Okay, this chapter gave me fits. While there haven't been any reviews for locations, I've decided on a main route. They'll start in the UK, take a boat to St. Petersberg, Russia, go through eastren Europe (east of France, anyway), take a boat to Portugal from Sicily, go through Spain, then to Paris, France before finally the missing nations. What do you think of that route?
Here is the list of confirmed state OCs:
Austin- Texas
Caroline- South Carolina
Charles- North Carolina
Cheyenne- Wyoming
Ginny- West Virginia
Helene- Montana
Louisa- Louisiana
Mary- Maryland
Penny- Pennsylvania
Talli- Florida
And without father ado, here is Chapter Five! Enjoy!
-Capitals-
With the connection established and the message to the states delivered, the capitals had to quickly figure out where to go from there. They were all gathered around D.C.'s laptop which had a world map on a SpeedPaint document.
"Ok, so they first took the Italy brothers," D.C. mentioned, outlining the country of Italy in red.
"But I don't think they would have chosen Italy as their base of operations, it's too crowded with tourists and people would notice," Rome mentioned. D.C. nodded in acceptence and instead highlighted the country in orange. Already America was highlighted yellow-orange, Canada was orange, France was red-orange, The British Isles were yellow-green, Germany was yellow and Russia was light red. In fact, the only places not colored colors that could indecate danger was China, Japan, Egpyt, Greenland and Greece. D.C. thought it was a sad state of affairs when there were so few places that they could be sure held no enemies.
"Okay, how about we avoid Asia all together?" Viktoria asked. Admitting that it would take too much time to search all of Asia, D.C. nodded and cut Asia from the map they were using. They also ended up cutting Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the Americas from the map, leaving them with only Europe to explore and try to find their parent nations. D.C. printed off the map and looked over it, then nodded in approval. If they can't find their parent nations in Europe, they would probably go to a different continate.
"Okay, since we're already here, why don't we check the British Isles before going to the mainland?" D.C. suggested. The other capitals shared a look with each other before nodded in agreement.
"Great! I can show you guys around while we look!" Lizzie said in excitment. The others sighed and resigned themselves to a long journey. None of the other capitals noticed D.C., Viktoria and Octavia sharing a significant look with each other before grinning. It was time to play matchmaker.
-States-
Daniel sighed as the phone disconnected before glaring at the choas around him. Ally and Ben had decided to get into another arguement, Austin was hanging out with Cheyene, Denny, Phepe, Marco and Helene. Aurora, Daniel knew, was outside taking care of her sled dogs and Nani was reading a novel in her room.
Being in charge of his younger siblings while Dad and D.C. are gone is something the First State is used to, but he never particularly liked it. Penny helped where she could, but their siblings safety ultimently falls to him. She and Gertude may do the cleaning and cooking, but he was the one who keeps the other states safe.
Speaking of which, "Penny," Daniel called, knowing that she was busy doing laundry (fourty-eight teens + a eleven-year-old + a nine-year-old= a whole lot of laundry), "you think you could get everyone in the living room for a State Emergency Meeting?"
"Why?" Penny asked, sticking her head out the laundry room door.
"D.C. called. The spell apparently worked and Dad has a message," Daniel replied.
Three mintutes later, all fifty states were in Penny's living room, which had become the unofficial meeting place of State Meetings for the time being. In that time, Daniel had devised a plan to insure that all the states understood the message, because there was no garenty that they'd listen to him.
"If I may have your attention for a minute?" Daniel called over the noise (mainly Ally and Ben yelling at each other again over baseball). The other states went quiet, waiting for the oldest state to say what he wanted to say. "Allison," he called to the personifaction of New York, "Think you could get D.C. on speaker phone for us?"
New York nodded her head and, while glaring at Massachusetts, called their sister. Daniel nearly smirked, knowing that no one would question his authority once the meeting was over. He just had to hope that they could survive each other until Dad and the other missing nations are found.
-Capitals-
They were just about to leave so that Lizzie could show them around her city when D.C.'s phone went off, palying "Welcome to New York". D.C. cursed in five different languages before answering her cell.
"This had better be important New York, or so help me I am going to strangle you!" she yelled with the phone on speaker.
"Do you really have that much lack of faith in me little sister?" came her older brother's voice through the phone.
"Delaware, what are you doing with New York's phone?"
"Easy, I don't know where mine is and I wanted to figure how many languages you curse in this time."
"Five," Marie responed. D.C. glared at her cousin and traveling companions who were all snickering before turning her attention back to her phone.
"So, why, pray tell, did you feel the need to call me in a different time zone with Ally's phone?"
"You know as well as I do that the others need to hear what Dad said from you or they'll never listen. And fourteen of us are older than you!" Daniel grumbled the last part and D.C. rolled her eyes. It was a sore spot for the oldest fourteen that their younger siblings listen to D.C. more than them. So, she repeated the orders that their father had given her, then told her older brother to not call her unless it was a emergency before hanging up. After that, they went on their way.
Okay, how was it?
I will take down the challenge of the OCs and just tell you who these are and why.
Dixie- Alabama, the state's nickname is "The Heart of Dixie" (I'm surprised no one figured her out, considering her ringtone was "Sweet Home Alabama").
Daniel- Delaware, random.
Angel- California, the city of Los Angeles.
Denny- Colorado, the capital city of Denver.
Aurora- Alaska, the aurora borealis or "northern lights".
Nani- Hawaii, part way random part way "Lilo and Stitch".
Jessie- New Jersey, state name.
Conner- Connecticut, state name.
Allison "Ally"- New York, refers to the capital and the alleys in New York City.
Benjamin "Ben"- Massachusetts, random.
I also need help, so please submit OCs, plot ideas, anything in either a review or a PM. If you want to see them go to a certain city within the story, please tell me because I am open to anywhere. Just make sure to leave a review or PM to tell me where you want them to go, why you wnat them to go there and what you want them to do while there, along with any other inforamtion about the city.
I'm also thinking about creating a series of one-shots to tell more about the capitals and their history, so if you want me to do that, please tell me what events you want to see and I will try to make it happen.
And now, this chapter's Character Profile:
Washington D.C.- Delia Carla "D.C." Jones- female- 17- lean, athletic build, long dirty-blonde hair commonly held in a high ponytail by a red hair tie, sky-blue eyes, red-framed glasses- More calm than her father, D.C. prefers to watch conflicts from a distance (mainly because of War of 1812). She loves to read (a secret pastime that she shares with her father) and telling her younger siblings stories before bedtime. She is a natural-born leader, coming from the fact that, while their father is off at war or meetings (which can be a war in itself), she is in charge of her siblings- D.C. is the fifteenth found of Alfred's children; Although the city of Washington D.C. fought in the Civil War, D.C. herself remained by her father's side while her siblings fought, trying to comfort him as the war raged; She did inherit her father's amazing strength; D.C. likes to listen rock, country and pop music; Like her father and siblings, she can speak multiple languages. She sometimes slips into another language when angered, though you never know which language she will use (not even D.C. will); D.C. owns a male bald eagle who is the chick of her father's eagle, Liberty. She calls him Spirit, because she knows that courage is a type of spirit and that is what he has. That, and the US is sometimes called the "Spirit of Liberty", so it's mainly a joke within her family; She can be a bit of a romantic, but not in the way that France and Paris are. Her skills lay more in being able to recognize a pairing and if they would work out alright. She does tend to like to play matchmaker as a somewhat pass time- Any (mainly Gun though)
Nos vemos en el próximo capítulo!
~pokedawnheart