Maiden: Aaaaaaaaaaaand…I'm back! *collapse on floor*
Italy: Vee! Are you okay, Maiden?
Maiden: Will I be okay right after going through 5 exams in a week?
Nations: "Ouch!" "Uhh, not really?" "Your school is nuts!" "What kind of torture was that aru?"
Japan: You're almost there, Maiden-san! Just one more term and passing the HSC, you'll be having your 'Eternal Happiness' (meaning 3 months holiday)
Maiden: I hope so…
*walks in Austria, Hungary and Prussia*
Hungary: I know something that will cheer you right up!
Maiden: Hungary?
*Hungary smiles innocently and out of thin air, produced 'The APH pairings photo album'. Maiden blinked*
Austria and Prussia: Where did that come from?
Hungary: *ignores them* It has all your favorite pairings in here. It all starts off with the PG-13 ones, then the rating goes up.
Maiden: *blinks more* Such…Such a book existed? *Hungary nods*…May I?
*Hungary hands over book and Maiden runs off with it*
Hungary: Well that should make her happy after those horrible weeks of studying.
China: What…What did you mean by 'rating goes up' aru?
Hungary: Oh you know…the usual *beep*…and the *gun shots* then the *khhh*…
England: I heard enough!
Germany: I did not hear that!
Hungary: I'm just surprised she found out about us at the beginning of 2010.
Austria: *clears throat* A-Anyway, we should do the disclaimer now-
Prussia: By the awesome me! *with microphone in hand and speakers volume up to the max. The 'Marukaite Chikyuu – Prussia version' song comes on* Listen up, you awesome readers of this fanfic! This is just the fanfic version of the great RPG RomaHeta, which stars me as the main character-
America: Hell no! I am the main character here!
Prussia: What? I'm so much more awesome than you; I should be the main character!
America: Pfft! As if!
*they get into a heated argument and fight*
France: *watches them* Now what?
Spain: Me and Roma did it last month already.
Romano: I'm only doing it once.
Austria: Ahem. So the point is, Miss Maiden here does not own the game or us, the characters of Hetalia. So please-
Prussia: Hey, Rich Boy! Stop stealing my awesome role!
Austria: Since when did I ever-
Hungary: Okay, that's done, so let's move on! I want to see the cute Italy brothers action!
Russia: *with evil looking auras around him* Ms. Hungary, how much photos did you take of me and Yao?
Hungary: *sweat drops* Uhhh…
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Chapter X: A useless mission
Feliciano ate his pasta in a slow pace. Usually he would chug it all down under thirty minutes, if it was a normal serving.
But here's the thing, it was a normal serving. And he was taking his 'sweet ass' time on it too. He would pick up a strand of noodle or a meat ball off the plate with his fork and slurped it even slower.
Lovino, who had already finished, was getting aggravated by his brother's behavior, but who could blame him? It was night time and the others weren't back yet. They couldn't contact Kiku to ask how the others were, so the feeling of not knowing how everyone was doing was driving them crazy. But Lovino would not admit that he was worried as well, someone had to be the one who have it all together (it was the only way to not admit he was worried about Antonio.)
After Feliciano finally finished with his pasta, he murmured, "What are we going to do?" It was loud enough for Lovino to flinch as he placed the dirty dishes into the sink; he didn't expect his brother to sound that depressed, "Wh-What if something happened to them?" Both the brothers had a mental image of the others dead, frozen into ice sculptures that's scattered around Ivan's cold palace. Feliciano started crying, and clung to his brother, "Veeeee! What are we going to do, fratello? If Ludwig and the others are in danger, we can't go back to the real world anymooore!"
Lovino tried to pry his brother's hands off him but it was like undoing an iron bar's knot. "Get off me, goddammit! Freaking out won't solve anything!"
After he finally managed to calm down, Feliciano let go of Lovino and wiped away his tears and let out a, "Y-Yeah, you're right…" then, from his cry-baby face to his actually serious face, he declared, "Alright, then! I guess I will go save them myself!"
"Huh?" What was Feliciano up to now?
"Even if something bad happens, I'll run back here! And besides, Error said he doesn't want us, so I'll be fine!" Feliciano actually sounded brave, to Lovino's surprise.
