Welcome to Ponyville, Aru
Hetalia and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic are not mine! This is only a fanfic on them.
HEAD'S UP! No swearing, no love pairings, no world history. The date of this story is this 2014. The setting for this story is after the season 4 finale before the Rainbow Rocks movie.
Sorry for not getting this up on Monday or Tuesday! This is also a shorter chapter, but I am hoping to make chapter 4 longer.
Chapter 2 Summary: After a rough meeting with a pegasus named Rainbow Dash, China explored Ponyville's market, received free food, and met a few other ponies, namely Applebloom, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. Once Pinkie abruptly left, Rarity and China visited the Carousel Boutique to talk about his situation and headed to the crystal tree soon after.
At the World Conference, France makes an assumption about China's safety, which the others agree to adjourn the meeting to look into these matters.
Chapter 3 - I Have to Find a Way to Make This All Ok
The inside of the tree was just as spectacular as it was on the outside. Indeed, the whole structure was made completely out of crystal. The whole place seemed to glow with rainbows. Amidst all this, the hallway that the two ponies walked through stretched for several yards before finally reaching the first door. China was pretty sure it was way bigger in here than it looked on the outside.
Once they reached the end of the hallway, Rarity opened the door to reveal a somewhat small room shaped into a circle. In the center of the room were seven thrones surrounding a large yellow circle in the middle of the floor. Each throne had a picture, excluding one of them. He recognized that two of the pictures were of Fluttershy's butterflies tattoo and of Rarity's gems tattoo that adorned their flanks.
"Oh, Spikey-wikey!" she shouted in a babyish voice. "I'm back, and I brought a colt who needs to speak with Twilight!"
Not long after she called, a purple scaled and green spined lizard dashed in. He had giant eyes, just like the ponies. He looked a lot like a baby dinosaur.
"Rarity, I'm so glad to see you again!" he said as he ran up to Rarity and gave her a brief hug. "Who's this guy?"
"Oh, this is China. He's new in Ponyville. He needs to meet with Twilight urgently!"
"I don't need to meet URGENTLY, aru."
"Nonsense! It's better the get this over with sooner than later, now that we're already here." The lizard sighed. Clear concern displayed on his face.
"Ok, I'll go tell Twilight that you brought him to talk to her. I just hope she'll notice me. She's been so wrapped up in her work that she hardly talks to me anymore. Otherwise, she would just ask me to do a task," he continued. Once he finished, he walked back the way he came. When Rarity felt that he had walked away far enough, she began to speak.
"Twilight has never been the same since she received this castle and her princess duty. She does call the five of us together to send the rainbow of friendship every week, which travels throughout Equestria. Other than that, she's adapted so much to her life as a princess that she's no longer noticing her own friends, anymore. Her duty is to send the rainbow out so that everypony who sees it would be reminded about the magic of friendship, but it's as if she's shown others so much friendship that she's lost friendship to us." Rarity began pacing. China watched as she sulked around and brought about a heavy feeling of sadness.
"I feel as if I've changed, too. I've been coming here way more often than I should just to visit Spike and keep him company. Now that I'm occupied with Spike, I haven't been able to come up with new dress ideas. All I've been doing is producing more of the same clothes and modernizing my older ideas to use for now. It's as if I've lost my creative inspiration. It's really going to hinder my business if this keeps going on." Yao felt sympathetic towards her, even though he never experienced this himself. He still lived with his people long enough to understand her pain.
China didn't like the depressing atmosphere that Rarity introduced. He realized that even with all the friendliness and happiness that were shown by this world, it still had its own heartaches and pains. Now THIS was something he was able to relate to.
"Well, enough about me. What about you? Talk about your world." she encouraged, successfully changing the topic.
"Well, there are hundreds and hundreds of countries on our planet, which we call Earth, aru. Every country has its own nation personification, just like me. I represent country China. Whenever something happens to our country, we get affected by it, too, aru. It's sort of scary to think about. I AM one of oldest nations in the world, aru. I've experienced it plenty of times."
