Chapter 5: Challenge (Day 1)
"Princess Toussaint, is there anything I can provide for you?" The servant asked. He was dressed in a dark green changshan with a pair of glasses upon his small nose. The princess, however, was dressed in her dusty-pink sailor coat with her brown laced knee-highs and had her blonde hair in a braid. They were in a large garden, filled will large cherry blossoms, from which petals fluttered off in the playful breeze.
"No," Princess Toussaint's blue eyes twinkled from behind her elegant glasses as she responded to her servant. "All I want is to be entertained once I arrive at tomorrow's games. Pass that message on to the Game Organisers, please."
"Your wish is my command." The servant bowed in obedience and hurried away.
I wonder if I'll be able to save them in time. Princess Toussaint thought. If he comes, I must be prepared. But even then, everything could turn out completely wrong. And then we're goners.
"Princess Toussaint?" A female voice demanded confidently. "You've taken quite a step forward, haven't you?" Lady Toussaint turned her head around and looked towards the female voice. She saw a tall young woman, who wore a bright pink qipao with gold trim and long, flowing sleeves and a long white skirt. Her hair was light brown and her eyes were almost hazel.
"Oh, hello Meimei." Princess Toussaint said, turning her whole body to face 'Meimei'.
"Don't call me that. My name is Mei Wang. Formally known as Taiwan."
"I know who you are. Answering your question, yes, I have. I have decided to become an imposter as the king's daughter for the sake of our friends at the Games. You have decided to fit in as a servant."
"But explain to me, why do you have to lie to Macau? What has he done to deserve this?"
"He'll find out soon. Very soon. So will everyone else."
"That was a great fight between Michelle Mancham of Mermaid Heel and Olga of Sabertooth! I'm not sure myself how that was a draw!" Wales announced. "In a few minutes, we'll get onto today's challenge! Just in case you were curious, here are the ranks so far: Sabertooth are winning with twenty-five points points, Fairy Tail Team are in second place ten points. Mermaid Heel, Raven Tail, Fairy Tail Team B and Lamia Scale are tied with five points each, while Blue Pegasus, Quatro Cerberus are tying for last place with zero points!"
"I'm surprised I haven't killed myself after listening to your voice for so long." Scotland commented.
"Shut up!"
Lithuania, now in his human form, rushed into the hospital room for Fairy Tail Team A, where Poland was resting. Poland saw his best friend standing over him and smiled.
"What happened to you? Got in a fight or something?" Lithuania asked.
"No, I just, like, totally got a nosebleed." Poland replied casually. Lithuania chuckled in response.
"It's your turn soon. We're counting on you."
"Oh, it's the challenge thing, right?" Poland slowly got out of his bed.
"Are you sure you can handle this? You still-" Lithuania began.
"Liet," Poland cut in. "I can do this. If you could, then so can I."
In the audience, France decided to start making some food for everyone, since England's cooking skills were out of the question. He was walking around carelessly with a large knife when he accidentally cut England's arm.
"yOU BLOODY SHITHEAD!" England yelled. "SOMEONE GET A FUCKING PARAMEDIC!"
"Oh, I am so sorry!" France panicked. He quickly got out a handkerchief out of his pocket and pressed it to England's wound until the paramedic arrived with proper bandages. Instead of returning to his cooking, France quickly ran off to the public toilet. He locked himself in a cubical. His eyes were wide-open as he stared and smiled at the crimson stain on the white handkerchief. He pressed the stain to his nose and inhaled strongly, making a lot of sexual noises in the process.
"sUCH SWEET PERFUME!" He screamed. What a coinky-dink, England just entered.
"Erm… France? What are you doing…?" He asked, slightly disturbed by the noises he heard. France's face turned bright red with embarrassment.
"N-nothing! W-why are you here anyway?!"
"What the fuck do you think do you go to a toilet for, you frog? Unless you have some weird tradition to do other things in a toilet in France, eh?"
"That can be taken in more than one way."
"You're so dirty-minded."
"Whatever." France quickly opened the door to the cubical and rushed past England and out of the toilet.
Hmm… England thought. That was strange…
"Ok! Everything's ready for our first challenge!" Wales said. "I like to call this the 'Jack The Ripper' Challenge! Each team will pick one member to partake in a Hide-and-Seek-type game. We have legally used a special monster, the name of which I can't remember. This monster has an aim of killing anyone who crosses its path. Of course, the challengers will not die, but will simply be teleported out of the arena. The contestants have to hide and survive 30 minutes without getting caught by the monster or they can try to take out the monster, but that last option is not advised. For your surroundings, we've chosen: Victorian London! Let's introduce our challengers, Stefano!"
"Oh, so you're suddenly not taking notice of me?" Scotland interrupted.
"Shut up Alastair, that's what you get for embarrassing me in front of the audience."
"Not necessarily in front but-"
"Moving on!" Seborga said. "Our challengers today are: Feliks Łukasiewicz of Fairy Tail Team A, Kiku Honda of Fairy Tail Team B, Rogue of Sabertooth, Elizabeta Héderváry of Mermaid Heel, Vladimir Covaci of Lamia Scale, Obra of Raven Tail, Rocker of Quatro Cerberus and… A Blue Bunny from Blue Pegasus?"
"Enough talk!" Scotland said. "Let's get to the action!"
Japan walked slowly and cautiously through the city streets, looking in every direction possible every two seconds. His heartbeat got faster by the second, he knew the monster was lurking nearby. He suddenly heard a loud, high-pitched scream.
"Well, that's Elizabeta out of the game!" Wales' shrill voice announced.
I'd better hide. That thing's going to be on my tail soon. Japan thought. He quickly dashed into the nearest alleyway and jumped into a large rubbish bin. Suddenly, he heard a whisper.
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?" Japan asked quietly.
"I asked first!"
"Herro."
"Oh, hi Japan. It's Poland!"
"Thank kami-sama, I thought you were Romania because of that accent."
"Oh no, I'm, like, totally a million times better than him." Suddenly, they heard loud, heavy breathing, which silenced them instantly.
"Jeez, that thing is quick." Poland and Japan couldn't recognise the person's voice, but they could be sure that the person was male. Poland nudged Japan.
"Three… Two… One!" They jumped out of the bin and threw themselves onto their enemy. Japan soon realised that their enemy was Rogue from Sabertooth.
"What do you want?!" Rogue yelled.
"Shut the fuck up before, like, that piece of shit comes along." Poland whispered. "We don't want anything, yet. We were kind of curious who you-" Poland was interrupted by another three screams, they were all male.
"Three challengers in one go! Obra, Rocker and Blue Bunny are out of the game!" Seborga commented.
"Great, that means there's us three and one more." Rogue stated.
"Fabulous reasoning there, sir." Poland commented. Suddenly, there was a loud roar behind them. The last thing Japan remembered was a huge, black, furry creature with glowing purple eyes pouncing onto them before his vision blacked-out. He felt a sudden sensation of disappointment and embarrassment.
"The winner of today's challenge is… Vladimir Covaci of Lamia Scale!"
Author's Note: Sup dudes! Sorry for being so inactive, but I decided to take a little break for the Easter Holidays. I will try to update HetaTail as often as I can, but I'm not promising anything. I decided to take down my Inheritance fanfic because I saw I needed to work on a lot of things in that one's case (*cough cough* names), but I do plan on doing a Voltron Legendary Defender fanfic soon... Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter!