Crystalline Constellations

S2 E1: The Reincarnated Year [Part 1/2]

5:37 PM, Saturday 19th January 2019

Somewhere in the U.S, Hetalia Universe

Earth (Sol III)

In both the human realm and the world of the anime known as Hetalia, the blindingly bright orange-yellow dot in the sky known formally as the Sun was on its way down onto another side of the world, just about to vanish over the horizon, beyond the distant trees, buildings and anything else which was dotted at the very edge of people's line of sight. This departure of the thing that brings light to the world cast not only darkness onto the opposite side of the sky from where it was, but it also painted its own side in vibrant hues and tones of fiery orange and gentle pink, fading elegantly into the dark blue and then the black on the other half of the atmosphere. A rather artistic and picturesque sight indeed. 

One house, currently inhabited by 14 people as there was a gathering going on right now, had reflections of all different colours transitioning into different ones on the wall opposite the TV, with a cocktail of sounds emanating from it in addition as the film Hetalia: Paint It, White! was playing on it. And within moments, the credits came to finish the movie itself, with this song being heard as it showed the characters dancing to it on the screen:

"Wa wa wa, sore sore sore, wa wa wa..." Jennifer Integra, referred to simply by everyone she knew as just 'Jenny' quietly but happily sung this jaunty tune as it played, getting up from her seat and danced a little bit because of how much she loved the song, earning a couple of stares for a moment from Germany, England and Canada, but none of these stares were in a hurtful way at all. 

"Ve~, this is a fun song!" Italy commented cheerily. He, too, then stood up and began to copy the dance moves the characters on the screen were doing as if he was playing the Just Dance game.

"So, what did you guys think?" Eleanor Rutherson, who was nearest to the TV at this moment, asked as she turned her head in the direction of the characters themselves sat around her for this movie viewing session. The countries who'd gotten together this evening to watch the Hetalia movie DVD that Jen, who was still dancing and singing a little to the credits song along with Feli, had received a few weeks ago for Christmas were Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Prussia, England, Canada, Italy, France, Finland and America, whose house they were at for this screening. 

"I personally think that the presence of my awesomeness was a good part, even though it was only shown for a few moments," Prussia began to reply, with what he just said making his younger brother sigh at how hopeless the albino was with his ego. But he knew that Gilbert was still a nice person and he meant well, rather like how Russia initially appeared scary to others on the outside. "but the rest of it was nearly just as awesome, too!" 

"I know I only appeared briefly in it as well, but I still enjoyed it!" Added Finland positively. 

"Maybe one day there'll be a sequel!" Said Canada, his voice as always being no louder than almost a whisper. "And perhaps this one might be about mutant polar bears invading every country, and only I can save the world!" His own pet polar bear, Kumajiro, looked up at him and tilted his head somewhat at this 2nd sentence. 

"You're quite right, I'm sure you'll get your chance to be a hero like America soon, Matthew!" Sandra Kohnka agreed with him. She was perched next to England on one of the 3 sofas.

"Yeah, like how I was in this movie brah! I mean did you see the way I whacked that one Pictonian a couple of minutes ago in this movie?" Alfred himself exclaimed like the lively and exuberant man he was before doing what was known as his 'hero laugh'.

"We all did brilliantly, you twit. Even France." England spoke up to add his own opinion.

"Hey! I've got feelings too, you know!" Francis said defensively.

"I still remember this and when it happened." Said Russia. "But at least we managed to stop them, da?"

"Ja. We all did wunderbar." Nodded Germany, remembering the way in which the day was saved by his close friend during the Pictonian incident.

"I've been meaning to ask Jenny, Eleanor and Sandra something purely out of curiosity, speaking of this topic." Began China while one of his pandas suddenly appeared from behind the sofa he was sat on, perching the front half of itself on his shoulder and snuggling into him. "Because of the fact that the objects that you use to change into your armoured forms and which gave you the abilities you have now came from planets other than Earth, does that mean you 3 count as aliens too?"

"Well, obviously we're not quite like the Pictos in terms of behaviour or appearance," Ells began to answer him, chuckling a little at this first part she said. "But I suppose we are technically alien lifeforms because of these powers we were given." She held up her hand and demonstrated by creating a flaring, crackling ball of yellow lightning in her palm, fondling it with her fingers as if it were a toy. "Though we still sort of count as human beings, too, because we were born as humans and behave like them, so I'd say we're 40% human and 60% Zensairan."

"But, like Ells pointed out, we're not gonna start painting the world white or anything like that." Jen added on to the conversation, making a few of the nations laugh a little bit.

"Au revoir!" France bade Alfred goodbye a few minutes later as he and everyone else began to leave his house, heading back to their own homes, with the ability user trio's places of residence being back in the human world, of course. 

"Later, America." The youngest out of them all waved to him in addition with an amiable smile, carrying the Paint It White DVD in her hands. 

It had now been a month since the incidents with Dr. Jason Peugot and Martin Keates, and 2 months since she'd met Germany and Italy and gained her powers in the first place. 2 months since everything after the first 18 and a half years of her life, which had been totally normal and nothing too exciting had ever happened, had become tons more exhilarating and a hundred times more adventurous. She still hadn't fully processed the fact that she'd met her anime crush, and, like her pair of best friends, had free access whenever she wanted to the actual world of Hetalia itself and still be home in time for tea. Something as extraordinary as that took a little bit longer to completely sink in. 

"Psst." Came the quiet sound of Arthur's voice, whispering from behind a corner of one of the outer brick walls of the house to get her attention without being noticed by any of the others. "Psssssst. Jen, over here." 

Ever so sneakily, she crept over to where he was hiding around the corner of America's house, trying not to smirk at the memories of the episodes where he spied on the Axis trio from around a brick wall dressed in sunglasses and a black suit, like James Bond. She turned her head for a moment and watched Eleanor and Sandra both disappear through a portal back to the human realm as she approached him. 

"Hi England. What's up?" She whispered to him, as she got the feeling that, by the way he'd discretely beckoned for her to go over to him, he wanted no one else to hear what he was about to say.

"I... it's just... I need your advice on something." The bushy-eyebrowed country said quietly to his fellow Briton. As he spoke, he stammered with his sentence in a few places because of how much of an embarrassing topic it was. "Advice on how to... how to confess your feelings to a woman. Because there's one girl that I've fancied for a bit of time now and, well, I was wondering how best to break it to her." 

"Depends. Who is it?" 

After taking a moment, he leaned forwards and whispered the name of his love interest in Jenny's ear just in case they were being overheard, which was unlikely, but it still didn't hurt to take an extra precaution. Her sky-blue orbs widened in surprise when he revealed who it was. 

"Ah. Don't worry, I know just how you can express your feelings to her in the best way and at the best time." She held up her index finger in a reassuring way. "What you're gonna want to do is..." And then she herself leaned towards his own ear and murmured the method for his love confession to the girl who he fancied.