Just reminding anyone, this is the last chapter that was posted on Deviantart. After this, both the Country and Planet stories on both sites with be updated at the same time.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN HIMARUYA AND ROSEL-D'S AWESOME COUNTRIES AND PLANETS AND STUFF.

[III]

-STARTING TO GATHER AND THE CAPTURED EARTH-

After Lady Milky Way, Sol, and Luna were informed of the meeting, Milky Way had to leave. She said that she was going to arrange help from the Universe and instantly disappeared.

Arthur raised an eyebrow. Sol saw his expression and chuckled. "You don't question it," Sol told his nephew, "Just accept it."

While Lady Milky Way was doing that, Arthur was to accompany Sol and Luna to inform the planets, moons, and stars of the meeting. Arthur found out that the house of the celestial objects were somewhere on Earth, but they were sometimes in conditions that were considered extreme to humans. That's why Arthur was surprised when he was heading to Death Valley, California. Sol told his nephew that Mercury and Venus had their houses on Earth in Death Valley. It was a good thing Arthur was a nation or he would have died from heat stroke.

The sweltering weather really wasn't helping his mood, and Sol's constant fawning wasn't helping either. He kept saying "V-chan this" and "V-chan that". Arthur really wondered if Francis and Sol were related. If they were, and the white haired woman from before said they were, then it would make so much sense. Arthur was really having the urge to break the man's neck but that would have to wait for another time. Unfortunately for Sol, he chose a bad time to make such comments.

"Their climates on their real homes are extremely hot, that why my V- chan is so ho-"

Before Sol could finish, he got a fist in his face. Sol face-planted the sand while Arthur was death glared him. Luna watched, intrigued.

"I don't know who your talking about, but I don't like the way you're describing her. If you don't want another fist in your face, I suggest you shut up," Arthur threatened, green eyes narrowing into slits.

At that moment, Sol understood why Arthur was Venus's favorite. They acted almost the same, both with short tempers and a hard fist. They looked the same as well, his nephew just had to have normal eyebrows and gold eyes and he would look like a genderbent Venus. Sol had a hunch that his cooking was as terrible as his aunt's, if not worse. Sol hastily stood up and dusted the sand off him. In all reality, he wasn't angry but he was happy. Just happy to have another Venus, albeit a younger and male version. Sol grinned and ruffled Arthur's hair, eliciting a growl from the shorter Brit. Sol gave chase and after a few seconds of realization, Arthur ran after him.

"You bloody damned bastard!" he shouted.

Luna simply walked, listening to Sol's laughter and Arthur's threats disappear in the wind.

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"I hope you have a meeting room big enough to fit everyone," Luna said as the three approached Mercury's house.

Arthur raised an eyebrow. "How many are coming?" he asked.

"It matters on how many agree to come, but I assure you, it will most likely be a lot," Sol answered.

Arthur glared at Sol and Sol responded with a smile. Arthur marked Sol on his "Stupid Gits" list right under Francis. The self proclaimed star (the Brit thought it was self proclaimed) was quickly getting on his nerves and even though Sol might be his uncle, Arthur would kick him to the sky without a second thought. After Arthur crossed his arms, Sol and Luna walked right up to Mercury's door and knocked.

The person who opened the door was short. Rather short for his age, Arthur figured. He (well, he figured the person was a boy) had brown hair with one side grown longer than the other. Chocolate-gold eyes sneered at the sight of Sol, which Arthur took interest in. When his attention turned to Luna, he smiled.

"Luna! What are you doing here?" he asked, "Why are you here with Sol?" His eyes drifted to Arthur and Arthur thought he saw a trace of surprise and longing, "...And why'd you bring Arthur?"

Arthur's eyebrows furrowed. This man knew who he was? The Briton didn't know him! Luna smiled sadly before sighing.

"News isn't traveling as fast as we hoped," she said when he looked back at the two next to her, "Mercury-kun, we have to talk."

