"This place really is a little unsettling, though," said France, standing near the strange smelling room.
England just stood there, deep in thought.
"Hey, is there something wrong? You're not usually this quiet…" France asked, glancing at England skeptically.
"Oh no, everything's fine! I'm just thinking!" replied England with a wave of his hand.
"Thinking about what?" asked China.
"Oh, just…things! You know, like how it's unsettling, as France said earlier!" said England. "Though I haven't been bothered by anything for a while now…" he muttered, looking around.
"You mean that bunny you always talk about isn't here? Maybe we should stay out then…" said France, smiling a little.
"Fine then. I'll leave you two to search down here while I go upstairs to look."
"Can I come with you? I don't really like this floor!" said England.
"You're leaving me all alone?" France asked, a little mad. When England nodded his head frantically, France just sighed and said, "Whatever… But when you're done looking around, let's meet up here again."
"Okay, okay. Let's go psycho," said China.
"Hey! I thought I told you not to call me psycho!" said England.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. So, how about we meet up again in thirty minutes," said China.
"Right, that sounds good," said France, walking away.
"Hey, where are you going?" China called.
"I'm saving the best for last," said France, continuing to walk.
"Okay, good idea!" said England. "So, let's go! Otherwise my little Alfie might get mad at me for being so slow, and you know what happens when he gets mad~!"
"Yes, of course…" said China, inwardly shuddering. "Hey, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine! Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason," said China as he started walking towards the stairs.
"Wait up!" shouted England, quickly following. When they reached the top of the stairs, they looked in the two rooms on the third floor, and after finding nothing but a piano in one room and lots of books in the other, they headed to the fourth floor. The first room they searched had nothing of too much importance in it, so the two moved on to the next room. Immediately after walking in, England walked over to the chair that was sitting in the middle of the room..
"This looks like a chair my counterpart told me about!" he said, looking it over.
"Yes, and it looks cursed too," said China, looking at it from a distance.
"Yes, yes, I believe it is!" said England with a smile.
"Then why don't you walk away from it?"
"Oh, it wouldn't be able to curse me~!"
"…How did I not know that…"
"So, we've come all the way to the top!" England said as he turned away from the chair. "And the air smells just like that room down on the second floor!"
"Same with that unsettling feeling, so let's just hurry up and get out of here."
"Oh, are you scared~?"
"Tch, no. I was doing something before you all dragged me into this haunted mansion, and I really don't want to leave it alone for too much longer."
"Ah, I see! I'll just-"
Suddenly, there were several loud bangs from downstairs.
"Well, I haven't heard that sound in a while!" said England.
"Wasn't that America's pistol?" China asked.
"Yes, it was! This means something very bad must have happened! He usually only uses his bat!"
"…Are you sure it wasn't just because of Russia…?"
"Yes, that could be…" said England, a little bit worried now. "Though I'd think he would know better than to attack Russia…"
"So maybe it wasn't Russia…"
"You're really worrying me!" said England. "Could you please stop!"
"Psh, whatever psycho… We should probably head back downstairs and make sure the others are okay."
"Right, of course! Let's go!"
They quickly headed downstairs, but when they reached the second floor, England said, "I suppose we should wait for France!"
China sighed and said, "I guess…"
After about fifteen minutes, they were starting to get a little impatient.
"Where do you think he is?" England asked, looking down the halls.
"I don't know… It really shouldn't take him this long to see the second floor, unless he found something that interested him?"
"Yes, or perhaps he went downstairs when he heard the gunshots!"
"Yeah, he really does get bored easily, doesn't he? I'll look around on this floor, just in case."
China walked away from England and headed to the room that he knew France would most likely be in: the one with the bad smell. When he entered, he didn't see France, but he did see burnt firewood in the fireplace.
"So this is the source of the bad smell? Interesting…wait, what's this?"
China looked closer and saw that he was correct.
"These are Japan's clothes…and they're covered in blood. Plus there are remains of other things too. I wonder what happened…"
After glancing around the rest of the room, China left, unable to find France. He then walked back to England to report what he had found.
"Did you find him?" England asked as China walked up.
China didn't answer, still thinking about what he had seen.
"What's wrong? Are you actually scared?" England asked, waving a hand in front of China's face.
"No, I already told you I'm not!"
