Hetalia: Strange World
Oh, look, I'm doing Hetalia Fanfics now too. So… I don't own Hetalia. (I wish) Also, this story was kind of inspired by SkittleAddict's Where'd You Come From? If you haven't read it yet, I recommend it. Oh, and because I'm too lazy to write it into the story, I'll describe the characters now.
Faith Strauss has brown hair that she refuses to take out of a ponytail, and chocolate brown eyes. She's 5' 4". She's really shy and socially awkward, but all that goes out the window when she's with friends. She's kind of built like a guy, with a flat chest and stocky hips, though she can't be mistaken as 'fat.' She can speak Greek, but usually only uses the other language to cuss people out.
Chara Sugo has long brown hair that she prefers to keep loose. She has a thick, vertical patch of blonde bangs that hangs in between her eyes. She's shy, but not afraid to speak up in public. She's the wildest of the group, and also the smallest. She's only 4ft 1, but makes up for her size in crazy ideas and tech knowledge. She's ¼ Japanese, so of course she speaks the language, plus knowing a little bit of Greek.
Avory Lyne is outgoing and loudspoken no matter where she is. She's 5' 5." Her mom is a hairstylist, so Ava likes dying her hair unnatural colors. Right now it's cut Cleopatra style, though the ends are a bit jagged. As well as the natural light brown, she added in streaks of teal, purple, and hot pink. Ava is lean and lanky, but her bust is second-biggest. Ava's parents are full Cherokee Indian, so she sometimes slips into the Cherokee (Also known as Tsalagi) language.
Jaymin Nettles looks a lot like Merida from Brave, though a bit thicker. She stands at 5' 9." She's the strongest of the girls, and so is her temper. She has an almost unnoticeable Scottish accent, though if she gets mad or excited, it gets stronger. Jay has the biggest bust despite her gruff tomboy-ness, and is often teased for it. She's the mother figure to the group, and has been known to Scottish wrestle the other girls to the ground if they don't listen.
Maddilyn Barker has shaggy black hair that's usually in ponytails, and electric blue eyes. She's 5' 5." She's the most self-controlled in the group, and tries to talk them out of particularly stupid ideas, alongside Jay. Maddie is also the game-nerd, and knows pretty much every hack to everything. She tries to hide behind jackets, messy hair and late-night-gamer eyes, but she's nicely shaped and naturally beautiful. Her mother is a deported Mexican, and when she's mad, Maddie slips into Spanish.
They're all Chameleon Fangirls, which is my way of saying that they're in a whole bunch of fandoms. All of them know ASL (American Sign Language) and Morse code.
Anyway, let's get started.
It was a dark and stormy night…no, seriously. Lightning split the sky outside of the giant house (read: mansion). 5 girls huddled under various blankets as they watched World War Z. Inside their fortress of Doritos, Pringles, popcorn, Oreos, and a wide variety of candy, the girls watched in horror as the zombie, rabies- infected humans crawled over the Jerusalem wall.
"The zombie Titans are coming," mumbled Chara. Just as the first zombie fell over the wall, thunder crashed right over the house, and all the lights, plus the TV, flicked off. The source of light gone, the room was plunged into total darkness. Identical screams echoed through the large family room, but both cut off abruptly as hands were clamped over Chara and Avory's mouths.
"Calm down, freaking out won't help at all," Jaymin reasoned, keeping her hands covering the girls' mouths.
"Now, let's think—EEWW, Chara, did you just lick me?!" Jay yelped, pulling her hand away from Chara's mouth.
"That's what you get," The small girl said, sticking her tongue out at the red-head again.
"Why, you..!" Jay started to pull Chara into a choke-hold as a phone's flashlight switched on, illuminating the group. The phone's light was surprisingly strong, giving enough light to see a rather big section of the family room. Faith set her phone on the ground, the flashlight beam shining up on her chin, making her face glow eerily.
"Everybody's here, right?" Faith said. "No one got dragged off by a psychotic killer?"
"Not really, unless this counts," Chara croaked, still stuck in Jay's choke-hold. Maddie tapped Jaymin on the shoulder.
"Hey, I think you should let her go before she dies of oxygen deprivation." Jay snorted in response, but released Chara. Chara slumped to the ground, gasping for breath. Ignoring her, Jay turned to Avory.
"Hey, don't your folks have a generator?" Jay asked. Avory put her finger to her chin, thinking.
