Hey, all! So, I sort of left off awkwardly, but I had an emergency to attend to, so I had to end right then. Oh, and I lied about the possible yoai stuff. That was mostly to see what my friends would say, but nothing happened, so… Yup! No yoai! Oh, but I will have some of the female OC's fangirl over some of the countries! ^,^' Heh, I just couldn't resist!

Yup, so please enjoy!

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Aja got up as soon as I asked the question. "Where the hell were you, Mari!" She looked angrier than she usually did, which was certainly saying something. With her rather sadistic tendencies, I decided not to be funny, which is like impossible.

"Aw, come on, Lovi~!" I mocked, obviously trying to act like Spain. She shot one of her terrifyingly perfected glares at me and I flinched. "Fine, I'm sorry…" I groaned, and then sat up. "I was looking for you, then I ran into Japan, then we found Zik and Idiot fighting Steve, then we met Ivy who kindly shot Steve, like, ten times, then we came up here and found Germany, then we went to the library and almost died, Ivy got knocked out, the door actually asked us if we'd like to unlock it or not-!"

Aja raised an eyebrow. "Seriously?"

"-I unlocked the door, we ran upstairs, Idiot and Ivy went back to Germany's room, Xenzik, Japan, and I went to find you and Prussia, we explained the naming of Prussia's 'Five Meters', we went into Prussia's room, then we found him passed out on the floor, I almost had a panic attack about all the blood, we did some 'game talk', Steve came in, and I passed out." When I finished I was so out of breath that I felt tired.

"Is that all?" Aja asked me, smirking. I smiled at her. "Yeah," I said, "Why, what'd you do?" Aja immediately started to blush, and turned away. "I, uh, well I asked Ivy what happened to her when she woke up." I looked around the room. We were back in Germany's room. Back in Germany's corner Prussia, Italy, and Japan were talking to him.

Closer to the door, Ivy sat, talking with Xenzik, while Vixue sat in his emo corner because no one wanted to have a conversation with him. I looked back at Aja. She was still blushing profoundly, and she looked a little flustered, but she didn't say anything. I stood up and walked over to Ivy and Zik, limping slightly from where my left leg slammed into the wall.

"Hey, guys." I said, sitting down beside my old friend. "What's going on?" Ivy smiled. "Not much, Mari. Are you feeling any better?" She seemed like she wanted to get off of the subject she and Zik were on. "Loads!" I replied. "So, I know that you were here before we were Ivy, but…" I sort of trailed off, noting the discomfort in her eyes.

"You want to know what happened, right?" She asked with a sad smile. I nodded, and Xenzik leaned forward with interest. The others, who had all, for some stupid reason, been listening, came over and sat near us. "Fine, I'll tell you."

Ivy sat with her sister, relishing in the feeling of the sun streaming through the windows. "What should we do?" Ami asked, mostly asking Ivy. She was the oldest, and therefore in charge of making decisions. Ivy shrugged and looked at Lin for any sort of input. "Maybe we should go." Lin's firm voice made the suggestion seem more like a command.

"I agree." Ivy's cheerful tone made them all a little less apprehensive about what they were planning. Quickly, all the girls grabbed the bags they had pre-packed and started to head out the door. It was the middle of the day. Around noon, the girls started to walk towards the lonely old house that sat just outside their village. "Now, remember!" Ivy told her sisters. "We're just going in to look around. That's all. After that, we leave." Ami and Lin nodded their replies and the girls headed into the house.

"That was exactly twenty-four hours before I met Mari and the others." Ivy lowered her head. "We should never have entered this wretched house!" Zik held onto Ivy's hand as she screamed and started to cry. What could have been so bad, that…? Never mind, stupid question!

"Ivy…" Italy soothed. Wait, when the hell did Italy get here? How long was I out? "Ivy, it'll all be okay!" The cheery little nation rubbed Ivy's back. "N-No… It won't…" Ivy cried. "I watched my sisters die in front of me… There's not stopping that monster…" Ivy decided to continue.

