Author's note: Here it is, the last official chapter. Mostly about what happened throughout the night to the other countries while Austria and Hungary were asleep but those two do appear briefly. Bit of a random crazy chapter but why not go out with a bang? ^-^
Chapter 4: The Trouble Throughout the Night (and morning)
Italy's rapid paced description of the previous night's experiences got cut short by the sound of the local police trying to drag France away. France was trying to tell everyone in sight how he was innocent but the officers wouldn't stop. When Italy had placed the room service order last night he asked Romano for the number of the room they were in. The brother had immediately responded with the number for his original room which was currently occupied by France. Since hadn't ordered anything he let the worker in under the belief that it was some kind of role playing thing someone set up as a prank on Spain. He didn't hesitate to take advantage of what he thought was his good fortune. Freaked out by France's actions, the employee fought back and France thought it was all part of some game and "played along".
Well the door wasn't fully closed so the worker's screams for help were heard by America. Due to a bout of insomnia America had been roaming the hallways of the hotel. He had resorted to wandering because he already watched every movie the hotel's On Demand selection had to offer and beaten every video game the in room console supported. His alien sidekick was already asleep and it wasn't safe to wake him up in the middle of the night, so America thought a walk thought the halls was the best solution to keep from being bored. Having a hero complex and all, America burst through the door of what was now France's room and went to save the one calling for help. The very helpful nation then escorted the worker to the hotel's front desk where the police were called because of the employee's desire to press charges against a pervert. [In case anyone was interested it was NOT the same young man who came to Austria and Hungary's room earlier in the evening.]
The police were also looking for Switzerland. Actually, they were searching for whoever fired a shot in the middle of the night out into the halls of the hotel. It just happened to be Switzerland, but the police did not know this. Only ones who knew were Switzerland, his little sister Liechtenstein, and Italy. Two of them wouldn't admit it and the other was too busy attempting in find to locate Germany to have a clue what was going on around him.
While Italy was looking for Romano after being locked out of Germany's room, Switzerland and Liechtenstein's room was one of the doors he randomly knocked on. Since he was mostly asleep and figured he was dreaming about Italy crossing his borders without permission again, Switzerland used the handgun he smuggled into the hotel to fire at Italy, luckily missing by a sizeable margin. The shot woke up Finland and Sweden in the adjacent room. Finland opened his door and Italy tried to use him as a human shield just in case Switzerland fired off another shot before being dragged back into the room by his flustered little sister. This action by Italy angered Sweden, who knowing of the other nation's reputation with pretty women charged at him and yanked Finland away.
"Keep away from my wife", Sweden shouted before slamming his door in the Italian's face.
Apparently the fact that Finland was not actually a woman and therefore couldn't be a wife didn't seem to factor in to his reasoning. Once the police left discouraged about only being able to apprehend one perpetrator, Sweden approached Italy to demand a duel over Finland's honor. Austria was left to moderate and force Italy to explain himself while trying to calm Sweden down. Not an easy task by far considering Italy had no idea what he did wrong and Sweden actively blocked out everything Austria was saying. It didn't help that Sweden was an imposing presence compared to Austria and Prussia was egging him on. Eventually Austria switched tactics and demanded Finland talk sense into his husband much to the abashment of Finland.
While all this craziness was going on, Germany was trying to coax Japan out of his room, which is why he was not at breakfast. Japan had barricaded himself in his room and set up traps throughout it. Germany was unlucky enough to trip a few once he managed to convince a hotel supervisor to use his master key to unlock Japan's door. All the commotion during the night convinced Japan the hotel was under the attack and 'Germany' was an imposter sent to assassinate him. Who could really blame him for believing the place had become a target of some violent organization.
Everything started when the echo of gunfire startled him awake. Persuading himself it was all just his imagination, Japan attempted in vain to return to sleep. Loud cracking noises followed by a door being ripped off its hinges in accompaniment to screams, begging, and whimpering coming from Russia's room deepened his suspicions. Next, breaking glass as it shattered against the hard floor coming from what should have been France's room, in Japan's mind, confirmed that someone was staging a siege of the building. Somewhere in the distance he could hear America shouting "I'll save you!" as the fighting a few doors down intensified. It took Japan's boss demanding he come out of the room and stop dishonoring their people with his cowardice for him to finally leave and show his face at breakfast.
Downstairs, reports of the place being haunted made Japan regret his decision to abandon the safety of his room. Not that the hotel was haunted. Italy thought Canada was a ghost and told everyone a spirit had opened the door when he knocked on it. Then the next thing he saw was part of a bear's face glaring at him and telling Italy to "Go Away". Every worker or guest he passed after that encounter he told recounted his experiences with the otherworldly presences in room 1313. Some of the countries conversed about how they thought the heard someone speaking to them only to discover nothing there when they turned around. Canada hovered near the group just happy to be mentioned in conversation despite going unnoticed. Germany had to physically restrain Japan with some unasked for 'assistance' from Italy to keep the highly superstitious nation from bolting out of the dining area.
During the confusion China was pulled aside by the hotel manager and shown a paper.
"Care to explain this sir?"
Trying to avoid where the question would lead China responded, "What makes you think this has something to do with me?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe how you are Mr. China and the offending properties are collectively named Chinatown?" stated the irate manager who had enough of all the problems in the last 24 hours which could be traced back to his international guests to even feign politeness.
"Would lifetime discounts to all our shops persuade you to call us even?" suggested China hopefully.
"No it would not. Unless you want a lawsuit, you'll go discuss this with the town board and zoning committee. Then you WILL pay the fines we incurred because of your Chinatown being erected out of nowhere."
To explain the situation we need to back to the previous night. When China arrived at the hotel he overheard a conversation between Hungary and Austria. Hungary had been unsatisfied with her food on the flight over and something had fallen out of her bag as they disembarked. She wanted Austria to let her get food at the hotel restaurant and go shopping either in the hotel stores or somewhere nearby to replace the object. Austria refused because everything in and around the hotel was far too expensive.
This got China to thinking of how profitable it would be to have a Chinatown near the hotel. If everything else was so pricey, the guests would purchase goods and foods from there instead because those stores would be more affordable to a traveler on a budget. Before he knew it a Chinatown was built on the extremely expansive vacant lot bordering the hotel. In their haste to have everything erected by the morning, the construction crew failed to thoroughly research the property. As it turns out, the property was listed as belonging to the group which owned the hotel. So the papers the manager handed China were citations from the city and zoning committee for building structures on the land without the proper permits and creating shops in an area which wasn't zoned for a shopping district. Both citations came with hefty fines and penalties. Due to the Chinese builders being at fault, not the hotel, China had no choice but to explain what happened to the regional officials and pay the fines.
All this aside, the convention turned out to be as disastrous and problematic as the hotel stay, mostly because a majority of the countries were still angry about something and taking their aggressions out on each other. Both facilities were quite ecstatic watching the countries return home so things could go back to how they normally were. [Not to mention repair the damage and otherwise clean up the place without having to worry about starting back at square one the moment something was completed.] All parties involved did agree on one thing however by the end of the weekend.
This was the Most Eventful Convention EVER.
Author's Note: As mentioned previously, unless there is an interest for the omake chapter from the view of the hotel/convention staff this is the final chapter so I'm listing this as completed. Thanks for reading.