[Axis Powersヘタリア 2gen]
[Episode 7 – (Part two) *Special* "Casting Off"]
(Cue Hetalia intro theme!)
"Whoa. Is it really the Season Finale already?"
"That it is my friend. That it is. Seems like only yesterday we started working together, talking about what happened within the last chapters, now it's coming to a close."
"Don't get so dramatic. It's the season finale, not the series. Besides, we only get a small break, and we'll be workin' on stuff while the readers don't know it."
"Still, it makes me sad! Who knows when season two will be out? I'll go crazy! I'll miss everyone too much!"
"…We see them every day. Deal with it. Now, this is an important chapter! Shall I begin?"
"Yes, please continue."
"Ahem…Well, as our story comes to its end for now, we finally get to the famed Beach Trip, where everyone can relax and splash around in the salty water and enjoy themselves. Now, this is all really happy, and joyful, but when this day comes to a close, will anyone be ready for tomorrow?"
"Dun dun duuuun."
"We really didn't need that, but whatever. Now, onward! Read! Enjoy and see ya'll soon!"
"Bye-mee!"
Hetalia!
This time had come. Everyone was dressed and ready to go. In light of this trip, all traveling in one huge bus would be fine going up, but coming back from the beach would be a nightmare, quoted from Austria himself 'Every'von vill be shtinky and smelly from ze ocean. If we all travel in different car's, it vill be better for every'von.' And so they did. There were five cars; One driven by Alfred, one driven by Antonio, once driven by Berwald, one driven by Gilbert, and one by Ivan. No one fought for a place in Ivan's car.
While those three figured out the routes to take to the beach destination, All those inside were finishing up packing and preparing themselves. Mostly, those still inside were all the 'females' as Gilbert would put it. This is an interesting bit because, if you noticed, the nations that turned into girls had only packed for themselves as dudes. How would they have swimsuits? Well, ask Elizabeta, and she brings a couple dozen extra swimsuits.
As we speak, there is a line forming in front of the bathroom. I wonder why?
Emma was bouncing in place, her swimsuit in hand, In front of the door which was shut and locked. Every few bounces, she would politely tap the door, but to no avail.
"Hurry up, please! I need to change!" she whined at the door.
"Well, you can just wait! I'm getting ready!" It was Nadiya's voice who responded.
In the living room, Mattie's mother senses were tingling, she stood and walked to the hallway, Iggy beside her. "What's wrong?"
"Someone told Emma to wait." She whispered. England shook her head, very and totally lost.
"What does that—"
"I DID MY WAITING!" Emma yelled at the door, Canada face-palmed.
"Every time…" she sighed.
"TWELVE YEARS OF IT!"
"Never fails…"
"IN AZKABAN!"
There was a thunk on the other side of the door, followed by loud cackling laugher. Emma just growled and beat on the door.
"Ok! Ok, I'm done! Geez…" Nadiya gasped between laughing, opening the door and walking out, just in time for Emma to push her way inside and locked the door behind her.
England had to keep from going into a fit of laughter herself, then tapped Canada on her shoulder.
"She watches Harry Potter, I assume?"
"Yes. Loves all the movies…and whenever someone tells her to wait, she answers with that. Been doing that since she was seven years old." She sighed "I'm getting a little tired of it."
"Consider yourself lucky. If Albert did the stuff he used to do when he was seven now, I'd be the happiest mother in the world. He was so cute…what happened."
Whilst they laughed, China was put in charge of spraying everyone down with sunscreen. As a child, that was the very un-fun part of going to the beach or pool; having to be coated in that weird-smelling sunscreen just to have most of it washed off in the water, then you'd have to live with horrible sunburn for a week. China, however, was not going to let that happen.
"Aiya! Stand still, will you!" Yao groaned as Nadiya fidgeted in place. Yao was trying to make sure his daughters body was coated in enough sunscreen to not get burned, however…
"Mother! I feel like I'm covered in butter! This feels weird, stoooooop!" she whined. She stuck out her lower lip and pouted, Yao just lifted his head to look right at her, holding the can of spray at eye level.
"I don't want you to get burned. Now, turn slowly so I don't spray this in your eyes." He said it as though it was a threat, not a warning.
She did so, letting him finish. Then, it was Albert's turn. When he stepped up, Iggy noticed and walked over.
"Yao? May I spray him with sunscreen, please?"
China turned to give her a very unamused glare "Why?"
"Because, I always do it a special way. If you don't do it right, he'll burn quickly. He's just like his father, he'll end up the color of a tomato!"
"What's wrong with Tomato's?" Feli piped up from the kitchen, where she was packing the cooler. They ignored her question.
"I can do my job just fine, England. Now go away."
"Lemmie! Gimmie the spray!" England made a grab for the spray bottle, but China twisted around and sprayed her right in the eyes.
"YOU DID THAT ON PORPUSE!" England yelled, Covering her eyes with her hands. Yao just stood up straight and smiled.
"I said I can do my job right. Now leave-aru." That tiny little voice tick only came out when China was angry or just felt very confident. At this moment, it could've been both.
