DISCLAIMER: None of the characters in this story or the countries or Axis Powers Hetalia belong to me. Everything is © Himaruya Hidekaz.
Author's Note(s): I started this story some time back as a Christmas present for my friend Alex. It was origionally going to be short, but the plot sort of ran away with me.
Title: Lacrymosa
Genre: Suspense, Horror, Romance
Warnings/Rating: PG- Character death, possible kisses, use of human names.
Characters/Pairings:Austria, Prussia, America, England, France, Canada, Japan, China, Russia, Germany, Italy, Prussia/Austria, America/England
Summary:The axis are invited to go with the allies camping, with Prussia, Austria, and Canada tagging along, of course. Just...no one realized that England had arranged for them to be camping in a haunted graveyard. After a scary story, they wind up getting caught in a twisted fantasy, and some might not make it out alive...
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Chapter One:
"I'm so bored! Do something, Roddy!" Came a complaint from the back of the crowded van.
"Do shut up, Gilbert. We're almost there, so if you could please just be quiet for the rest of the car ride?" Roderich responded in a tired voice.
"But it's crowded back here!" Gilbert whined, "You don't know 'cause you're a priss and forced West to let you sit up front!" Roderich only sighed, reflecting on how he had managed to end up stuck in a van with four others. How had this whole thing started?
*Yesterday, 1:47 p.m*
Ludwig finished up putting his papers back in his briefcase before heading over to where his brother and Roderich stood, bickering as usual.
"How in the world did you even get passed the guards?" Roderich asked, sounded annoyed and peeved.
"Using my awesome skills, of course! No one could argue when subjected to my charm!" Came Gilbert's confident reply. Ludwig sighed. His brother had somehow gotten in the meeting, and caused all of the chaos that was only to be expected of him. Not that the world conference meetings were ever productive in the first place. More often than not it merely ended in bickering and multiple unhappy and unsatisfied countries.
"Ludwig! Ludwig!" Before Roderich was able to respond, an all too familiar cheerful yell came from across the room. The three turned to see Feliciano rushing towards them, pulling along Kiku.
"Let Kiku go, Feliciano. I'm sure he doesn't appreciate being dragged along like that." Ludwig ordered sternly when Feliciano reached them.
"Ah, it's alright, Ludwig-san." Kiku reassured politely. Feliciano ignored them and continued on whatever he had been about to say.
"Ludwig! We should all get together to eat lunch! I can make pasta! Do you want pasta? Pasta's really good!" He exclaimed. But before anyone could make a response, they were interrupted again, this time by a new source.
"Hey guys! The hero has arrived!" Announced a loud voice, and turning once more, they saw Alfred rushing towards them.
"Hello Alfred-kun." Japan replied quietly, but his voice was overpowered by Feliciano's.
"Hey Alfred! What are you having for lunch? We're all going to have pasta!"
"Really? I'm going to have a burger, because they're awesome and all, but that's not why I came over here! What are you all doing tomorrow? You aren't busy, right? Good! The allies are all hosting a camping trip and we want you guys to come with us! You know, to celebrate the peace we all have right now!"Alfred proclaimed, not letting anyone actually respond to his questions.
"You're at war right now, not at peace." Roderich said, but Alfred either didn't hear him or just ignored him.
"'Kay, I have to go now! I'll see you guys tomorrow, then! Here's the address!" Alfred stuffed a piece of paper in Ludwig's hands before running off. Ludwig blinked, looking at the address then at the others.
"Should we really go?" He asked, bewildered.
"It won't be awesome if I'm not there, and I'm feeling generous, so yeah!" Gilbert said enthusiastically.
"We should go, Ludwig! It might be fun!" Feliciano agreed. Roderich just sighed and Kiku shrugged, so in the end it was decided that they would rent a van and meet up with the allies the next day.
*Present time*
Oh yeah. That's how it had happened. Roderich just hoped that it would be a nice park; he might get ideas for a new music piece, and Ludwig had insisted that it would be good to get out of the house once in a while, though he suspected that the other just wanted someone at least a little sane to join him on the camping trip. He sighed again and leaned back in his seat, trying to tune out the chatter from the back seat. He didn't really have any expectations of the place, as long as it was clean.
What no one expected was that when they finally pulled up to the 'park', they realized it wasn't a park. It was a graveyard. A deserted, haunted-looking graveyard.
"..Are we in the right place…?" Roderich questioned after a moment of everyone looking out the window.
"This is the address he gave us…" Ludwig replied with a small frown.
"Do you think he pulled a prank?" Kiku asked quietly.
"No way! Who would dare to pull a prank on the awesome ore-sama?" Gilbert exclaimed disbelievingly. Ludwig and Roderich exchanged a glance, and then sighed.
"It might not be a trick, we should go look around. They might really mean to camp here. They never said it was a park in the first place, and this seems like just the type of stunt that they would pull off." Roderich said, trying to be sensible. Feliciano whimpered.
"But it's scary! I don't want to go out there!" He whined. Ludwig sighed.
"It's not haunted or anything. Come on, Roderich is right. We'll go take a quick look and if we can't find them, we'll head home and just call it off." He decided, opening the door and stepping out of the car. Roderich, Gilbert, and Kiku followed him. After a moment and deciding it was too scary to be left alone, Feliciano was right behind them.