Engel and Roderich were on their way through Sarajevo with Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria, and his wife.
The capital personification smiled brightly. However, they were stopped on the way there. "What's going on?" Engel asked.
He looked at Roderich.
"Papa?"
"Someone's here," Roderich said.
The Viennese male leaned out the side to pull back in when he was shot at.
Almost immediately, the reddish-brown haired male leaned on his father.
"They have guns," Engel told.
Roderich placed his arms around Engel and held him close.
"What's going to happen papa?" Engel asked.
"I don't know Engel," Roderich said.
The door to the vehicle opened and there stood a Serbian.
Roderich, Engel, and Franz looked at the Serbian.
A gun was raised and pointed at Franz.
Four sets of eyes widen.
Before any of the Austrians knew it, the trigger was pulled and Franz soon slumped back, blood pouring from where he'd been shot.
Not long after, his wife was shot as well.
"Franz!" Engel cried out.
Next thing the Austrian capital knew, he was shot in the side, causing him to scream.
His father's eyes widened at that and he glared at the Serbian.
Leaving Engel with the dead bodies, Roderich removed the gun from the Serbian and aimed it at him.
"How dare you hurt my son?" Roderich said.
Engel pressed a hand to his bullet wound that was still bleeding profusely.
He looked in the direction his father went, breathing heavily.
"Come on papa," Engel said. He didn't want his father to die, but he also didn't want to die himself.
Moments later, Roderich came back and helped Engel get out of the vehicle.
The capital threw an arm around his father's shoulders while the other hand was pressed against his wound.
Roderich had an arm around Engel and a hand on the arm around his shoulders.
It was then that the two Austrians made their way to Vienna on foot.
On the way there, Engel seemed to stop moving and his head slumped forward.
Seeing this, Roderich became worried.
He wasn't really that strong, so he couldn't really lift Engel and carry him like he used to.
The Prussian female known as Alana made her way to Vienna, her brother Gilbert at her side.
They had business with the Austrian personifications.
What they hadn't expected was to see Roderich at the side of the road, Engel leaning against him.
"Österrich," Gilbert called out.
Almost immediately, Roderich looked at the Prussians with a desperate expression on his face.
Both Alana and Gilbert saw this.
"Was ist los?" Alana asked.
"Engel needs to be taken to the hospital. He fainted from blood loss," Roderich said.
"I'm not strong enough to lift him." Both Gilbert and Alana's eyes widen.
The Prussian male went and picked up Engel bridal style.
"Let's go."
Roderich got up and led the way, Gilbert and Alana trailing behind him.
War had been declared and other countries started getting pulled into it.
Swede Emma and Dane Annebeth look at each other.
"It would seem war has broken out," Annebeth said.
"Let's just hope we don't get pulled into it," Emma said.
Both Nordic capitals nod.
Their fathers were keeping guard just in case.
Soon enough, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was pulled into the war.
"Are you sure you don't want to join the war?" The Englishman known as Arthur asked.
"Yes," Irishman Dillon said.
"Trina and I have ot'er plans anyway. Don't want t'em to be ruined by t'is war."
The auburn haired Irish capital stood by her father.
A sigh escaped Arthur.
"Fine, just don't get into trouble."
With that, he went to join Scotsmen Allistor and Blair.
Howell and Aaliyah stayed back to make sure everything would be alright.
Aamir looked at Soraya when he found out war had started.
"Do you think we'll be dragged into it?" He asked.
The Afghani female shook her head.
"No, because we're not allies of any of them."
That made Aamir smile.
"Good to know."
Lisa Bonnefoy had cut her hair short and hidden the fact that she's a female just so she could fight in the war.
She looked at her older brother, who in turn looked back at her.
"Are you ready for this?" He asked.
The Parisian nodded.
"Oui."
Francis nodded and both charged at the opposing troops, their own following behind.
Havryil Chernenko had donned the Ukrainian military uniform.
His uncle, Ivan, wanted him to join in on the war.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Iryna asked when her son was just about out the door.
"Do you want the Triple Entente to take over?" Havryil asked.
Iryna sighed.
"Nyet," she said.
It was then that the capital looked at his mother.
"I'll be fine mama. I know how to fight."
A nod from Iryna before she went and hugged Havryil, who hugged back.
"Make sure you come back in one piece," she said.
"I will mama."
With that, Havryil left for war.
Maskim Arlofsky was also requested to join he war.
He was a bit reluctant at first, but agreed to it when it persisted.
"Should I really do this?" The Belarusian male asked.
