Hetavania

Chapter 7

The one blocking their way was Celia. Soma, Italy, and Japan got defensive and England didn't understand why.

"So you have come all this way to die? Well Dario isn't here right now." she said.

Two other men ran in, one stood in front of Soma. One is Julius Belmont, a descendant of the clan who has spent many centries killing Dracula. The last time the Belmonts killed Dracula was in 1999, Soma said he was supposed to be Dracula's reincarnation. By fighting that fate, Julius hasn't needed to kill Soma. The other man is Genya Arikado, he watches over Soma making sure Soma doesn't become Dracula. Though he has dark power he keeps his real identity hidden. Only a handful of people know who Arikado is.

"What are you planning Celia?" Arikado said.

"I have infused a powerful demon into Dario, the Dark Lord's revival is all but certain now." she said. "You will not be able to defeat him."

She disappeared the same way as before.

"Julius, I sense a powerful energy the river. It must be Dario."

"I'll go check." Julius said leaving.

Arikado turned to look at Soma and noticed the three others with him. Confused a bit he decided to ask.

"Soma, who are these three?"

"Arikado, this is Feliciano, Arthur, and Kiku." Soma said. "There's one more, Lukas, he's somewhere in the castle."

"Maybe he's the statue that's here in the clock tower."

"Nani?" Japan said.

"Careful, one of the enemies in this clock tower are Gold Medusa Heads." Arikado said. "I wish you'd take my advice and leave this to Julius and I."

"Sorry, but I can't." Soma said.

Arikado nodded and left. Soma looked at Japan, Italy, and England.

"Remember those annoying floating heads in that one cavern in the Subterranean Hell? The gold colored one must he the one that turned your friend to stone." Soma stated.

"Can we save him?" England asked.

"Yes, its not easy but we can shake off the stone curse though its pretty hard to move." Soma said. "I don't know if your friend knows that though."

Nodding they started to head through parts of the Cursed Clock Tower. They looked over the half of the tower they could access at the moment. Unfortunately, Norway wasn't in the area. They found a small room with only one enemy called a Bugbear. Similar to the monster called Peeping Eye, the Bugbear is a single-eyed fiend cloaked in thunderbolts. The Bugbear was guarding the 4th magic seal.

"I hope Lukas is alright." England said.

"Don't worry, we'll save him." Soma said. "For now, lets get to the boss of this area. Defeat it, and move on to save your friend."

"Hai I agree." Japan said.

"Right." England said.

"Si!" Italy said smiling.

They went to the top of the tower and healed up before the fight. Italy looked out over the horizon and saw a floating figure far off in the distance but shrugged. Soma unlocked the door and they all ran inside. But suddenly, time stopped and the candle stick stands were somehow destroyed. When time resumed, there was the boss monster. Its called Zephyr, a demon with mastery over time.

"Careful, if you get too close in range he could freeze time and try to kill you!" Soma yelled dodging Zephyr.

Italy used a barrier to keep a knife from hitting him but timing had to be right as Zephyr not only bounced to the roof and threw a knife, but also tried to slice at them with the knife-like claws on its hands. Soma summoned the Amalaric Sniper to shoot at Zephyr when it wasn't bouncing around from the ceiling to the floor and back again. Japan would rush in enough to slash at Zephry with his katana and England would use his magic to try and keep Zephyr still.

"This bloody wanker is fast!" England yelled.

"Let'a me help." Italy said concentrating before pointing up with his staff. "Divine Storm!"

The roof above became covered in clouds and it began to rain again, but like before, the rain was holy water ment to drive away demons. For some though it has little effect. In the deluge of the rain, Soma struck Zephyr once more and defeated it. Now Soma could freeze time around particular enemies. Now they could head on further to rescue Norway.

Meanwhile, the nations were watching Germany pace around and Canada looked at Romania.

"Why would someone want another one of those books?" Canada asked in a quiet voice.

"I'm not sure, but the fact that there are several of those books it shows that whole world's history." Romania replied. "I'm going to seal the rest of those books up so that they can't be used for anything other than reading but while those two books are missing their magic can't be sealed."

"Dude, seems like they'll be fine." America said.

"Idiot, if Soma looses himself he may use the four of them as servants. It's highly important we save them before that can even happen."

"Ja, but the problem is that the book is in half und ve have no idea vhere the other half of the book is." Prussia said.

"Norge and the others could be dead by now." Denmark said looking through the upper half of the book they do have. "Isn't there anyway to go into that world now!?"

"Calm down, aru. If we want to find them then we need calm heads." China finally said.

"Da, after all, we can beat a few heads in if they are hurt." Russia said smiling.

Canada felt that they'd be okay somehow and looked at Romania.

"Um..."

"Something you want to add?" Romania asked.

"I think we should trust Soma, I mean, he'll find out eventually they are countries because if one of them dies they won't stay dead long remember. We can't be killed forever unless something happens to our people or land." Canada said.

None of them even thought of that and some grew more worried. Well except Russia, he had a dark aura around him.

Back at the Cursed Clock Tower, they had to be extremely careful of the Gold Medusa Heads floating around. Finally, in one part of the tower near a heal room, there was Norway. Still frozen as a statue, Soma took out his sword and flipped it so that the flat part was facing Norway. Soma gave it a good swing and shattered the rock covering Norway. Norway fell over. England and Japan helped Norway up and they all went into the healing room. Soma activated the healing statue but Norway didn't respond until ten minutes later. Now Soma was curious even when Norway introduced himself.

"Okay, you guys need to tell me why he was dead and then awoke." Soma said.

Norway sighed.

"We're human personified countries Soma." Norway explained. "We don't stay dead unless something were to happen to our people or land."

"Countries with human forms huh, now I've heard about everything." He said.

"You don't rook rike its weird at arr." Japan said.

"Its weird but really after what I went through last year and what we've went through together. Its not exactly the weirdest thing in the world Japan." Soma said. "So I'm guessing your England, your Norway, and your Italy."

"Si, um, N. Italy. My fratello Romano is the southern part." Italy said.

Soma smiled and pat Italy on his head.

"I'm going to keep calling you by your human names. Its easier." he said. "To be honest, I don't think I could've gotten this far without you guys."

Italy, Japan, and England smiled and Norway looked up.

"So how are we going to get out of the tower?" he asked.

"We have to go back the way we came, there's a warp room and its time to upgrade our weapons anyway with the souls of some of the monsters I collected." Soma said.

"Hai, I don't know how much ronger my katana can hord out." Japan said.

"Good idea chap." England said.

"Si, I'a also can't wait to'a see Yoko again." Italy said smiling.

"Also, Soma, can you help us find half a book?" Norway asked. "It brought us to your world. And we need to find a mirror to contact the others."

"I know where there's a few mirrors at yeah, big mirrors." he said.

"Those will do." Norway said.

"I'lla put up a barrier so'a we don't get'a hurt by those heads." Italy said.

With that, they left the healing room in order to head out. Now with four allies and friends, Soma felt he could do anything as long as he trusted them and they trusted him.