DISCLAIMER: What your about to read is a work of fiction. The names of the places and characters in the plot of this story is pure fan-based work. (Thus it's called "Fanfiction.") We don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or the Risembool Rangers any anime references that are said or mentioned. Fullmetal is owned by Arakawa-Sensei and the Risembool Rangers is owned by its respectful creator. Were just big fans of the series and own only the plot and any of our original characters.
*Note: Please Read the following **Pretext Before you begin this story. (And yes, it's the same way that Clamp uses for xxxHOLIC and Tsubasa, so you can tell that this is a cross-over story. I just put it up for the readers to better understand the story.)
**Pretext:
Darkness and Light crosses over with Promised Hope. Although it isn't necessary to Read Promised Hope to understand the events in Darkness and Light, you'll get to see the same events from different perspectives if you read both series.
Full Summary:
Inu: Hi everyone and Welcome to "Darkness and Light", a fanfic written by me, InuyashaMoonlight634 and Guardiangirl92. We've been working out an idea for this for this for about a couple months now, and really hope you enjoy read it, because we enjoyed writing it…a lot. And I'm kind of nervous, since this is my first ever fanfic with a friend.
Guardian: Don't be nervous, I'm sure they'll enjoy it. If they don't, I know I will.
Inu: Thanks Guardian! *Hugs Guardian*
Guardian: *Smile* No problem. So we now both proudly introduce the first chapter of: Darkness And Light.
Inu: Enjoy!
Chapter One:
The day of Reinae's Arrival
Guardian looked out the window, as she stared at the clouds with their fluffy, white shapes. It was another day at the Ranger HQ without any missions or battles to pass the time. But today was a special day for her.
One of her good friends and fellow Ranger, Reinae, The Black Angel Alchemist, (a.k.a. / InuyashaMoonlight) was coming over to stay at HQ. She got permission from her mom to be able to stay, so she was making the drive over here with another good friend of theirs, who was picking her up from the train station.
She was doing this, so it would be easier on her family's conscious. They knew that HQ was a safe place and they trusted everyone there. And Guardian was like an older sister to Reinae, so she kept a close eye on her to keep her out of trouble.
As she waited patiently, the silence that she was waiting in was interrupted...by a noise of happiness.
"Is SHE HERE YET? IS SHE HERE YET? IS SHE HERE YET?" Guardian sighed as she heard a fast set of footsteps and saw a man with sandy blond hair and laughing blue-green eyes, jumping up and down like a crazy person.
"No, she's not here yet and will you please calm down, Vic. You're driving everybody here crazy with you running around all over the place."
"But you know me, Guardian. I have no patience at all. And besides, when she gets here, I can show her the room I made for her! I know she's gonna like it!" Vic said happily.
"You don't mean...you decorated her room?" Guardian asked with a worried look on her face.
"I mean redecorated. Tamaki gave me some ideas, so I used them. You know how he is with how girl's rooms should be."
"I thought so... That's why I undid your decorations and made her room the way it was before you changed it before she came. I'm sorry, but your redecorations are history. " Guardian said trying not to smile an evil smile at her leader and not to laugh at his Tamaki-like expression.
"WHAAAAAAT? HOW COULD YOU? AFTER ALL MY HARD WORK THAT I DID TO MAKE IT LOOK SO CUTE? DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR ME TO FIX IT UP FOR HER?" Vic whined in his Tamaki voice. He walked over to a corner and got into a 'Tamaki-ball of depression' as he muttered about Guardian being an evil person and other things.
"Well, you kind of knew that this would happen if you did something like this. You know how Reinae is with people touching her room and things and she probably would have gotten really mad at you if I hadn't taken everything down." Guardian said stating the obvious. She stopped as she heard a car coming towards the driveway. "Hey, look. I think she's here."
She looked out the window as she saw a girl wave towards them that Guardian knew all too well. "Vic, get up. She's here!" Guardian said as she walked out to go greet her friend. Vic perked up like a puppy and raced out the doors, to go meet their guest.