While she walked away, Albert just watched in silence. He didn't wanna get mixed up in a battle between two nations, because that would really suck. He told himself that if he mother could glare, which she could not because she had sunblock in her eyes, that glare would be one of the worst. Possibly.
After Yao and made sure each and every one of the teenagers were properly blocked from the sun, he went outside to make sure Ivan had everything in his car. He didn't know it at the time, but Maria pulled all her friends aside with a towel so they could wipe off the extra spray, leaving them feeling less slippery.
Hetalia!
(Hey guys! This is the 100'th page!)
"Alright! Now, we have a list of whose going with who!" Romano stood at the head of the group, reading a piece of notebook paper that held the list that he had written last night. Still looking at the paper, he pointed to the first van "Those riding with Alfred and England are…Albert, Belle and Francis. With myself and Antonio are Feliciano, Ludwig, Heracles and Kiku. Going with Berwald will be Tino, Emma, Erik, Elizabeta and Roderich. Going with Gilbert will be Mattie, Sophia, Alex and Maria. And in the last van is Ivan, with Yao, Nadiya, Carlos and Michael."
He looked up from his list to see everyone just staring at him. He looked back at the list quickly, then back up. Why did they look at him as if he was crazy? Did he say something wrong? He glared at them and pulled the list above his head and waved it around. "Did I fucking stutter!"
"W-Well…You heard him! Everyone to their van's! Let's get this show on the road!" England woop'd and jumped into her passenger seat. …did England just woop?
With England leading the way, everyone else got into their assigned vans, no matter how silly the seating may've been, and got on their way.
While Alfred drove, Iggy seat in her seat and read a magazine she'd brought. Belle and Albert were seated in the same row, but an empty seat between them was enough. She fiddled away on this on her phone, he played on his DS, while Francis was stuck in the 'back-back' bored to tears. Because of this, he decided to text his good old friend's Gilbert and Antonio. He'd completely neglected to remember the fact that both were driving.
Antonio's phone buzzed beside him, and he went to reach for it, but Romano snatched it up "Nope. You're driving, you stupid bastard. Eye's on the road!"
"E-Ey! Lovi, give me my phone back…Please?" He pleaded, trying to keep his eyes focused on driving, but he kept looking over at Romano with puppy-dog eyes.
"No! Drive." He huffed. Lovino turned his head away and watched the scenery go by, keeping his husbands phone firmly clutched in his hand. Toni whined, but kept driving. He was lucky; he didn't have to hear the chatter going on in the back seat.
Italy was going on and on about the different types of poisonous sea life that lived around where they were going. Germany looked pale, perhaps he didn't like swimming. Japan was perfectly fine listening to her, while Greece was slowly nodding off.
In Berwald's car, it was like the twilight zone, because no family car ride is this perfect; Berwald drove quietly listening to Tino make comments on how pretty it was. Emma and Erik talked and laughed, and Elizabeta read a book while Roderich listened to piano music on his mp3 player. Seriously, how is that real? Well, it's not. This is fictional. Anyway…
It was in the car ahead of him that was a total wreck, not in the burning car wreck, but a crazy car ride kind of wreck.
Gilbert had gotten a text and was currently reading it on his phone while steering the car. Canada was screeching to put it down, but he totally muted her out.
"Gilbert! Gilbert, are you listening to me? Prussia! Beilshmidt!"
Maria leaned forward in her seat and tapped her uncle on the shoulder "Uncle Gil, the light is red." She pointed forward just as he looked up.
"Whoa!" He dropped the phone into his lap and stomped the breaks. Mattie, at this time, was curled into her seat, gripping onto the sides for dear life.
"Ahah! I knew I would hit that light perfectly. I timed it because I'm so awesome." He grinned.
"You…you almost got us killed! Never do that again!" Mattie whimpered. Gil looked over and smiled, putting one hand on her knee, keeping the other hand on the steering wheel.
"Hey, your all with the awesome me. Nothing bad can happen."
Sophia laughed at that, while Alex and Maria were in another conversation and didn't pay attention. Canada sighed and leaned back in her seat to relax, just as the light turned green and Gilbert jumped on the gas, sending the car flying forward and scaring the total living shit out of everyone.
"SLOW DOWN! YOU'LL KILL US ALL!" Alex yelled, grabbing Maria with one arm and pulling her close, and his sister with the other arm, doing the same.
"Gilbert- Prussian Beilshmidt! Slow DOWN!" Mattie screeched as he kept speeding, though he looked as if he did this all the time.
"Sorry! Slow ain't in my vocabularyism!" Prussia cackled.
"What is in your vocabulary!"
"Prussian only knows one word, and that word is GASPEDDLE!" He howled like a wolf as he kept at the same speed.
Just at that moment, his phone rang. It was their saving grace, because he slowed down a few miles short of the speed limit, and answered his phone. At this point, Mattie was too scared to care that he was again driving and on his phone.
When he hung up he put both hands on the wheel and looked white as a ghost.
"W-Who…was it?"
"Bruder. He said if I sped like that again, he'd throw Gilbird out the window."