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Yao leaned against the Great Wall of China while looking around the landscape. The lush green plains and forests were spotted with farmers here and there as the wall towered over them. The sun was perched high in the sky while obscure clouds drifted here and there to be the bringer of shade. Yao brushed some of his bangs away from his face, his brown eyes raking the landscape in front of him. As the eldest of the nations, he was the only one who remembered the existence of his mother, Earth. He had always wanted to tell his brothers and sisters that they were the children of mother Earth himself (and that Earth is actually a man but that's beside the point). However, he couldn't ruin the most well kept secret in the entire universe by telling the other countries who they really were. It broke his heart just thinking about it. Yao looked up at the clouds and began to daydream about his past, before he was forced to be left alone...

9|9

Earth stood before a large plain of land with mountains and hills dotting the area. The forests in this large area were large and lush, filled with a multitude of species to occupy them as homes. Rivers flowed in and out valleys and carved their own designs into the ground below. In Earth's arms was the squirming bundle of a young baby China. Little Yao's hands were in his large red sleeves as he waved his arms around. Yao's bright brown eyes sparkled with wonder and excitement at this unfamiliar place. It was so beautiful to the little nation's eyes, the way the light from Uncle Sol reflected off the water to make it sparkle, the way the chirping of the birds was music to his ears.

"Mama, what is this place?" Yao asked as he reached out his hands towards the land again, "It's soooooo pretty!" Earth laughed and cuddled the toddler, his warm blue eyes soft pools of bright aquamarine.

"It's a very special place just for you Yao," Earth answered, "You like it here, right?"

"Very!" China chirped, "Very, very much Mama!"

"Then I'm giving you a very important job. Are you up for it?"

"Yes! Yes! What is it, Mama?"

Earth now looked up to see the large land in front of him. Carefully cradling Yao in only one arm, Earth extended the other arm towards the land in front of them.

"See, among all these rivers, mountains, plains, the land extends as far as the sun can lead you. And this fertile land, I entrust it to you and your people." Earth's voice had softened considerably. Had Yao been a normal toddler, he wouldn't have understood what his mother said. However, Yao wasn't a normal toddler and Yao's eyes sparkled even more when he heard his mother's words.

"This is mine?" the toddler asked with excitement in his voice. Earth smiled and nuzzled Yao's head.

"It is now, Yao. Can you take care of it for me?" Earth asked his son. Yao mocked saluted and laughed.

"Of course I will, Mama!"

9|9

"It's a nice view, isn't it?"

Yao snapped out of his daydream and looked to his left. He wasn't surprised to see a reasonably tanned man with shoulder length black hair. He was wearing a black suit and amber eyes gazed at the sight Yao was looking over. The man looked at Yao and smiled. Yao turned to the man.

"Asia, I'm sure you have heard of what happened?" he asked.

The other man, the large continent Asia had his smile disappear and he turned towards the breath-taking view once again.

"Yes I have, and everyone else has also heard of the news. Strangely, none of the planets had not received the message. I believe that Sol and Luna are now making trips to inform them along with one of your brothers, Arthur Kirkland," he replied.

Yao's eyes widened and Asia looked at the Chinese man.

"Do you mean that Opium- I mean, Arthur remembers them?!" he exclaimed.

Asia shook his head and Yao faltered.

"No, Marie had come to your brother herself. Although she could have been hurt, she had coincidentally brought Sol and Luna," the continent responded.

Yao nodded and looked back at the view of his countryside. Asia did the same and they both stood in silence, until his phone rang. Yao pulled out his phone and saw that it was a text message. Yao opened the message and read it; it was the very same message Arthur had gotten. Yao went over to Asia and showed him the text message.

"Yao, go to the meeting and pretend that you did not know from the beginning. You don't want them to cause a ruckus," Asia instructed.

Yao nodded but was slightly sad that he still couldn't tell his siblings.

"What about you, Asia?" he asked.

Asia smiled and chuckled.

"I hope North America's little brother has enough room for us continents as well."

