Gilberte watched shaking with fear as Spain went up and knocked on the dull coloured door of Russia's mansion. When they had arrived no one had wanted to knock on the silent, looming, dark house and they had just stood there, unsure of what to do. Eventually Spain smiled cheerfully and declared that they shouldn't just stand around waiting and went up to the door while Romano constantly shouted curses at him for his stupidity.
"Antonio you tomato bastard! You idiot! When you die don't expect me to come to your funeral!" Lovino shouted angrily causing Spain to turn around, a bright smile on his face.
"Oh Lovi! You're so cute, like tomato!" He said as he smiled widely and turned back towards the door.
"Привет, is someone there?" A voice asked from the now open door.
"¡Hola Russia! We are here to ask you for your help! Por favor, help us!" Spain exclaimed hurriedly with a worried look on his face and gestured back towards the group.
In the group there was quite a collection of different emotions. There was Germany looking angry, after all this was the country his brother had suffered and been tortured in for all those years they were separated. Romano who had been standing there looking pissed off now was shaking with fear while Feliciano, oblivious as ever, just stood there smiling like an idiot while trying to figure out what was going on. France was standing there trying to flirt with Prussia who was shaking with fear and trying to look anywhere but at that door.
"Oh, it's just you guys, I'm sorry but Mr. Russia is out at the moment." A quiet, trembling voice answered to all of them.
"Lithuania?" Spain asked surprised as he took another look at who had answered the door. "It is you! Would you mind telling us where Ivan went? We really need his help." Antonio asked politely and smiled brightly.
"Sure, I would love to help. He went off to the market to buy some Pirozhki and vodka." Toris explained and gave a feeble smile in return.
"Danke." Germany said as the group started on their way to the market.
"Your welcome and good luck!" Lithuania shouted to them as their backs disappeared behind the pine trees.
"Why is it that whenever we go to someone's house they're either not home or they don't have the damn book! Chigi!" Romano yelled as the market came into sight.
"Aww Lovi! You're so cute! Like a tomato!" Spain shouted cheerfully and pulled Lovino into a hug.
"Shut up dammit you stupid bastard! Don't touch me!" South Italy yelled as he pulled away from the clingy Spaniard.
"Let's just go, oui?" France interrupted as they finally reached their destination, the market.
"All right let's split up and look for Ivan. I will take Italy, Spain you're with Romano, and France….." Germany sighed as he rubbed his forehead. "You go with mein Schwester." He said as he looked at the Frenchman who was now smiling at himself, suddenly Ludwig was right next to France. "Don't do anything funny or I swear to Gott that you'll find yourself in a body bag floating in the Pacific Ocean. Do you understand me?" Germany growled out protectively and glared into the Frenchman's eyes.
"O-Oui, I understand." Francis answered nervously as Ludwig went back over towards Italy.
"Good." He said and soon he and Feliciano were off followed by an enraged Lovino being dragged by an oblivious Spain.
"Well, let us go then oui?" France said as he turned to the silent Prussia standing behind him.
"Да, let's go." She answered as they entered into the crowded streets of the market place.
"Wow, it sure is busy here, how are we going to find Russia? I can't even understand anyone here!" France said exasperatedly as he scanned the market place.
"Don't worry, I know Russian, I'll go and ask people if they've seen him." Gilberte said as she walked up to a man that was selling various fruits and vegetables. "Вы видели молодого человека с волосами покрашенными золой, пурпуровыми глазами, нося большое пальто, и держа трубу водопровода металла?" She asked the salesman.
"Нет, я бедный человек огорченных но I." The man said with a shake of the head.
"Вы так или иначе." She said as she headed back towards France. "He says he hasn't seen him." She told the Frenchman sadly.
"Do not worry mon ami; I'm sure we'll find him eventually." Francis reassured her and gave her a pat on the back.
"I guess….." She mumbled as they sat down on one of the wooden boxes behind the two of them.
"Let's go back and meet up with the others at the checkpoint, maybe they found something?" France tried to comfort the depressed girl.
"Alright, let's go." She said as they got up and started walking towards the meeting place, followed close behind was France, worried expression on his face as his eyes watched the albino girl.
"So no one found him?" Germany asked disappointedly.
"Sí amigo. No one found him." Antonio confirmed with a slight nod of the head.
"Well, damn." Romano said as they all just stood there for a while when suddenly a hand grabbed Romano's shoulder.
"%!$#*!&#*()^!%^~!" Romano yelled out in fear as he hid behind Spain.
"Cabbages?" A voice asked behind them as they turned in surprise to stare at a light brown haired girl with brown eyes who had a thick Italian accent.
"Um…." Prussia said as the girl offered her a cabbage.
"You are looking for Ivan sí?" She asked as Gilberte slowly nodded her head . Seeming pleased the girl continued, "Then eat this cabbage and place your hand where the cabbage was before." She commanded as she pointed to the spot where the cabbage had been before.
"Okay?" Prussia said confused as she ate the cabbage and placed her hand on the spot where the vegetable had once been. When she did this two things happened, first, a strange mist gathered around the Prussian causing a startled yelp to escape from the girl's lips. The other thing, was that a strange door appeared on the trunk of the tree behind them.
"What the?" Ludwig asked as they all stared in amazement at the young girl.
"Hey, I turned back to normal!" They heard someone yell, they all turned to the direction of the voice to find a now male Gilbert.
"Yay! We fixed one of the problems!" Feliciano said as they all crowded around Gilbert.
"Danke schwön!" Prussia exclaimed to the girl and hugged her.
