Chapter 2
America woke up the next morning by Matthew calling him asking if he could get a ride with him to Switzerland.
"Of course you can bro!" was Alfred's response back, as they went on talking for a while more about how much the plane ticket cost, how much to pack, how long they were planning to stay on the last day...etc..
It was such a nice, new experience for Alfred, to be this happy. He was so excited about everything that he could hardly wait until later when he'd be leaving for Switzerland. He wanted so badly to see all his friends having fun and getting along, with no war or fighting. But, what happened instead was not at all what he had planned.
Alfred and Mattie got to Switzerland around 8 o'clock at night, the city lights bright and welcoming. They took their bags from the overhead compartment and shuffled off the plane. The American led the way to the bag collecting terminal as he spoke to Mattie,
"Wow, this place is neat! I love how the airport is close to the resort! Only about a 40 minute drive and we'll be there Mattie!" America fist-pumped the air, wheeling his luggage around and followed Mattie to the exit of the airport. They got to the street and called for a Taxi to take them to the Ski Resort Cabin. Alfred looked out the window of the taxi into the beautiful countryside of Switzerland. It really was beautiful! A while later the taxi arrived at a driveway for the cabin check in center.
Alfred reached into his pocket and asked how much US dollars he needed to give the man and started negotiating, while Mattie started walking to the main cabin for their check in room keys. After a few minutes Alfred ran in after Mattie and found him near the counter.
"Erm…Sir…?" The Canadian shyly stated. The middle aged man behind the desk was grabbing a whole bunch of papers and shoving them into a folder in no order whatsoever.
"Uhh, sir? Hello?" The man looked around once again, then grabbed things and seemed to be ignoring the Canadian. Alfred getting frustrated looked at the man and angry stated;
"LOOK HERE SIR! WE WANT OUR CABIN!" At that the man finally looked up and noticed both of them standing there.
"O-oh uh yeah sorry. Name please."
"Alfred F. Jones" The America said proudly. And at that very second America heard a high pitched voice behind him.
"AMERICA! Ve~ we finally found you~!" Feliciano yelled across the cabin. Following him were Ludwig, Antonio, his older brother Lovino, and Germanys older brother, Gilbert.
"Huh? Why are they here?" America asked pointing to Antonio, Lovino, and Gilbert.
"Ve~, because they weren't doing anything this weekend either so I invited them to come along with us!" Feli said cheerfully to them "...and because Gilbert insisted on partying all weekend with his brother, because he's so awesome." The little Italian chuckled.
"What? You have a problem with us being here you stupid American!" Romano protested. "Why couldn't we just get our own cabin? Hmpt."
"Fratellone, don't be so mean!" Italy argued back. Moments later the guy behind the counter looked up from his computer.
"Um, well it doesn't seem like we have you in our system. Did you rent a cabin for the weekend?" The man behind the counter asked still packing things in different suitcases. And at that America just then realized that he's forgot to do the one thing Mattie reminded him to do.
"Uhh, I forgot to." Alfred embarrassedly stated, scratching his head with that silly, smirk smile of his…
"YOU FORGOT?" Ludwig said disappointedly.
"I knew it! Never trust an American to get the job done, you're all so lazy!" Ludwig yelled, frustrated at the American.
"Greattttt…"Romano said sarcastically "Fun trip this'll be…"
"Oh, come on Lovi, cheer up. Have some fun, it'll all work out." Antonio countered with a sweet smile on his face. Lovino stared up at him and couldn't help but share a small smile back.
"Whatever, bastard…"
"That's the spirit Lovi!" Spain, now noticing Romano's slight change in facial expression, said happily.
"What do we do now?" Feli looked over to Germany and the others with him and scanned their faces.
"...It looks like there is one cabin with some extra rooms in it, but you would have to share it with others. It may get cramped in there…you're probably better off just going home. A storm is coming in.
"Naw, we'll be fine! A little storm is nothing for us! We'll take the cabin!" and at that America set down his money and brought to terms with the cashier.
"Your cabin is ready sir, your key is already there. I'll notify the others who are boarding that cabin right away sir." When the cashier finished saying that last bit to the group he picked up the phone and dialed a number. The phone rang on and on forever and then an answering machine.
"Hm? Odd, they didn't answer…" The cashier thought out loud.
"Oh it's ok" Alfred stated "We'll just go see them ourselves and get introduced that way." And at that Alfred picked up his suitcase and started heading off toward the taxi pick up area.
When the group got to the house, it had lights on inside and loud music was playing. The sound waves of the music filled the cold air, as Alfred walked up to the cabin with Mattie, Ludwig, Feli, Gilbert, Antonio, and Lovino. Before getting very far though, another car pulled up the driveway with Kiku, Ivan, and Yao in it. Alfred came up to them and greeted them all gladly, telling them there situation they were all in. They all turned around and walked back to the cabin, but yet another taxi pulled in as Arthur and Francis got out. Arthur was yelling at Francis for some unknown reason as the French man just kept apologizing. Everyone just seemed to gather in the middle of the driveway as Arthur came up to them and noticed the lights on and loud music emitting from the cabin.
