Meanwhile in another AU...
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Third Person POV

The countries of the world were all invited to one big house, bigger than all of theirs combined. This was the property of UN, or United Nations.

They all showed up in small groups, each bringing their own kind of christmas food and drinks. UN had decorated his house, and all the countries agreed it was lovely. Unfortunately, not every country there celebrated Christmas. These include China, Russia, Soviet Union (or USSR), Thailand, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Mongolia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Egypt, Maldives, Tajikistan, Israel, and North Korea.

UN knew this, so he made an entire area where these countries can do whatever they want and not get annoyed or feel left out because they don't celebrate Christmas like the others. Soviet was teaching Russia a game that included vodka, Qatar and Egypt had a conversation about their people, Maldives, Israel, and Tajikistan gazed at the snow that was falling outside, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Morocco, Tunisia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Taiwan were playing a board game they found in UN's cupboard, and China and North Korea were talking.

Eventually, America and Australia tumbled into the room and got the attention of everybody inside. UN quickly pulled them back out.

Not even five minutes later Third Reich, America, and Greece entered the room. Greece sat beside Turkey as he played the board game, and America and Third Reich stopped the Russians from playing that game with vodka and instead had conversations with cuddling.

North Korea stared at Russia and Soviet for a bit before turning back to China. But China wasn't there. North looked around the room before eventually spotting China behind Taiwan with a trumpet. China signaled for North to be quiet. North Korea smiled and got comfortable, ready to watch whatever happened.

China lifted the trumpet to his mouth and blew. Taiwan jumped five feet into the air and collapsed onto the board game, messing up the pieces and moving everyone from their spots. The countries playing didn't seem to mind, for they were laughing their heads off along with everyone else in the room. Taiwan's face went red and turned around. China was laughing as well, still holding the trumpet.

"You piece of crap!" Taiwan shouted and got up. China dropped the trumpet and sprinted around the room, followed closely by Taiwan. China was still laughing as Taiwan shouted curse words. "Get back here!"

All the countries in the room continued to laugh. "Это самое веселое, что у меня было за последние годы! (This is the most fun I've had in years!)" Soviet said between laughs.

"Erzähl mir davon! Ich wünschte, ich hätte es aufgenommen! (Tell me about it! I wish I recorded it!)" Third Reich said.

Russia, along with everyone else, was laughing too hard to be able to say something. A few countries from the other room poked their heads in to see what was going on, and this is what they'd see:

Taiwan chasing a laughing China around the room with 18 other countries laughing their heads off as well. The board game in the middle of the room was damaged a whole bunch, and North Korea had fallen off the couch so he was clutching his sides laughing.

Taiwan eventually caught China because China's laughing slowed him down. This was also the same moment UN and EU entered the room. Taiwan was shaking China back and forth yelling at him, but China wasn't listening. He could only think about Taiwan's face and how he jumped into the air, so he was still laughing during all of this.

UN broke the brothers apart and asked what was going on. Since everyone but Taiwan was laughing, Taiwan had to explain. "My 烦人的小弟弟 (annoying little brother) blew into a trumpet behind me while me and a few other countries played that board game right there. I jumped, obviously, and chased him around the room."

UN was trying to not laugh now. EU had already burst out laughing and had joined North Korea on the floor, clutching his sides and all. Taiwan looked frustrated and annoyed.

Unfortunately, UN couldn't hold in his laughter so he too joined EU and the Northern Korean on the floor. Taiwan glared at all of them. "蠢货如果他们知道感觉如何，他们就不会笑了。(Idiots. If they knew what it felt like they wouldn't be laughing.)"

The only reason China wasn't on the floor laughing was because he was clutching the wall and table beside him to help him stand up. He took the hand clutching the wall and wiped a few tears away from laughing so hard. Taiwan crossed his arms and huffed. He left the room and came back later with headphones. He grabbed his phone from the floor (which he had dropped when he got up to chase China) and plugged them in. He sat on the couch and started listening to music.

A few minutes later everyone in the room calmed down from the hilarious moment. UN and EU left and the others focused on getting back to what they were doing. North Korea approached China and hugged him. China, a little surprised, hugged him back a second later. When they pulled apart North said, "고맙습니다. 다시 웃게 도와 주셨어요 (Thank you. You helped me laugh again.)"

China chuckled and kissed North Korea's cheek. Saudi Arabia groaned. "Can we have one minute without you two being lovey-dovey to each other?" He said.

The couples that were in the room stood up and scowled at him. These include Russia and America, Soviet and Third Reich, and China and North Korea. Greece and Turkey also glared at Saudi Arabia, but they didn't stand up.

Saudi Arabia covered his mouth with his scarf and lied down on the floor, unable to handle the countless scowls aimed at him. Everyone in the room settled down again and began doing their own thing. China and North Korea joined Maldives, Israel, and Tajikistan by the window.