"Oh, really? If you're a country, how old are you?" Rarity realized how awkward this question was and blushed in embarrassment. China didn't notice this and proceeded to answer, anyway.
"I am more than 5000 years old, aru. 6000, even!" Rarity's eyes widened. He looked so young yet he's so OLD!
"That really is quite fascinating. How do you keep such a fair complexion? I will be all wrinkly when I get old! I wouldn't even be 80 when that happens!" she cried dramatically.
"We Nations have different bodies than mortals, aru. We only die when our country dies, we look de same as our country looks de same, we feel pain when our country feels pain."
"I can't imagine what life must be like after living for so long! Didn't you ever get married?"
"No, Nations don't marry. It's a bit complicated, aru..." Rarity frowned.
"How can you live your life without a companion? It must be dreadful! I can't even live without it!" China smirked in amusement.
"We are lot stronger than you think, aru. We've battled wars, hunger, struggles... Years and years and years, aru. Besides, if I married human, then I would want to grow old with her instead of see her age and die while I'm immortal as long as China lives."
"I suppose you're right." Rarity sighed and struggled to process everything Yao said. She couldn't imagine how it would feel to live so long! It would feel like eternity!
Several minutes passed, and China had been silent as Rarity rambled on about colts, dresses, suits, wedding veils, blue blood, flying cake, and galas. To be honest, he hadn't even been listening. As much as he liked the peace here in Equestria, he missed Earth. He missed the countries. He missed his people. He wondered how China was holding up during his absence. Since he hadn't felt anything different about his body, he didn't think anything wrong was happening, but what if he's unable to feel any effects since he was in a different body in an entirely different universe?
And what had become of panda?
Spike eventually showed up again and told the two ponies to follow him. Surprisingly enough, there was ANOTHER long hallway past this door, but this time there were doors along the sides rather than just doors on either end of the hallway. As they passed through the door Spike lead them to, China noticed a lavender, winged unicorn sitting at a desk and sipping something from a mug. She had dark blue hair with hot pink highlights, indigo eyes, and a small crown adorned behind her horn. Her eyes were scrolling along the pages that were laid out on the table.
"Hello, darling. I would like to introduce this new colt in Ponyville. His name is China, and he's in quite a dilemma-"
"One second," the crowned pony interrupted. She hadn't glanced up from her work since their entrance, even just to see who was talking.
Rarity and Yao glanced at each other, both wondering what they should do. They turned back to the princess and stood in spot quietly and awkwardly. Rarity looked to her right to see what Spike was doing. He hadn't been paying attention to them as he was absorbed in another comic book.
After waiting a solid minute, Rarity attempted to get Twilight's attention.
"Ahem! Princess Twilight Sparkle, I believe Spike has told you that we were coming." Finally, the pony looked up from her paperwork and examined the two awaiting ponies.
"Oh, Rarity! I'm so happy to see you again! Why don't you come here very often?" Twilight said as she ran to embrace her friend. The two standing ponies knew full well about how many times Rarity had visited. Pain was etched onto Rarity's face. She pushed the princess away gently.
"I'm sorry, Twilight, but I only came to meet you because China here needs your scientific help," she said sternly and quickly without faltering. She motioned to the colt, who was uncertain on how he should react to this princess. Twilight was taken aback by her friend's attitude. Brushing it off, she turned to the red pegasus.
"Oh, well, hello. You're China?" Yao nodded. "Alright, then. So what, exactly, is the problem?"
"Uh, well, Rarity and Fluttershy said you have been to human world before, aru." She raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, that's true."
"And I came here from world with humans." Twilight's eyes widened.
"Oh, really?"
"But I need to get back to Earth because my people need me!"
"How did you get here, then? Maybe we can send you back through there." Yao shook his head.