"Yeah…and it should've come on by now. Wonder why it didn't." Avory shrugged helplessly. Maddie poked Chara, who in turn smacked her hand away.
"Maybe we should go and try to figure out what's wrong, and see if we can fix it," suggested Faith. Chara jumped back to life, sitting up and almost flinging her head into Maddie.
"WHAT?! But no, guys, this is like the start of a horror film! The heroines split up to go investigate the generator, and then one by one, they're…they're…EATEN OR SOMETHING!" Chara yelled, flinging her hands around. Faith just gave her a bored look.
"Chara, we're not in a horror movie. We are not going to be eaten, murdered, or abducted. Besides, we're not even gonna split up. We're all going down together." Faith reassured her friend. Chara shivered nervously, but nodded.
Courtesy of Avory, ("I have seen rats down there!") Chara and Maddie insisted that they should each have something to protect themselves with, 'just in case.' Raiding the junk-filled garage, makeshift weapons were found. Faith got a metal bat, Chara held a beat-up hockey stick, Avory found a good Lacrosse stick, Maddie received an actual Japanese katana (Even Avory had no idea what it was doing in her garage), and Jay settled on a simple shovel.
'Weapons' in hand, the 5 girls walked down to the basement, engaged in nervous conversation on the way down. When they finally reached the basement door, a new argument broke out.
"Well, I'm not going in alone, because I KNOW there's SOMETHING DOWN THERE, and I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BE EATEN." Chara stated pointedly at Faith, who gripped her bat harder, resisting the impulse to whack Chara over the head with it.
"Well, someone has to turn the light on and-"
"And be OFFERED UP AS TRIBUTE, to the THING that's down there, and then everybody DIES…WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT, YOU WANNA GO, PINEAPPLE?!" Chara screamed at Avory, waving the hockey stick menacingly at Ava's face.
"BRING IT ON, MIDGET." Ava rebounded by poking her la-x stick into Chara's nose.
Before a full-fledged war could begin, Faith grabbed Chara by the shoulder.
"Okay, I'll go down with you, just don't hit one of us with that stick." Chara looked up at the brunette suspiciously, but lowered her weapon and nodded. The two girls turned to the door, gripping their respective sports equipment. Maddie started to count down.
"One." Chara bit her lip.
"Two." Faith reached for the handle.
….
"Three!" The girls burst through the door, Chara instinctively smacked the light switch on, and even though the powers was out and the generator supposedly didn't work, the light turned on. The girls cleared the three steps, and landed with their backs to each other, prepared to smash some rats over the head. The single lightbulb spread light over the small space. The room looked about big enough to house a mini-van, though the boxes that were stacked in towers, making a mismatched maze took up a lot of the space. Faith glanced up at the glowing bulb, and confusion filled her face.
"Uh, Chara. Isn't the power supposed to be out? How is the light on?" Chara looked up, and tightened her grip on the hockey stick. She was about to respond, when Ava came leaping through the doorway, crashing into the two brunettes.
"Gyyaaaahh!" All three girls screamed. Chara almost toppled over forward, but spun around, regaining her balance and almost smacking Faith in the process.
"Ava! What was that for?" Chara yelped, and Faith imagined anime tick marks appearing on her head. Avory scratched the back of her head, embarrassed.
"Well, I…hey, wait, how's that light on?" Ava suddenly changed the topic. Maddie and Jay walked down the stairs, nervously glancing around.
"Well…maybe something's blocking the power flow to just the TV," Maddie mused. Another thunder roll shook the house, as a box fell off of one of the towers of junk. It crashed to the floor, sending Legos flying out over the floor. The light flickered, but in the moment that darkness filled the room, Maddie thought she saw something glowing in a back corner. No one screamed this time, but Chara yelped, Faith closed her eyes and hugged her bat, and Jay and Avory grabbed each other's arms.
As soon as everyone regathered their courage, Maddie mentioned the glow.
"OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS IT IS A HORROR FILM, THE GLOW PROBABLY BELONGS TO SOME DEMON THAT'S GONNA EAT OUR SOULS AND…" Chara stopped for a breath. Jay jumped in before she could get started again.
"Okay, everyone stay calm. We will not be investigating the glow… NO, NOT BECAUSE I AM AGREEING WITH YOU, CHARA, BECAUSE I WANT TO FIX THE POWER AND GET OUT OF HERE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, NOW ENOUGH WITH THE SMIRK." Jay glared at Chara while Avory, Faith and Maddie started to pick up the Legos. Well, Faith and Maddie were picking up Legos, Avory was just trying to build a boat. Jay finally ignored Chara, turning to Ava.
