I don't own Hetalia. Himaruya does.

They stood in front of the gate to the village, annoyed. This was the first walled-in village they had passed by, and they, especially Arthur and Dacian, were getting annoyed.

"Why won't they let us in yet?" Dacian muttered, kicking around a stone to try to cure his boredom.

"I don't know; maybe because we passed through Bandit Forest in the middle of the night?" Amber said, speaking up for the first time since they arrived at the village. The trio looked at her.

"And that is related how?" Arthur said, sitting down on a boulder. Amber leaned up against another boulder, holding her bow in her hand.

"People don't pass through the Bandit Forest and survive unharmed," Amber replied before falling silent again. After a bit, one of the gate guards went over to tell them whether they would be allowed in or not.

"It has been decided that you lovely folks will be allowed in," the guard said, flipping his shoulder-length hair. The travelers nodded. "I will be showing you to your accommodations for the day," he said as he led them inside of the walls. The trio and Amber followed the guard to an inn off of a side road.

"Thank you," Amber said as they approached the inn. The guard smiled at her and offered her a rose. The long, black haired woman with pigtails daintily took the flower and twirled it around.

"Anything for you, my dear," he said, causing Arthur to fake-gag in the background. The guard whirled around to look at the blonde with the bushy eyebrows. "Excuse me, but are you mocking me?" Arthur had this horrified glance on his face and shook his head. Dacian had to refrain from bursting out laughing as Amber smiled.

"Never," Arthur replied.

"Yeah right."

"I mean it!"

"No you don't, honhonhon!"

"That laugh is so annoying! Shut up!" And with that, Arthur and the guard began to fight. Thankfully, it was mainly a verbal fight. Eventually, Lukas had to break up the fighting. As Arthur and the guard regained their breath, the door to the inn opened. Two girls exited from the inn, one running and the other walking.

"Papa Francis! You're back!" the girl with short, blonde hair said, running up to and hugging the guard. The quieter one with longer blonde hair in low pigtails walked up to the guard.

"Hey, papa," the quieter of the two girls said, getting a hug and a smile from her dad. The travelers watch the guard happily interact with his daughters.

"Um, can we see where we're staying?" Dacian said, awkwardly interrupting family time, and Francis nodded. He led them to their rooms, his daughters trailing along.

"So you guys are travelers?" the more outgoing girl, Amelia, said.

"Yes," Lukas replied quietly as he put his stuff down on one of the beds.

"That's so cool! I want to travel around and see the world too!" Amelia said.

"What do you want to do, Madeleine?" Amber said, addressing the quieter sister.

"I'm not really sure, to be honest," Madeleine said, smiling. Amber nodded her head and then turned to Francis.

"This place seems rather empty," the woman with brownish-gold eyes said. Francis sighed.

"Ever since the inn on the main road opened up, we've lost a lot of business. I guess it's because we're so off of the main road," Francis said.

"That's sad. I wish I could do something to help," Arthur said, drawing the attention of everybody in the room.

"That would be nice, but you don't have to. I understand that you're busy traveling."

"I would like to try. I'll try to return to here to help you all out once my traveling days are over." Soon after that, the travelers went out for food and for supplies. Everywhere they went, people looked at them weirdly. When Dacian asked why, Amber said that it was because they had passed through Bandit Forest in the middle of the night without getting harmed.

Later on in the day, Arthur hung out with Francis and his family while Lukas was off by himself looking around at the village. Dacian and Amber were walking around, talking to each other.

"There are some things that I don't understand about you," Dacian said as the two of you walked around the perimeter of the village.

"I think that all three of you have question about me. I'm not very open with you guys," Amber replied.

"Like the fact that you haven't told us that you're actually a mage?" Amber stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Dacian.

"Why do you say that?"

"I can sense magical auras. Your aura is just a blank void. After thinking it over for awhile, I realized that it wasn't that you didn't have an aura, but that you were hiding your aura."

"You're good. It's true; I've been lying about not being a mage. Then again, would you have trusted me if I said that I was a mage?" Dacian thought on what she had said as they began walking.

"Not really. I see your point."

"Well, you haven't told them that you're half vampire." This time, it was Dacian who stopped in his tracks.

"How... how did you find out?" She frowned slightly before replying.

"It's hard to explain. It's not that I looked into your mind, but it's a spell that acts in a similar manner. Does that make sense?" Dacian nodded, and they continued their walk.

I almost forgot to update, but I didn't! Woot! Anyways, I think that this fanfiction will end up around 20 chapters, give or take a couple chapters.

Comments are appreciated!

~xXDarkDiaXx