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Chapter 12
"I'm getting real tired of asking this today, but I will one last time. Where the bloody hell is Flora?" England asked as he walked into the room France said Flora was in, only to find the window blown open from the storm and the room deserted.
"I'm not even sure how the window was blown open…I swear it was locked," France commented equally confused.
"You don't think she would have gone outside in that snow, do you?" Prussia asked as he watched the snow come in through the opening.
"I doubt it, she hates the white stuff. I think she finds it too cold for her like a lot of other plants do," England answered as he looked outside just to be safe before closing the window.
"Then perhaps she simply left the room," France replied hopefully before beginning to scan the hallway.
"For your sake let's hope that's the case," England snorted back before helping to search the house. To their dismay, however, the three of them could not find the little sprite.
"Maybe she was kidnapped like Berg?" Prussia thought out loud as the three sat in the living room exhausted.
"Berg's gone too? Well then I guess that would explain why you ratted me out as keeping the girl," France replied only to then continue, "So then that makes three in one day…I wonder if the other ones are alright?"
"Who else was taken?" England asked, not knowing who the third was.
"Japan's little one." The other two answered.
"Sounds like this is becoming a serious problem," England sighed as he stood up once again and said that there was no other reason for him to stay there.
"It's absolutely horrible! One moment the two of us are spending some time on the beach before her bedtime and the next she's gone! I don't even know how it happened," Seychelles cried out as she met with other nations who had been given a sprite. After returning home, England had called an urgent meeting to see who still had theirs. From the numbers there, several more had gone missing since arranging the meeting, leaving the nations both stressed and perplexed.
"It was the same with Ama. I just hope that she is alright," Japan commented back. He was done with his anger, and the feeling was now replaced with a dull feeling of sorrow.
"I just don't know who would want to take them?" America asked as he cautiously looked at his and Canada's sprite for fear that she would suddenly disappear too.
"Well we already knew that China wanted Hong Kong's one, and after Berg vanished I learned that France and Prussia were plotting to take mine and England's," Switzerland answered.
"So then that's what happened to Flora?" Canada asked. He was sorry for being a part of that, but happy that an answer to it coming about.
"There has to be some kind of pattern in all of this," England instead in thought. How he saw it, now that there was this issue it was only a matter of time for them to figure out where the sprites were and get them back.
"Are we even sure that it was another nation who took them?" Hong Kong asked perplexed. He had been awoken that morning by a lightning storm, and when he went to check on his sprite the little guy was gone; leaving him confused as to if he was taken away or simply left of his own will.
"Well what else could it be?" Liechtenstein asked.
"I agree with Hong Kong, it has to be something other than a nation. I mean, if a nation was nearby when Ariel vanished wouldn't I have realized that?" Seychelles answered. Some of the others who were alone at the time of the disappearance had to admit that that made sense.
"So then what took them?" Finland asked before continuing, "Was there anything weird?"
"Before Ariel vanished it looked like it was going to storm badly and suddenly, but it rains a lot near my house so I wouldn't call that too weird," Seychelles answered.
"Wait, it was storming when your sprite vanished too?" Liechtenstein asked the other, thinking to how hers left around a storm also.
"There was also a powerful storm around the time Ama vanished. It was a bit odd based on the time, but nothing too impossible," Japan continued the thought.
"So, wait, was there some strange weather around the time each sprite vanished?" America asked confused as to what weather had to do with anything.
"It's kind of a shame if you think about it. The last time we each had a storm was when General winter left the eggs, and now weather is signaling their disappearing," New Zealand sighed.
"But last time all of the weather had to do with snow. Why all of the variety now?" Seychelles asked.
"Perhaps it has to do with the sprites in some way. I mean, with Japan's her being there might have made it too warm for the snow causing it to instead rain. For yours, Ariel might have simply made it too wet for the kind of snow to form as it did at your house last time. And so on," England mused.
"You make it sound like this is that General Winter's fault again," America commented.
"Well if you think about it, only General winter or someone else like him could control the weather in such a way to cause the distraction to take the sprites. It's either that, or less likely, the sprites took away themselves," England defended.
"Right...so how exactly are we going to ask a ghost-like personification of a blizzard if he knows where a bunch of kids are? Also keep in mind that he only talks to Russia," Finland asked.
The others paused for a moment, only for England to finally look back to Finland and say, "Well then, as Russia's neighbor and the one most likely here to get a straight answer, why don't you ask Russia to ask General Winter for us?"
"But why me? I'm not missing Pyry so I really don't see why I need to ask for everyone," Finland protested as his sprite looked slightly excited to meet someone else who could make snow.
"Come on, it's only going to be a matter of time before yours goes missing too at this rate! And it's not like it's going to kill you," America answered.
"You never know when it concerns Russia," Finland answered warily, but agreed after a bit more convincing. With this, the meeting ended and the nations headed to their respective homes.
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