Hong Kong sighed, weaving through bunches of trees and bushes. It was a bit tricky for him because it was pretty dark. Luckily, as the preteen continued walking, he found a light clearing.
Making his way to said clearing, Hong Kong found a cottage consisting of the color white and mint green. Seeing mint green, the Chinese nation knew he stumbled upon a certain minty colored bunny.
"Oh goodness! Where are my sparkles?" Hong Kong heard the mint bunny shout as he walked through the waist-high gate. "Leon! Where is that boy? Leon!" The mint bunny shouted, busting the window shutters open
"There you are, Leon!" It shouted to Hong Kong. The Asian preteen only tilted a head. No one ever called him by that name; not even England! And he was the one who gave him the English name. "Where have you been?" The mint bunny demanded an answer. Hong Kong only tried to answer and opened his mouth before the mint bunny interrupted him. "Never mind! Go get my sparkles!" It demanded again, pushing Hong Kong in his house before the preteen could object.
Hong Kong gave the mint bunny somewhat of a look as he was pushed in. Once inside the low ceiling house, the Asian preteen shrugged off the mint bunny, walking upstairs to look for its sparkles.
"If I were a flying mint bunny, where would I put my sparkles..." Hong Kong said out loud as he looked around the mint bunny's bedroom. "...That whole sentence was so weird..."
The Asian nation continued on looking around the room, ignoring how abnormal it was to do so. He open drawers and dressers, but couldn't find a thing. On a dresser, Hong Kong noticed a little box. Since it was small, there must be sparkles in there.
Hong Kong opened the box, hoping to find the mint bunny's sparkles. His hopes faltered when there were no sparkles. Just more White Rabbit candy. Hmm, a mint bunny eating White Rabbit. Now that sounded very interesting, Hong Kong had to admit. Well, since it was already there, plop!Hong Kong popped one of the candies into his mouth, chewing on the candy as he continued looking around.
As the Chinese nation continued looking around, opening up a fancy looking chest, he started growing again. He hadn't noticed until the chest looked like it was shrinking.
Looking all around, Hong Kong noticed everything else was also getting smaller. He inwardly cursed, falling on his bottom and getting squished in the house. Because Hong Kong was growing so large, his body started pushing the furniture away. All the growing and furniture rearrangement weren't so oblivious.
"Leon! Leon! What is going on in there?" Hong Kong heard the mint bunny shout. "Now, Leon– KYAAAA!" The mint bunny opened the door, ready to scold the Chinese preteen, but instead started running back for Hong Kong was still growing.
"Help! Monster!" The flying mint bunny screamed. It's eyes practically popped out its head when seeing it was about to be rammed into the front door. Quickly, the mint bunny opened the door, getting pushed out soon after by Hong Kong's foot. That's when the Chinese preteen stopped growing.
"Help! Help! Monster!" The mint bunny started screaming again. It looked back at its house. From the outside, it looked as if the house had grown arms and legs with Hong Kong's arms and legs sticking out. When the mint bunny turned back around, it saw the dodo-Germany. "Ludwig! Ludwig! Help! A-a-a monster!"
The dodo Germany turned when hearing his name be called, eyes bugging out when seeing Hong Kong's limbs sticking out of the windows and door. Speechlessly, Germany walked over to the mint bunny and its home, amazed at what he was seeing.
"This surely is a monster." Germany said, giving Hong Kong's foot a quick kick. This had earned the German a kick back from the Chinese 'monster' out of irritation.
"How do we get it out?" The mint bunny asked with panic. Germany thought about this while looking the house and Hong Kong, stroking his chin all sophisticated like.
"We need..." Germany started, but was distracted by humming. He turned to where the humming was coming from, seeing a boy/lizard with a latter. "A lizard with a latter! That's what we need." The German dodo concluded with a grunt.
Germany and the flying mint bunny called over the lizard-boy with a latter, making Hong Kong wonder how that would get him out of the house. The preteen could hear everything fine. Even if he could hear everything, Hong Kong couldn't see anything outside. To fix this problem, Hong Kong opened one of the windows, seeing Sealand with lizard hands, feet, and tail!
"Peter! Over here, front and center!" Germany commanded. Sealand turned, seeing who was calling him, then ran over when he saw Germany.
"Yes, Ludwig sir!" Sealand saluted.
"You can fit into a chimney, correct?" Germany asked, taking Sealand's latter and putting it up against the house.
"Um, I guess..." Sealand answered as Germany lead him towards his upright latter. A bit hesitantly, the boy started to climb up.
"Good. Now just slide through the chimney and pull the monster out." Germany's instructions froze Sealand in his place. Slowly the boy turned to see Hong Kong's giant, brownish-gold eyes staring back at him. Sealand yelped, starting to hop back down. Running was, however, futile with Germany climbing up behind him.
"Peter! What are you doing?" Germany growled, carrying a squirmy Sealand under his arm. "Don't be afraid and get that monster out!"
Only squirming more, Sealand shouted back, "No! I could get eaten!" Germany sighed, now on the roof. He set Sealand down, already knowing how to convince the boy to do as he says.
"Listen, Peter; if you do this now, you will be recognized." Peter perked up once hearing this, reconsidering if he should go down the chimney. The little Brit seemed to really want to be recognize because he nodded his head, running towards the chimney.
"So what do I do when I'm in there?" Sealand asked once seated on the rim of the chimney, ready to hop in.
"Tie your tail around something, like its hand, and pull it out through the chimney." Germany instructed, pushing Sealand over the edge. "Good Luck!" He added, shouting inside the chimney.
Thump!
Inside the mint bunny's house, Hong Kong turned to the fireplace, seeing Sealand sitting there covered in sparkles. So, the sparkles he was suppose to look for, was the soot in the fireplace. Wait, when things burn here, they turn into sparkles? That was defiantly a wonder to Hong Kong.
When Sealand fell, the sparkles from the fireplace flew everywhere. Hong Kong looked away to avoid getting it in his eyes, but couldn't cover his nose.
"A-a-a-ACCHI!" The Chinese preteen sneezed, sending all the sparkles back up the chimney, also sending Sealand along with.
Outside the house, Germany was back on the ground with the mint bunny, both staring the house. It was petty silent until they heard a giant sneeze and saw sparkles shooting out the chimney. With the sparkles, they saw Sealand pop out. He was first flying up, but what goes up, must come down.
"Gaaaahhhh!" Sealand screamed, falling towards Germany and the mint bunny. The German dodo held his arms out, catching the sparkly lizard-boy. Right when he was caught, Sealand sneezed, sparkles falling off him.
"My sparkles!" The flying mint bunny yelped, gaping at all the sparkles falling off Sealand.
Germany set Sealand down and the Brit shook off the remaining sparkles like a wet dog trying to get dry. "Gesundheit!" The young sparkle-less boy shouted to Hong Kong. The Chinese preteen responded with a 'dòjeh'. "What now?" Sealand asked Germany. The mint bunny was also wondering the same thing.
The German dodo thought about the question, trying to think up an answer. Then, he snapped his fingers, signaling an idea. "We burn the house down!" Germany seriously answered. "We'll burn the monster out!"
"Burn the monster out!" Sealand excitedly repeated.
"Burn the monster– WHAT?" The mint bunny yelped after realizing what Germany said. "Wait! Wait! Wait!" It called, trying to stop the two half animals. It was useless because the two already start throwing his mint colored, bunny themed furniture at his house, breaking them into pieces. "H-how is it going to work?" The mint bunny asked, hesitantly joining in on destroying his furniture.
"Simple; if there's a fire, people will leave. So, if we start a fire, the monster will leave to avoid death." Germany answered, dead-serious. Hong Kong was silent when hearing the German dodo's plan. He really thought Germany was a dodo. The Chinese nation was stuck, how would he escape a burning house?