America, Third Reich, and Greece eventually left, saying that they didn't want to miss the rest of Christmas but that they'd visit later. And all the countries in the room swear that Turkey hid his hat and asked Greece to help him find it just so Greece would have to stay a little longer.

When Greece finally left Turkey looked so disappointed. Greece felt bad so he told Turkey he'll be back in ten minutes.

I kid you not, Turkey actually pulled out his phone and set a timer for ten minutes. The taller country sighed and hugged Turkey. He also told him that it might take a bit longer than ten minutes. Turkey sighed and turned off the timer.

When Greece left and Turkey turned back around all the countries in the room stared at him with the lenny face. Turkey blushed a light red, he then picked up a book from UN's shelf and began reading it in the corner.

In the other rooms countries were having the time of their lives. Kisses under the mistletoe, eating the food and drinking the drinks, playing the games, watching sports on TV, dancing to the music, or just talking and joking. America and his brothers were playing Twister, and with the position America was in he wouldn't last long. Britian and France were talking to Spain and Italy. Japan and South Korea were among others dancing to a christmas song that just came on.

"ΟΗΕ, μπορώ να φέρω κάποιο φαγητό στους άλλους στο άλλο δωμάτιο; Είμαι βέβαιος ότι πεινούν. (UN, can I bring some food to the others in the other room? I'm sure they're hungry.)" Greece was standing in front of UN, who was leaning against EU on the couch.

"Sure, take as much as you want." UN responded as EU slid his hand onto his waist. UN didn't need a translate, he understood every language in the world.

Greece nodded and went to where the food was. Despite so many countries eating and a few (well mainly America) took big fills, there was still plenty of food left. Greece took an empty tray nearby and placed a bunch of random food on it. Since he didn't know what the others wanted he just grabbed a few of everything.

He carried the tray and carefully maneuvered his way past a bunch of bodies and into the "anti-Christmas" room. The countries inside turned towards him. Turkey immediately got up and went to hug him. He noticed the tray first though and stopped himself. "Bu da ne?" He asked, pointing at the tray.

Greece raised a brow, indicating he didn't speak Turkish.

"What's that?" Turkey repeated in English, pointing to the tray again.

"Oh this? I thought you guys might be hungry." Greece replied.

"Well you were correct! At least with me, I'm famished." Soviet said, turning in his chair.

"Then why didn't you get up and get food when you were hungry?" Greece asked, obviously teasing Soviet about being anti-social.

"I uh..." Soviet turned back around. "I didn't want someone coming up to me and talking, maybe even dragging me to the dance floor..."

"So you went through your hunger and kept telling yourself 'This is fine.'?"

"Yeah..."

Russia started laughing at his father. "Папа, you could've just asked me what you wanted. I gladly would have gotten up for you."

Soviet rolled his eyes. Greece placed the tray on a table that no one was sitting at. Turkey picked up a piece and examined it. "Is it poisoned?"

Greece looked at Turkey in confusion and shock. "Why would it be poisoned? We're at a Christmas party."

"Yeah," Turkey said. "perfect place to poison someone."

Greece sighed. "It's not. Here, I'll show you."

He took the piece of food from Turkey's hand and plopped it in his mouth.

"Wait--Greece!" Turkey cried out.

Greece swallowed. "See? Not poisoned. It's actually really good. Try it."

Turkey picked up another piece of food. He nervously raised it to his mouth. He slowly placed it in and began to chew. Not long after he swallowed, his expression turned from nervousness to happiness. "H-hey! That was really good, can I have more?"

Greece nodded and the other countries in the room approached the food. They all got their own plates and ate. All of a sudden, they heard a loud crash come from the next room. Countries called out in alarmed voices.

They could all hear UN shout over all of them. "Latvia!"

Soviet rushed out of the room angry. "Латвия, какого хрена ты натворил?! Эй, вернись сюда!! (Latvia what the frick did you do?! Hey--GET BACK HERE!!)"

The countries inside the room peeked their heads out and saw Soviet chasing Latvia around the party room, eventually leaving but still being able to hear the angry communist. Russia walked out and saw what Latvia broke. A broken speaker lay on the ground.

"I can buy a new one, UN." Russia said.

UN shook his head. "No no, it's alright Russia. I have like a hundred more it's fine."

Russia stared at UN. "Какого черта у вас столько ораторов? (Why the frick do you have so many speakers?)" He muttered.

UN laughed in response. "EU, NATO, help me clean this up."

EU and NATO walked into the room. NATO carried a trash bag and EU had three pairs of gloves. Russia walked away as they cleaned up.

The party continued after the three left with the speaker in the trash bag. America finally fell down, knocking Australia down as well. New Zealand jumped up and exclaimed, "I win!"

