Capital Girls: Game On!

Dreamtalia Pt. 6

Rose walked through the field as she looked for her friends. She was only in her socks so the grass was soft under her feet. "I wonder where everyone is," She spoke is as she walked. "Maybe I'll come across Papa or Katrina."

That's when a butterfly flew around her head. It was a golden butterfly that seemed to glow. Then it landed on her nose, making Rose giggle. "Hello Mr. Butterfly," Rose smiled. The butterfly then flew from Rose's nose and ahead of Rose, as if it wanted her to follow it. "Are you trying to help me? Do you know where my friends are?"

The butterfly didn't say anything as it flew away, with Rose following right behind it. It was a bit exciting, almost like playing a game. She giggled as she followed the butterfly until she reached a tree. It was covered in leaves and had flowers surrounding it.

Why did the butterfly come here? Rose thought as she walked to the tree. As she got closer, she placed a hand to the tree. What is this place?

"Rose!"

The Italian girl turned around to see that the others were coming towards her, getting her out of her train of thought.

"There you are Rose," Amanda said. "We were looking for you."

"Sorry," she apologized. "I got distracted by a butterfly."

"It's all right Rose," Amelia assured her. "Now that we're all together, we should focus on our mission."

Everyone then started discussing on where they should go. Rose was the only one who wasn't speaking, just listening. Then she followed the butterfly again when she saw it flying away.

"Hey wait, come back," Rose told the creature as she followed it. The others noticed her heading away and went over to see what was going on. After a while, Rose came to a path that led into two different directions, one heading north and the other heading south.

As she was looking around, the butterfly flew towards the west, even though there was no path. It touched the wall and revealed a path that was hidden in the rock. Then the butterfly disappeared. Rose looked down the path and then wondered where the butterfly had gone. As she looked, she didn't see where she was going and bumped into someone. The Italian sat on the ground for a moment before looking at the person she had bumped into; it was a man and he looked a lot like America, except this America had on a Revolutionary War uniform and had no glasses on his face, which included firey red eyes. The America look-alike stared at the little girl and Rose stared back.

"I-I'm sorry Mr. America," Rose quickly apologized, ending the awkward silence. She quickly got up off the ground and wiped the dust off her pants before looking up at the man, who was just staring at her. She smiled nervously. "Mr. America? Is something wrong?'

"My name...is World," the man finally spoke. He was so timid when he spoke that it surprised Rose. She was so used to America having a loud and booming voice that this was just shocking.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Rose apologized again, tucking a small hair behind her left ear. "You look like someone I know....Um....I'm Rose by the way. Nice to meet you Mr. World~."

World just looked at Rose, making the small Italian become nervous.

"Um...."

"....You shouldn't be here," World told Rose, giving her an intimidating glare. "Leave now."

"But, I can't. I'm trying to find my Papa and my best friend Katrina. And anyone else who's trapped here. Please Mr. World! You- "

"No. You can't be here. Master has given me another chance and I cannot let anymore intruders stay here!" He then turned away from Rose and began talking to himself; "Master is losing patience with me. I cannot afford to make him anymore angry than he already is."

Master?

"....He's so angry...I don't want him anymore angry than he already is..."

"Mr. World? Are you okay?"

"Rose-chan! Where are you?" Naomi's voice called out.

Rose and World turned their attention towards the direction Naomi's voice called and turned to see the other capitals coming. They all stopped when they saw World and Amanda's eyes grew as wide as saucer plates. "Dad? Is that you?" Amanda asked when she saw the arcana.

World began to shake. There were more of them. More intruders were nothing but trouble. He didn't want any trouble. Master was already displeased and World didn't want to bear the punishment that was sure to come.

"Leave now! You can't be here! Master has forbade it!" World shouted.

"Master?" Natie questioned.

"I am going to go out on a limb and say that this is not America, aru," Chen theorized.

"Then who is this guy?" Emma asked.

"His name is World," Rose quickly answered.

"World?" Amelia questioned.

Rose nodded. "I bumped into him while following after the butterfly...I wonder where it went off to."

"You were following a butterfly?" Allison asked.

Again, Rose nodded.

World grew angry as the girls ignored him. How dare they treat him with such disrespect! He wasn't some pa- World froze. Was he really about to think about that word that the other group had called him? He couldn't. He wasn't like that. He was strong. "I...I...I..." he mumbled with his head lowered and his eyes facing the ground.

The girls noticed this and turned their attention back to World, who had tears rolling down his face. Rose slowly approached him after noticing the tears hitting the ground. "Mr. World?" she inquired as she slowly approached the arcana with an out-stretched hand.

That's when World lifted his face up, revealing his deep red eyes that scared the living daylights out of Rose, causing her to shake where she stood, frozen in place.

"I AM IMPORTANT! I AM NO PAWN!" He shouted before running off and leaving the girls scared and confused.

"....What just happened?" Amanda asked after a long pause of silence.

"I'm not really sure..." Amelia replied.

"He looked so sad before he became all angry," Rose stated as she finally got over her shock. "Maybe he just needs our help."

"Rose, we don't have time to help that man. We have to find the others that are trapped in here, remember?" Amelia reminded the small Italian.

"Sí, Sí, I remember."

"So what now?" Amanda asked.

"Well we came here to help and that's what we're going to do," Amelia explained. "Now, we should go-"

"This way," Everyone looked to see Rose standing in front of the middle path that was available. "The butterfly showed me the way here so we should go down this one."

"Rose, I think we need to make a much more logical choice here," Amelia stated. "Now, we should figure out-"

No one listened to Amelia as she tried to use reason to figure out where to go. They went over to where Rose was and when Amelia realized this she sighed and followed Rose and the others.