Hello. It's been about two weeks since I last posted a story on here...So I have one. It was orginally for awesomenaruto, and still is. But I got so sucked into the project that I HAD to consider doing more than two chapters. This is the surprize parental!RoyxEd two-shot they requested from winning on of my questions right! But I mind you, it may sound almost like "Number Thirteen" and "Recovery Process". But it's not like that at all, even though Ed IS turned into a chimera after having in a terrible death, but this is different, so please read! I just like using little Neko Eddie in my stories, so please forgive me. Now, I shall present you with some information you might need before the story begins so you can understand it better.
Info On The Central City Manslaugherings Of 1918:
It was the fall of 1918, three years after Edward and Alphonse Elric had gotten their bodies back, and after the Promised Day. They were visiting Central City for a short while, for they were living full time in Resembool, when some criminals had broken out of Central Prisons. They wanted to kill, and they attacked the unlucky crowd at Central Square. Ed and Al were unfortunately, part of the crowd. But they didn't notice until it was too late for them to defend themseveles. They were the first blood to be split during the manslaugher. Almost everyone in the sqaure were trapped and killed, making the biggest single killing since The Isvalain War. 60,000 died that day of October 17th, 1918.
Okay, hope the info helped. Now here's the story!
...
An Alchemist's Pride And Joy
A Story For awesomenaruto
Chapter One
By Chibi Allen Walker The Awesome
"Major General, I just recieved a report from some soldiers in the west town of Kaliek City. They say they've found someone who claims to be Colonel Elric." Major Riza Hawkeye said as she entered Major General Roy Mustang's office, looking as quiet as the other officers saw her.
"You don't say? And yet he was the very first killed victum of the infamous Central City Manslaugherings? Do they have any proof of the finding?" Roy spoke with a firm and scratched voice, as he had been unusually reticent that day, as if he knew something the others didn't.
Hawkeye revealed a file from behind her back, and opened it on Mustang's desk for him to see.
Roy nearly choked on his own spit as he saw an almost too detailed account on what had happened to his former subordinate. Obviously killed, brought back to life during an experiment, as a two-year old with black and white cat ears and tail. Then taken to live the private life as the child of an aristocrat. But with the man who owned him, Edward had suffered abuse, and escaped somehow to a pub in the nearby Kaliek City, where Amestrian Military personell found him and reported him to Central, where Mustang's trustly Major cuaght the call, and got the file to let him know. At the time, he was with the men who reported him, waiting to be taken to Central City.
The fattened document also provided Roy with photographic proof that the findings were not lies. Most of them were shots that showed the ears and tail, there were also x-rays showing that Ed had broken quite a few bones, most likely in his escape to Kaliek City. The one thing that chilled Roy to the bone, was the lack of color in his eyes in the pictures. They almost seemed demonic to the Major General.
There was one last thing in the folder. Something taken with an invention that was relatively new. The Motion Picture Camera. The Military got a filmed interview with Edward only hours after he was found.
"Major, could you bring that film projector that Führer Armstrong brought here for me to use?" Mustang asked, thumbing the outside of the reel gently.
Riza nodded and went out of the room, leaving the Major General by himself with all the paper on his desk practically surrounding him. but he ignored them all as he focused on the seat in front of him. The one Edward used to sit in during their heated but short meetings.
By the time he actually looked up, Riza had returned, rolling the film projecter on a rolling table.
"Are you allright, Major General? You're as pale as a ghost, you should know." she asked, looking at him with a look of concern in her eyes.
"I'm fine, Major. Could you put in this reel in for me? I'm sorry, but I haven't learned how to yet, and I'm sure you know."
Roy handed her the large reel, and she put it in, and turned off the lights as it started.
"Interview with Edward Elric, the former FullMetal Alchemist. Conducted by Lieutenant Colonel Spotswood and Warrent Officer Hunt of the Amestrain Military, Western Branch. Current Condition Of Interviewee: Two years old, with the ears and tail of a cat."
As the camera focuses, there was a commotion in the background, and then Roy saw a little boy's face looking into the screen, as if looking at Roy.
"Is this that fancy-pants thingy called a moving picture?"
