(I haven't been feeling very motivated to do illustrations recently so a few of these chapters may not have one, I may ask 0luv0love0 to do a couple since you guys seem to like his artwork [and frankly I do too], but that depends on if he wants to do it, other than that, sorry.)

A week later, Mandoria was pacing in his throne room while nervously talking to himself.

"I don't know what to do, I knew that he wanted my territory for a long time but he has never tried anything until now.  Prussia is a very powerful empire for such a young age, if he challenges me to an aerial duel I won't stand a chance, and if I lose he will be going after my sons next."

As Mandoria was fretting, five winged countries were watching him with worry in their eyes.  Being the King Wing, Mandoria had authority over all other winged entities, he could tell them what to do and summon them when he needed help, whether the entities listened was up to them.

The countries were Wales, the nordic brothers Norway and Denmark, Polish-Luithian Commonwealth, and Ottoman Greece.  Wales had dragon wings and tail, Norway and Denmark had active-soaring wings like seagulls, Commonwealth had four angle-like high-speed wings, and Ottoman Greece had golden eagle wings and a lion tail like that of a sphynx.

"King Mandoria, thou must remain calm if we art to solve this predicament," Commonwealth reassured him, "If thee panics then thou will make poor choices."

Mandoria stared at him for a moment then nodded, taking a few deep breaths to calm himself.  Once he was calm he looked back to the others, "What does thou suggest we do?"

"Well, right now Prussia, Norway, and I are fighting Swedish Empire for her Pomerania territories," Denmark said, "that is keeping him busy for the most part and Austria Empire is starting to get on his nerves a bit, if we're lucky he may forget his threats against you."

"Except for the fact that he asked Mandoria to ally with him because he wanted reinforcements to fight both of them," Norway reminded his brother.

Mandoria groaned in frustration, buried his face in his hands, and started pacing again, Commonwealth then smacked the Nordics upside the heads with one of his wings for making things worse.  Both Greece and Wales rolled their eyes, then Wales piped up,

"Hey Greece, since you are part of the Ottoman Empire maybe you could ask him for help?"

Greece shook his head, "Otto is fighting with SE against Prussia, and on that note aren't you and Commonwealth fighting with the German too?"

CW nodded and Wales facepalmed at the oversight, once again no one was helping at all.  Mandoria was now getting more stressed, why did Prussia have to threaten him now when his allies were busy with their own stuff. 

"This is all my fault," the King Wing grumbled, "if I just accepted his alliance then I wouldn't be in this situation."

"I don't think that's true," Norway said, "We all know that Prussia doesn't like you, if you accepted his alliance it would have put you in a more vulnerable position to be dethroned by him."

Everyone nodded in agreement, that made Mandoria feel a little better but not by much, so he continued to pace as the six of them tried to think of a way to deal with Prussia.

About an hour later and the kingdoms and countries haven't come up with much, Wales agreed to talk with some of his relatives for help and the Nordic brothers were going to stall and distract Prussia for as long as possible, but they couldn't think of a long-term solution.  Unbeknownst to the adults, little Mandara had been eavesdropping for the past forty-five minutes, he was curious as to why there were so many winged entities in his home so he decided to listen for a bit.  When he felt he heard enough, he tip-toed away from the throne room and made his way back to his and Derogan's room, where his brother was.

Derogan had been bed-ridden ever since his leg was sliced by Prussia, it hurt to walk on it and a pretty bad infection had settled in so he found himself feeling too sick to move from his bed.  When Mandara came back from spying, a maid was cleaning his brother's injury.

"Derogan, Father has called a bunch of winged kingdoms here, they are talking about King Prussia," Mandara said as he walked over to the bed.

The maid shushed him, "you must be quiet Prince Mandara, your brother needs his rest," she said, adjusting the wet cloth on Derogan's forehead, he had a fever from the infection so it was supposed to help keep him cool. 

Derogan groaned and opened his eyes, he turned to Mandara and asked, "what Mandara?"

"Father is scared that King Prussia is going to attack and has asked other winged kingdoms for help," Mandara repeated.

The maid gave him a disapproving look, "young prince, you know it is impolite to listen to other's conversations."

The brothers ignored her and Mandara told Derogan everything he heard.  Both the kids were scared, of course, they have heard many frightening tales of what Prussia did to people who angered him, they even heard a rumor that he was abusive to his son.  As the two were discussing how to help their father, Mandoria walked in, having just finished with his meeting and he wanted to check on Derogan.  He just caught the tail end of the conversation and asked what they were talking about.  Mandara didn't want to get in trouble for spying and was going to lie, but the maid ratted him out before she left, Mandara looked scared that he was caught but Mandoria just sighed and sat down on the bed.

"I understand how you two are feeling," the king said softly, "you're scared and confused about what is going on.  Now I won't hide anything, King Prussia is planning to dethrone me and if I lose he isn't going to let me live, but I promised you're mother before she died that I would always protect you two no matter what, and as long as there is still breath in my lungs I will do just that."

"But father, what if King Prussia does defeat you, what would we do without you?" Mandara asked with fear in his voice.

Mandoria sighed again, he then picked up Mandara and placed him on his lap, Derogan sitting up and scooting closer right after.

"My sons, you must know that I will not always be here," The king told them, "when my time comes you two will have to take care of each other, you have to trust one another and always have each other's backs.  As for Prussia, if everything goes to plan you two will be old enough to take over the kingdom when he challenges me, so if I am defeated Prussia will have to get through you first, so if that time does come you two must be brave and trust each other, ok."

Mandara and Derogan exchanged nervous glances but nodded, so Mandoria wrapped his wings around them in comfort.

"I know you're scared, I am too, but I promise we will get through this together and when we do we can live in peace."

The brothers nodded again and just enjoyed the embrace, eventually falling asleep.  When they did, Mandoria tucked them into their beds and left, all the while wondering if he made a promise he couldn't keep.