Hetalia Plays Slender Chapter 1


      A regular day in the G-8. Everyone is readying themselves for the meeting. Russia stands in the corner, slowly creeping over the two bickering nearby. China fusses over how he is the oldest while Canada, of course, is not noticed and sits in the corner. Italy, Germany, and Japan have a conversation about what they were going to do over the weekend. “What do you want to do over the weekend Germany?” Italy questions.
      “Well... Its getting pretty close to Halloween... maybe play a scary game? ” Germany answers.
      “A scary game? That’s creepy!!!” Italy complains.
      “That’s a good idea, actually. My games might work but still... I want to try something else this weekend,” Japan responds.
Germany asks Japan and Italy,” Then what game should we play?”
      “We could ask America,” Italy suggests.
Germany says,” You know what, that is a good idea. I think I will ask him today. By the way, where is America? He should’ve been here thirty minutes ago.”
Suddenly, as if on cue, America sprints into the room, causing England, who just stopped fighting with France and was then sipping tea, to spray out his drink. Germany, Italy, and Japan are gawking at what a mess America made in his entrance. The door was completely wrecked and there was shrapnel everywhere.
       “WHAT THE BLOODY HELL AMERICA!” England screams.
       Without even noticing that everyone was staring at him like he was crazy, America yells,“Hey dudes! I got this awesome game i found on the internet called Slender! Anyone wanna play with me?”
       “Stop screaming!!!!” England orders, covering his ears in annoyment.
       Continuing his “speech” America concludes,” Come over to my place at 5:00 and we’ll all play it together. Don’t come, and i’ll invade your country and destroy it! Good day.” With that he leaves the room as recklessly as he came in. England chases after him while America prances along laughing like the weirdo he is.
       “Well that was coincidental,” Germany concludes.
       “Do you think we should go?” Japan asks.
       “I think it will be lotsa fun! I make sure to make pasta for everyone!” Italy childishly says.
Sealand peeks into the conference room. “Maybe if i attend this party, they’d have to accept me as a country,” Sealand thinks to himself. He slips away, unspotted, plotting his “amazing” entrance to the said party. England reenters the room, exhausted and frustrated.
       “Why that idiot. Why... does... he... have... to be so FAST!” England whispers to himself. France walks over and pats him on the shoulder.
       Outside, Prussia hears about the party and decides to crash it, doing whatever it takes to send his “awesomeness” everywhere.


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       At exactly 5:00, Japan enters America’s house. “Hey there Japan, you’re super early. I was expecting everyone to get to the heros house later on in the day,” America says, placing some snacks on the table.
       “Uhh, well I didn’t want to be the last one here. It seems that I am the first one,” Japan quietly adds,” Germany and Italy wanted to stay home to make all the pasta. Germany just didn’t want Italy to make a mess.”
       “Hey, well since you’re here, do you want to watch a scary movie with me before we play?” America asks with a sad expression,” I don’t want to be the one who chickens out first.” America shoves Japan onto the couch and slides in a disc with the letters of the movie scribbled out. He shivers and sits down slowly as Tony lays down in front of the tv.
       Japan curiously says,” What movie is this? Is this a Japanese horror?”
       “Umm, no. Its an American movie! This one was said to give people nightmares for weeks,” America creepily answers.
       “Oh good grief. Hopefully its not one of those cheesy movies he made me watch before,” Japan wonders honestly. The title screen pops up with a loud scream as America presses the play button. Both Japan and America jump, except America hit the ceiling and nearly passed out.
       “You know, maybe we should save this for later when everyone else is here, ok?” America inquires as he bends over and tries to get rid of the terrible headache he got when hitting the ceiling. Japan simply answers with a nod when turning off the tv quickly. America hand motions to follow him. They reach a room with a good number of computers. There were about fifteen laptops laying in a circle in the conference room.
       “Wow, you’ve gathered quite of laptops for this event,” Japan notes.
       “Well, my boss wasn’t happy when I told him we were having a party, so then I told him we were having a conference and I was the host. He accepted it after I said that haha! That stupid boss,” America teases. He continues with,“I stole some of the computers from the manufacturing companies-”
       “YOU SHOULDN’T STEAL COMPUTERS!!!!” Japan yells, breaking his normal composure.
“HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA,” America laughs hysterically.