"I'M COMING, REINAE! WELCOME HOME, SWEETIE!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, while laughing happily. Guardian sighed as she followed her happy-go lucky leader. One of the car doors opened, as a man with short black hair and Asian black eyes. He wore a blue hooded jacket and baggy street pants.
Guardian knew he was a good friend of theirs and a fellow voice actor friend of Vic's. Guardian waved as she called out to him. "Hey, Johnny Yong Bosch! What's up? Did everything go ok when you went to go pick her up?"
"Yeah. She slept for most of the way here. And I think she's still asleep…but I'll check," Johnny said as he went to the car door to check. He looked in through the car window and saw she was awake. "She's awake."
He opened the door for her, as Guardian tried to peek in to see her friend.
"Hey, we're here. Let's get you out of there, Rein…whoa! How many blankets are back here? You got buried under here!" Johnny teased as he pushed off all the blankets from the sleepy Ranger. "The car has turned into a mountain... Guess we need some shovels to dig her out!" he teased some more as he helped Reinae get out of the car from 'Blanket Mountain'. Reinae covered her eyes as she adjusted her eyes to the sunlight from being in the car for so long.
"Hi, Reinae, it's good to see you again." Guardian said as she gave her friend a hug.
"It's good to see you, too, Guardian. It's been awhile," Reinae said in a sleepy voice as she hugged her friend back.
"How about we talk inside and catch up while the guys here bring your stuff in to you room?" Guardian said as she led her friend inside to HQ.
"Why only us Guardian? Can't you help out too?" Johnny asked with a puppy dog pout, making Guardian laugh.
"Well, we'll help out as soon as Reinae is more awake. You wouldn't want a sleepy girl getting injured while lifting something heavy?" Guardian asked to her two friends. Johnny nodded, knowing that she was right, and started unpacking all the stuff from the car with an incorporating Vic helping him.
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After unpacking everything and settling it into Reinae's room, Guardian and Reinae talked for awhile about what's been happening in their lives. They talked and talked until it was almost night time. Since it was pretty dark, Guardian invited Johnny to stay the night in one of the guest rooms, so he wouldn't have to go driving in the dark. He agreed and went into his guest room. In a few minutes he was dead asleep from all the driving he had done during the day.
Guardian checked on him later that night to make sure he was okay. After that, she checked on all the other rooms that had Rangers that were staying the night here. This was a little ritual of hers: making sure everyone was asleep and all right. She used to do this with her family all the time. Now she did this with her Ranger friends... Her second family.
As Guardian tipped-toed towards Reinae's room, she quietly opened her door and saw that Reinae had falling asleep at her desk. "Hey, girlie, you can't sleep there. Let me help you get into bed." Guardian said as she started to help her friend up from the desk when she noticed that Reinae was still in her clothes. She stopped and went into her friend's dresser, looking for some pajamas. When she had found some, she helped her friend undress and into her pajamas: a pink candy cane two-piece set. When she was all ready she helped her friend into bed. But before she could, she heard Reinae say something to herself.
"Where's Cinnamon? Where is it? Where is…my Cinnamon-bear?" she muttered in her sleep and Guardian realized what her friend was saying. She was talking about her stuffed teddy bear that she always had when she slept at HQ. She looked around and couldn't find it.
"Hang on, sweetie. I'll go find it." she said, leaving Reinae sitting on the bed so she could go search for the bear.
Guardian looked all over the living room and couldn't find it. She squealed in frustration as she continued her search. "Where is it? It has to be around here somewhere…" she muttered to herself, as looked carefully for the missing bear.
"What's wrong, Guardian? Lose something?" Guardian jumped in fright and stopped her search before she saw Vic standing next to the couch and sighed in relief.
"No, it's not something of mine. It's Cinnamon, Reinae's bear." she told him as she kept looking high and low for the teddy bear.
"You mean the teddy bear with the Christmas tree sweater?" he asked.
"Yeah, that one. Do you know where it is?" Guardian asked, desperate to find Cinnamon.
"It's in her room where it always is." he answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Are you sure? 'Cause I already checked there." she answered. Her patience was slowly fading, Vic could tell.
"Did you check in the closet? Behind the shelf?"
