Chapter 1 - Snowed In
"I can't believe we're snowed in" Muttered the Englishman, starring out the window at the city covered in snow.
"I know! No hamburgers!" sighed America, brooding, he folded his arms on the conference table and rested his head on them.
England felt one of his bushy eyebrows twitch, but decided not to comment. Hamburgers were the least of their worries.
"Guess it's one big slumber party, aru," China said, fairly amused and not at all put off with the situation.
"TSK! It figures. I finally crash one of these things and I'm trapped here! Mein GOTT! This is Not awesome!" muttered an angry Prussian .
"No one invited you here, it's your own fault you're stuck here!" snapped the Austrian.
"Cheer up comrades!" Russia said cheerfully.
Arthur turned to look at the group of people he was stuck with. It wasn't just the G8 but other nations as well. Austria, Hungary, even Sealand and Seychelles were here. He sighed. Just great. Damn America and his damn weather. With a sigh, Arthur sat at the table, resting his head in his hand. A whole night… with… this. Great.
"Mes amis, don't fret! I'm sure there is something we can do to keep us occupied~" France said softly.
With that, Japan suddenly sat up in attention. His brown eyes shining. "I have an idea!"
The room turned it's attention onto the older country.
Japan nodded fairly excited. He open his note book and flipped to a spare few pages. Quickly writing on them. "America-san. You like video games, correct" He didn't need to ask, he of course knew the answer already, it was more for the benefit of the room.
"Yes I do." The blonde glanced around looking for a 360 or a PS3. Blue eyes suddenly lighting up. "Kiku… are we going to kill…" The American leaned in. "zombies?"
Kiku was torn between a laugh and a sigh, and settled for shaking his head. "No. Well. I suppose we could… but it's not that kind of game… It's a fantasy game."
This time it was Arthur's turn to lean in close. "I beg your pardon?"
"Yes.. Magic, curses, all sorts of things."
Russia took a seat back down. "A game full of curses, da?"
Japan smiled, pleased that he had gained most peoples attention. "Hai. Please sit down and I will explain it to you."
All eyes were upon Japan. "We each take on a role of a hero, and play out a story."
"What if we don't want to be a hero?" grumbled Prussia.
Japan signed inwardly. "But Prussia-san… you will be the.. Most awesome hero of the group.."
Scarlet eyes gleamed. "Really?"
"Really." Kiku said dryly. He shook his head, turning the piece of paper he had been writing on. "I hope you don't mind, I already put you in the character class I feel you would best be suited for. I think you will have more fun doing something that fits you best." Kiku cleared his throat. "Um.. Let's see here. Canada-san."
The young blonde perked up. Surprised that he was being acknowledged, and was going first. He thought for sure he was going to be excluded from this. "Y-yes?"
"You are going to be our Archer. You will be able to attack from a distance and hit enemies the rest of us can't get to."
The blonde nodded happily, holding on to his polar bear tightly "Thank you!"
Kiku smiled slightly at the young boy and continued, "Are bard will be Austria-san."
The man adjusted his glasses though smiling slightly. "I didn't think there would be a position suitable for myself."
"Greece-san, you will be our Beast Master…"
There was a soft mew from the top of the man's head and he nodded slightly.
"Turkey-san will be a Berserker, England-san will be a Black Mage.."
England's emerald eyes lit up. "I will be able to perform the dark arts within the group?"
"Hai.." Japan looked up at the pleased faces so far. A bit proud of himself. "Liechtenstein-san, will be our Blue Mage,"
"Pardon," the young girl chimed in. "What does a Blue Mage do?"
"You absorb the spells of enemies and are able to use them back at them."
She nodded slightly, unsure. "Okay then.."
Japan continued. "Sweden will be our chemist. Belarus will be the Dancer, Germany will be a Dark Knight."
"Wait wait wait!" growled an unhappy voice. "A Dark Knight sounds awesome! Why does my Ludwig get to be such an awesome thing?"
"I didn't think a Dark Knight suited you."
"Eh?"
"A Dark Knight's major ability is to sacrifice himself for the team and other party members, even at the cost of his own life."
The room was fairly silent for a moment. That title did in fact suit the Prussian, who gave up everything to help his brother, to the point where wasn't even a Nation anymore.
"Perhaps, Herr Japan is trying to imply, is that you no longer have anything to give up, Gilbert.."
Scarlet eyes flashed, and it took the strong hand of Germany to hold the Prussian back before he could leap over the table at the Austrian.
"Stop acting like a barbarian and leave Mr. Austria alone!" demanded Hungary, standing up to defend the violet eyed man.
"Gomen nesai… Prussia-san. I didn't want to bring up unpleasant feelings, this is for fun… I have a good role for you, I promise."
"Tsk. Whatever," The Prussian mumbled, calm at last, though brooding at his place at the table.
"Ahem.. Denmark-san shall be our Dragoon. Netherlands-san will be our Fighter, France-san will be the Gambler."
"Sourire Lady Luck sur nous ~ hahaha,"
"Switzerland-san will be our Geomancer, America-san will be the Gunner."
"Yeah! Pow pow!" Alfred laughed, pretending his fingers were guns and shooting into the ceiling.
"W-wait?" Murmured Canada. "Isn't a gunner… just a better version of an Archer?"
"That's right Comrade," Russia said cheerfully, his dark eyes gleaming.
The Canadian buried his face in his bear's fur. Out done by America… again!
"Prussia-san, you will be our Knight"
This seemed to cheer the albino up slightly. "Just like back in the day, huh?" He grinned, remembering when he was the best and most awesome man alive. Well, he still was… but he had been really awesome back in the day.
"Russia-san will be our Magic Knight." Which on it's own sounded to powerful a class to give to the frigid nation, but it did suit him best… " Our Mime will be Sealand and the Monk will be China-san."
"Way to stereotype me Japan, aru!" huffed China, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I did it to what we are best of us. America the cowboy nation is the gunner, after all."
"Well… What are you? A ninja or something, aru?"
The shorter nation flushed slightly, "Or something.. Anyway.. The Ninja is Taiwan," another huff from China. " Italy-san will be an Onion Knight, Hungary-san will be a Paladin, Finland-san a Red Mage, Iceland-san a Scholar, Belgium-san a Soldier, Norway-san a Summoner, Romano-san will be the Thief, Poland-san will be the Time Mage, Spain-san a Warrior, and Seychelles will be our White Mage. And I'll be a the Samurai." Japan took a deep breath nodding at his work. "Does that work for everyone?"
There was a mumbled agreement.
Japan sighed contently. "Now write a little bit about your character. A few spells or abilities, but nothing overly powerful right now. Basic things abilities. And a little back story." More murmurs of agreement and soon the room was filled with the soft scratches of pen on paper. At the very least, this was a good way to pass the time, and hopefully sooner rather then later they could leave.
Slowly the writing stopped, and everyone looked up expectantly at Japan.
"Well…" Began Japan taking a deep breath looking at everyone's face. It raged from England's fairly excited one to well, Sweden's complete lack of interest.. "Let us begin…
AN
This is going to be… interesting. I've had this idea to have the Hetalia characters as RPG characters. A friend and I are drawing them and you can see a few of them on DA. But I'm a better writer then an artist. SO I had to write a fic.
The story will flip from them at the conference table, to the imaginary world that they are playing in. Being mages and warriors. Their adventures will range from finding crystals, like in Final fantasy, to meeting talking lions in wardrobes, to finding evil rings, and other fairytales and fantasy adventures from around the world.
I will be rolling dice and flipping coins for their abilities just like in D&D So. This should be interesting for me and you. I hope you all enjoy.
