This is it you guys. This is the epic ending! It's both good and bad isn't it? I will have to start on some other new larger project after this..
Disclaimer:I do not own Swan Lake or Hetalia. The only thing I do, is mess with the characters and such.


Swan Lake


Chapter 8: The Showdown

Jutharad growled as he ascended the looping never-ending stairs, running with his sword drawn. His dark brown eyes sparking angrily and his blood pumping with adrenaline.

"Oho? I didn't expect to get guests at this late hour, aru~"

The Thai prince hissed and looked around. His gaze fastened on the slowly appearing Chinese sorcerer. He was morphing out of the stony castle wall!

Yao's eyes narrowed down at first, but then a smug grin laced his lips while glowing fire appeared around him, hinting at his bad mood. He was not pleased at all, this stupid little boy interrupted his sweet time with his love.

Jutharad was filled with hatred once again for this horrible person. "I've come to get Qui, you foul creature!" He growled and aimed his sword at the magical being.

Yao raised a sharp eyebrow at the foolish prince and then narrowed his slanted eyes dangerously. "No, that's something you're not here for."

"You have to let her go!"

The Chinese started laughing and directed his dark eyes upon the boy again. He was really pitiable. "Aren't you a bit young to order me around, aru? Don't mess with a sorcerer, boy." He licked his lips and gestured out with his hand in a sweeping motion, his cape spreading out and giving him an even more sinister appearance.

Instantly blood red flames sprouted out of the stairway, blocking Jutharad's way firmly, as they licked after him hungrily. All while Yao laughed darkly and hysterically.

Kiku was sitting above them on the ledge of a balcony, enjoying the show. He had his eyes set upon his 'fiancée', and amusement danced within his dark orbs. His gaze was however interrupted when a fourth part came running out from the castle. He looked at the white-clad woman. "Well well, Qui how nice of you to join the crowd." He smiled.

Qui glared at Kiku and then looked down at Jutharad and Yao. Her eyes filled with tears once again and her voice filled with sorrow as she cried out to him. "NO! Don't come here Jutharad! You'll be killed!"

The Japanese scoffed. "No, don't be alarmed about that fact. Brother won't kill him. Just make him run away with his tail between his legs, if you know what I mean?"

The woman looked at him. Kiku rolled his ebony eyes. "Right aniki?"

Yao blinked, closing his lips, silencing his laughter and looked up at his brother. "Aru?"

"You won't kill Jutharad, just scare him away." Kiku explained again.

The Chinese nodded shortly and gave the Thai prince a sharp glance. "Of course, he did promise to marry you Kiku. You know I don't usually kill anyone part of my family, aru."

This proved to be too much for Qui, and so she ran inside the castle again with a sad yet angry frown on her face. Just wanting to escape from this horrible nightmare!

Kiku looked after her disappearing figure. "Hope you noticed that your little bird just flew away." He told his brother and tilted his pale head.

Yao's face distorted from smug, to surprised, to angry and then terror filled. "W-What, aru! Where did you go Qui!" He shouted out and quickly ran inside the castle as well. Not thinking about the flames that slowly died out, making the way inside the castle much easier for the Thai prince whom darted after the sorcerer with his sword still drawn.

Kiku blinked at the scene and jumped down from his perch, slowly making his way inside the great fortress as well. "What an amusing hassle this turned out to be." He mused and tapped his lips thoughtfully.


Qui didn't care where she ran, as long as she got away from that place. Eventually she had to stop and rest, collecting her breath again.

"Qui, come back here, aru!"

She yelped and willed her legs to start sprinting again. Finally she bumped into Jutharad and grasped his shirt, pulling him into another room. It didn't contain much, just a great stairway leading up to the perch of the highest tower of the castle. A perch where there was an open floor and you could see a marvelous view of the landscapes around the castle. Or well.. A dark view at the moment, since it was still night, or was it early morning?

"Qui, I was so worried!" Jutharad exclaimed and embraced the woman tightly. "Look, I'm so s-" He tried to apologize for what happened before at the ball. But he noticed quickly how she started to shiver and could feel an ominous presence sweep into the room.

Qui looked at the doorway with wide eyes and moved backwards towards the looping stairs when she saw the furious figure in the doorway.

Yao was not pleased by their "cute" encounter. The sorcerer sighed darkly and looked at his princess, extending one of his hands. "Qui, stop making this difficult and just come to me, aru."

To his great annoyance, that prince moved before her and pointed his sharp little needle at him. Yao was not only angry now; this was just too embarrassing to be told! A little boy thought he could defeat him? It was a hard to keep his fingers from sending a petrifying beam at the idiot.

But he decided to humor the Thai man for a while. Yao placed his hands in one of his pockets, retrieving a small wooden stick from it, and then he blew softly at it. It morphed into a long and gracious sword. Amusement danced within his eyes as the younger male leapt at him.