"Don't thank me yet, I only turned you back into a boy. Now quickly! Go through that door and find Russia!" The girl exclaimed as she quickly gestured towards the door. The group rapidly made their way to the door of the tree.
"Before we go I would like to know, who are you?" Prussia asked curiously and the girl smiled.
"You may call me Natalie or Natalie, Keeper of the Cabbages. I was told your situation from my good friend, Mallory, a world renowned hit-man that you know quite well. She has been spying you for a while and has been secretly helping you this whole time. She pretended to be a boy while behind the Berlin Wall and leaking information to the Americans to hide her identity, I still don't know how she did it though….." (1) Natalie explained as she shooed them off. "Now go before the gate closes!"
"Okay, and thank you once again!" Gilbert said as he and the others were sucked into the gate.
"Good bye!" She yelled and went back on her merry way. "I hope Malo-chan comes over today like she promised! I better start making pasta then!" She said to herself and went to the market yelling, "Капусты для сбывания!" In broken Russian that Mallory had tried to teach to her.
"Ouch!" Gilbert yelled as he landed hard on the ground, which was soon followed by five bodies landing on top of him. "Get off of me!" He panicked as he scrambled out from under them.
"Lo siento amigo." Spain apologized and the others soon did too.
"It's fine, now where exactly are we?" He asked curiously as he looked around at his surroundings, which wasn't very much since it was pitch black except for a single candle.
"You are at my secret base да comrades?" A chilling voice said behind them and a metal pipe lightly tapped Ludwig on the shoulder, earning a high pitched scream from said man. Everyone just stared at him for a moment in shock.
Suddenly, someone burst out laughing.
"Wow West, that was such a girly and unawesome scream that even Roddy wouldn't have done it!" Prussia exclaimed as he fell down laughing.
"Shut up brüder! Wait, do you, do you remember everything?" Ludwig asked disbelievingly.
"You better believe it Luddy, someone this sexy is too awesome to lie!" Prussia smiled and everyone cheered, finally he remembered!
"Yay!" Russia cheered as he threw his hands up in the air enthusiastically, unfortunately when he did he also released his pipe which flew through the air and promptly slammed down onto the Prussian's head. All was silent as they stared at the now unconscious Gilbert.
"Well shit." Romano said annoyed. "Now we gotta start all over again!"
"Oh no! Let's bring him back to my house so we can patch him up да?" Ivan smiled evilly as he easily threw the limp Prussian over his shoulder.
"O-Oui." France said as they all followed Russia to his home.
Prussia sat up from the bed he had been lying on and looked around in confusion. He was in a maroon coloured room, lying on a cream coloured bed, there was a group of familiar yet unfamiliar people starring at him, and he was cold. Great. He went drinking with Mathias again didn't he. Wait who? And who are these people?, He thought and decided to ask them, after all only awesome people were allowed near someone as awesome as him! "Wer sind Sie?" He demanded and got out of the bed he had been laying on moments ago. He noticed the others confused expressions and one of them came up and tried to talk to him. The only problem was he had no idea what the hell they were saying. His lack of reaction seemed to worry the strange people more.
Next, a young man with slicked back blonde hair and light blue eyes came up to him and started talking to him. "Brüder, erinnern Sie sich an alles?" The stranger claiming to be his brother asked him.
"Ich habe keine Idee, die Sie sind, aber," he paused and thought, he really didn't remember anything! "Ich erinnere mich an nichts, also schätze ich, dass das ehrfürchtige ich Ihnen vertrauen muss." Prussia answered. The man sighed and began explaining what exactly had happened to him.
"Und das ist, was geschah. Übrigens kennen Sie irgendwelche anderen Sprachen anderer dann Deutsche?" Ludwig asked him. When he shook his head the man seemed to have deflated a bit and went to talk with his companions.
"So I guess I'll have to be a translator." Germany explained to the group,
"Okay… at least Gilbert's alright ve!~" Italy said and beamed up at Ludwig.
"Yes, you're right Feliciano." Germany replied when the door opened revealing a very scary Russia.
"East is up now да?" He asked and smiled at Prussia.
Prussia shuddered in return and looked away from the Russian. He may not remember anything but for a moment he thought he saw the image of himself being brutally beaten by this man.
Noticing his reaction Germany explained the situation to Russia and they were just about to leave when Russia spoke up.
"Why don't I just hit him on the head again?" Ivan asked and gave that famous smile of his.
"No, that's okay, we'll find another way to get his memory back." Ludwig said as the group ran out of the door.
"Good luck then! You and my little one should come visit me more often!" Russia shouted after them and closed the door, a bright smile on his face. Someday he would get his little East back, of this he was sure. He walked towards his room koling all the way. This was going to be interesting.
A/N: Next Chapter is the last one!~ Actually, I am going to make an extra chapter about the day Gilbert lost his memories or just a day he suffered through with Ivan. Which one should I do? Also that Natalie in the story was actually Aoi who begged me to let her into my story and Mallory was me. My name was awesome right? I wish that was my real name….. anyway if you actually read these author notes kudos to you! Put a 3 at the end of your review if you do and I will mention you in the next chapter! Also, if anyone can guess where they'll go next I'll write a fanfiction of their choice for them. Sorry the dividers aren't working though...... I bet you won't get it! DISCLAIMER NOTE: I don't own Hetalia or really anything for that matter….. spare change ma'am?
If you read The Dragon Tamer and the Goddess by Aoi you should understand this by the later chapters…..
Reviews please! Do it or I'll find a way to kill Prussia in this story! Also if you noticed I was too lazy to but translations, but you don't need to know what they say anyway or you can kind of just guess. Tschüs!
-Lady Akai (I added Lady to the front, just because.)