We Are Zodiac (Hetalia Fanfic)

Chapter Fourteen

RECAP: 

"Are they gone?" Arthur asked.

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"Holy shit, dude!" Alfred exclaimed, hurrying to help hold up the hatch door. "What the hell happened?"

"Shit, shit, shit!" Lovino cursed, holding his arm against his chest protectively. A shirt-- Arthur's shirt, to be specific --was wrapped tightly around the bleeding wound. The two were helped out of the cellar-like hiding space and questioned on what had happened.

"The Aries came and knocked down the wall within minutes," Arthur reported, trying to keep himself collected and gentlemanly. "We heard them coming and tried to stand watch, but then a hole in the fence appeared somehow and a Virgo slipped through. She tore up Romano's arm while I stabbed her in the back with a kitchen knife and got us into the cellar in the nick of time."

Now that Alfred thought about it, there had been a dead Virgo's body lying somewhere around the knife they'd also found. The story made sense; not that he would ever think Arthur was lying about something like this.

"That's it, though? Like, no other injuries?" Al asked quickly. 

Arthur shook his head. "No, I'm fine for the most part." He glanced over at Lovino, whose arm was getting treated and bandaged as they spoke. It was a little difficult to talk, however, over Lovino's yelling and constant cursing.

Every instant he swore earned him a penetrating glare from Mary, though. If looks could kill, Lovino wouldn't be among the living anymore.

"You said the Aries did that?" Mary asked Arthur as she left Toris and Felyks to do their work on Lovino. 

He nodded. "Yes, they weren't the Capricorns we saw yesterday."

A look of anger, possibly even rage, graced her face as she angrily kicked up a tuft of grass that had been dislodged from the earth by a multitude of hooves. "Dangit all! I knew I hadn't seen those Aries before in the area!"

"You mean the ones we were running from when we met you?" Alfred asked her.

With a sigh, Mary stopped kicking the grass and put a hand to her forehead tiredly. "Yes, those ones. They must have been migrating. I was a fool for thinking my wall would stay up forever, though."

"... Now vhat do ve do?" Toris asked the group nervously with Felyks holding onto his arm.

"Well, there's no use in sticking around here anymore," the lone female in their crew said after a moment of thought. She stepped into the cellar for a moment, then returned into the sunlight with a pack over her shoulder. "Let's get out of here."

"Vhat?" Ludwig said. "You vant to come vith us?"

"Am I not welcome?" she asked him in a way that clearly challenged what he was going to decide.

"Uh... Nein, I didn't say zhat," Ludwig answered when he knew there wasn't really a way to stop her from joining their group.

"Good, because I'm going to travel with you guys. Michigan, right?" Mary asked as she swung her pack to the ground in front of her and rummaged through it. 

"Have you had that in there for a long time?" Arthur asked, noting the streaks of dust on the leather satchel's surface. 

"Oh yeah. Since I started making the fence, actually," she replied. "Lessee... This will probably come in handy, won't it?" Mary asked with a note of triumph in her voice as she extracted an atlas from the pack and sat down so she could flip through it. "What county in Michigan was it?"