Philippines Against The World

Chapter 4

BANG!

A shot was fired.

The other countries were surprised to see that none of them shot anything. They looked back at Philippines and the gun was now shot away from his hand. They looked around for who shot the said bullet, only to find out that it was none other than Spain himself. Spain was there the whole time but was never seen, hiding during the battle. Philippines was enraged for a moment until he stood up. The countries were confused until he faced the edge of the cliff they were on, tears streaming down his face. "Please just let me die already! I have nothing to live for! Everything is gone because of me!" He said starting to run towards the edge.

Someone grabbed his arm.

It was Israel.

He looked at Philippines as if he was the only thing he could see right now. He then pulled Philippines into a warm hug, not wanting to let go for anything in the world. "Please, don't do this, my angel... I know what it feels like to be hurt... I know what it feels like to know that everybody I ever loved die... Please, my angel, stay with me..." He said as Philippines burst into more tears, giving out moans and groans of pure despair.

The other countries felt overwhelming guilt while this happened. They knew that everything that happened, really DID happen. There's no turning back. There's no 'reset' button to make everything go back to the way it was before. Time can't just magically rewind and undo their crimes. A painful pang of guilt struck them like lightning. None of them said anything, just watching with pure sadness as poor Philippines clung onto Israel and Spain for dear life. Philippines couldn't stop suffering and crying. The other countries knew exactly why.

Del Pilar and Martial are dead...

They almost killed Philippines...

They drove him to the point of insanity...

They ruined his life...

They ruined him...

They broke him...

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The countries sat around a huge white table, all of them refused to speak after what they just did. Everyone sat in a guilt-filled silence. No one wanted to talk. On the other hand, there were a few countries that were enraged. The silence broke with a slam.

"Look at what you've done! Are you completely out of your mind?!" Spain was fuming with anger. His gaze directed onto America. Spain obviously wanted to see him pay for what he did to Philippines.

"And what the hell did you do?! All you did was hide, only coming in to save the day!" America sarcastically shouted back at him. Although America felt bad for Philippines, he couldn't accept that it was his fault. No one wanted this, not even him.

"At least he didn't kill Philippines' brothers or went against Philippines in the first place! What happened to your Mutual Defense Treaty?! Face it! Each and everyone of you basically betrayed him and tortured him!" Israel shouts at everyone whole-heartedly. It was obvious in his tone that he was furious with the actions of other countries.

"Most of us were forced into this mess! We didn't want to do that at all! We didn't mean for anything like that to happen in this war!" South Korea shouts while glaring at his brother. South Korea was presumably forced to join this fight by his brother. Now, he was mad at both North Korea and himself.

"The thing is, what did you do to help Philip?! You just let all that happen to Philip?! Why the hell did you have to let his own brothers die just because of this messed up war?! How would you like it if North Korea would die right in front of you?!" Vietnam argued back at South Korea. Giving a fair point, South Korea was forced to sit back down whilst pouring out tears as he regrets what he has done.

"You weren't even anywhere there! You can't talk to us like that if you were no where to be seen! You have absolutely no right to judge! How could you react if all that happened in what seemed like seconds! You're such a hypocrite!" Japan says, trying to defend his partner. Japan then tries to comfort South Korea. South Korea only ends up crying more, only wanting the fight to end and everything to be normal again.

"THAT'S ENOUGH ALL OF YOU!" Russia finally beams, silencing everyone in the room. "We all know what happened. As much as we want to point fingers right now, our main priority is Philip. We hurt him, betrayed him as his friends and, worst of all, killed his brothers!" Russia states while slamming the table. "We have to make sure Philip doesn't do anything to hurt himself. As much as I want his misery to end, I don't want to lose another one of my friends. He's gone through so much already because of us. It's time we finally do something for him, but we can't do that while he's in this state. Please, as much as I hate seeing him like that, we can't afford to lose him." Everyone agrees, though a lot were still furious at the rest. If only they could see how much they've hurt Philippines.