"Yeah, but…"
"Alrightie! First of all, I'll need a weapon to fight with!" And Feliciano ran to their bedroom, "White flags have no affects on Ivan anyway!"
Lovino just sat there, looking dumbfounded, until he shouted, "I…I'm coming too, dammit!" He wasn't going to let Feliciano rescue Antonio!
Weapons for them to choose were clattered on to the floor. It was hard choosing them, since some were too scary looking, and/or the others were too dangerous for either of them to use.
For example, Feliciano tried to use Ludwig's whip as his weapon, but when he tried it, the sound of the whip cracking the air scared the heck out of the brothers ("Why does Ludwig like these scary things!"). Lovino tried one of the spells in the spell books but when he tried to cast fire, he set the whole bookcase alight!
Next, Feliciano tried another weapon, a flail with a spiky-ball attached to a chain. But it was way too heavy for Feliciano to use and he broke a vase and nearly killed Lovino when he couldn't control the heavily swinging weapon. After that, Lovino (while being huffy at Feliciano) saw a pitchfork next to a long axe. He took the pitchfork in hand and looked in a mirror in the room.
"What are you doing with Fratello Antonio's pitchfork?" Feliciano asked when Lovino tried to strike a pose that Antonio would usually did when he had one in his hand.
"N-Nothing!" But the blush on his face said otherwise.
Axes and lances were not their type of weapons either. It was either too heavy or they're too clumsy to use them. Claws just made the younger of the two to start crying because it made him have a booboo. They weren't used to other types of guns other than pistols they used when they were in a mafia business.
"How about this?" Feliciano took Arthur's bow and arrows in hand.
"Do you even know how to use that?"
Feliciano loaded an arrow and aimed it at an apple just sitting on top of a fruit basket. Somehow, with his steady hands that were obtained from years of painting, he fired and the arrow shot through the center of the apple and pinned it to the cement part of the brick wall.
While Lovino's mouth opened and closed like a fish, Feliciano plucked the arrow out of the apple and took a bite, then letting out a squeal, "Vee! I did it! This bow is light and pretty as well. Will Ludwig think I'm strong when he sees me using this?" Feliciano skipped around the bedroom with glee and started to pack arrows into a quiver, "Vee, I think he will!"
Face going red, Lovino frantically searched other weapons to use. Anything was fine.
There was an estoc among the collection of swords. Lovino used to be a sword wieldier once, when he tried to become at least a little stronger than Feliciano. Screw the fact it's that French ass' weapon!
"We're leaving now, idiota!"
"Yes, sir!"
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The night was full of silence in the wide open field, only the moon's light was present to show them the way. Feliciano was beaming with confidence as he walked down the path to Ivan's palace with his brother.
"Stop smiling like that, goddammit."
"Vee! But I'm excited! Ludwig would say I'm brave and strong for rescuing him!"
"Oi! Don't go and forget about Antonio…and the ot...hers…"
Both of them didn't just stop walking, they froze from fear. There was a Monster!Tony standing in front of them, just staring at them as they stared back.
Two good minutes passed and Feliciano finally snapped from his fear level finally reaching its limits. "VeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee!" He double backed and ran; Lovino was close after him, who was shouting out, "Oi, Feliciano! Don't tell you actually-"
"I had completely forgotten about the monsters!" Feliciano sobbed and was gaining speed quicker than Lovino.
"YOU IDIOT!"
The Monster!Tony was able to catch up to one of the brothers. It snarled its fangs and sprung onto Lovino's back.
"Shi-gyaaahhhh!" Lovino screamed in pain as the monster sank his poisonous fangs into the older Italian's shoulder.
"Fra-Fratello!" Feliciano turned back and quickly loaded an arrow and prepared to fire. However, his hands were shaking badly and he was scared that he would miss and shoot Lovino instead.
Lovino managed to take out the estoc from its sheath and stabbed the little monster in the head. The monster yelped in pain before dying and fell from Lovino's back.
"Fratello!" Feliciano ran back to his brother's side as he collapsed onto his knees from the effects of the venom running though his body and began to cough uncontrollably. The younger Italian began sobbing and hugged his brother tightly as he wailed, "Fratello! Don't diiiie!"
"I…Idiot! Let go of me!" Lovino kicked his brother off him, even though it was a feeble kick, it managed to get Feliciano to step back (actually, Feliciano let go to yank Lovino's bag off his shoulder). "I'll be…fine!" he coughed out the last word and continued to do so.