"Hey, what are you holding?" England asked, inspecting the things in China's hands.
"It's Japan's clothes. I found them in a fireplace, and they're half-burnt."
"Hey, that looks like blood! And what do you mean they're Japan's clothes?"
"They're Japan's clothes, that's what I mean, which means that this place must be really dangerous if even Japan got hurt. I'll look for him and then we can go home," China muttered.
"No, no, that's not what I meant! I meant, why would Japan be here in the first place? We only came here because of America's story! And you know how he always messes with us! This is probably just one of his awful jokes!"
"Yeah, but this is still weird…"
"On top of that, you said you talked to Japan about it, and he said that if it was America's idea, he would stay as far away as possible from this mansion! And then when we arrived at the mansion, you sent him a message saying, "We're here, and not dead yet," and he replied, "Whatever, have fun." And he sent that from the meeting place!"
"Well yeah…"
"Just think about it, he's probably still in the meeting place right now! There's no way he could have gotten here before us!"
"Then how do you explain these? They wouldn't be in the fireplace if Japan wasn't here."
"Well, yes, that's true… But like I said, it's probably just one of America's pranks!" England said, before suddenly realizing something. "Wait, why are you suddenly so worried about Japan?"
"I'm not worried, just curious. And besides, France is missing, America used his gun, and now I found Japan's clothes. I say we get out of here before we're really killed."
"Yes, alright! Let's go talk to the others then and see if we can find out anything else!"
So the two of them finally headed downstairs to look for the others. They heard a loud noise and headed towards the kitchen-ish room. Upon entering, they saw a big gray monster.
"What's that?!" England asked, surprised.
"Yes, what is that monster?" China asked, equally surprised.
"Well, you two sure took your time," said Russia. "As you can see, we're being attacked right now."
"R-Right, w-we're v-v-very s-sorry!" stuttered England.
"You had better run," said Canada.
Suddenly, the monster attacked Canada. Russia immediately slashed at it.
"R-Russia!" stuttered Canada.
"Well, that hurt," said Russia, looking at his new wound. "And it looks like I'll need a new weapon."
All the nations in the room took a step away from Russia, not wanting to be his next weapon. But Russia slashed at it again with a new weapon, and it stumbled back a little.
"W-Wait, since when did you have a sword?" asked China, stepping back even more.
"Well, I stole it from Japan, of course. How else was I going to get a weapon? And actually this is a sword cane."
Russia slashed at the monster even more, making it stumble back against the wall.
"Good job, R-Russia," said China, now against the wall along with the others.
"But it didn't even do anything," muttered Canada.
Russia glared at the Canadian, making him cringe and wish he hadn't said anything.
"W-We should help him," said England.
"R-Right, of course," said China.
All four of them tried their hardest, but since it was their first time fighting the monster, they were all defeated.
"Ow…" said Canada, holding his wounds.
"Well, that didn't work," said Russia, looking up at the monster confusedly, ignoring his wounds.
"Hey, England, you barely did anything during that fight," shouted China.
"Oh, sorry! You know how I don't like getting my hands dirty!"
China just rolled his eyes and muttered, "Well, I don't have much strength left, and I'm sure it's the same for everyone else…"
Hearing that, the monster went over to attack the two of them.
"Ah, wait a s-"
Suddenly, Japan came out of nowhere and slashed at the monster.
"Tch, weaklings…" he said while glancing at everyone except for Russia.
"Wait, Japan?!" England asked, extremely surprised.
"Yeah. Now then, talk later, fight now," said Japan, trying to get on with the fight before the monster took him by surprise.
"So you did come here?" China asked, completely ignoring what Japan had just said.
"Yes, I did!" Japan shouted. "Now let me fight this thing!"
China hurriedly shut up and let Japan fight.
"Are you sure you can do it by yourself?" Russia asked.
"Yes, I'll be fine. Hmm, you're all hurt pretty badly…" Japan said with an amused smirk. "Oh well, you'll heal. Now, on with the fight!"
Japan then quickly defeated the monster with his katana, making it disappear.
"Wait, have you fought that monster before?" England asked Japan.
"Well, yeah, but you've fought it before too. You got here before us after all," Japan said as he sheathed his katana.
"We haven't even been here for an hour yet, so we haven't run into any monsters. And we thought you were still at the meeting place," China said.