"Oh. I didn't check there. Why would it be in there?" Guardian raised a confused eyebrow at Vic before he explained his motives.
"Because Ayame tried to steal it a couple of times when Reinae was on some missions. If there's one thing you don't want to do: don't steal Reinae's bear." he explained to Guardian. Guardian didn't even want to imagine what Reinae did when she caught Ayame.
After she thanked Vic, Guardian walked back to Reinae's room and went straight for the closet. There was a shelf behind the coat rack that had a little handle on it. She pulled on the handle to reveal a sliding door with a shoebox on the shelf. When she looked inside…
There was the bear waiting patiently to be found.
She smiled as she grabbed the bear and closed the secret sliding door as she went back to Reinae to give her the bear. Reinae gave a sleepy smile as she took the bear and crawled into bed, pulling the covers over her head with the bear sticking its head out, too.
"Good night, Reinae, and sweet dreams." Guardian said softly, as she walked out of the room, closing the door quietly behind her.
They were gonna have a busy day tomorrow and they were gonna need all the rest that they could get.
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Guardian woke up to a sunny day at HQ. She rubbed her sleepy eyes as she got dressed to go eat some breakfast. When she was all done, she hurried out of her room to go greet her friends. As she walked into the hallway, she heard some familiar music coming from Reinae's room. She quietly walked up to Reinae's door and listened very carefully. It was some Japanese music that Guardian knew all to well, judging by the gothic tone and voices of the singers.
'Guess she's listening to Vampire Knight music again,' Guardian thought, remembering that Reinae told her that she was a fan of the manga.
"Hey, Reinae, I'm gonna go get some breakfast. Do you want to come with me?" Guardian asked.
"Sure, I'll be right there." a voice answered as the door opened as Reinae stepped out. She wore a green and pink tank top, long double socks, sporty sneakers, and brown hiking shorts with a black band tied around her waist. She wore her two signature necklaces: her usual red heart pendent and a small orb necklace.
"Alright, let's go." Reinae said as she took out the scrunchie that she had her hair in last night. Her hair came down, looking waves with little ringlets.
"Is that a new hair style, Reinae? I've never seen you look like that." Guardian asked and Reinae nodded with a smile.
"Just wanted a change that's all. And besides, it's summer time here right? Can't wear my usual attire and be roasting in it all day..." Guardian gave a small laugh as they walked together to the dining room.
When they reached the dining room, a group was already their eating breakfast. One was a guy with blond hair and golden eyes, the other was a girl with bluish-black hair that partially covered one of her ice colored eyes. Also at the table was Johnny from yesterday digging into his waffles.
"Hey, guys, good morning! ...Hey, Reinae, didn't know you were here. When did you get here and how long are you staying for?" the girl asked Reinae as she took her seat at the table next to Johnny.
"I got here yesterday afternoon, Fallin. And I'll be staying here permanently since I got permission from my mom to do so." she said as she grabbed the plate of waffles and put some on her own plate.
"Cool, Reinae. That's awesome." the guy sitting next to Fallin said as he pushed away the carton of milk that was placed in front of him. Reinae sighed at what he was doing.
"Come on, Ed, you have to drink your milk. If you want to get taller, you have to drink your milk."
"Don't wanna. You drink it. I hate milk. You will never be able to make me drink this crap-vomit!" he grumbled under his breath as he munched on some waffles in silence.
"And this why you're always gonna be the size of a bean... Fine, if you don't want milk, then have some of this, shorty." Reinae said as she passed him some bubbly clear liquid in a bottled container.
"I'm gonna pretend you didn't call me short just now..." Ed said as he poured the drink into his glass and took a sip. It was water...but also not water. There was something in the water that tasted different. He took another sip, this time a longer one, to find out the taste.
'Strawberries and...some kind of fruit?' he thought as he continued to drink the strange drink. "Hey, Reinae, what is this? It tastes kind of funny...but also good," Ed asked as Reinae also poured herself some of the bubbly water drink.
"It's sparkling flavored water."
"'Sparkling...flavored...water'?" Ed asked her with a confused look on his face.
