Can anyone explain just what the heck is going on? No? Neither do I.

/=+=/

Rizal saw the new group gather up in the lunch room. He couldn't help but feel tense, but not as bad as the others who were now trying to figure out what the siblings were accusing them of just earlier. Poor Feliciano was cuddling Charice as she cuddled him back…cuddling that surprised him just a little bit.

"Did we…did we seriously hurt you?" Elizabeta leaned in, concerned.

"You personally didn't. You were too busy fighting basically everyone at the same time. Your ex-husband was having the fun times with me."

"Oh…well then…" She rubbed the back of her head. "He's very sorry for doing so and hopes that you weren't hurt."

"I wasn't, but…" Rizal tilted his head. "Why can't he tell me that himself? Embarrassment?"

"N-no, but…the costume hampers his ability to talk."

"Hampers…how?"

"He can't talk at all."

"Ah. That sucks."

"I know."

Elizabeta and Rizal turned back to Roderich, who was trying desperately to tell Kiku something but only succeeding in a strange grunt sound. Poor Kiku was yelling at him to "cut the crap out", and he had to admit that it was rather entertaining. Gilbert was sleeping next to him, oblivious to the screaming that was oddly Lovino-like…which is odd since Lovino was screaming at Ludwig just a few feet away.

Geez, this almost looks NORMAL.

"Um…Rizal?"

"Eh? Feli? What's wrong?"

"Did I…did I hurt you in any way?"

"Um…sort of? You did drive a knee in my ribcage and hit me a couple times-"

"VEEEEEE!"

"But…you know…I did drive you into the ground with a kick to the neck, so it all evens out-"

"I'm so sorry Rizal I didn't mean to hurt you I didn't want to god are you going to hit me nooooo don't hit me I'm fragile please please please please please-"

…should've lied, Rizal. Yeah, thanks for telling me.

Charice cuddled and cooed over him as Rizal shook his head and sat alone, listening to Ludwig as he basically explained to everyone what Rizal had gone through and allowed Charice to dictate their experiences. Of course, she couldn't let go of Feliciano so half of the words were a little muffled. He sighed. What could get worse than this…?

"Can't we just KILL the fucking bastards?"

What the hell?

He turned his head and saw Heracles screaming his head off while wearing huge robes that didn't look like they should be able to make him move. That and he was seriously starting to scare him. But maybe it was because Gilbert had fallen asleep on his leg. Could be one of the two.

"We're trying to keep people alive, Heracles."

"Why's that? We're never going to protect Rizal if they're all going to be alive to kill him another day!"

"The spell's going to wear off after these hours, Heracles." Rizal stated. "But I'm pretty sure that people are killed now are going to stay dead."

"…tch. Pussy."

"Says you."

Heracles scoffed as Rizal decided to drop the entire subject. With good reason too, for five seconds later he was in a screaming match with Kiku, which woke up Gilbert and caused him to wander off (with five cats following him. Nothing in this world makes sense). He sighed.

"So…now what?" Rizal sighed. "We wait here until the next half hour?"

"Hell no we don't!" Charice crawled forward to him. "I saw we look around the building!"

"…why?"

"What if Arthur left something here when he cast the spell?" She stated. "I told the others that if he had left something, then it might help us turn everyone back to normal sooner."

"Sooner as of…?"

"Maybe right now?"

"That's good." He stood up. "What's the plan?"

"Well, we go in duos. I'm coming with you in case the half-hour bell rings before we find anything." Charice pointed behind her. "Ludwig's taking the entire bottom floor, so half of us are going upstairs."

"All right…lead the way?"

"You don't sound happy."

"I was never happy when this day started."

"Point taken."

/=+=/

They started looking around the second floor, going through all the doors as Rizal noticed Charice tapping on all of the walls and floors for any type of hidden compartment (a "zombie bunker", she stated. "All Americans have one!"). To her dismay, she hadn't seen one.

"Well, what if there's his spell book?" Rizal turned to her as they left one of the rooms. "We can just read his spell or something."

"That's a good plan." Charice pointed upward. "But none of us can cast spells!"

"Well…what I was planning was that if we find the book now, we wait for the half-hour to ring and then we get Arthur to cast the spell again."

