(Finn's POV)

Emilia lead me down the hallway and into a section of the place that was pretty tucked away, we arrive at a door that says "Storage".
She opened it to a room filled with crates and barrels, I recognized the crates from the day before the conflict.

"Um, why are we here?"

Emilia: Well... I was told to fetch more bottles and I..... can't find them.

"So you brought me to help you look for them."

Emilia: Pretty much.

"Sigh* Fine, ill help you look for them."

Emilia: Thank you!

She gives me a small hug, I blushed a little and hoped she didn't see it and thankfully she didn't.

"Anyways let's get this out of the way before they get more impatient."

We spent around for 10 minutes and we still haven't found the bottles, we spent that time looking in silence.

Emilia: You know that time when you saved me from those soldiers?

"Yeah, what about it?"

Emilia: You still haven't answered my question from that time.

Crap.

"Um... well you see, the thing is that it's complicated."

Emilia: How is talking about where you are from complicated?

Molotov: I can perhaps help with that.

i turned to the door way of the room and Molotov is leaning against the door frame with his arms crossed.

"What are you doing here?"

Molotov: What? can i not join in on the chat that you both were having?

Emilia: Um Finn, who is this?

Molotov: The actual question is who that guy next to you.

Emilia gives a confused look at Molotov wondering what he meant.

Molotov: Go ahead Finn, tell her who you are and where you are from. Or do you want me to do it for you?

"Molotov, i dont know what you are trying to do but i dont like it."

Molotov: So youre not going to tell her, Emilia was it? you want to know about where he is from and blah blah blah right? What if I were to tell you that his country is responsible for murde-.

"Molotov I swear if you say that."

Molotov:What? You're gonna shove me into a gas chamber? Starve and work me to death? Separate families and when they are too weak to even sit up throw them into a giant furnace and turn them to ashes?

Emilia: Finn, please don't tell me it's true.

Molotov:Oh it's all true, his country killed almost six million people and almost took over an entire continent in the span of a few years.

"Shut up."

Molotov: Or what?

I punched him in the face, but he recovered quickly and grabbed me by the neck and picked me against the wall. Even though we were the same height he was the person that would beat my ass.

Molotov: You really piss me off, I should've killed you earlier.

I tucked one of my legs and extended it at his chest which made him go backwards, I dropped to the floor gasping and coughing.

Emilia: Stop! You're gonna get hurt! No!

I look up to see Molotov in the process of swinging down a black bottle and I move to the side before he could get a direct hit, he missed but not by a lot because the bottle hit me on the side of the head which stunned me.

Emilia: STOP!

Crash!

I look up to see what happed and to my surprise I saw Emilia with wooden 3 ft 2x4 and Molotov was holding his head against the wall, the bottle that he was holding hit the ground spilling its contents on the cold stone floor in a pool of its contents and glass.

Molotov: I had forgotten how much those hurt, AGH my head!

Emilia: Are you both fighting?

Molotov: Yeah, I had enough. Forget what I was talking about earlier, I need a drink.

He grabbed hit canteen that was hanging from his side and started drinking as he walked out the door.

Molotov: Nothing like good old vodka.

He was gone.

"Thanks again, that's the second time that you saved me."

Emilia: Did you do that?

"Do what?"

Emilia: The things he mentioned about your country, did you have any part in it?

"No, the Panzer divisions don't have anything to do with it. We were mainly needed in fighting the USSR, which is Molotov's home country."

She averted her eyes away from me as if pondering about the topic.

Emilia: As long as you didn't have anything to do with it it's ok, I believe you.

"Thank you."

I stood up and looked at a open crate, probably where the Molotov got the bottle. I looked inside and after a closer look, it was the bottles we were looking for.

Emilia: That's....

"The were right in front of us, we spent all that time all the way on the other side of the room."

We took the bottles to where they were needed, and soon parted ways. When I came back to the main part of where most of every ones was, it was the same apart from one difference. Ivan and Arran were doing an arm wrestle which had the attention of a good amount of people, Dimitri and Peter were playing some sort of accuracy game and Lucas and Aleksei were having an eating contest. Molotov was flirting with some of the waitresses and Vincent was talking with Wilhelm.

"I need a break."

(Morning)

When my senses came back they were not great, my vision was blurry and my memories were hazy at best. I then realized I was in a bed in a room made of stone with a one window and one door.

"What the? Where am I?"

