The Hero

2: Surprise

After the world meeting America was bringing me to meet my brothers. Germany and Prussia. Prussia was older then Germany but Germany was taller and stronger. I looked over at Prussia and saw that he was looking away from me, trying to hide his eyes. When he quickly looked over at me then away again I understood why. His eyes were red, something that would normaly scare people.

I smiled and looked over at Germany, "Is he always like this?" I motioned to Prussia.

"Nein, he's never like zhis."

"Vhat do you mean? I am zhe awesome Prussia. I always act zhis awesome." Prussia said trying to hide the sadness in his eyes. It would have worked but for some reason I can always tell how a person is feeling just by being around them.

I walked towards Prussia and tilted my head left with a small smile on my face. "It's your eyes, isn't it? Your afraid I'll be scared of you just as the locals were when they tried to burn and drown you. But I'm not, your eye colour has nothing to do with who you are."

As I said this Prussia smiled. I looked behind me to see America was gone. I looked over at Germany and smiled. I walked over to him and placed my hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay, you go find Italy. I'll be fine here with Prussia. If anything happens I'll be fine, I can take care of myself." I said and he nodded a thanks before walking off.

"So vhat do you vant to do wth zhe awesome Prussia?"

"I don't know maybe you could show me around. Or bring me to meet some of your friends." I suggested.

"Sure we shall go see zhe awesome Prussia's not so awesome friends."

. . .

I was in the back of Prussia's car about to fall asleep. It had been a long day. I had met Mrs. Hungary, Mr. Austria, and a whole bunch of other people. I hadn't seen much of Natrista since before the world meeting, but I had found out she was out she was one of the Nordics. I could tell some of the countries didn't like me like Russia and Switzerland, but Liechtenstein - Switzerland's little sister - seemed to like me.

I felt something land on my head but I didn't care, I knew it was just Gilbird. Prussia opened the back door and must of thought I was asleep since he picked me up. He picked me up and brought me into the house. He placed me on a bed and I knew it was his because it smelt like him. He seemed to stand there a moment before he left the room. Gilbird was still on my head and I had a feeling he planned to sleep there.

Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up to Gilbirds shreaking. I opened my eyes just as a dark figure swatted him off of my head. I was about to yell myself when a hand covered my mouth. I tried to see who it was but the darkness wouldn't allow me.

As they switched hands I took a deep breath. I knew they had a rag soaked in something that would make my pass out. I struggled against them and let my body go slack. They removed the cloth and I took a breath of air. I screamed at the top of my lungs letting everyone in the house know I needed help.

The person suddenly pushed me to the floor. My head hit the wall just as Prussia and Germany rushed into the room. By the time they entered the room the person was gone. They had jumped out of the already broken window.

Italy came rushing into the room as well and came strait for me, making sure I was okay. I quickly shooed him away and crawled over to where Gilbird had hit the wall. I scooped him into my hands as the tears rolled down my cheeks, not only from pain and what happened, but also from what might happen to Gilbird. One of the things that my older brother seemed to treasure the most.

"Prussia." I called him. I stood up weakly, my head spinning, and handed him his pet, his friend. I placed Gilbird in his hands and he let out a weak chirp. I plopped on the bed and put my head in my hands trying to make the world stop spinning.

"Ryter, are you-a okay?" Italy asked my.

"My head hurts and the world won't stop spinning." I told him and I felt as Gilbird landed on my head once again. Well he seemed to be feeling better.

"Ryter vho attacked you?" Germany asked kneeling down in front of me. I could tell he was truly worried.

"I don't know. I couldn't see them. I don't know who it was." I could feel as the tears started to roll down my cheeks. The truth was I was scared, truly terrified. And the thing was no one seemed to have an idea of any reason behind it.

Suddenly I was being picked up again. Prussia carried me to the living room upstairs and placed me on his lap. I cried into his chest soaking his shirt with my tears. He just sat there letting me cry as he rubbed my back trying to comfort me.

"Prussia can-a be gentle." Italy muttered to Germany. I guess Germany nodded since there was no reply. My eyes started to droop as exhaustion started to settle in once again. Forgetting what had just happened long enough for me to fall asleep once again.