Chapter 1 To the Kingdom of Sparkle

Me: Ishouldn'thaveIshouldn'thaveIshouldn'thave!

K.C.: Then why did you do this?

Me: Because! I have NO idea what to type for Time Hearts and Hetaoni Killer is taking forever!

Tara: Then why did you make this?

Me: Well, the three stories I'm working on is going to be less chapters, but a LOT of words. Oh! And the people reading this, this is put in the future when some nations have families. Won't say who though, just read the story and fine out!

Emillee: Enjoy!

It was a beautiful day in the city of London. Not a cloud in the sky! And a breeze was barely blowing, and the birds were chirping. Yep, perfect!

In the home of the Kirkland's, an odd guest has just arrived. Saying that she knew their mother and father.

What's odd about her you say? Her eyes and hair are a very strange color and she was very pale. Her hair goes down to the center of her back, and her bangs were very messy. Her eyes are a sharp gold and her hair was silver!

Her clothes were normal, just a simple black t-shirt, a white hoodie, and dark blue jeans. She wore a little odd boots; the toe of the boots was an aqua color and had

a white-dark blue strip going up the boot and ended on a red gem. (A/N look up Silver the Hedgehogs boots, those are it)

The children of Kirkland don't want to be rude, so they invited her in. When she introduced herself, her name was odd too!

Raven Alisteir Thoreson.

The four children let her stay for a little bit, the children? Merlin, Shaymith, Miku, and Mika.

Raven looks around the room a little and says, "This is a really nice place, Merlin. Where are your parents right now?"

Merlin turns his head and looks back to his cooking, "Don't know, they said they were going to a world meeting. But they haven't come back yet."

"… So, why are you here?" Miku asks Raven, Miku and her twin Mika are very easy to tell the difference; Miku has yellowish-blond hair and acts more brave and tom-boyish. Mika on the other hand, has reddish-orange hair and acts all innocent and nice. And she also carries around a panda bear named Pokka.

Raven looks over to Miku, "For reasons."

Miku's eyebrows furrow together, Mika looks over to her sister, "Miku, don't be rude."

Miku sighs, "Sorry." But continues to glare daggers at Raven.

Raven just ignores the 12-year old. Shaymith stares at the sword sheath on Raven's belt; the handle was a vivid gold and has a gem on it and the sheath was a midnight black with some mysterious designs.

"The foods done." Merlin says, he walks over to the table and sets a large plate down.

"All right!" Mika cheers gleefully, "Thank you Merlin!"

Shaymith fist pumps the air, "Hell yeah, it's my favorite!"

Everyone sweats drops, "Well then," Raven says, picking up a plate, "Time to eat."

"~Nee nee Papa. Wain wo choudai. Nee nee Mama, nee nee Mama. Mukashi ni boroneezeino~

Everyone looks at Raven oddly, "That's your phone." Miku points out.

Raven sighs, "Yeah, I can hear it." Raven rummages through her back jean pocket and takes out a heartless-and-nobody designed cell phone, presses a button and pulls it up to her ear. "Ello? Raven here."

The phone stays silent, "Eh? Ello?"

"It's a prank call," Miku snaps, "Just hang up the phone."

It stays silent, but a voice starts speaking on the other side of the call.

"… R… Raven?" an Italian voice says.

Raven gasps, "Oh! It's my Uncle Feliciano!"

"Wait," Merlin stops her, "What?"

"That's our Uncle Italy." Shaymith points out.

Raven looks at them funny, "No way, this is my Uncle Italy. Well… he's not really my uncle."

"He isn't ours either, but…" Mika takes a deep breath, "Mama wanted us to call him Uncle."

"Hey," Raven asks the phone, "what's going on with you?"

The phone stays silent, "Ello?" Raven repeats.

"What's wrong with him?" Mika asks in worry, holding her bear closer.

"Maybe the reception sucks." Miku says.

"Uncle," Raven says, "I'm putting you on speaker phone." Raven pushes a button and puts the phone on the table, "Can you hear us?"

Shaymith looks at the screen, "The call is still connected…"

It stays silent, but they hear another voice in a German accent, "W-what the hell is that?!"

"H-he's heading this way!" an English voice yells.

Miku and Mika gasp, "Papa!"

"Crap!" an American voice also yells.

They hear a doorknob jiggle violently, "The doors are locked…" a Russian voice says.

"I-I… I'm scared, Raven…" an Italian voice stutters.

Raven starts to panic, "No need to say that! We're coming after you! Where are you guys now?!"

"W-we're…!"

"Get down!" a female voice screams.

The phone goes dead, "The line…!" Mika says.

"What the hell is going on…?" Merlin curses.

The house starts shaking rapidly, the children jump to their feet and feel themselves falling.

"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

They hit the ground with a hard and loud THUMP!

"Ow…" Raven says while rubbing her head, "that was strong…"

Merlin gets up to his feet, "Is everyone all right?"

"I'm okay." Miku states while helping her twin up. "The house seems to be stabilized…"

"W-what's going on?" Mika stutters, squeezing her bear tighter.

Raven looks around the room, "Um, do you ever get earthquakes?"