"Who's all here?" Arthur questioned.
"We don't know Alfred never booked us a cabin so we have to share one with whoever these people are." Ludwig described.
"There's more than I thought there was going to be but I guess the more the merrier! Bonjour Antonio!" Francis cheerfully stated while getting out of the car and paying the taxi driver.
"Hola mi amigo!" Spain cheerfully said to his bad touch trio friend.
"I wonder who were sharing a cabin with." Romano intently asked.
"I don't know…but whoever it is we'll have fun! Right fratello?" Feliciano excitedly said.
They then all went up to the cabin with the unknown strangers in it. All of them chatting excitedly as they opened the door.
At first they saw nothing and they all split up to go searching the cabin. America, Canada, and Britain went right. Germany, Italy, Prussia, Romano, and Spain went straight, and Japan, China, Ivan, and France took left.
Germany and his crew walked down a straight hallway leading to the back of the cabin were the loud music was coming from. Only to find a drunken looking blonde guy with crooked hair, hitting on a smaller light blonde haired guy in a hot tub. Beer bottles were everywhere and by the looks of it this guy could party!
"kessekessekese! Now this is my kind of guy! Woohoo let's go party Ludwig." Gilbert announced as Germany walked up to the hot tub trying not to startle the two who were in it. Since the music was so loud, the two didn't hear Ludwig or the others coming up. The guy drinking took a sip of beer and protruded it right back into the face of the other man, pissing him off.
"What was that for-!" the smaller now angry young blonde stated as he wiped off his face with his hand.
Then, Ludwig tapped the light blonde haired man on the shoulder and the figure turned around and a look of surprise was etched on his face.
"Who are you?" The blonde figure questioned, quiet unaffected by the group's sudden appearance.
"I'm uh Ludwig…" Germany said, and after what seemed like the longest minute of his life waiting for a response, Ludwig finally got a one back.
"Oh…and why are you here?" stated the shorter nation while being groped by the taller drunk nation.
But right when the nation said this, there was another interruption by yet another short white haired boy. This time the figure came running right by the hot tub and told the short blonde haired nation that there were intruders in the house. Chasing after the boy was Kiku, Ivan, and Yao. And that's when it hit him, he turned around and saw them here as well
"and there are intruders outside as well…?" The short blonde haired man said.
Looking annoyed, the one man stood up in the hot tub and said "Let's talk inside, ok, just give me a few minutes to get out of my wet swimming trunk. Come on guys, let's go inside and figure this out." He said while grabbing the tall drunk looking one by the ear and dragging him inside.
While America and his group were walking down a long hallway they heard some sort of cheerful humming emitting from a room at the end of the hallway. They all looked at each other curiously and searched for the right room in which the humming was coming from. At last they found a closed door where the humming was emitting from, and Alfred reached for the doorknob but at that exact second a smallish frame opened the door and screamed.
The figure dropped the drinks he was carrying and ran down the hallway. Alfred, confused, looked over at Arthur and Mattie and was at least glad to see that he wasn't the only one confused. After a moment Alfred and the others chased after the figure. Running down the hallway Alfred caught up with him and grabbed him around the waist.
"Ahh, let me go!" the blonde haired nation yelled at them. At that moment a door opened right in front of the nations. And out of the darkness came another very tall blonde haired nation with glasses.
"That's m' wife." The dark figure said monotone-ish, looking extra scary.
Finally getting the chance to turn around, the small nation noticed who had hold of him and chuckled.
"Oh you guys scared me! I thought you were some sort of robbers at first. Don't you guys remember me?" The shorter blond announced…
"I delivered gifts to you guys last year on Christmas on that deserted island…you I believe" The short blonde pointed at Matthew, "were at home drinking coffee while petting the little polar bear of yours when I came by" Matthew was astonished that this nation remembered that tiny detail of his life and was kind of happy for once. Happy to know that he was not ignored by everyone, that some people out there did acknowledge him and see him. Matthew smiled a great new smile that he hadn't really shown anyone before, or at least not In a while.
"Don't you guys remember? I'm Finland, nice to meet ya'll" Finland said while shaking Alfred, Arthur, and Matthews hands.
"Oh, yeah" Alfred stated "Sorry we scared you we really didn't mean too." Alfred said apologetically.
"Oh no it's not a problem, I was just a little shaken because I thought you were trying to kidnap me." Finland said while smiling, laughing and rubbing his head all at the same time.
"Oh, and this here is Su- oh uh…Sweden." The happy-go-lucky nation added.