The screen is fogged up by the question, but an officer wipes it off and carefully grabs the boy by the underarms, causing an alarmed sqeak, and a fuzzy object to flash over. That was most definately Edward.
"Mr Elric, you have to sit still if you want to feel better."
"It's not Elric! It's Mustang!"
Roy's eyes almost pop out at Edward's remark, but he continued to keep proper conposure.
"But you've been saying that you're both, we do know you're Edward Elric. Now please stop squirming!"
"Not so! And how do you know? Huh? HUH?"
Edward glares into the interviewer like he was glancing into his soul. But Roy did find the boy's attitude almost comical.
"Never mind...What we want to know is...How did Sir Lightwig treat you in your one and a half month you spent there?"
"He was a big meanie!"
"What did he do to you, Edward?"
"..."
Edward's sudden silence was shocking to both the viewing and live parties.
"Very well, we won't bother you anymore, Mr Elric."
The reel goes blank, and the projecter makes a screeching noise. Roy watches Riza turn off the projecter and remove the reel, preparing to hand it to Roy, but he cuts her off.
"I want you to burn it, Major. I don't want to see it again."
"But Major General..."
"I know, it's Military matearial...But noone needs to see. Just burn it. That's an order."
"Yes, sir. I have no objection to it, Major General." Riza sighed as she took the reel and walked out the room to dispose of it in a nearby fire.
When she returned, she moved the projecter aside, and set down two train tickets in front of Roy. Train tickets to Kaliek City.
"Yes, of corse I'll come, Major. You don't have to ask," he said, taking one of the tickets. "I say we should leave now, we cannot leave Edward waiting anylonger."
Kaliek City, Johnson's Pub and Motel, 3 days later...
"WAAAAAAAHHH!" a high-pitched screaming erupted into the back rooms of the pub.
That scream belongs to Edward Elric, the little two-year old cat eared and cat tailed boy, who feelings have just been hurt. Lieutenant Colonel Spotswood had refused to give him his brand new stuffed hawk back after he had accidently thrown it at Spotswood, trying to help it fly. And now, Edward was getting frustrated as he tried in vain to snatch it out of Spotswood's hands.
The door to the back room opened, and Warrent Officer Belle Hunt poked her head in, only to go back out, much to Edward's dismay. He wanted his stuffed hawk back, and Spotswood was being a big meanie just like Sir Lightwig was!
"YOU'RE A MEANIE!" Ed yowled, jumping and missing yet again.
He stumbled as he landed, and was now beyond tears. And it seemed that Spotswood was actually enjoying this! So little Ed decided to be brave and formed a plan in his mind, one that was cirtain to catch Spotswood by surprize and make him let go of his hawk!
When Spotswood wasen't looking, Ed leaped onto his exposed leg, and bit into it hard with his sharp kitten-like teeth.
Lieutenant Colonel Spotswood pratically jumped out of his chair, and onto the floor below. The stuffed hawk was flown when Spotswood fell, and it landed on Edward's head, between his ears. When Ed realized what his hawk did, he giggled and dried his tears off with his right hand, and taking the hawk off his head with the left.
"So you can fly! I knew it!" Edward walked to his makeshift cot-bed, which to him was better then nothing, and put his hawk under the pillow as Spotswood began to lift himself off the floor.
"Edward Elric...Where is that damn stuffed animal?" Spotswood yelled, ungracefully stomping over to where Edward was sitting with a look of fear pasted on his face.
"I-I donno, Mister..." Edward got scared when Spotswood got mad at him, and he was now skipping words abit, that's what he did when he was nervous.
Suddenly, the door opened, and Warrent Officer Hunt stepped partly in. She gasped when she saw what was actually going on.
"Lieutenant Colonel! Please not again with the damn kid! The Flame Alchemist has come to take him to Central now! He's right over-"
"I'm right here." Roy cut Hunt off as he stepped into the room.
Spotswood turned around and saluted him as Roy just walked past, to Edward who now had a look of confusion.
"Edward Mustang, I'm glad to meet you." Roy bent down to Ed's level, wearing a gentle smile.
"You know my last name too? Cool! But...Who are you?" Edward was surprized that this man he did not know, knew his last name.
"I'm Major General Roy Mustang. I've come to take you home with me."
