Hello again! It's me, Tatertwig45! All my years of writing Cinderella stories and this is my first Hetalia: Axis Powers story. It is my first story in my point of view and it is not just about Prussia, but many other countries are in this too.( I am switching my point of view in this chapter) It is almost summer and school is almost out! Yay! So just read and review! Please!
Note: I do not own Hetalia or its characters. But I wish I owned Prussia! (I can't remember the author's name)
Daughter of a Country
Ch 1
(My POV)
Flip Flip, Flip
"This is so boring!" I said angrily as I was doing homework in my room, flipping an atlas, looking at maps. I had to do a project on the country that my teacher had chosen for me in Western Europe and so far, I found nothing. I stopped flipping when I reached a close-up view of Europe in the 17-1800's. Smiling, I saw the country I knew from the anime I had been introduced to by my friend osaka-chan4. Prussia. Prussia was my favorite character and cute as well. My favorite character had been Germany, Prussia's little brother, but I had changed my mind when I saw the grey-haired, crimson-eyed country.
As I read the last paragraph of the page about Bismarck, I began to yawn, closing the book and went to change into my pajamas, flipping my brown hair and throwing the book on the bed. The page flipped back open to the map of Prussia as it landed, making an eerie red glow around the country that didn't seem natural. Humming along to some song that I had heard, I went and washed my face and was almost about to get into bed when I noticed the glow. I went closer, a puzzled expression on my face as my blue eyes widened, and looked down at it. Suddenly, I felt a force suck me into the book like a vacuum, whizzing through the pages and words until they were all a blur as I landed on the ground, scraping my arm in the process. As I got up, nursing my arm, I looked around in puzzlement.
What is this place? I thought. Where am I and how did I get here?
All around me were thatched-roofed houses, dirt roads, people lighting fires to roast food, then in the distance, back behind the sides of the last two houses which were facing each other, I saw a black gate with a pathway leading over some hills. Before I could see what it led to, I heard an angry voice behind me.
"Girl! Who are you and what are you doing here?"
I turned around and saw two black armor-clad guards looking at me with angry expressions. They started walking towards me, finally reaching me. I stared at them, still confused about where I was and how I got here.
"I-I am Taylor and I don't know how I got here. I am wishing to go back to my own time and I was wondering if you two would tell me where I am." I explained.
"WHAM!" Falling to the ground, my vision became dots as my head started to throb painfully. I felt myself being picked up, my hands being held behind my back, and my chin lifted up to face the angry man in front of me.
"Spy! How dare you trick us with this 'future' nonsense! Who do you work for?" he growled.
I glared at the guard, tears dripping from the corners of my eyes. "How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not a spy!" At the last word, I rammed my elbow into the gut of the guard that was behind me, who grunted in shock, letting me go.
The other guard tried to reach me but I tripped him and jumped over, running off down the road towards the gate to the castle. I got five miles down before I heard my pursuers getting up and running after me, yelling for other guards to come and catch me. As I got close to it, about twenty guards or so blocked my way so that I had to skid to a stop, turning the other way, and leaping up into the air over them with hands trying to reach me.
Once I set foot on the ground, I high-tailed it towards the outside of the village, running as fast as I could. The vegetable and fruit stands looked like a blur as I was darting in and out of them. I felt like I was flying because I was going so fast, smiling because no one could catch me. People had to move out of the way, pushing their carts or grabbing their children. Behind me, the guards were shoving people or scaring animals, namely chickens, trying to get to me. I saw some that were lithe and slender, dodging people as they were running while the big burly guards, like the ones that had stopped me earlier, were trundling along, moving or shoving people out of the way.
"CRASH!" My eyesight faded into colorful dots as I felt sticky liquid run down my face, my nose painfully throbbing, as was my head. Opening my eyes, as I had closed them in shock, I saw and felt that I had run into a horizontal pole. But I had no time to think about that right now as I quickly stood up where I was, a crowd of people standing around me with widened eyes and their hands to their mouths.
Suddenly I was stopped by two of the slender guards jumping over me, landing in front, and blocking my way, while two other guards came from behind. I went into a fighting stance, wondering how many I could take down with me as blood was still running from my wound, my body trembling from fast-paced running.
"We've caught you now, girl." One of them said as he grinned.
I proceeded to escape but it was futile as the guards came around, hands reaching for me. Finally I just gave up, as I was too tired to run any longer and let them tie my hands around my back and wrap chains around me so that I would not get away. I was cursing my bad luck as I was carried over one of the burly guard's shoulders down the way that I had came, up to the gate, through it, and along the pathway, seeing that it led to a black castle with a flag-lined walkway to the door. They were the most peculiar flags as they were white with two black bands on the ends and a black falcon in the middle, stretching its wings.
We were stopped by one of the guardsmen as we went up to the door of the castle. I heard them exchange a few words, one about "he is not in a good mood." Then the guard that wasn't holding me went over to the large dark oak door and pulled it open by one arm.
I gasped in amazement. Wow. He's strong!
