Chapter 3 What's a Ao Oni?

Me: Hello everyone, I'm back.

Tara: Sorry we took so long, lots of typing for Kyla.

Me: Well than, enjoy the chapter. Oh! And you can pair me up with anyone, I don't care but it won't be official.

Tara & England: Piano! (Who's Idea Was This?!)

Tara and England pant from exhaustion, they made it all the way to the piano room. Now, they want to take a break.

Like that's ever going to happen.

England stands up straight, "Okay," he pants, "We'll examine this room before the others get here."

Tara nods, "Alright. Um, first, this piano…"

Tara points to the keys of the piano, "It has these numbers, you see."

The numbers on the keys are all mixed up; it starts off and keeps going in this order:

235147283695

England just stares at them, puzzled, "I'm not sure what they're supposed to mean." He looks over to Tara, "Was there something we needed numbers for?"

Tara adjusts her glasses, "No."

England puts a hand on his chin, "Hmm…"

England walks over to the bookshelves and searches through the books.

Tara looks at the numbers more, "Numbers…" she mumbles, "they must be a code for something. Something that uses numbers…"

She thinks for a minute, "Numbers… puzzles… security, too. So, security breach… but this house isn't high-tech, so… a safe or something…"

"Hey!" Tara snaps her head up, England walks over to the door and speaks, "The books in this room are nothing special, so wait here while I go next door. There are a lot of books there, so I'll leaf through them."

Tara nods and speaks softly, "Oh, okay. Just… be careful."

England opens the door and exists, Tara shacks her head trying to remember something, "Um… What was I thinking about again? I forgot it when I talked to England…"

Tara waltzes around the piano and has her back facing the door, "First, the piano." She mumbles to herself, "God, America's always getting us into trouble. Why can't he be a little more considerate? I mean-"

The door opens, and Tara still has her back facing it, "Oh, is that you, England?" Tara asks, "I'm sorry; I haven't looked here yet. Also! We were told not to do anything alone, remember? I'm coming with you this time."

Tara turns around; it wasn't England, ITWASSTEVE!

"Whoa!" Tara screams, 'Wh-wha-wha-wha-what-' She screams mentally.

Tara doesn't move a muscle, the thing looks around the room, in search for its victim.

'Wh-wh-why did this happen just when I'm alone?!' Tara yells mentally, 'Maybe the others got killed? No! Kyla! England! No, I can't think like that. Wh-wh-wh-what am I going to do?'

Tara moves her eyes around the room in search for something. Her eyes land on the piano.

{Pretend you're a piano!} A voice screams.

Tara just stands still, the monster keeps looking around the room, 'H-huh? Is it even… seeing… me?'

{Keep pretending you're a piano!} The voice yells.

'I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano… I am a piano…'

"I… Eh… This… Dis… I… Azz…" Tara is hit on the head by something and falls to the ground with a thump, 'I…' she thinks, 'I can't see anything… Please… Anything but the dark…'

"Tara!" a voice yells. "Oh God! Please! Don't be dead!"

Tara feels herself being shaken back and forth, "Open your eyes! Please!"

"Egh… Ha… uh?" She answers, she hesitantly opens her eyes, "… Wh… Whaz'happened?"

"Oh thank God!" she feels arms wrapped around her. She doesn't move much, she slowly wraps her arms around the person and nuzzles her head into its chest.

"En-England?" she stutters, "What happened?"

England unwraps his arms, but still is holding Tara by the shoulders.

"I don't know!" England explains, "I came back and you were lying on the floor, near the piano, in a pool of blood!"

"Ah… I…" Tara rubs her head, she touches something and hisses in pain. She lightly touches the thing. It was a gash…

"You scared me half to death!" England yells, "Did something happen?!"

Tara slowly puts her hand down, "Ah… Hem… No… I can't remember very well… I'm glad you didn't run into it… Run into… what?"

Tara's eyes get shallow, and then she clutches her head, "Aouch… My head hurts… I… I don't think that creature will be coming to this room for a while… That's all I'm going to say."

Germany & Kyla: Safe and Sound (Oh~ Piece of Paper!)

