Woo yeah! New story. I swear I don't know where I'm going with this. XD But anyways, I don't own no FMA, y'all. Yee-haw 0.o. But anyways, here you go!
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Chapter IDaaaad! Where're we going?" Abigail complained.
"You'll see when we get there," her father grumbled.
Eric and Abigail Elric were the two children of Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell Elric. Eric was 12 and Abigail was 11. Eric was a spitting image of his father when he was younger, minus the long hair and bangs. Eric's hair was short and he spiked it in the front.
Abigail, on the other hand, had light brown hair that she had probably inherited from her grandmother, and bright blue eyes that had specks of gold mixed in. Her long hair was left down.
The family was currently on a train, headed wherever the parents had decided they were going.
"Just tell us," Eric grumbled to his parents.
"No!" Their father shot back defiantly.
Winry sighed. It was like she had three children, not two. "Ed, just tell them."
Ed huffed. "Well you're no fun."
Winry gripped a wrench in her bag she'd been rummaging through. "What did you say?" She growled.
"Nothing!" Ed said quickly. Then he turned back to his pouting kids. "Central, to see the b****** Fuhrur."
"Language, dear."
"Fine. The darn colonel. But anyways, Uncle Al and Aunt Mei are coming to Amestris for a while, 'taking a vacation'. They just had a baby boy, too. Siyu might be there. It was too hard to get Ling and Lan Fan out here too, though."
"You mean the Emperor and his wife?" Abigail asked.
"Of Xing, yeah."
"Cool!" Eric grinned. "What's our new cousin's name?"
"Nathaniel," Ed replied.
Abigail made a face. "What kind of name is that?"
Ed shrugged. "The baby looks almost exactly like Mei, save for his dark gold eyes, so he got a western name opposed to an eastern name."
Abigail wrinkled her nose. "Still! Who likes that name?"
"Alphonse, apparently."
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As the train pulled into the station, the family of four stood up and stretched.
"Ohh... Ed, I still don't understand how you and Al could do this all the time back then!"
Ed just flashed a mischievous look at his wife.
"Oh, oh, oh! Tell us another story of you and Uncle Al's travels!" Abigail squealed.
Ed chuckled and patted her head. "Later. Let's get a hotel room so I can get to Central Command to harass the Fuhrur."
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Dropping their bags on the floor, Ed headed for the door to their room.
"Either of you two want to come with me?"
Both children scrambled to follow him.
"Bye Ed," Winry pecked him on the cheek. Ed drew one arm around her, using the other one to open the door.
"Don't you dare break your leg!" She called as the door closed softly with a 'click'.
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Walking down the streets of Central was always a fun thing for the second generation Elric children. Abigail would stop to look into shop windows often, and Eric was always smiling, taking everything in. There was always a bounce to his step on the streets of this particular city.
"Dad! Can I buy thaaat?" Abigail pleaded.
Ed smiled. "I'll buy you something later."
He grabbed his daughter's shoulder and son's arm.
"Come on, I need to have a nice conversation with Colonel Jack-a$&."
"Didn't mom say not to swear?"
Ed deflated. "But I can't help it!" He whined to his kids. "Especially with Roy!"
Abigail giggled, and Eric smirked. Their dad was so immature.
"And besides, you guys know better than to go around saying that stuff, right?
"...RIGHT?" Ed glared at Eric's smirk, and Eric put a straight face back on.
"Sure."
Ed didn't believe this one bit, but turned away with a sigh. He knew it was his fault in the first place. Maybe he should just have Teacher give them some lessons instead of just having her as an aunt figure...
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They arrived at the Command Center soon afterwards... Or the NEW command center. The old one—or what was left of the old one—had been demolished after the battle with Father, and Fuhrur Grumman had rebuilt it entirely. The design was different, and it was much more efficient than the old one. Now Fuhrur Mustang continued to improve it, and repair certain wings when Edward came to visit.
The guards saluted Ed. They all knew him, and he was granted access all over the base, even if he wasn't in the military anymore.
Ed waved as he walked past, his kids very close behind him.
On their way in, they passed Havoc and Breda. "Hey, Chief!" Havoc greeted.
Ed grinned and waved back.
Outside the Fuhrur's office, Eric heard a gunshot. He turned to his sister, who was giggling. She knew what was going on too. Their father was smirking as he flung open the door.
"Hey, b******!" He shouted cheerily.
The Fuhrur looked up from his paperwork, relieved for a distraction from his secretary... Who also happened to be his wife.
"Fullmetal," He smirked. "Didn't Winry tell you not to swear with your kids?"
Ed shrugged. "But she's not here."
"I can tell her," Mustang replied.
"And I can tell Hawkeye about your hidden stash of undone paperwork."
"... Never mind, then."
"I thought so."
Ed was lounging on one of the couches, his feet propped up on the armrest now. Eric and Abigail sighed. Why did their 'Uncle' and dad always try to get on each other's nerves? At least it wasn't physical... Yet.
The door burst open again. "Dad! Guess what!" An ecstatic voice shouted.
-Ian Mustang, age 12, messy blonde hair and dark brown eyes, physique of his father. He was a good friend of the Elric children, which both Ed and Roy found slightly disturbing, but secretly amused and satisfactory.-
"Oh! Hi Eric, Abigail," he walked over to the couch they were on and dropped down next to them, seeming to completely forgetting his father.
"Hey! Do you think you guys could come to the library with me to find an alchemy book? I want to read something on Flame Alchemy, since Dad isn't allowed to teach me," Ian pouted.
Ed looked over to Roy, who raised his hands in mock surrender. "I would have probably taught him. Hawkeye said no."
