The dawn of Sunday morning was peaceful and quiet. Everyone was still laying on their beds, dreaming happy dreams. All but one young monk named Lin, were asleep. Not for long though...
"Zǎo ān ((Good morning))!" The teenage monk shouted, standing in the hallway of all the teenagers' rooms and banging on a large and loud gong. Following the loud banging of the gong, Lin could hear groaning from being woken up early, thugs from falling off beds because of the sudden loud noise, screams because of the sudden loud noise, and shuffling from those who just got up, not caring about being woken up.
Lin smiled, seeing some of his friends walk out of their rooms. He looked around, seeing who was up first; Binh, Jun, Hyung Soo, and Kiku. First, Lin walked into the Korean Twins' room, about to bang on the gong again. He left before gonging when he saw Yong Soo rubbing his head and sitting on the floor. So he was the one who made the loud thug.
Next was the girls' room. Lin opened Lien and Mei's room and saw them still laying in bed. After banging on the gong again, Lin quickly closed the door again, knowing what was going to happen next. "LIN! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" He heard from both Lien and Mei. Lin was used to the threat almost every morning so he shook it off.
Finally, Lin opened his cousins plus Kiku's room. Hong brushed pasted him, leaving the room empty. "Where's Yao?" Lin asked Hong before he left. Hong shrugged. Yao was pretty unpredictable; some mornings, it'd take four people to pull him out of bed, some mornings he would just get up normally, and sometimes he'd wake up on his own.
The young monk walked into the room and walked towards the window. Opening the window, Lin shouted, "Yao! Where are you? Entrance exams are this morning!" Suddenly, Yao appeared out of nowhere, hanging upside down from the roof.
"Right here aru!" Yao cheerfully said.
"GWAH!" Lin yelped, falling backwards from being scared. Yao heard a small crash and did a small flip off the roof, quickly looking through the window once landing.
"Lin! Are you okay aru!" Yao asked, climbing through the window and seeing half of Lin's body on his bed, and the other half on the floor. He walked over to the top half of Lin, which was the half that was on the floor. "Lin..." The young monk's eyes were swirling.
"I-I'm okay..." Lin said, putting his right hand in the air, "H-help..." Yao chuckled, helping his younger cousin up.
"How long have you been up, Yao-Ge?" Lin asked as the two walked through the hallway. It was a bit quiet with everyone else doing their own morning routine.
"Hmm, not that long aru? I know I woke up before everyone else and just got ready first. Oh! I haven't started breakfast yet aru! I'll meet you in the kitchen aru!" Yao took off towards the kitchen, leaving Lin. Yao usually had to cook everyone's meals since he was the best cook.
Quickly entering the kitchen, Yao brought out his trusty wok and a couple ingredients. He then grabbed his apron and wrapped it around his waist. "Time to cook aru!"
"Thanks for the food ana!" Binh said, setting his chopsticks down. Another satisfying meal from the Chinese boy. Yao smiled at Binh, appreciating his compliment.
"Yao-Hyeong makes the best food da ze!" Yong Soo shouted enthusiastically, jumping out of his seat. Hyung Soo sighed, annoyed of his younger twin's childish actions. Jun stood up, thanking Yao first before collecting everyone's dishes and placing them in the sink. Everyone started talking among themselves, making Lin look around them nervously.
"Shouldn't you guys be heading off to take the exams...?" The room went silent. Suddenly, everyone got up and rushed towards the front door, taking their book bags and bento boxes with them. Lin followed after, seeing everyone speeding off towards the bus stop, "GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!" He shouted as they all left to Hetalia Academy.
"THERE'S THE BUS DA ZE!" Yong Soo was the only one who wasn't out of breath after a long sprint. The bus was just arriving when the group of Asian got there. There was only one person at the bus stop and they had just gotten on the bus.
"We're huff not gonna huff make it huff ana," Binh said, out of breath.
"AI!" Yao shouted. Everyone joined in with him, shouting at the bus, "AI!" Just as the bus door was about to close, Hong put his hand through it, stopping it from closing. It opened right afterwards.
"Oh! If it isn't the young Zhongguo group!" The bus driver said as they boarded the bus, "Usually you guys don't ride the bus this early on Sundays. You're even in your uniform!"
"We have to take an entrance exam for Hetalia Academy aru," Yao was last on the bus, making sure everyone got on, and was the last to get his bus pass scanned so he explained to the bus driver.
"Oh yeah, heard what happened to Zhongguo Gakuen. Sorry to hear about that," The driver closed the door and finally started driving again, "Sorry to make you guys run like that. If I had known you guys would be coming, I would've waited," He said after noticing everyone was trying to catch their breath.
"It's fine, Wu-San," Kiku said, being the first to recover. Wu the bus driver chuckled nervously, still guilty for making the teens run like there was a maniac chasing them.
The bus ride was a really long ride, but it was only the nine of them plus Wu on the bus. After the one person from the bus stop got off, there wasn't anyone else left and no one else got on.
"Sorry guys, this is the last point before I turn around. You think you can make it from here?" Wu said, opening the door. Everyone else got off and once again, Yao was the last one.
"It's fine Wu! We can walk from here aru!"
"Thanks for the ride!" Lien shouted as Yao got off. Everyone waved bye to Wu as he drove away.
