Hong Kong looked all around him, still contemplating how he got into this mess. The mahjong tiles had lead him into some court room. The preteen was just glad he wasn't dragged there. And there he stood at a podium in front of a jury, crowd of mahjong tiles, and his two caretakers.
"Eh-hem!" the flying mint bunny coughed, clearing his throat and gaining everyone's attention. "His majesty: the Emperor of Hearts, the members of the jury, royal subjects," the mint bunny said aloud, soon getting a tap on the shoulder. It was England. "and the King... We are all here to witness the trial of this child for–"
"We all know why we are here aru." Yao groaned, interrupting the mint bunny while rubbing his temples. "Just get on with it."
"Oh course, your majesty!" the mint bunny quickly said, afraid of China's wrath. "Now, your sentencing."
" 'Sentencing'? But that's not a fair trial." Hong Kong fought back. "What about a verdict or something?"
"Aiyah, this is just a waste of time ahen..." China groaned again. "Can't I just sentence him to something?"
"But then it wouldn't be a proper trial–" The Chinese preteen stopped mid sentence after a death glare was sent to him by his older brother.
"Oh, come now, Love. How about a couple witnesses?" England asked with a nervous smile, taking one of China's hands. "Hmm?" The Chinese emperor turned to him for a mere second before turning away and cursing silently to himself in his native tongue.
"Fine aru."
"Okay! Please send in the first witness!" England proudly ordered. The mahjong tiles scrambled about before one, a character tile, came in with Taiwan sitting on its flat surfaced head. The Taiwanese hare was contentedly sipping tea with a cheerful smile. The character tile walked over to the podium where Hong Kong stood and slid Taiwan onto the flat surface on the stand.
"Oh hell..." Hong Kong said silently to himself when seeing his sister again.
"What do you know about this event?" the English king asked the mei hare.
"Nothing at all~" she answered with a toothy smile.
"Nothing at all aru?"
"Nothing at all!" Taiwan repeated, louder than before but still with a large smile. She had just then jumped out of her seat and popped up in front of China, using her hands to hold her up on the higher podium.
When the mei hare popped up out of nowhere, China jumped back a bit from the shock. "Aiyah! Get away! Next witness aru!"
"Awww~" Taiwan pouted, getting carried away, "But you're so pretty~" China sent another death glare, but Taiwan only giggled, waving goodbye to the Emperor of Hearts as she was forcefully carried away.
After Taiwan was taken aside, Hong Kong's eyes followed the next mahjong character tile bringing in the next 'witness'. The preteen noticed the sleeping figure curled in a fetal position. It was Japan.
The tile slid the sleeping Japanese dormouse onto the stand like before, the sleeping figure stirring a bit. Slowly, Japan's eyes started to flutter open.
"Do you have anything to say aru?" China asked, looking down at the dormouse.
"Twinkle twinkle little bat..." Japan drowsily said, zoning out into sleep again. Everyone looked to each other with confusion a second later.
"S-should we write that down?" an animal in the jury asked.
"Write down whatever ahen." China groaned again. This was honestly just a waste of time to him and Hong Kong knew it, too. The preteen knew something was going to happen to him sooner or later (at the moment, it was later), so he just had to figure out how to get away from this madhouse.
"I-I think we are done with this one..." England finally said when there was no sign of Japan waking up. He gave a nervous smile as the dormouse was carried away.
"Awww," Japan managed to say, half awake at the moment. "Demo Yao-San wa kawaii desu nee."The room went silent as Japan hopped off the character tile and steadily made his way towards the emperor, still drowsy.
With a simple leap, he jumped all the way to the top of the royal's podium, sitting on his knees in front of China. "Kawaii, kawaii." Japan drowsily chanted, playing with China's long hair.
"G-get off! S-stop! Stop ahen!" China attempted to swat away Japan's hands, but the Japanese dormouse kept playing with his hair. "Aiyah! Stop it ahen!" Hong Kong had to hold back a small smile as he watched; Japan is always Japan wherever he is.
"What are you doing, lazy tiles! Take him away ahen!" China roared, gaining all the mahjong tiles' attention. The tiles finally rushed to their emperor's needs, but struggled greatly with trying to take away Japan. Hong Kong really has a tricky time trying to hold back a smile let alone laughter.
Somehow, the mahjong tiles managed to get the dormouse away and he was fast asleep again. China's hair was now in low pigtails as he groaned for the umpteenth time that trail. When the Chinese emperor heard snickering, his head shot towards where it was coming from; England.
Quickly, England composed himself, making his snickers just seem like coughs. It didn't fool China at all. The Emperor of Hearts elbowed him in the gut as he removed the hair ties, the king now hunched over in pain.
"You did look pretty adorable."
"I blame you for all of this ahen."
Well, there were the parental figures Hong Kong remembered; England teasing China and China hurting England for it.
"Are we done yet?" Hong Kong shouted up to the emperor and king. The two looked down at him before China turned back to England.
"Yes, Arthur, are we?" China glared. England then turned to the flying mint bunny.
"How many 'witnesses' left?" he whispered.
"Just one, your majesty." it whispered back, soon loudening it again to shout, "Bring in the mad hatter." Hong Kong and China shared matching groans when hearing there was more.
Korea was brought in, sipping tea like Taiwan moments ago, and was slid onto the podium like the others.
"Where were you when everything happened?" England asked the mad Korean.
"At a tea party!" he answered with a toothy smile. "It's my unbirthday da ze!"
"Your majesty, isn't it your unbirthday, too?" the mint bunny asked.
"What?"
"It is da ze?" Korea gasped.
"It is!" Taiwan shouted from her spot at the side of the room.
"In that case-!" they both began.
"Oh hell no..." Hong Kong groaned, head falling onto the podium. He thought he escaped /this/ madness earlier. "Why...?"
"A very marry unbirthday!" everyone in the room sang.
"To me aru?"
"To you da ze!"
"A very marry unbirthday!" Korea removed his large top hat, revealing a colorful cake underneath.
"For me?" China was beginning to get all cheerful again.
"For you!" Taiwan hopped and cheered. Off to the side, Hong Kong was banging his head on the podium. Being whacked to death by a wok seemed like a better option at the moment.
"Now blow the candle out da ze, and make your wish come true!" With that, China did as told and blew out the candles. Hong Kong watched as the cake exploded like before, only a present was left behind.
"A merry merry unbirthday to you!" the song finished, much to the preteen's delight. The emperor began to opened up the gift, revealing a stuffed kitty dressed as a panda.
"Ko oy!" China squealed, squishing the plush into a tight hug. Hong Kong sighed, assuming everything was over, until he heard another familiar laugh.
"Kesesese~" Hong Kong instantly perked up, looking all around to see where Prussia was. The preteen's eyes widened a bit when seeing a chibi sized Prussia-Cheshire Cat dressed as a panda in his brother's arms.
"Don't you dare do a thing." Hong Kong said to him, his voice louder than usual.
"Excuse me?" China looked down at Hong Kong with a raised brow. It looked as if the preteen was talking to him.
"It's that Cheshire Cat dressed as a panda in your arms!" Hong Kong shouted, soon realizing how he lost his usual composure.
"Cat! Panda!" Everyone turned to Japan. The dormouse was fast asleep until he heard the two most terrifying words. With the words said, Prussia jumped out of China's arms, still in chibi form and dressed as a panda.
"Kiku!" Korea and Taiwan shout, running towards their crazed brother, but Japan as already running about with terror. The two started chasing the dormouse, whom was running all over the place; over chairs, trampling mahjong tiles, on top of podiums, all over the place. It didn't help how the Prussia-cat was chasing him as well. Hong Kong watched everything unroll with a straight face.
"Someone get the wasabi!" Taiwan shouted.
"Wasabi! Wasabi!" England shouted to his subject.
The flying mint bunny flew around the room, locating some wasabi. Grabbing the wasabi container, it handed it to England. It was only in his hands for a second before Hong Kong watched his siblings crash into him.
The King of Hearts fell back and the wasabi was tossed upward. At first Hong Kong was amused, but then he saw where the container was landing. It landed right on top of China's head.
At the time, Korea and Taiwan had restrained Japan, but now they were gaping speechlessly at their ruler and so was everyone else. With a clever move, Korea quickly took this chance to scoop a bit of the wasabi on China's head without his knowledge and put it on Japan's nose, calming the dormouse down. Only, another uproar was beginning.
"Someone is going to die slowly and painfully for this ahen..." China's head was down at the moment with his hair over his eyes, so he didn't see who the culprit was.