"Oh…didn't he mention something about that? I heard about it through the door about him not being able to cast spells or something?"

"I have the assumption that he'll have some form of knowledge, and that'll work."

"And if not?"

"…oh right. Feliciano. He's a mage now!"

"OH YEAAAAAAH! We can get Feli-chan to get that!"

Jesus, help this poor lamb.

"So then…how many rooms until- GAH!"

Rizal turned his head and saw that Charice had bumped into Tino, who was wearing a fancy school uniform and was rubbing his forehead where contact was met. And of course, two seconds later she was squeezing any type of life out of his eyes.

"Charice, uh…you're hurting him."

"But he's so cuuuuute!"

"U-uh…h-help…me…someone…"

*WHACK*

"OW!"

"That's what you get, ate."

"Thanks, Rizal." He laughed. "I almost lost consciousness for a minute."

"That…would've sucked." Rizal blinked. "Wait, I thought you and Berwald were starting on the other side of the building?"

"We did. I just looked through that whole section."

"In…" Charice looked at her watch. "Five seconds?"

"Yeah! It's an ability that I got! Apparently I can stop time when I want to."

"That's…epic." Charice grinned.

"B't y'ur h'r't st'ps w'n y'u d' 't. Y'u sh'ld b' m're c'r'f'l."

"I am, Berwald, I am-"

"HOLY CRAP where did he come from? Can he stop time too?"

Oh geez. "Come on, Charice. Before you have a heart attack yourself."

/=+=/

"Well…nothing out of the ordinary on this floor." Charice rubbed the back of her head. "Where else can we possibly start looking?"

"…let's just hope that Ludwig has more luck than we do." Rizal rubbed his chin. "If not a spell book, anything else that can-"

Something started beeping, shocking Rizal. He turned his head and saw Charice as she looked at her watch and turned off the alarm. She scoffed and pouted, whining to herself as she ruffled her own hair in dismay.

"Dammit…I wanted to hang out with Feli-chan before this!"

"…what was that about?"

"Oh, right." Charice pointed at her watch. "We have to make sure that we're ahead of time here, so I timed my watch to go off every half hour."

"Really? The bell tower didn't ring."

"Actually, it rings thirty seconds in advance so we can prepare ourselves."

"In case of a swi-"

The bell tower started ringing seven o' clock, echoing through the hallways. Surprisingly enough, there wasn't anything that sounded like an explosion or an earthquake. Rizal and Charice looked at each other in confusion.

"So…is there anything happening?" She asked.

"I…don't know." Rizal turned back to where they were walking from. "For all we know, maybe nothing happened."

"So…it's every hour or something, or what?"

"…don't talk. My head's starting to hurt."

"From the spell?"

"From the thinking." He sighed. "Whatever. Let's just get to the lobby or something. See who's here."

"Yaaay~! Does that mean I can hang out with Feli-chan more?"

"Suuure."

Charice started skipping ahead as Rizal shook his head and trotted off after her. A few seconds later, they noticed Antonio and Lovino coming out of one of the rooms, finishing their search. They turned their heads and caught eye contact with the Filipino…and that's when he noticed it.

"Um…Charice?"

"Yeah?"

"…there was a switch."

"But…Lovi-chan is right here!"

"Um…that's the thing…"

"There they are!" Antonio grinned. "That was easier than I thought!"

"I have first dibs, Antonio." Lovino pulled up his glove.

"Crap crap crap! Now what?"

"Get over here, that's a start!"

Charice grabbed Rizal's hand as he lifted up the next card from his deck. Instantly he saw a fuzzball charge toward the window and explode, creating a good hole where they can squeeze in. Rizal dodged a few of Lovino's attacks before they hurtled themselves out of the window, landing safely and charging forward.

"NOW what do we do?" Charice screamed as they ran. "Did they change places again?"

"That's what half an hour does to you…" Rizal sighed. "This is getting annoying…"

/=+=/

Greece's Japanese VA is Atsushi Kousaka. This one is the Daemon Spade character from Reborn, just so you know.

Finland's Japanese VA is Takahiro Mizushima. Now here, he's a combination of Rolo (Code Geass) and Romeo (Romeo x Juliet). Cause…you know, I can. It's a strange combination, but let's go with it, why not?

So…who's getting anything?