Hello again! Buried under homework. Send help. Also, Attack on Titan is pretty good from what I've seen so far. Gory, but good.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or HetaOni. Hetalia belongs to Hidekazu Himaruya and HetaOni was made by Tomoyoshi and translated by PianoDream and others.
"That's good." Germany said, heading towards the door. "Let's go." We left the room silently, and made our way to Germany's room. Once inside Germany headed to the iron door and closed himself in. He stayed in there for a really long time. I doodled more in my journal, and even wrote a little about what I had experienced in the mansion. Italy just hummed quietly with a big smile on his face.
After a while Japan came in. "I found them." He said. I frowned.
"Them?" I asked. Japan nodded.
"You'll see. Unfortunately I did not find Prussia-san. Germany-san, are you ready?" He asked. Germany came out of the closet.
"Ja, I'm good. Let's go." He said. Italy looked worried.
"Are you sure, Germany?" He asked. Germany nodded.
Japan lead us out and back to the fireplace room. Inside were Canada, Russia, China, and England. I frowned slightly. Did all of the allies come? If so, where were America and France? Japan cleared his throat.
"Sorry for making you wait. I'll explain now." He said. Russia looked at me and I shivered.
"Who is this?" He asked. Japan gave him a hard look.
"I'm explaining that now, Russia-san." He said again. Sitting down at the table, he started his explanation. "First, as you know, I received a message from China-san saying that his group had arrived here, and Italy wanted to come too. So Germany-san, Italy-kun, Prussia-san and I came. First I went to look around and I found Emma-kun, but Steve attacked Germany-san, Italy-kun, and Prussia-san."
"Steve?" England interrupted. I was writing everything down in my journal.
"That monster you faced before." Japan explained.
"Were you alright after that?" China asked Germany and Italy. Italy nodded.
"Si, somehow. It seemed to be targeting me, and I'm good at running away, so I got to escape. China looked surprised.
"You got away? That's amazing!" He said. Italy smiled at the praise and he and Germany started working on getting the fire going again. Japan continued his story.
"After I found Emma-kun, we started looking for the others. After we found them, we slept in here for the night. We had a sense of security because we had the key, and had locked the room from the inside."
"The night…" Russia mused.
"T-that really is odd. I mean, we- oh, sorry. Continue, Japan." Canada said quietly.
"We've run out of firewood." Italy said to Germany. "Can we burn this wooden box?" I glanced at him to find him holding the box we had found in the Mochi room.
"Ja, let's burn anything we can use as fuel." Germany replied. I made a side note of that in my journal. Japan continued.
"We decided that one of us should stay up as guard, and Prussia-san kindly volunteered. Unfortunately, perhaps because of our sense of security, the four of us fell into a deep sleep." He said. "When we woke up, Prussia-san was gone. There were bloodstains in the hallway, so I followed the trail, but… eventually…" I shuddered slightly. I hadn't noticed the bloodstains.
"The trail ended." Russia finished.
"So I started looking for him around the house." Japan confirmed.
"And then he found you guys, right?" Italy asked, finished with the fire.
"Hai. That's what happened." Japan said, nodding. "But where is France-san and America-san? Weren't they with you?"
"Yes, the six of us came here on America's suggestion and split into two groups." England said, starting an explanation of his own. "China, France and I went to check the second floor while Russia, America, and Canada looked around the first floor."
"We had a bad feeling while we were on the second floor, so Opium and I looked at the third and fourth floors." China cut in. "When we finished looking and came down to the second floor, France was gone and I found Japan's burt clothes in this room, and I wondered what happened." He looked at Japan as he said this. Japan looked away.
"We came back to the first floor and found Russia and Canada fighting that Thi-" England started.
"Steve." I cut in. England sighed in annoyance.
"Steve. That bastard disappeared first chance he got." He finished. Japan frowned slightly.
"Really? Um, I vaguely noticed it when I was fighting it, but Steve…" He trailed off, looking at me.
"Steve resembles a friend of America's, doesn't he?" Germany finished. Seeing Japan looking at me, I decided to keep up my appearance of not knowing their true identities. I wasn't quite ready to open that can of worms yet.
"Steve resembles a friend of America's?" I asked, trying to sound incredulous. "What, is he friends with an alien?" I had to stop myself from laughing at their faces.
"Si, he is!" Italy said. "What's his name again?" Germany thought.
"To… Tommy?" He asked. England nodded.
"Yes, that's definitely it. They look identical. Do you think this was America's doing?" England said. I sighed internally. America's alien friend's name was Tony, not Tommy. "He's the one who heard the rumor about this place and asked us to come here, after all."
