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Zone
"Prussia! What happened to Japan?" Italy asked desperately in the fireplace room. Germany to his left and England to his right as they faced the door that Prussia had just entered.
"And… Aleron?" Dysis asked nervously standing between Germany and China.
"… They… fell asleep… Very… deeply…" Prussia said staring at the floor with a look of remorse.
"…" Germany closed his eyes and bowed his head in silence.
"Aleron… Halia…" Dysis whimpered as she dropped to the ground and buried her head in her knees with a sob.
"… No…" China said helplessly.
"So… now we're the only ones left." Russia said sadly glancing at everyone in the room. In the circle they were forming, to his right was Dysis, China, Germany, Italy, England and Prussia. The only ones left.
"Japan is—" Italy stared in disbelief.
"Shit! We failed again! What are we going to do? We've got the key. Now we can—" England interrupted with a yell as he slammed his fist against the wall in anger.
"When we've lost so many? I can't." Germany sighed guiltily.
"Yeah, there is no point." Russia agreed.
"I don't want to leave without Aleron or Halia… How can I?" Dysis whimpered her head bowed down still.
"Yeah, I agree. Let's leave this key to our next selves." England was quick to agree with everyone.
"… I'm sorry." Italy apologized closing his eyes.
"Hm? What's wrong?" Germany asked concerned.
"Italy, you didn't do anything—" Prussia began to tell him.
"I'm sorry. It was me… It's my fault. Because… because I—" Italy interrupted.
"Italy…" Dysis said looking up at him.
Italy opened his eyes suddenly as he sat up confused about his whereabouts.
"… A dream." Italy sighed in relief as he began to remember where he was and lay back down. 'I guess it wasn't quite a dream. I hate this… Even here, it's affecting me. It's because I remember so many things… Maybe it's a backlash? I'm beginning to forget the memories from long ago.'
'When did I first meet Germany? What was the alliance that bound us? When I was little, I made some kind of promise to someone, didn't I? Maybe I'll be able to remember if I can get out of here?' Italy questioned worriedly.
'Everyone is… breathing, right?' Italy glanced around noticing Halia and Dysis on beds opposite of each other against the wall. 'Yeah, Japan is even moving. Thank God. I didn't know this place existed, and I really didn't think that I'd still be alive… If I've come this far, the next thing to do is…' Italy lost his train of thought when he noticed a figure pause at his bed before walking away. Italy stared at the slim figure before getting up to follow her into the restroom, understanding the silent message.
We need to talk…
"Well. Everyone has rested, so can we begin our conference now?" Germany asked choosing to ignore the fact that Halia was wearing Canada's coat as she sat next to America, across from Canada and seemed to be oblivious or ignoring the smirks that France was throwing at her, Canada and America. She also seemed equally oblivious to the glares of disapproval that England was aiming at them. America seemed equally oblivious of the smirks and glaring while Canada was blushing as he covered his face.
"Sure. I'm full and I don't feel tired anymore, so be my guest~" Russia said cheerfully between America and England.
"Italy's food is really good. He's been working so hard; I'm impressed." China praised from the other table beside Aleron.
"That was the best food I've ever tasted!" Halia said as she stood up and began picking up the dirty dishes.
"Oh you don't have to do that!" Canada protested.
"Nah, it's cool, I can clean up." Halia told him as she made her way to the kitchen, failing to notice that France was staring at her as she walked past him only to have England throw a plate at him. "You guys continue, I can hear just fine from the kitchen!"
"Just let her, she likes to clean." Aleron told Canada who was ready to protest again.
"… Don't let your bandages get wet!" Canada told her. She gave a nod as she disappeared into the kitchen. Kumajirou wasted no time in sitting at Halia's spot at the table.
"Hehe! Thanks." Italy said pleased.
"Well? Who's going to speak first?" France asked no longer smirking as he glanced around the room.
"Well…" Germany frowned unsure of what to say.
"America, this all started with a single word from you, but you have nothing to do with the Thing, do you? Is it safe to assume that it's just a coincidence that it looks like Tony? That's all I want you to confirm." Canada asked the nation sitting across from him.
"Hm? You think they look alike? I don't think so, though… Anyway, I definitely have nothing to do with it." America informed them.
"Yeah? Then, if we are to believe you, we're in even bigger trouble." Prussia gave a sigh.
"… You don't blame me?" America asked confused.
"What?" Japan blinked not expecting the question.
"It's pretty much my fault that you got dragged into this. If I hadn't bugged you about it, none of this would have happened." America admitted.
"…" Italy gave a start as he turned around to face America who was sitting behind him.
"I thought you'd blame me more. I'm rather disappointed. But it's okay for you to get mad at me now." America told them cheekily.
"America…" Japan was unsure of what to say.
"Is that really what you think?" China gave an annoyed sigh.
"You really have hamburgers for brains. Stop spouting nonsense!" England scolded him. America gave them a bewildered look not having expected that type of anger.
"Well, sure, this may have started with a word from you… but we're the ones who went along with it, eh?" Canada explained.
"Yes. Yes. We could have chosen not to come, but we chose to come with you." France continued with a friendly smile.
"You're the one who laid out the rails, but we're the ones who chose to walk on it. It's not your fault." Russia told them adding his own opinion.
"I see. Thank you. If you say so, I—" America began.
"…" Italy opened his mouth before closing it again. Dysis grasped his hand under the table and gave him a reassuring squeeze.
"That's why we need to work together. By joining forces like never before, we'll make it through." Germany told them as Halia returned back to her seat beside America.
"Hey!" Italy suddenly said loudly.
"What?" Germany asked him.
"Um, well. Can you listen to me? There is… something I want to tell you." Italy admitted.
"S…sure, go ahead…" Japan encouraged.
"Go on, we're listening." Dysis said with a reassuring smile.
"Then, can you all come with me to the basement? If we're not there, I can't talk." Italy told them.
"The basement? Can't you just talk here?" Prussia asked not wanting to leave the room.
"I would like to hear it in a safe area if possible…" Aleron sighed.
"It's really important, so… please. I feel I'll only be able to talk if we're there." Italy was very close to begging.
"… I don't mind, besides, my backpack is in the basement and I would really like to wear my own clothes again." Halia said choosing to help him out.
"What happened to the clothes you were wearing last night?" Aleron asked with a frown.
"They were dirty so I washed them. They aren't dry yet, I just checked before having breakfast." Halia told him calmly.
"…"
"Hmph… I see. Then let's all head down there. But before that, I also have somewhere I want to go. Which coincides with searching for Halia's backpack… The sooner we get her clothes properly, the better…" Germany muttered the last part under his breath.
"What do you want to do there?" England asked him.
"I saw something lying on the ground, but I couldn't pick it up at the time." Germany explained.
"Arr right. Ret's arr go together, then." Japan said getting up from his seat.
"Yeah! … Thank you." Italy said relieved that they were doing as he said.
"So how'd you sleep?" Halia said trying to start a conversation.
"It was the best sleep I've had in a long time." Dysis responded quietly. "What about you?"
"I was dreaming I was eating a hamburger coated in maple syrup…" Halia admitted smacking her lips.
"That sounds disgusting." Aleron commented making a face at the idea as they walked down the steps.
"You think so?" Halia asked blinking. France, who was in front of Aleron and beside Canada, gave her an incredulous look as they turned made it to the bottom and headed toward the door leading to the basement.
"You don't?" Dysis asked.
"I wouldn't be opposed to trying it if the opportunity came…" Halia admitted as she adjusted buttoned up coat feeling that it was sliding off her shoulders.
"… maybe I should start carrying a remedy for food poisoning, aru…" China commented mostly to himself as Russia gave an amused chuckle. Both were taking up the rear watching out for the creature as the three humans stood in the middle of the group.
"How about, when we get out of here, we make some pancakes together… that's a safe thing to place maple syrup on." Aleron suggested.
"Oh, can I choose what goes in it?" Halia asked.
"That depends… what do you want to add to it?" Aleron gave a worried frown.
"Um, bananas, blue berries, chocolate chips, burger patty, strawberries, bacon…" Halia began listing off.
"One, that's too much stuff for a pancake, two, no way am I adding bacon inside the pancake, I can place it on the side though… and three, burger patty? Really?" Aleron told her looking a little green as Halia gave him a sheepish grin.
'Pity Japan is at the front of the group, I would love to see his reaction to what Halia is saying…' Dysis thought amused as Japan led the group to the basement.
"England, I do believe we may have found someone that might actually enjoy your cooking." France gave England a playful nudge.
"There is nothing wrong with my cooking, you frog!" England snarled as he shoved France away from him.
"… Looks like we're taking the shortcut." Canada commented softly as they reached the room. "You alright, Halia?"
"It's a long hallway, I think I mentioned that narrow hallways don't upset me as much because it feels like we have a destination." Halia told him as they exited the hallway entering the room with the creepy chairs. Soon they found themselves in the room to the right where some of the nations chose to wait instead of enter.
"It's dark down there, so be careful." Prussia informed Japan.
"We're keeping watch here. Take care!" Canada told him with Kumajirou at his feet.
"If anything weird comes up, just howl and I'll come running." China told him.
"Keep an eye on Halia, okay? Dysis is with her but there is only so much that Dysis can do..." Aleron said with a frown.
"When Italy is done talking, I'll specially bake some scones. Look forward to it." England said making Japan suppress a shudder as he walked away into the cave where the first people he saw could make out in the darkness were America and Russia. Walking past them he approached the crouched figure of Germany that seemed to be searching the ground.
"What's the matter, Germany?" Japan asked.
"Nothing… I mean, well… I just wanted to remove the obstacle that made me fall over yesterday." Germany said scanning the floor.
"I see. That's a good idea. Someone could trip over it and get hurt." Japan commented in agreement.
"Yes, exactly… but… it's odd. I can't find a single vine or stone." Germany mentioned. An awkward silence surrounded the cave as everyone except Halia, who was walking toward the exit with the burnt ladder, took in what he had said.
"Whaat? What the hell, it's like a horror movie! Stop saying those things!" America complained freaking out.
'Seriously? These guys have fought Steve several times already and this is what creeps them out? Embarrassing…' Halia thought trying not to snort at their ridiculous behavior. She and Dysis exchanged amused glances as they walked past France, holding onto each other as they walked. Though it was too dark for them to notice, France was giving them lewd glances.
"Well, it's dark here. Did you look properly?" Russia reasonably asked.
"I'm sure it was right here. But there's nothing. No obstacles." Germany frowned still searching. "There is no stone, no vine, nothing. One could even think there was never anything to begin with."
Halia covered her mouth in an attempt to stifle the urge to laugh at the fear in the air.
'…That's right. Even if we try to find it where Germany didn't fall, we'll never find anything. But when he fell, there was something entwined around his foot that wouldn't let him move. It's as if—' Italy thought.
"Huh, it's like someone tripped you and wouldn't let you move." France commented.
"Actually… I only assumed it was a vine, but now that I think about it… well… It felt…like someone had grabbed my ankle…" Germany said suddenly sounding terrified. Dysis nudged Halia in the ribs hard. Once she had Halia's attention she silently pointed toward the ceiling. Halia glanced up and bit her lip to stiffly her laughter at the huge corpse like hand that was suddenly reaching across.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Dysis whispered nervously at the image above them.
"Haha… it's hard to feel like my life is threatened when we are constantly being reminded of a game… was that hand really necessary to add?" Halia commented with her lips twitching upward only to get smacked over the head by Dysis who, even in the darkness, Halia could see her glare.
"Eeeek! Stop,stop! Let's stop talking about this! There's nothing here! Can't we just leave it at that?" America yelled desperately making Halia a snort earning her another smack from Dysis.
"Grabbed… it's like… a hand sprang up from the earth and grabbed your ankle~" Russia said seemingly innocent as he succeeded in freaking out America further.
"And tried to drag you into the earth…" France played along as he gave a nervous gulp.
"Aaaargh! S-stop! It could have been just my imagination! Anyway! There's nothing out of the ordinary here! Let's leave it at that!" Germany insisted scared out of his wits.