To avoid getting burned to death, Hong Kong had to quickly think up a plan. That was when a thought popped into his head; when he ate something, he grew. So the preteen just had to eat something else to shrink.
Hong Kong looked all around the room, but there wasn't any food. The preteen then looked outside, hearing Germany asked if anyone had a match, which the other two didn't. When Hong Kong was looking at the German dodo, he noticed something behind him; a garden. Gardens have food and food was what the Chinese teen was looking for.
Moving his hand towards the mint bunny's garden, Hong Kong tried to pull something out, but his currently larger than usual hand was not invisible. The mint bunny noticed Hong Kong trying to take its food and was not pleased with that. The mint bunny flew over to its garden, defending its food by getting in Hong Kong's way.
"Oh no you don't!" The mint bunny shouted, still defend its food, "I refuse to let you take my precious work!"
Hong Kong was getting really annoyed with the mint bunny. To get it out of his way, the Chinese preteen got a hold of the flying mint bunny, but said animal did not want to be Hong Kong's next meal. It grabbed a hold of one of its 'precious work', hoping the nation wouldn't be able to continue pulling. The mint bunny's hopes died when Hong Kong pulled out the food along with itself.
"Noooo! Don't!" The mint bunny screamed when being pulled up near Hong Kong's mouth. Said preteen looked cross eyed at the mint bunny and what it was holding; a carrot cupcake? "Leave me and my vegetable cupcake garden alone!" The mint bunny continued screaming, struggling to get out of Hong Kong's grasp.
"No, I need to eat something." Hong Kong replied back, taking a bite of the carrot cupcake the mint bunny was holding. Said mint bunny yelped when he did so. Soon after, Hong Kong shrunk and was smaller than before, letting go of the mint bunny. The preteen landed swiftly on his feet while the mint bunny flew before hitting the ground.
Hong Kong looked around again, seeing that he can now run out of the house before it would be burned. The Chinese nation heard the flying mint bunny make a high pitched squeal, turning to it to see it hold its pocket watch.
"Oh goodness! I'm going to be late!" It yelled, flying out the door.
"Wait you bloody mint bunny!" Hong Kong shouted in his monotone voice, running out the very large door. He hopped down the concrete steps, passing by Germany and Sealand, only to be stopped by the dodo of the two.
"Do you a match I could use?" Germany asked. Hong Kong just wanted to track down the, in his opinion, annoying mint bunny, so he lied and shook his head, running around the German dodo. He heard Germany sigh at his answer and turned his head around, seeing the German dodo turn back to Sealand. "Guess we're going it the old fashion way."
"Yes sir, Ludwig sir!" Sealand saluted again, watching Germany rub two sticks together. Hong Kong stared blankly at the two before running deeper into the forest.
After realizing that probably running after a flying mint bunny under his circumstances was useless, Hong Kong started slowing down, looking around at the new setting. There were lots of flowers everywhere, which gave the Asian preteen an idea of how small he really was.
"Why, who do you think is that?" Hong Kong heard a familiar voice asked curiously.
"I don't know, but like, whoever this is, they're soooo out of place." Another familiar voice said.
Hong Kong looked around again. There wasn't anything around but him and the flowers–
Instantly, Hong Kong jumped to the side, staring down the flowers in his martial art defense pose.
"Woah! Look!" A tropicbird orchid shouted. That's when Hong Kong realized the flowers were moving.
The Chinese preteen looked all around, seeing all the flowers blooming and seeing a bunch of countries in dresses made of their county's national flower's petals, sitting on their flowers. No wonder the voices were so familiar.
"So, who are you and what are you doing here?" Hungary asked nicely, sitting on a geranium, dressed in a dress made of redish-pink geranium petals.
"Um, Hong." Hong Kong answered, looking all around.