"Nice to meet-cha." Sweden answered as they all walked into the living room together.
Everyone gathered in a big, open lofty room moments later and Italy, now looking at the mysterious men finally remember who they were.
"Ah," Italy suddenly said hitting his fist into the other,
"I know who you guys are! You're the Nordics…long time no see Finland!"
"You too Italy! Have you been good this year?" Finland chuckled back.
"I've been good! Haven't I Germany?"
"U-uh yeah…yes you have been Italy." Ludwig, caught off guard, identified slowly blushing from ear to ear.
"Ok, now explain yourselves…what are you doing here? I thought we order this cabin to ourselves?" Mathias argued.
"Uh, we came to this skiing resort for a mini vacation…?" America stated. "…but I forgot to book a cabin and the cabin instructor said that this was the only cabin that we could use.
"Well we're here for the same reason as well, but we were here first! Why didn't you book your own cabin?" the tall blonde inquired.
"There aren't enough rooms for everyone here." He continued.
"Well we'll just have to improvise!" Alfred argued
"I mean Come on can't we share? The more the merrier it'll be fun guys! I mean we'll just have to room with people. Two people per room. That sounds fair right?" America induced.
"You said there are 8 rooms right?" Kiku asked
"Yeah…" Denmark agreed
"If there are 8 rooms and 17 of us here we could improvise for 2 people in each room then 8x2=16 so well just have one room of 3." Kiku added up
"Well, that doesn't sound too bad I guess…" Mathias realized
"But who will go in what rooms?" Romano insisted.
"Well I call me and Germany!" Italy raised his hand and shouted out happily.
"OH NO YOU DON'T! You are not rooming with potato bastard Feli!" Romano yelled at his fratello.
"Aww but whyyyy big brother?" Feliciano said in a somewhat whiney voice.
"Because I'm older that's why." Romano insisted.
"I bet your going to room with Antonio, though…it's not fair." Feli countered back toward his sibling.
"Ah! And Um, who said that? I never said that I was going to room with him b-but…if you must know…yes, I will be rooming with Antonio." Romano said trying not to get too red in the face. Antonio just looked over at Romano from the couch and smiled.
"Well I still don't care I'm going with Ludwig." Italy said while looking over at Germany.
"Fine, do whatever you want little brother but I swear to God if Ludwig tries anything on you I will be there in an instant to beat him up." Romano said while trying to look all cool and high mighty.
"Ok? So…I guess it's settled then? We'll all just have to share rooms. Is that ok with everyone?" Mathias specified to everyone in the room. "Now then who's hungry? Because I'm starving!"
"I second that! How about hamburgers?" Alfred stated
"Ve~ I think we should have Pasta!" Italy proclaimed
"I think we should have sushi and rice." Stated the usually quiet Japanese man.
"No, Chinese food is way better aru!" Yao requested.
"Well as long as there are tomatoes, I really don't care…" Romano said as Toni got up and sat down by Romano at the dining room table, agreeing.
"No, no, no…I think we should have steak au poivre" the Frenchman passionately stated.
"Well…it seems like everyone wants something different so let's just put them all together!" The small Finnish country stated.
"Let us have hamburgers, pasta, sushi, pizza, tomatoes, Chinese steak au poivre, plus some food from our countries! Doesn't that sound great Su-san! Now we can all share our countries meals with others and try something new! The kitchens plenty big enough and there ought to be lots of food and ingredients." Finland happily proclaimed and Berwald looked happily at the smaller nation.
"T-that actually sounds pretty cool…" Berwald spoke up and said.
"Ve~It'll be just like a great big giant feast!" Italy enthusiastically announced.
So, it's settled then. Everyone let's get a move on in the kitchen! It's already late so I guess we'll be having a really late night dinner guys." Denmark said while Finland cheered alongside Italy.
The kitchen was crowded; nobody would have predicted in their wildest dreams that more than eight different countries were working together to create a wonderful feast! The noise was outrageous, but everyone seemed to be getting along and being nice to each other.
Dinner that night was great; each person did exactly what they said they were going to do. America grilled hamburgers, and Italy made Pasta in the kitchen while Germany cleaned up after his every miss or drop on the countertop. Japan and Yao argued over whose food was better while they cooked. Italy also made a pizza for his brother and Spain and Romano ate all the leftover tomatoes. The Nordics made special dishes from their cultures and France made some steak au poivre! It was a wonderful time; everyone was getting along and laughing. Even Romano was being nice to people and Canada wasn't being ignored. The amazing feast was coming to an end though, and practically everyone was stuffed, even Alfred, which was surprising enough in itself.
"That sure was great…" Alfred said to himself as he smiled at everyone working together cleaning up.
"It really was." Arthur came over and told Alfred, and both looked at one another and smiled.