It was about an hour before they broke camp. Of course the stars were still out and there was no sign of the emerging sun, despite the fact that, according to their watches, it was twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

Japan was the first to notice the flurry of activity by the campfire. He shook Prussia, who was dozing off, awake. Prussia nodded silently and poked France awake. Russia hadn't gone to sleep yet, neither had Germany. All that was left was England, who was sleeping soundly. France leaned down next to his ear and whispered, "Rose Tyler is having an affair with Professor Moriarty."

England punched France in the face as if on reflex, "I will not allow it!"

France rubbed his jaw, "Ah! Why would you do that Anglettere?!"

England rubbed the sleep from his eyes, "Why wouldn't I do that?"

Germany shushed them with a gesture, and pointed out toward the campfire, "Watch."

England, now alert, nodded and crept up behind a boulder to get a better view. Russia did the same, "Why isn't America struggling?"

"Weren't you listening before? Zis is to find his brother." France responded.

Russia shook his head a bit, "Well, he was obviously struggling before. He could at least pretend. His current behavior might make them suspicious."

"I think America knows what he's doing. This can't be the first time that he was in such a situation." Japan stated.

Prussia pointed, "There's that bitch...Skiri wasn't it?"

Germany leaned forward a bit, "What is she doing?"

England followed Germany's gaze, "She's...doing a spell I think."

Russia cocked his head, "What will it do?"

England began to speak, "It seems to be a-"

He was interrupted by a rumbling sound. It was getting steadily louder, and the pebbles on the ground started to jump around. France got everyone's attention, "Brace yourself!"

Needless to say, everyone took his advice. A giant hole erupted near about halfway to the Anasazi camp. There was a strange green light emitting from it. The nations could see...things crawling out of it. Japan looked on disbelievingly, "Those look like..."

"...giant lizards." Prussia finished.

"Interesting. I've never seen a purple lizard before." Russia mused.

Germany squinted his eyes, "What are those orange markings on it? Are they glowing?"

England threw up his hands in disbelief, "You've got to be kidding me! Giant reptiles? Even better, magical giant reptiles? Oh, this is just rich."

France looked past the lizards and toward the camp, "Wait! Where did zey go?"

The Anasazi were no longer there and the campfire had been put out. In fact, there was no evident sign that there even was a campfire to begin with.

Prussia whistled, "They move fast. How will we follow them now?"

Japan drew his sword, "I think that we should take care of those lizards first. They are coming this way."

The rest of the nations drew their respective weapons. Germany frowned, "How did they notice us?"

England was flipping the pages in his spell book, "Well, we weren't being the quietest bunch in the world. It's a wonder that the Anasazi didn't notice us."

Russia began to advance on the lizards with his pipe at the ready, "I was also wondering about that."

France was in a defensive position, "Something to discuss at another time ah- Prussia watch yourself!"

Prussia brought his sword up just in time to meet a lizard who was pouncing on him. "These things have sharp talons by the way!" He called out.

Germany was wrestling with one who had a hold of his pant leg. "No-Nein, bad lizard-and sharp teeth!" he yelled.

Japan sliced one clean in half, "I have yet to see how they are magical, besides their great size." he said nonchalantly.

England, who was standing near Japan, yelped as the ground next to him burst into flames, "Ah! Well I think they breath fire." He waved his wand at the offending lizard and it exploded into sparkly dust.

Russia downed a lizard by breaking it's ribs with his pipe. He then jammed the end of his pipe into it's head, and waited until it stopped twitching. He pulled his pipe out of the corpse, "Doesn't that make them dragons?"

France expertly threw his dagger into the forehead of one, and ran forward to retrieve it, "I'd rather think of them as overgrown lizards," he dodged a fireball, "It makes them sound easier to kill."

Prussia loped the head off of an especially big one, "Amen to that!"

Japan came up behind one that was going for France, "Germany-san, do you ever run out of bullets?" he killed it with the tip of his katana.

Germany looked down at his gun and shrugged, "Not really." He shot a few in turn, "My aim could be better though..." A fire ball caught his jacket, "Gah!" He shed his jacket and poured a few rounds into another lizard.

England sent a gaseous ball of purple energy toward a group of lizards. It exploded directly over them and and they fell over dead after breathing in the poisonous cloud. England turned toward another lizard, "Come at me if you dare!" The lizard seemed to think about it, then it turned tail and fled.

France slit a lizard's throat, and did a pirouette that ended with another one stabbed in the heart, "I could do this all day!" he laughed.

Russia couldn't get a hit onto any more of the lizards. They were all running away from him. He ended up just standing there, "Kolkolkol...this is boring, and they are all cowards."

Prussia had jumped onto the back of a lizard. He was now riding it around like a horse as it tried to buck him off. As they ran around, he laughed like a maniac and killed lizard's left and right. He somehow managed to slow his steed down, "They are retreating back to their hole! Everyone catch one so that we don't have to walk!"

Germany got in front of a lizard, "That is actually a good idea." He latched onto it as it tried to run past him.

Japan followed Germany's lead, and jumped onto another one. He got it under control quickly and smiled, "It is like riding a horse!"

Russia stopped one by stepping on it's tail. It whimpered as he plopped onto it's back, "My new pet will listen to me, da?"

France came up behind one and jumped onto it, "Mine must be a woman, for it cannot shake me off!" he joyfully cried.

England waved his wand, and a lizard stopped dead in it's tracks as if frozen, "I'm not all that surprised seeing as how you're such a lecherous leech." he remarked as he walked up to his newly acquired steed and mounted it.

"Does everyone have a lizard?" Prussia called out. When everyone responded in affirmative, he laughed and gestured grandly, "Then forward we go! On to Camelot!"

I wasn't going to do the riding lizards thing at first, but in the end I couldn't resist.

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