Feliciano panicked, but began to rummage through the bag's content. He quickly found what he was looking for: a jar full of tomato purée. He quickly unscrewed the lid and used a spoon he usually takes with him to scoop out a spoonful of the sauce. "Quick, eat this!" he shoved the spoon into Lovino's mouth with so much force, that Lovino almost gagged but was able to swallow the rest of the sauce that lingered in his mouth. As he gasped for air and was about to demand Feliciano on what the heck he was doing, the young Italy hugged his brother again, this time gently but there was firmness in it.
A soft light slowly surrounded them and Lovino felt his strength slowly - very slowly - returning. The light was soft and warm, just like how Feliciano's hug feels right now. It lingered around them for a few minutes, before it began to fade away; but Lovino felt his energy fully returned by the time the light dispersed.
Feliciano let go of his brother and beamed, "Vee, a hug does make everything better!"
Lovino twitched from Feliciano's brightness. "Will you stop smiling like that!" Feliciano just stayed the same but Lovino let it drop, it was his brother's trait after all. "Anyway, why did you feed me that?"
"Yao said the tomatoes in this world have a bit of magical properties in it. He was surprised that a red fruit can also have these kind of properties, vee!"
Lovino just nodded and stood up along with his brother. "Alright then. Now," he bonked Feliciano on the head and angrily shouted, "How could you forget about the monsters, idiota!"
"Vee! Th-That's because…" Feliciano rubbed his head as he thought why, "Maybe, it was because we had the altar…remember what that person said about it?"
Lovino tensed up and shook his brother. "Shut up! Don't mention him! Let's just go back already, dammit!" And Lovino stormed off.
Feliciano nodded to agree, "Vee, Ludwig, Fratello Antonio and the others should be fine if they can make it through more than one monster like that one." And they both headed back to the house…as quick as their feet could take them.
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Kiku sighed in relief as his Italian friends made it back into the house. He felt guilty that one: right now he couldn't tell them that everyone other than Ivan and (possibly) Natalya was alright; and two: he actually believed that Feliciano and Lovino were infected.
Oh well, it will all be over soon, so it's okay.
Since Error seems to be not making any moves, Kiku retreated to bed, calling it a night.
However…
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…Unknown to the brothers and Kiku, someone was watching as the two useless Italians retreated for the night.
"That was too close," Error murmured to himself as he transported away from where he was hiding, and back to the pure white space.
"If you haven't done that, we would have lost them," He sighed out slowly, then mumbled "It was a good thing that they didn't follow Alfred and the others. But I didn't imagine that they would be foolish enough to risk themselves in danger to rescue Ludwig and Antonio. But at least they are still useless."
He stayed silent for a while, then laughed at his remarks and said quietly, with a small smirk on his face – a smirk that could send chills down anyone's spine, "But not for long…"
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Maiden: *comes back* Oh yeah, I feel so much better. *looks back at the chapters* Hmm, I think I failed a chapter again but oh well. And after so much internal debate, I finally decided that Feliciano and Lovino will use a short bow and an estoc respectively. I mean, America is much suited with being a gunner, since he was a gunner in 'Hetalia Fantasia'. Then again, he is the hero in the game, so he should be a sword wielder. And in HetaOni, he is a gun wielder, so I'll let it pass.
By the way, this fanfic is getting interesting, isn't it? And after this, only two more chapters to go until the epic scene…
Fans of RomaHeta: Hurray! That/An Epic scene is coming soon!
Fans who never watched the videos: Wait…what scene?
Fans who seen it: You'll see…
Maiden: Yeah…that scene…But it will maybe take a while for me to work out how to write it out with more of my horrible exams coming up! DX
Any who, since we have Austria, Hungary and Prussia with us today, we shall have three things to give out. But first, here are the tomatoes for everybody! *hands tomatoes with Spamano as fans cheers* Okay, out first gift is Austria personally teaching you how to play the piano. Secondly: we all shall learn the Art of Frying Pan from Hungary. Finally: A date with Prussia for all the Prussia fangirls out there.
Oh, and before I forget, another choice can be made for the HetaOni fanfic! Those who voted can vote again! Remember to go to my profile to vote for it!
Nations and Maiden: See ya soon!