" 'Hong'?" Seychelles asked, looking around at the other counties, sitting on a tropicbird orchid, in a light blue dress made of said flower's petals. "Is that a Chinese flower? It sounds Chinese."
"Well, what kind of flower is this? Like, really?" Poland asked snobbishly, looking at Hong Kong's clothes. He was sitting on a corn poppy, dressed in, like the others, a dress made up of the petals of his national flower. The preteen noticed Poland's gaze, looked down at his own clothes, and felt slightly offended.
"It is somewhat of an unusual petal." Belgium added observantly. She was on a red poppy and dressed like the others. "I guess that's because it's a foreign flower." She whispered to Hungary. The Hungarian shooed her off, her face showing that she was not happy with Belgium's rude comment.
"Girls! Girls! Girls! And Feliks... Let's not be rude! Hong is our guest!" Hungary shouted, silencing everyone and all their whispers. "Now, Hong," The nation on the geranium turned to the preteen, a smile on her face, "Would you like to hear a song?" Hong Kong inwardly gave a questioning look. Why a song out of nowhere?
"Oh! Let's do the song about the poppies!" Belgium suggested, raising her hand.
"I like, agree with Bella!" Poland added with a smile.
"No! No! No! The one about the tropicbird orchid!" Seychelles pouted.
"What about the one with the lilies?" Liechtenstein timidly asked. Hong Kong hadn't notice her before, but here she is now, on a lily and in a dress made of lily petals.
"Enough!" Hungary shouted strictly, "We are singing 'All in the Golden Afternoon' " The others nodded, finding the song perfectly fine. Hong Kong, on the other hand, had never heard of the song. He didn't say so though and so, the 'flowers' began.
"Little bread-and-butterflies kiss the tulips, and the sun is like a toy balloon~ There are get up in the morning glories, in the golden afternoon~" The flowers sang, confusing Hong Kong. It wasn't that he didn't like music or that their voices were bad, both of those were untrue, but the Chinese preteen was in a bit of a rush and did not really want to listen.
"Excuse me–" Hong Kong tried to explain that he really should be going, but the flowers continued on.
"There are dizzy daffodils on the hillside, strings of violets are all in tune~ Tiger lilies love the dandy lions, in the golden afternoon, the golden afternoon~" Hong Kong looked all around, they all sounded pretty well he supposed. In his head, the nation was wondering if he should sneak away, but then again, that would be rude. Rudeness was one thing China and England both made sure Hong Kong didn't have.
"There are dog and caterpillars and a copper centipede~ where the lazy daisies love the very peaceful life they lead~" The flowery nations kept on singing, making Hong Kong really wonder when they would be done. He actually did try to leave, but one of the said dog and caterpillars friendly nudged him to a leaf-chair.
"You can learn a lot of things from the flowers, for especially in the month of June~ There's a wealth of happiness and romance, all in the golden afternoon~ All in the golden afternoon, the golden afternoon~" After holding the last note for a bit, Hong Kong noticed the females nations, plus Poland, staring at him while smiling sweetly. At first, he was confused, but soon caught on to why they were staring.
"Uh-uh. Sorry. I don't sing." Hong Kong said with his expressionless face. While the other flowers started looking unsurely at each other, Liechtenstein only smiled softly at Hong Kong, moving towards him. She placed her hand on his shoulder, making the preteen turn to her. The said preteen sighed, knowing what she wanted.
"You can learn a lot of things from the flowers, for especially in the month of June. There's a wealth of happiness and romance." The Chinese boy pained himself to sing. Liechtenstein giggled at him along with the other flowers. They all thought Hong Kong sounded cute and lovely, even if his singing voice was still monotone, making said preteen's cheek tint lightly pink from embarrassment.
"The golden afternoon!~" The female flowery nations finished. Hong Kong clapped at the end of their song as the nations bowed. It was only the polite thing to do.
"Köszönöm~Thank you~" Hungary thanked for all the flowers. Hong Kong nodded his head as a 'you're welcome'.
