Set Fire to the World
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LunaTale: Who's name are you talking about? There are many names in this story.
The reviewer who knows who she is: You do realize I've had that image in my head and I had to finish writting this chapter while thinking about a shirtless America walking away from an explosion -.-
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." –Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Chapter Twenty-One:
"So the school got a call about a threat and is only now going on lockdown? Four hours after the call was made." Leila asked accepting a Kevlar vest from a soldier and pulled it over her head.
Evelyn strapped the vest to her body and shrugged "I'd rather not question it. Right now I'm more concern about Raiden and the other students. Ready?" Leila nodded and Evelyn climbed out the dark van followed by Leila and several other Japan's military personal.
Leaving the talking to the dean and the military units Leila and Evelyn began their search. Leaving the first floor to Evelyn, Leila climbed the staircase stopping at the end of the second hall and closed her eyes. She slowly inhaled and expanded her mind clearing everything from her mind except for Japan's historian. She smelled cherry blossoms and burning incenses, opening her eyes Leila calmly walked down the hall her black boots barely making a sound of the tiled floor.
The smell of incenses and blossoms grew stronger as Leila turned a corner. A brief static from her radio before Evelyn's voice came on and said she didn't find him and was heading towards the third floor leaving Leila to take the fourth floor if she didn't find Raiden on the second. Four floors, a basement, an attic, a theater, an indoor swimming pool, a track field, and soccer field why do all the rich people get the better stuff? Leila thought stopping when she heard other teens start to talk in a panic before suddenly stopping. Jogging over to the two sliding doors, she slide the door open seeing the end of a gun pointing right at her.
"Miss King, please step inside and close the door." The man said holding a gun. Leila stepped into the classroom and closed the door behind her. Carefully she opened her channel allowing Evelyn to hear what is going on while hoping to figure out herself what were three men dressed in black carrying armor piercing bullets doing here. "Now please remove the vest and step with the other students Miss King." Leila slowly unstrapped her vest and slowly set it on the ground followed by her weapon before moving to stand next to Raiden.
"This could have turned out better." Leila mumbled to Raiden who fought back a smile. At least she was honest about the situation. "So what's going to happen now?"
Evelyn slid the door closed after the last student was clear, stopping when she heard Leila's voice come over her radio then hearing a response. A soldier walked up to Evelyn and was about to ask when she cut him off and covered the mouth piece and whispered "Have your men switch channels and finish evacuating the first and third floor."
"What about the second floor?" the man asked.
"We'll clear that one last, it was the floor that Leila took and she didn't say that she cleared the second floor." Evelyn explained "I need to tell Japan what's going on then I'll help clear the rest of the floors."
"We can handle it, you should tell you nation and Leila's nations what is going on." The man said.
"The Trust believes that Japan's and China's historians are too much of a hassle so she wants them gone."
Evelyn walked out of the building seeing the grounds empty. It was strange seeing the school grounds so empty it was strange and creepy how any school grounds looks creepy. Evelyn opened the door to the dark van almost running into England who looked like he was about to storm out the van, "Where do you think you're going?" Evelyn asked.
"I'm going to go get Leila." England snapped trying to get past America's historian.
Evelyn sighed and shoved England back into the van using her gained super strength. "You're not going anywhere in fact all three of you are not supposed to be here. Why are you three here anyways?" Evelyn asked setting her gun in the corner and pulled out her radio and continued to listen to Leila gain information without even the bad guys knowing. "Why can't all bad guys be this polite?" Evelyn asked listening for a few minutes "Someone should inform China that the Trust is going to try to kill his historian. Stay here and if I find out that any of you take one step out of this van." She left the threat hanging as she jumped out of the van and jogged back to the school heading up to the second floor.
Leila sat against the glass window watching the three men talk quietly to each other. There were at least twenty students in the room not counting herself. She shifted hoping that Evelyn was hearing what was going on while wondering who this woman that was calling the shots was, I thought that Smith was the one calling the shots, speaking of I don't recall seeing the man that night we had to rescue the nations. Is Evelyn hiding something from the rest of us? There's no way she would be in on the plan she loves America too much to do something like that.
"…we will leave the other students and take Miss King and Suzuki-San to the roof." Leila tore herself away from her mental thought process. The three men turned towards Raiden and Leila "Get up." Raiden and Leila glanced at each other before getting up and silently held their hands up as the three men zipped tied their hands together.
Leila walked up the stairs wincing whenever the barrel of the gun pressed against her lower back, "You know once you do this Japan and England will come after you, and even if you left Japan no other country would be safe for you three."
"We know Miss King which is why we agreed to take this assignment in the first place." The leader of the men said not glancing back at the two teens. "We no longer have any connections in this world which makes us perfect candidates for the mission."
Why does this remind me of Pearl Harbor? Leila thought stopping at the doorway to the roof that sloped down to a large indoor pool almost seventy feet below them. Vertigo started to kick in making Leila a little sick to her stomach. It didn't really help that they pushed them to the edge of the floor. "So falling to our deaths doesn't feel very evil." Raiden said making the corner of Leila's mouth twitch.
