A/N: Hello! Welcome to Magical Hats and Baseball Bats! This story will be centered around Gakuen Hetalia. Only a little bit. So, review and tell me what you think.
I don't know how often this will be updated, but hopefully often ^.^
But the story will be like Harry Potter. Cute and charming then at some point a little dark, but back to cute and charming. :D
Chapter 1
Choose a Country, already!
"Alright, England make this quick." Mr. Smith, the science teacher said. "It's almost lunch."
England waved him off and began his magic- erm sorry- science experiment. It was the Science Fair at Gakuen Hetalia and everyone had to make a science experiment. America made a huge volcano, Greece showed the two species of domestic cats and wild cats, France had an experiment on which woman's lipstick tasted better (he claims its science).
Everyone knew that the supposed science experiment England had was really magic. England was at the front of the classroom where a long table was stretched out for him. On top of the table was a hat. The type a magician would wear.
"Ok, behold as I summon a plethora of bunnies!" England cackled and all the nations shivered. This would not turn at well. England had already begun chanting and the hat began to glow.
"Ok, what the hell is this? This is not awesome!" Prussia commented from the back of the classroom. Austria sighed in annoyance.
"Why are you even here? You were kicked out of the academy!"
"Ja, but I'm a micro nation now. Deal with awesome Prussia!"
Austria and Prussia began arguing and eventually Hungary got involved. Soon, the whole class was in chaos. England couldn't concentrate and chanted the wrong words. Suddenly, a purple haze filled the room and the fighting nations ceased. The hat began glowing and the nations felt a pull toward the hat.
"Yo, Britain, what is up with that hat!?" America yelled.
England was speechless because he had no idea what was going on. All the nations in the classroom were all sucked into the hat. Mr. Smith was hiding under his desk. He was shocked to find all of his students were gone. He picked up the hat England had and looked inside.
Where did they go?
*( Oklahoma)*
"Ms. Davis."
….
"Ms. Davis, wake up!"
"No…"
Martha was happily content with sleeping in her World History class. She has always been good at history so the class was an easy A. however, her teacher, Mr. Nelson, was being a pain in the ass and trying to wake her up.
Mr. Nelson, who was fed up with Martha's attitude, grabbed Martha's manga and took it out from underneath her. Her head landed on the desk with a loud thud. Mr. Nelson inspected the manga. "Hmm One Piece? You like reading about pirates?"
Martha decided to nod and not say anything to Mr. Nelson. His hair was already beginning to turn gray. He was a nice teacher it was just Martha was a difficult student.
"Now, Martha, have you chosen a country to write a report about for the Around the World festival?"
Martha inwardly groaned. Every year the school would put on a Around the World festival ( referred as AW) where students share their countries foods, talk in any accent they wanted, and dress up differently. Basically a day where people goofed off and talked in annoying accents. Each grade level had to set up for AW. Last year it was the freshmen who set up.
It was the senior's turn this year much to Martha's dismay.
"No, I haven't." Martha replied curtly. Mr. Nelson sighed.
"Martha, that was a homework assignment two days ago. Have which country you are doing presented to me tomorrow or you will get a zero."
The bell rang and everyone scrambled out of the class. Martha was glad she was out of there. Martha happened to be too busy to deal with that stupid project. She had to visit her grandmother in the hospital, seeing she was the only family she had left. She had to take care of her eleven year brother, Liam. Then she had a job to help pay the bills and homework.
Yes, Martha's life was hectic, but it's always been this way. Martha was biracial so she had tan skin, black hair, and, surprisingly, blue eyes. The only subject she seemed to excel at was history while at other subjects she failed horribly. Martha was even surprised she got to her senior year.
"Martha, wait up!" Martha turned around and saw her best friend ( and long time crush), Steven running up to her. He had sandy blond hair and warm brown eyes. He was a few inches taller than Martha though.
"Hey, are you ok? I heard about what happened in Mr. Nelson's room." He said as they began walking out of the school. Martha groaned and rolled her eyes.
"He owes me a new manga. I wasn't even done reading it!" She complained. Steven chuckled and patted her on the head.