Hong and Meimei had been watching everything for quite a while now. At first they had been hiding in the saddle bag and then they had swiftly followed the Thai prince inside the castle up until now. They huddled together in a corner and looked at the encounter between the two humans. Meimei pulled at Hong's furry tail. "H-How horrible! C-Can't we do something?" She squeaked out and looked at her male companion with teary eyes.

Hong sighed and looked at the wizard's foot. Well.. Maybe? He sighed once again. "I do this for you, not them." He murmured and placed a soft kiss at Meimei's cheek before sprinting down towards the fighting males. His action left the female squirrel red faced and she smiled warmly. But her eyes showed lots of concern for her love.

The rodent reached the sorcerer's leg, and he swiftly sunk down his teeth, gnawing and biting at the Chinese man's leg. It wasn't much, but at least it was something, and it made Meimei happy.


Yao growled in pain as he noticed a small rat gnawing at his leg. No.. It was squirrel.

He placed his index finger and thumb in between its neck and shoulder, bringing it up in his view as it clawed after him angrily and squeaked. "Stupid rodent!" He hissed and sent a dark red beam at the animal from his eyes. Instantly afterwards throwing it away behind of him. Then he resumed the fight as if nothing had happened.


Meimei gasped when she saw the human picking her partner up and then throwing him behind his back. She whimpered and ran towards the place where Yao had thrown Hong. She let out a teary cry of despair as she embraced what had once been a squirrel, and was now a dark brown toad with closed eyes.


Yao snickered. This was almost fun now. So the two "love-doves" had resorted to running away? Oh it was really fun playing around with the naive prince. He chuckled and simply walked after them as they ran up the stairs.

He rolled his eyes and placed his hand on the castle wall, knocking two times on the stony wall, infusing his power within it. He noticed the effect immediately when a few blocks of stone fell down from the wall and in front of Jutharad's path, but it had fallen down exactly after Qui had passed, and so they were trapped on either side of the heap of stones. The prince was not running away from him anymore.

"You'll have to make up your mind, aru. If you want to live with Kiku in your castle, then I'll spare you." Yao stated and crossed his arms, still walking upstairs towards the trapped Thai man. He could notice Kiku standing on the highest elevation, looking down on them with amusement evident in his dark eyes.

Jutharad growled and placed his sword in an offensive stance. "No never! Not with him!"

Kiku's eyes widened as he heard the prince declare himself so foolishly. "How dare you!.." He snarled, his eyes sparking dangerously, and he clenched his pale fist, dark energy surrounding it firmly. "Aniki, I don't care anymore, just kill him!" He hissed to his brother and narrowed his ebony dark eyes. His body was still emanating raging waves of magic. To reject him would be the prince's last mistake..

Yao grinned "Don't worry about that, brother of mine. I'll take pride in wiping this little boy off the planet, aru!" He swung his magic-infused sword and cut a thorn-clad vine growing on the wall. It pulsated darkly for a moment but then instantly grew in length and extended itself towards Jutharad, snaring itself around his leg.

Jutharad gasped and grasped Qui's hands while trying to cut off the plant. It was trying to drag him down.

"Don't let go.." The Vietnamese pleaded and leaned over the stones to hold onto her love. But his hand slipped and he was dragged down a few steps before he finally kicked away the half-dead thorny vine.

But then it was too late, as Yao was standing in front of him, pointing his sharp sword at his throat. "Pathetic, aru." He spoke and scoffed with haughty eyes.

Qui trembled and she looked at the sorcerer with a despaired expression. "Don't kill him Yao, please!" She cried out and reached out an arm over the stony blockage.

The Chinese looked at her, his eyes dark but his smile sweet. "Shall I spare him?"

"Yes!" She nodded with fearful eyes.

Kiku scowled and appeared beside her, neatly jumping over the stone-blockage with the use of his powers. "No, kill him Aniki."

Yao chuckled. "Don't be too hasty for blood now Kiku, I can deliver a final-strike at any moment, aru. But I've come up with something better~" He smiled darkly and eyed Qui again. "Qui, do you promise to love me, if I spare his life?"

The Vietnamese princess' eyes widened at that proposition. She wet her lips and felt the lower one quiver from the shock.

Kiku smirked and also looked at the woman. That was a pretty smart shot he had to admit. His brother could be smart when he wanted to or really needed to be.

"Either you will marry and love me, or Jutharad here will die, aru. D-I-E." He spelled out and gave the prince an unemotional gaze. He really wanted to rip up that throat of his. See the scarlet fluid flow around him like a red sea.

"Kill me then." Jutharad jibed and glared at the sorcerer. His thoughts were reserved for Qui though. "Qui, don't go through with his plan!"

Qui bit her lower lip and looked away. She closed her eyes and sighed, as if she had been given a death doom. She didn't have much of a choice anyway. "I.. I'll promise to l-love you.. Yao.." She said clearly but in a monotone voice.

