Chapter 6 Enter: Morte, the demon kitten.
I does not own Hetalia or the awesomeness that is Felix Vargas
When Lily had came outside, Felix had already changed into a disguise. Lily had only met the black-haired-wig Felix, and had no idea that his hair was really auburn. The breeze felt surprisingly pleasant on his sweat soaked face. When Lily had came out he had to double check to see if it WAS Vash he was carrying and not Lily. Seeing the Swiss-man in his current pain, he decided to ease slightly on Vash's side. "Ready to go? We don't have that much time left before those two wake up and come after us." Lily just nodded and with a small grunt, the trio made their way into the closing nearby.
The sun had set hours ago, but no one wanted to really stop. Fear was all the tension in the air suggested, Lily was dreading every step she took. What if they were found? What if the were just hiding in the trees, waiting for them to enter their line of sight? Swallowing the lump of fear that was sure to eat away at her stomach, she pressed forward until Vash decided they should stop and repair any wounds the best they could. Or as Vash had phrase it exactly "Stop! Stop, oh God my ribs hurt! Patch me, Wunderkind[1]." he had traces of sarcasm in his voice. Removing the crude binding from earlier Lily watched as Felix wrapped the bandages around her brother with such skill that suggested he had done this countless times before. Vash eyed Lily for a moment before speaking "Do you have an alias yet Lily? You know we need one now, at least until this is over." He added quickly. Lily just nodded "For now my name is Erica." she said as firmly as she could, but nothing could stop the stinging sensation that threatened to engulf her. She had not cried in many years, tears seem almost like a foreign concept to her. Now it seemed to be only thing she was sure was real. Her name, her life, she didn't know what to do. She whole life was crumbling around her, she read all the fairytales, where was her Happy Ever After? Did those even exist?
She plopped herself onto the ground, burying her face in her hands. She sobbed quietly, the boys were uncomfortable, not quite sure how to comfort her. Pulling herself together sniffled an apology "S-sorry, this I-is j-just so new to me." Felix was the first to respond "It never gets easier, believe me. You don't know how many times I've had to this." How many names did he go through? He had stopped counting, but he knew his real name was Felix Vargas. "Swiss. What is your new name?" Vash shrugged and admitted "Actually, I couldn't think of one, so I borrowed one instead. Call me Edlestien, Roderick Edlestien. I hope he won't mind." he smirked the last part. A lot of people in higher social classes knew Austria's human name, but people of the lower class wouldn't think anything of it.
What about Felix though? Lily pondered for a moment. Should she ask? What if he got upset? Or overreacted? She shook that out of her head, this was FELIX for crying out loud! "Felix?" she whispered, a lazy "Hmm?" responded her, "What's your alias?" she asked "Tom Greyson." he said simply. "Oh." that wasn't so hard.
A few hours later the had found a lake, not a huge one, but it was moderately large. The fog that settled there was dense and hard to see through, it looked like the kind sailors would get lost in, just like the stories England told Sealand about when he was younger, of course those stories involved mermaids, but you get the idea. It was thick, and it was reeeeeally hard to see, the fog rolled onto the path the trio travelled upon. It was like one of those horror games America always played before crying about how "Scary" the plants were in Slender man. Coward. Even Lily was braver than that. She was getting off topic here.
A town came into the clearing, Austria would probably killed them for showing up so close to his house looking like complete vagabonds. Vash could already see his old friend rubbing his temples and demanding that they stay away from him, the thought made him chuckle a bit before the pain of his side made him choke on it. Gott, it HURT, like HELL. Only way to describe it. If pain was personified, Vash wanted to kick his/her's ass. "Come on, 'Roddy', let's get you to a hospital, NOW." That's when it occurred to Switzerland that his binding were coming undone. Fresh blood spilling out, that was a sight he'd never see again, because of his neutrality. Shame he had to get involved in this, then maybe Lily would never had traumatized by what's going on and never really see war in her life. Was that so much to ask? Keeping his sister happy and safe? Why was it one or the other? It always came down to, should he keep her happy? Or take away that happiness and keep her safe? Unfortunately, it had to be the ladder, it was always the ladder. Geez, could he have one day to just sit back and let the world go by without it tumbling on him? No? Oh well.
Felix was rather squirmish right now, he rarely had his wig off and it was never for this long. He hoped no one would recognize him and go for his family. That was the reason he even wore the stupid wig. While Miss. Erica Edlestien escorted her brother to the near by hospital "Tom" went into town to pick up something to eat, and stopped short, there, only 500 ft away was Victor and Irina, asking around for them. Irina had an irked expression, while Victor kept his creepy smile, he and Ivan shared similar smiles, but, he knew Victor's one true weakness. Greece who had come for the world meeting looked at him when he snatched one of his cats. And then his expression went from "lazy" to "Oh-my-God-you-just-drop-kicked-my-baby" in three seconds flat. Felix had thrown the cat at Victor and 'plop'! Right onto his face, the entire marketplace stopped and stared at Victor when he started screaming bloody murder "AAAAAaaaaaaHHHHHHhhhh! Sestra! Get it off! Get it off!" he wailed loudly, geez, Grandpa Rome was probably going deaf right now. That was Victor's weakness, Kittens. And opera, but kittens were easier to get a hold of. When Irina pried the kitten off his face, Felix picked it inspecting the new wound it developed from attacking Victor and Irina. "I think I'll call you Morte[2]" he liked that name, Morte. "Come Morte, I can tell this will be a beautiful friendship."
Okay, I wanted to return to 'humor' so I did. Plus, me and Ivy-child decided that Kittens scared the pee out of Winter. Well, Review!
1- wonder child
2- Death
Ameriko, Lily, Felix, Vash and Morte, Til next time!