Germany puts Kyla down and leans against the wall, Kyla gets up and tries to put weight on her wounded leg, but she just tumbles to the ground.

Germany catches her and supports her. Kyla sighs, "I don't want to be carried anymore."

Germany sighs, "Well, you can't walk properly… maybe you should just hop on one foot the whole time."

Kyla nods and stands on her unwounded leg, "That guy looks a little bigger than before." Kyla says, "Maybe we should go back and help them…"

"No," Germany says, "First, we must accomplish the mission that was giving to us. Japan can take care of himself. We must fully understand this house so that we also lighten his burden."

Kyla sighs, "Yeah, alright. Besides, if we run into Steve, I can't fight or run away so… I don't know."

"Duly noted. Anyway, let's search these rooms once more and then… Hum… report to England."

Kyla nods her head and smiles, "Okay! Let's do our best Germany!"

Germany takes Kyla's arm and puts it over his shoulder, "This will be a little easier, all right?"

Kyla nods and hobbles next to him.

They both looked in every room and tried the key in locked doors. Doesn't work so far. The dojo was the last option, there was a door on the side, and they tried the key in it.

It worked.

Germany and Kyla walk in and look around, there was a door that was also locked and sliding doors that don't look like they were locked.

Kyla hobbles over to one and the door slides right open. Kyla's eyes widen. STEVE!

Kyla doesn't care about the pain in her leg, she grabs Germany and runs at the speed of light. (Not literately of course)

Kyla drags Germany down the hall and Germany keeps cussing in German.

She gets all the way to the kitchen and tries the other door inside of it. It was unlocked surprisingly; Kyla throws Germany and herself into the room and locks the door behind her.

She falls to the ground and moans in pain. Germany runs over to her and picks her up, "Why did you do that?" he asks.

Kyla pants, "I wanted us to get away faster… but I just made my leg feel worst."

"Let me see it." Germany grabs her leg and lifts it up. He rolls up her pants leg and examines it.

Kyla blushes and says, "So… what's wrong with it?"

Germany keeps examining it and poking around. When he pokes her knee, Kyla yelps in pain. Germany just shacks his head.

"You just need to pop a bone in your knee. Hold on a second." Germany gets up and gives a really hard yank.

Kyla hears her leg crack and she yells in pain, "OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT HURTS!"

Germany's eyes widen, Kyla never said the word "Fuck" before.

"Does it feel better now?" Germany asks.

Kyla gets up and stands on her leg. She nods and yells, "What the HELL was THAT for?!"

Germany sighs, "Well, it worked, didn't it?"

Kyla ignores him and starts' searching the room, then yells, "It's a safe! Oh, but it's locked."

Germany goes next to her and says, "If it weren't, there wouldn't be any point in it." He looks at the safe, "It looks like a four-digit numeric combination… We still have insufficient information. Let's investigate a little more."

"Too bad." Kyla sighs.

Germany unlocks the door and exists with Kyla behind him.

They go back to the dojo and look around the new room. Kyla opens the sliding door and finds a piece of paper, "Hmmm, another piece of paper."

Germany goes over and looks at the paper, "It's similar to the one we found earlier. Here, let me take a look."

Germany takes the paper, "Hmmm…"

"~Move your dead bones, bones bones. Move your dead bones, bones bones. You'll dance for the rest of your life. ~"

"Moaargh!" Germany screams.

"Hiii!" Kyla also screams, "Don't scare me like that!"

"S-sorry. That sound- Isn't that your cell phone?"

"Eh? Oh, y-you're right. Why? Our phones don't get a signal here!"

"How am I suppose to know?! Answer it for god's sake. The music is getting annoying."

Kyla sighs and takes a sea-green and white designed cell phone, she looks at the screen, "It's a number-withheld call…"

She presses a button and puts it up to her ear, "E… Ellos?"

There is silence, but only one little piano note is played, "… dink." The phone goes dead.

"…Uh?"

Germany arches an eyebrow, "What's wrong?"

Kyla hangs up and puts the phone back into her pocket, "I'm not sure. I heard a sound and then the call was cut off."

"A sound?"