Yao's face lit up greatly after those words. He smiled a sinister smile down at Jutharad and was about to blow on his sword again, making it disappear. He was a man of honor after all.

"NO, STOP!" The Thai prince cried out and grasped his own sword as he finally found the handle of it.. He had to make one last attempt to defeat the wizard!

The Chinese grinned and started to laugh. How quaint, the little man still thought he could defeat him~

but as soon as Yao's gaze went outside, his laughter died away quickly. His eyes widened instead in a frightened fashion and he dropped the sword to the stair, it slowly turning into a small wooden stick again. "K-Ki-" He stuttered and whirled around to race down the looping stairs, when the sun finally rose above the mountains.

The morning was here.

Kiku let out a horrified scream and tried to shield his eyes from the rays, but it was futile.

Also Yao was too late as the beams of the sun hit his form through the windows lining the stairway. Both of the sorcerers let out agonized screams as the sun forced them to try and escape in their owl-forms.

But it was too late for that as well, the sun was already shining brightly on them and their shrieks of pain echoed in the castle. They slowly burned up in dark red and black flames and finally were reduced to nothing more, but two piles of ash.

And as the master of the castle's soul faded away, so did the power that held the castle intact. It slowly started to break and some of the furniture turned to dust, Peony flowers withered away and the roofs caved in everywhere.

Jutharad crawled over to Qui's and grasped her hand, embracing her as the castle broke down around them. Boulders turned to nothing in front of their shielded eyes, pebbles flew around their hair and frames, and it felt like they were falling down. But when they hit something soft and looked up very carefully, they noticed they were huddled on a small hill, the hill where the fortress had been standing before.

Most of the magic stones had faded away and grass started to grow on the hill. The water around it sparkled in the sunshine and the thorns already started to bloom a rich variety of roses. Overall the place looked beautiful, and without Yao's dark magic, the sun reached the nature around the destroyed castle and made it bloom and grow in a rapid amount of time. There were still some boulders lying around of course.

Jutharad pushed a piece of stone off of him and dusted his attire free from pebbles and dirt as he stood up. He frantically looked around after his love, but all he saw right now was a busted golden cage with a canary bird inside. With chirping sounds, it escaped from its cage and flew out, singing softly.

The prince walked around, until he saw a bright figure standing up a behind the few stones left. It picked up a golden crown from the grass, placing it on the head before the person looked his way.

Qui smiled brightly and raced towards Jutharad's waiting arms. "Jutharad!" She embraced him fully, pressing her lips against his in a very romantic way.

The prince responded eagerly and held her tightly against his chest. Picking her up and spinning her around happily.

Neither of them noticed the two rodents by a pink flower patch. Meimei was holding tightly onto Hong, now a squirrel again. He blinked and looked at his paws, what had happened after he was picked up? He could hardly remember anything except that pain..

Hong was a bit confused about everything, but of course he embraced Meimei back and first licked her cheek, before giving her a full kiss on the lips out of the love he felt for her.

Not one of these two pairs noticed the giant flock of swans flying around the hill, crying joyously. As the curse was finally lifted from Qui, the birds still loved her. She would always be their princess.

But in a clearing in the forest, far from the blooming hill where love blossomed that day. A man finally got to stretch his legs. Temudjin groaned about a great back-ache, but he could feel a good aura in the forest that day. Everything was just as it should be.

But he seriously needed his friends after such a long time of confinement. He did not fully know what had happened to him, but he knew that it was nothing good and that it had hurt, big time.

As he began his long trek back to the castle, he came to the conclusion that he really wished to see Kapono right now. He had missed that worry-wart enormously and his shy ways.

"Oh well.. Everything in good time." He murmured to himself. He could feel the change in the air when a breeze blew by him, catching his long braid.

It was too bad he had missed out on all the fun. Somehow he knew he had missed a very important part of this story, but right now he didn't care. He was happy with being able to stroll through the forest on his way home with fully functioning limbs. Knowing his friends would tell him everything about this adventure.

"The mystery of the Swan lake.." He mused and chuckled to himself as the trees finally swallowed him up.


Oh my god. That's it?
We'll see. I might upload an epilogue. Perhaps.
But if not, yes this is the end of this story. It's sad isn't it? (I ask many "questions" today don't I?~)

But I'd like to thank you guys for reading and reviewing! You really made me motivated in writing and publishing here! w I have enjoyed writing this fic a lot and I might do another Fairytale!Hetalia if I find a good story. Feel free to suggest if you know one!

Stay tuned! I can tell you about two one-shots I'm writing on. I've told ya about one, the dark and twisted one with ChuViet pairing. It will be up when I finish it fully and correct it~ Before that one though, I will publish a finished ChuViet one-shot named "Red Ties that Bind" It's a M-rated fic and well.. Both serious and hilarious at the same time. It might be inaccurate when it comes to history, but I hope you guys don't mind that too much.. ^^;

Until then, stay healthy and I'll see you in the next fic! *bows*