England then noticed the spoon that was with the wasabi container in his hands, shoving it into the mint bunny's paws. The mint bunny flinched in fear of the emperor and passed the spoon to Korea, which went to Taiwan, then finally Hong Kong.
Unluckily for the preteen, that was when China looked up, taking the wasabi container off this head. "You!" Noticing his brother's gaze, Hong Kong pocketed the spoon, but was too late. When he placed the spoon in his pocket, his hand rubbed again something. The mushrooms...
With a swift move, China jumped off his high podium and onto Hong Kong's. At that moment, the preteen stuffed both mushrooms in his mouth. China grabbed at his neck collar a second later like before. "You are going to regret crossing me–" As China was threatening Hong Kong, he was cut off by the growing preteen.
"Ai!" The emperor jumped back. Hong Kong kept on growing until his head bumped the ceiling.
"Ow!" The bump hurt a bit. "Should've done this earlier." the Chinese preteen said to himself, looking down at everyone on the ground. The mahjong tiles were poking his legs with dadaos. "Pssh, you were never that scary." Hong Kong said, kicking them aside. As he did so, he noticed this brother looking back up him. China didn't move, but it didn't seem like he was frightened. A bit uneasy, but not frightened.
Noticing how Hong Kong was looking at China and how the emperor wasn't moving, England advanced. "Yao!" he shouted, jumping off the podium and towards the two Chinese. "Stay back." he growled, stepping between Hong Kong and China, drawing a saber towards the giant preteen.
"You are no longer allowed here. Leave aru." China commanded, attempting to step forward, but England blocked his way with his spare arm.
"Pssh, yeah right." Hong Kong glared down at the two. "You're not the boss of me. You're nothing like Gougou. Not at all an emperor worth following, but a cruel," Hong Kong pointed at his 'brother' with an accusing finger, not noticing how he was shrinking, "hot tempered, mad t–," Now he noticed how he was back to his regular height, "tyrant... Bloody hell." the preteen added the last part silently to himself.
China and England looked down at young Hong Kong, the emperor stepping forward with a deadly fake cheerful smile. "What was that aru?" he asked kindly, bending down to Hong Kong's height.
"Kesesese~He said you weren't an emperor worth following, but a cruel, hot tempered, mad tyrant!" the chibi Prussia-Cheshire Cat repeated, leaning back on China's leg.
"Off to the woks ahen!" China shouted. "And that's just going to be the beginning!"
Hong Kong swore under his breath before taking off running.
"Don't let him escape ahen!" he heard the Emperor of Hearts shout. He was actually scared for his life.
A long wall of mahjong tiles was in front of the retreating preteen. Hong Kong calculated the height in his head and reasoned out that he could probably jump over them. Speeding up his pace, the Chinese preteen was able to leap and flip over the wall, his hands on the top of a tile. Once back on the ground, Hong Kong continued running.
Hong Kong ran into a maze and so did the tiles. Quickly, the tiles filed in and blocked all the paths Hong Kong could take. With another idea, the agile preteen jumped on top of the tiles' head, running on them instead of the ground.
Leaping onto one tile at a time, Hong Kong was able to find an exit. Jumping towards it, he continued running, until something poked at his back. When the preteen looked behind him to see if it was one of the tiles, he saw a familiar toucan.
"Forward, backward, inward, outward, here we go again, no one ever loses and no one can ever win." he heard, looking up at where it was from. It was the dodo-Germany! And he was in the middle of running in circles with everyone else, even the Emperor and King of Hearts and mahjong tiles. "Backward, forward, outward, inward, bottom to the top, never a beginning there can never be a stop."
Hong Kong ran out of the continuous loop, hopping over rocks on the ground. He could hear China shouting behind him. As he looked down to watch for the rocks, he noticed the green grass transition to pink. The rocks were no longer there, but were replaced with teacups.
"Where are you going?" Taiwan shouted. She and Korea appeared suddenly, each sibling grabbing into one if Hong Kong's arms.
"You can't leave a tea party without drinking a single cup of tea da ze!" The two began to pull him back into a chair, but Hong Kong fought back, pulling forward.
"Sod off! I have to keep going!" the preteen shouted, still pulling himself forward.
"Okay (da ze)!" the two complied, letting go of Hong Kong without warning. Because it was so sudden, the preteen had no time to catch himself, falling off the table and into water.