       America ignored anything else Japan said after that, sitting down at a computer and welcoming Japan to sit next to him. Japan stops pouting and sits down, apologising for his rash behavior. America explains to Japan what Slender is and gets the Slender multiplayer business down. “You have to get the eight pages that are strewn across the map. Though unlike the original, in the multiplayer version, you have more than one person collecting pages. This version is like a group version of slender,” America explains excitingly. "Of course, this might make the game way too easy, so there's a much bigger map and more pages to collect depending on the number of people playing." America launches the game and adds Japan to his 'group' and begins the game, ominously pressing the “Start” button. They are at the opposite sides of the map. America strolls around while Japan slowly inches forward, forgetting how to move around. “Dude! Japan, why are you so sluggish? You have to use the wasd keys and the mouse. That’s common sense. How do you not know that?,” America instructs.
       “Well you’re American games are different from our Japanese games,” Japan states. He starts to get ahold of the controls when suddenly his screen turns full of static.
       “Hey America?” Japan asks calmly.
       “Yeah, whats up?” America replies
       “Why is my screen turning staticy?”
       “Oh shoot! Dude! Hold down shift and start to run for your life!” America pushes Japan out of his seat and starts to sprint away. Japan, still on the floor slowly tries to get up but quickly shoved down by America’s flailing elbow. Japan sighs heavily and lays down on his back, looking up at the ceiling. The doorbell rings, along with a halfhearted knock.
       “Sorry Japan, but I couldn’t save you,” America concludes, staring at the white face on the screen.
       “Its alright America, but there is someone at the door,” Japan points out. America gets up out of his chair and walks casually over to the door as Japan closes America’s computer after noticing that he too was dead. America opens the door slowly and looks outside. It seemed that there was no one there.
       “Um Japan?” America asks, shaking uncontrollably.
       “Yes,” Japan Answers questioningly.
       “There’s no one at the door,” America says as he slowly opens the door wide open to show there was no one there. By then, Japan was already at the door taking a look outside. He notices that wasn’t the case, but starts shaking and thinking that an evil spirit had been haunting America’s house. Then, out of nowhere, Japan starts to hear a faint voice.
       “I’m here! Notice me! Hello?” the Mysterious Voice announces softly.
       “Um, Hello? Who are you and what do you want wandering spirit!” Japan yells, nearly fainting America, for the second time, and causing the Mysterious Voice to fall down, creating a thumping noise on the porch.
       “I’m Canada!” the Mysterious Voice screams softly. Finally, America notices the semi-invisible canadian and lets him in, while joking how scared he was. Japan constantly apologises for the inconvenience, and promises to give Canada one of his new games later.
       “Well now that you’re here, might as well play a more sophisticated game of Slender, with three players,” America inquires.
       “Sounds good,” Japan agrees as he elbows Canada softly. The trio sits down at the computer. Starting out the game, Canada automatically runs off quickly, grabbing pages left and right. Within minutes, he gets ahead of America with six pages and heads towards the seventh page.
       “Dude! How can you gather so many pages in such a short amount of time!” America exclaims.
       “Yes. I haven’t even collected one page at all,” Japan emotionlessly says.
       “Well, you know how I’ve always wanted to win against America?” Canada quietly questions.
       “Yes, I have,” Japan replies.
       “Well this is one of the many games I am good at. I’ve beaten him countless times at this game. Sucker!” Canada brags, raising his voice unnecessarily. Japan gets in a state of shock that Canada could be so rude towards people, only knowing Canada’s soft and kind side. America just frowns and calls for a rematch claiming, “he wasn’t ready.” This time Japan sat it out. He didn’t want to interrupt America and Canada’s unexplainable rivalry. He travels to the door and opens it up to see that England, France, and China coming up from the sidewalk.
       “Hello there China, England, France,” Japan welcomes.
       He lets them inside, ignoring the ongoing insult wars between America and Canada. “Don’t pay attention to those two. They are in a state of competition,” Japan explains.
       “Oh, haha. Those two are always at it huh?” England points out.
       “Oui… well I should get some food ready,” France says as he sets some plates on the table next to the other snacks. China walks to the kitchen to start cooking food. England, still standing in the front door starts a conversation with Japan.
       “So....” England asks awkwardly,” how is it going with you? I see Italy and Germany aren’t here right now.”
       “Well, Germany stayed for a little longer with Italy to make sure that he doesn’t make a mess in his kitchen while making pasta,” Japan replies.
       “I see.”
