Hetavania

Chapter 10

Soma, Italy, Norway, Japan, and England warped back to The Pinnacle because Japan didn't want to head back through the hall with all the Succubus. Before heading up, they stopped at a healing room to eat something. Norway looked at Soma as they ate curry.

"Soma, may I ask something?" he said.

"Sure, what do you need to know?" Soma asked.

"Are you going to face whatever may be inside Dario alone?" Norway asked.

"Its best if I do that." Soma said. "If there's a mirror in the room, that will make it easy."

"But'a..."Italy said.

"I'm counting on you to keep Dario busy without killing him." Soma said.

"We'rr do that Soma-san." Japan said.

"Okay...Correct me if I'm wrong, Dario is that man who had that black magic coming from him correct?" England asked.

"Yeah, he wants payback for losing to us a while ago." Soma said.

"Si, he'sa very dangerous with'a those powers." Italy said.

"Hai, Dario uses fire magic. We saw a dispray of his fire power in the Garden of Madness." Japan said. "He burnt arr the prants with a searing heat."

"Damn, he could be a problem." England said.

"All we have to do is buy Soma time to defeat the demon infused inside this Dario." Norway said.

"My katana can cut through his frames." Japan said.

"Si and'a I can summon a barrier to'a protect us from his fire." Italy said.

Soma smiled as they chatted, he never thought in his life he'd be friends with personified countries. Norway looked at him.

"Soma, I have this to say to you. Expect the unexpected. If what you've explained is true, Celia may try to trick you somehow into becoming the dark lord. And don't forget, we are countries. If we get killed we don't stay dead long, as long as our land has people, we will be fine." Norway said.

Norway could tell that was bothering Soma a little. They continued to eat, once they finished, they continued upward facing new strong monsters. An Erinys (the goddess of revenge), a Mushussu (a furious beast from ancient Babylonia), Dead Warrior (a dead knight that seeks to fight for all eternity), an Alastor (a possessed sword driven to seek revenge by the souls of slain soldiers), Final Guard (a powerful armored soldier given the task of guarding the castle's key spots), and Flame Demon (a fire-wielding demon born in the fiery pits of the underworld). Of course there are also familiar enemies too, well only four are familiar. A werewolf, bugbear, guillotiner, and dead crusader. When facing the Mushussu, they had to dodge the tail or they'd be frozen in stone. Finally, they reached the room where Dario was located. They all looked at each other and nodded heading inside. As Soma had guessed there was a mirror, in the mirror was the reflection of a firey demon. This demon is the embodiment of fire called Aguni.

"Took you long enough you punk. Seems you brought more friends." Dario said.

"Your dream of becoming the dark lord will end here." Soma said.

"We'll see about that, I am even more powerful than before, get ready to fry runt!" he yelled.

Soma ran up to the mirror and used the power of Paranoia to go into the mirror. Italy looked at the mirror but it became clouded.

"...Soma..." He said worried.

Meanwhile with the countries, they were waiting for any news if the book was found or not. The mirror sparked with a dark light and they watched as Soma was fighting against what they saw as a massive fire monster.

"Dude! What the hell is that?!" America yelled.

This caught Soma's attention but he had to quickly dodge three attacks and duck as it flew over his head.

"I'm busy right now!" Soma responded in a serious tone.

"Romania, what's Soma doing?" Canada asked.

"He's fighting Aguni, the embodiment of fire." Romania answered.

"Vhere's Italy und Japan?" Prussia asked.

"He had better not've let them get hurt." Germany said a bit angry.

"Relax...Whoa! They're keeping Dario busy while I fight against this guy." Soma said.

They watched him as he fought Aguni. For the moments that Aguni was still, Soma summoned Guillotiner to cause damage to Aguni.

"Dude he's awesome." America said just watching him.

"A strong fighter da?" Russia said.

"Zhis might explain why he wasn't too surprised about Italy, England, Japan, and Norway being countries." France said.

"Who will be coming with me?" Romania asked.

"Vell of course I vill." Germany said.

"I'm coming too, Norge is there." Denmark said.

"Foarte bine, once they find the other half of the book Norway, England, and I can open a portal to that side and recombine the book." Romania said.

They watched as Soma finally finished off Aguni. Soma gained its soul to use devastating fire attacks. Soma waved at them and hopped back outside the mirror.

Back with Italy, Norway, England, and Japan, they saw Dario's attacks stop. Dario was in shock at the sudden loss of power and felt weak. Soma came out of the mirror, a few minor burns but he was fine.

"What did you do punk? What has happened to my power?!" Dario demanded to know.

"Gone, I defeated the demon inside you and destroyed your powers along with it." Soma said.

Dario stared at them, screamed, and ran out fast. Celia came in.

"Hmm, maybe I was wrong. Come to the Garden of Madness, that is where you will face me." she said.

"What'a are you planning?" Italy said.

Soma was a bit surprised, Italy felt she was plotting something. She disappeared and Norway looked at Soma.

"Careful, I think she will trick you into doing something that would cause great consequence." Norway said.

"I know." Soma said.

Soma took out Mina's talisman and put it next to his heart. They went into another room and Soma found the fifth magic seal, they'd need that to get past the gate that's locked in the Garden of Madness. Nodding at each other, they headed to the nearest warp room. Of course they fought more enemies on the way to reach the warp gate, but they made it. What is Celia planning? Only way to find out is to go find out.