Russia had put his arm through the loop my joined arms made being tied together, though the Flag hadn't yet been added. With that, he could easily hold on to me, barely daunted by my struggling.
"We got them all," Said Belarus, coming in through the door. "They're all in the conference room. We sealed the door so they wouldn't get out."
"Good!" Russia said, turning and dragging me along with him. "Bring me one called Washington." My eyes grew a bit wider as she left and I struggled harder.
"So you know what I'm talking about?" He said with a bit of a laugh, looking down at me.
I heard a commotion inside the state conference room, screams, Belarus demanding to see Washington, more screams, a long, loud high scream, and silence.
"All right!" I heard Washington say. "Don't hurt her." I couldn't help but wonder who 'her' meant but I never would know as Belarus came back with Washington in tow.
"He's here," She said, throwing him forward but he managed to keep from falling, standing up straight even though he was shorter than me and I wasn't even close to Russia's height.
Russia let me go, but I managed to straighten my legs out before I hit the ground, only to be forced to my knees by a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry," Washington said, looking to me. "Everything's going to be alright. We'll be fine. Just don't-" But he was cut short when, directly through his chest, came a sword. His eyes grew wide as blood stained the floor and he went limp, only held up by the sword.
My head began to hurt. Whenever something big happens in a countries land, they're affected in one way or another.
"Now," Russia said as Belarus tilted the sword forward and allowing him to slide off, hitting the ground hard, "Let's get this show started." And like that, he wrapped his arm around mine and dragged me into the conference hall where the bloodbath began.
My eyes slid open and I was somewhere else entirely. My arms were tied like they were before except around a cold pole where my back rested and my head was tilted up, looking at the Russian flag directly above me. My feet were tied and, to add insult to injury, the American flag, my American flag, was wrapped around the cuffs.
My head tilted down and I saw Germany once again struggling to break loose. He had told me the other day that while I had been in the trance and Russia had been showing the others that Germany had been kidnapped as well, he was told that the states were fine, but I couldn't forget what had been done.
I had changed so much since that happened. I didn't know if I would ever be the same. My eyes didn't hold the same childish excitement they always did. I didn't even want hamburgers.
"Hello my friends!" Said an all too cheery voice from the door. "I have brought you another friend!" And he came walking in, slinging a limp body over his shoulder. It was dark, but I could make out a hair that stuck up, sort of like mine, except his hair was dark. I hadn't seen him often, but I knew who he was, and that when he woke up, he would just be another victim.
"Any idea where the video was taken, Japan?" I asked, walking up behind the dark haired country and putting my hand on his shoulder, making him jump. Japan and I were together at my place, working hard on finding where the transmission was from. It was past midnight and Michigan was on my couch, keeping an eye out for any intruders.
"Not really," Japan said, turning his brown eyes from the computer screen to me. "It's difficult, but I think it will be a while."
"Don't work too hard," I said, removing my hand and setting a cup of tea on the desk. Japan had insisted that he take over while I was working on finding where they had come from, and I gratefully took the offer, relaxing on the couch with Michigan while drinking tea. America apparently had never given tea to any of the states. Figures. He changed to coffee after the revolutionary war, so it shouldn't surprise me that he never drank tea with any of them.
"I won't," Japan said, turning back to the computer, ignoring the tea completely. I let out a sigh and turned away. The nation worked hard often, and probably would go all night and well into the day if I didn't stop him. I'll give him to five before I make him get off.
I was opening the door, about to leave when the light from the computer on the wall turned red. I turned to see a location on a map lit up. "I-I think I got it," Japan said, turning to me as I looked over his shoulder. "I think that's it." I nodded, stunned. He had found it! I could get in there and show Russia exactly what he does when he messes with me.
"You did it!" I exclaimed, ready to start dancing when I remembered that I was with Japan. Dancing would have to be saved for later.
"We'll tell the other's tomorrow," Japan said, trying to hide a proud smile at what he had done. I wanted to groan and ask that we go immediately, but the look of exhaustion in his eyes made me change my mind about asking. He needed rest and I could use some too.
"All right," I said. "Let's hold a meeting tomorrow. Would you like to spend the night here?" I offered, taking in the distance between our houses, how late it was, and the fact that he would soon have the states also protecting him, but the other forty one were either recuperating, or helping others recuperate and couldn't help yet. Japan hesitated; I knew that he lived alone after the time I had spent at his house, before he nodded.
"If it's all right with you," he said politely.
"Its fine," I said, waving my hand like it was no big deal. "You've helped so much, why wouldn't I be all right with it? On the second floor down the hall, fourth door on the left there's a guest room. If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask me."
Japan nodded and went off to the guest room, and I knew even if he did need something, he wouldn't ask. I sighed again, walking back to the room where Michigan had her head in her hand and her elbow on the arm of the chair watching the door but was nearly asleep.
