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Chapter 13

"Say, Russia, this may sound kind of weird but how much do you pay attention to General Winter's where-abouts?" Finland asked as he walked into Russia's house. Like the others requested, Finland begrudgingly went to ask Russia about General Winter. Russia was happy to have the guest, and was delighted in how little Pyry wandered around the bits of the rooms he could reach. However, he was not too sure about this random question of Finland's.

"I let him roam wherever he wishes, after all, you should now know how hard it can be to control someone who controls the weather," Russia answered.

"Yes, I thought so too. It's just…I really need to talk with him," Finland answered evasively.

"Really? And why do you need to talk with him?" Russia asked curious.

"Well, it's just that a lot of the other little sprites have gone missing and their caretakers think that General winter may have had something to do with it," Finland answered.

"I thought he gave you guys your sprites? Why would he want to take them back?" Russia asked confused.

"I don't know. All I know is that they keep disappearing and General Winter is the only thing that we could think of which could take them," Finland answered, only to frown when he noticed that Russia was not pleased with the idea.

"I do not like how you are thinking so badly of my friend," Russia bluntly remarked.

"Well maybe if you let me talk with him we could clear this up," Finland began.

"And how do you know that it was General Winter? For all we know your little Pyry could have something to do with it also."

"Wait a moment, Pyry is a little kid. How is he supposed to kidnap five other sprites?" Finland demanded defensively.

"I still don't like the idea of you blaming my friend. If you must see him than fine, but do not expect me to help you get to him," Russia decided finitely before shooing Finland and the sprite out of his house.

"Well, I guess that didn't work very well," Finland commented out loud as he stared back at the closed door. He then turned towards his car and continued as he walked, "Guess there's nothing much we can do right now right?"

Finland stared confused at his sprite, finding the little boy glaring towards a stand of trees. Before Finland could ask what was wrong, a strong gust of snow-filled wind came at them; knocking Finland over and causing him to drop the sprite. He then looked up to see that General winter was coming near them.

Frantically, he reached for Pyry and held him close as General Winter reached out for the child. In retaliation, Finland tried to get up and struggle away as Pyry caused more snow to fall; trying to reach the relative safety of inside Russia's house. General winter could see through the snow blind, however, and quickly caught them as Finland frantically banged on the door and request Russia to open up.

Finland did not stop this until he felt General winter try to freeze him until he would drop the sprite, but Finland refused to loosen his grip as the sprite di all it could to stop the elder from taking him. At last Winter saw no other choice.

Russia had heard Finland's pleas from him study, where he had gone to after locking the door behind Finland, and upon hearing them became curious. It was not like anyone to frantically try to enter his house, so he could only assume that something had happened. Following this curiosity, he walked to the front door and opened it, only to find two surprises for him. The first was that the door seemed to be almost frozen shut; which was very bizarre since the weatherman said it would not get that cold that day. The second, was that no one was at the door with no footprint showing that anyone was ever there.

"Have you heard anything from Finland yet?" Seychelles asked Iceland as she visited with him. She was still concerned about her sprite Ariel, and figure that since Finland and Iceland hung out more than most of the other people she knew maybe he could tell her.

"If this is about the whole sprite-disappearing-thing than no. But the other Nordics are starting to worry about Finland too," Iceland answered.

"What do you mean?"

"Well…a couple days ago Finland just vanished. We remembered hearing that he was going to talk to Russia about that General Winter guy again, and when we asked Russia he admitted to meeting with Finland, but that Finland then left and he hadn't seen him since. No one has seen or heard from him," Iceland answered.

"Really? This is just getting weirder…I know! Did you guys check Russia's house? Maybe he was lying or something," Seychelles asked, wanting to help find the missing nation.

"Between the four of us plus Russia we had to have searched every inch of his house with no sign of Finland. All we found was a hat he gave Pyry covered in over a foot of snow, so we're starting to wonder if whoever has been taking the sprites took him too," Iceland answered.

"…This just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Seychelles commented. She then asked if they had told any of the other nations about this. Upon hearing a 'no' she offered to bring it up with the others and was given permission. With this, she left to begin brainstorming ideas for what could be happening.

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