"Better than being shot at or blown up." Leila muttered.
"Yes we have heard that you were killed by an explosion after the Second World War. Please tell America we are truly sorry."
"It doesn't have to be like this." Leila said scrambling for anything to prevent the men from killing herself and Raiden. However, it sounded like all they wanted to do was kill Raiden and force her hand, it was something that she didn't want to do but knowing that she wouldn't have a choice if they did kill Raiden. "We can help you."
"I really don't want to help the people that are going to kill me." Raiden muttered wincing when Leila turned to glare at him.
"If you tell us who is ordering you to kill Raiden we can protect you from them." Leila said holding her hands out.
"No one can protect us from the Trust once you join it's a life commitment. Now please step up on the edge." Three guns raised up leveling with their heads.
"Japan we are the only one in the damn building it can't be that hard to find five heat signatures." Evelyn snapped her nerves already beginning to fray. She waited for Japan to scan the monitor again, she found the room where Raiden and Leila were being held with a bunch of students all tied up and scared out of their minds. Not that she could blame them. If Evelyn ever had a normal childhood she would have been scared out of her mind as well. After helping them America had come on over the radio, startling Evelyn, and had explained about the heat scanners that can scan buildings. "Japan?" Evelyn demanded.
"They are above the third swimming pool." Japan said over the radio.
Evelyn stopped her decent of the stairs "This school has three swimming pools? Please don't answer that." Evelyn snapped hearing the small static sound of someone about to respond. "Just tell me how to get to them please." With the directions in mind she turned around and headed back up to the second floor. Looking down at her hand where she drew a rough map with a felt pen she looked around for a door finding the double steel door that Japan had described.
England tore off the head seat and started towards the back door "Iggy Evelyn doesn't want us to leave the van. Do you want her Scottish side to end your life?"
"I'm not going to sit on the sidelines if you want to stay here then stay." England snapped hoping out of the van. America and Japan looked at each other before scrambling to follow the British island nation.
The three nations ran towards the third indoor swimming pool pushing the doors open in time to hear shots go off and…and Leila falling from the edge of the low terrace. "Leila!" England screamed watching in horror as his historian fell into the deep end of the pool. Tearing off his suite jacket he ran towards the pool diving into the pool.
Evelyn checked Raiden who said "I'm fine, I'm fine it just grazed my arm, where is Leila?"
Evelyn stared at Raiden before rushing over to the edge and looked down seeing America help pull Leila and England from the pool. "Oh my God Leila fell into the pool."
"That should have killed her." Raiden gasped leaning over the edge as well.
"Historian's are a little bit tougher than that come on." Evelyn said running out of the area with Raiden at her heels. Evelyn pulled open the door and ran towards the soaking wet nation and historian "Is she breathing?" Evelyn asked sliding into a kneeling position on Leila's other side.
"She's…she's not breathing…w-why isn't she b-breathing?" England stuttered watching blankly as Evelyn began performing CPR.
Raiden knelt down next to Japan assuring his nation that he was fine. "Come one Leila, don't do this to us. One, two, three, four, five…" Evelyn trailed off continuing the compressions pausing long enough to check for a pulse. "Leila I swear to any deity that's out there if you die on us I will find a way to bring you back and kill you again!"
Hetalia! Hetalia! Hetalia!
Leila was standing in a field; how she got there she had no idea but at the current moment didn't really matter to the blond girl. It was peaceful and the sun warm on her skin. Taking in a deep breath of surprisingly clean air and sat down among the flowers then leaned back to lie down. Staring up at the bright blue sky Leila's mind began to wonder.
"Miss Leila I found you!" a force landed on her stomach forcing the air out of her lungs. "Why are you dressed like a man Miss Leila?"
Opening her eyes she stared into the eyes of a young America, "England I found Miss Leila!" Leila sat up forcing Little America to sit on her lap instead of her stomach. England was walking up to the two wearing his pirate attire. Smiling down at the two England knelt down in front of them as Leila crossed her legs.
"We've been looking for you love." England said watching little America began to pick white flowers to fashion a head band. "We've been looking for you for a long time Leila."
Little America set the braid on top of Leila's head then wrapped his small arms around her neck.
"Leila I swear to any deity that's out there if you die on us I will find a way to bring you back and kill you again!"
Leila looked around the field hearing the disembodied voice of her friend. "Is everything alright love?" England asked holding a hand out for Leila to take.
"Don't take his hand Leila." Leila turned around seeing Evelyn standing behind her.
"Eve?" Leila asked staring at her friend in shock.
"You can't hide in the past Leila, you know as well as I do that all of this will end. We need you now." Evelyn said. "I need you Leila. Who am I going to turn to when I need another girl to talk to? What about England?"
"He's right here in front of me." Leila said.
"You know that's not really England." Evelyn snapped back.
