Chapter 10- Where Are They Now?

The next day, I had a day off from work. Thank God. It was the perfect time to do some research and look into myself a bit more. I was still reluctant to believe what Matthew had told me, but it couldn't hurt to look into it a little. I could get some extra information, possibly, or I could find nothing. I guess it was worth the try.

I grabbed Gilbird and locked my apartment door. Once I had got to the bottom of the stairs, I unchained by bike and took off. I decided to head to the Internet café.

The weather outside was absolutely terrible; the wind was extremely chilly. I placed Gilbird in my pocket so that he was warm. I could only imagine how cold it must have been to only have a down of feathers to keep you warm.

The traffic was horrid, even worse than the weather. It was bad, as in twenty-cars-waiting-at-a-stoplight bad. I was forced to ride on the sidewalk. I had to swerve in and out of disgruntled pedestrians. After about half an hour of dodging people, I had finally made it to the Internet café.

I swung the door open, eager to get out of the wind. I closed the door behind me, and Gilbird escaped out of my coat pocket. I sat down at a computer that was far away from the door, so I wouldn't receive the cold snap every time someone else opened the door. I opened the Internet program on the computer and navigated to the home page of one of the best search engines.

At first, I wondered what to look up. If I wasn't specific enough, I'd never find anything useful. Then, I remembered that Matthew had given me his full name. So I searched 'Is Matthew Williams Canada?' and surprisingly, a lot of results came up. 78,400 results, to be exact. I scrolled down the list until one of the results caught my eye.

'Where Are They Now?'

I looked at the small amount of information that was displayed underneath the title. I decided to click the link. It took me to an article.

'At the latest World Summit meeting, none of the countries had showed up. Not even the members of the G8 had turned up. As of November 30th, all but one of the countries has been proclaimed as 'missing'.'

Witnesses claim they saw a country go into the World Summit building. He was originally thought to be America, but was later proven to be Matthew Williams, or Canada.'

Matthew Williams…

'The best detectives from all around the world have been hired to help find the countries, and to help find out the cause of their disappearance.'

I continued to read the article, but it didn't give any important information after that part. A lot of it was being repeated. I checked the other websites to see if the information was legit, and there actually were lots of sites detailing the event. It was as if it were headline news.

I found much information on the topic. I found newspaper articles, short descriptions of the nations, contact information should one have any information on the subject, a list of detectives on the case, even a webcomic and a manga series. You name it; I probably found it.

So, it looked like Matthew has been telling the truth. It wasn't a joke. There are personifications of countries, and they are indeed missing. When I thought about it, I remembered that Canada mentioned something about no-one turning up to the World Summit.

I quickly went on to the image part of the search engine and typed 'Prussia'; if what Canada said was correct, images of me would most definitely appear. And they did. Hundreds of pictures of me appeared on the monitor. Most were of me and baby chicks. I guess that prove it.

I am Prussia.