Tale of the Inheritance of the Hero

The second chapter is so much shorter than the first chapter but there is nothing more I can expand on.  Feliciano is going to meet a new character! But who could it be? Well, I guess you will just have to find out. 

Disclaimer: I do not own any Hetalia: Axis Powers characters or story plot.  (sigh) If only...

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Chapter 2: The Swordsman

"A journey is like marriage.  The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." - John Steinbeck

            Starting a journey at night is not what a normal adventurer would do.  In fact, waiting until morning would probably be the smartest thing to do in Feliciano's case.  But unfortunately, because Feliciano was so caught up in the moment of finding courage to rescue his brother, he forgot about this very important fact.  Two hours into his journey, Feliciano was already lost.  He decided to cut straight through the woods to save time, but without any light to see where he was going nor having no light to even to read a map, it was quite hopeless. 

            Feliciano sat down in a huff.  He was already tired, aching, hungry and wanted to go home. He looked up and saw that the canopy of trees was so full that he couldn't even see the stars.  With no stars to guide him in light or direction he concluded that he might as well rest until morning. 

            "Perhaps I'll climb a tree and sleep on the branch!" Feliciano pondered out loud.  Feliciano picked a tree and tried to start climbing, only to find that he had no strength to climb any tree.  Exhausted and sweaty, Feliciano almost gave up and pass out on the ground when he hit is foot on something solid.  It was a wooden crate. Not really thinking, Feliciano climbed in and made himself comfortable. The random box in the woods was large enough to even fit his staff along with him. Strangely he felt safe in the box and quickly fell asleep.

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            The first thing that Feliciano was aware of was soft murmur of voices.  He tried to ignore them but that was hard due to, especially when the box that he was in started to rock violently.

            "Who the hell would leave a box of tomatoes around?" a voice asked.

            "Is there anything inside?" another voice said.  The box made a violent jerk which Feliciano woke  up completely and without realizing it, he jumped out of the box. 

            "Ve! Don't hurt me! I give up!" Feliciano cried out.  Two men, one with an eye patch and the other with dark ebony skin, both  jumped back in fear.

            "Surprise attack huh? Think your tough?" The man with the eye patch said who started to raise his axe over his dirty, long, brown hair. 

            "Ve? No no no no! I'm weak and little! I just wanted to find place to sleep!" Feliciano started to cry again which made it nearly impossible to understand anything he said.  Without knowing it, Feliciano started to fling his hands around in panic which one hand was still gripping his grandfather's staff.  Both men seeing Feliciano swinging his staff unintentionally raised their suspicion and prepared to attack.

            "You think you can defeat us?" Both men rushed toward Feliciano and turned over the box.  Feliciano went flying backwards and hit the ground hard.  The staff rolled away from him as his breath was knocked out of him.  The eye patched man kicked him in the stomach while the other man proceeded to stomp on his head.  Luckily, Feliciano rolled out of the way in time to avoid his head being smashed into the ground.  Feliciano tried to stand while catching his breath as he assessed his situation.   

            Feliciano could hardly believe his luck.  He has only been out on his adventure for seven hours and he is going to die.  The eye patch man raised his axe again and started to run towards him, a crazy gleam in his eye when all of a sudden, the man stopped his attack. 

            The man was lifted a foot in the air by a stern blond man.  Steel blue eyes stared at the eye patch man as he gripped his long dirty hair haired man at arms length apart. 

            "Hey! What do you think you are doing?" The eye patched man, who accidently dropped his axe, was now flailing around in the mysterious blond man's grasp.

            "You are too loud." The blond hair man replied and threw him across the clearing as if he was nothing but a rag.  The mysterious blond man took a moment to draw out his long sword waiting for the second attack from the dark skinned man, but found that he had already ran off. 

            Feliciano, relieved that he wouldn't die by an axe took a moment to see who had saved him.  The mysterious blond man hair was sleeked back revealing blue eyes that held no nonsense. A broad sword was once again sheathed and was hung on his waist.  The sword was silver and had a single red ruby stone set in the middle of the handle with intricate lines surrounding it.  The blond man stepped up to him with his neat dark pants and a thick black jacket with gold cuffs and blue lining.  It took Feliciano a moment to realize that the man was holding his grandfather's staff over his head.  The moment passed and Feliciano shakily stood up and took his staff again.

            "You should be more careful." his savior scolded.  Feliciano cringed at the advise then shook it off.

            "Ah! Thank you so much! How can I repay you?  Maybe I can make you some pasta? Do you like pasta? You're really strong! Do you know where I am? Which way is the nearest town? My name is Feliciano! What's your name?" Feliciano's amount of questions continued to hit at the man who's temple was slowly throbbing painfully.  The blond man cut Feliciano off before anymore questions were asked.

            "It is nothing, and I doubt you could ever repay me." the blond man looked at Feliciano and noticed how small and weak he is.  "If you follow the path behind me, it should lead you to the village of the valley." Without another word, the blond man walked away from Feliciano.  Feliciano, desperate for company and safety called out to his savior, "Wait! What is your name?"

           The blond haired man turned his head, looking as if considering answering him; but then turned away silently.  The blond haired man disappeared into the darkness leaving Feliciano alone once again.

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Yep! That's right! Germany finally made it into the picture. As usual, if anyone has any comments or suggestions on how to make this story even better than bring it on! I'm here to grow faster than Jack's bean stalk! Until next time.