"…Why does Ludwig have Gilbird?"
"Italy offered to hold him until we got to the beach. I knew it was a trap." He whined pitifully, and kept driving. Of course, when it came to Gilbird, he'd do anything.
Lucky for Gilbert, by the time they'd arrived at the Beach, Gilbird had fallen asleep in Italy's hair. Poor little fella was put to sleep by the boring sea life stuff Feli was droning on and on about. All of the car's arrived at different times, and since Gilbert sped faster than anyone he arrived there first right before Alfred.
Canada leapt out of the car first, burying her face in her hands and laughing like…a very insane kind of cackle. Either she was glad to be alive, or she realized how crazy she was to get in a car with that man.
Maria slung the car door open and hopped out, then proceeded to skip around in the sand and trill. Alex was less enthusiastic. Before he thought that everyone here was a little nuts, but now he was pretty sure that Gilbert was insane. As for everyone else, it was to be decided.
"Best car ride ever!" Maria laughed, spinning around and kicking up sand and dust clouds.
"Not exactly as I would put it…" Alex mumbled, scratching the back of his head. "Maybe we'll chose a different car on the ride home."
"You can, I'll stick with Uncle Gil. He's a really good driver! Did you see how fast we got here? We beat everyone else!" she giggled.
"Eh…Y-Yeah…pretty fast." He sighed, brushing some hair from his eyes just in time to see Alfred's car pull up. "Oh look, more people are here. Great."
Maria spun around and grinned "Great! I'm gonna tell them how much fun the drive was! Be right back!" she bounded away and wooped as she did so. Sophia slid out of the car just in time to watch her go. She laughed to herself, loud enough for Alex to hear so he turned to face her.
"W'so funny?"
"Maira's a hoot. I've never seen someone so happy in my entire life." She sighed to herself, smiling brightly "Glad you like her brother, she's a keeper. She'll bring a little emotion to the family."
"H-Hey! What do you mean..?" he whined "She's just my friend! Geez. Stop trying to be little miss matchmaker and go help Mattie with the bags, Ok?"
She huffed, grinning "Fine. I'll go. But don't deny your feelings," she strode up to him and leaned her head on his shoulder, whispering into his ear "Search your feelings, Alexadros."
"Get off! Go help!" He bellowed, pointing back to the car. She lifted her head and skipped away, cackling. He groaned to himself, knowing good and well that his dad had told her too many stories of the old matchmakers and their abilities to bond two people just by a few simple words.
Meanwhile, Maria was going on and on about the ride there to Belle, who was all ears and laughed about the whole thing.
"Your dad really threatened your Uncle with the life of his pet Bird?" Belle laughed, holding her sides to contain the giggles, while Albert helped Francis Unload stuff. He rolled his eyes.
"Yep! Sure did! Uncle Gil sure does like his pet bird." Maria shrugged. One she was done, she lifted and held her hand above her eyes, scanning the beach. The spot they had picked was empty and there was no one else around. The perfect place for the Nation's to be themselves and not worry about humans seeing.
"The water looks so cooling!" Maria sighed longingly. The American summer heat was killing them, though it was only about eighty-six outside in the sun that morning, but sure enough it was said to be much hotter by noon.
"Let's get into the water, I feel like I'm baking." Belle muttered, putting her bag on the top of the pile of things Albert was carrying, and ran off to the water, Maria following behind.
"H-Hey! Get back here! I won't carry…your…stuff. Shit." They'd run off so quick, he didn't even have time to complain. England had already walked over to where Alfred had set up the umbrella, shading her from the sun.
"Why don't you come in the sun? It's so nice!" Alfred asked from just beside the shadow. His swimsuit consisted of his swim trunks, an unbuttoned shirt and sunglasses. The shirt and glasses would go bye-bye when the time would come to actually get in the water.
"No thanks, I'm fine here." Iggy mumbled, setting down her towel and back right behind it, making a make-shift lounger. Alfred held out his hand all nice and stuff.
"Please? You'd look lovely in the summer sun!"
"No, I won't. I freckle."
"What? No you don't! No come on!" He grabbed her arm to pull his love out of the shadows, but his face was met by her book she'd brought, sending him falling into the sand. She just huffed and sat down to enjoy her reading time.
"Ok, ok. Maybe later." Alfred smiled, softly rubbing his now red cheek.
Once everyone else had arrived, the beach was under the powerful gaze of the summer sun, causing most to run and hide under the cooling waves of the ocean.
Prussia was swimming around trying to pretend to be a shark, swimming circles around Canada who was wading around and watching her Husband be a doof.
Maria was splashing Belle and Sophia with water, while Nadiya was busy thinking up a way to get Albert but surprise. He was diving underwater every few moments and coming back up with shells and rocks. Carlos was watching it all happen, laughing when something funny would happen.
Germany was on his back, floating around with his sunglasses on and enjoying the warmth of the sun, while Italy was pulling up all sorts of pretty colored seaweed and decorating her husband's head with them. He either didn't notice or didn't care.
England was still in the shade, reading while every now and then would look up from her book and watch as America was doing his best to make a sandcastle or something right in front of their umbrella.