"So, where's the generator?" Avory was too focused on building her boat, and simply pointed. Jay sighed, grabbed the bunch of Legos out of Avory's hands, and dropped it back into the box. Avory stared heartbroken at her demolished creation.
"Faith and Maddie are done cleaning up the Legos, no help from you, but you're coming with us to look at the generator." Jay grabbed Avory's arm and hauled her to her feet, barely giving Ava enough time to retrieve her la-x stick before she was dragged back to the generator. Crowded by boxes on the left, and the wall behind it, the generator was green, basically a box with an electrical cord sticking out of it. Chara poked at it, sitting on the right of the machine, hockey stick propped against a tower of boxes. The other girls crowded around, inspecting the generator for themselves. Everyone clutched their equipment a little tighter.
"Uh, Ava, I think there's something stuck behind this thing." Chara was about to shove her hand behind the machine when Faith grabbed it.
"Chara, weren't you just saying something about a horror film? You could get your hand bitten off, or your arm transmuted or something." Faith warned. Chara just shrugged.
"Yeah, well, I just wanna get the thing out from behind the thing, so we can leave and go scare ourselves by watching more movies, not by going into small, shadowy rooms with creepy glows in real life." With that, Chara pulled her arm out of Faith's grasp, and thrust it into the shadows behind the generator. Her fingers closed on what felt like a book, smashed vertically between the generator and the wall.
She barely had time to think, 'Wait, wasn't this near the place where Maddie said the glow came from?' Then screaming came from behind her as a tingly, numb feeling started up her arm. She was yanked backwards, and with the light illuminating her arm, she saw what the problem was. Her arm was dissolving, blurring around the edges and seeming to fall into dust-like pieces. Another scream joined the first one, and Chara was pretty sure it was her own.
"OH MY RA SHE WAS RIGHT, ΓΑΜΏ ΓΑΜΏ ΓΑΜΏ ΓΑΜΏ. SOMEONE GET HELP, OR…OR…HOGWARTS OR SOMETHING!" Faith screamed from behind Chara, trying to pull the smaller girl away from the book, though it didn't help. Chara's arm had dissolved, and her shoulder started to fade away. Maddie's legs seemed to give out, and she sank to her knees, gripping her hands in front of her chest, sword left forgotten at her side. Jay reached forward to steady Maddie as she seemed to go into shock. But as she stretched out her hand, she gasped. Her own fingers were crumbling away. 'Weapons' clattered to the ground as all the girls discovered that they, too, were fading away.
"¿Qué pasa? Yo no quiero morir!" Maddie slipped into Spanish as she curled up, pressing her knees close to her chest. Faith was hugging Chara, muttering things to keep the smaller girl from going completely nuts ("O Zeu kai alloi theoi, I'm scared too, but we'll get through this."). Jay was desperately yelling, and her accent strengthened as she tried to get them to calm down ("All ye jus' cahlm down, we'll be okay!"). And Avory was just standing, staring at her disappearing limbs, letting out a continuous shriek that covered all other noise, and where she was getting all that air, none of them knew. For some reason, the sports equipment disappeared with the girls.
Luckily, the dissolving process went fast, so the girls were completely faded in a matter of minutes. As soon as they disappeared, the TV flickered back on, the only remainder of them was the candy and chips scattered around as zombies slaughtered the city of Jerusalem.
So, first chapter! Spoiler: the girls aren't dead. *Le gasp* I know, such a shocker! Next chapter I'll get some Hetalia characters up in here, not to worry. Oh, and here's the translations:
ΓΑΜΏ= FUCK
¿Qué pasa? Yo no quiero morir! = What's happening? I don't want to die!
O Zeu kai alloi theoi= O Zeus and the other gods.
At least, I hope that's what they mean. I got it all from Google Translate, so if anything's wrong, please let me know so I can fix it.
Also, as stated in the summary, I have a lot of ships planned for later chapters, but if ya'll want to suggest some, I'll see what I can do. However, here's a list of ships I will definitely do:
-Germany X Italy
-Spain X Romano
-Something with Greece, Turkey, and/or Egypt. Maybe a three-way.
But America, Canada, Japan, Denmark, and Netherlands are all gonna be shipped with my five OC girls, so they're off-limits. Just as a little fun, see if you can guess which country is shipped with which girl.
Aaaaaand I think that's it for the first chapter. See ya!