hi everyone! this is a collaboration between me and my lovely friend tey, who's MyCatIsOn in AO3 where she's going to publish it :) please check her and her other wonderful stories out!

we'll update once a week!

all odd chapters are written by tey, all even chapters are written by me!

disclaimer: i don't know hetalia nor kiki's delivery service, they belong to hidekaz himaruya and studio ghibili respectively!


"Young man, do you need something?"

Arthur gripped his broom tighter in his hands before lifting his gaze up to meet the driver. The engine had become quieter now, but it still chortled away. How did it keep going without someone working it?

"Um…no," Arthur said awkwardly, shifting his weight from side to side. "Except, um, does this road lead to a town?"

"Well, you're in luck! It does, in fact. A lovely little town by the sea," the driver nodded, adjusting his glasses merrily. "Just follow the road to the end, where you'll see a huge clock tower."

Arthur's eyes went wide. This was so much more than he had been hoping for! He'd never even expected that there would be such a beautiful structure so far into his trip.

"T-thank you, sir!" he said hurriedly, mounting his broom and standing on his tiptoes. "Thank you so very much!"

With a whoosh, he jumped off the ground and flew excitedly towards the direction of the road, a beam on his face.

"Was that a real witch?" the driver muttered to himself as he got into his car and turned the ignition back on. "I'd never thought I'd live to see the day."

"AAARTHURR!" Popcorn wailed, digging in his claws into the soft fabric of his bag. "Why are we going so fast?"

"I think we've found the perfect town!" Arthur said, kicking his legs merrily as they soared above the bicycles and the cars on the road they were following. "It should have a view of the ocean, right? Rolling fields, small cottages, and a clock tower? It sounds like something out from my books!"

"Yeah, but didn't you say something about walking and finding food?"

"No time!" Arthur sang, turning on the radio once he was confident that the drivers below wouldn't hear it. "We'll pick up something when we get there. Our new town awaits!"

They continued on the long, gray road, cheerful and sweet music filling their trip instead of the usual shouty football commentary.

"Arthurrr, I think some people are staring at us," Popcorn meowed, flicking his tail from side to side as he peered over Arthur's broom and spotted two humans standing completely still with their heads raised to the sky. "Should we climb down and walk instead?"

"But we're almost there," Arthur insisted, trying his best to ignore his cat's complaining. "And we're flying…it's near a large town so I suppose people will be staring."

"That doesn't mean I'll have to put up with it!" Popcorn growled, but Arthur shoved his satchel behind his back so he could balance the weight on his broom better. He really needed to get his cat fitter before they could fly for longer periods of time.

After twenty more minutes of flying, Arthur spotted a tall, cream coloured structure right in front of them. Buildings in all shapes and sizes, from cottages with thatched roofs and large bricked buildings flanked it, however it was still the tallest thing in sight.

"Popcorn!" he whispered, wiggling his satchel so it hung off his hip again. "I think we're here."

Popcorn stretched his huge tail before peering wide eyed at the scenery in front of them.

"So? What do you think? Do you think there's someone in the clock tower?" Arthur babbled on eagerly, excitement growing in his throat.

"Does he count?" he meowed, jutting out his pink nose in the direction of the faint shape of a person.


Arthur craned his neck, his ribbon bobbing on top of his head to peer closer at the person as they flew closer. He quickly found himself in almost direct proportion to the huge clock face, the two slender hands merrily ticking away as a tall man with blond hair came out of a small door with a long brush.

"Should we ask him if there's any other witches in the neighbourhood?" Arthur asked, hovering for a moment uncertainly.

It wasn't a taboo or illegal in witches' law to have more than one witch live in a town for their apprenticeships at the same time, but it was frowned upon because the custom was to have a trainee witch to be as independent as possible while still remaining true to their customs.

"Excuse me, sir?" Arthur called as he floated closer, and the man stopped still for a moment, his back to the young witch.

"Sir?" Arthur asked, flying so close that his black flats were dangling right in front of the balcony.

The blond man paused for another moment, rubbing his hand over his slicked back hair before turning over with one of the most terrifying and intimidating expression on his face that Arthur had ever seen.

Yelping in surprise, Arthur swung back for a moment, his feet wavering precariously in mid air for a moment before the stranger's expression calmed down and relaxed into a far less scarier (but still very, very stern) face.

"Mein Gott, I'd never thought I'd ever see the day," he muttered, placing down his brush. His ice blue eyes pierced Arthur.

