Chapter three is up! Sorry, there's a bit of OC (Atlantis, and my cousin's oc, Persia) in here...I didn't originally intend to post this online ^^; Anyway, please give feedback and review!
"Whoooo!" Atlantis shrieked in delight as the blasts from her bazooka made several of the creatures explode. Persia swung her sword and chopped a head off.
"Enjoying yourself, are you?" She asked. Atlantis grinned.
"Oh yeah. I've been waiting my entire life for this to happen. Well, not this exactly, but something like it." She jumped up and down a little. Her heart was pounding, but in a good way. The mix of adrenaline and fear was making her somewhat hyper. Atlantis fired another blast at a row of creatures. Their entrails scattered across the ground. "Bam!" She yelled. "Goodbye, creepy guys!"
"Jeez." Persia sighed, one eyebrow raised. Egypt shot an arrow at a demon, hitting it square in the eye.
"Ooh, good one!" Atlantis cheered. The look Egypt gave her made it clear that her older brother did not understand her fascination with violence.
"They are living creatures." Egypt said in his quiet voice. "We should treat them with respect." He bowed at the creature he had just killed.
"Yeah, living creatures who just tried to eat us." Atlantis scoffed. "And they destroyed your museum." This clearly hit a nerve, for Egypt frowned a little and shot another demon. They had been at the museum, looking at the remains of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Ramses the Third – which in their world tour somehow ended up in Berlin – when those weirdo demons started swarming in and killing everybody. And an earthquake caused a piece of plaster to fall right onto Tutankhamun's skull. Which did not make any of the three history lovers very happy. They quickly fled the museum – passing by Germany and Italy along the way – and ended up somewhere in the middle of town.
"Poor Tut." Persia said softly. Egypt nodded.
"I want to go back to the museum." He mumbled, a pained look in his eyes.
"We can't! There are probably more of those things over there, and besides," Atlantis held up a phone. "We have to give this back to Germany. It looks like the same thing is happening over in China too."
"You read his text messages?" Persia asked. "Seriously?"
"Yup!" Atlantis chirped. "And I am not gonna tell you what some of them say. He was texting this girl and…" She laughed. "Germany's a pervert. I'm so gonna tease him."
"Great." Persia said. She sliced open the torso of one of the demons, grimacing as its blood splattered on her arms. "But first we have to find them."
"Well, yeah. But that shouldn't be too hard." Atlantis said. A final blast from her bazooka blew the rest of the creatures up. Atlantis looked around. The streets were unfamiliar, the signs all written in German gibberish. Atlantis wasn't about to let something as simple as language barriers deter her, though. She walked over to one of the sign and stared at it. The letters blurred together, so she blinked and squinted at the sign. Shaking her head, Atlantis moved over to the other signs, staring and squinting at them. "They went this way." She said, pointing down a street.
"How can you tell?" Persia asked. There was the slightest hint of doubt in her voice.
"I just can." Atlantis shrugged and began walking down the street. Reluctantly, Egypt and Persia followed. They walked down the road, stepping over bits of rubble and hopping over holes. They came across another intersection, with more then one road to choose from.
"Now which way?" Persia asked. Atlantis hesitated. Persia smiled. "Come on, use your built in navigation system to show us the way." She and Egypt laughed quietly. Atlantis frowned, offended. Before she could retaliate, a familiar scream echoed down from one of the streets.
"That way." Atlantis grinned triumphantly. Sure enough, they came upon Italy and Germany, who were fighting their own demons.
"Geeermanyyyyyyyy!" Italy screamed, running around in circles and waving a white cloth. Though what that was supposed to do, Atlantis couldn't tell.
"Shut up!" Germany growled, firing bullets into the creature's skulls. "Get away from here if you aren't going to fight!"
"Hey, don't yell at my brother like that! Potato lover!" Romano spat on the ground. Atlantis blinked. She hadn't known that he was here too.
"Well, he isn't doing anything! And come to think of it, neither are you!" Germany said.
"Need some help?" Persia asked. Germany finally noticed the three of them.
"Oi, what are you doing here? And no, we don't. We're doing just fine." Romano said, shooting a demon with his pistol.
"Yes, thank you." Germany murmured, though he looked reluctant to ask for help. Atlantis fired a round at the demons. They exploded with a loud boom. Italy jumped and started whimpering.
