Woo! As always I'm really, really happy because of you guys! Even if it rained and I got locked out of my house just now. My school books are sort of cactus. I'm really sorry I haven't updated much, I was wrestling with my friend and one of my hands got crushed.

For once, the afternoon was warm and sunny. School had finished for the day and most of the kids (excluding Ivan, who was happily watering some sunflowers nearby) were sitting in a big circle, chatting about their lives.

"So Francis, Why are you always out so late?" Asked Feliciano

"Well, few months ago, I met this lovely lady in her twenties, I've been trying to win her over, and yesterday we ended up fu-" Lovino covered his little brother's ears and started to yell at Francis for almost polluting Feliciano's mind. Francis went quiet and Antonio smiled at Arthur and Ralph (or rather in their general direction, they just happened to be sitting opposite the Spaniard). For once Gilbert was being quiet, Arthur found this strange and glanced around.

"Where's Gilbert?" he speculated aloud.

"An excellent question, lapin! But sadly, one I do not know the answer to" said Francis

"You should go look for him. He is your 'best friend' isn't he?" said Antonio. Arthur had forgotten about that little detail because he had no reason to remember it. Gilbert was never going to be an amazing best friend in the first place.

"Oh! Oh! Luddy should go too!" added Feliciano not quite understanding that no one wanted to go get Gilbert for Francis and Antonio.

Ludwig looked at Feliciano. The German looked ready to punch the small Italian in the throat.

"Why should I? He'll come back eventually, it's not like he'll die if he's not around here" said Ludwig

"I don't want to go find him either" said Arthur losing intrest in the conversation fast having suddenly found the grass extremely interesting.

"I really think you should" insisted Antonio

"Yes lapin, you really should" Francis said immediately after Antonio.

After that Arthur thought he heard Francis mumble "While you're gone we'll make plans for sexy times with the ladies" Arthur just ignored them and continued to stare into space.

"Please go?"

"Please?"

"You should go now"

"Yes, you should"

"SHUT UP!" shouted Arthur, immediately silencing all chatter from anyone in the circle. There was silence and he could think for a little bit.

Arthur sighed. He was getting tired of these two. When he was bigger and stronger than they were he'd make them fetch Gilbert. He sighed again. Maybe someday.

"Fine, but this is only to get you two to stop talking" said Arthur, giving in and glaring at the two teens.

"I'll go too…" said Ludwig

"Oh, you don't have to" said Arthur as he got up.

"My brother will do something bad if I'm not supervising" Ludwig deadpanned. The two boys began to walk slowly away from the group.

"What sort of bad thing did you have in mind?" inquired Arthur.

Ludwig paused "I'm not sure. I just know he'll do something bad" they were nearing the back of the dormitory when they heard some 'pii' sounds along with a voice that was speaking loudly in German. Ludwig went bright red and facepalmed, supposedly after hearing some of what was being said.

"Do you think we found him?" said Arthur with a grin at Ludwig's reaction to whatever Gilbert had just said.

"Definitely" replied Ludwig as they neared his brother

What they found Gilbert doing was not so much surprising as it was funny. Gilbert was surrounded by adult hens and little yellow chicks, some were sitting on him, others just milled around in the background. But that's not the best part. It would seem that Gilbert had fitted every last chick and chicken with a small black hat.

Arthur could barely keep himself from laughing "Wh-what the hell!? All the chickens have hats!" Arthur was now laughing his head off, having fallen to the ground still laughing. When Gilbert finally noticed the two, he blushed, Ludwig just grimaced.

"Gilbert. Why do these chickens have hats?" Ludwig said calmly, gesturing to the chickens.

Gilbert just cackled, having ridded himself of the initial embarrassment of being found whispering sweet nothings to a bunch of chickens with hats. "Because they're awesome!" he yelled.

Arthur had gotten up and had nearly stopped giggling "Well, that solves the mystery of the missing German. Come on Gilbert, we're going back" he said.

Ludwig just scooped his brother off the ground and threw him over his shoulder "It's faster this way." Ludwig said.

"No, no! Wait! I have one last thing to do!" exclaimed Gilbert. Ludwig set him down and Gilbert picked up one of the small, yellow chicks and held it to his ear. Very slowly the chick began to cheep. But the sound the bird made wasn't right; as soon as the chick opened its beak a very manly sounding "Pii!" was heard. Gilbert just nodded and said to Arthur "Gilbird wants to know who the red haired dude is"

"What" Arthur was confused

"The Scottish guy" said Gilbert

"… Why?" Arthur was still very confused

"Just because"

Arthur put his hand out for the chick to hop onto. When he was at eye level with the small yellow bird he said "That's an odd question for someone of your species to ask. But to answer you, Gilbird, I think he and I are related. He's my second cousin once removed or something. We've been friends for a while." the bird chirped again and Arthur gave it back to Gilbert

"He said that clears up everything"

Ludwig coughed to get their attention "let's go, I don't want to have to spend more time than necessary over here"

"Don't you like my sexy chicks Luddy?" said Gilbert. Ludwig just groaned and walked ahead out of earshot.

"Hey Gilbert, why did the chickens have hats?" asked Arthur

"To annoy Ludwig of course! He hates silly, impractical things the most!" cackled Gilbert

"You're a wanker, you know."

"In your opinion yes, but I'm still awesome"

When they were finally nearing where everyone had sat, the boys noticed that everyone was gone.

"Well that was a waste of time" Before Arthur could complain more, he was tackled from behind and dragged away from the two Germans by an unknown person. He tried to get out of this person's grasp but it only resulted in futile struggling. when they arrived inside the dorm and into a room Arthur hadn't really noticed before, he was let go and the person spoke up.

"Hello, comrade" said Ivan

Well, this explains why Gilbert and Ludwig didn't try to save him.

I'm sorry everyone, I'm going to have to leave this here. I'm also sorry if this chapter sucked, school has leeched me of my creativity *cries*.