       “Yes. This party is starting to turn out okay, even if some people didn’t show up yet. I guess some people want to show up late as a ‘trend.’ I really don’t think people should pick up customs from America.”
       “Exactly, right?” England answers as he slowly side-steps towards the table while quickly adding a plate of black crispy unidentified pieces of food to the items already there.
       “England, what are those?” Japan questioningly says.
       “Uh... um... party... favors?” England hesitantly throws together.
       “Party favors.”
       “Party favors.”
       “Party favors?”
       “Yes,” England concludes as he walks to one of the computers and changing the subject,” do you want to play a game with me Japan?”
       “I’ve already played before, but I guess it won’t hurt to get a little more practice,” Japan answers, sitting next to England and across from America and Canada. America, once again, didn’t get as many notes as Canada and their voices could be heard throughout the entire house.
       “DUDE, I WANT A REMATCH CANADA! THAT WAS TOTALLY UNFAIR!” America screams.
       “But if I rematch with you, then you’ll just get angrier,” Canada quietly says, acting calm and collected, but obviously amused.
       “I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU TELL ME I AM GOING TO WIN THIS TIME!”
       “Okay, okay. You can have your stupid rematch, but you know you’re not going to win anyway.”
       “Fine,” America mumbles as the volume in the house lowers. England and Japan both shrug and open up Slender to play themselves. As Japan connects the computers together, England starts to have second thoughts.
“So, uh... what does this Slenderman person look like?” England asks warily.
“It has no face and wears a tie and tuxedo. It’s really tall and makes you scream because it teleports slowly behind you,” Japan says, surprisingly calm. The game starts and both end up spawning on two different sides of the map.
       “Oh come on,” England sighs as he starts walking around,” why is it that I have to walk around alone. I mean… it’s not like I’m... scared or anything.”
       “Nice,” America yells from across the table,” you’re scared of a little slendy huh?”
       “Same for yourself America,” England mocks. Japan finds a large concrete tube and starts to walk through. He finds a note and happily chuckles. England still wanders in the middle of the map completely disoriented of which way to go.
       “So, what’s the point of that bathroom?” England asks.
       “Its where one of the notes are,” Japan answers.
       “Oh god.”
       “What is it?”
       “I’m not going in that place!” England declares. Japan facepalms and explains how he has to go in there to win the game.
       “Oh. Japan, you go in there!” England insists. He slowly backs away from the bathroom and turns around. Slender peeks from behind a tree. England freezes up and stares straight back at him. The screen starts to fill with static, and shattering the silence is England’s terrified scream. France, still cooking when he heard the screams, looks through the doorway to the computer room. He sees England backed against a wall with Japan frantically trying to calm him down.
       France interrupts the nonsense and says, “Honhonhon. It seems that our Black Sheep of Europe is screaming like a little girl. See? I told you I was stronger than him.”
       “Hey,” England angrily yells,” I bet you couldn’t play this game for more than two seconds!”
       “You’re on.”
       “Come here and try Cheesy Monkey.”
       France slowly turns around and continues towards the kitchen.
       “Where are you going,” England says, taunting,” are you scared?”
       “No! I.... I mean.... Of course not. Why would I be terrified of the scariest game that I’ve seen so far.” England sighs and silently facepalms.
       “Um. Excuse me Britain, but you’re still playing,” Japan calmly informs.
       “Oh god,” England spins around in his chair and faces the computer screen again. Slender hadn’t moved an inch since he left. England dramatically inhaled and sprinted as fast as he could in the opposite direction. The static hesitantly switched from being there to disappearing completely. Japan, on the other hand, was strolling through the woods and clearly nervous.
Japan admits,” Horror movies are not even close to how nerve racking this game is.”
England nods his head as he almost runs into Japan.
“AHHHHHHH!!!!”
“Oh, sorry Japan. I didn’t see you there,” England apologises. Japan starts hyperventilating and England has to continue to apologise to Japan until his heavy breathing slowed down to slight panting. England exhaled in relief and they continued. So far, Japan collected five pages, while England only picked up two. Slender was close behind in the trees, so England and Japan quickened their pace. During their intense game, China decidedly wanders into the room while checking behind him every couple seconds to make sure the food he was cooking wasn’t burning.
       “Aiya, France, you keep watch on my side of the kitchen for me okay aru?” China asks.
       “Oui, I will,” France replies.
       “Thanks aru.” China sits next to Japan.
       “Hey Japan, what are you two doing?”
