I don't know if Austria-cat is legitimately a stray but he does mention he is an outdoor cat who wants to be an indoor cat. Also, it isn't necessarily an origin story, I just like to imagine that during every world meeting, the cats are also having one.

"So you convinced Denmark to come?" Sweden asked Iceland before the meeting, Iceland was beginning to ask himself how he kept getting into these situations.

"Obviously, who else am I going to ride with? So what do you want me to do, Sven?"

"Keep him distracted and make him paranoid."

"You know, Denmark paid me to keep quiet about the music." Iceland lied.

"Do this and I will give you a tin of ginger snaps." The younger nation's eyes widened slightly before he gave a curt nod, this was why Iceland was so useful, you could buy him off with just about any form of food.

The two nodded again before Iceland walked out of the room, Sweden took out his music player and put in his earbud, loudly play Abba's greatest hits to himself. Now that he had his soundtrack playing, Sweden was ready to make shit hit the fan.

Everything that he needed to do in the meeting room was done and ready to go. Ladonia sat at the table, his laptop was opened to several security footage of the various rooms of the building. Currently, in the top left corner of the screen, Iceland could be seen luring Denmark into a conversation. Making quick use of his time, Sweden went outside of the meeting room and took a role of caution tape out of the childish rucksack he was sporting before wrapping the door knobs shut. Once that had been completed, Sweden took a sign out of a near by supply closest that he had prepared early and placed it in front of the door.

Next, he wrestled a monkey wrench out from underneath a small saw covered in bits of wood, Sweden had been planning his revenge long enough to study how the pipes ran within the building. Pushing up his sleeve and humming Mama Mia quietly, Sweden went to destroy some plumbing.

"-and then on December eighteenth, Hurðaskellir would come and slam all the doors in the house at night, although I think that some of those times were actually Norway doing that to punish me if I didn't say thank you for-"

After almost ten minutes of distracting Denmark, Iceland got a text from Ladonia telling him that it was time.

"Anyway, that's Door Slammer. Let's go to the meeting." He finished in a much more disinterested tone.

"But what about the eight other Yule Lads?" Denmark asked, disappointed.

"Skyr Gobbler, Sausage Swiper, Window Peeper, Doorway Sniffer, Meat Hook, and Candle Stealer. Let's go!" Iceland ushered Denmark towards the meeting room, only to find it blocked off with a sign.

"Doors broken, go around." Denmark read aloud. "These doors look fine."

"Best not to test it," Iceland cut in. "we should just go around like the sign says." Quickly he ushered Denmark down the hall. For whatever reason, the pipes that ran along the ceiling were busted, dripping water and clouding the area in steam.

"Creepy, huh?" Denmark said as they walked. "Is this place an office building or a haunted house?"

"Hey Denmark, can I ask you something?"

"You just did but sure."

"Why haven't you been in the meetings lately?"

"Ya'know how Sweden threatened to kill me over playing the Oresundsvisan song? Well back in viking times..." Denmark rambling on about how he apparently once torched a giant straw goat Sweden made and then woke up the next morning to find all of his furniture sawed in half and his favorite ax wedged into the wall just above his head, and a bunch of other stuff that sounded too weird to be true. "-and that's why whenever Sweden says he's going to kill me, I assume that he's really going to kill me."

"What's that?" Iceland asked, pointing to something glinting in the shadows, he knew full well what it was but he needed to scare Denmark for cookies. Denmark slowly crept towards it, before picking it up.

It was an elk crossing sign. Denmark gulped, before trying to laugh it off.

"Out of place, ain't it?" He smiled. From a tape recorder mounted from a well hidden spot on the ceiling, elk calls began to play. Denmark dropped the sign and grabbed Iceland by the wrist, taking off in a sprint. "WHY IS THIS HALLWAY SO LONG?"

Finally, they entered the meeting room from the back door.

"That never happened." Denmark told Iceland in an uncharacteristically serious voice. Iceland rolled his eyes before looking around the room, any signs that Sweden or anyone else had been there earlier were gone.

On cue, the lights in the room went out, courteously of Ladonia temporarily cutting the circuit in the power room of the building. The windows in the room had been hidden away by dark curtains, leaving the room pitch black. Iceland let out a grunt as he was yanked under the table.

"Iceland?" Denmark called out. "You okay?"

No response.

The sounds of elk trampling around outside the room grew loud and Denmark grew worried. The lights began to flicker dimly and standing directly across from him was the silhouette of a monstrous creature, tall and imposing and beastly. The beast's grunts and heavy breathes were accompanied with the sounds of trampling elks and a creaking door. The lights went back out and everything was silent, then the lights came back on and Denmark was standing alone in the room.

Denmark put on hand over his heart and the other on the table, coming to the conclusion it was just his imagination. Calming himself down a little, he went over to his seat, designated by the name plates placed around the table and sat down.

The chair collapse and Denmark fell the the floor, seems like someone had sawed half way through each leg.

Sweden, Iceland, and Ladonia watched this unfold from Ladonia's laptop in the other room, the mircronation had planted a hidden camera in the meeting room much like he did in the hallway.

"Do you feel at all bad?" Iceland asked him as he ate some ginger snaps.

"A little bit, I'll tell him after the meeting." Sweden responded.

"That monster bit was a real nice touch by the way, if you didn't pull me under the table and distracted him I think he would have noticed that I left."

"I didn't pull you under the table, I was fixing the pipes in the hallway. And Ladonia was hear the whole time." Sweden pointed out, prompting the three of them to wonder who was in the room with Denmark and Iceland.