"Well, I must be going now." He said as he started to turn. After taking three steps, Hong Kong found himself blocked by a smiley Belgium.
"You can't go yet! We just finished our song!" She said, turning Hong Kong around and pushing him back. While doing so, Belgium got a good feel of his clothes. "Woah! These petals feel so lovely and different!" The Belgian started feeling all around Hong Kong's shirt, making him feel very awkward.
"Really?" Seychelles shouted, going towards Hong Kong. She also starting feeling him, making the younger preteen feel that much awkward and wanting to get away. The Seychellois girl then got close to him and sniffed the Chinese boy. Hong Kong jumped back and took a defense stance do to reflex. Seychelles only made a thinking face, thinking about Hong Kong's scent. "Doesn't really smell like the average flower." She commented.
It was Poland's turn to start doing weird things to Hong Kong. He started first feeling Hong Kong's clothes, comparing it to his own. Then Poland took in the Chinese boy's scent like how Seychelles did before. All of this was very discomforting to Hong Kong.
"Like, what kinda flower are you? Even if you are a Chinese flower, you shouldn't feel or smell like this." Poland said, putting his hands on his hips. "I mean like, your petals look abnormal and feel too silky, and you smell like gun powder." The other flower-girls nodded, agreeing with Poland.
"Well, I'm not a flower." Hong Kong responded, backing away from the others. The human-flowers all stiffened with shock and disbelief.
"What do you mean you're not a flower?" Seychelles hesitantly asked.
"That's it; I am not a flower." Hong Kong deadpanned.
"I knew it!" Poland shouted. "You must be a weed then!"
"Ewww! A weed?" Belgium shuttered, giving a looks of disgust.
"I'm not a weed." Hong Kong responded with a bit more force than usual.
"Ew! Ew! Ew! Go away! We don't want weeds in our garden!" Seychelles also gave a look of disgust.
"Yes, out with you! We don't want our garden to have distasteful weeds." Hungary demanded, shooing Hong Kong away. The Chinese preteen did as told, giving a slight glare.
"Good, I wanted to leave anyways..." Hong Kong said loud enough for the flowers to hear, showing a perfectly fine attitude. That is, until Belgium and Seychelles sneaked ahead of him and pulled on a root, making Hong Kong trip and tumble away.
When the preteen stopped on his back, he heard snobby laughter from the flowers; all the flowers, except for one.
"Bella! Michelle! That was horrible!" Liechtenstein scolded. The said two only high five-ed, ignoring the little flower-girl. "Elizabeta!" Liechtenstein was about to try and get Hungary to scold Belgium and Seychelles, but the Hungarian was more on their side.
"Oh, Lili~ Why don't you get some water for your petals?" Hungary suggested, shooing Liechtenstein along. The young flower did as told, but looked back with disappointment before leaving.
Hong Kong was watching the whole time when Liechtenstein was defending him. He was really glad she left because the Chinese preteen did not want her to be around with his next move.
When Liechtenstein left, the other flowers were still laughing, bad mouthing the 'weed' that was just with them. Hong Kong then pulled out some more of his firecrackers, striking a match along with it. The sneaky preteen lit the fuse, tossing the lit firecrackers to the snobby bunch of flowers.
The laughter from the flowers subsided when the unfamiliar object landed in front of them. The flowers leaned forward towards the firecrackers, taking note of the sizzling. Suddenly,
Pop! Pop! Crackle! Pop! Boom! Boom!
"KYAAAAA~" The four flowers started screaming as the firecrackers went off, all running in random circles and directions. All the running and shrieks of terror made Hong Kong inwardly smile as he continued walking off.
"I'm ba–" Liechtenstein shouted, stopping mid sentence to see her friends all out of breath and covered in soot. No one was hurt luckily, but the flowers were all very unhappy with the condition of their flower-dress.
Notes:
-dòjeh - Thank you
-köszönöm - Thank you (Hungarian)
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