I am going to write for Germany, Japan, England, Canada, Belarus, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, China, Greece and Russia. missbirdeyhatss is going to write for Italy, America, France, Finland, South Korea, Romano, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Hong Kong.
Arthur Kirkland took a deep breath and risked a glance at his friend Alfred. The dirty blonde was grinning that happy, sappy smile. This day had finally come. He had practiced for hours, getting every word and motion down to clockwork. Yet he was still nervous, because he was the last person to give the demonstration speech in their Challenge English class, and he needed to meet the standards. His English teacher looked at him and signaled for him to begin; taking a deep breath he did so.
"The art of making scones has been passed down for generations, from mother to daughter, father to son. My mother taught me how to make this delicacy at an early age, and now I am teaching you. Scones will live on for generations more." As he spoke Arthur made eye contact with every person in his classroom, teacher included. His posture was perfect and his British accent only added to the effect of a flawless public speaker. 'I'm going to get an 'A' for sure,' he thought to himself.
"You mix the dry ingredients first in a medium sized bowl. Then slowly begin to whisk together the wet ones as well. Never forget that you are creating a work of art so it must be perfect. After both wet and dry ingredients are mixed well dump the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Stir briskly until you get the batter to a nice, smooth consistency."
Alfred had watched Arthur cook before. And he was just waiting for him to fail. Kiku, Yao and Heracles, his table neighbors watched the speech with bored eyes. As he was prone to doing, Heracles fell asleep with his head resting on Kiku's shoulder. Yao, who sat to the left of Alfred, glanced at him before returning his attention to the speech. Directly across from Alfred Kiku was blushing and trying without success to gently wake Heracles up. The American smiled and turned around to watch the rest of his British friend's speech.
As his head turned he saw flames licking up the wall in the corner of his eyes. Whipping his head around he watched in horror as the flames began to consume the room. Arthur, oblivious to the fire, continued speaking. The fire alarm went off. It was raining.
The entire school trooped out into the rain, and almost none of them had jackets, let alone raincoats. A few glared at Arthur, but most just huddled in groups weathering out the storm. The last of the kids had barely evacuated before the school burst into angry flames. The rain did nothing to stop the hungry orange monster as in consumed the entire building.
The principal walked over to them and took Arthur by the arm.
"Boy, I think we need to have a talk." Then he led the English student away. His friends watched him go. Heracles had amazingly slept the entire extent of the walk to get outside, and was now standing with his head still resting on Kiku. Yao studied his face, checking to see if he was really asleep.
"I don't know how he does it, aru! It's like he can sleep through anything."
"That's why he's so special," answered Alfred. "I'm special 'cause I'm the HERO!"
"No comment," inserted Kiku.
A few minutes later Arthur walked dejectedly back towards them.
"I got expelled and my parents are going to have to pay for most of the damage. They're going to be so mad!" He groaned out before sitting on one of the slick benches. He pulled some a single extremely burnt scone out of his pocket and looked at it. Suddenly he looked up and a look of bliss appeared on his face.
"Flying Mint Bunny! I thought I told you not to visit me at school, but that doesn't matter anymore." The green eyed former student paused before adding, "I knew you would come to cheer me up."
His four friends looked at him and at the empty space he was currently addressing.
"Maybe he hit his head, aru," mumbled Yao.
"He probably really needs medical attention," quietly added Kiku.
"Na, you guys Arthur always does this when I go over to his house. It's completely normal! He also talks to his friends Unicorn, Leprechaun and Fairy." Heracles said nothing, as he was still snoozing.
Arthur continued to speak to his minty colored friend before finally saying do you want this scone?"
"Um… Sure," answered Flying Mint Bunny. Arthur set the scone on the bench and watched Flying Mint Bunny consume the scone. About a minute later he was puking up the entire thing, and some more. Arthur looked mortified and picked up his friend before running off into the surrounding trees, looking very much like he was going to cry.
All anyone had seen of the entire exchange was puke suddenly appearing on the pavement.
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