"Calm down, Martie. Listen, just ask for it tomorrow after you tell him which country to do for AW festival." Martha groaned again. She was glad she didn't have work today because she was afraid she would snap at all of her customers.
Martha had a part time job at Journey's. She worked there on Sundays and Tuesdays. The pay was decent, but Martha wasn't complaining because at least she got money for it.
"Hey, Steven, I'll call you later. I gotta get home and get dinner ready for Liam. See ya!" Martha gave Steven a quick hug and ran down the sidewalk toward their home. It was still pretty hot in Oklahoma. She was glad it rained last weekend.
Martha arrived at her home. It was a ranch style house and it was one story, but it came with a basement and the bedrooms were upstairs. Four bedrooms and three baths was a nice deal. Martha unlocked the front door with her key and came in.
Liam was already sitting at the counter in the kitchen doing his homework. He smiled when he saw her. Liam was adopted. He had light brown hair and green eyes. He had a childlike innocence surrounding him. Sure, Liam was a good kid, but that didn't stop him from being rude from time to time.
"Hey, sis. How was school?" he asked casually as he began tackling his English homework. Martha shrugged and replied it was good.
"I gotta find a country to do for the AW festival. Ugh, I don't wanna do it!"
Liam rolled his eyes. Sometimes you'd think he was the mature one. "Martha, quit acting like a baby and choose a flipping country! It's not difficult."
"I wanna do America."
"A foreign country."
"Yeah, but I can't decide really. Help me, Liam." Martha brought her younger brother into a hug.
"O-ok. Go get a hat, get a list of the countries name online and print it out. Then cut the names out, put them in the hat. Finally, you choose a random country and do that for your report! How's that?" Liam said feeling proud for coming up with a clever idea.
"That's an awesome idea! I love it. I'll go do that right after making dinner." Martha proclaimed.
"Hey, let's have Chinese food." Liam joked and he began to laugh as he saw the look of disgust on Martha's face. When they were younger their grandmother had ordered Chinese food. It resulted in them having food poisoning. So, it was decided from that day forth that they would never have Chinese food again.
Martha and Liam agreed on ordering pizza, finishing their homework, and then watching a movie if they weren't tired. Martha began to do her English and Science homework which she struggled with, but was able to do it.
The pizza arrived and they ate to their hearts content. Afterwards, Martha began doing what Liam suggested. She went into her grandma's room to see if she could find a hat.
Martha's grandma was very sick and in the hospital. Martha and Liam had no parents to care for them, so they were in a pickle. However her Aunt Jenny offered to pay for their grandmother's medical treatment and the mortgage on the house. Martha decided to help out and decided to get a job. She helped her Aunt Jenny pay for the electricity, heat and water bills.
Martha's grandfather died when she was 10. It was hard on all of them, but they knew they had to keep going on with their lives.
Martha entered her grandmother's room and went straight to the closet. She opened it up and saw her grandmother's clothes hung up and the shoes in the bottom. What got her attention was at the top of the closet. It was a hat, the type a magician might wear. This was perfect! Martha reached up and pulled the hat down.
On further inspection, Martha realized there were strips of paper in the hat. One strip was turned over and it said, "America." Well, that saved Martha more time than cutting out pieces of paper. Who knew her grandfather had left something of use?
Martha left her grandmother's room and found Liam in the basement. The basement was very spacious. It had a flat screen TV with a Xbox and Playstation hooked up to it. There was a pool table in the corner. Farther back, there were two air mattresses where Martha and Liam used to have their guests sleep when they had sleepovers. There was a piano that Martha used to play, but she stopped playing and it was gathering dust in the back of the basement. It was also supplied with a couch and a bathroom.
Martha walked over to the pool table and put the hat down on it. Liam inspected the hat and smiled. "Ok, sis. Choose your country." Martha gulped and put her hand in the hat. Her fingers fiddled around in the hat for a minute until Liam yelled at her to hurry up. She pulled out a strip of paper that said:
SPAIN
"Hell no. That country reminds me of too many bad memories at Jen's house." Martha said.
"What bad memories?" Liam inquired.
"The Cheetah Girl's 2! It took place in Spain. God knows how much I hate Disney Channel and their movies. I'm getting another country." Martha pulled out another countries name.
CHINA
"I hate Chinese food." She declared.
AUSTRIA
"Boring!"
RUSSIA
"Too damn cold."
"Martha! Quit procrastinating and choose one!" Liam yelled out of frustration. Usually, Martha was the mature one. Why was she choosing to act like a baby?
"Screw it. I'm going to bed. Night, Liam. Remember we are going to see grandma in the hospital tomorrow." Martha said and trudged upstairs. She took a warm shower, got in her pajamas and went upstairs to go to her room. Her cellphone rang and she talked to her other friend, Jen. The one forced her to watch that damn Disney Channel movie. After talking to her, she curled up in her bed and went to sleep. This time she tried hard not to think of her mother and father, but old memories plagued her mind.
Eventually, after fighting off the bad memories, she fell asleep.
*( The Next Morning)*
"Let's wake her up already. She needs to go to school. Her brother told us too."
"No, the senorita is sleeping and she looks so cute."
"Will she become one with me, da?"
"Don't touch her , aru!"
Voices. Why was she hearing voices? Martha tried to ignore them, but the voices kept talking. Oh no, it can't be happening now. Not now! Martha thought. She began feeling panicked and started breathing heavily.
The four men in the room noticed this. "What's wrong with her? She doesn't seem to well."
Martha wanted them to stop talking. If she opened her eyes and no one was there then…
Martha took a chance and opened her eyes. In front of her were four incredibly handsome men. Martha glanced over to the side of her bed and saw her baseball bat, who she called Sadie. Martha grabbed Sadie and hit the Chinese man. He yelled "Aiyah!" as he rolled around in pain. The two other men scrambled for the door.
The one left standing in her room smiled. "You will become one with me, da?"
Martha growled. "Of course not!" She ran forward about to beat his brains with Sadie until Liam burst into the room.
"Martha, stop it. It's alright. They won't hurt us."
Martha looked at him like he was insane. "Yeah, four random guys in our house. Yeah, that's alright." She replied sarcastically.
Liam went over to Martha and tried to calm her down. She put Sadie down and listened to him speak. "Ok, remember how yesterday you pulled four countries name out of your hat? Well, this is them. I got up early to eat cereal in the basement and these four guys were down there. They looked confused and they told me their names. They are, um, countries."
Martha blinked and scanned the four men in her room. The Chinese man was still holding his nose in agony. The other one was definitely Spanish and the other two men had to be from Russia and Austria then.
"Hold on, so they are countries? Like the ones I pulled out of my hat?" Martha asked as she stared at the four men. Liam nodded.
"That is China." Liam pointed to China who was still holding his nose. "That's Russia." He pointed to the man who wanted to become one with her. "That is Austria. "He had glasses and a mole on his face. "And this is Spain." He pointed to the man who was holding hiding behind Liam.
Martha didn't know what to believe at all. The explanation was reasonable yet really freaky. The thing that she noticed about these countries is that they all had on school uniforms. They had on blue jackets with a V neck vest and a white long sleeved shirt to go under it. They had on blue plaid pants. Martha almost wanted to laugh, but she kept herself from doing so.
"Ok, you are countries?" Martha questioned the four men who nodded in response. "How is that even possible?"
"Um, we are more like the human personifications of our country, aru." China replied.
What Martha really wanted to know is what she and Liam were going to do. Would they have to stay here with them?
"Can't you guys go home or something?" Martha asked.
"No, senorita. We were currently in school and a science experiment done by that idiota England caused us to end up in that hat." Spain replied. He was smiling the entire time which made Martha irritated.
Liam knew that today he was going to see the motherly side of Martha. Yesterday, she acted like an immature brat and today she would be, well, different.
"Liam, I'll call in sick. I don't think going to school and leaving these four alone is such a good idea. Let's go get some breakfast and we can discuss it." Martha said.
"Alright, let's go get some breakfast. I'm starving." Austria yawned and left Martha's room.
Martha had a bad feeling that this day was going to be very hectic.
A/N: Yep, so they took that well. In later chapters you'll find out that a lot of stuff doesn't surprise Martha or Liam. And I bet you are wondering why she is freaking out? All shall be revealed soon!
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