"You see, this? This is nothing."

Alice weakly sat up, and so did England, and to their surprise, a friend of their's was standing before them starting right at Italy.

"Mother...!?" Alice exclaimed, her eyes widened.

"Uh-oh. Mommy's home. I'm in wicked trouble now~" Italy snickered, wiping the blood from his nose and starting to stand up.

"You know have no idea." Jill Usagi stated. "You have to stop what you're doing."

"Oh, sorry. Can't do that. Not finished yet." Italy replied, getting to his feet.

"Neither am I. Stay down." Jill said. She waved one finger and Italy was back on the floor in a matter of seconds.

"How'd you do that?" England asked.

"That's borrowed power." Italy stated. "No way is it gonna be strong enough-"

"I'm here to help you." Jill told him.

"Thanks, but I can kill a couple of douche bags by myself." Italy said in a cocky tone. "But hey, if you'd like to watch~ That's what you Watchers are good at, right? Watching? Butting in on things that don't concern you."

"You concern me, Italia." Jill said, still staying rather calm. "Stay on this path and you'll wind up dead."

"Italy, listen to her." Shanna said, walk out from behind a corner, keeping the same calmness as Jill. "I can tell that Alice doesn't want to fight you anymore."

"I don't want to fight her, either." Italy said, a smirk on his face. I wanna fight you two." The Italian began to get to his feet yet again.

"Stay down!" Jill went to cast the spell again.

"No." Italy said, blocking it just by waving his hand. "Remember that little spat we had before you left? When you were under the delusion that you were still relevant here? You called me a rank, arrogant, amateur. Well buckle up, you two." Everyone's eyes widened as they watched Italy's golden brown eyes turn scarlet black, including the white parts. "'Cause I've turned pro."

"Aspera, come forth-" Italy began.

"Vincire!" Jill shouted, spray a green gel from her hand. She watched as the gel tied itself around Italy's arms, pinning them to his sides.

"WHAT?! No! Get it off! Solvo! Libero-" Italy was cut off then his head flew back and he began to float above the ground.

Alice slowly walked towards her mother, her eyes locked on her brother. "What did you do?"

"Contained him and his powers within a binding field." Jill explained. "It puts him in kind of a stasis for the time-"

Jill was cut off when Alice suddenly clung to her, burying her face into her shoulder. Jill gave a slight smile as she put an arm around her daughter. "You grew your hair out."

"Y-Yeah~" was all that Alice could get to come out. Words couldn't describe how happy seeing her mother had made her.

Jill broke the embrace and walked over to Italy. "I'm very sorry about Germany."

"This... won't hold me... forever..." Italy mumbled.

"I came as soon as I heard..." Jill explained to her daughter.

"Romano...?" Alice asked.

"Haha... Romano haven't a clue!" Jill chuckled. "Call it mother's intuition but... I sense a dark power that was fueled by grief."

"Italy." Alice stated.

"I so hoped that it wasn't him." Jill sighed. "And then a Seer in the Coven told me about Germany. That's when the Coven imbued me with their powers."

"And sent you here to bring Italy down?" Alice asked.

Jill sat beside her daughter. "Little Rabbit... What's happened here?" Little Rabbit. Alice hadn't heard that nickname since she was a toddler.

"God... Where do I start? ...Italy obviously broke his promise to never use magic again." Alice began. "Mom, everything's just been so... Michael died in front of Miku at the altar, and Miku turned into her V3 form... Mina's a total klepto. Money has been tight that Kaito's barely home anymore. ...And Romano's been sleeping with Spain."

Jill stared at her daughter. Alice gave a confused look once Jill burst into a laughing fit.

"I'm sorry!" Jill apologized, barely capable of holding back her laughter. By this point, Alice couldn't help but start laughing, too.

Shanna was busy cleaning up the mess that Italy had made of her castle.

"Shanna." Italy's voice rang in her head.

The startled fairy looked over. "I-Italy."

"I need you, Shanna." Italy continued. "I need you to do something for me."

"I know what you're trying to do." Shanna stated. "I hate to burst your bubble, but that mind control mojo doesn't work on Earth Fairies, why don't you just-"

"Stop talking and listen. You need to free me."

"No... No, I can't." Shanna stated, starting to walk away.

"You don't wanna call out to them. You want to break the binding spell."

"...I don't know how." Shanna replied.

"I do. Do you want me to tell you?"

Once Alice and her mother regained their composure and stopped laughing, Jill clearned her throat. "Can you ever forgive me?"

"For what?" Alice wondered.

"I should have never left..." Jill told her.

"No... No, you were right to leave." Alice said. "We're all just stupid."

"I know you're all stupid." Jill stated. "I should have never abandoned you."

"No. Mom, you were right about everything. It was time for me to act like an adult." Alice announced.

"Sometimes the most adult thing you can do is ask for help when you need it." Jill told her.

"...Now you tell me?" Alice chuckled. "...I guess I wasn't ready before. It took a long time for that feeling to go away."

Jill gave her daughter a puzzled look. What was she talking about?

"The feeling that I wasn't really here." Alice continued. "It was like... when I crawled my way out of that grave, it was like I left something behind... A part of me. I just... I don't understand why I'm back."

"You have a calling." Jill said.

"But it was my time, Mom. Mina would've taken my place. So why?" Alice wondered.

Silence.

"Right..." Alice said. "So what about Italy? What's going to happen?"

