Chapter 6

Chernobyl, it was once an area that was an important nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Until April 26th when it became one of the world's worst nuclear disasters, after an explosion in the power plant itself. This caused the leakage of tons of radioactive contamination. Many lost their lives trying to contain the contamination and many others lost their lives from begin exposed to the amounts of nuclear contamination that they were exposed to, but it remains today as a ghost town because of its high levels of radiation. People are allowed to visit but only for a few hours, otherwise the exposure with get to them and they will get radiation poisoning. So still the radiation sits over the land, sinking deeper over the years, maybe it maybe the area effect was not so big when it was in the Soviet Union, but what will it mean now that uninhabitable area is in the smaller country of Ukraine?

Ukraine's POV

I dreamed I was back home, surrounded by the falling snow, usually I got so cold when I went out and walked around in the snow like this, no matter how many jackets I wore, the cold seemed to get with me, but when I was with Matvey he would be a perfect gentleman. He would offer me his jacket, give me his scarf or just wrap his arms around me and keep me warm, but this snow was different. I saw myself wearing a white dress that seemed to whip around me in the wind, the snow crunching beneath my bare feet. I didn't feel cold at all, the air around me felt warm, but the snow did not seem affected by the warmth at all, and it still continued to fall, like small little white feathers. The area around me was dark yet there was an odd unexplainable light around the area where I stood. The only thing that could be seen for miles was a bare tree that stood across from.

"W-where am I?" I wondered out loud. I heard a familiar laugh echo in my head, the same voice that always did.

"Welcome to your mind, beautiful isn't it?" the voice said.

"W-What," I asked confused. No, this couldn't be my mind, while the snow certainly was nice there just seemed to be a sense of death and darkness around here. It sent a chill down my spine. There was no way this could be my mind! "That can't be true, this nothing like me!"

"Well your mind used to be a nice place, a lot prettier than this, until the madness took over," the voice explained.

"Madness," I asked still confused.

"Yes, you've had this madness in you for a while; it's been sinking in, building up for years, now it has finally been released and your mind is in ruins because of it. Why else do you think you were killing people? Normal people don't kill people. People who are little messed up in the head kill people. It doesn't even matter what the circumstances are, if you didn't have even a bit of madness flowing through you then you would never honestly consider taking another life. However, what most people don't know is that almost everyone is born with madness in them, for some it is just easier to activate it brings it out. And you know what feeds madness; anger. You however bottled everything up, you never got angry, and you just begin to cry and apologize, you never let yourself get angry, so that anger bottled up and fed that madness till it was enough to just burst, which is when you started killing," the voice explained.

I was silent. No, that wasn't true, I wasn't mad, I wasn't crazy! I wasn't sure what caused all the killings but…I wasn't crazy!

The voice laughed again. "Deny it all you want my dear, but most people would agree, if you talk to the voices you hear in your head, you're probably crazy."

I narrowed my eyes, pouted slightly and crossed my arms. "I only hear one voice in my head," I said.

"Ha, and that is supposed to make it better? Face it, you're crazy, you're mad, completely bonkers, you might as well just enjoy it," the voice said with another laugh.

"Enjoy it?" I asked.

"You know, kill people, it's a lot of more fun when you're crazy, then you can really enjoy it without going "oh shit what am I doing" while you're actually doing it," the voice answered

"But how can I enjoy killing people…it's…its wrong," I argued. Who was I to just take someone's life? I wasn't fit to decide if someone should live or die, how could I have possibly have taken 2 lives?

"Listen, you're going to find out how to enjoy it on your own, I'm just telling you that you shouldn't fight the madness, because when you're fighting something inside your own mind, it will always win. The madness will get in your head and use all of your weakness and use it against you, so rather than hurting yourself and attempting to fight against it, you should just give into the madness when it calls and enjoy the ride. I assure you, if you try to stay sane…the most important people in your life will get hurt," The voice said. "Just remember that." With that the light that was around me went to black, as if someone had flicked it off, and suddenly I felt as if something was rushing to my head, then suddenly my body flew up as I realized I was in a bed, I sat up quickly.

