Hey! I'm back with another one-shot of Fullmetal Alchemist. Just a random thought I had from thinking about my own phobias. Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: Fullmetal Alchemist belongs to Hiromu Arakawa and I am not her.
Alphonse woke up with a yawn from his peaceful sleep. It had been a year since the Promised Day and now the Elric Brothers and the Rockbells were living peacefully in the peaceful town of Resembool. Speaking of the Rockbells, both Pinako and Winry were out on a business in Rush Valley. They said they would be back later. So that left him alone with his older brother. A peaceful day.
He was about to go get some breakfast when he heard a loud crashing noise from downstairs. Alarmed, and feared that something happened to his brother, he rushed downstairs only to gape at the damage of the living room. The damage he was seeing could only be done by alchemy, and then he saw a pale Edward looking around the room, his long golden hair loose and disheveled and his golden eyes wild with panic.
"WHERE THE HELL DID IT GO?!"
Perplexed and somewhat concerned, Alphonse cocked his head questioningly. "Where did what go, Brother? And what is going on? Did you do all this?"
Edward grumbled, still looking around. "Who else? I'll fix it later, after I find and kill that little bastard."
"Little bastard? Seriously, Brother, what are you talking…about…" He trailed off as he started sweating, eyes wide and blood draining from his face when he felt something crawling on his back. "…Brother…um…is there…something on my back…?"
Edward raised an eyebrow. He walked over to Alphonse and lifted his shirt up. His face was even paler than before, but he tried to keep his calm, which was failing miserably. "…S-stay calm…okay?"
Alphonse knew that reaction. Edward freaking out, destroying the house, little bastard.
Oh, hell no.
"GET IT OFF ME! GET. IT. OFF!"
"SHIT, IT FLEW!"
"WHERE DID IT GO?!"
"HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?! YOU FREAKED IT OUT!"
"TRY HAVING THAT CRAWLING ON YOUR BACK THEN!"
"NO FUCKING THANKS!"
The panicking brothers searched wildly for the source of the chaos, but to no avail. They sank into the couch, completely exhausted after a couple of hours of wild goose chase.
"Curse…that…little…fucker…" Edward cursed under his breath, panting between words.
Alphonse simply sat there, trying to catch his breath, but silently agreed with his brother. They both hated cockroaches ever since they were young. Cockroaches just looked creepy and disgusting, even more so than spiders. At least spiders couldn't fly…
"We're home!"
Edward and Alphonse turned to the door and saw Winry smiling with Pinako trailing after her. That smile was wiped off her face and was replaced with horror when she saw the state of the living room.
"…Shit." Edward mumbled as a wrench was thrown at him and hit dead on his forehead.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY HOUSE?!"
"DAMN IT, WINRY! YOU KNOW I CAN JUST FIX IT!"
"I KNOW, BUT YOU STILL RUINED MY HOUSE!"
Both Pinako and Alphonse sighed tiredly. Typical.
Winry started stomping towards Edward but immediately stopped when she heard a squish under her shoe. She took it off and turned green the moment she saw what she stepped on.
She screamed and in panic, threw her shoe at Edward's and Alphonse's direction. The brothers quickly dodged it.
"DON'T THROW IT AT US!"
"BURN IT! BURN IT! BURN IT!"
Pinako sighed once more, but had a small smile on her face.
Kids.