"Damn it! What can we do! They keep finding us! We have no way of beating their weapons! The injuries that they give us don't even heal like they should! We're all going to die at this rate!" Hungry yelled slamming her fist on the table. The remainder of those in the room returned her heated words with silence.

"I have an idea." Murmured England. Everyone turned to look at him in surprise.

"What did you say Angleterre? Did you think of a way to stop them?" France asked with a kernel of hope beginning to worm its way into his heart.

"We can't stop them. There's no point in trying to. The only thing that would happen is our deaths." England replied shaking his head in despair, "The only thing we can do is retreat."

"Where can we retreat to? There is no where that is still safe, aru!" China shouted waving his wok, "They already killed Mongolia and India when they tried to hide in their houses, aru!"

"..."

"Iggy, what are you thinking?" Southern America asked softly cradling the head of the injured Canada in her lap while Northern America stood behind her with his arms crossed and frown on his face.

"Another world." England answered after a few minutes, " The Fae, they told me that we could escape to another world..."

"Another world? Are you talking about Mars or Venus? Angleterre?" France questioned in concern, momentarily forgetting to mock England's 'imaginary friends'.

"..."

Scotland scoffed, "France, you really have forgotten the old ways. The Fae have no interest in the stars beyond watching them." Wales and the Ireland siblings nodded in agreement.

"I have not! I just do not wish to live in the past like a dusty relic! I live for the present and love!" France shouted glaring at Scotland, "Besides, what do you know. You haven't been your own nation in how many years?"

Scotland growled as he reached for his claymore, "What did you say, Frog? Tough words coming from the perpetual loser. Met any young girls lately? Maybe you can convince one of them to fight your battles for you!"

"How dare you!" France yelled reaching for his pistol.

"Stop it! Stop fighting! We don't need to be fighting each other! We're friends, friends don't try to kill each other!" Sobbed the upset Northern Italy as he hugged the stoic Germany beside him. The Scotsman and the Frenchmen glared at one another before looking away.

"Italy is right. The more we fight the stronger our enemy gets. England, how do we get to this other world?" Asked Germany.

"Magic."

Everyone in the room stared at England. There were a only a sad few nations left in the world and all had joined together in the room to try and survive for a little longer. Of the original 267 world entities only 40 were left.

No one had noticed when the nations of the South American continent had just disappeared practically overnight. The didn't even notice when the nations of Africa started to vanish until Egypt arrived at the home of Greece covered in blood and described the horror that had been unleashed upon the African nations.

"Somehow they had knew where we lived. They had weapons that could actually kill us. They came after us. Hunted us down like animals. They never made any demands or any claims, just killed us. Everyone they killed turned to dust. " The shell shocked Egypt had told the concerned Greece.

Greece had quickly contacted the rest of the nations for an emergency meeting, that was when they had learned that South America was lost. They also learned why Egypt had been able to escape with his life intact. He was the bait for the trap that would end the lives of many.

The unknown enemies had attacked the meeting, clothed all in black from their heads to their toes and carrying bizarre looking guns, they made an intimidating sight and caught the nations by surprise. Korea was the first to die, he had been protecting China's back when the blast of the enemies strange gun had caught him point blank in the chest. Mexico and Cuba had fallen soon after as the nations were trying to make an escape.

Over 27 nations had lost their lives in the attack. Their numbers were whittled down with every passing day. Ambushes awaited them they tried to return to their homes. Eventually, they had decided that banding together, no matter the risk, was better than dieing alone. And so they had all gathered together in a run down castle on Ireland's coast. Which brings us back to England.

"England-san, do you really think that that is a good idea? " Asked Constitutional Japan as she stood besides her brother Imperial Japan, "Spirits can often lead people astray. They may be trying to trick you into doing something foolish."

"..."

"Ah, Sheila, it doesn't matter. We're all gonna kick the bucket one way or another." Australia said sadly as he stroked the head of his koala.

"Bu-"

"Aussie's right." Northern America interrupted, "We're all gonna die anyway if we sit around here. Why not take a chance? Seems like a better idea than just waiting to be found and be killed like a dog." He turned to England and raised his chin, "I don't know what you have planned or what will happen but, where ever you lead brother, I'll follow." Southern America nodded her agreement as everyone listened in shock of hearing England called 'brother'.

Australia grinned, "Glad to see that ya got your voice back Yank! I'm with ya too, Pommy. We can leave these woos behind if their not game."

"Does no one care that he's talking about magic and fairies as if they were real!" Belgium yelled pulling out of her brother Netherlands grasp, "How can you even talk about leaving anyway? How can we leave our Bosses and people to those monsters! We need to figure out a way to fight them not talk about silly things like magic!"

"We can't stop them. That's the problem." Spain replied, "Why continue fighting a losing battle?" He shrugged his shoulders, "Personally, I would prefer to live with mi amigos. Even if it means abandoning my house."

There was a chorus of agreement around the room.

"But-" Belgium tried to protest, "They depend on us. To protect them and lead them."

"We can't do that if we're dead." Netherlands told her as he pulled her back into his arms as she started to cry.

England continued to remain silent as a gloom once again descended upon the inhabitants of the room.

"Let's put it to a vote." Northern America said taking the lead, "Everyone who want's to try Iggy's magic idea raise your hands." He counted as people raised their hands, " Alright now, everyone who doesn't want to try his idea raise your hands." He counted again, "Ok, it's twenty-nine to six with five abstaining." He turned to look at England, "Iggy, get started on whatever you have to do. We really don't have any time to waste."

England took a deep breath. They're all counting on me. He thought, Fairy friends don't let me down now.

"This will only take a few minutes." England spoke softly as he began drawing his magic circle on one of the walls, "Move the table out of here. Brothers. Sister. "He turned to Scotland, Wales, and the Irelands, "Please start drawing this design on the other walls and the ceiling. I'll draw the one for the floor."

The various nations and territories moved out of the way of the British siblings as they went about preparing for the magic that was to come and hopefully save them.

"Brother, do you really think this will work?" Ukraine asked Russia as they watched for enemies outside.

"Who knows. But, I would rather take a chance than die, da." He replied with a smile.

"Yeah." Ukraine looked at her feet, "Still, I don't like leaving my people..."

Russia's smile faltered a little, "Da."

"Brother. Sister. They say that everything is prepared and we will be going soon." Belarus spoke as she crept up behind them, "We must return to the room now."

Russia and Ukraine looked at there little sister and then nodded, "Let us go then." Russia said as he led them back inside.

"Alright, I believe that that is everything." England said as he turned to everyone, "If you don't want to come this is your last chance once we close the door there is no going back."

"Angleterre, if we were not going we would have never come back in the first place." France said with sorrow in his voice, "Do not make this any harder for us than it already is, please mon ami."

England looked around the room at the faces of his friends and nodded his head, "Alright, someone close the door."

Latvia quickly moved to do so and with that the room went black as howling resounded within the room.