God! For the past few days I've been living in my room typing things up and being a lazy bum. Summer can do that to me, especially when it's 100 degrees outside and my mom won't take me to the book store. So, I've been living off of cereal, small cans of Spaghetti O's, and lettuce wraps for dinner. So now I ach all over and my eyes are sore, but I won't give up my writing! I won't! I'm determined to write all I can this summer no matter what! Oh, and I have camp and stuff for the last month and a half of summer, so I won't be able to post as often as I do. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze some time in there!
Anyway, here's the promised Chimera Fic that I said I would post this week to all of my Can't Breath readers. So here you have it! Human is now here! Now, it won't say it until much later, but Cameron is a black cat.
Have fun and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or the manga, which is what this is based off of. It is all owned, except for Cameron, by Hiromu Arakawa! YEAH! I finally remembered her name! Go Blaise!
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Cameron shifted in her bed, her body now arched in a "C" like position as she wheezed out a timid cough, almost as if she were breathing it out. Her ears flicked with every sound in the room from the loudest howls to the smallest footsteps of a mouse. Her tail lay almost completely limp, only the tip flicking with boredom and tiredness, thumping on the ground softly.
It was almost like hell in here, a deep fiery hell with no end, only a beginning. But the beginning of this life was also hell. Ever since she could remember, Cameron had lived in this very cage. She hadn't a clue what it was like on the outside world. But really, all she wanted to do was get out and see it. All she wanted was to be free from the people she called her "masters", for really all they did was treat her like test subjects, calling her "almost perfect", whatever the hell that meant.
Another wheezed out breath, which she thought was pretty damn close to a sigh as she would ever get, and then her ears twitched, flipping over to the sound of a door unlocking to her right. Then in came the sound of her masters, which were almost recognizable because all they ever wore were boots and blue outfits, some wearing long white coats.
She scuttled to the side of the cage, the white gown made of thin cloth shifted, making a swish sound as she neared the bars. She needed to see what was going on.
The gown was given to her every time she outgrew the old one, so about every three years. Right now it was worn out completely and she was lucky they gave her underwear too, for she would have been doomed at that moment.
There was one man coming in the door and he was with a . . . suit of armor? Did Cameron's ears deceive her? Who in this messed up world would wear armor?
The people didn't seem like anything close to her "masters" from the lab, considering they weren't wearing those blue outfits or long white coats. But then how could they get in? Cam had heard once that only the people in blue and white could get in and out, no civilians were supposed to come into this lab.
But that didn't matter at the moment, what mattered was that this was her chance to get out.
"Please, sir," she begged as she stuck one pale hand between the bars, letting it hang limp there, "please let me out."
Being that she was the only one of her kind that could talk – at least, that was what she heard, but she didn't know what to believe anymore – she was at a great advantage of getting to voice her thoughts whereas the rest of "her kind" as they put it only growled and complained in different ways.
Her talking, though, must have stunned the visitor. This was only for a second though as he and his metal companion walked over to the small cage, leaning down to look inside.
She backed up a bit. Friendly as she was, Cameron was still wary of these new visitors, not to mention shy.
"Can you please let me out, sir?" she asked again, her eyes almost all black as she looked through the darkness. "I would be forever grateful toward you."
The boy seemed wary for a while before nodding, a look of sympathy in his bright golden eyes. And without another word muttered, he opened the cage for her, stepping to the side with the door.
The cage was very small, only about 4ft in height, width, and length. Cameron could barely get comfortable, but her body allowed her to fit into the strangest of places, which came in handy when in there.
Once the door was fully opened, Cam stepped out, one foot placed on the ground as she steadied her unused legs by placing her hands on the small doorframe.
In no time at all, she was fully out of the cage and stretching her stiff muscles, something she wasn't able to do in a while. Her tail gave a good stretch as well before curling up and flopping back to normal. Her ears flattened to her head and then flicked forward as she leaned on the crate for her support.
The two people, Cam noticed, were staring at her in awe as she did this and then again when she spoke, saying, "Thank you very much, sir! Now, would you mind taking me to your master so that I may question them?"
Cam's voice was an odd form of a purr, drifting off of her tongue in a slight rumble as a noise was made in the back of her throat. Her ears and tail both twitched happily with her words.
Finally, the shock was gone from the blond boy's face and was replaced by determination. Then he spoke in a strangely calm voice, "Alright, but you can't go like that."
With this said, the boy gestured to Cam's gown with both of his hands. She looked down self-consciously at her mid-thigh, short sleeved test-like dress outfit that was white. In addition, she wore nothing on her feet, but Cameron didn't mind.
She looked back up to the metal armor this time and listened quietly for a second.
"You're hollow," she concluded in her tiny voice as she walked over to him. If armor had a face, this one's would have been a face of shock. "Can you carry me outside and to your master?"
The armor turned his helmet to the blond as if asking permission. There was a slight nod in return and the armor proceeded to open his breast plate.
Once fully open, Cam wasted no time in hopping inside of the armor. She jostled it a bit as she got herself comfortable, but smiled afterward to the blond. She was curled up in a ball, sideways, her tail wrapped around her frame.
"Ok," she announced, "you can close it."
With that said, the plate was back on, strapped in place and they were moving along. It was a bit bumpy as she rode inside of the empty armor, but Cameron was just grateful to get outside without any of her "masters" knowing. What puzzled her though was how the boy and the armor got into the lab and passed all of the people in blue and white without being questioned or tackled to the ground. Although, being in the armor, she couldn't see out, so she had no way of finding out the answer to this.
It was a couple more minutes until the armor stopped and Cameron heard the breast plate being taken off. Before she knew it, Cam was stumbling out of the armor. When she stood back up, the blond boy was standing in front of her, his arms crossed and a stern look on his face.
"Start talking," the blond said, making Cam flinch ever so slightly and her ears to go back a bit, her tail flicking slightly. "How did you get in the lab?"
"What Brother means to say is," the armor started slowly, "what's your name? We would like to know more about you."
"My name," Cameron started slowly, looking up in a thinking position before she remembered, "my name is Cameron. At least, that's what my masters told me when I was little. I have been living there ever since I can remember, not being able to go outside or play with anyone. They said it was for my own protection."
She smiled despite her story and looked at the two people in the room. The blond looked slightly confused and the armor looked neutral. But, of course, you would expect nothing less from armor.
"But how did you become a chimera?" the blond asked and Cameron look extremely puzzled at him.
"A chim-er-a?" Cam questioned slowly, pronouncing every syllable of the word. "What's that?"
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Remember to review and give me feedback! This is only my second FMA fanfic! And if you haven't read it already, please read my FMA fic Can't Breath, I will love you forever if you do!