"As far as I'm concerned," Merlin says, "no we don't."

"Do you think this has something to do with what happened to the others?" Mika asks.

"Well," Raven sighs while getting up, "I say it is. Come on, guys. If the earthquake was this close, they shouldn't be that far off."

Shaymith jumps to his feet, "Yeah!"

Raven and the others exit the house and go outside. They all gasp, "What the hell?!" Raven yelps.

"Uh, Pokka," Mika asks, "I don't think we're in London anymore."

"Dude," Shaymith asks Merlin, "how the hell do you redecorate the entire city?!"

"Why are you asking me?" Merlin snaps, he scratches the side of his head, "This isn't my doing. This has to be related to that earthquake…"

Mika looks up to her brother, "Why do you say that?"

"There's some faint use of magic in the air…" Merlin answers.

"Whatever it is," Miku snaps, "we're not safe talking about it here. I say we go to that city right over there." Miku points to the east.

Raven looks at the direction Miku was pointing at and nods, "Yeah…"

The group goes down to the city, and enters in it. They look around and ask some people where they were. The answer was "The Kingdom of Sparkle."

They search through various shops and now are in the Pub. There were two kids at the counter, Raven gasps and runs over to them.

"Mercury! Grayer!" she yells in excitement.

The duo turns around in surprise, "Raven?" they say in unison.

Raven stops in front of them, "What are you two doing here?!"

Mercury was about to answer, but looks at the people behind Raven, "Who are they?"

"Oh, these are my new friends." She points to each person, and names them, "This is Merlin, Shaymith, Miku, and Mika."

Mercury smiles and waves, "Hi! I'm Mercury. Mercury Marine Thoreson."

Grayer stays silent and just stares at them, Raven sighs, "Grayer, say something."

Grayer shacks his head and smiles sheepishly, "Sorry, I'm Greyer. Greyer Maurice Thoreson."

Merlin looks at Raven, "So, these two your brother and sister?"

Raven nods, "Yep."

"But, they don't look like it." Shaymith points out.

It was true, why? Their hair color was a chocolate-walnut brown and their eyes were a sharp blue. They looked exactly like each other, but Mercury's hair was a little longer and it cupped under her cheeks.

Raven sighs, "Does everyone say that?"

Mercury nods, "Yep, but this the twentieth time. Not that much I say."

Grayer sweat drops, "Uh-hun."

"Oh! And Raven?" Raven looks at Mercury, "Did you find Mom yet?"

Raven slowly shacks her head, "No…"

Mercury and Grayer look down to the ground, "Oh… I see…"

Grayer looks back up to Raven and asks, "What are you doing here anyway?"

"We don't know." Merlin answers.

"Well," Shaymith says, "Whatever the case is, being separated isn't going to work in this realm. I say a team-up is recommended here."

"Yeah, I agree." Raven says, "Mercury?"

She and Grayer nod, so does the others, "It's settled!" Shaymith yells in excitement, "We got a team!"

Miku sighs, "So now what do we do?"

"We already checked up the town." Grayer says, "Past some generic things, we haven't seen anything that could be of help."

"There was a castle nearby," Mika points out, "Maybe that's a better place to look?"

Raven shrugs, "I'm all for that."

When they exit the Pub, Shaymith remembers something, "Hey, I just realized something!"

Raven turns to him, "What is it, Shaymith?"

"Oh wait! Wait… wwwwaaaaiitt… GOT IT! We need weapons!"

"Weapons?" everyone says in unison.

"Yeah, weapons! If we are in a strange and magical world, there are bound to be monsters here!"

The Thoreson trio sighs, "We already have weapons." They say.

Shaymith jumps, "Whoa! Really?!"

Raven sighs again, "Our Mom has given us blade related weapons. Mercury has twin daggers and Grayer has a bow and arrow."

"I don't see a bow or arrows on him." Miku says.

Grayer grins and yanks a bow from the back of his shirt and an arrow was loaded into it. He points it in front of Miku, "Convinced?"

Miku gulps, "Y-yeah."

He puts it away and grins evilly. Raven shacks her head a little, "And I have our family sword. Now let's get going."

The group had finally made to the castle, after going shopping for weapons and meets a girl with purple hair, who was panicking.

"Oh god, oh god… what are we going to do now?! Oh man, where are the back-ups?!"

"What's going on?" Mika asks.

The girl jumps in surprise, "Oh goodness… please tell me that you're the back-ups that I've been hearing for the past half hour?!"

"Um…" Mercury thinks for a minute.

"Yes! Yes we are!" Mercury snaps her head to Raven.

"Eh?" Grayer says in confusion.

The girl calms down a little, "Oh thank goodness! I was worried you would never show up! That evil king started attacking again! He brought a brand new army and swarmed all the guards like they were nothing! The ones that were left were ordered to get out as many survivors as we can, but the thing is…"

The girl looks down, "I was told to wait here for the back-up to arrive and help the rest of the survivors that might be inside."

"I see…" Merlin says.

The girl starts waving her arms around, "That's the problem! That was supposed to be half an hour ago!"