Swimming to the surface, Hong Kong gasped for air. He swam to shore and crawled out, leaning on a giant mushroom to catch his breath. When he looked up, there was Russia with wings and his faucet pipe.
"Eh?"
"Kol kol kol kol kol." Russia kol-ed, blowing an endless amount of vodka bubbles in the Chinese nation's face. Hong Kong turned away and started running again, running into a dark forest.
Refusing to stop or look back, Hong Kong continued on, only to stop when something, or someone, tripped him. Very out of breath, the Chinese preteen turned around, seeing a dark shadow of a figure. Still on the ground, he heard an unfamiliar laugh coming from it. It wasn't Prussia's for sure.
"Seems like you had fun in my world." The figure walked towards him, stepping into a more lit part of where they were. When seeing who the figure was, Hong Kong began to crawl back. "Why so intimidated?" the figure teased. It was himself; an older version of himself by about four years.
The older Hong Kong was dressed in similar clothing as China's and England's; a cross between English and Chinese royal clothing. Crimson eyes lit up his face along with a devilish smirk.
"Awww, am I scaring you?" the older Hong Kong teased to younger, revealing his hooked blade and tilting the younger's chin up with the curved part. It was probably what tripped him earlier. "Don't be scared; I was not only raised by the Emperor of Hearts, but also the King of Hearts. That means I have somewhat if a soul."
"...raised by the Emperor and King? Then you're–"
"Yep, Prince of Hearts; future ruler of this mad wonderland." the Prince of Hearts interrupted Hong Kong with a mischievous toothy grin. Taking his weapon away from the preteen's neck, the prince kneeled down to be eye to eye with the younger Chinese nation. "Now, did you have fun in my little mad wonderland?"
Hong Kong glared at the older version of himself, standing his ground and standing up. The prince began chucking. "I like you, kid. You have spunk." he said, standing. "Better run," he added, hearing a ruckus in the distance, "they'll find you."
Hong Kong's eyes widen when hearing the noises, leaving the Prince of Hearts and running. Feeling the cool metal on his hand, the prince softly smiled to himself. "Being raised in a mad wonderland with mad friends was fun and I love them all very much, but it was never good for my sanity." He turned to where Hong Kong ran off to, eyes turning sadist. "And even though I was raised by Arthur, I did say I was raised by Yao... It took a lot not to gut everyone here..." With that, he took off towards the preteen.
Hong Kong continued running, hearing the prince from before over and over again. He'd hear him say, "Better run, little guy." or "Boy, isn't this fun?" Or just laughter. Before he had ran off, he heard what the prince said, knowing full well he'll kill him. When the preteen looked back, he didn't see the prince, but everyone else still chasing after him. When he turned back forward, there was the prince.
"Leave me alone!" Hong Kong shouted, ducking and sliding under the prince's blade.
"Awww, missed." the prince pouted, watching Hong Kong run.
After dodging the prince's blade, Hong Kong continued to run and stumbled onto a door. He reached for the doorknob and yanked on it, desperate to leave.
"Ow!" the doorknob yelled. Austria. "I'm still locked, you little brat."
"No. No! You have to let me through!" Hong Kong shouted, banging and kicking the door.
"Stop! Stop! That hurts!" Austria complained.
"Let me out and I'll stop!"
"But you are out. See." Austria opened his eyehole mouth an Hong Kong looked through, seeing himself asleep on the other side with Chen on his stomach.
"Asleep?" he whispered to himself. He turned back around to see the prince's sadist eyes and smile on him. Behind the mad prince was the rest of the people. "Wake up, Hong Kong! Wake up!" the nation shouted, banging on the door again. Everyone was nearing him.
"Wake up, you bloody nit! Wake up! Hong Kong! Hēunggóng! Hong! Leon! Hong Wang! Leon Kirkland!" He continued shouting each and all of his names.
"Next time, stay in your world." Hong Kong heard the Prince of Hearts behind him, followed by his sadist laugh.
"Hong Kong!"
Notes:
-Demo Yao-San wa kawaii desu nee - But Yao-San is cute! (Japanese)
-Kawaii - Cute (Japanese)
-Ko oy - Cute (Cantonese; very possible is incorrect)
-Dadao - Type of Chinese sword
-Hook blade - Type of Chinese sword
-Hēunggóng - Hong Kong (Cantonese)
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