Leila turned away from Evelyn to look at Little America and England who were watching the two. "Miss Leila who is that?" Little America asked peering over Leila's shoulder to look at Evelyn.
"That's your historian America." Leila said.
England frowned and said "America doesn't need a historian, love he's a colony not a nation."
Leila looked down at Little America who looked up at Leila and smiled at her. Then back to England he looked younger more powerful than he did when he first saw him at Evelyn's house. "Is everything alright Miss Leila?"
"I'm sorry America. I'm sorry England, but Evelyn is right I can't stay here." Leila lifted America and set him down onto the grass "This isn't real. None of this is real I'm sorry England but I know this won't last forever and I need to go." Leila stood up and turned around seeing empty field where Evelyn was standing, turning around seeing that England had disappeared as well.
"Miss Leila am I going to grow up to be a hero?" Leila looked down to Little America and smiled.
"You are going to be a hero America."
Leila opened her eyes staring up at the white ceiling of a hospital, again. "Hey sleeping beauty." Looking to her right she saw Evelyn with her feet propped up. "How are you feeling? You did take a swan dive off a low ceiling after all."
"Don't start making crack jokes about this, I beg of you." Leila groaned covering her eyes with her forearm.
Smirking Evelyn said "Fine, just don't trip up and lose your footing."
"You're a bitch." Leila growled.
"Sorry, sorry it was crass* I know but I had to get one in." Evelyn said her smirk faltering "You scared the hell out of us Leila."
"Well I never expected to fall off a low ceiling, and it wasn't even that low and I fell into a pool." Leila said.
"I was told that England did an impressive dive after you when you landed in the water." Evelyn said standing up and moved towards the door. "I'll let him tell you about it." She slid the door open just as England was about to knock on the door. "No shagging." Evelyn said sliding the door closed before England could say anything to Evelyn.
Evelyn walked down the hall her smile returning when she saw America stand up when she walked into the waiting room that was set up for them. "Leila is awake and England is with her right now. How are you feeling Raiden?"
"I am fine the bullet just grazed my shoulder. How are you?" Raiden asked as America pulled Evelyn down to sit next to him.
Evelyn shrugged "I'm not the one that was forced up a low ceiling and was shot at. How does it feel to be a historian again?"
"Strange, like I'm aware of everything and yet feeling like I'm missing something." Raiden said.
Evelyn smiled tiredly and said "That's one of the things historians have to deal with. We all feel like we're missing something, and what you are aware is every citizen that Japan has. Don't worry you'll get used to it."
"That's comforting to know." Raiden said.
"I talked to Germany and he said that China's historian is fine as well…and…" Evelyn trailed off glancing at her nation.
"What's wrong Evelyn?" America asked.
Evelyn sighed and said "I also talked to Chloe and she said that Spain has his historian now."
"That's good right?" Japan asked.
"Yea and her name is Erin Gonzales." Evelyn said.
"That name sounds familiar…" America mused.
"That's because she was one of your citizens…" Evelyn said sifting when America turned to look at his historian.
"He turned one of my citizens into his historian? That son of a bitch, I'll kill him!" America growled making the other three jump in shock.
"America calm down." Evelyn said pulling him back to his chair before he could make it to the door.
"I thought that only a citizen could become a historian." Raiden said.
"That's what I thought as well, but I talked to Anya about this and she said since the thought of historians has been around for as long as nations and since immigration has only truly picked up in the last two to three hundred years, Erin can be claimed as a citizen of Spain since she was born there then moved to America where she became an American citizen. Then her family moved back to Spain since her older sister wanted to go to college there." Evelyn explained.
"That doesn't mean he can do that without asking or at least telling me." America said pouting while crossing his arms.
Evelyn rolled her eyes as England and Leila walked into the room, "Everything alright in here?" Leila asked.
America, who was being restrained by Evelyn, used his historian's distraction to escape and run down the hallway yelling about Spain and kicking his ass. Sighed Evelyn rubbed her brow saying "Looks like I'm heading to Spain's house, anybody want to come with me?"
Leila looked at England before saying "Well it would be interesting to see America yell at Spain. It will be different."
"Yes it will be different, I think we shall, how about it Japan?" England asked.
Raiden and Japan looked at each other and Raiden shrugged "It would be nice to meet other historians."
"Then I guess we will go as well." Japan said.
"Field trip!" Leila said grinning and following Evelyn out of the room.
* Crass defines as: Lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence
For example in another sentence: the crass assumptions that men make about women
Ladies and gentlemen after this chapter there are only six (6) more chapters left of Set Fire to the World but fear not! My nazi grammer friend/sister and I are going to expand on this historian idea but with cross overs like with NCIS, Criminal Minds, White Collar, National Treasure, ect. where the historians and the nations meet new people and find out more about the elusive Trust organization! I do hope you will join us for this crazy adventure that seems to refuse to die. We are open to sugestions and I will be working on stright Hetalia stories along with the cross overs.
Another fact, this chapter wasn't supposed to be this long...but I just kept going and going and going and going and going like the Energizer bunny...
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! :)