"It's like water, but with a little bit of flavor in it. I usually have this at my house besides soda and milk because I don't drink coffee in my house. They also come in little pouch packets that I can put into water bottles to add flavor to it."
"So what's in here?" Ed asked her pointing at the container.
"Strawberry-kiwi. It's a way for me to eat fruits without actually eating them since I don't like a lot of foods."
"Hey, sorry to change the subject like this, but while were here, why don't we all go pay a visit to Central Command? It would give us an excuse to go get some fresh air," Guardian asked to the group.
"That sounds good. And I have to talk to 'Colonel Sarcasm' anyway about my last report," Ed said as he got up and cleared away his dishes.
"I'll go. Gives me a good excuse to go give the Colonel a good head-smacking for breaking my favorite mug last week!" Reinae said with an evil grin on her face as she got up from the table with her dishes, too.
Guardian sighed as she looked to the others. "Fallin, Johnny, you guys want to come?" Both of them shook their heads 'no'. "Ok, then we'll just meet up with you guys later then."
"Alright, Ed and Reinae, we're going in about ten minutes, so hurry and get ready," Guardian told her two friends.
"Okay," Ed and Reinae said together as they finished up cleaning the dishes.
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Guardian waved goodbye as she ran to catch up with her friends. She wore a black tank top with a gold cross that had an elaborate design with a white tank under it, dark blue denim shorts, and white sneakers. She wore her crystal pendant that she always had with her. Guardian's pendant was a gift from her friend Syaoran had a bright ball of pure light. The light shone with a white brilliance, lighting everything, every corner of the pendant, and casting tiny rainbows when the sun flickered off it. Unlike Reinae's heart necklace that held the power of Darkness and Light, Guardian used the light in her heart to power her pendent.
When they reached the Central Command Headquarters, they headed straight for Roy's office. They stopped before entering when they heard an all too familiar voice through the door. "Hey, Roy, look at this. It's a picture of Elicia in the special little swimsuit edition with mommy's hat on. Oh, I know what your thinking...isn't she the cutest thing you've ever seen?"
"Looks like Hughes is showing off pictures of his daughter to Roy again...serves him right!" Ed said snickering.
"Now, Ed, don't be like that or Roy might pull a short joke on you..." Guardian warned as she opened the door to Roy's office. She peeked in as Reinae and Ed looked in over her shoulder for a better view.
Watching Roy getting mad at Hughes, using all his will power to not burn the picture in Hughes face, was priceless. Guardian sighed as she turned to her friends. She did a double take as she saw Reinae Wolf ears once again popped up from out of nowhere.
'She must have gotten to excited again,'Guardian thought as she tapped Reinae on the shoulder. Reinae turned to see Guardian pointing at her own head, signaling her to get rid of her pointy wolf ears.
Reinae tried to make them go away by forcing them via soul-magic, but then got an idea. She decided instead to put on her pink heart baseball cap that she had in her bag to cover them up. While this was happening, Roy and Hughes continued to talk.
"Hughes...show me one more picture of Elicia...and I'm going to roast you!" the Colonel growled at his subordinate, trying not to show the fist that he was making. "Oh, c'mon, Roy! Isn't she the cutest thing you've ever seen?" Hughes teased as he showed the picture of his daughter once again for Roy to see. Guardian noticed that Roy was reaching his breaking point and she stepped in to be the peacemaker between the two men. "Ummm... Hughes, I think you should cool it before Roy turns you into 'Roast Hughes'," she said trying to solve the situation.
"Huh? Oh, hey there, Guardian. Didn't see you guys there. Do you want to see pictures of Elicia too, Guardian?" The little Ranger sighed but smiled as she nodded at her friend. "Yeah. I haven't seen Elicia in awhile, so sure, Hughes."
Hughes gave her a big smile and pulled out the photos of his daughter that he always carried with him to show Guardian. "How about you two? Do you want to see them?" he asked Ed and Reinae, who politely shook their heads 'no'. "Fullmetal, I hope you have that report finished because it's almost near the deadline." Roy said looking at Ed, who gave him a scowl.