I was stopped in my thoughts by feeling myself being shifted over to another guard, who carried me the same way through another door, through a long series of passages, finally reaching a large spacious room, lined with marble columns and tapestries with black falcons in between every two columns. Leading down the middle of the black-and-white checkered floor that covered the room was a red carpet with red and black tassels. I saw at the very end of the room was a magnificent throne, black and red, with wooden falcon's heads for the armrests, and two female servants that looked oddly familiar, like I had seen them somewhere, serving fruit and pouring what looked like beer into a black goblet that was being held up.
I could not see so far down, but as I was brought closer, I gasped in surprise at the figure in the throne. It was a man with short grey hair, crimson eyes, pale skin, and a smirk on his face. He was wearing a revolutionary red and blue uniform with a white sash across it, tan breeches, black boots, white gloves and a black hat with gold lining around the crown. Pinned to it was a red carnation, and a white plume topped it all off. Draped around his shoulders was a gigantic red cape, which was around the throne also. His amusement grew as the guard dropped me at his feet.
"Who is this?" he asked the guard, who bowed. "Don't tell me you brought another peasant that has stolen something from one of the peddlers?"
"Lord Prussia, this girl is a spy, maybe from the resistance. She wouldn't give us any information and…" the guard started but was stopped by Prussia holding up his hand.
"Quiet!" Prussia snapped. "Let me speak to her." He then glanced at me with his red eyes in a sneer of contempt. "Tell me child, what is your name and are you as he says you are?" The "he" was emphasized by him looking at the guard who was already trembling with fear.
I shook myself of the guard and stood up to face Prussia, looking him directly in the eyes as he stared back. "I am not a spy or any part of this "resistance" you talk about. I am simply a girl who has no idea how she got here or even where I am." I made a gesture at my clothes. "Does this look like peasant clothing to you?"
I thought that the country would be angry, but he gazed at me for a moment. After about a minute I heard him chuckle… my explanation was amusing to him!
"First of all you are in the Republic of Prussia. I conquered all of the nations of the world and so now everything belongs to me. Second, you cannot return to wherever you came from so you cannot get back. I could help you with that. Finally you do not have a birth certificate, so I am offering for you to stay with me until you can get one and go back." He smiled as he held out his hand. "Do we have a deal?"
I looked at the hand with uneasiness, then turned up my nose with a snobbish look as I shook my head. "I refuse. I will not stay here."
As I said those words, I heard him laugh, a cold laugh. "Oh you won't? Well then…" he put his head close to my ear and whispered, "You will die by execution or else rot in the dungeons. That is what happens with those that do not have actual proof that they are from here, or else refuse my offers." He withdrew from my ear, leaving me with chills going up and down my spine. I saw the hand again. "So, do we have a deal?"
Part of me wanted to seal the deal just to get back home, but another part of me felt like there was something more going on in Prussia's head than just being helpful, like a dark aura had engulfed him. I pondered the decision for a while, reluctantly after, holding out my hand and shaking his.
Withdrawing my hand from his grasp, I saw him smile, like someone who had won something. But what was the prize? No longer had I had my thoughts, I was suddenly broken out of them by the doors to the room opening and two maids entered, bowing to Prussia.
"We have a guest," Prussia explained to them "So make her feel welcome and take her to one of the guest rooms that has been prepared for her."
"Of course My Lord." They replied. They came up beside and escorted me out of the room. As we were coming out, a woman with long blonde hair, a dark blue and white dress on and a gigantic blue bow in her hair walked past us with two maids at her sides. I saw her look at me in shock, then in pure hatred as we both passed by each other.
"What's her problem?" I wondered
(Normal POV)
Prussia was still in the throne room when the woman with long blonde hair entered. She came up to him, kneeled down at his feet, and stood up when her chin was lifted to face him.
"Darling, I saw a young girl being escorted by the maids out of the throne room. Who is she?"
"The girl is from another era, Belarus, and I am 'helping' her get back to it. She will be staying here until she gets her birth certificate." Prussia paused as he grinned. "But I also have another plan in mind."
"Oh." Belarus, Prussia's wife, answered with a sly look on her face as she slid up closer to Prussia, who put his hand around her waist and kissed her on the cheek "And what is that, I wonder?"
"You might be angry if I told you dearest, but I am thinking about turning that girl into our new daughter. Her 'birth certificate' would be finished and she is adorable, not pretty, but cute." Prussia explained. "Besides, our sons would love to have a new sister, and you would love to have a daughter that you could spend time with instead of being alone in the castle with only the maids."
Belarus thought about what her husband had just said, then smiled. "I think that is a wonderful plan. But how are you going to convince her?"
A smirk came to Prussia's face as he sat down in his throne and took a sip from his wine glass. "She will need no convincing. In fact she won't know what is happening until after the 'process' is complete. She will be turned into our perfect little angel, and be weak and helpless, having to have the maids take care of her, and you and I of course."
He leaned close to Belarus's ear and proceeded to whisper the plan to her. "It will be simple. First…."
Yay! The first chapter! I need your reviews! Please! So you have met some of the main characters. A couple of them will be making appearances in latter chapters and will be in the rest of the story. I will be writing more during the summer because schools out in just a week and I am going to be a senior! Almost out! So I shall see you in the next chapter!
~Tatertwig45