Canada laughed and set what he was holding down. "I'm gonna go hang with Ukraine, see ya!"

In another room Denmark, Finland, and Switzerland were hanging out. Finland accidently knocked over Denmark's drink, but before he could apologize Denmark started yelling at him. Soon they were yelling at each other while Switzerland just sipped his water and watched.

Nevertheless, the party continued. Countries had a great time, and the one's in the "anti-Christmas" room even came out once in a while to party with everyone else. Of course, Turkey clung to Greece when he came out. Soviet eventually came back and Latvia was begging him for something. Latvia eventually gave up and slumped onto the couch. His friends came up to him and gasped at the bruise on his cheek.

"Did Soviet hurt you?!" Norway asked.

"I swear I will pound that-"

Latvia interrupted Belgium. No no, he didn't hurt me. I just fell while I was running away."

Even though he was telling the truth, his friends were still sceptical. Belgium raised a brow. "Are you telling the truth?"

Latvia nodded. "Don't you believe me?"

His friends shared a glance. They then shook their heads. Latvia sighed.

After a few minutes, Latvia finally convinced his friends his father didn't hurt him, and that he had just fallen. He breathed a sigh of relief when they left.

Once it was 11:40 pm, the party started calming down and countries gathered in one huge room similar to Japan's party room; only bigger. UN went around gathering any confused countries and having them go into the room. He eventually came into the "anti-Christmas" room and told the countries inside what was going on.

"Hey, we're gathering in a huge room to count down for new years."

"Now?" North Korea asked, raising a brow. "It's the 25th."

UN nervously smiled. "I know, but a lot of countries are busy through the rest of this month and the night of new years and won't be able to participate. I thought we could all celebrate today instead."

"I like that idea. We may not celebrate Christmas but we still appreciate the new year." Afghanistan said.

She stood up and the rest of the countries in the room followed suit. As they followed UN into the room they all were close together, though Soviet made sure he and Russia weren't close to Afghanistan.

Russia didn't question it because his dad is known to be paranoid at parties, especially for him. Afghanistan and him also have argued a lot of times before and are on bad terms, so it makes sense to want to stay away from each other.

Once all the countries were in the room, they all just talked until 11:58. That's when they got quiet. Ameria pulled out a loud speaker and turned it on.

Minor Time Skip

It was now ten seconds before the new year. Countries eagerly counted down. China lifted North Korea up and had him sit on his shoulders because the smol bean was being squished because of his height. Japan and Russia did something similar with South Korea and America.

Once they all finished the countdown America and Australia yelled into their mega-phones: "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!"

Everyone else was startled, but joined in shouting 'Happy New Year'. The Korean brothers even screamed it, earning stares from other countries. South Korea embarrassingly smiled and rubbed the back of his head, while North Korea tensed up. China closed his eyes and chuckled, "You didn't need to scream."

"Shut it."

Everyone started settling down and a few countries even left, Soviet was among them.

"Россия (Russia), you coming? I'm going home."

Russia shook his head. "I'll catch up with you later, I'm gonna stay with Америка (America) for a while."

Soviet opened his mouth to say something but closed it. "He's not a toddler anymore..." He whispered to himself. He then said louder, "Alright. Just be home by the time I leave for work."

Soviet then left with a few of his kids and Third Reich. Countries still lingered but by 3 in the morning everyone had left.

UN was too tired to clean up his house so he, EU, and NATO agreed to clean up the house once they were all awake. UN collapsed into his bed and fell asleep right away. EU adjusted his position and climbed into the bed with him, wrapping his arms around him.

Russia listened to his dad and arrived home while Soviet was still asleep. Britian and France walked home while their kids got rides; they wanted time to themselves but Britian almost fell on his face from being so tired, so France had to carry him while he slept in her arms. Italy helped Japan get ready for bed, and China helped North Korea with the same thing.

You get it, countries that still had energy helped the countries that were about about to fall asleep get to the bed and fall asleep.

The countries all enjoyed their Christmas, and the Korean brothers both screamed the same thing in unison. They had a great time.

Did you?

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There you have it, the Christmas special. This took longer than it should have.

I'm still confused for when I want to celebrate a holiday with a chapter dedicated to it, but feel like it might interfere with the story unless I'm purposely leading up to it, so for now we'll just look at alternate AU's where they celebrate the holidays.

Yes, in the AU where the actual story is taking place Soviet is still in the hospital and we just found out about Taiwan and China's....uhm...parents....

I also just wanted to put a little of a positive vibe and have everyone happy for once. It is probably weird that after Taiwan said...that....I'm just like: hErE iS a ChRiStMaS sPeCiAl HaVe A hApPy DaY

Bad timing, right?

Sorry about the rambling.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Hanukkah!

Happy whatever you celebrate!

And if you don't celebrate Christmas or anything in December, then just have a good day!