"Hey, ugly! Look at what you did to Italy!" Romano glowered at Atlantis.
"Whatever! I was trying to help!" Atlantis scoffed. Persia glared at Romano, daring him to argue. Egypt, too, set a stony glare at Romano.
"Let us help, please." Egypt said, though with all the stressful things that had just happened, his voice sounded threatening. Romano jumped and nodded.
"Yeah, yeah. Just don't slow us down." Romano said. With the six of them – though it was really more like five – they managed to defeat the creatures with only a little bit of trouble.
"So," Germany said, wiping his brow. "What are you guys doing here?"
"We came here to see the museum." Persia said. At the mention of the museum, Egypt looked glum again.
"I see. I'm sorry about that." Germany said this mainly to Egypt, noticing his expression.
"It's okay. Oh! And here!" Atlantis said. She held Germany's phone out to him and smirked. "So who's Anna?" Germany snatched the phone out of her hand.
"You – " Germany sputtered. "You read my text messages?" He stared at his phone in horror.
"Yeah. I never knew you were that type of person." Atlantis laughed in disbelief. "Seriously, that's terrible."
"Anna is just a friend!" Germany said, his face turning a bit red. The group had begun to walk again, though mainly as something to do instead of having an actual destination.
"Really? Ick. If that's how you talk to your friends…" Atlantis said. "Anyway, Japan texted you back." Germany flipped open his phone and noticed the response.
"The same thing is happening in China?" Germany asked, bewildered. The others nodded. "Mein gott, what is going on?" His fingers fumbled as he clicked back a reply.
Yes. I am okay. Sorry. I lost my phone. Where are you now? Are you all right?
Japan did not reply for several moments. Yes. He said eventually. I am driving somewhere. Not sure about the exact location, but I think It's somewhere near Greece...? I cannot respond right away, but I think we should all meet up. We should get ahold of the others and all find a place to meet up. The G-8 meeting place, perhaps? The new one in Belarus. Please let everyone else know as well If that Is okay with you.
Yes. That Is fine by me. I shall try and get ahold of everyone else. Germany responded. Japan, true to his word, did not respond. "Right. Atlantis, Persia, can you try calling some people? It would be really helpful."
"No problem." Persia said, flipping open her phone. Atlantis did the same. She clicked 'Britain' out of her contacts and pushed send. The dial tone was painfully loud.
"Hello, you've reached – "
"Britain!" Atlantis said. "Hey, are you okay?"
"…I'm sorry I can't get ahold of you at the moment, but leave your number and I'll try to call back later. Oh, and if this is France, then go bugger off." The phone said. Atlantis cringed.
"Dang it…" She muttered. She quickly left him a voicemail. Atlantis looked at Persia, who was talking on the phone. "Who are you talking to?" She asked.
"Turkey." Persia mouthed, before resuming talking. She hung up a moment later. "They're freaking out – he has Greece with him and they ran into those creatures." She rolled her eyes a bit. "At least Japan is close, maybe he can come across them." She sighed.
"I wish our brothers would learn how to get along." Atlantis said.
"I know. All Turkey really said was – 'I'm not gonna work with this guy. This is so ridiculous' in that weird accent of his." Persia said.
"I managed to contact Prussia and let him know that we are going to meet up in the new G-8 place." Germany said.
"Right." Atlantis said. She clicked Canada from her contact list and pushed the send button. She got voice mail with him too. "What – argh!" She glared at her phone. She thought about calling Lithuania, but then decided against it. He was probably with Russia, anyway. Sighing, she shook her head. "Does anyone have Russia's phone number? We should probably call him too." The others shook their heads.
"No, and I'm guessing none of you have Sealand's number either." Germany said. They shook their heads again. "Right…well, for now all we can do is move to the meeting place. We can call the others along the way."
"Yeah, okay." Atlantis said. She couldn't help but feel worried about Greece, Canada and Britain, but she tried not to let it bother her. Germany led them all to his car – which looked more like a tank then a car – and they all got inside. Atlantis's bazooka was digging painfully into her side and she sat wedged in between Italy, Persia and Egypt. Romano sat in the front with Germany.
"Sorry it's a bit crowded." Germany apologized. Italy let out a squeak once he saw how close the blade of Persia's sword was to his face.
"It's okay." Persia mumbled with Egypt nodding his assent. "Just please hurry." With that, Germany drove off, leaving the damaged city of Berlin behind.