Crystalline Constellations

S2 E6: Cold Days, Warm Hearts [Part 1/2]

"Got you! Ve~." Exclaimed Italy cheerily on Saturday February 16th, having just been the cause of a snowball hitting the back of Starfire's head. Over the last day and a half, after Valentine's Day, it had started snowing in both the human realm's London and in the Hetaverse, and so the Zensairan quartet and the main 10 Hetalia nations (including Canada and Prussia), along with all 5 of the Nordics, had decided to meet up so as to have a day full of fun in the snow together. The location which they were at right now was a clearing in a woodland area, halfway up a mountain in the alps close to Austria's house, because there'd be even more snow here, so much that it would almost seem like an unlimited supply. 

"Boy you just asked for it!" The black-haired teen said in response with a laugh, and she used her telekinesis to lift up some pieces of snow from the ground, using this same non-physical method to mold these pieces together into snowballs, and then thrust her arm forward to send them hurtling towards the Mediterranean country.
"I surrender, you got me, I surrender!" He called out back to her as he waved his arms around in an attempt to shield himself from the snowballs, which proved to be about 90% unsuccessful. He wasn't genuinely scared like he was in the series during the Axis vs Allies moments, he was instead just yelling this in a manner that indicated how exhilerated he was due to playing around in the snow at this point in time.

"So what do you think it's all about?" A few meters away, Eleanor asked this to Jenny and the German brothers in mid conversation, because not only had there been a report on the BBC news of an electronics warehouse being broken into and raided a couple of weeks ago, but the previous night it had also been described on the news about how another warehouse, this one dealing with pharmaceuticals, had been raided as well. The news reporter had said herself that both of these incidents were suspected to be the work of Jason Peugot and Martin Keates.

"None of us know for definite, not even yours truly." Replied Prussia, maintaining the general air of his well-known awesomeness but showing an expression of equal uncertainty and perhaps worry - it was hard to fully read his face. "But I've got a feeling it's something which isn't awesome at all." 

"Ja, I agree. Whatever that pair are doing, I doubt it's anything good." Germany opined. He had a calm and collected demeanor, feeling as if he was responsible for his friends' safety and therefore needed to set an example by being resolute like this. "What are those 2 playing at...?"

"It wasn't confirmed for certain that it was even them who raided those warehouses, but if it was them, which is very likely, they're probably using the electronics they stole to put together a weapon of some kind." Jenny said her own input. "And the drugs they nicked could probably be so that they can make it a bio-weapon..."

Their conversation was interrupted when she felt something soft hit her back, and that soft thing exploded on the top of her coat, leaving masses of snow sat there.

"Hey you guys, aren't you going to join us?" Denmark, who was deduced to be the one who threw the snowball at Jen, called out to them while the other 4 Nordics stood beside him. Iceland's puffin was happily sat down on its master's head as if it was nesting.

"Ja, just coming Denmark! Kesese~!" Gilbert yelled back, regaining his usual personality and kneeling down towards the ground, merging some of the snow there together into a snowball which he was about to use to retaliate. The others beside him soon found themselves joining in with these antics, forgetting about all the troubles in the universe and enjoying this day out with their companions.

The next hour or so went on like this, with everyone rushing around like excited children and either constructing snowmen together or pelting each other with snowballs (during which Russia threw a huge snowball that was almost as big as his torso), providing them with a feeling of being both equally cold and flushed. The air around them was freezing, but this was causing their body temperatures to just rise even more as protection against it; although Sandra and Jenny were both somewhat less hot than the others, because the abilities they had served as protection instead of their body temperatures.