Romano was sitting on his beach towel, busy cutting up tomatoes and stuff and putting them together to make sandwiches for everyone, while Spain just watched. He enjoyed watching Romano cook, since it normally ended up tasting really good.
Japan was under the shade of their own umbrella, watching everyone in their play while Greece lay just outside of the shade and was fast asleep. Japan would've woken him up but he was so darn cute. Too bad he'd be burned like a piece of toast by the time they left the beach. He'd be feeling that tomorrow.
Russia was enjoying watching China make a miniature Great Wall out of sand and water. It was a pure wonder to him that someone could be so creative with such stupid things like sand and water. So, after Yao was done with that, he decided to dig a trench so water could come and slowly erode the small wonder. China just watched and sighed as it was slowly melted. That was Russia for you.
Sweden and Finland were in their own shade, watching everyone play around while at the same time talking about different things. They were both always so calm, so it was no surprise. Their small white puppy however was only a few feet away, getting covered in sand while apparently trying to dig to China. Funny thing was China was only ten feet away, so you really don't need to dig there.
France was sitting in his own spot a little away from England. He was busy taking pictures every five seconds of what was happening. Many people knew of France's famous pictures and such, but he really was talented at taking pictures and these were perfect pictures to look at if you wanted to remember this day.
Emma and Erik were walking back from the Snow Cone stand, each holding their own favorite flavor and walking beside one another along the beach. Emma's was maple leaf, or rather just Maple flavor. Go figure. Erik's was Cool Ice, or rather mixed berry flavored. Mmm, one of those does sound good right about now, eh?
Hungry was lying on her stomach, letting the sun tan her back whilst her Husband, Austria, sat beside her and read a book calmly. He wore an old white dress shirt and longer shorts. He never really liked the sun that much, nor did he favor getting sunburnt.
Alex was swimming underwater with his goggles on so he could see what kinds of interesting artifacts he could find, while every time he surfaced, he would slyly watch his sister. Sophia, whom was walking along the beach, was being talked to by Michael. She was giggling shyly, so Alex had every right to be suspicious.
While the sun drew itself higher in the sky the heat became even more unbearable. England lay in the shade, now bored of her book, while she watched America finish his little sandcastle. It was rather lopsided…and small…and strange looking. It didn't look like a sand castle at all.
"What kind of castle is that?" she asked.
"Huh? Castle?" America tilted his head. Iggy groaned and pointed to the small sand thing
"That, what you just finished building, or have you already forgotten?"
"Oh! No, this ain't a castle!" America laughed his key laugh "It's you!"
She was instantly horrified "That's….M-me!"
"Yeah! Tilt your head a little to the side…no, to the left side…yeah! Right there!"
England held her head there for a moment, looking at the sand doodle thing. It was sure lopsided, and looked kind of like a dead rabbit, but when you head your head tilted in that direction, it resembled a 3d render of a human like a two-year-old would draw. Just to top if off, he put a few twigs he found above the eyes.
"Nice. Very funny, now remove those twigs."
"What? Why? They're your cute little eyebrows!" Alfred whined "I can't take those off!"
"It looks silly!" Iggy whined "My eyebrows don't look a tick like that!"
"Awh, Come one Igg's! Be fun for once! This is my creative side!"
"No." She huffed, crossing her arms. America sighed and looked back at the sand creature, then back to England "How about you make a sand-person of me?"
"W-Why…would I do that?"
"So, we can be even! I put my whole heart into this, so you should do the same! I mean, I care about you this much as to spend a whole hour on this wonderful piece of art, can't you do the same? I mean you bragged about how artistic you were."
"Uh…" She was caught. No way out of this one, anyone could see that. She sighed and pulled herself to the edge of the towel, right were a pile of sand was right beside his 'Sand England'. "Alright, so just stand there." She sighed and began packing up piles of sand to for what was beginning to look like…nothing. When she looked back up, her hands squished the pile until It fell apart.
"W-What are you D-Doing?" she gasped. America was taking off his shirt and kneeled down to eye-level.
"I thought you could model my body better this way." He smiled warmly at her.
Al, she could do was stare. How the sun made his skin glow in its tannish orange from all those years of him at this exact beach, the glow made his hair look golden white, not to mention how the sun illuminated his eyes and made them such a bright blue it would rival the ocean. With the cast of the sun, the shadows left nearly nothing to the imagination when it came to his physique. His biceps were…normal, but to her they were like a god's. She really didn't realize that she was still staring until he spoke up.
"You gonna start modeling the sand or stare at me forever?" he smirked, kinking one eyebrow.
"E-Ugh…Y-Yeah! Yes." She cleared her throat and looked down in a huff "I was just memorizing what to do where, your so impatient."
He laughed his normal laugh and continued, but she kept 'screwing up' and found herself looking back up at him more and more. Damn it all. He never looked this good before. She blamed the pregnancy hormones; those damn things could do anything to her head. Suddenly Alfred grabbed her arm slowly and pulled her up.