"Yeah, that's true. China said himself that Japan had sent a message to him from the meeting place," Russia said.
"Right, then Italy got really curious and wanted to go too, so we dragged Germany and Prussia along with us," Japan said.
"Yeah, but we've really only been here for less than an hour, and it takes about three hours to get here from the meeting place…" said Canada, still confused.
"It seems that there's a lot we need to talk about. Let's go to the safe room on the second floor now," Japan said, heading for the exit.
"Wait, before we do, what about your clothes? I found them in the fireplace upstairs, and they're covered in blood," said China.
"Oh yeah, those."
"So…aren't you hurt?" China asked.
"Well, that's actually tomato…" said Japan.
"Tomato?" asked China.
"Yes. I'm fine, really. Now let's hurry up and get to the safe place before something bad happens."
"Alright…" said China.
Japan then led them all to the safe room, but when he saw that the others weren't there, he left to find the others. He went to the room that he found Germany in first, finding both Italy and Germany. He walked up to Italy and said, "I found the others, so let's go."
"Okay. Ehi, debole, let's go!" Italy shouted into the strange doorway.
"Right, fine," said Germany, walking out of the door.
"Why do you keep wanting to go in there anyway, idiota?"
"It's just…interesting in there," he said.
"Could you be any vaguer?" Italy asked with a shake of his head.
"Come on, let's go, the others are waiting," said Japan.
"Hey, have you seen my bruder?" Germany asked.
"No, I haven't," said Japan.
"I'm sure he's just sleeping somewhere," said Italy.
"Yeah, you're probably right," said Germany.
The three of them then left the room and went to the safe room, meeting up with the others.
"Sorry for the wait. This baka didn't want to leave his interesting tunnel thing," said Japan. "Anyway, as you know, I received the text from China saying that you were all here, and Italy thought it would be a good idea to come here too. So Germany, Italy, Prussia, and I came here. I went to look around first, and while I was gone, that monster attacked the other three."
"Were you okay? After all, that monster was pretty strong!" said England
"Yeah, we were fine zucchero filato signora. For some reason, though, it was targeting me, but I was eventually able to lose it."
"Yeah, that's not surprising," said China.
"Right, so eventually we all got together and spent the night in this room, since we had a key to it," said Japan.
"Ah, the night…" muttered Russia.
All the nations in the room shuddered before continuing the conversation.
"Hey, there's no more firewood," said Italy.
"Let's just burn this wooden box," said Germany.
Ignoring them, Japan said, "Anyway, we decided that one of us should stay up to keep watch while the others slept. We shouldn't have let Prussia do it, that's for sure… So when we woke up, I saw that Prussia was gone and that there were bloodstains in the hallway. I followed them, but eventually…"
"The trail ended," Russia guessed.
This annoyed Japan a little, but since it was Russia, he decided to keep his mouth shut.
"We tried to look for him, but since I was with this coward, we just went to those strange tunnels and let Japan continue the search. So then he found you, right?" asked Italy.
"Yeah, I did. But…where are the lunatic and France?"
"Well, the six of us came here and then split up into two groups! China, France, and I went to check out the second floor while Russia, America, and Canada stayed on the first floor!" said England.
"The second floor was really unsettling, so the psycho and I went to check out the third and fourth floors," said China. "When we had finished looking around, we came back to the second floor and waited for France. Since he didn't come, I went to look for him. I found Japan's burnt clothes in this room and wondered what had happened."
"So we came back down to the first floor and found Russia and Canada fighting that thing! But it disappeared the first chance it got!" said England.
"Oh really, I never noticed," Japan then paused to glare at the others before continuing. "By the way, doesn't it look like a friend of that lunatic's?"
"Yeah, I noticed it too. Its name was, umm…" said China, pausing to think.
"Wasn't it Tommy or something?" Germany suggested.
"Yes, I believe that was it! So, do you think this was my little Alfie's doing?" England asked. "He is the one who first heard about this place, after all!"
"Oh, so this is just a prank of that crazy idiota? Then let's go looking for him," said Italy, already heading towards the door.
"No, you're wrong," said Canada.
A/N: Yay, finally done! XD This one was even longer than the last one! Hope you liked it!
EDIT: Okay, so I changed a bit more in this one, but I hope you still like it! XD