"W-Well, the Coven is trying to work on a way to remove his abilty to use magic without... without killing him. And should he survive he... there's no guarantee that he'll be the same as he was. Alice, he killed not only a human being, but a personification of a country. How will he live with himself?" Jill explained.

"I wouldn't worry about that." Italy stated, throwing open the door. "Italy doesn't live here anymore."

"Vincirie!" Jill tried casting the spell again.

"Solutom." Italy said, blocking the spell as Shanna ran and stood beside Alice and her mother. "Fool me once, you magic brats. Shame on you." Italy sent knife flying at the three girls, only to have Shanna call upon huge vines to block them.

"Where are we going?" Mina asked.

"I don't know." Spain stated.

"You don't know?!" Romano retorted.

"I don't know, okay?! Its bad enough that I've been completely useless... standing around like a monkey while you get shot... Germany's dead and Ita's... Ita's losing-" Spain was cut short.

"We should go back an help." Mina stated.

"No." Romano scolded.

"You know, if France were here, he'd go back and fight." Mina retorted.

"Sure, if he wasn't to busy trying to rape your mother." Romano announced.

Mina stopped dead in her tracks. "What?!"

"Forget it." Romano said.

"I don't believe you." Mina said.

"Fine." Romano replied.

"He wouldn't do that." Mina stated.

"Is this blind spot a common thing in women since your mother was born?!" Romano snapped. "The only good thing France ever did was leave town!"

In a matter of minutes, Shanna's entire castle was a mess. Things were on fire, broken, or even shattered. Jill and Shanna struggled to stay on their feet while Alice lay unconscious on the floor. Italy walked over and stood a few feet away from Jill and Shanna, bruises and cuts on his face.

"That all you got, Jeeves?" he asked. "'Cause I could stand to go another ten rounds. Whereas... you can barely stand."

"You're powers... may be undeniably great... but we can still hurt you if we have to." Jill stated breathlessly.

"Boy, you just don't get it, do you? Nothing can hurt me." Italy said. "This? This is nothing." He waves his hand in front of his face, and in a matter of seconds the cuts, scrapes, and bruises were completely healed. "It's all nothing."

"I see... If you lose someone you love, and the other people in your life who care about you-" Shanna was cut short.

"Becomes meaningless." Italy stated.

"I wonder what Germany would say about that." Shanna spoke up.

"You can ask him yourself." Italy said, firing dark energy at the two girls.

Alice had barely awoken to see that part of the ceiling was about to collapse. Instinctively, she got to her feet and shoved her mother and Shanna out of the way before it fell.

"You're always saving everyone. It's kinda pesky." Italy retorted. He bent down and reached his hand into flames, pulling out a hugs ball of fire. "Probably even think you're buying escape time for Belarus and the other one. Well, I got a little secret for you. I can kill them from anywhere I want with this. I'll find them, I'll bury them, along with anyone else helping those dead men walking."

"Don't." Alice said.

"Unless somebody... somehow... gets there in time to save them. Ha. Oh well." Italy said, letting the fireball fly into the hair in search for America and Belarus. "See what I did there~?"

"Go...!" Jill told her daughter. At that, Alice ran from the castle to find her friends.

"Good, I thought she'd never leave." Italy mumbled. Now I finally have you two all to myself." He bent down and placed one hand on Jill's cheek, the other on Shanna's. "You two are so naive. Waltzing in here with borrowed magics and determination... So you could tell me what? Magic's bad. Behave. Be a good boy. Well I don't think either of you two are in the position to be telling me that. Do you?" At that, he sent the two girls flying against a wall and pinned them there was magic.

"I used to think you had all the answers, Mama. Ha! I had so much to learn from you." Italy retorted.

"Italy..." Jill began, but couldn't finished.

"You were jealous. You still are. Just couldn't bear that I was going to live forever, since I'm a personification of a country." Italy continued. "That's why you ran away, Mama."

"Incruso!" Jill said, blasting her son back a few feet.

Italy gasped. "That... was RUDE. Now I forgot what I was saying."

"Perhaps... you are not as strong... as you think you are... You're expending way too much of your mystical abilities that you gained from England... to maintain your powers... at this rate you'll burn out... and up..." Shanna said weakly.

"Blah blah blah." Italy remarked.

"Italy you have to stop..." Jill begged.

"What I need..." Italy said, rushing over. Yet again, he placed one hand on Jill's cheek, the other on Shanna's. "...is alittle pick-me-up." At that, his hands began to glow as he sucked every ounce of magic from the two girls. Once he sucked them dry, he let them free and stumbled backwards until he fell over.

"Woah... haha, wow! Ahhah... Whew! Head rush!" Italy panted. "Who's your supplier, Mama? This is... wow! This is... This is incredible!"

Jill and Shanna lay on the floor, regaining their breath. They were too weak to move, but nowhere near death.

"Woah... I'm... I'm so juiced... Shanna, it's- it's like no mortal person has ever had this much power...!" Italy exclaimed. "It's like I-I'm connected to... to everything! I can feel. It feel like... I can feel... everyone...!" A pained expression went across the Italian's face. "Oh... Ohh, Oh god... All the emotion...! All the pain...! No... it's... its' too much! Oh, jeez, its just too much!"

"Italy..." Shanna weakly called out. "It doesn't have to be like that.

"You... You can stop it..." Jill agreed weakly.

"Y-Yeah... Yeah, I can... I... I have to stop this..." Italy stated.

"Italy..." Jill called out.

"Oh you poor bastards...! You're suffering has to end!" Italy cried, vanishing into this air.

"No...!" Shanna weakly cried.