"H-Ehy, what are you—"
He was smiling at her in that strange way. She could not finish that sentence, because he captivated her with his eyes-…Seriously. Who writes this stuff? Do I have so say that?...Seriously?
Ok, in my own words; Iggy thinks her husband looks damn hot and is powerless in his gaze. Blah.
Alfred's smile grew as he pulled her along until her feet were in the water. She was really out of it until she felt the cold water between her toes, and she jumped up in surprise and screamed.
Everyone in the water turned and began laughing, because the sight was priceless. If you've seen Scooby Doo, then you know how it looks when Scooby jumps into Shaggys arms in a fit of fear. Same thing here, just switch Scooby and Shaggy with England and America.
"Igg's…You can get down now." America chuckled nervously, because his wife was currently wrapping her arms around him so tight he might run out of air. But the main reason was…eh.
"N-No! Get me out of the water!" England wailed. She hugged his head closer, which only made Alfred go red in the face.
Prussia was watching from beside Canada. Both were enjoying this. "Poor Alfie. I told him this was a bad idea." Canada sighed with a grin.
"I know why the guy is so nervous, it's because England's boobies are practically pressed into his eyes! Keseseeee!"
"I was going to say…well, never mind. That's exactly what I was going to say."
"Yep. I'm awesome because I have awesome mind-reading powers. You forget that part, Birdy."
"Let me down! Right now! Unhand me you…!" England was busy thrashing about, making a complete fool of herself in front of everyone. They all knew how England could be, though, so it came as no surprise to them.
"Alright, calm down. I'll let you down…" and with that America began walking into the deeper part of the water, then let England go. It only took a few moments before the cold water brought her out of her little fit and made her instantly quiet.
"See? The water's not so bad." America laughed. He sunk himself lower into the water until he was eye-level with the water. Even down there, Iggy to tell that he was smiling.
"This…isn't so bad." She shrugged, even though a few moments ago she would've begun to cry because she didn't like the water. The total truth of the mater, even though she was an Ex-Pirate, she didn't like the water because after those days were past, she would constantly have nightmares that her ship was blown up and she couldn't swim out of the wreck and drowned.
Meanwhile on land, Finland saw a cute little crab crawling across the sand and decided to change the subject to include that one cute little crab. "Oh look Sve, Look at that cute widdle crabby!"
"Wh's so great about th't?" Berwald looked over his glasses at the small reddish-orange creature as it slowly crawled up to the towel and stopped. Tino slowly scooted over to the edge of the fabric and held out his hand, and when Berwald was just about to tell him that was a bad idea, the small red creature crawled onto his palm.
"Look! Berwald! He likes me!" Finland giggled with pleasure at his new found friend. He brought it up closer to look at; its little red shell shimmered like a tiny rainbow when it was hit with just the right angle of light. Tino was enjoying himself, when Berwald brought his head in to look and freaked out the poor little crab.
Becoming spooked, the little crab pinched Finlands finger until he dropped the crab and it scurried away. Tino rocked back onto his butt and whined in pain. "Ow, silly little crab! Something must've scared it…"
Berwald came over and examined his figure "L'ks fine. S'rry 'bout scarin' him."
"Oh," He looked at Sve right in the eyes. "No, you didn't scare him! Silly Sve, you're not scary."
Berwald smiled a tiny bit, which was a lot to him, and brought up Tino hurt find and kissed it "All b'tter." Finland jumped in and gave him a hug, then the two relaxed back on the towel and watched everyone enjoy themselves. Tino learned a very important lesson today; When you see a crab and makes friends with it, don't let it see Sweden.
Hetalia!
It was nearly evening now, and everyone was hanging out on the beach, bored to tears. They'd already eaten lunch, which was quite good. However, playing a prank on someone can land you in a time-out no matter how old you are. Nadiya decided to put sand on Albert's sandwich, and when he found out so did everyone else. She was sent to sit alone by the water for ten minutes because she'd upset Romano by quote 'Ruining one of his really good sandwiches.' As spoken by Spain.
Emma and Erik were sitting away from everyone, watching the waves. Even though neither spoke, they were both bored to tears also. She sighed loudly, which was apparently enough for him.
"You bored?" He asked
"Yeah…kinda. I mean, we could go swimming, but…we've already done that." She shrugged. About this time, she would love to read some fanfics and maybe even show him some of her favorites. Wait, no, never mind. He wouldn't like those.
"I've got an Idea. Come with me, we won't be bored after this!" he chuckled in a whisper, grabbing her hand and leading her to the cars. They would've gone unnoticed, but Belle and Maria, as well as Sophia happened to notice and began to follow behind.
Emma looked around as she was lead behind their van, where he jumped ahead and opened the back door to the van. She laughed nervously
"E-Erik…Listen…I don't know if this is any kind of…eh" she blushed and looked away. Just then he poked his head around the door and tilted it
"What do you mean…? I was…Oh! Oh…heh…" he blushed lightly "No no, you've gotten me all wrong. This is what I mean…" she looked up just in time to see him pull out something interesting.
Belle, Sophia, and Maria waited in front of the van, listening to what was going on. This is a lesson kids; what you hear does not always explain what's going on.
