With a triumphant feeling inside, Hong Kong wandered in deeper into the wondrous forest. He continued through a maze of grass, swerving around giant rocks and roots. All until the preteen stumbled upon little bubbles shaped as 'A's, 'E's, 'I's, 'O's, and 'U's.

As the Chinese preteen followed where the bubbles were coming from, he stumbled upon a cheerful caterpillar on a mushroom and blowing letter-bubbles, saying each vowel in a sing-song voice as he blew.

"A, E, I, O, U, da~" Hong Kong heard as he approached the caterpillar, realizing who it was. "U, O, I, E, A, da~" The caterpillar finally turned to Hong Kong once realizing he was there and gave a childish smiled. It was clearly Russia. "Privet~ May I ask who you are?" Russia asked, blowing into one side of his faucet pipe. Three bubbles shaped as an 'O', 'U', and 'R' came out the other end.

"Well, why don't you guess?" Hong Kong said, popping a bubble. He was getting rather annoyed with always having to say who he was and wasn't.

"I don't really want to guess da~ I can already see who you are~" The Russian replied, blowing an 'E', 'C', 'U', and 'R' throughout his sentence. Hong Kong ducked his head under the first three letters, but didn't see the fourth when he stood back up. The 'R' bubble popped in his face and the preteen got a good taste of what the bubble was; vodka.

"Okay..." Hong Kong started wiping his mouth and face with his long sleeve, not really liking the vodka on his face. "Then who might you be then?" The Chinese preteen asked back, even though he already knew who Russia was. As he asked, a small bubble shaped as a 'B' blew out.

"Why? You didn't really tell me who you were first." Russia smile back, blowing a 'Y' out at his question.

Hong Kong groaned out loud, really irritated by everything that's been going on. "Why is everything is bloody confusing?" The Chinese preteen growled mostly to himself as he plopped down on a mushroom.

"Why?" Another 'Y' bubble was blown.

"What do you mean 'why'? It just is. Talking flowers, flying mint bunnies, German dodos, lizard boys, Gilbird-eating frogs; everything!" Hong Kong groaned again. "Also shrinking and growing foods..." The preteen added when he looked down at his lap, remembering his small form. "Sucks being like, three inches tall..."

"I'm only an inch taller than three inches..." Russia said with a threatening glare, a dark aura emitting from him as he 'kol kol kol'-ed.

Hong Kong shifted back a little as the dark aura consumed Russia. The Chinese preteen shivered a bit, wrapping himself with his arms. The dark aura was emitting a cold breeze. When the darkness vanish, so did Russia.

The Chinese preteen walked over to where the previous caterpillar was, climbing onto the mushroom. Hong Kong looked all around, seeing no trace of Russia at all.

"One more thing!" Hong Kong heard, looking up. There was Russia, flying with butterfly wings. "The right makes you grow while the left makes you shrink da~"

"Right and left of what?" Hong Kong shouted back.

"Right makes you grow and left makes you shrink da~" Russia repeated, starting to fly away.

"Of what?" Hong Kong shouted again.

"The mushroom da!" Russia shouted, now right in front of Hong Kong. Even though the Russian butterfly was smiling, his violet eyes emitted anger and so did the dark aura around him.

As soon as he appeared, Russia disappeared. Hong Kong had fallen on his bottom from Russia having been so close to him. He looked down at the mushroom, tearing part of the mushroom from each side off.

"Wait... Which side would be considered left and right?" Hong Kong asked himself, eying each piece of the mushroom. "And should I even be eating this? I– I don't care anymore." Hong Kong said, taking a bite from the mushroom in his right hand.

A moment after eating a piece of the mushroom in his right hand, Hong Kong grew six stories high; growing as high as an evergreen tree.

"Woah. Guess this was the right side." Hong Kong said to himself, looking at the ground.

"Oi! What do you think you're doing?" Hong Kong heard someone yell. This person was clearly angry with him.

The preteen looked all around him, trying to spot who was yelling a him. All Hong Kong could see was a bird flying all around him. "Get away from my property!" The bird shouted, landing on Hong Kong's nose. The Chinese nation looked cross-eyed at the bird, seeing it was Switzerland.

"That's it! I warned you!" Switzerland shouted, flying up to Hong Kong's head. That was when he realized there was a birds nest on his head. While the Swiss bird rummaged through his nest, Hong Kong looked at the mushrooms in his hands.

"The right side makes you grow," Hong Kong mumbled to himself, looking at the piece of mushroom in his right hand, "While the left makes you shrink."

"I got it!" Switzerland shouted, pulling out a bird-size gun. Sadly for him, Hong Kong already took a bite of the mushroom piece in his left hand, shrinking back to his tiny size. The Swiss bird gave a yelp as he started falling, his nest landing back in the tree and him landing in his nest.

Switzerland was even more angry and looked around at the ground for Hong Kong with his gun, but the Chinese preteen was nowhere to be seen. He was tiny enough not to be spotted.

Hong Kong looked around, seeing he was tiny again. He looked skeptically at the mushrooms in his hands, calculating how much he should ingest to return to his rightful size.

With another skeptical look, Hong Kong gave a simple lick to the mushroom in his left hand. The simple lick made him group back to his former size. The Chinese gave a satisfied nod before looking back at the mushrooms in his hand.

