Sisia
~the beginning~
-help…-
-find me-
"Urgh…Lilli…Lilli…? Lilli!" My eyes flew open instantaneously, revealing the off-white ceiling of my boring bedroom. My chest heaved up and down continuously, my breathing heavy and my body trembling. I looked around and saw that the covers of my bed had been thrown onto the floor - it was quite obvious I'd been twisting around in my sleep.
I groaned and touched my temples, rubbing at them. I could feel lines of sweat that had run down my face and sighed. I'd been having odd dreams lately - if you could really call them dreams, that is. The dream itself was just darkness, but the voice of a classmate would ring over and over in my head, beckoning me to go find her.
"I can't believe it's been three months…" I muttered, tossing my legs over the side of my single bed and pushing myself off. I bent down to pick up the tangled blue sheets and neatly folded them back onto my bed before marching over to the closet and yanking out my school uniform clothes. Rather than living in the dorms that my school provided for the students, I stayed at my actual home with my older sister and our close family friends. It was kind of troublesome, having to walk through a forest to get to school and not living by anyone my own age, but I supposed it was better than sharing a room with someone else I probably wouldn't like.
I slipped on the uniform easily - white button-up long-sleeve shirt with a red tie and black slacks - while thoughts of Lilli ran through my head. She was a classmate of mine, and though I'd never been close to her - I'd never even talked to her, really - I had been planning on it, but…that never happened.
I stepped up outside of my room, only to be met with the sounds of Birgitte's - my sister's girlfriend, no matter how much she denies it - booming laughter and Tino's - a close family friend, and the object of affection of Berwald - squeals of embarrassment. Lilli - or, rather, Sisia - had disappeared three months ago, and my class had already spread the rumor that she was long dead, though I sincerely hoped that wasn't the case. She was a sweet little girl, though she was plain and went by unnoticed a lot of the time. I wasn't the kind of person who stuck to people - I didn't like people at all that much, really; I had troubles talking with others - but for some reason, she just…stuck out a bit to me, despite her being so normal and ordinary.
She hadn't come to school and she hadn't returned home ever since - and the sad thing was, not many people seemed to care. I stepped into the kitchen and swiftly avoided an oncoming flying pencil, courtesy of my lovely sister, and grabbed myself some sandwiches that had already been made from the countertop.
"Erik," my sister - Cathrine - called, ready to throw another sharpened pencil at me. "Are you leaving already?" I stole a quick glance at the clock on the wall and my eyes widened, my hand running through my silver-blonde hair quickly as I raced towards the front door and slipped on my school shoes. "Hey, Erik!"
"I'm going to be late!" I shouted, grabbing my backpack and tossing it over my shoulder. "See you!"
-find me…-
"So, class, yesterday..." As the teacher droned on, I propped my elbow up against my desk and stared out the window.
Was it really…Lilli? I asked myself, biting down onto my bottom lip. I heard my best friend, Elizabeta, let out a quiet, dreamy squeal - she was enamored with our teacher, Mr. Edelstein, as many other girls in the class seemed to be. I honestly didn't what was so great about him, but perhaps that was just me being a usual boy. The sound of chalk scraping across the board abruptly stopped, and footsteps came closer to me.
"Eiríkur…not paying attention to my teachings, now, are you?" I jumped up at the shock of him suddenly being by my side, his eyes glaring at me through his glasses. The other students broke out into fits of giggles, and I felt a warmness settle across my face.
"S-sorry, sir," I mumbled.
"Pay attention," he commanded, "this information is important for that test we're having later this week." He then strutted back up to the front of the class and continued on with his monotonous lecture. "Now, where did I leave off…?"
"Erik!" Elizabeta, my Hungarian best friend, pounced on me from behind, a cheery, optimistic look on her face. "Did you get a good look at Mr. Edelstein's new suit? It's amazing! It fits him so well!"
"Get off, Liza," I grumbled. Sometimes, her 'liking' of him went a little too far - it got really annoying, but she was still my best friend. "You've been trying to catch his attention all class so far…" She glared at me. "…Doesn't it get tiring?" I inquired. She blushed furiously.
"You can't blame me for falling for him," she answered back quietly. "He's…well…there's just something about him. Just be glad I'm not like those other girls, who really are obsessed over him and truly do stalk him." I shuddered.
"Point made." Liza's face suddenly brightened up, and she plopped down onto my desk.
"Hey, Erik! Did you hear the new rumor going around?" she asked. I arched an eyebrow. "They say that Mr. Edelstein has a hand fetish," she whispered softly, "and that's why all those girls over there are using hand cream in hopes of getting him to like them even more…" Another shudder racked my body and I lightly pushed Elizabeta.
"That's disgusting," I spat, tempted to reach into my backpack to pull out a book to read for break rather than sit and chat with Liza. "I didn't want - or need - to know that," I said, "and I don't really care." She giggled in a friendly, teasing manner.