"Only if you find it necessary," Natalia said.
Blue eyes of Maskim looked at the Belarusian female.
"I don't know..."
Natalia went to Maskim and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Everything is going to be fine. Nothing bad is going to happen."
Nodding, Maskim hugged Natalia before he left.
Kadri looked at Eduard when he said that a war had started.
"Really?" She asked.
Eduard nodded.
"Luckily we won't be part of it," he said.
The Estonian female nodded and was silent.
That caused Eduard to look at her.
"Is something wrong Kari?" He asked.
"Hm? Oh, no. I was just thinking is all," she said.
"About what?"
Kadri shrugged.
"Everything."
Bao-Yu blinked when Yao and Hai said they were to be heading into war.
Hai's twin Ai was standing next to the Chinese capital.
"No one else but the two of us are doing this," Yao said.
"Is it such a good idea?" Bao-Yu asked.
"It's about what's the best for the people," Hai said. Yao nodded.
"He has a point."
At that moment, Bao-Yu hugged Yao as Ai hugged Hai.
"Just promise you'll come back unharmed," Ai said.
"No promises there," Hai and Yao say.
-1-year time skip-
Blair stood back-to-back with the Parisian female.
"Oh, so they brought the nerd to the battlefield," Lisa said as both capitals let loose on opposing troops.
"Be quiet ye. Am only doing this because A donnae want te Triple Entente taking over," Blair said.
"Not to mention, big brother has been captured," Lisa said.
The Scottish male sighed.
"He was captured but yer here fighting?"
"I managed to escape."
Maskim, Havryil, and their cousin Aleksander managed to find each other.
A bit away is a red-haired Russian that looks like Aleksander.
His name is Aleksey.
"I see you brought him along," Havryil said and indicated Aleksey.
"He wanted to come, so why not?" Aleksander asked.
Havryil shrugged before he was shot in the lower back, causing him to scream.
"Havryil!" Both Russian and Belarusian males cry out.
What they didn't know was that the Ukrainian would be paralyzed from the waist down because of that.
Alana Beilschmidt was one of the snipers for the Germanic members of the Triple Entente and she was damn good at it also.
Her hair is down instead of its usual position atop her head.
Currently, the Prussian female is in search of her next target.
When he came into range, boom!
And down goes the opposing soldier.
A smile crossed her face at the sight of that.
"Got you."
Bao-Yu and her aunt, Ai, are rallying in their home country to collect money and food for the troops in the war.
"If you have enough money to support your family, then you have enough to support the troops in Europe," Ai was saying.
"I hope you're ok baba," Bao-Yu was saying to herself.
Aaliyah looked at Howell.
"Big brother? Will they be ok out there?"
"They better be," Howell said.
"If not, we better hope we can make it better."
The Welsh capital sure hoped that Arthur, Blair, and Allistor would be alright.
Howell placed his hands on her shoulders.
That made her look at him.
"They've been through tough situations before. They will pull through."
A slight smile crossed Aaliyah's face and she nodded.
"Yeah, ok."
Trina sighed.
She, her father, and their people had been thinking of rebelling while Arthur and them were on the mainland fighting.
Well, there was the fact that Howell and Aaliyah had stayed behind.
-Another year goes by-
Sure, Havryil had been shot and paralyzed, but that didn't stop him.
His position had changed to where he is now a sniper.
The Ukrainian male shot enemy after enemy while either Aleksander or Maskim would change his bandages after a while.
"How's it going Havryil?" Maskim asked.
"Absolutely great," Havryil said.
Engel sighed and looked out the window of the building he's in.
His father wasn't fighting, but he sure as hell is.
Currently, the Austrian male is hiding behind a wall.
Whenever someone would come from the other side, he would shoot them.
"I hope I'm making you proud papa," he said to himself.
He still has the wound in his side from two years before.
There would also be times where he would stab opposing soldiers repeatedly.
Trina looked at her father.
"Are you ready?" Dillon asked and looked at his daughter.
She nodded and said, "Yes daidí."
The Irish male nodded and the duo followed the pack of humans they were with.
This was the time they would be attempting to gain freedom.
The outcome of this is not known to the Irish pack.
The Welsh female was walking through the city when she saw people running away.
That confused her.
Until she saw the Irish.
"Oh no!" She exclaimed and turned to run away.
Aaliyah and Howell had been staying in London for the duration of the war.
"Big brother!"
Both Dillon and Trina screeched when the Irish capital was set on fire.