Ivy screamed as the huge grey thing slammed her little sister into a wall. Lin drew her gun, shot, and missed. The monster turned away from poor little Ami and slammed it's fist into Lin's stomach, sending her flying into the next room. Ivy prayed to God that she wasn't dead, and shakily pulled her own gun.

The monster had already turned back towards Ami and was beating the shit out of her with it's giant hands. Ivy, scared for her sister's life, lifted the gun, and fired as many times as she could. As the creature faded, Ami fell to the ground. Her blood was everywhere; the floor, the walls, the ceiling, everywhere.

Ivy, remembering her big sister, ran into the next room, slamming and locking the door to the first. "I-Ivy?" Lin sat up slowly, rubbing the side of her head. She looked around in confusion. "Wh-where's Ami?" She asked. Ivy bit her lip, just barely holding back tears. "She ran off." Ivy's reply was short. "She scared the thing off and ran after it." The lie was lame, but Lin didn't argue. Ivy helped her up, and they started the search for a sister who was lost forever.

"And so, that's how my younger sister died." Ivy wasn't even crying anymore, which kind of scared me. "My older sister's death was much more violent."

Lin threw herself at the monster, knife in hand. She and ivy had run into the kitchen, the creature in hot pursuit. They'd stopped, and Lin had snatched a knife off of the counter. Now that she was on top of the creature, she wasted no time in stabbing it repeatedly.

Screaming, the monster pulled her off and threw her too heavily into the ground. Ivy screamed, and opened fire, but the monster just tossed her aside like yesterday's newspaper. From her immobilized position on the ground, Ivy watched in horror as the monster stabbed over and over again at non-vital points along Lin's screeching figure.

Finding it impossible not to do something, Ivy forced her body to move, only finding enough strength to shoot and kill the thing. "L…. Lin?" Ivy asked, dragging herself over to her sister. She was losing blood, but it was so slow that Ivy started to bawl. "Don't be sad… Ivy…" Her sister whispered.

"How can I not be sad!" Ivy yelled, grimacing at the pain that flashed briefly in her sister's dulling eyes. "Because… I-I'm meant… to… die…" Ivy stared at her sister, tears still streaming down her cheeks. "If I have fallen… If I am… dying…" Lin held her sister's gaze firmly. "Then… it is… as God designed…"

Ivy cried, holding her dying sister tightly, crying even harder when she discovered the body's lack of movement. She gently lay her sister down, before walking over to the sink. Knowing that the tap wouldn't be functioning, she grabbed a cloth and cleaned as much of the blood as she could off of her. Seeing a ceramic serving plate at the edge of the counter, she couldn't resist the violent urge to shove it off.

The plate shattered, causing the first loud noise after a long silence. With that noise, Ivy panicked, hearing the sounds of people talking, trying to figure out what had happened. Ivy left her sister lying there and ran to the other side of the room to hide.

She just sat there, making no noise until she heard terrified screams. Realizing that she couldn't leave the monster to kill anyone else, Ivy ran, as fast as she could to the direction of the screams.

Arriving around a corner near the downstairs bathroom, Ivy drew her gun and shot the creature, ignoring the shocked faces of the people she'd saved as she fell to the ground, worn out from the death of her sister, and the beating she'd received.

"And that's when I ran into you guys." As Ivy finished, Italy latched onto her, and wouldn't stop hugging her. I stared at her, sad that I wasn't able to help, even if I had been in the house with her. "I never told Lin that Ami had died…" Ivy wiped one last tear away before sharply standing up.

"We should find a safe place to sleep, tonight." Xenzik said, as we all stood up. "Perhaps the fireplace room would do?" We all nodded and started towards the room. When we reached it, I pushed it open and marched straight in. Ivy took the room's key from her pocket and locked the door. "I found it with Lin." She explained.

I turned around to face the group, as Japan suggested a game of janken to decide who kept watch for the night. In the end, Prussia and I kept tying, so we both ended up as 'guards' for the others. And that was pretty much the start of how I came to like Prussia.

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You know, I would like to write one chapter that doesn't end really crappily. Anyway, that's the fifth chapter for you, guys and gals! Hope you enjoyed reading more than I enjoyed writing, because I was super bored!

~Otto-Chan!