Germany breathed in the cool ocean air as he leaned against the rail of the ship. This was the first bit of relaxing he had since he first walked onto the ship. Italy constantly kept him going. He looked out at the blue sky and water, that almost merged together at the horizon.
"Germany! Germany! I see something!" The walkie-talkie at his hip began yelling at him in Italy's voice. He was starting to regret putting Italy on guard as a look out. Fish or slightly oversized wave, it would get Italy to yell for help, but it was the only job Germany could think of that Italy could not destroy something while working.
"It's probably nothing. Is it blue?" Germany sighed and let go of the button.
"No! It's not blue! It's land!"
Land? But we are in the middle of the ocean... "Alright, I will be right there." Germany told his friend and rushed off to where Italy was posted. Italy was holding a telescope in place.
"Look! Look through it!" Italy said and rushed away before Germany could say another word. He sighed and looked through the telescope. All he could see was ocean, like he could from the deck. Until he moved it around, and he saw an uncharted island in the distance. Germany jumped back in surprise. He looked at the island again to confirm he was not just seeing things.
Germany rushed down to the deck to begin giving orders to his subordinates. Instead, he found Italy waving his white flag like his life depended on it.
"Miss! There is a ship approaching Euphrasia! They don't seem to have any plans to turn." The soldier reported to his boss, Clodie Fort.
"Well, we knew this day would be coming, didn't we? Let's see."
"Yes, ma'am." He nodded and led Clodie to the surveillance room, where the live video feed from their own telescope could be seen.
"What's that at the top? Zoom in." Clodie commanded, the soldier did so, for them to realize it was someone waving a white flag, "They may not wish to retreat, but they surrender instead? This is interesting. Gather a troop to accompany me to meet their leader." Clodie told him. He nodded and rushed out of the room, leaving Clodie to watch the person with the white flag be tackled by another, in a different uniform.
The ship was allowed to dock at Euphrasia's only port, they claimed to be peaceful. Clodie believed that trust was the first thing she should demonstrate when meeting another country. Clodie stood with about fifty other men and woman as she waited for a portion of the intruders to come meet them on land.
A man with blonde hair led his own troop off of the ship. He was followed by a shorter, brown-haired fellow, who carried a white flag.
"We are sorry to have intruded on your land. We had no idea there was any land here." The blonde man greeted Clodie with a handshake, she recognized him as Germany, Ludwig Beilschmidt. His comrade with the white flag was none other than North Italy, Feliciano Vargas.
"We do not mind, in fact you are free to stay in Euphrasia as long as you like. As long as you do not decide to invade it," Clodie smiled, "You are … German, are you not?" Clodie decided to hold off on the country thing, seeing as there was too many normal humans with them.
"Yes." Germany said, a little stunned she knew.
"And you are Italian, yes?" Clodie walked over to the boy in the blue uniform, he panicked and started yelling.
"I surrender! Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything!" Italy yelled as Clodie waltzed back to Germany, giggling.
"Who are you?" Germany wondered.
"Oh, excuse me. I'm Clodie Fort. Welcome to Euphrasia."
Germany and Italy's troops stayed aboard their ship for the night, but Germany and Italy themselves were welcomed into Clodie's home for the night to get to know the country a bit better. Clodie cooked pasta to suit Italy's taste for dinner. She piled it onto a plate and set it in front of him, then sat next to her own plate.
"This looks delicious! Much better than the food we ate on the ship!" Italy said happily as he began digging into his pile of pasta.
"Yes, this looks very good." Germany agreed.
"It's nothing, really." Clodie said then put a forkful of pasta in her mouth.
"So, how come we have never heard of … Euphrasia before?" Germany wondered.
"We didn't want to initiate contact yet, we knew one of the countries might invade us, create a war, take our technologies, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah." Clodie told him.
"You obviously knew of our existence. How? If you had never been out of your home country?"
"Our technology is a bit more advanced than yours. We've never had a war to distract us."
"I see."
The three sat in silence for most of their meal, excluding Italy's noises of happiness due to being off of the ship at last. At the end, Germany and Italy helped Clodie bring the dishes to her kitchen and left for their rooms. Before they did so, they decided to thank Clodie.
"Thank you for your hospitality." Germany bowed his head politely.
"Yeah, thanks! Your cooking is delicious!" Italy agreed quickly.
"Oh, it's no problem, Germany. And thank you, Italy!" Clodie smiled cheerfully.
Germany cocked his head in confusion. "Germany? Italy?"
Clodie laughed at him, "You haven't figured it out?" Germany shook his head, Italy did the same, clueless as to what he was supposed to figure out. "I'm Euphrasia!"
FYI! The name Euphrasia is actually from the book "A kiss in time" I liked it and figured I might as well use it in a fanfic rather than use my own!
Thanks for reading (sorry its a bit short) and comment to say how you like it so far!