Chapter 26, Red Coat, No Head
After the..interesting conversation, the rather strange looking group proceeded to walk down into the rather large basement. The halls were dim in spite of the burning orange and yellow flames that danced in their respective lamps. The hallways stretched for at least miles, making it impossible to navigate unless one had memorized the path, or had a map. Idle conversation was kept, but it was mostly silence that dominated the group.
"Right here," said Ichabod as he stopped at a large, wooden door. It was pretty normal, the kind of door you'd expect from a castle. Well, despite the large chains and Latin, Egyptian, Norse, and Elvish runes littering the door. With also a large amount steel casings reinforcing the bloody door.
"It seems you spared nothing when it comes to keeping the horseman in," commented William.
"Indeed, it's not everyday you find so many different spells used in one space. Is that Gnommish? Dear lord, I haven't seen that in decades," said Arthur.
"You English bastards do realize that some of us have no fucking idea what shit that comes out of your mouths mean right?" Do I really need to say who said this?
"Woah there short match, cool it. We're just admiring the fact that we haven't seen so many ancient writings since before...World War 1, which was when most got destroyed. There used to be a lot in London, but you know..." said Aki he shrugged soon after.
"Oh..ve~" said Feliciano weakly. Both William and Arthur shrugged, they had let that thing go a long time ago; but pester them about it and they'll start retaliating. Ichabod felt sort of left out since he was out of the loop for more than a decade. Aki patted his back, since his expression was sort of obvious.
"Kesesesesesesesesese ja, you me and West's asses," said Gilbert out of the blue.
"Oh shut up you albino Izaya," said William. Leave it to him to make references from many, many fandoms, but with all the free time he has while Arthur is away at meetings. How else do you think he spends his time?
"Oh you teenager," whispered Arthur fondly.
"Kesesese, are you saying zat I'm cunning and intelligent?"
"I'm saying that you are a bit childish," responded William. He entered the door after Ichabod unlocked it and stared at the sight.
The person before them was in a battered up and bloody british soldier uniform, hands were chained up to the ceiling with heavy and large anchor chains. Resting above the shoulders, right where its' head should have been, was none. In it's place was a clean cut, with only bits and pieces of the spinal chord and neck muscle remained.
"Well shit," was the first words that came out of William's mouth. Mother of sweet Lizzie, since when was the last time I saw this bloody bastard? Two centuries ago? I'm that old? Oh well, he thought as his mind went on internal dialogue. It didn't usually happen that much back then, but now he just rolls with it.
"I can use a giant pocky right about now," said Aki. Trick brought out one of those massive pocky sticks, chocolate of course, and gave it to Aki, who ate it.
"Well, I actually never thought I would see this headless bastard again," said Arthur walking up to the headless horseman. In all honesty, he was at lost on what to do. Either send him back to oblivion or find out who in the world was crazy enough to do this wonderful piece of work, notice the sarcasm.
He soon found William staring at him as he finally looked from his thoughts,
"What?"
"That was a completely, and utterly random piece of bloody sarcasm dude," said William. The other nations were surprised on the american term, but he is a capital, and capitals mean tourists, which means picking up a large amount of terms and accents. Annoying, but useful at times, since he doesn't have to actually physically learn other nation's languages. As long as he has fluent speaking tourists, he's fine. Which is kind of awkward when you think about it. Since that means tourists can represent a country fucking another, well, least to say that William wanted to bleach and wipe that memory out of his mind for years. So he just ignores it now, no point in encouraging what's not true.
"Soo, what are we going to do. Torture or kill?" said William. The nations looked at William, thinking, 'What the fuck?'.
"I have no bloody idea actually, what should we do? We need to get the name, but then I want to send this bastard back to hell for ruining my Sherlock Holmes, season 3 is already going to end, wait I think it already ended, I'm not bloody sure," said Arthur.
"So the statement wasn't a figure of speech," said Aki. Honestly, with how blank their voices are at the moment, it's truly hard to tell whether the two of them are joking or not. Trick shrugged in response, the two were hard to be able to lie to, much more to try and figure out their emotions which they hid under lock and key. Literally no one had any idea how they really acted anymore, except for Prussia and Aki, since they've known each those two for a while. Even then, the two had trouble shifting between lie and truth. At least when it came with the two brothers.
Arthur sighed in tiredness, "Well, the bastard should have a necromancer, so we should look for him before anything else".
"Necromancer?" asked Japan.
"A person who either summons the dead and or demons, controls the dead, or speaks for them," supplied William. One of these days, he thought, I should come down to one of the meetings and supply super natural insight and lessons, this is getting tiring, maybe Norway will help me.
"Where in the bloody fucking hell will we find the necromancer?" said Aki, threading his hands in his hair. Which he dyed blue, just for the sake of it.
"Spells, obviously, now let's go hunt down a necromancer".
A/n: Right on time, tadaaa!~ Again, THANK YOU SO BLOODY MUCH FOR GETTING MEH OVER 100 REVIEWS DANKE, SALAMAT PO, THANKIESS, GRAZIE, ありがとう(Arigatō), THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MERCI, ¡GRACIAS, -insert other ways of saying thank you in different languages here- THANKS! I own nothing but William and ze plot, everyone else belongs to their respective owners, Trick belongs to herself, and Aki to me. Thank you once again for reading this, and have a nice day/night.