"I-indeed! Now, let's go to the place where Italy will talk to us…" Japan said glancing around nervously.
"Hm? Oh, sorry! Um, the cell where Prussia and the others had got in. That's where I want us to go." Italy informed them.
"Understood. Now, ret's just forget about this incident and go to the other room." Japan nodded in agreement.
"Right…" Germany agreed relieved.
"I can't seem to find my backpack…" Halia complained as the countries exited one by one. With a frown she forced Dysis to remain back with her hoping to find her orange backpack in the darkness.
"What have you been looking for?" Germany asked Italy who had been distracted throughout the search.
"Huh? N-nothing… erm, helping Halia find her backpack!" Italy said nervously.
'Liar!' Halia thought.
"Hm? What's this?" Germany said picking up a shiny object from the floor.
Found "Piece of Metal".
"Oh!" Italy gasped.
"Ah, so this is what I saw. It might be useful, so I'll take it with me." Germany commented as he placed the object in his pocket.
"Right…" Italy said quietly as he made to follow Germany out of the room before stopping for a moment to let the two females walk past him.
"Halia, it's an orange backpack, if you can't find it then maybe the creature took it." Dysis reasoned as they walked past him.
"No! What could Steve want with the things in my backpack! It's my granola bars, isn't it? He took my backpack for the granola bars!" Halia gave a whimper as she continues to search for her backpack.
"Halia, can you wait for a moment?" Italy asked just as Dysis was going to respond.
"Oh, um." Halia gave him a confused look.
"I'll leave you two and let the others know you will come in a moment." Dysis said shaking Halia off and leaving the room. Halia walked slowly toward Italy before grabbing onto his arm to feel a sense of security becoming very aware at how dark the cave is now that there wasn't a conversation going on to distract her.
"So, um, what is it Italy?" Halia asked tilting her head as she attempted to get a look at his expression through the darkness, she felt a sudden chill run down her spine as she heard Italy whisper into her ear.
"You know what I'm planning to do but I can't have you interfering."
Fk306: Sorry for the cliffhanger, blame how episode 8 part 3 of four ended. I will see you all in August~ Once again, a reminder that July is going to be a crazy month for me and I will have very little time to do anything Hetaoni related at all.
Sirflightypencil: Cliffhanger, cliffhanger, I love to give cliffhangers. See you next month.
teenbooks4eva: NO!
Fk306: Yea, I don't know how to respond to that.
Sirflightypencil: YES!
Gloglo96:Yay, a new chapter! :3
Poor Aleron, Halia is worse than a Oni when there's a small/dark room o.o"
I like the calm atmosphere in the safe room ... and I like the bathroom scene even more x'D Um ... America lending Halia his shirt? (I would do anything for it happening to me, even going to a freaking mansion that kills you with his monster thing repeatedly!) *nosebleed* But, even with this episode, I don't think of America like a Halia's possible love interest ... just a good friend :D
And, I dunno, I'm thinking of a thing... This is your fiction with your (AWESOME) OCs. But, will there be a little bit of romance even between countries? Like, some Russia/China, UsUk, GerIta? If not, it doesn't matter, I'm just asking :3
And Canada is so protective ... In a way, he spoils the party -.- It couldn't have hurt to let France see her in that state, could it? ;
I'm loving your writing style, seriously
It's a pity you won't update it in July, but I'm happy about the Drawings and the manga version made by Sirflightypencil Well done, good work both of you!
Halia: I am not… -pout-
Aleron: Say that to my bruised ribs…
Fk306: Sirflightypencil doesn't like slash so, for his sake, there probably won't be any slash. I probably can't do them justice anyway. And I'm glad you don't see America as a possible love interest for Halia since he is definitely not in the list of possible pairings for Halia. He's more like a big brother or good friend.
Sirflightypencil: It's not that I don't like slash, it's just that none of these pairings are actually cannon, so no! Also, I'm not doing the manga version, I'm simply drawing Halia, Aleron and Dysis since people are so curious to see them.
Canada: That is why I gave her the coat, besides France was sleeping anyway.