"Woah! That's a big one!" they heard Emma gasp with a giggle in her voice.
"Yeah! Here, hold it, let me get the other one." That was Erik's voice.
Belle looked wide-eyed at the other two, who were equally confused as well as shocked.
"Guys, maybe we should—" Maria was about to give a very good plan, when Belle jumped out from their hiding spot and confronted both teenagers behind the van. "Maybe we could just jump out and scare them to death. Great Idea."
Belle was shocked, and slightly let down. What she thought they were doing was exactly that, a thought. It was nothing explicit, but fun instead. Emma was holding a huge bright orange and neon green water gun. Erik jumped from the back holding a huge woven sack filled with different kinds of water guns and water balloons.
"Oh, Hi guys! I didn't know you followed us!" Erik smiled and waved. Belle smiled sheepishly and waved back. We all know the apple does not fall far from the tree. In this case it would be a pervert-nut tree.
"What'cha doing with the guns?" Maria skipped forward and looked in the bag. Erik pulled out a huge bazooka-looking gun, loaded with little foam rockets.
"I was planning on attacking the world. Wanna help?" He tilted his head and smiled. Maria giggled and raised her hand "I do! Me me me!"
"Might as well." Sophia shrugged with a smirk.
"Seems find to me!" Belle nodded in agreement.
"What seems fine?" everyone turned to see Albert, Michael, and Carlos, followed by Alex and Nadiya around the side of the van. Nadiya's eyes lit up as she saw a huge gun sticking out of the bag. She ran forward and grabbed it, slinging the strap over her shoulder
"I have no idea what's going on but I'm excited." She laughed.
"Water guns? I'm in." Carlos walked forward to grab some duel pistols. He twirled them around his fingers and holstered them in the side pockets of his swimsuit. Nadiya watched in a daze.
"Whats the plan?" Albert asked, kneeling down with his gun in his hand.
"Ok, so we have the upper advantage; they don't know we're gonna strike, so we can surround them using the cover of the cars. Half goes to the left, the other to the right. We divide and conquer, then each will take turns reloading at the water's edge. Ready?"
They stared at Erik who had ust planned out their entire battle plan in sand. In SAND. "What?"
"That's attractive when you plan world-domination, you know that right?" Emma giggled, nudging him.
"Well, yeah. They why I do it." He stood up straight and cracked his knuckles. "Lets move! Alpha team is with me, Beta team is led by…Albert. Go!"
"Albert is lead? Why? He's not a good leader!" Nadiya whined, but she had no choice…actually she did have a choice to follow him or not, but she did because Carlos was with Beta team.
Emma was kneeling down in the shelter of a tire, glassing the beach. The one's closet to them to her parents. She instantly had a plan. She turned to they're team and whispered "Ok, I'll attract a distraction to bring Prussia over, and we'll capture him, then we'll have a straight shot to the stronger nations. That Prussian empire is no match against us!" she smiled evilly.
Maria turned to Alex and whispered to him "She scares me sometimes." And he just nodded in agreement. Then readied themselves as she started the plan. She made a near-silent tweeting noise, which attracted Gilbird, which in turn made Prussia follow his little pet bird.
He followed the little yellow fluff around the car "Hey, awesome little guy, where're you-!" He was grabbed and brought down to his knees, a water gun held at his head by Emma.
"Ha, Tectonic Knight. Do you surrender?"
"I won't surrender unless I know who I'm doing so to. What's your empires name?"
"...We are…The Time Lords!" She cackled in a whisper in his face. Prussia groaned in defeat "Fine. I give up, just don't hurt mein vittle yellow friend!"
Emma stopped being serious for a moment and her Gilbird to her face "Oh daddy, I would never plan on hurt him, you know that." Then she let him fly over to Prussia's head.
"Can I join your little empire? Please? I don't wanna be taken over." Prussia pleaded.
"Fine. Someone give him a gun. Lets go!"
Whe he was thrown a water gun, which was black and white, he cackled and pointed out onto the beach "We can take ze Germany next, right?"
"Good idea."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the beach…
"Ok, all we need to do is separate England from America, and we'll be able to advance. Those two being together makes them too powerful, we need to divide and conquer."
Nadiya groaned "Get on with it then! Go on, fearless leader."
Albert nodded, made a few hand-gestures and rolled off to take down one of them. Carlos followed behind.
Alfred was lying on his back, watching the clouds, when he heard the familiar crumpling of paper. He looked over and saw a McDonalds bag right next to they're car. He looked over to make sure England didn't see, then he snuck away to take his food.
There was never a burger.
"Unhand me! I'm friggin America! Let me go!" he struggled against the funoodles that were used to use him up. That, and a blow-up floaty duck around his arms.
"Sorry, America, but you've just been captured by the Timelords." Albert smiled. Alfred could not believe he was just that easily captured by his own son. His own son!
"What're you gonna do…?" He asked nervously.
"Well, we've captured you, so now we can attack England and the rest of the world! Ahaha!" he mocked his fathers laugh in every way.