"Hey, you have to same last name as me! So..Does that mean that you're my Daddy?"
"I guess so, if you want to call me that. You are living with me, anyways."
"You;re not a big meanie like Sir Lightwig and Mister Spotswood?"
"Of course not! Though if you get in troble, then you'll be on my bad side, take that as a warning, allright?"
"Okay. Can we go home now?" Ed asked, pulling his stuffed hawk out from under his pillow.
"I think that would be good. Why don't I carry you? Or do you prefer to walk?"
"UP!" Ed held his arms up, waiting for Roy to lift him up.
Roy laughed and picked him up, stuffed hawk and all, and leaned him against his shoulder. He felt Ed's tail curl around his arm, and he felt it's kitten fluff brush him gently. And his eyes weren't as demonic as the the pictures had shown, thankfully.
"Daddy, you know what I'm gonna name my hawk?"
"What?" Roy asked, quite curious to see what the boy had in mind.
"Roy! It's name is gonna be Roy! 'Cause Roy is your name, and you're my Daddy! Get it?" Ed breathed into his ear, putting his arms around his neck, with Roy the hawk inbetween them.
When they got to Riza, who was waiting outside the pub, she smiled at the cuteness in Roy's arms.
"Well, he sure was handsome when he was little, hm?" She asked as they walked to the Kaliek City train station.
Roy nodded best he could, then made a comment.
"At least he wasen't shorter then the normal two year old."
PART II
Withen the next week, little Edward proved to be just as taxing on Roy's nerves as the older Ed had been before, to a degree. Little Ed wasen't always calling him a bastard, and he didn't react as violently to being called names. And every evening, Edward would be put to bed, they would both sit in the rocking chair in Ed's room, and Roy would tell him a good story, or they'd talk about the day they just had. It was one of the most calm moments of their day, besides sometimes getting dressed in the morning.
But at the moment, it was breakfast time, and Roy was trying to find out when Edward's birthday was, it was just that Ed was so concentrated on his milk that he didn't want to drink that he didn't even notice Roy was trying to make conversation with him.
"Edward? Can you hear me? Or are you blocking me out?" Roy asked, inching very slowly towards the end of his rope in patience.
Ed barely moved, except for his white-tipped tail, which swished back and forth. Roy groaned and sat up in his seat, and went over to where Edward was sitting in his high-chair. He then moved the sippy-cup out of Edward's vision, startling the poor neko-boy.
"Huh? Why'd you do that, Daddy?" Edward turned and asked.
"Because you weren't paying any attention to me. I was trying to ask a question. When is your birthday?" Roy rubbed his temple as he felt a headache start to creep in.
"Oh, umm...Feburary 11th? I think that's right," he then noticed that Roy loked slightly pained. "Are you okay, Daddy? Did you get a boo-boo?"
"Just a headache. It'll pass soon enough, I supposed. Are you gonna finish your milk? Or are you gonna be picky again this morning?"
"I don't wanna!" Edward's mood swung quickly at the very word of 'Milk'."It tastes like green beans and poop!"
"Fine, more milk wasted that I could've used for my Lucky Charms. You're going to eventually be shorter then other kids your age. I'll get you dressed once I get this in the dishwasher."
"I'm not gonna be short! And besides, if that happens, my ears make me taller!"
Roy sighed as he poured the wasted milk into the sink, thinking that he'd eventually get the neko to drink some milk. Then he rubbed his still tired eyes, remembering the previous night, a very stressful one. Ed had made it agonizing to get him to go to sleep after storytime, insisting that Roy stay next next to the bed until he fell asleep. When he did, he didn't stay that way for very long before he had a nightmare about Spotswood taking Roy the hawk away from him. Roy had to let him sleep in the same bed the rest of the night, but Edward kept waking up for tons of reasons. So Roy did not get much sleep at all, and was irratable that morning. He wondered why Edward wasen't either. It was for the better though, he supposed.
"Daddy? Are you listening?" Ed poked into Roy's thought process, for they had gotten to the dressing rotine already.
"What were you saying? I'm sorry, I was thinking..." Roy yawned.
"Nuthin'. You look pooped, Daddy. Are you gonna take a nap today?"