H-had all of that simply been a dream? I looked around realizing where I was. My old room, from when I lived with Brother and Systra and was in the Soviet Union, that must have been it. I looked down at my clothed, not a single drop of blood stained my old white night-gown. So maybe it all was just a dream…. I stood up getting out of bed, my head feeling a little dizzy. I looked around and saw my clothes on the ground; I picked them up and saw they were completely stained with blood. My body froze. N-no, this had to just be another dream, this was impossible! I didn't kill him! I j-just, I had to get away, I had to figure out a logical explanation for all of this, I had to get away before I hurt either one of my younger siblings, I just had to get away! I looked around and saw a branch from a big strong tree that I remembered would very often scare me awake by scratching against the window. That would be the perfect way to escape….

Russia's POV

I sat in my chair as I took everything. Katsuyasha did this, she killed Cuba. Just the thought of her killing or even hurting someone seemed impossible. She has always been so innocent and pure. She had always been more of the sane one out of all three if us. She was the one that kept both me and Belarus in line. She took care of us, she was our older sister, but she acted more as if we were her children. She was like our adopted mother. She had always been so nice to us; there is no way she could have done this. Just the thought that she did something wrong caused her to break down into tears, there is no way she would be okay with doing this, there had to be some sort of misunderstanding here…. I continued to this as Belarus came down the stairs, her face looked just as pale and emotionless as mine.

"I have finished cleans and changing Katsuyasha, she is sleeping in her bed now," she said. "So sister is like now," she said with a small smile. "If all three of us were to team up…we could become an unstoppable force. I was wrong about her; she's not as weak as I thought she was."

I glared at her. "How can you be happy about this? Our sister just killed an old friend of ours!" I shouted.

"Oh don't act like you care! You were always annoyed by Cuba always get coming over and getting involved with your life. Plus ever since she started hanging out with Canada and America you've been distancing yourself from her, you don't really care!" she argued as she scooted closer to me, she put her hand over mine, it seemed more like she was trying to convince me more that she was the only thing important in my life rather than trying to convince me that I didn't really care about Ukraine.

"Hey, you hang out with America too, and I didn't distance myself from you. I haven't distanced myself from her, she seems to have a nice life with Canada, and I was just letting her live her life. You, however, still live with me, it's not like you have much of a life that I don't already see," I told her and she pouted angrily.

"But c'mon, if we all teamed up, we could be great, powerful and feared, with just the three, we wouldn't even need those stupid Baltic States," she said still trying to convince me. I rolled my eyes. As if I need anyone by my side to be feared or powerful.

"I'm already powerful and dangerous on my own, and honestly I don't feel like teaming up again, I'm fine on my own and I don't see why you are trying so hard to turn Katsuyasha into some weapon, you keep trying to push her and you might end up her next victim," I said. All the color drained from her face and she pouted and looked hurt.

"But you would never let her do anything like that to me, because you love me!" Belarus shouted. I rolled my eyes, more of this in love with me crap. I decided to ignore it.

"Hey, you have tried to kill Ukraine for years and I have done nothing, why would I do anything to try to stop her from doing the same thing?" I asked. She glared at me for rejecting her and stood up and walked away. That girl seriously had some problems. When would she get that I didn't like her the way that she liked me, I mean she was my sister for hell's sake. I relaxed in my chair and continued to try to wrap my head around this whole situation; I took another swing of my vodka. I sat there for a few minutes just think of the tree of us together, as children, when I heard Belarus run down the stairs and shout to me.

"Katsuyasha isn't in her room!" My sister shouted.

"What?" I asked confused and shocked.

"I just went up and went to check on her and she wasn't there, and the window was wide open. She's gone," she said freaked out.

I sat deeper in my chair. What the fuck were we going to do now?