Cocopuffs rabbit hole

Your behind almost got roasted when you finally managed to reach the door to your barn. This stupid storm got you while you were in the middle of harvesting wheat, and the lightnings of this one were rather aggressive.  

You hoped with all your heart that one wouldn’t hit your barn. It took a lot of days and wood to build. Plus, you’d lose a lot of sheep and cows if that’d happen. 

Speaking of them, your animals were cozily laying around on the hay you laid around yesterday for bedding. It was nice and warm inside the barn, with a few torches serving as light sources. 

While stuck in here, you figured you could at least make the most out of the situation. You pulled out the bit of wheat you managed to harvest, to which all your cows and sheep started to surround you, effectively trapping you in their circle.  

After feeding 3 of your cows and 5 of your sheep, you put the rest away and sat down on a nearby pile of hay. Resting by this soft cushion, you felt your eyes getting heavy. 

You’ve been awake for the past few days, thanks to a certain ‘someone’ ambushing you in your bed for two nights in a row. All because he got jealous of you accidentally giving a flower to that nice spider guy (whom you started to call Lenny). August argued that he was just “making sure that creep wouldn’t get any funny ideas”. How ironic of him... Though couldn’t understand why he had to scare ‘you’ for this, but you let that thought go. At least you managed to get some monster loot you needed. 

You were tired, and the warmth didn’t help much to keep you awake. 

Just when you finally closed your eyes, you felt something heavy lean against you. You thought it was a lamb, those curious little guys loved to move around, staying next to you (mostly when you had food on you). Suddenly, the weight shifted from your shoulder to your thighs. Out of habit, you reached a hand towards it. 

Instead of fluffy wool, you felt silky strands of hair flow through your fingers. 

Your eyes shot open immediately. Lo and behold, your biggest nightmare was resting his head in your lap. 

“Don’t stop.” August’s voice was barely audible and, surprisingly, tired. 

You let your face relax again. A small scoff escaped your throat. 

“I don’t remember having a black lamb in my herd.” You said, raking your fingers through his hair again. “Especially not one with wool like this.” 

August chuckled. “Guess I’m special.” 

For a few moments after this, you two stayed quiet. You still felt a bit angry at August for the sleepless nights he caused you, especially for something so dumb. While deep in thought, he turned his face towards you. Weird, you don’t remember ever seeing his eyes so... alive? The light in them was certainly unexpected. Not only that, but they were soft too. 

From the corner of your eye, you saw his arm move towards yours. His hand was wrapped in a knuckle. With his other hand, he gently grabbed your hand, one you rested on his chest. He turned your palm upside and put something in it. Once you got a clear view of it, you instantly recognized it. 

“Is this...?” You brushed your thumb over the material. August looked away, as if embarrassed by what he was doing. 

“I got tired of their shrieking, and since you’re always low on it...” He mumbled, saying it as if he wasn’t the reason those phantoms appeared in the first place. 

“How about next time, you let me sleep and there won’t be anything shrieking outside at night?” You pocketed the small pile of hide he gave you; you had an elytra that needed fixing after all. As a response, August gave you a frown. 

“I told you already...” He let out a tired sigh. “Forget it. I’m too tired.” 

Before you could say another word, he dragged his upper body next to yours and wrapped his arms around you. 

“August, I think it stopped raining.” You said, trying to wiggle out of his hold. It resulted in him wrapping his cape around the both of you. Though it acted perfectly as a blanket, you knew that it was nothing, but a trap to keep you there. “August, I have to go.” 

Your captor wiggled in the hay, getting himself comfortable with you in his grasp. “You smell nice.” He murmured into your neck. 

“And you smell like a tobacco field, let me go!” You protested. All for naught, he easily overpowered you. In defeat, you wrapped your arms around him, let your eyelids fall and let your body warm in his heat... even though, he was rather cold. Shadow demons (or whatever he was) don’t generate that much heat you suppose. 

Either way, you finally managed to get some sleep. 

You did get interrupted by a curious lamb chewing on the collar of your shirt. You lifted an arm to shoo it away, but the little guy was a stubborn one. As best as you could in August’s bear hug, you turned towards the lamb. 

The sight made you smile. It had ebony black wool, and mischief in its eyes. Must’ve been one of the lambs resulted from today’s feeding. 