"I can't, Eddie. My boss wouldn't allow me to sleep on the job, and niether would Auntie Hawkeye."
"You're boss is a big meanie, then! 'Cause without anap, you're gonna throw a big tantrum! And then everyone's gonna be scared of you! Then what?"
"I say the same thing to you when you need a nap and you don't want to, without the boss part. But I really can't, Ed."
"Oh, okay..." Ed looked up at the ceiling, practically ending the conversation.
Thankfully, Ed had already been completely dressed by then, so Roy stood up off the floor and streached his legs and arms, listening to the popping sound they made, then resuming a proper position. Before he could do anything more, he was pounced on by Ed. He flashed around to find Ed grabbing hold of his left leg.
"Eddd...Not again. I only told you I'd do that once. Please, let go." Roy groaned, looking right at him.
"No." Ed huffed, stuffing his face into Roy's leg even more.
"Don't say that word to me. I want you to let go, now." Roy was getting pissed too easily now.
"But I don't wanna...It's warm and I can ride it."
"Ed, I might accidently knock you and my leg against something and you could get concussion, and besides, I thought you wanted to bring Roy the hawk with you, and you can't carry him when you're on my leg."
"Sure I can carry Roy! I'll just put his wing in my mouth, so I'll still have two hands!"
"You can't do that, either. One, what if you needed to tell me you needed your diaper changed? Then Roy would fall out. Two, it's gross to put things that have been nearly everywhere in your mouth."
"Fine, then I won't ride your leg!" Ed grumbled, and let go.
He stomped in front of Roy, and crossed his arms while giving him a death glare. Roy shook his head and took Roy the hawk off of its place on Ed's bed and placed it on Edward's head, where he liked it sometimes. The neko swiftly grabbed it and resumed the previous position.
"Don't be such a sour puss now, Eddie. We gotta go to work now. So let's get going before it gets late and I get shot by Auntie Hawkeye." Roy said, picking Ed up, and leaving the room.
Ed glared over Roy's shoulder, ears flattened on his golden hair that was still a bit untidy. At the moment, he was deciding weather Daddy should be 'Biggest Meanie of The Day' or if he should wait to decide. But then again, he thought, he's my Daddy and then I'd be the Big Meanie calling him one when that position was reserved for people like Spotswood and Lightwig. He grumbled tiredly into Roy's shoulder, which was adorned with the blue military suit. He then looked over at Roy the hawk, held tightly in his arms.
"Roy, do you like milk?" he telepathically asked the stuffed hawk.
"No, I prefer fish and carrots. Why?"
"I wondered, that's all. But I wish Daddy would understand that milk tastes nasty!"
" It might not taste bad to him. I don't really know, Ed."
"Oh, allright...I wonder if there's anyone esle who hates milk?"
"Doubt it. I highly doubt it."
"Darn. Can I talk to you later? We're getting in the car now."
"I see. Sure, you can. We always do."
They ended the conversation as Roy Mustang ( to clairlify:)) opened the door to his black Mustang GT, and fastened edward into his baby carseat. Once Roy closed the door, Ed leaned his head against the seat and yawned, looking up at the usual scenery for the carseat, car ceiling and the pink and purple morning sky.
He heard Roy get in the driver's seat, and the click as his seatbelt was put in its socket.
"I'm quite surprized you're gotten used to my daily arrangements so quickly, Edward." Roy said, starting the car up.
"I've done it four times now. So duh." Ed muttered, only wishing to sleep.
"Oh. Are you tired?"
"Yeah..."
"Then I'll leave you alone until we get to the command center."
And so Roy drove out of his driveway, Edward starting to go to sleep...
(To Be Continued...)
...
Please tell me it was good! I spent FIVE days writing this!
I also do not own any of the things mentioned except for Kaliek City and the two Military officers of the west branch. :)
That took seven and a half pages of my good notebook paper. :D
Started Writing: July 15th, 2011
Started and Finshed Typing: July 19th, 2011
I have been working on typing this for 3 hours, so sorry for the spelling mistakes. :(
See ya next chappie!
And also, it is still for awesomenaruto, if you already forgot.:) 3
~Chibi-Chan :)