I tried to get up but something stopped me. Confused I look to my left and I could feel my face turn red, next to me was Emilia sleeping the world away.

"Umm.... What in the heck!"

Emilia: Shut up....... too loud......

"I don't think that's the problem here!"

She put her arm over my face.

Emilia: Nnoying!........

"Wake up!"

I tried to get up but she held on tighter, now her face was closer.

"Ok now this is getting worse."

I tried rolling off the bed which worked, I looked at my attire which was a mess but still had the important parts to it still in place. I looked back at the bed, she stayed sleeping somehow after all of that. I saw a bucket half full of water that was next to the bed, I made sure that it wasn't something else that looked like water.

"This is for your good so please forgive me."

I threw the water that was on the bucket at her face, she panicked and sat up confused.

Emilia: What was that for!?

"You wouldn't let me go!"

Emilia: What do you mean that I di-

She realized what I meant and her face turned red.

"Anyways what happened yesterday? All I remember is me grabbing a drink and nothing else."

Emilia:That's what happened, that drink is know for knocking out light weights after one sip. You passed out and dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes, they told me to bring you here.

"Now why were we in the same bed?"

Emilia:I uh...

Lucas:(in the distance) Every one wakey eggs and bakey, the prince wants to talk with us eight.

"Forget it, we need to get out of here before someone sees us."

After we fixed ourselves up, we walked out of the room. At the same time Molotov left the room he was in with 2 of the waitresses.

Molotov:Morning, man I'm tired.

"I guess you had fun?"

Molotov: Yeah.

"Hurry because the Prince wants to talk with us."

Molotov: I'm comin.

Emilia and I parted ways when we got outside, she went home and I went to the Jäger. Everyone was already there, Marco was petting Choco, Lucas was checking everything was in place, Arran was inside getting rid of the empty shells and  Peter was cleaning the tracks.

"Morning."

Lucas: Took you long enough, anyways we need to go now.

We met up with the Moskva crew and went to the town hall and in the conference room was the prince shuffling with papers.

Prin. Vincent: Oh, hello there. Good morning, this is everybody right?

"Yes this is everyone."

Prin. Vincent: Great, now the reason why I wanted to speak with you is because I have explanation for the recent conflict. What happened was that the General Kraos acted on his own, 2 months ago Valkyrian Empire's council voted to relive him of his duty as general due to his questionable ethics and ideals. Soon after this, he left to a remote region but due to his influence he had many loyalists who followed him. After that I think you all know what happened.

Molotov: That guy just couldn't keep quiet could he?

Prin. Vincent: Well that aside, theres one more thing i want to show you.

He took a rolled up piece of paper along with a bag of some kind.

Prin. Vincent: For your aid in times of need, I give this land deed and a bag with gold and silver coins.

After that, we gave the Prince our thanks and decided to look at the land he gave us. We returned to our tanks and began preparing for the journey, people heard of the news that we were leaving and some came to thank us and others wished us safety. Along with the rolled up paper that had a seal was a map and a note, I opened the note which said:

I humbly ask to not break the seal on the land deed until you have gotten around 5 miles from the city. You are to depart through the western gate of the city and down Clemmets highway, once after 5 miles you can open the land deed.

Farewell. - Vincent

I have a bad feeling about this.

2 Hours later

We got everything ready to go and we are now for the Russians to give us the green light.

"Molotov are you all done?"

Molotov: Almost there, we are just loading the last 2 crates of booze.

"How much do you have?"

Molotov: We got around 4 crates outside and 1 inside.

"Why do you need so much?"

Molotov: There will be a time where you will see.

I shrugged it of as drunk thinking or something, as I was looking at the map I heard someone approaching and saw Emilia.

Emilia: Hey.

"Hey."

Emilia: Well, I guess you are leaving?

"The Prince gave us land and we are gonna take a look at it and probably settle there over there."

Emilia: My mom sent me to give you these basket of bread.

"Ah, thank you."

!

I felt a something touch my cheek and when I turned Emilia was already leaving.

"....."

Peter: Hey Finn, you ready!

"Y-yeah!"

i climbed into the turret and everything was in order and put my head set on.

" Ready Molotov?"

Molotov: As ready as the Stalin will ever be for the winter.

"Whatever, ignite engines.

The engines roared to life creating lines of smoke through the exhausts as the pistons created torque.

"FORWARD!"

And so, the next arc begins for these tankers.