The first to vanish was Denmark. It's not like anything horribly wrong happened to his country, he just wasn't anywhere. At first, the others hadn't thought anything of it -"probably off galavanting through the streets; it's fine, he can find his way home"- but a few days went by and he still hadn't turned up. That's when everyone panicked. And that's when South Korea disappeared. And after him went Lithuania, and then Hungary, then Spain, then Liechtenstein, then Moldova and Bulgaria. One after one they were simply gone from existence. By three weeks, a total of 12 personifications had vanished. All the nations were on high alert, certain they or their loved ones would be next.

When did it start? That's hard to say, but the most common point of view is that it started the day before Denmark vanished October third. On that day was a world meeting held in Bern. The thing that everyone noticed during that meeting was how two particular nations kept whispering to each other and laughing, ignoring all others present. It was peculiar, to say the least because for some time the other nations believed that their cheerful American friend was talking to himself. That was before they realized that he was, in fact, speaking to Canada.

The two went back and forth in low voices during the entire meeting and most of the time afterward, not speaking to anyone else, but continually pointing at others and giggling like schoolgirls. One would occasionally shake his head and glare in the direction of another nation or, on the contrary, nod vigorously and laugh again.

Needless to say, it made everyone quite uneasy.

England speculated that they were planning something. France told him that 'he's just jealous America won't pay attention to him'. Russia and China wanted to take matters into their own hands and knock some sense into the two of them. Germany thought it was ridiculous to be so suspicious, it was none of their business anyway. Japan was indifferent to the matter. Italy didn't really know what was going on and no one planned on telling him.

The exact time that Denmark had vanished isn't known. He could have disappeared any time from midnight when he had left the bar to eight in the morning when Norway came to rouse him for their flight home.

As said before, there was no immediate panic until a few days after Denmark vanished. Only when everyone came to the painful realization that Denmark wasn't off somewhere doing something, he was gone. And at about three in the afternoon on the day that the Nordics began to plead with the other nations to search their countries, even if it was truly pointless since no one felt Denmark enter, was when South Korea disappeared.

This series of events is what led England to be driving up the dirt road to the joint house that America and Canada frequented in order to check on them, as well as to confirm a suspicion.

However, he dearly hoped that he suspected incorrectly.

Trying to upload this from Wattpad. We all know what happened last time I tried that so I'm hoping that it doesn't happen again. Yikes.

SO! Since I've been dead, I decided to post the running story I've been writing for October onto FFN! Yay! Hope you guys enjoy because I have some SHIT planned bois.