Beneath the portal

34

I'm alive

East arrived at the location, staring through the small crack on the wall she made with a rusty hammer that was found near a landfill.

Czechia was there, looking absolutely horrified and fidgeting with the doorknob attacked to his only form of exit.
'Cmon.. open... I don't want to die here...' Czechia mumbled to himself and he started kicking the door in hopes that it breaks. East grabbed the hammer and started hitting the crack to enlarge it.
The sound startled Czechia and he turned around slowly to follow the sound.

'Hello..?'

'Czechia, be quiet, I'm going to get your ass outta here.' East whispered back, ripping out pieces of the wall.
'Be glad these aren't brick walls otherwise it's over for you.'

'I'm sorry.'

'Oh no, don't be sorry Czechia it's okay.' She whispered again, before taking the hammer to start destroying the wall again.

'I didn't say anything?' Czechia replied to East's voice. East stopped expanding the hole in the wall, held the hammer in her hand before turning around.

A familiar flag stared into her eyes with a sorrow expression. Next thing she knew she felt a strong pain on her head and things turned dark for her.

Czechia didn't say anything, too afraid to have his opportunity taken away. He heard the dragging sound of a body on the unmaintained, damaged, concrete floor. The hole was luckily large around to fit you hands through, he went for the hammer and continued hitting the wall until it was barely large enough to slide his body through.

'EAST?!' Czechia yelled, desperately trying to follow the sound of dragging, only to be followed by a demon.
'NOT NOW STUPID FUCKING BITCH!' He screamed angrily at the demon as he swung the rusty hammer onto the demon's face, a large cracking sound was heard.

He tried pulling his weapon back but it was stuck in it's face, so he decided to flee. He ran towards East to try to get to her, but instead when he hid behind another building to see East, she wasn't with the demon.
The demon was sitting alone on a bench with it's head low, he decided to check it out.
Czechia lifted it's head, only to feel warm blood tickle his arm, he pulled back in disgust as he felt a spike rise in his heart beat.
How did East manage to do that...?

East ran near to the exit and called West.
'West! You there? Westie? West??'

No signal.
East checked her phone, turns out there was signal and everything, but West didn't seem to be there..
'Ah fuck.. I need to get Czechia first, hold on West.'
She has no idea if he was hurt, offline or anything else. At least his magic hasn't sparked with East's otherwise that would be horrible news.

Czechia heard East's voice, she couldn't be that far away but he couldn't tell where the voice was from, it was somewhere but he got no sense of direction where.
'EAST?!' Czechia called out,
'DO YOU HEAR ME?? EAST??'
East heard the voice, she lowered her phone and yelled back.

'CZECHIA? WHERE ARE YOU?'

'I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!'

'STAY STILL, I'LL GET YOU OUT.'

'OKAY!!'

Czechia sat down, next to the absolutely mutilated demon. He tried his best to ignore the fast a headless demob was right next to him, bleeding so much that it almost made contact with Czechia with it's puddle.
He felt disgusted by refused to move at the same time.
He will be out soon, he knew he will.

'THIS WHOLE TIME YOU WERE HIDING HIM?' Japan yelled at West, pointing directly as FI.
'I wasn't sure how to tell you, I'm sorry.' West apologised for the 50th time in this conversation.

America held Taiwan in his arms to make sure she was stable and back to her actual self instead of whatever takes over her during the other hours.
He stood up, still restraining Taiwan in his arms where Taiwan started to scream in pain, before Japan could reply to West's 50th or at this point millionth apology, she took Taiwan instead since she didn't trust America.
America could unintentionally hurt Taiwan because of his ability.

'West, we don't need an apology. We just want to know the truth, why did you hide him?' Japan lowered her voice, noticing West's discomfort at the volume.
West glanced over at FI, he could help them right? Can he trust the man that once hurt his friends?
West turned his head back to Japan, barely making eye contact.

'Japan, I think he can..'
'Think what?' American interrupted.
'Help us.' West replied almost immediately, it's like if he knew that his step brother was going to interrupt him.

'ARE YOU INSANE??' American shouted at  West, West shook in fear from the harsh reply.
'You think he would still be the same person after so many years of being dead?' Taiwan whispered her reply, Japan was the only one who heard her and let go of the Taiwanese.

'What was that, Taiwan?'

'Is he really the same person after being in the fucking underworld for so long? He seems like the type of person to change already, honestly. I stand with West.'

'Oh shut the fuck up you possessed demon, where's Taiwan?'

'I'M NOT POSSESSED!!' Taiwan replied with frustration in her voice, before others could respond, West broke the two up and took Taiwan instead.

A loud sound was heard when someone opened the door in a hurry, almost tearing it down as their magic was going absolutely everywhere.
'WE HAVE A PROBLEM! THE- THE PORTAL!' UN yelled at the group, he suddenly saw FI and stared at all of them.
'What the actual fuck.'

'Wait wait wait! We can explain!' West said hurriedly and started to explain to UN everything that has happened, before West could continue after speaking halfway, UN cut him off.

'The portal is opening way too fast. We have to go now, I'm sorry about the plans.'

'NOW?' Taiwan exclaimed, breaking herself free from West.
'We can't go now... no... we can't! It's too much! Too early and no notice!'

'Pay some fucking attention Taiwan.' UN scolded her, who glared at UN back with rage filling her eyes.

West seemed upset all of the sudden, looking at the lockscreen of him phone which was an old photo of him and East. He mumbled to himself.

'Lets get this over with.'