"Ah, don't you have a crush on that Arthur boy?" My face paled, and I grabbed Liza's arm.
"I don't have a crush on him!" I protested. "I know what you're into, but I'm not into guys!" It only made her laugh harder.
"Sure, sure," Liza said, poking my cheek. "But there was that one guy…" My face turned beet red.
"There's been some paranormal scheiße going on around school lately," said a voice. Both Liza and I turned to face Maria, an albino girl in our class who was well-known for being the leader of the group of bullies that tormented various kids in the school. "It's getting really freaky!"
"Paranormal stuff doesn't exist," Arthur - a punk - spat, face scrunched in revulsion. "Total bullocks. How can you believe in those kinds of things?" Maria hmphed and crossed her arms, shifting further around in her chair.
"It really is true, and the awesome me always knows if things are bogus!" She leaned over to his desk, brushing back a few locks of her own white hair behind her ear. "There's this kid, right? Well, he got dragged away from the bathroom! No one's seen him since!" This earned a shocked gasp from Laura.
"The windows in the other hallway, where some middle school classes are held, broke suddenly, too," Vash - a rather socially awkward boy - inputted, though it came out grumpy-sounding.
"Ghosts don't exist," Arthur claimed. Laura - a busty, blonde, Belgian girl, who happened to be Arthur's girlfriend - scurried over to him, little tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
"I'm scared!" she cried out. There was a pause until Maria spoke up again.
"What if…what if this is Sisia's curse….?" she muttered.
"Shut up," Vash commanded immediately after. Maria glowered at him.
"Don't tell the awesome me what to do! Besides, it could make a bunch of sense! She's probably dead, after all, and everyone knows that ghosts can curse people!"
"Then it looks like you'll be next, Maria," Arthur said with an evil smirk. Maria jumped up in surprise.
"W-what? Why the awesome me? I didn't do anything!" she shouted.
"Well, you bullied Sisia a lot…" Laura pointed out quietly.
"Pfft, I never bullied her! I'm too awesome to bully people," she boasted. "I only played around a little with her. Besides, Arthur did worse to her than what I ever did! He's definitely next on her list!" Arthur shook his head.
"Yeah right. The girl looked up to me," he claimed.
"I-I'm scared!" Laura repeated, clinging to Arthur's arm. "She'll p-probably go after me…since I-I'm your girlfriend now…" she whispered, shaking all over.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you," Arthur said, pulling her closer. Laura giggled.
"You're so sweet, Artie!" Laura - more commonly called Bella - shouted.
"G-go get a room, you lovebirds!" Maria yelled at them.
"Heh heh, Lilli, oh, Lilli!" Arthur began dramatically, dropping out of his chair and holding his arms up towards the ceiling. "Please don't curse wee little me! The rest are fair game though, aha!" It was then that the room began to shake violently, and everything went dark, resulting in a startled yelp from Liza and her tumbling off of my desk.
"W-what in heavens is going on?" Arthur asked confusedly, worry audible in his heavily accented voice.
"M-maybe it r-really is Lilli's curse…" said Maria. "I mean, she really ought to be PO'd at us…"
"I-I was just fooling around," Arthur grumbled. I heard another echo, another cry for help.
-help…-
"E-Erik?" Liza asked from the ground, too shaken to get up. I slowly stood up from my chair, the bells going on and on in my head - was I really the only one who could hear Lilli desperately calling for help?
"Lilli?" I began walking away, leaving Liza screaming at me, asking me what the hell I was doing. "Lilli!" Maria, Arthur, and Bella shivered off to the side, surprised.
"That's it!" Maria exclaimed in a hushed whisper. "He's the next one!"
"She's calling me," I muttered, puzzled. Arthur shot up from his seat and stomped over to me, wildly shaking my shoulders.
"Eiríkur, you bloody wanker, shut the hell up! That's just crazy talk, no one here hears her voice but you!"
-find me…-
"L..Lill…i…" There was a high-pitched, shrill shriek, before I myself screamed and everything went dark.
Ah, eh heh…I don't feel like writing much of an author's note…
The POV is Iceland's - named Eiríkur, or Erik for short, Steilsson in this. Chapters shall be short and the story itself won't be long since the game isn't long.
The characters in this…their personalities are kind of changed big time. Like, they're complete and utter ASSHOLES in this. Just a forward warning.
Cathrine is Fem!Norway, Birgitte is Fem!Denmark, Tino is Finland, Berwald is Sweden, Elizabeta Héderváry is Hungary, Arthur Kirkland is England/UK, Maria Beilschmidt is Fem!Prussia, Mr. Edelstein is Austria, Alexandru is Romania, Angelique is Seychelles, Laura "Bella" is Belgium, Vash Zwingli is Switzerland…
This chapter is HEAVILY based off of a game. It's, like…almost exactly like it. The entire story is a Hetalia version of that game...
~~Moxie Rayne