Mika looks up to the girl with a determined look, "We'll go get the survivors then!"

The girl jumps, "W-what?!"

"We got an entire crowd of soldiers here." Merlin says, "I think we can handle the army ourselves."

"You go ahead and wait for any escorted survivors to head your way," Mercury says, "Once we get all of them, meet your guys up at whatever you're heading."

The girl smiles a little, "T-thank you all."

Raven unsheathes her sword, "You guys ready?"

"As I'll ever be!" Mika says clutching her bear closer.

"Lead the way Raven." Merlin says.

Raven and the others had got all the survivors out and killed all the enemies.

"*Pant* *pant* *pant*" Raven pants.

Mercury looks around the perimeter, "That's all of the survivors. Shall we head back?"

Shaymith nods his head, "We should. I'm feeling kinda beat, right now… too much fighting!"

"Though I have to wonder…" Miku says, "Human monsters?"

Grayer turns pale, "Maybe they were talking about lamia (vampires) or demons and stuff like that?"

"I say we wonder about this with a nice cup of tea back at our house, right?" Shaymith asks.

Raven nods, "Agreed, but… why tea?"

The group was about to exit, but was stopped by a roar. Raven whooshes her head back and forth, "What the hell was that?!"

Grayer grabs on to Mercury's arm, "It's heading this way!"

A monster drops from the sky and lands in front of the group, exclamation marks appear on top of everyone's head.

"The hell?!" Miku yells in surprise.

Mercury grabs onto Grayer, "That must be the demon we were wondering about…"

Raven's eyebrows furrow, she holds her sword tightly, "We can do this! I know we can!"

"Let's go!" Merlin yells.

Miku, Raven, Merlin, and Shaymith go attack the monster while Mika, Mercury, and Grayer run for cover.

"There's something odd about this monster…" Raven says.

Merlin looks over to Raven, "You sense it too?"

"It feels… familiar." Miku says.

GaRoOoOoOoO…!

Miku looks at the monster in surprise, "Wait… I think I heard this before…!"

GaRoOoOoOoO…!

GaHhHhHhHhHhH!

H… help… me…

Miku gasps, "Uncle Alfred?!"

Gah… ah…!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Merlin grits his teeth, "Here it comes…!"

Merlin strikes the monster with his sword, Shaymith hits the monster with his ax, and Miku stabs it with elbow-blades.

The monster hits Raven and she hits the ground, "Ah… o-ow…"

… Ra… ven…

"Argh…" Raven groans, "Feliciano…?"

I can't…! I can't…! Stop me, please…! Why…?!

Shaymith and Merlin strike the monster again, Miku runs to Raven's aid, "Ya alright?"

Raven gets up and stabs her sword in the ground, putting all her weight on it, "Y-yeah. I'm fine…"

GaRoOoOoOoO…!

Shaymith groans, "What is it this time?!"

"Wait a minute…" Raven says, "That was a different voice from the first one!"

I'm… I'm… scared…

"I know that voice…" Shaymith says, "Uncle Feliciano!"

Miku's eyes widen, "Both Uncle Alfred… and Feliciano?!"

"What the heck is going on…?" Merlin asks.

Miku strikes and the monster falls down, "Yes! Now Raven! While it's down!"

"RAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Raven jumps in the air and faces her sword downwards, "Eat THIS you son of a BITCH!"

She stabs it right on the forehead, the beast starts glowing and what stands in its place were two people, who looked really dazed and confused.

"We're…!" one of them say in an Italian accent.

"Separated?" the other finishes.

Merlin sweat drops, "Okay… that was strange."

Mika and the Thoreson twins run over to the others, "W-what's going on…?" Mika asks.

In a dark castle on the other side of the mountains, a man in a mask looks into a crystal.

"Dear me…" he says, "the chimera's been defeated, and so easily… Ah well."

He turns and looks at his new victims, Arthur and Ludwig, "I can always try again."

"Hah…" Arthur says, "Let me guess, your monstrosity has been defeated? That's what you get when you dabble with the dark arts…"

"Oh," the man says, "but the chimera had been destroyed my dear boy. Not a single trace of it is left to even salvage."

The two prisoners eyes widen, "W-what?!"

"I… Italy…" Ludwig mumbles.

"You BASTARD! How could you do something like that?!"

"That is something that does not concern you." The man lifts up his hand and a crystal appears, "Besides, don't you have yourselves and what's left of your group to worry about?"

"Once I get out of this," Ludwig growls, "I swear to god I will kill you with my bare hands."

"Oh, you two will get out in due time." Two bolts flash out of the crystal and strike the two prisoners.

"C-can't… move…" Arthur rasps.

"You bastard…!" Ludwig growls again.

Arthur gets stabbed in the chest by another bolt, "Gah…!" he gasps.

"I never waste a good body." The man says while snickering, a bright light flashes and Arthur and Ludwig were replaced by a monstrous beast.

"Ah…" the man sighs, "how beautiful."

Me: OH NO!

Tara: What?! What is it?!

Me: The chapter is done, aw well. Anyway, if you are wondering, all the Axis and Allies are called Uncle by these kiddies; their parents are very close to them.