       “Playing Slender. What else?” Japan replies in a “how could you not know” voice.
       “Oh. Can I join aru?”
       “Wait--” Japan is cut off to the loud sound of the pounding piano that signifies the arrival of Slender. Both Japan and England slightly jump in their seats as they both give each other random commands.
       “TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT!” England screams at the top of his lungs.
       “HOLD SHIFT! YOU’RE NOT GOING FAST ENOUGH!” Japan, yells, making China jump. This goes on for a full two minutes until both continuously have their voices crack and they give up. Slender’s static fades away as the two high five and congratulate themselves--even if it wasn’t that important. Meanwhile, China sits there, stunned by how engaged in the game they are.
       “You know what, I think I’ll pass on playing right now aru,” China says while quietly and slowly getting up from the seat he was sitting at and inching his way back to the kitchen. France, overhearing what went down in the computer room, sighs as he nods his head in disapproval. China, obviously worn out from the screaming, whispers to France,” Whatever you do, don’t go near that duo. They’re insane aru.”
       “Yes I know,” France quietly responds. China walks back to his half of the kitchen to continue his cooking.
       America and Canada stopped playing for a little while and let Kumajiro handle everything. Although Canada was worried that Kumakichi might get frustrated with playing two computers at the same time, America persuaded him that it was okay, and that he was good with this kind of thing.        
       Canada accepted the Americans reasoning much quicker than he normally would, finding that the competitive atmosphere he and America had created made him a noticeable presence, putting him in a very happy mood.
       They were just leaving the computer room before SLAM!
       "THE AWESOME ME HAS ARRIVED!"  A familiar Prussian voice resounded through the house, followed by the loud noise of a frying pan smacking said Prussian. "I'm here too!" Hungarys voice shouted, a little quiter and less obnoxious than the one with a frying pan in the back of his head.


(Cyndi I think this could be used to end a chapter with some editing. I'll delete a lot of the countries showing up, as it's been written, and I think I can introduce some of these characters in a better way)
---*magical time skip brought by Flying Mint Bunny*---


  Apparently everyone showed up to the party, including those who weren't invited. Italy brung pasta as promised, and England, much to everyone’s horror, brought food as well. America was watching a few scary movies in 'preparation' for Slender. Most countries facepalmed at this, knowing America. Russia was too busy avoiding Belarus to scare anyone, who showed up through the window a few moments after Russia did. Austria was playing a scary piano solo while most of the other countries listened in. In other words, the countries were getting along--for the most part anyway. France had tried to pull a pedobear on a few of the countries, with a knee to the crotch being involved at the end, courtesy of Hungary. And of course, right as people were about to eat dinner, Prussia shows up.
"The awesome Prussia is here to play the game!" Prussia exclaims excitedly, bursting through the door.
       Austria slams on the keys and looks up towards the door, as did everyone else. Romano then beats him with a tomato, although it had no effect.
       “ Why didn’t you come on time if you were coming!” Romano complains, throwing the  last of his tomatoes at Prussia.
" I'm too awesome to be on time man," Prussia replies.        
"Alright, who invited Prussia?" Austria angrily shouts out.
        " He wasn't invited..." Japan answers.
Before a full-blown argument could break out, America, after running out of the movie room screaming for mercy, and distracting everyone from the "awesome" Prussia, starts directing people to the computer room in a calm manner. Prussia, of course, decides to push through the crowd of people and sits down at the computers first. The rest of the Bad Touch Trio follows. Slowly, everyone is seated and has their computer screens opened up to Slender: Multiplayer version.
Dinner wasn’t going to be finished until later, for Prussia wouldn’t allow something as boring as dinner go on smoothly and peacefully. Many of the countries complained about the food, so China came in with some Chinese tasty treats that he had prepared earlier. Although it did fill them up, it only lasted for a few minutes before they were hungry again. China hoped that it would last long enough for him to play a little bit. France was glad he was busy cooking, and blamed that he couldn’t play because of his job as a cook.
---*magical time skip brought to you by Flying Mint bunny… again*---
“All right,” America announces to the countries after a few rounds “ We’re winning this game too easily with all the countries on one map! Only Germany, Russia, Prussia, and I, the Hero, have gotten any pages. From now on, everyone get a group of at least two and start playing on your own server”
     
     All the countries scrambled to form their teams, getting together in small groups before grabbing some snacks and starting up their servers. it was going to be a night filled with horror, and man was it going to be fun...