Prologue: The Darkness Vanishes
AUTHOR'S NOTE: DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN HETALIA. THE CHARACTERS NOT IN THE ANIME HETALIA BELONG TO ME.
Deep in the depths of this foggy dream world, I had grown comfortable. I'd seen nothing, nor felt nothing for what felt like an eternity now. But once I started thinking of all of the memories that float around me, like orbs of light, and all of the people that mean the world to me... Mama... Luna... Romano... Papa... Perhaps, bit by bit, these bittersweet memories could lead me out. I would have cried, but I was at a point past sorrow. Just... Empty nothing. Sweet, sweet, nothing. I would have screamed, except there would have been no one to hear me. I had been utterly helpless for a long, lonely time.
Then it finally happened. I heard actual, familiar voices. Ones I thought I would never hear again.
"Romaaanoo... I feel siiickk..."
"It's your own damned fault for eating the hospital food, idiota! I swear, if you get sick I will NOT try and make you feel better. Humph."
"Come on, don't be cold. You know... She wouldn't like that."
"... How many times do we have to go through this? Spain... She's n-never fucking coming back!"
A period of deafening silence followed this. Was I back into the nothingness again?
"Romano, it's going to be okay, mijo. Please don't cry again..."
"Y-you're crying too, ya know..."
My hands, once numb and weightless, suddenly began to feel alive and tingling. I felt someone place their hands into mine. It was warm, trembling, and somewhat comforting. The first thing I had felt in a long time... It was truly a blessing...
Slowly but surely, I could feel the darkness surrounding me slowly dissolving away. I began to see blurred, almost obscured figures coming into view. In the center of my vision, however,a clear vision of a silvery-blue haired girl, who looked around eight years old, stood in front of me. She began to walk towards me, love and sorrow mixed in her eyes as tears fell from her cheeks. She placed her hands into mine, and whispered something I couldn't even make out. Then she started to disappear, and as she did tears fell from my cheeks as well, for I remembered who she was now. But I never had the time to say goodbye.
Through those distorted lines, I saw familiar emerald eyes... The eyes slowly became part of a loving, comforting face. It was... P-Papa... He opened his mouth to speak something, and as he said the words to me, I still heard the girl's voice echoing his.
"I've been waiting for you for the longest time... Welcome back, Aurora."