"He found something," I told her, jolting her back to being fully awake. "So we're going to go to bed now and will tell the others in the morning." Michigan nodded and stood up, following me to the stairs, though as we went up I saw she was falling asleep on her feet. Florida had told me that she had refused to sleep even while she wasn't on guard duty since she was too busy helping the other states.
I sighed again and walked back to where she had stopped, her eyes half closed. My arm slipped under hers, my other held up the back of her knees, and I carried her like that the rest of the way up the stairs, her falling asleep on my shoulder, reminding me a lot of America when he was young, and to my room where I set her down on the couch. It might be a bit dangerous to go unguarded but I would just have to take that chance.
From my bed I could see her clearly, and I watched her for a while, remembering when America was young, staying up until late in the night, waiting for me to get to his house, even though I told him not to, and I had to carry him to bed similarly. Well she wouldn't have to worry about that for long. We would soon go and get America out of there, and punish Russia for what he did.
Rolling over with these thoughts in my head, I fell asleep fast. We would just go there and find them, and everything would be all right. Maybe someday Russia would be able to rejoin everyone, and things could go back to the way they were. If only it worked out that way.
"What is it?" France asked, yawning loudly with Texas standing behind him, rolling his eyes. I had accidentally overslept and we were running later than I had hoped, but France still managed to be tired at about three PM.
"Thanks to Japan," I said, throwing a dark glare at France, "We've managed to track down where the video came from." The others sighed and Italy jumped up.
"Ve~! You're amazing Japan!" The young country said smiling with his eyes closed as usual, earning a blush from the quiet country.
"Anyways," I said after Japan replied with thanks, "We should get to work on-"
SMACK
I was interrupted by a hard, metal, thing hitting me on the back of the head, and whoever threw the swing hit HARD.
Oh no! I thought, It's Russia! He's coming to kidnap me too! And, I admit, I screamed, and it was a pretty un-many scream. It was short though.
France burst out laughing, along with China, and all the others couldn't help but smirk or giggle, even Japan was trying to hide a smile of amusement.
I turned to face my attacker, only to find a VERY mad Hungary standing there with a pan in her hands.
"You didn't honestly think you were going next did you?" France asked as I turned around.
"Oh and you would?" I retorted.
"Of course," he said. "At least I would go first before you."
I was about to retort when I was interrupted by another smack to my already sore head, causing France to laugh again.
"You can't even take her!" He exclaimed with glee. "I would definitely be gone before you!"
Here I snorted before being hit again by the mad lady with the pan.
"WOULD YOU STOP THAT?" I yelled at her, only to be hit again, followed closely by another laugh from France.
"Look at yourself!" He said. "Even if he went around stealing every country instead of nine you STILL wouldn't be taken!"
"You DO know you guys are arguing over who's going to be kidnapped, right?" China put in, and our argument stopped with both of us huffing at the same time, and me getting hit for the fifth time.
"WHAT?" I yelled. "THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO GET MY ATTENTION LADY!"
SMACK
"Where is he?" She growled.
"Where's who?" I replied.
SMACK
"You know who!" She said while I rubbed my face.
"No," I said. "I really don't."
SMACK
"STOP IT!" I yelled.
SMACK
"Give him back," She said.
"I have no idea what you're talking about!"
This time I ducked, only to have her bring her arm up and around, this time hitting me on the top of the head.
"THAT'S IT!" I lunged at her, trying to grab the pan from her hands, only to be twisted around with my arm being twisted behind my back. France, of course, was laughing at this entire thing.
"Where. Is. Austria?" She snarled out, making me shiver. Hungary could definitely be scary.
"Austria? I don't know. It's your fault if your relationship is having prob-GWUAH!" I was cut short when my wrist was forced up and my shoulder protested.
"I won't ask again. WHERE IS HE?" She slackened her grip a bit to let my shoulder fall back where it should be, but there was no way for me to get away.
"Excuse me?" Said a quiet voice and both Hungary and I turned to find the source. My eyes immediately locked onto Canada, knowing his voice, but Hungary continued looking around the group of countries, until Canada raised a tentative hand and she looked at him, making him seem to shrink to half his size.
"What?" She snarled.
"U-uh. I-I," He stuttered out.
"Spit it out!" I said, trying to hurry him along. "Can't you see that I need-AGHH!" My arm was pulled hard and I could hear my shoulder popping.
"I'm pretty sure I know where he is," Canada said, causing Hungary to let me go and hurry to Canada, picking him up by his collar and getting in the poor countries face.
"WHERE?" She yelled.
"Uh, that is, we don't have him," Canada said tentatively and Hungary raised her hand with the pan in it to smack him but was averted when France grabbed her arm. She skillfully switched the hand holding her pan and smacked him hard across the face, making him fall into the table and me smirk.