"Glad you brought that up, Colonel, that was the one thing I had to talk to you about," Ed said as an evil look in his eyes replaced his scowl.
"Why don't we have the discussion outside...before Hughes 'acts up again'?" Roy offered pointing a thumb at Hughes and Guardian, who started walking into the hallway to talk. Ed nodded and followed Roy out of the office and down the hall to one of the empty conference rooms to talk.
"Hey, Guardian, I'm just going to wait for Ed to come back, okay?" Reinae said as she leaned against the wall.
"Sure, Reinae," Guardian said. Hughes smiled at the two girls and told Guardian how his family's been since she's seen them all last.
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After a few minutes had passed, Roy and Ed came back. Hughes was about to go up to show them more pictures, when Ed came up to ask Guardian a question. So instead, he showed the pictures to Ed. Reinae tried to hold in her giggles as Ed had a pained look on his face for falling into the trap.
She walked over to Roy and grabbed his hand. "Come on. Roy. I'll take you back to your office while Guardian and Ed distract Hughes," she said as she helped Roy get past Hughes while leading him back to his office.
"Thanks, Inuyasha. He was starting to annoy me," he said to the little Black Angel as she nodded.
"I know how you feel. I don't like it when he does that, but at least we didn't bring Ayame with us." Roy agreed and he thought about how evil that girl always is to him. He shivered at the thought of her last prank she did on him.
"Hey, Guardian, can I ask you a question?" Hughes asked.
"Sure, Hughes. What is it?" she asked him.
"Why did Roy call your friend 'Inuyasha'? I thought her name was Reinae."
"It is. She also goes by Inuyasha, short for InuyashaMoonlight634," Guardian explained, trying to help Hughes understand. "That's the codename she uses when she does field work for the tech-room at HQ. It's easier for some of us to remember. ...And because sometimes her wolf ears pop up if she gets excited or nervous, so I guess the name got stuck with her."
"Oh, I see." Hughes said before he continued to talk with Guardian.
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"Thanks again." Roy said as they got back to his office. "No problem Roy, it was nothing." She said as she started to leave. "Hey Inuyasha, can I ask you something?" "Yeah sure, what is it?" She asked as the Coronal walked over to her and stood in front of her his face very close to hers. He looked at her with his dark eyes as he grabs her.
"Well, you see... it's like this…" She stared at him as he pulled her closer and kissed her... right on the lips. Reinae stared at him in shock at what he had just done, her eyes wide in horror. Roy smiled at her, touching her cheek softly.
"Thanks for the help, sweetie." he said with a wink. Reinae stared at the ground while her anger welled up inside her. She took his hand off her face and looked back up at him with a raging fire in her eyes.
"Roy...YOU BASTARD!" Reinae yelled at him, slapping him hard across the face, making him go flying. He started to get up, holding his cheek, while she glared daggers at him angrily. "HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY FIRST KISS, YOU IDIOT!" she screamed at him and ran out the door, trying not to be upset. She walked past Guardian, Ed, and Hughes, trying really hard not to cry...especially not in front of them.
Her hat came off her head, revealing her ears in all their wolfy glory, and fell to the floor as Reinae stormed off. Guardian and Hughes stared for a few minutes before he came back to his senses to call out to Reinae. Meanwhile Guardian picked up her friend's hat and put it in her back pocket so she could give it back to her later.
"Huh...hey, Reinae, where are you going? I wonder what happened in there..." Hughes said when Reinae wouldn't answer him with a confused look on his face.
"I'll go find out!" Ed said as he went after Reinae. Hughes took a peek in Roy's office and went ahead with the questions. "Roy, what happened? ...You didn't kiss her...did you?" he asked the Colonel, whose smile that was shown across his face was proof enough to show what his answer was.
"Hmph...firey little thing, isn't she? She can light my fire any day..." Roy said with a devilish smile growing bigger on his face.
And that's the end of the First Chapter, we hoped you enjoy it. In the next chapter, Roy finds out what happens when you tick off Guardian.
And let me tell you, it's not a pretty sight….
~So stay tuned!~