"Better start walking now," Jun pointed out as the bus drove out of sight.
"Yeah," Mei sighed. They had to make it by foot from there. It was fairly strange though; their environment started changing drastically before their eyes. At first, they were use to poor looking yet lively towns. Now they walked on a clean and poised street. It was somewhat different for them. Very different really...
After a while of walking, they started getting close to the school; just one more block and a long stairway. The Asians looked all around their surroundings; everything was so, well, opposite from what they were use to. As they walked up the stairway, they couldn't help but notice all the trees and beautiful flowers. When reaching the top, they walked into what seemed like the court yard and finally saw the school; it was a lot bigger than what they were use to, more than one, too! In the center of the court yard was a sparkling fountain and a couple of concrete benches. A fountain! And they barely had clean water at their last school!
"Anyone else overwhelmed...?" Jun asked. Everyone raised their hand, agreeing with Jun. Kiku noticed from flag poles behind the fountain. Each flagpole had a bunch of different country flags. He ignored the flags but noticed fancy signs and arrows pointing in different directions, "So, anyone have any clue where the main office is...?" Jun asked again.
"How the hell should we know that?" Hyung Soo growled, already not liking the new school.
"It's that way," Kiku said, pointing the same direction as the sign that said 'Main Office'. Everyone looked at the direction Kiku was pointing at then back at him, "There are a couple signs..." And so, everyone headed over to the main office.
When the Asian group reached the building with the office in it, the first thing they noticed was how big it was. There was a sign on the building, also in fancy lettering that said, "Main Office, Auditorium, Art, Music, Home Education".
"Do they really need such a huge building for that?" Mei just really couldn't believe the size for just a few places. Rich people... Besides, there couldn't be that much people at this school for a big auditorium, right?
Binh was about to open the door until he noticed another sign taped on it. "To those taking the entrance exams, please go to class B3-505, located in the second year building. Thank you and good luck ana," He read aloud. They all looked at each other than at Kiku. He was the one who saw the signs.
"Um, I think it was that way..." Kiku said nervously, pointing back to where they were before. Hyung Soo sighed, really not liking the school.
"Why is this place so big da ze?" Yong Soo pouted, starting to already walk towards the second year building.
"Rich people aru..." Yao grumbled to himself.
When they reached the second year building, Binh opened the door and held it in for everyone. The first thing they saw this time, were some shoe lockers and a lot of them. Passing the lockers, Mei noticed a map of the building; it was 6 floors damn it! Practically 15 rooms each floor (18 to be exact)!
"Looks like this is where we should be," Mei said aloud, pointing to the room they should be in. Couple of them crowded around her, looking at the map, while others looked around the floor; no classrooms, just lockers and another place to hang out at. Hong was looking at a sign that read, "Always switch out shoes once you arrive at Hetalia Academy. Do not switch back unless leaving campus. Thank you!"
"Lots of weird rules..." Hong said to himself before following everyone else to room B3-505. They all walked up to floor 5 and passed 4 rooms to get to room B3-505. Everyone stood outside the classroom, looking up at the sign with the room number on it. Except for Yong Soo; he was looking out the window behind them. They were so high up!
Yao gulped, sliding the door open and walking it. It was empty besides the desk. The black board had something written on it however. "Entrance Exams aru. Please do not copy off your neighbor. Good luck aru. Starting time: 9 o'clock, Ending time: 12 o'clock aru..." Yao read aloud. He then looked for a clock, seeing it was 8:53 A.M.
"Shouldn't there be a teacher ana?"
"Oh! You much be the Zhongguo Gakuen students taking the exams!" They all heard a female voice shout. The Asians turned to the source of the voice, all their eyes burst open once they saw who it was. They saw a busty young women trotting over to them. Her hair was short and silver-blonde with a hair band and bobby pins, and had blue eyes. The guys couldn't help but blush with them being, well guys, and the two girls were really starting to feel self-conscious. "Please, please, do enter!" She said, motioning them to go in the classroom, with her hands.
When everyone eventually entered, they seated themselves and started taking out their supplies. The silver-blonde haired women couldn't help but giggling, thinking about how prepared they all were already.
"Um, I'm so sorry but we only have a few minutes until you have to start the test, so I'll explain while passing them out. Please take one and pass it down, and don't start until I say so. Thank you!" The silver-blonde haired women started passing out the entrance exams and talking at the same time. "I'm not really a teacher, but I am the school nurse so nice to see some new faces right now. My name is Katyasha Braginski, part Russian and part Ukrainian. Does everyone have all the exam packets?" Everyone couldn't help but think that each packet was pretty thick, and there was one for each subject; math, science, world history, and language arts/English. Just three hours, huh?
Katyasha notice that all the teenagers were ready to open their packets and start the test. This was one of the first times she met some Asian teenagers and she could already tell that they were going to be very studious. Nothing like the students already here who were somewhat more relaxed.
The time was 8:59 A.M. "Ready... Set..." The clock stuck 9 o'clock A.M. "GO!" The sound of flipping papers filled the room, followed by writing, filling in bubbles, or silence from those who were reading, "When you are done, please stay quiet and work on something else while waiting for others," Katyasha thought about how interesting it will be to have the group around at Hetalia Academy.
Hetalia - Himaruya Hidekaz
Katyasha - Ukraine