Ed understood. No one went against Hawkeye, after all.
"But isn't Riza's last name 'Mustang'?" Abigail asked.
"It is. But everyone kept calling her Hawkeye after we got married, and she never corrected them, so at work, she's still Hawkeye, the second scariest woman in the country." (First is Olivier Mira Armstrong, obviously.)
"Who's the first?" Eric asked innocently.
Roy and Ed looked at each other and shivered.
After a short silence—
"Sir, you realize I'm right here," The blonde woman sighed behind Mustang's chair.
Ed saw Roy's eyes go wide and he burst out laughing. He almost fell of the couch.
A bullet next to his head made Ed jump and he ended up falling off the couch. ...Spoke too soon, I guess.
"Edward, and you need to act more like a role-model for your children."
Roy snorted and tried to stop his snickering.
"Can we go to the library?" Ian whined.
Ed stood up quickly. "Sure. Come on." He need out of that office or something was going to go BOOM.
As Ed led the three children out the door of the Fuhrur's office, they all heard a gun click. In other words, "Finish the paperwork, or I'll shoot you in the head."
Ed was glad Mustang had married someone who could keep him in line.
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"Uncle Ed! I thought the library was that way!" Ian cried.
Ed nodded. "Yeah. But if you want anything advanced on alchemy, especially flame Alchemy, you need to go to the military-restricted library."
A grin spread across Ian's face. "Really! We're going there!" He started bouncing around.
Ed frowned. "You've never been there?"
"Once," Ian slowed down. "But I didn't get to look around, really."
"Seriously?" Eric gasped. "Dad brings us here every time we visit Central! It's one of our favorite places!"
Abigail nodded vigorously.
Ian's mouth hung open. He snapped it shut. "I'm going to follow you guys around Central every time you visit! You always do the best stuff," Ian grinned.
Abigail smiled.
"Maybe sometime you can come visit us in Risembool!" Eric suggested excitedly.
"Yeah!" Abigail agreed. "And dad has a lot of alchemy books at home, you'd love it there! Oh, have you ever been to Xing! Uncle Al and Aunt Mei have a HUGE collection of Alkahestry books there!" Abigail rambled on lovingly.
Ed chuckled and patted her on the head.
"Hey!" She pouted. "Dad, don't do that! It makes me feel like a little kid!"
Ed smiled at her. "Well, you are kind of short."
"HEY! I AM NOT SHORT!"
Ed had to lean against a wall he was laughing so hard.
"What?" Ian asked, confused.
"Old family feud, I guess," Eric sighed.
They made it to the library without further incident, Ed never completely able to wipe the smirk off his face, so when the assistant at the counter gave him a dirty look, he struggled to put a serious face in as he marched up to the counter.
"This is a restricted library, sir. Unless you are in the military, please go to the public library down the street."
Ed slammed his palm down on the counter's smooth mahogany surface.
"Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist."
The librarian seemed surprised, and then she squinted at him.
"Of course!" she chuckled quietly. "How did I not recognize you?" she waved them on, and the children scrambled to catch up with the fast paced former alchemist.
"Dad," Abigail asked hesitantly, walking fast to keep up with her father. "Why do you address yourself as the Fullmetal Alchemist for military stuff?"
Ed sighed as he ran his hand through his bangs. "When I was in the military, I had the name 'Fullmetal', as my state alchemist title. Like Colonel Jack-a$&, his-"
"Language," Abigail scolded.
"And he's the Fuhrur," Eric sighed.
"Whatever," Ed grumbled. "Anyways, he has the title 'Flame Alchemist', as well as all other state alchemists were given a title. Like Major Armstrong-"
"He's a colonel now," Ian subconsciously corrected.
"COLONEL Armstrong is the Strong Arm Alchemist," Ed gritted his teeth.
"Ok, I get it," Abigail said quickly, not wanting her dad to explode and get thrown out of the library.
Ed nodded curtly and continued walking. He stopped past the bookshelves and opened a door to a private study room.
"Alright. Here's a room for the three of you, because I know you'll be here a while. Grab whatever books you want and come back in here."
Ed ushered them in, but didn't go in the room with them.
"Dad?" Abigail asked.
Ed sighed. "I'm going back to the hotel room. My leg feels off and your mother will kill me if I'm away to long," Ed sighed.
"So you're leaving us here... By ourselves?" Eric asked incredulously.
Ed nodded. "I was here alone when I was twelve, you guys are fine."
Ed started to close the door. "And besides, there are probably ninja guards all hidden around Ian for being the Fuhrur's son anyways."
"Really?" Ian asked.
Ed smirked and shut the door.
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Yayz! I finished a chapter! XD So this idea came to me at 3am in the morning, when I woke up for some random reason. It's interesting to look back at what you write when you aren't fully awake, then go back and revise it. I continued to write it while I was talking to my sister via house phone while we were on opposite sides of the house, both on the same MMORPG game. Stupid? Pretty much. I was fishing with my avitar, and making money XD (My fishing level is 69! Take that, you bots! I did it myself! HAHAHA!) I won't say which game, but it's a popular free one. Let's see… what else was I doing? Oh, listening to music. Fury of the Storm by DragonForce, I guess. Anyways, Siyu is going to be the name of Ling and Lan Fan's child (Mwhahaha! They are together in my story!) And the name means "Thinking of the world" in Chinese (Unless the Internet is lying… but the Internet never lies, so why am I worried?). I hope it doesn't seem Mary Sue… But yeah, I plan for the characters to make a trip to Xing at one point. Maybe Ishabal too, because I've never seen that before. Anyways, danke for reading!