They weren't expecting that.
Emma was watching what was going on via magic she had learned from a certain Norwegian.
Annebeth was right there with her, watching as well.
"Oh dear," Annebeth said.
"I kind of want to be a medic..."
Emma thought aloud.
"Let's do it!"
The Danish and Swedish capitals found themselves running around helping the wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
They did whatever they could to stay out of the range of the gunfire.
Lisa and Blair stayed close.
Currently, the duo was trying to get the country of France back from foreign control.
It seemed to be working so far.
Nothing could go wrong now.
-a year later-
William and Alfred knew about the war that was going on and stayed out of it.
They wouldn't join unless they were provoked.
That all changed when they got a hold of a message to Mexico from Germany saying that if they help out, the Germans will help get back the territory they once had before.
Oh, you can bet Alfred is pissed.
William wasn't really that happy either.
"We're joining the war," Alfred said.
The capital nods.
"Yes father."
Aaliyah sighed and looked at Trina and Dillon.
The Irish female still has the burn on her back from the Easter Rebellion.
"Sorry, but this is what you get for trying to rebel," said the Welsh capital.
Trina didn't look at her aunt.
Dillon looked and sighed.
He went to his daughter and hugged her.
"Come on, baby girl. Ya have ta say somet'ing."
A sigh escaped Trina and she hugged her father.
"I don't know daidí..."
Alana was still sniping for her side.
If anything, she wouldn't let anything happen to her brothers or Engel nearby.
"Das ist für dich Bruder," she said as she shot yet another enemy soldier.
All of a sudden, she couldn't exactly see things correctly out of the eye she's using to snipe with.
Not to mention, she could feel liquid falling down her face and she felt a pain.
Curious, she put her gun down, touched her cheek, and pulled her hand back to see blood on her hand.
Her mouth opened when she saw that.
Aleksander looked in the direction of the German soldiers when he heard this loud, ear piercing scream from one of the soldiers.
"What was that?" He asked.
"My latest target," Havryil told.
"Got rid of a certain Prussian's vision in her sniping eye through her scope."
That made Aleksander look at his cousins as he hid from a barrage of bullets.
"You mean to say you shot Alana's right eye?" He asked the Ukrainian.
"Hell yeah," Havryil said.
"You do realize papa married her older brother years ago, right?" Asked the Russian.
At that, Havryil moved the gun away from his face as he realized what he had just done.
"Oh... Fuck."
Lisa made a sound as she felt her head spinning.
She had lost a lot of blood and was starting to feel faint.
Currently, she wasn't fighting as she just stood there, feeling dizzy and like she was going to faint.
Instead, she was being protected by a circle of British soldiers.
The gun in her hands fell to the ground and she soon joined it on the ground.
Heck, she didn't even notice a figure pick her up and carry her to a place of safety, soldiers following close for protection.
Blair was currently hiding behind a destroyed wall, often poking out from behind it to shoot at opposing soldiers.
So far, the Scotsman seemed to be faring quite well and had sustained no injuries.
Although, he did lose his glasses somewhere and lost sight of the Parisian female.
He hoped she would be alright until he got to her again.
If he got to her again.
Annebeth sighed as she heard the wounded soldiers as best she could, but they just kept coming in.
At least she has her friend and cousin Emma helping her out with this.
"Don't worry, everything will be alright!" Emma told one soldier as she gave him a bullet to bite on.
The Swede had to amputate his leg at the knee.
-final year time skip-
All the capitals and nations were tired of fighting and just wanted it to end.
Even the two Nordic medics wanted the fighting to end.
When the time came, the nations all met up, capitals at their sides. At Alfred's side is William.
Roderich again didn't want to be involved, so Engel went by himself.
Gilbert stood next to his brother Ludwig and his sister Alana, who has an eyepatch over her right eye.
Even Engel was on their side.
Ivan has three capitals at his side.
His son Aleksander, older nephew Havryil, who is in a wheelchair, and younger nephew Maskim.
Francis stood there with Lisa at his side.
Both were bandaged and healing. Arthur stood by Allistor and Blair's side.
Emma and Annebeth stood in the middle of it all.
"What have you guys come to?" Annebeth asked Alfred and all them.
The American simply put a piece of paper on the table and slid it to the Germanic's side.
Engel picked up the paper and read it, Ludwig reading it over his shoulder.
"What?" The German nation asked.
"That's nonsense!"
"You gotta do what you gotta do, right?" William asked.
Ludwig sighed and signed the paper, as did the other Germanics.
