Author's Note: Now is a story that introduces the Templar faction. There's really not much to be said besides the fact that the two non-Hetalia characters are actually from The Secret World (one's in an advertisement and the other serves as a Templar liason).
Enjoy!
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The Secret Hetalia – A Murder of Crows
A Hetalia / The Secret World story
Starring…
Alice – Nyo England
Arthur – England
Richard Sonnac – Liason for the Templars
Rose White – Agent for the Templars
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London, England
Alice yawned as she was driving her car through the misty back-roads of London. She left work too late and she was completely alone on the cobbled streets. As she stared blankly at a sign, she yawned again, thinking to herself that it wasn't a really wise idea to stay up late working on an assignment due weeks from its intended turn-in.
As she pulled to the side, she locked the doors to her vehicle and turned off the lights. As she began to close her eyes, she noticed ravens begin to gather around her, she thought that such an event was curious before she fell asleep.
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The murder of crows gathered to form a Reverent – a monstrous beast of lore. Silently, the creature looked at the innocent face of his victim before slipping into the passenger seat of the car. Then, after a slight tap that woke up the girl, it pounced upon her with its dreaded body.
The Reverent slashed at the girl as she screamed and took a pistol from her glove compartment. The shots stung, but that didn't deter the primal urges of the beast. However, the shots began to wear at its body. So, the Reverent dissipated into its raven form. In the chaos of the situation, the birds tore through the car, smashing through windows and slashing at the girl's flesh before they flew into the night sky.
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Later that night…
Arthur was hurrying to the hospital after he heard the news.
"I should've stayed with her," he thought to himself as he pushed open the door to the recovery room to look at his wife.
After entering into the mess of doctors and patients, he found an idle surgeon.
"H-How is she?" he asked with a stutter.
The surgeon shook his head.
"We're lucky we got to her in time," he answered.
"We stopped the bleeding and stitched as much as we can."
"However, her mental state is very fragile at this moment."
"How so?" Arthur questioned.
The surgeon shook his head again.
"It's strange," he answered with a confused look on his face.
"She kept stuttering about crows."
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In the hospital room…
Alice opened her eyes and breathed hard as she looked around the room in fright. She thought she heard a squawk and she flinched.
Then, in the window, she saw a raven peering with its black eyes.
"Get away from me," she growled as she got a pair of scissors and threw it at the window.
To her shock and horror, the bird didn't leave. It just continued to stare at her – like it was mocking her for her weakness.
Alice laughed nervously as she picked up another tool and chucked it at the window again. However, as the tool bounced to the floor, the raven continued to stare at her.
"Get away from me," she whimpered over and over as she kept throwing things at the window, though the bird continued to look down at her.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!"
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The next morning…
Richard Sonnac – a representative of a secret group called the Templars – was sitting before Arthur in the country's office.
"So," he asked the British man.
"You want us to investigate this manner about your wife and crows?"
Arthur nodded his head.
Richard sighed as he put his hands on the table.
"Mr. Kirkland," he dryly told Arthur.
"We are not mercenaries."
"We are only here to fight the darkness."
"We are not bound to things like money or aspirations."
"Only the underhanded Illuminati cares for such trivial manners."
Arthur stared into the black man's eyes.
"I believe this is a supernatural manner," he said with a tired tone.
"I beg of you for this job."
"I cannot sleep at the thought that my wife's torturer still roams free in the night."
At these words, Richard nodded his head and stood up from his seat.
"We'll send our best agent," Richard responded as the two men shook hands.
"The creature will be found by tonight."
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That night…
Rose White – an experienced Templar agent - sighed as she walked around the forest nearby the hospital.
"Another Reverent," she thought to herself as she adjusted the white beanie on her head.
"When do I ever get a break?"
As she continued to scout around the hospital grounds, she heard the mass fluttering of wings and saw a stream of ravens fly to a certain location.
"Bingo," she thought as she loaded her shotgun and moved quickly to the site.
"The faster I get this done, the faster I can go to sleep…"
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As Rose headed to the epicenter of crows, she saw the dreaded Reverent form into its ghastly form.
Wasting no time, she fired her shotgun a couple of times, preventing the Reverent from reaching its most potent form. Seeing it was now at a disadvantage, the Reverent directed crows to attack its assailant, hoping that the flock would give it enough time to fully form.
However, Rose rolled to one side and threw a flash bomb, which scattered the crows in all directions.
Growling in anger, the Reverent turned its attention to Rose and rushed her, scratching the girl with one of its blades. Holding her breath to prevent her from absorbing the creature's toxins, the Templar agent jumped back and emptied her rounds on the beast.
Shrieking for its life, the Reverent tried to dissipate to escape the agent's wrath. However, as the blasts ripped through its structure, the Reverent fell to the ground, defeated and dead.
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Wiping her brow, Rose picked up her radio, which fell on the ground during the skirmish, and told her companions that the job was complete.
As more Templar agents arrived on the scene to retrieve the supernatural corpse and clean the area for any unnatural phenomena, Rose yawned and left the scene in a Templar car.
"Now I can finally get some sleep," she muttered to herself as she closed her eyes and dreamed pleasant dreams.
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