Firestar: Hey guys, sorry for the sorta late update, I've been feeling kind of lazy and school/homework doesn't help either.
Romano: Excuses
Firestar: Hey! You don't go to school! I don't need your sass, thank you very much
Romano: Because being a nation is so much easier than school
Firestar: *glares* Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter and I don't own Hetalia
Romano: *mutters* Good thing too
Firestar: What was that?!
-The Summit: Day 4-
Russia woke up (in his normal room, thank you very much) to the sound of scratching at his door. Out of instinct his eyes grew wide and he quickly jumped out of bed and searched for a place to hide.
However, he soon realized that the door wasn't being broken down and the scratching wasn't as loud as his sister's normal clawing. He let out a breath of relief and calmed down, curiosity overwhelming him as he moved over to the door in just a tank top and sweatpants.
What, did you think he wears his coat and scarf all the time?
Russia opened the door as the soft scratching stopped and peeked outside his room, searching for the source of the noise.
He heard a tiny 'mew' sound from below him and he looked down, bright green-yellow eyes looking back up at him. The tiny calico kitten pushed itself into his room and rubbed against his leg, purring loudly for a cat its size.
Russia was surprised by the little cat's presence and stared at the purring ball of fur in shock for a few moments. He blinked and took his eyes off the cat for a moment to look outside in the hallway to make sure no one else had seen the small cat or his confusion. No one else was up yet.
He looked back down at the kitten and crouched to its height, causing it to back away from his legs a bit to avoid getting hit.
"Privet little friend. What are you doing here?" Russia asked the cat.
It tilted its head at him before purring loudly again and pushing its nose into his hand. Russia smiled slightly, he was glad the kitten wasn't scared of him, as most animals and people alike seem to be, but he also knew it couldn't stay with him.
"I am sorry friend, but you have to leave, da?" Russia told the kitten, scooting it towards the open door.
As much as he would love the kitten to stay, he didn't want to get attached to the feline. Being too attached to anything was never good when you had a country to run.
The calico blinked at him and tilted its head again as it tried to resist getting closer to the door. It meowed at him as Russia pushed it gently outside and closed the door before it could run in again.
Russia sighed softly and moved around his room, getting his things together for the meeting and preparing something akin to breakfast. The scratching started up again and the kitten meowed from behind the door as Russia ignored it and went about his morning activities.
America was bored.
He had gotten to the meeting room earlier just to bug England, but now he was starting to see why he didn't make this a daily occurrence. He yawned and looked at his Styrofoam coffee cup, wondering if he should take a sip or not. He wasn't necessarily tired, but he was bored.
He picked it up and took a sip before an idea struck him. It could work, since he was in the room with just a few nations, namely England, Germany, Switzerland, Leich- Liek- Leichtin- Oh never mind, you know who, and… and… the guy with the polar bear. America shook the thought off, he'd figure it out later.
"The floor is lava!" He cried, startling the somewhat tired nations as he jumped onto the table and watched as the lava consumed everything it touched except for the furniture. Everyone stared at him with deadpan expressions, no one was up for his antics this early in the morning, or ever.
"But guys, you're dying!" America complained loudly when no one joined in his game.
Though he couldn't see it, Liechtenstein and Canada both lifted their feet from the floor.
"America, no one is in any mood for your games" England told America.
America pouted. "But Iggy, I'm boooorrreeedd" He complained, drawing out the last word much longer than necessary to express just how bored he really was.
England rolled his eyes. "Honestly, you really have to learn to be more mature. You can't go around acing like a child forever."
America pouted further and turned away from the island nation. He sat down cross legged on the table top and looked out the window sulkily. England rolled his eyes again and tried to ignore the childish superpower.
Russia entered the meeting room with the little kitten following behind him and meowing loudly. Russia looked at the American sitting on the table top in confusion before deciding he didn't really want anything to do with whatever it was America had planned.