"Probably a good idea to keep these." Hong Kong decided, pocketing the shrooms and walking off. "Okay now, which way..." Hong Kong looked all around, noticing random sighs pointing in random direction. It didn't help much how there were many different paths leading in all directions, too.

"Kesesese~" Hong Kong abruptly turned, not seeing anything there. Hesitantly, he continued on, slowly turning in head forward.

"Kesesese~" The preteen turn another direction, pulling a small amount of Pop Pop snappers from behind his back. "Kesesese~ Kesesese~" Hong Kong's eyes moved all around the strange forest; the laughter was everywhere.

"Haaa!" He sound as he thrust the mini explosives towards a tree, his irritation showing through his thick, furrowed brows.

As the snappers made contact with the tree, it popped, causing a brief flash of light. Nothing was there.

Hong Kong watched the tree a moment longer. Whatever was there probably left because the laughter stopped. The preteen turned back forward only to be met with irritated, red eyes glaring at him.

The Chinese nation swiftly jumped back, readying himself with more Pop Pop snappers. Once he was back, Hong Kong was able to see who was there. It was Prussia. The Prussian was hanging upside down on a tree branch by his legs, arms crossed and face pouty.

Hong Kong was also able to note how punky Prussia was with a maroon and black striped sleeved shirt and ripped black jeans, not to mention all the chains, too. But what really caught his eye was the maroon colored cat ears on the albino's white hair and a striped cat tail that matched his shirt.

"Oi! What was that for? That could've left a mark!" The Prussia-cat shouted. "Of course, it could have never damaged the awesomeness that is me!" He added. Oh course; Prussia was Prussia no matter where or what form.

"Well, you were creeping on me with that laugh of yours." Hong Kong bluntly answered, hiding his snapper back away. No need to waste any more.

"Pssh." Prussia held onto the branch he was currently on, flipping his legs off and letting go to land flawlessly on his feet. Only, when he landed, the Prussian disappeared, leaving two cat paw prints. One by one, the paw prints starting moving towards Hong Kong like an invisible person walking towards him.

Once the paw prints were right in front of him, the preteen noticed it split around him; one print 'walk' around to the left of him while the other to the right. Hong Kong turned his whole body around to watch the prints continue 'walking', rejoining once passing him. After a few more steps, the paw prints seemed to had made a light leap. Slowly, Prussia started to reappear, now sitting on another tree branch, leaning on the trunk.

"That's a pretty freaky trick for a cat." Hong Kong said, shifting his weight to one leg, arms crossed.

"An awesome Cheshire cat." Prussia only answered back, giving a large, toothy grin. "So, where you heading, lil' munchkin?" Hong Kong inwardly groaned at the nickname, but proceeded to answer anyways.

"I don't know. Do you recommend anywhere?"

"Well that depends; where do you want to go?"

"It doesn't really matter–"

"Then it shouldn't really matter what I recommend."

"..."

Hong Kong stared blankly at Prussia and the Cheshire cat stared back, a corner of his mouth tilted upwards in a smile.

"Well, if you're still looking for the flying mint bunny, it went that way." Prussia said, pointing to where said mint bunny supposedly went.

"Now did it..." Hong Kong asked mostly to himself, looking at where Prussia pointed.

"Did what?" Prussia carelessly asked, putting his hands behind his head like a pillow.

"Go that way..." Hong Kong hesitantly answered in a questioning way, pointing to the direction Prussia pointed at a moment ago.

"Who went the that way?" Prussia carelessly asked again, crossing his legs and looking at the tips of his fingers with a bored expression.

"The flying mint bunny..." Hong Kong answered with an uncontrolled eye twitch.

"What bunny?" The albino asked, yet again, dangling his legs over the branch. "If I was looking for a mint bunny though, I'd ask the mad hatter. Kesesese~" Prussia added, pointing to another direction.

"I deal with enough mad people here..." Hong Kong sighed, "At home, too," He added to himself, "Gougougets mad after a meeting, Japan goes mad at anime conventions, and England's practically always mad; angry or crazy..."

"Or the may hare!" Prussia suggested, pointing to another direction with his thumb. Hong Kong shrugged, starting to walk off towards where the Prussian was pointing to. "Then again, she's pretty mad, too." He added with a 'kesesese~'.

"What is it with people and being mad here?" Hong Kong groaned. "Is there any sane people here?" Prussia shook his head, standing up from his branch.

"Nearly everyone here is mad." Prussia answered, doing a random handstand on the branch as if to prove himself. Balancing on one hand, the Prussian looked towards Hong Kong, pulled down on one of his cheeks, and stuck out his tongue at the same time tauntingly. Said preteen took a half step back, signaling his leave.

"Kesesese~Although, I'm not really mad myself," Prussia added with a sly smile, "Because I'm too awesome to be mad and, well, I'm not entirely here either." With his signature laugh, Prussia pushed off the branch a bit. As gravity pulled him down, he grabbed a hold of the branch yet again, swinging like a gymnast until he vanished, only leaving his fading laugh.

Hong Kong watched everything in silence, looking all around until the echoing laughter died down. After standing in silence a moment longer, the Chinese nation started walking on again, walking towards the mad hatter's place.

Notes:
-Privet - Hello
-Pop Pop - Chinese brand snappers

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