"You'd attack your own mother?"
"I have no mother! I am my own mother!"
"Albert, stop. That was horrible." He looked over and saw his whole team face-palmed themselves. "Enough with the chit-chat! Let's go!"
"H-hey! What about me!" Alfred whined, struggling with that stupid duck.
"Unless you choose to join us and help our take-over, you stay like that."
"Never! I'd never turn against my friend nations! Never!"
"Ok, then we're gonna go take over the world. Bye dad!" Albert waves happily and ran off.
"Bye son! Have fun with your world domination!" he called after them. Once they were gone, he fell over on his bellow and began to crawl like a worm away from there.
Meanwhile…
Germany was sitting beside Italy, reading a book. Little did he know…
"Oi! Germany, Look I have some beer~" Maria called out to her father, who turned at the voice and at the promise of Beer.
"Maria, why do—sdkjghasdg" he was shot in the face with bolts of water, sending him toppling over. Italy screamed and hid behind Germany for cover, which was not really working.
"Attack! Attack!" Erik called over the beach. Everyone was taken by surprise, then Albert's team ran from cover. He started trilling like he normally would.
"Viva La Revolution!" Carlos yelled out in glee. Nadiya just followed behind him.
"Aghh! White Flag White Flaaaaag!" Italy held up her white flag just as Maria ran up to her. They looked each other in the eye, a moment of understanding and peace sparked between them—
"Nope." Maria just lifted her gun and squirted water in her mother's face. "All done. Bye mommy!"
Prussia came sprinting behind her, just as Germany lifted his head and held out a pitiful hand to Gilbert "Bruder! Help me!"
"Nein!" and he shot Germany with more water "You traitor!". He fell back onto the ground, not soaking wet. Italy laid beside him, her hands on her chest as she twiddled her thumbs. "Well, I'm dead."
"Same..."
Just as the fight kept going, England was still sitting calmly reading her book. Albert ran up and held the gun right up behind her book "Ahah! Surrender British Empire!"
"Albert, what are you doing?" she asked without even looking away from her book.
"I—I..—What? I'm dominating the world. You've been caught. Surrender." He tapped the book with the nose of his gun.
"Don't you dare shoot me with that or your grounded. Where's your father?"
"We've capture America already. Divide and conquer." He smiled smugly.
"Very nice. Now run along. I'll not be part of your silly games."
"Come'on mom, Pleeeeease?" Albert begged now. Geez.
"Nope. Go away." She as still reading and didn't notice when he lifted his gu and pointed it at her head. She looked up just in time.
"VIVA LA REVOLITION!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, jus as he pelted her with water. She shot up from the spot and ran after him.
Just as Belle and Maria had France ready to surrender, Albert ran past flailing his arms "The British are coming! The British are coming!" with England hot on his tail.
"Ok, have fun with that." Belle waved as he passed, then held her own gun back up "Ok, Papa, ready to give up?"
"I'm France, What do you think?" He put his hands on his hips and tilted his head.
Belle turned to Maria and smiled "We're done here! Lets go help Nadiya take down the Communists!"
"That sounds fun! Woo!" and they both ran off, Leaving France to look around. They left him unbound so he could escape. Something caught his eye; America was waving to him from the cars.
"Ah, Ameriquie, what is your plan?"
"I found these! Let's see how we can use 'em!" he held up the spare water guns from the bag and threw one to France. Italy and Germany were right behind him, armed and ready.
All four nations ran out and went to help their compodres.
England had her back to the 'wall' with Albert, Belle and Carlos cornering her, along with Spain and Romano. Romano was hiding behind Spain, even though it was just water.
"We've got your cornered! Do you surrender?" Albert smiled.
"Eh…I guess we…" England was about to when she saw America come up behind them with France and Germany. "…we Don't! Aha!" She laughed.
"What…? Why—"
"Dude, you are so grounded." America laughed, how was now the one holding the gun to his sons head.
"Aw, poop." He dropped his gun, so did Belle and Carlos. "We give up."
England launched herself at America and kissed his cheek "My hero."
Alfred blushed read and looked back at her "You mean it?"
"Yes, why else would I have said it?" as laughed.
Everywhere else on the beach, the Older nations had gotten the guns from the surrendered teens and had won the battle. Nadiya had no trouble getting Russia and China to fear her, because she'd found the bazooka water-gun and was ready to fire. Unfortunately, that's when France and England came and assisted.
When they went to go rescue Sweden and Finland, Berwald had his son in a headlock, both we laughing and neither seemed ready to give up. Emma, along with Canada and Finland had given up fighting to watch the two, so they were all good.
Michael had Austria and Hungry surprised, he was a one-man-army. However, Italy and Romano came to the aid of the two and Michael gave up, but not without shooting Romano in his vital regions first. That earned him a smack on the head by his mother.
Japan and Greece were one of the only pairs who'd held their own against both Sophia and Alex. Japan was using some driftwood sticks he found as swords and Greece was throwing sand at them. Both twins gave up in the end. Of course, they felt they'd had a fair fight.