You reached your arm towards it. It took a few sniffs of your fingers, then let you scratch the area under its jaw. 

You felt August move his arm towards yours, trying to redirect it back to his torso. 

“You’re ridiculous. It’s a lamb.” You grumbled. August shrugged. 

“You’ll slaughter it anyway. I’m just trying to keep you from getting attached to it.” You saw him pull his hat over his face. 

“You’re late for that. I already named the little guy.” You teased. You could feel August roll his eyes. “I think ‘August’ fits it perfectly.” 

Your eyes landed on Russia who was trying to talk to China and Japan, though they were too freaked out by him to have a proper conversation. You felt bad for Russia, and decided to take him off the other twos hands. He saw you walking over and started to smile. "Oh, hello! You decided to come?" You immediately regretted talking to him first, your trouble in social situations and his horrifying aura were not a good match. "I couldn't miss this party, not after I missed the last one." You laughed nervously, boy, you really couldn't tell what he was thinking. He, unexpectedly, also giggled, "It will be more interesting with you here, da.." He was acting apparently friendly, yet you got even more nervous as you talked to him. Like he was threatening you behind that nice smile.

You were relieved when he got called away by someone else, and you turned to see Japan and China in the corner, not with everyone else. They seemed fine with each other's presence, just standing together watching everyone else. It couldn't hurt to talk to them, right? You needed more friends! You walked over, giving them your friendliest smile. "Isn't this nice, everyone together having fun?" "Hai..it's peaceful.." Japan replied, looking away from you and to the others. Germany was scolding Italy for whatever he did this time. "I also agree," China added, smiling to himself as he sipped his drink. "It is nice to be with everyone like this." Yet they were just watching everyone instead of talking with them. You decided not to say anything about it, that's just their preference. "As long as you guys are having fun, I'm going to go over to the others!" You smiled. China waved bye and you even were able to get a smile out of Japan!

You walked away from them, seeing Canada all alone you waved to him, and he waved back. A little too much due to his excitement from being noticed. You were trying to walk towards him, but you were stopped by France! "Well well..I didn't know you would be here!" He laughed to himself, and tucked his hair behind his ear, was he trying to charm you? "Well I thought it would be fun to come." You shrugged. "Oh, we can have a lot of fun here!" He laughed even louder, no idea what he meant by that, and no matter how handsome he was you don't wanna figure it out. "Well I hope we do.." You cringed as you said that and immediately looked for an excuse to leave.

You had completely forgotten about Canada! Poor him..anyways you ran over to see how Italy was doing, he was holding a plate filled with snacks from the table, trying feed one to Germany, and once he saw you, he started to nudge food to you. "Cmon...it's good!" He nudged some right against your mouth. You shook your head frantically. "No thank you Italy!" You giggled as he took a bite of his own. Germany sighed, "You can't just force feed people.." "Ve? I wasn't force feeding them! It was just so good I wanted them to try! Don't you want to try, Germany?" "No thank you.." Italy giggled and continued nibbling on whatever America had put out on the table.

Eventually you got bored and continued to do whatever at the party. A little later, America started some games that included everyone! And during twister, England had fallen on top of America. America got all sour and ended the game there, due to being a sore loser and all. When Russia brought it up later, it started a whole argument that escalated quickly. Russia didn't mind it, he liked watching the fight. Canada tried being the voice of reason, but no one heard him..

Eventually Germany had raised his voice, "Stop fighting you idiots!" His voice boomed, causing everyone to be silent. England sighed, "What are we doing.. This is a christmas party, we should be laughing together, not yelling!" "You're right, yo!" America shook his head. "I say we play another game to cheer us up.." Japan suggested. "Ohohoho~! I know a little game.." France snickered. "Seven minutes in heaven!" Everyone was shocked. "Absolutely not!" Germany sighed. "As long as I don't land on my brother, or the freaks.." He looked over to England and France, who just tried to ignore him.

“Well, why not?” You decided to be bold! “That's the spirit!” France smiled. So you and France convinced Italy who convinced Germany who “convinced” the others. “Why don't you go first?” France gave you the bottle, and, flustered, you took it and spun it…

It lands on...

America! England!

Canada! China!

Russia! France!

Germany! Japan!