Neeky-chan: Halia gave me the most laughs! XD Especially with the bath, America's t-shirt, the two nations' nose bleeds and Canada. XD That was freaking awesome! I will wait for however long you need to post the story. It is just that epic. I look forward to your next chapter and I hope you have a great day! :3
Fk306: Yeah, Halia grew up with cousins and brothers that could care less how she walked around so long as she covered the important stuff.
Neelh: I'm adopting this chapter for my birthday present!
Fk306: Oh, Happy Belated birthday! Glad you like the chapter enough to adopt it.
Sirflightpencil: Happy Belated Birthday! You know, I planned it that way, Fk306 was against it but I said 'why not, it's a birthday!'
Hetalia-EnglandthePirate: this is awesome!
Fk306: Thank you!
Ecris-vains en formation: You know Aberration too ? I just love this story !
Sirflightypencil, It seems that I'm not the only one to think you have a chair fetish... But I want to say one thing : thrones are not chairs and there is no thrones in Hetaoni, not even one, Nah !
I'm like Aleron about the chores... I'm like the only boy U_U'.
hum, well, back to the story. I'm sooo happy to see the chapter, Just after my exams I go to fanfic' then, Tada a new chapter is up, Yay ! It was a longer and a realy fun one, when Halia was with América's T-shirt it was great ! I was realy lauthing when I was imagining Canada scollding her about it ! And then too when... Well, I'll stop here before I write a novel V_V. So, for me everything was great, one of my favorite I think and once again I can only say that I loved it. It's too bad you won't write during this time, well... I'll go see the pictures and manga to wait
See you !
Fk306: Aberration is my favorite OC story! It gave me hope that not all OC stories suck!
Halia: What about us?
Fk306: No comment…
Hex the Ninja: Hi there! :D
I can't believe this is the first time I found this fic! I love HetaOni, and I've been looking for a great fic like this for weeks!
XD Loved the Halia in America's t-shirt part! And I loved that Canada gave her his coat. I WANT HIS COAT! XD Is it weird that I have a crush on my country? (Yeah, I'm Canadian. Truthfully, we act a lot more like America. But instead of burgers, it's poutine. [fries in gravy with cheese curds on top. It's SO GOOD! :D])
I'll be sure to review next chapter!
Hasta la pasta!
Fk306: Oh, then it sucks I'm going on a one month hiatus… Personal reasons… vacation really. Canada is my favorite Hetalia character, that's why he is so extra sweet to Halia. Also I must try this poutine you speak of, it sounds delicious. Story will continue August so see you then.
Mori' Tsukiko: Konnichiwa! XD I love your hetaoni fanfic! I couldn't find any good ones at all before I stumbled upon yours. It made me so happy to find a good hetaoni fic. What's even worse is I'm conflicting on whether I should go for Halipan or IggyxHalia. To SirFlightyPencil, really, Aleron and a chair? To Halia, I would have flat out ignored Canada if he thought of lecturing me. To Canada, KAWAII! I pictured you being serious and it was so KAWAII! To England, You'll get your magic back soon, I know it! I know, I talk a lot, Sorry. Bye!
Fk306: I still think this story sucks but if everyone else thinks it's good I have a reason to keep writing. See you when I update in August!
Lizzi: Yay, Germany's room appears!
Halia being. . . oblivious. . . very kyute! Still, I'm glad Canada lent her his jacket too. . . I know I wouldn't walk into a room of mainly guys wearing just an oversized t-shirt. . . I'd just add shorts if I could. _
I like the random facts at the beginning - Dysis, what? You don't cook, or clean, or do anything to help?. . . You sound like me! High-five!
Well, good job as always!
Chapter Z is next! What are you gonna do afterwards? Decided yet? :D
Fk306: Haha I love Germany's room. And Halia is used to wearing oversized shirts so that's probably why she did what she did. Yes, I decided on what to do after Z, and I'm not telling, you will have to wait until August to find out.
Dysis: I can cook and I can clean… I just don't like to. –high five- It's not like Halia and Aleron have complained~
Halia: It's easier just to let you be…
Aleron: You're not coming anywhere near my kitchen! Halia may have questionable cooking but you would burn the house down unless it was a microwave meal!