"I don't know how I got here! I was heading to meeting with other Nations, but somehow I ended up here!"
"Hm... Hey, have you ever heard of Canterlot High?"
"No... Sounds like high school." China didn't need to be taught anything. He's more than 4000 years old, for crying out loud!
"Hmph. So you have no recollection of ANYTHING about how you arrived here? No portal? No spell? No pony or person?" China thought hard. Ever since he woke up, everything was such a shock to him. His memory before then was fuzzy, as if it was only a dream.
He left his plane, he walked down the streets of England... He stopped walking, for some reason... And the rest he couldn't think of.
"No, nothing, aru." Twilight sighed and dipped her head in disappointement.
"Well, maybe you can try to describe the place where came from, such as your planet, your solar system, etcetera. I might be able to track down which universe you came from... of course, it could be possible that we're already in the same universe and you are just in a different galaxy. Wouldn't that be something?" Twilight clapped her hooves in glee.
"Yeah, sure... aru." He was too worried about getting home than thinking about outer space. Twilight laughed and put her left forehoof on his shoulder. She probably noticed how serious he was being.
"Cheer up, China! We'll find out what happened! I will continue my research while you enjoy my own country!" The princess was being way too cheerful for how he felt at the moment. "But before you go, just tell me where you came from."
China gave her the planet name Earth, named the sun Sol, and mentioned the Milky Way Galaxy. Twilight's quill was writing a lot more than what China had told her, which made him curious on what she was writing. Rather than getting the chance to ask her, Rarity guided him towards the direction of the door and said a brief and somewhat ingenuine goodbye.
"Now that you know what you need to know, China and I will take our leave. I just hope you can find time to visit Sugarcube Corner tonight for the party. Goodbye, Princess." Rarity walked past China and tugged his right wing with her magic to get him to follow. Her pace was quick, so Yao wasn't able to turn around and say a proper goodbye to the princess. He silently apologized, thinking that this abrupt departure was rude to royalty.
It wasn't long until they made it outside. Rarity turned toward the Nation.
"I'm sorry for being so quick to leave. I couldn't stand another minute with that pony." By this time, her voice was starting to get louder, and her face started reddening. "All she thinks about now is WORK, WORK, WORK! SHE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME WHY WE'VE ALL BEEN AVOIDING HER!" Rarity screamed, clear anger displayed on her face. China stayed silent. She continued to rant. All the while, China was beginning to get irritated. Sure, it's not good that their friendship is dying, but girls can be so ANNOYING! Why is it that the only ponies he's met so far are girls? It's completely opposite from what he's used to. At least there were no wars.
Suddenly, Rarity stopped talking. She was looking at him expectantly. China only blinked and felt awkward as she stared at him in silence.
"Um, China?"
"Huh?" Rarity sighed.
"You weren't listening, were you?" Yao chuckled nervously. "Well, what I asked was if you would like to meet Applejack. I don't think you mentioned meeting her, yet. Just her sister Applebloom? Yes. We can head over to Sweet Apple Acres."
"Ok, aru. That will be fine. Meeting friends is a good thing..." China replied.
"Fantastic! I bet you will get along with her older brother, too! I'm guessing you'll want to meet a fellow colt for once, huh?"
She read his mind.
Russia has never returned since he left. Every single country is worried about him. Well, not HIM in particular but what he might be doing. Japan and England DID successfully find something, but all they found was China's basket. When they returned back to the conference room, they are informed about the plan, and Germany split everyone up into groups.
Romano, Spain, England, and a few others would enter China from the west. Japan, South Korea, Australia, and others enter from the east. Hungary, Austria, the Baltics, Poland, and more enter through the south. Germany, Italy, some invisible dude supposidly holding a floating Polar Bear, Prussia, and three others will go in from the North.
And America, along with Belarus and Ukraine, is searching for Russia because he was the hero.
Edited 10/18/14
Edited 12/3/14