And the continent strolled away from Yao. Yao watched him leave and he looked at his text message again. His fists clenched and he sighed. With his mother kidnapped, China could barely keep himself from spilling the secret. He wanted everyone to treat each other as siblings, real siblings. That will have to wait, he thought as he began texting his reply to Alfred and, when he was finished, he hit 'send'. Just like that, Yao briskly walked down the Great Wall, slipping his phone into his pocket.

'I'm on my way.'

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Earth silently sat in his cell, curled up tightly in a ball. His tears had stopped long ago and as much as he wanted to cry more buckets, he just wasn't able to. So, he simply curled into a tight cocoon, isolated from his surroundings.

"At least you have something to care for you right now."

Earth's head snapped up and he looked left and right. Who was that? He crawled towards the bars and carefully, not touching the metal bars, stuck his head through them. He looked to the right, where the voice had come from. His eyes widened.

Sitting in the cell to the right was Kepler 22b.

He was the splitting image of Earth except for some things. The curl on his hair was merely shaped as a question mark and that drooped slightly. His white vest and blue polo was covered in dirt spots. His dress pants were ripped in certain parts. His cerulean eyes were dull, similar to Earth's own.

Kepler 22b smiled weakly before Earth pulled away from the bars. He knew who was to his right but what about his left? Earth knocked the wall to the left and he heard rustling in response.

"Yes, what do you want?"

Earth frowned and peaked at the left instead of the right.

There he found Gliese 581g.

He was also another case of being Earth's splitting image but most of his body was covered by a long, prehistoric looking evergreen cloak. His hood concealed his curl but Earth could tell that 581g parted his hair the same way as himself and 22b. He had green eyes unlike either of the habitable planets. His cloak was ripped pretty badly, since Earth could see hints of bear skin pants that were folded up and a bear skin tunic. Vaguely, there was a dagger (an animal tooth dagger no less) tied around his waist.

Earth pulled away from the cell bars once more and his genius mind began to deduce the reason of why all of them were here.

Earth, Kepler 22b and Gliese 581g were all habitable planets, that much he knew. They all supported life of some sort and they were right in the 'Goldilocks Zone'. What did that have to do with anything?

Footsteps caught his attention and before his flights could continue down the road of deduction, he heard a very familiar voice.

"I'll devour..."

Earth's breath hitched. The gears in his head turned rapidly. Only one person could get his hands on them.

Black Hole had captured the three of them.

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Monday, 6:00 pm/ 1800 American Eastern Time

Alfred paced the meeting room, his thumb and index finger stroking his chin. What was that? What the heck happened earlier that day?

It was just a regular old Monday, Kiku had gone to his house (more like Alfred dragged him there) and the two started to play Black Ops. Kiku had hacked into the game and the two flew through the game quickly, much to Alfred's dismay but delight. During the game, it was like all the sound around them muted and all they could hear was a meek little voice.

"To all my children, who I had abandoned... I'm sorry..."

The atmosphere around them changed, even Alfred could sense that something was wrong. Kiku's face stayed neutral, but Alfred could tell that Kiku sensed the sudden tension in the air.

The Blacks Ops game was shut off and neither nation was complaining. They didn't bother to turn it back on, for that they didn't have anymore adrenaline. Kiku had told Alfred to call Matthew and Francis to ask if they had also heard the voice. Their response had come in positive and all three of them agreed to arrange an emergency meeting. If Matthew and Francis also heard it, chances are everyone else heard it.

Alfred took out his iPhone when it rang. The lock screen had a bubble that said that he had 10+ text messages over the span of ten minutes. He unlocked the phone and went to his messages to see that a majority of nations had replied to his message. They all were in different languages, but he knew the gist of them. They said that they were coming.

Alfred scrolled through the messages while checking off who replied in his brain. In the end everyone replied except for one.

The American grimaced as he went to send a message to the only one who didn't reply. He expected the guy to reply, but he guessed wrong.

-Hey Artie, did u get the message?-

Alfred got an instant reply, much to his surprise.

-Alfred, I'm bringing guests. I hope you are ready.-

Alfred's eyebrows rose.

-What?-

And he didn't get a reply.

[END III]