Monster in Edo-Chan's Room

Short Story by Fireflightpro567

It all began one, extremly quiet, dark night at Colonel Roy Mustang's two-story house. And it invovled three very,very troblesome children. Their names were Edward Elric(Age 5), Angel Pettington(Age 3), and Rowen Roxelle (Age 1 and a half).

So, Roy was fast asleep, obviously dreaming about women. And all the boys, except for Edward, were asleep too.

"DADDY! DADDY!" Edward yowled, panic in his voice.

Roy awoke and came to Ed's rescue. As he entered Ed's room, he saw the blond pressed up against the wall, still on his bed, shaking violently. "Ed! What's wrong!" Roy asked, already worn from dealing with Rowen's problems an hour before.

"Th...There are monsters! IN THE CLOSET! They're gaint and hairy, and they wanna put me in their gooey, icky monster-stew so they can eat me for breakfast!" Ed stammered, pointing wearily at his white painted closet.

Roy's eyebrows shot up in confusion, then he put his hands on his hips.

"Edward-kun, there are no such things as monsters. Really, I mean it. I'll show you right now," he said, opening the closet, ignoring his child's pleas. No monsters. "See? None whatsoever. Now go back to sleep or expect to sleep witha warm, toasty bottom."

Edward's eyes clouded, but he sighed and he crawled under the covers. "You'd comfort Angel or Rowen if they said that..." He whimpered.

"Because they're still babies," Roy explained."You are five now. You need to be a man, or you'll never beable to step out of the house by the time you're eighteen years old. Now go to bed."

No answer.

"Allright then, chatterbox. Goodnight." and he closed the door to Ed's room.

After Roy left, Ed glanced at the closet in fear, and stayed against his wall for about an hour, but then he heard a voice.

"Don't go running to daddy," The gruff, monotone voice said."You're late to midnight snack, you're gonna be breakfast." And the voice vanished.

Ed stood there, his blood curdling in his body for about a minute, then he heard a growl, and he bolted out of his room, and into Angel's room. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the sleeping form of the purple haired three-year-old.

"I'll be safe here." He whispered.

But he was wrong, a few minutes later, he heard a scratching noise in Angel's closet. He gasped, and after he heard another growl and scratch, he ran again, this time, he ran into Roy's room, hearing the old matress groan as he crawled on his bed and went up beside him, shivering. It took only a few minutes for Roy to notice.

"Why are you in here?" Roy mumbled as he sat up.

"Monsters, under the bed! In Angel's closet. Everywhere!" Ed whispered shakily.

"Again with the monsters?" Roy growled.

Ed begin to cry as he baried his head into Roy's chest.

"Fine. Stay here. But only tonight. I MEAN it."

After they went to sleep, two forms came down the hallway. One was crawling, the other stumbling. They wore grins on their faces as they slowly opened the door to Roy's room.

"Edward, it is time for the monsters to begin cooking." Came a gruff voice.

Ed awoke, but he couldn't see who was there. "No...No you're not gonna take me, I have Daddy."

It was as if Roy had heard, he sat up gorggily again. "What now? Bad dreams?"

", it is time...For Monster Breakfast!" another hard voice said.

Roy hissed, and withdrew a flashlight.

"Allright! THAT'S IT! WHO IS IT!" he yowled, turning on his flashlight.

It was Angel and Rowen. Wearing monster masks and using a voice changer.

"Ange? Rowy! YOU DID THIS!" Edward screamed, very pissed. "DAADY! DO SOMETHING!"

Roy shook his head, beginning to laugh. "Good job! For that, you get cookies for breakfast tomarrow!

"You...Did this!"

"Yep. I guess pipsqeaks get scared too."

"Who's so small you can put them in a jar of jelly!"

The end! :)