-Back in scandinavia-

"she'll be back, don't worry momma." Emil said, rubbing Mathilde's hand soothingly. The woman was about to reply, but was inturputed by the door opening and Berwald coming in being followed by four other people. Berwald huffed at the people behind him, and sat by Mathilde. The four walked in, and Mathilde recognized Aldrid (britiana), Alder (germania) , Bella and Ludwig (belgium and Germany).

"alright scandi hand him over now!"

"pardon?"

"don't you pardon me you child stealer! You stole my Arthur!"

"what? I ha-"
"aldrid, Mathilde calm down this instance. " Germania butted in, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"alright, Mathilde; where is mari?"
"gone."
"so is Arthur , jutchlen, and Jan."
"so where are they?!" aldrid screeched, her green eyes dark with worry, and possibly anger.

"that is what we are trying to figure out you stupid head now shut up!" Mathilde screeched back, her blue eyes blazing.

"both of you be quiet." Alder retorted, rubbing his temples, getting a headache,"Ludwig, speak."

Ludwig stood up, and cleared his throat,"well… almost six months ago mari came to my country, saying she got kicked out of her home, so Juchtlen had an idea to go explore the continent… she got ahold of jan, who agreed, then Arthur, whom Jan told. Both boys agreed, and they set out a week after that. I have no idea where they are now, but they were headed to France when they did leave." He said, shrugging slightly.

"I can check with france on my way back home then." Aldrid said, now somewhat calm.

"mor? Whats going on?" lukas asked, coming downstairs. Everyone looked at him for a bit, alder mad at him, since lukas had slapped mari (Berwald told him, how could ber not? Germania is their father after all)
"we're talking about how to find where mari is."
"don't bother."
"what? Why not?"
"she's never coming back, she cant manage out there on her own, she's too small and weak." He ran a hand through his hair, "she isn't coming back, mor. Get over it." He muttered.

No one really believed him…but the teens had been gone for two centuries (the nations age every 10 years) after that… once it was the third year, no one had any more faith that they would return… they believed they lost them…

~Mari's POV~

We arrived in Berlin pretty early in the morning after we dropped Arthur and Jan off in Amsterdam, since Arthur was going to sail back to England with his own ship. "Well, it looks like goodbye for now Mari." Juchtlen said a soft and sad smile on her face. I nodded, and hugged her, since I was going to miss her so much, "ja, it appears so…" we almost didn't want to let go of one another… but we did. I looked up at her; we spent so much time together. She was no longer a quirky 16 year old, but now a elegant, somewhat quirky, 18 year old. I was now 15…. Wow… it seems hard to say I'm 15 now…

I got out of the wagon, my cloak on my shoulders, and a small bag in my hand, holding the things I left with, and bought in other countries' walked the dirt trail, heading back to my country, back to where I was raised and were my family was. People who knew me twenty years ago squinted, then waved, their faces bright with delight. One woman, whom I recognized as a child from when I left ran up to me to hug me. I smiled, and hugged her back. "We missed you Danny." I smiled at the nickname my people had begun to call me, "I missed you too." It was true, I missed everyone dearly, but I was glad to be home.

My trip back to my home took me little over a day. The house had candles lit in the windows, and I smiled softly, knowing I was home again.

I walked up to the door, and raised my fist to knock on the door; it seemed odd, since I never had to do this at my home, but then again, I was gone for so long, it only seemed polite. I knocked twice, and waited for someone to answer. Sadly, that someone was Norway…. He stared down at me, he was 18 and as handsome as ever….

"Mari…" he said, his eyes were wide, and slightly bulging from seeing me again. I guess I somewhat grew, and matured… but still…

"Lukas." My voice was a tad bit cold, "May I come in?" I asked, my arms crossed now. He nodded, and led me in, shutting the door.
"Mor! Mari's home." He called, and headed for the kitchen to make something.

"lukas I swear to the gods if you are joking I wi-" her voice becam a gasp as she saw me from her spot on the stairs. No longer a child, but now a wise, smart, young woman. She rushed down and hugged me tightly, whispering softly as she stroked my hair, silent happy tears going down her face,"my baby… my sweet baby my baby girl…. Oh thank Freya you are safe….." she kissed the top of my head repeatedly, before hugging me again.

"EMIL! BERWALD! TINO! Mari has returned home!" mor called after she had me siting down, me drinking some hot tea. The three others came down, and quickly hugged me, and began to rattle off questions of what I saw and did. Most of them I couldn't answer quickly enough for them.

While I talked of my time around Europe, mor began to brush and braid my very long hair , it reached my ass, to say the least.

"oh! And I forgot the best part! While exploring, I made some really nice friends who gave me recipies for new foods, and taught me how to cook different stuff." I was smiling so brightly," and one of my friends, Francis, well he gave me the best gift, he taught me to speak French, taught me what being beautiful means, and manners." I smiled softly at mor, who was smiling sadly, and she kissed my forehead. I giggled, and looked at Berwald, "also, I can speak itallian, german, dutch, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish." I smiled, so proud of myself.

"wow!"
"that's a lot of languages."
"how did you learn Chinese?" Emil asked curiously.

"oh! We ended up going to a really beautiful country in Asia, near Russia named china. He is a very nice man. He gave me this." I paused to pull out a white silky Chinese dress with red, pink, green, and blue flowers adorning it , "this is a Cheongsam." I smiled and let the others see it.

"its very pretty."
"can you try it on?"
"ja! Please put it on so we can see." Emil said, smiling brightly. I nodded, and ran off to the bathroom, holding the pair of slippers that went with it. I changed into it, braiding my hair into two separate braids, and put the slippers on before coming out, and bowed in the traditional way as a greeting, "Nǐ hǎo. Nǐ xǐhuan wǒ de yīfú?" I asked in chinese. Of course everyone looked at me confused. Giggling, I smiled," I said 'hello, do you like my dress?'" they all made a face that was simply embarrassed, but nodded.

I smiled, and sat down next to mor, still in the dress.

"were else did you go mari?" tino asked, curiosity lighting his face.

"I went to hungary… france, Italy, spain, Austria, Russia, um…china, Switzerland, Poland, Greece, and japan."
"how did you get to japan?" now my mother was curious.

"china took us."

"ahh… I see."

((authors note, this is baisicially mari talking about her time in other countries, and also I got bored so I did this. XD)