"The sound of a piano. It was only one note, though. I wonder what was that all about?"

"The sound of a piano? Hm… We have this piece of paper now, so let's go back to England. Japan and the others will probably join us there if all goes well, too."

Kyla nods, "Yeah. I'm worried about them. Mostly Tara…"

Japan, China, & Russia: Steve vs. Nations (NOT the finale battle!)

Japan, China, and Russia take out their weapons and get ready to battle.

"Everyone has escaped aru." China points out.

Japan nods, "Yes, everyone except us."

"It's not often the three of us get to do something together~" Russia says gleefully, "This is kind of fun!"

"I wish we would work together more harmoniously." Japan says.

"If you want to be all cheery and smiley, I have a sinking feeling…" China complains.

Japan sighs, "I suppose you are right. A union like this would be more fitting."

"Japan?" Russia asks, "Can't you just beat the thing with that amazing technique you used before?"

"Oh, well…" Japan answers, "you see, when I was under the impression that this was America's doing, I got a little exasperated at him. It was the last straw, and that was the result. Now that I know what's going on, I can no longer do it. My anger has completely faded away."

"When we go home, I'll treat you to your favorite Chinese dish." China says, "Until then, do your best aru!"

"Oh!" Japan says surprised, "I look forward to it. Well, then, that will certainly motivate me to escape."

"I want to eat it too~" Russia cuts in, "If we can get out of here alive, can I drop by your house? You won't mind, will you?"

China thinks for a moment, "If we get out of here alive, I'll think about it."

"… Let's go!" Japan yells.

All three of them attack the creature, they use their special skills sometimes.

Curse

Eight Extremities Fist

And Kolkhoze level 10

The creature says "dIE" over and over again.

When the creature is defeated, Japan looks over to the other two.

China fist pumps the air, "We won't lose a second time!" he puts down his arm, "But it's weird that it disappears like that… We can't whether we won or not."

"Well," Japan starts, "At least it won't pollute the environment." (A/N He seriously says that in the game! Not kidding!)

"Not quite~" says Russia, "Maybe this will never and it'll keep appearing. It's getting really tiring…"

Russia goes over to the dressers and rummages through them. China goes up to Japan and asks, "You're not hurt, are you?"

"No," Japan shacks his head, "your backup was perfect. Our opponent has also grown stronger compared with before. I would have had no chances had I fought alone." Japan bows, "Thank you very much for your help."

"Ah." Russia says.

"What is the matter, Russia?" Japan asks him.

Russia walks over to the others and shows them a triangled-shape stone; it was really small, about the size of your thumb.

"I found this in one of the drawers," Russia proclaims, "It's a little odd, is it?"

The stone starts to glow brightly. The men cover their eyes from it. When they uncovered their eyes, the stone was now a topaz.

"Oh~" Russia picks the gem up and examines it, "Isn't the topaz a birthstone for November?"

Japan nods, "Yes, but-"

Japan is cut off by a ringing sound. China looks over to Russia, "Russia, your cell phone is ringing!"

"Amazing~" Russia says cheerfully, "As so we got the life in that gem back, the phone began to work- or not, the antenna isn't up. Anyway, I'm going to answer it. And I'll make it so that you could both hear it."

Russia presses a button, "… Who is it?"

There is silence, but only one little piano note is played, "… dink." The phone goes dead.

"… Looks like we got cut off." Russia said.

"It's a bug!" China proclaims.

"I've never heard a 'phone bug'… What we heard was a piano." Japan says.

"A piano…" Russia repeats, "Anyway, we have nothing else to do here, so let's go back to England."

"Indeed." Agrees Japan, "If all goes well, Germany and Kyla should be able to join us there. Let's put everything in order here and hurry."

Me: There going to search for birthstones for everyone and this is how it's going to go:

Garnet: Spain

Amethyst: Emillee

Aquamarine: France

Diamond: Japan

Emerald: England

Pearl: Italy

Ruby: Germany

Peridot: America

Sapphire: Tara

Opal: Kyla

Topaz: Russia

Turquoise: China

Sorry for this short chapter, I tried. And like I said, I'm sorta doing this from the game, not a 100%.

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