It was one of the coldest days of the year when Lukas was hurrying back to his home with much to his dismay, the rest of the Nordic Five. The powdery snow was glistening on the ground as the five countries made tracks with their snow boots. They had just come back from a world meeting and Sweden's car had broken down a mile away. The five were strangely silent, and the only thing to be heard was the occasional shiver or breath of icy air. Though silence was not the usual norm for this group, Lukas appreciated it.
He observed the crystals that caught the sun light on the ground and the intricate flakes of white. That was when he noticed the body. There in the snow, that he was admiring not even a second ago, there was a girl in a silk dress. Out of alarm he ran over to her, causing the other countries to follow him.
The girl's skin was turning blue from the cold. And despite her current condition, she looked beautiful. Her blond hair was cast upon the snow beneath her, revealing a tattoo of a tree connected to its roots by a series of vines on the back of her neck. Her satin dress was embroidered with what seemed to be real gold and her blue feet were covered with thin sandals.
"We need to get her inside," Tino said, feeling a faint pulse of the girl through her icy skin.
With a grunt, Berwald heaved the girl over his shoulder, running to Norway's house as fast as possible, with the others following closely behind.
When they made it into the house the five of them helped as best as they could: Berwald put the girl in the guest room; Emil went to find more blankets for the girl; Mathias began to start a fire in the fire place to warm the room up; Tino was in the kitchen making hot chocolate, soup, and sugar cookies to warm up the others; and Lukas searched through his spell book for any spells on hypothermia. They were all worried for the girl and wondered how she could have been abandoned during a blizzard.
"I can't find a spell," Lukas grumbled from his chair next to the bedside.
Out of frustration he closed the book and looked at the sleeping girl. For some reason he felt as if he could recall meeting this girl somewhere as he looked at her more closely. There was a sense of familiarity in her face that he just couldn't put his finger on.
"Lukas?" Tino asked from the doorway, causing the blue eyed man to look up from the girl's face. "Everyone else is downstairs eating the soup I made. You should probably eat some too before you get sick."
"Alright," he said, reluctantly getting up from his spot. He sluggishly followed Finland, despite it being his own home. As he sat down at the dining room table with a bowl of chicken soup his mind kept drifting to the girl that was now asleep upstairs in his guest bedroom.
"I hope she'll be okay," Tino replied worryingly.
"I think she will be fine," Matthias assured, unhappy to see the brown eyed country upset. "Give her a couple days and I'm sure she'll be up and moving again."
"I don't think so," Emile muttered while stirring his steaming bowl. "The girl was blue when we found her, and who knows how long she was out there. It will be a miracle if she even wakes up."
For some reason his little brother's comment on the girl bothered Lukas. She couldn't die, could she? Not if he had anything to do about it. He got up from his seat and began to head back upstairs to the guest bedroom.
"Where are you going, Norge?" Matthias asked.
"Upstairs," Lukas grumbled.
"But you didn't even touch your soup," Tino called, causing Lukas to stop at the door.
"I'll have some later," he replied over his shoulder. "But now I need to find a spell that will help that girl."
He tread up the marble staircase as quickly as he could without slipping on the slick surface in his wool socks. Though he tried to focus on the matters at hand, his train of thought kept shifting to the strange girl in the snow.
There was something about her that made herself different than other girls that he had met. She just seemed to have an aura about her that was different than most, an aura that Lukas couldn't read. Maybe he can once she's conscious. Yes, that was the answer.
Lukas walked into the bedroom to find something he was not expecting