"State your business in this city."

"Um, hello…my name is Arthur, and I'm a witch in training. Could I ask if there are any other witches here in this town?" he asked, placing his feet back onto the railing.

"No," he said gruffly. "I would have seen them when they entered this town. The name's Ludwig, if you must know. Are you really a witch?"

Arthur's expression was indignant as he quickly nodded.

"O-of course! I'll have you know that I'm an immediate trainee effective from last night!"

Ludwig seemed to accept this with a grunt, and there was an odd silence before Arthur spoke again.

"Er, so about my apprenticeship, is there anywhere you think I might settle?"

"No, I do not believe so. I suppose you could take a quick fly around the city, perhaps?" Ludwig offered, brushing off some dust from his strong looking arms.

"…that sounds like a good idea, actually." Arthur said, pushing back his satchel yet again and kicking off from the railing, quickly thanking and waving to Ludwig before he soared back down into the town.

It was a lot more bustling and loud than Arthur thought it was going to be, the chatter of the people and the noises of the newfangled transportation that he only had read about in storybooks making him slow down and float forward rather than zipping around the city like he'd planned before.

"Arthur, we'd said before that I'd want you to slow down, but this is going a little too slow," Popcorn complained, peering down from his satchel into the people below. "They're staring…"

"Well, Ludwig said that there wasn't a witch in the town as of right now, so I'm not exactly surprised." Arthur said, but couldn't help the feeling of being stared at by adults and children alike.

"Hey, what's with them staring at us?" Popcorn hissed, raising his hackles and baring his teeth at a gaggle of teenagers sitting in a car. "You're just jealous!"

"Don't be silly, Popcorn," Arthur said, but his tone was uncertain as he hovered high above a bridge, hearing the commotion underneath him as he passed and flew back down. "Perhaps we should stop for lunch…is there a nice bakery somewhere? Maybe we could eat some pasta, or do you think they serve some good bangers and mash here? I definitely hope they do-"

Popcorn yowled in shock, but Arthur was so engrossed in his own thoughts of delicious, smoking hot bangers and mash that he didn't notice the large double decker bus moving around a corner to meet him. With a screech, he swerved wildly, his broom jerking out of control as it was not familiar with the owner. Before Arthur could realize it, the broom had taken more control, swerving and sliding alongside cars and other carriages before they came to a breathless stop just outside a corner on a bridge.


Gilbert was goofing around like a stupid madman when he saw the thing in the sky.

"Alfie, why are you removing your sunglasses? It is trés hot today, no?" Francis said. He was one of his friends that had moved from a strange country named France, that apparently made his tone like a cat's purr and sent shivers down Alfred's spine every time he rolled his r's.

"No, I just saw somethin'. You know, in the sky and stuff?"

"Ooh, is it a bird?" Antonio asked. He was the third in the Bad Friends Trio, a gang that Alfred hung out with a lot of the time. He usually brought along his best friend Matthias, a boy that had come from the cold, wet North of the world.

"Dunno," Matthias snickered, popping a sweet in his mouth. "Maybe Al's just seeing stuff because we have Flying Club meeting soon/"

"No, I'm not!" Alfred protested wildly, pulling on his orange and white striped shirt irritably. "I saw it, I swear!"

The four of his friends nodded, continuing to eat their ice cream. Alfred had guzzled his down in a flash anyway, but they decided to allow him to ramble on. It wasn't the first time Alfred had gotten excited over a flying thing, when the first plane had flew over their little town Alfred had practically ran over a small boy trying to keep up with the machine.

"Heh, he's gonna tell us there's a flying person next," Gilbert snarked, pulling Alfred over for a moment and ruffling his hair. "Leave the birdwatchers to the pros, kid."

Alfred pouted, sticking out his bottom lip. Gilbert thought for a moment that he might have found that cute, but he couldn't help but think of his cute brother instead.

"Wait - what is that thing?" Francis said, abruptly stopping in the pavement right between a shoe shop.

"A bird?" Antonio chirruped.

"NO, you clueless fool," Gilbert snorted, his rough accent thickening on the first word. "Alfred already said-"

"It's him! From this morning!" Alfred cried, and began rushing out onto the road when Matthias pulled the edge of his striped shirt and yanked him back onto the cobbled stones.

"All right, all right, we believe you," he said, looking up uncertainly into the sky where something, someone was floating above them. "But don't getchaself killed,aight?"


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