"All right, all right," said a rough voice from the entrance and we all turned to see Prussia standing in the doorway with a smile of amusement on his face. "I'd better stop you before you do something to really hurt someone." And I couldn't help but rub my aching head and wonder what, "really hurt" could possibly be.
"So enough of the pans," Prussia continued, removing the pan from Hungary's hands. "We should probably explain things before we go around accusing people."
"Wait," I said, "you've been there the whole time, through all of that, and you never said anything?"
" 'Course not," he replied. "It was too much fun watching you." And I wanted to hit him with the pan myself. "But that's not what we're here about. My brother, Germany, has disappeared and apparently so has Austria, so we were worried and we came to ask you," here I snorted, "if you knew anything."
"Well," I said, "we know where Germany is, though you won't like it, and we might know where Austria is, though, again, you won't like it. Just put that pan away before we tell you." So he handed the pan to France, who decided to hit me with it again and I took it away, hitting him back. It quickly turned into a fight and China had to take the pan away before we were able to talk calmly…. For a time.
"Well," I started once we were sitting down, "Russia has apparently decided to go around kidnapping countries. He said he would kidnap the nine strongest countries, starting with America." The two nodded, completely following me. "Well this started about three weeks ago, and what we can guess is that he's been kidnapping people once a week, and on a video chat every Friday he's been showing us who he's kidnapped, and who he's kidnapped." The two nodded again, and I knew that I would have to break the news to Prussia quickly. "Well, last week when the video chat came up, Germany was kidnapped."
There was a long pause as Prussia digested this. "Well he's Germany," He said, but I could hear the worry in his voice. "He can take care of himself. No amount of torture can get this guy to crack." I nodded.
"And Austria?" Hungary asked eagerly.
"I'm afraid that all we can guess is that he's been kidnapped as well," I said, and her eyes became wide. "Though we won't know until Friday."
"Today's Friday," Prussia told me and I just stared at him blankly.
"It is?" I asked dumbly.
SMACK
This time China hit me with the pan.
"WHAT IS IT WITH PEOPLE HITTING ME WITH PANS?" I asked.
"Maybe you should just stop making people mad," Said a voice from my computer, making everyone jump.
"It's you!" I said angrily, turning the computer so everyone could see Russia's smiling face.
"So you've told Prussia finally?" Russia said, looking at Prussia. "Won't Germany be glad to hear that?" And the camera turned to see Germany under the Russian flag, which made Prussia make a disgusted face. Then we saw Germany with slashes across his chest and face with his shirt in tatters, though he easily held his head high. Prussia's face became a mixture of anger and worry.
"Hey West," he said nervously, using the nickname he usually called Germany. "You can take this right? You're doing fine?" Germany nodded, though he didn't speak.
"And of course we can't forget America," Russia said.
"YEAH WE CAN!" Prussia said, causing Germany to give a weak smile.
"I'm sure he wouldn't like to hear that," Russia said with a bit of a laugh as the camera turned to America.
Seeing him, I couldn't help but give a sigh of relief. He was alive, by that I mean out of the trance, and even though he wasn't as bad as last time either, though his jacket was covered in bullet holes and he still had many other cuts, but he was fine. Physically that is. What scared me was how serious his eyes were, and how set his face was.
"Is your head ok?" He asked, cocking and eyebrow, looking at the numerous lumps on my head.
I was about to reply when two pairs of hands were grabbing my shoulder and leaning over to look at the screen, and one of them was HUGE.
"DAD!" Wyoming yelled in my ear, and America couldn't help but smile a bit.
"Hey dad," Texas said, almost quietly.
"Hey," America said, a bit quietly, "is Washington there?"
Washington, who had been standing behind the others and allowing his siblings to see their father first, stepped up in the view of the camera.
"Yes?" He asked.
"So," America said, "did everything turn out all right?" It might have been something to smile about if his face wasn't so dead serious. Washington looked away and I couldn't help but wonder what it is that happened.
"Enough of that," Russia said, turning the camera away. "I suppose you are all wondering who's been added, or, judging by Hungary, you've figured it out already." Hungary pushed the states aside and looked over my shoulder in their place as the camera was turned to a rather exhausted looking Austria with, as before, his cuffed with the cuffs covered by his own flag.
"Austria!" Hungary exclaimed as he looked around, almost stupidly. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?"
"I might have accidentally drugged him a bit too much," Russia said, turning the camera to his face with a large smile. Hungary lost it, grabbing her pan out of China's hand and destroying my computer. I gave a heavy sigh.
"What are we going to do," Hungary said when she was finished with my computer.
"We have no idea where they are," Prussia agreed.
"Wait!" I said, remembering what we were talking about before the two came in. "We do! Japan found where the video's were coming from and we were talking about it just before you came in."
I wanted to glare at them but they didn't give me the time as I and everyone else, was dragged out.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Hungary asked. "LET'S GO!"