Italy smiled brightly. "I see! So this is just a prank of America's that got too far! Well in that case, there's nothing else to say! Let's just look for America!" He said cheerfully. Japan looked like he was going to object, but Canada got there first.
"You're mistaken." He said, a little coldly.
"Hm?" England asked.
"That's not Tony." Canada said firmly.
"When we were talking about going to the first floor, Steve appeared, too." Russia explained. "But the moment I saw it, I realized that it was the friend America had introduced before." Japan nodded slowly, not understanding.
"H-hai. Are we mistaken? We concluded that it was America's friend already." He said. I sighed internally again. If Tony really was Steve, then why did he try to kill us? And why would he bring me into this?
"I live close to America and I've met Tony several times. I suppose that they do look alike. But Tony would never attack America." Canada spoke up. Yes, they do look alike. Except for the fact that Steve is five time's Tony's size.
"Attack- what, Steve attacked America?" China asked. Canada nodded.
"It was only one hit. America was thrown against the wall, but he was still conscious somehow and began shooting at Steve. It had no effect at all, though." He confirmed. "We thought Steve was America's friend at first, but when he attacked America and America fought back for real… We realized that we were probably wrong."
"So that's why we heard shooting!" England exclaimed.
"We had no idea what to do. He was getting cornered, but when we tried to help he yelled at us to get away." Russia continued.
"I think he wanted to handle him on his own. But he was too strong for even the three of us, so we decided to get away from him." Canada said. "Unfortunately, I lowered my guard for a moment and was knocked out. When I came to, both Steve and America were gone." He turned to Russia. "I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you…"
"You weren't a burden at all! It's pretty hard to fight when you're trying to protect someone~" Russia comforted him. "But if you really want to thank me, become one with mother Russia, da?" I shivered. So did Canada. After a moment of awkward silence, Russia continued.
"Anyway, we wanted to help him but we didn't know where he'd gone." Russia said. "We decided that we'd start looking in the kitchen, but Steve appeared and China and England joined us. In other words, there are three people missing. I think we should find them as soon as possible. America has nothing to do with it, so we can't feel safe." His face darkened. "Rather, we should expect the worst."
"Oh!" Italy said from the fireplace. We all looked at him.
"What's wrong?" Germany asked.
"There's something inside the box!" Italy said, pointing to the wooden box he burned earlier. He reached for it. "Just a second! Umm…"
"Careful." I warned him. "Don't get burnt." We were already facing Steve, there was no need for any of us to get injured unnecessarily.
"Uh-huh…" Italy said absently. He grabbed the key, pulled it out, the dropped it. "Got it- Oww, hot!" I sighed.
"You were warned." I told him. He ignored me.
"It's a key!" He said, holding it up.
"What does it say?" Germany asked. Italy frowned.
"It's just an H." He replied.
"We got a new breach!" China said excitedly. I looked at him. A new breach? Nations are weird.
"Finding a way out was our priority, but now we must focus on finding our friends. If we search thoroughly, I'm sure we will find them." Japan said. "Those three are also tenacious people. They've got to be somewhere." Russia looked surprised.
"Friends, huh? Sounds interesting. I was caught by surprise before, but the next time I meet Steve, he'll have a lot to answer for." He said, smiling creepily. England stood up.
"Let's hurry. I don't want anyone dropping out." He told us, glancing around the room. Japan looked thoughtful.
"Let's split into three groups, since we have so much to do. And no one should go alone." He glanced at me. I raised an eyebrow at him and he turned away.
"Si, there are too many rooms. There are rooms we can open with a key, rooms we can't open, and rooms we haven't looked at yet." Italy said. Japan nodded.
"Hai. Now about out unsynchronised watches…" He trailed off as someone rattled the doorknob. I jumped, putting my hand on my katana. "So it has found us after all. This room is no longer safe." Japan mused.
"Was it ever safe in the first place?" England asked. "Shit! What are we going to do?" Japan took charge.
"My group will deal with Steve. Italy-kun and Germany-san will look for the room that key opens." He ordered. Russia and China volunteered to fight with him.
"There's a room I want to investigate with Canada, so that's where we'll go. Italy, if you make any progress, come to the room with the piano." England said.
"Can I go with you?" I asked. England gave me a quick, calculating look.
"Very well." He decided.
"Okay!" Italy said, as the doorknob continued to rattle. "Be careful, everyone!" As he said that Steve broke the lock and came into the room. Japan turned to address us.
"Well then everyone… good luck." He said, turning in time to catch a blow on his katana. He looked pretty epic. "Go!"
I was still staring at Japan and Steve, but I felt someone grab my hand. I looked over and found Canada pulling me towards the exit.