Russia went over to his seat with the kitten still following him and drawing attention from the other nations. He had tried making the kitten stop following him, but no matter what he did, it still followed. He had tried to lose it in the halls of the UN building, he had tried to lock it in an empty room, he had even tried to give it to Lithuania, but the tiny cat was having none of it and found a way to make it back to him every time until Russia just eventually gave up.
"Dude, what's with the tiny cat?" America asked, looking at the kitten curiously from his place atop the table.
"I am not sure, it has been following me all morning." Russia told him, trying to avoid further questioning.
"Why would it follow you?" America asked, his eyes moving up to meet Russia's, mixed emotions hidden behind his half framed glasses.
Russia shrugged and looked at the little kitten that was currently trying to climb his coat.
"I do not know why." Russia sighed inwardly and picked up the cat, a few stray emotions making themselves known to him. He was slightly upset that the kitten had been so bothersome all morning, but he was also extremely happy to have someone, or something, actually like him unconditionally.
"You are a troublesome little kitty" Russia scolded it as it purred contently in his arms, its eyes closed blissfully.
"Ve! Germany I brought a game for today!" Italy called out happily as he entered the meeting room holding a small box up in the air.
Germany sighed, he should have known they wouldn't get anything done, but it was nice to hope. "Und what is it?"
"It's called Ultimate Werewolf, but this one is the Deluxe Edition! I thought this one would be more fun since it can have more players than the regular one" Italy told him as he sat down next to him and showed him the box, a drawing of a werewolf with red eyes and its mouth open angrily jumping out at him from the front cover.
Germany was surprised at first. "I didn't know you liked horror, Italy"
"It's not horror. The cover just looks scary because it's part of the game!" Italy explained as he opened the box and took out the many cards it contained.
"Hey dudes, what you got over here?" America asked, making his way over to Italy and Germany while still on the table top. He stopped across from them and looked down at the box and cards Italy had laid out.
"Ve~ This is Ultimate Werewolf, it's a fun card game that I brought for everyone to play!" Italy exclaimed, smiling at America.
"Please get off the table" Germany intoned, looking annoyed at the blond.
America ignored him and looked down at the cards again. "So how do you play?" He asked, picking up a werewolf card and looking at it closely.
"Well there are day and night cycles just like Mafia and during the day everyone can vote to lynch a player and at night the werewolves wake up and kill the villagers. But there are a lot of different cards that all have their own special ability, so maybe we should see who else wants to play and explain it all then?" Italy asked, looking up at America through closed eyes.
"Sure, dude" America said, excitement shining in his eyes.
He jumped down from the table and made his way around the room, asking anyone who was present if they wanted to play or not, and maybe more or less forcing some of them to play anyways.
Eventually more nations shuffled into the room just as Italy and America started explaining the instructions to the nations who were playing. A few more nations that had arrived late joined in the game as America went over the basics of the game and Italy went into more detail about each card and their special ability.
So with America, Italy, England, France, Japan, Germany, Romano, Spain, Prussia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sealand, Canada, Hungary, and Liechtenstein playing, with Switzerland as the card dealer to avoid cheating, the games began.
Firestar: I hope you guys enjoyed, I know the ending kind of sucks but once again, this is more of a set up chapter than anything, so hopefully the next chapter will be a little more interesting. I would also like to thank Mywinx14 for suggesting Ultimate Werewolf! I had to look it up since I've never heard of it before, but it looks like a really fun game and, since I probably won't be able to explain the rules too well (or convey them well either) then those who don't know about the game might want to look it up, just to know about it before hand (and those who do know it please forgive me ahead of time if I screw up the gameplay at all).
Russia: Author~ Did you have anything to do with this little kitty following me around? *kitten meows in the background*
Firestar: No, you wouldn't remember, but when everyone was drunk, someone made a wish. I'm not gonna say anything, but that wish may or may not have come true in an interesting way.
Russia: You will tell me who this someone is, da?
Firestar: *blank look* Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed and I just wanted to warn everyone that I won't be updating for at least four days because I'm going camping with the fam for Labor Day, but I will try to get the next chapter up when I get back, so bear with me. Hope to see you guys around! And Happy Labor Day!
