences of what made you, you were to be put into a new younger body. A copy of the original with all the memories and experiences of the original,” the woman explains.

“You’re a copy of the real duchess?” Mehmed said.

“Yes, I have all of her memories and now like a twin of her. It’s so strange of living a life that I know I didn’t actually live, but still have the experience of all of it, she now lives through me. And is the reason why I came to your court sultan, I need an army to help me retake the throne. The Bolshevik will bring nothing but ruin to my country. Of course, I’m not asking for your help without anything in return, seeing how my so called family of other royal houses did nothing when father sent letters pleading with them to help us in our time of need. I see no reason, to stay on their side in this war. The allied ships that have blockade the port of Constantinople, I can handle. All I need from you is the Sword of Osman, lend it to me and I can summon Klabautermanns, water kobolds who can turn this war to your favor. The stories of the Russian ships that disappeared, was of my doing and these 3 women with me are 3 of them, Standart the royal yacht, Gangut the battleship, and Vpered the hospital ship. Gangut if you would, with that guard over there,” the copy said pointing to one of the guard holding a rifle. “Take his gun and shove the barrel in your mouth and fire.”

“What?” Mehmed asked as shock as everyone else.

“Gangut is not a human woman, she’s a Klabautermann the spirit of the battleship in human form. And she’s just as powerful as she is in her ship form,” the copy explains.

“Sure am,” Gangut said walking up to the guard who is shorter than she is and grabs the barrel and shoves it in her mouth.

“No stop!” the guard shouted as he tried to pull the rifle away but found he couldn’t, two other guards came to try to stop the crazy woman but she acted like they weren’t even there as she fires the rifle while it’s in her mouth.

Instead of the back of her head bursting, the woman Gangut just stood there and fired the rifle again and again, till there weren’t any more bullets in it. She then took the rifle from the stun guard and ate the rifle, to the onlookers it’s like watching someone quickly eating a long piece of bread. And she walks back to the side of the copy of the duchess.

“She can also summon her guns of her ship form whenever she wants,” the copy said.

Gangut summon her rig causing people around her to step back as two ship like mechanical shark like things appeared on either side of her. Both having glowing eyes and two turrets of triple guns on each are on their backs. And Gangut is now floating above the floor.

“Her guns have the same amount of firepower as if they would be at full size. Meaning unlike a full size battleship she can go on land and fight against inland targets while maintaining the firepower of a battleship. And with her being much smaller makes her much harder to hit her with something that would actually hurt her. I can preform the ritual to make your warships to become Klabautermanns and turn around the defeats into victories. Like the other Klabautermanns that are serving me and have taken care of the blockade of allied ships,” the copy said to Mehmed as she used the orb again to show what’s happening off shore.

The blockade of allied ships numbering 6 warships off the coast of the city, have been wipe out. The warships in human female form, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, Sevastopol, Voevoda, and Avrora have sunk all but 4 of the ships. One of the ships has both Voevoda, and Avrora as full-size battleships pinning the lone allied ship between them, sandwiching the ship and preventing it from using its guns. The copy crew are swarming all over the ship, and while they’re weaker, they’re still much stronger than normal human women and the small arms of the human crew aren’t effected on them with only heavily or many rounds hitting the copies to finally bring one of them down. The French flag of the ship was taken down and the Russian Empire flag was raised. The scene is copied by Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol, each with a ship of their own and their copy crew overrunning the ships.

“As full size ships, the crew are copies of their human form and are weaker but that’s only compared to their human form. They are still Klabautermanns and all can carry something like a heavy machine gun with ammo around, that no soldier could handle the amount of weight alone, for long anyways,” the copy.

Sultan Mehme sat in his throne deep in thought hearing the offer presented to him. Seeing how effected the Klabautermanns are and being able to easily capture 4 ships out of 6 is unheard of. The war has gone badly for him but if he were to accept the offer that could quickly change.

“And what do you want in exchange,” Mehmed ask.

“The Ottoman Empire is the heir of the Byzantine Empire which is the heir of the Roman Empire. I want you to give me the title of Empress of the Roman Empire,” the copy said.

“And become empress Romanov?” Mehmed asked wondering what she’s up to with just wanting a title.

“I’m not Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov. She died with her family and all blood ties she had with the other royal households died with her. I’m Sunset Shimmer Romanov,” Sunset said.

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Author's Note

1 - Blood Eagle an ancient form of torture and execution.

2 - The shipgirls are all have the strength of a warship and just as tough as the type of ship they are. Meaning that no one in the story that isn’t another shipgirl or has magic can take them head on. As this is the 1910’s and there isn’t anything like power armor or anything else that would allow a normal human to fight a shipgirl.

3 - The outfit of Anastasia Romanov from Drifters.