Soon the fighting was over. Everyone washed off the sand and stuff from their bodies and cleaned themselves for the trip home. The sunset was lovely, and everyone stayed until dark to fully enjoy this day. The couples took walks along the beach since it seemed romantic. The singles just hung out and watched the stars, since the sky was so clear.
Maria, Nadiya, Albert, Belle, Alex, Sophia, Carlos and Michael watched as Emma and Erik walked along the beach, then stopped right at the perfect spot. From where they were looking, the moon reflected on the ocean right behind them. The perfect place for their first kiss.
The urge to squeal and cheer was drown out by the fact that this was special for them, and was not to be ruined, so they stayed quiet.
The perfect end to the perfect day.
Hetalia!
The next day, everyone was already packed up and loaded into their own cars. It was time to go and say goodbye. Everyone had decided that since there was so much summer left, that the teenagers would return home to their parents until school started again.
Maria was standing out by the railing on the deck, watching the water. Albert, Emma and Nadiya walked out to find her. She turned and smiled sadly
"Well, It's about time isn't it?"
Emma nodded slowly and looked down. "This feels wrong. I wanna say with you guys…"
"We'll see each other soon, right? After summer's over." Albert smiled, trying to light the mood.
"That's so long, though. We won't forget each other, right?"
"No! Too short of time to forget such great friends! I could never forget you guys, as much as I try!" Nadiya puffed out her chest, smirking.
Maria laughed and nodded, then coughed. She looked down at the ground. Emma tilted her head.
Maria bagan sniffling, then she ran forward and grabbed onto Emma. Emma hugged her, then pulled Nadiya in. Albert joined on his own free will.
"You guys are the first friend's I've ever had…This is hard, you know?" Maria hiccupped. Nadiya laughed, but even that could not hide the small twinge of sadness in her voice.
"Yeah…you guys better not go off and do something stupid like die or something, or else I'll kill you all."
Emma now sniffled "Nadiya, if we're dead, how will you kill us?"
"I'll strange your dead bodies!" Nadiya wailed, and hugged harder. That earned a laugh from everyone.
Soon they split apart, wiping their faces clean of any tears. Maria laughed suddenly "Alrighty then, He have a promise to upkeep!"
"Eh, what kind of promise?" Emma tilted her head, Nadoya still sniffling slightly.
"Our promise to not change, so when we see each other again we'll remember each other!"
"That's a good idea!" Nadiya smiled "Yeah, I won't change! I promise."
"Same here. I promise I won't change one bit." Albert nodded his head.
"I'll stay the same forever." Emma giggled.
"Ditto. I won't change ever." Maria smiled, then she turned to Emma "Now you stay with Erik so when we see you again, we can hear all the cute stories you have to tell, Ok?"
"Deal. You need to keep painting so when we see you again, maybe you would paint a picture of all of us."
Maria laughed and nodded "Ok, That'll be cool! And Albert; You need to get away from video games and cook more! You have a talent!"
"Well, my mum taught me...and most don't think he—she's a good cook, but she is! Really! She's just always nervous it'll end up bad, she screws it up."
"Yep! I don't like you, but when you cooked us that cake the other night, it was really good!" Nadiya nudged his arm with her fist playfully.
"I'll learn how to knit so I can make all you guys a neat scarf for the winter! Ok? How does that sound?" Nadiya tilted her head.
"Sounds great!"
When the voices of their parents call for them, they knew when it meant. Maria looked at them sadly "Well, Ciao…" she picked up her backpack from her feet and walked through the house. She looked around slowly as she went. Such a lively house, filled with nations, countries. No, family and friends.
Albert walked behind her, looking around and remembering what it was like here as a child, then returning at his age and still feeling like a child again. No one could ever describe the feel of meeting someone who changed your life, they could try, but the feeling is special.
Emma walked through and smiled sadly. She loved this place, now. The living room had been cleaned up and showed no signs of their late-night movie. Still, it was a memory that could not easily be forgotten, being so close to Erik and her friends in moments of fear, it made her feel safe.
Nadiya walked through and remembered what change had happened here. All those nations and people she'd met, they'd changed over a few days, yet she could swear they'd always been like they were now. Heck, who'd guess Italy was ever a guy? However they may've changed, they were her family now, family and friends, and no matter how they changed, thy will always be the same in her eyes. Loved and loving.
They stood outside the house now, walking to their cars, when Nadiya called over to Albert. He turned, "Yeah, Nadiya?"
"You know it looks like you have two rats eating your face still, right?" she spoke with false hostility, how covering her sadness to go. He just smiled back
"Yeah, I know. Family trait. I happen to like these, you know?" and with that he got in the car and drove off. Nadiya next, then Emma, then Maria.
Summer suddenly felt like it would last forever, school couldn't come slower.
ヘタリア 2gen
+THE END+
(End Season One.)
.Thank you.
A/N: Woo! All done until next fall! I hope everyone loves it~ This whole thing was 21 pages long. Dear god in heaven my hands are dead until who knows when. Yep! Well, I'll be now posting updates for Honey Honey and the 2Gen prequel! Woo! Cheers to that!