Hi! It's Charz again! Here's another holiday that you should know, 'Independence Day'! Hopefully what I wrote is correct and if it's not, please tell me. I had to look up all about it, since I live in Australia.

ENJOY AND R&R!! Lol.


Roy sighed as he hung the yellow, green and white streamers above his office door. The chair he was standing on wobbled as he did, but he continued his work.

"Do you need any help, sir?" Riza called out, standing in the opposite doorway, leaning on the frame.

"No thanks, Lieutenant. Not right now." Roy replied, turning his head to face her.

But just as he did, Roy's chair wobbled a little too much and fell backwards. Roy ended up on the floor, surrounded by the streamers he was putting up. He grunted as he got up, grabbing the streamers and setting them down on a near-by table.

"Are you okay, sir?" Riza asked, walking over to him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. But these streamers aren't." Roy said, looking at the tattered bits of yellow, green and white.

He sighed as he walked through the wide double-doors and down the hallway, all the way thinking 'This new holiday thing is going to be a pain in the ass...'


Edward stomped up the stairs with Alphonse close behind.

"Friggin' ass." Ed fumed. "Why did Mustang have to call me in on my DAY OFF?!"

"It must've been important if he called you in today." Al sighed.

Ed burst through the doors and immediately noticed something different.
The halls were lined with green, white and yellow streamers and the same colour balloons were everywhere. And no one was there.

"Hello? Anyone home?" Ed called out, walking into a table.

"Ouch! Since when was that there?!" He yelled, knocking over the table and whatever was on it.

"There's a note." Al said, picking up a small piece of paper. "It's for you."

Ed took the paper and read it. After a few seconds, he screwed it up and started walking out the door.

"C'mon Al. We have to be somewhere." Ed called back to Al, who just noticed he was gone.


"When, in my hour and a half of waiting, are they going to show up?" Roy grumbled.

"They'll be here soon, sir." Riza replied, handing him a plastic cup.


"This must be the place" Edward said, searching for anyone he knew.

"Well, it certainly looks like something's going on." Al said, looking at the decorations in the trees.

The trees were covered from head to toe in green, white and yellow paper and streamers and the same coloured balloons were everywhere.
Ed and Al walked down a winding path, lined with the streamers, and came to a large group of people.

"Hey, I know these people." Ed noticed, "They're all from East HQ."

"That's right, Fullmetal." Came a voice from behind Ed.

He turned and came (Nearly) face-to-face with the Ass himself, Roy Mustang. He smirked, while Ed got even angrier.

"What do you want with me, on my day OFF?" Ed asked, his voice dripping with scepticism.

"Well, lucky for you, you don't have to do any work today anyway." Roy replied, "The Fuhrer introduced another holiday."

"Well, what's this holiday?" Al asked, as Riza walked up behind him.

"This holiday is called 'Independence Day' and it's celebrated in America." Riza explained, "It celebrates how the country broke off from the United Kingdom."

"Wow, Ms. Hawkeye. You must study these things a lot." Ed and Al commented.

"I have to because he doesn't." Riza replied, pointing to Roy."

Roy coughed while the rest laughed.

"You boys go enjoy yourselves. And don't drink any of the alcohol!" Riza shouted to the brothers as they walked off, into the crowd.

"I hope they don't get into trouble..." Roy mumbled.

"Why not, sir?" Riza asked, curious.

"Because, then I'd have to fill out more paperwork than I have to!" Roy replied, smirking.

Riza sighed at the idiocy of her boss.


About an hour and an ungodly amount of drinks later, Ed was stumbling around like a drunken idiot, which he was.

"Wow, that kid can hold his drink well." Roy mumbled, grabbing another cup off a table.

"What do you mean, sir?" Riza asked, trying to swipe the drink off him, and failing.

"If most people here had the same amount of drinks he's had, they'd be passed out in a park somewhere." Roy explained. "I'm surprised he's still walking, if just barely..."

"Oh well. We better get these fireworks going. You do that, and I'll play the music." Riza sighed and got out of her chair.

Roy nodded and walked off in the opposite direction.


"Brother, we should go home." Al suggested, holding on to Ed's shoulder.

"Why? I can tell tha' sumfing big 's gonna happen soon..." Ed slurred, walking towards a park bench.

Suddenly, there were loud banging noises, and there were 'ohh's and 'ahh's heard from the crowd. Al looked up and saw that fireworks were exploding.

"I guess you were right, brother." Al mumbled, as Ed looked up as well.

"Heh, of course I was right! Who do you fink I am...?" Ed said, puffing out his chest.

"You're an idiot sometimes..." Al sighed, watching the fireworks in the sky.

The Amestrian Anthem played as people sang along with the music.
Ed tried to sing, and was pretty alright, considering he was flat off his face.


After the fireworks and the Anthem finished, mostly everyone went home. Only Ed, Al, Roy and a few others stayed.
Ed nearly kept falling asleep, so Al decided to take him home. Until he ran into Roy.

"Hey, Alphonse. Do you want me to carry Edward instead of you?" Roy asked, looking up at Al's helmet.

"If you want to, I suppose." Al agreed, handing him his brother. "Just don't drop him, ok?"

"I'll be fine, you don't need to worry." Roy said, giving a sleeping Ed a piggy-back ride.

"How many times have I heard that before...?" Al sighed, walking ahead of Roy.

A short while later, Ed woke up a little. He looked around and noticed that he was being carried.

"Al, why are you so soft?" Ed asked, half-dazed.

"I'm not Al, you goof." Roy replied.

"Mustang? Why are you carrying me? I don't wanna be carried by you." Ed complained but still too asleep to do anything.

"So, what did you think of Independence Day?" Roy asked kind of avoiding the question.

"It was good, until I had those drinks." Ed said, "Than it got a whole lot better."

"That's something that I'd probably say." Roy chuckled.

The two walked in silence, apart from Ed making the odd remark and Roy chuckling at it.

Roy noticed something different about Ed though, but he couldn't quite figure it out.


"Hey, this is our stop, sir." Al called back to Roy, who was still carrying a half-conscious Edward.

Roy walked up the front steps and gave Ed back to Alphonse. He said goodnight, and waved to Roy as he walked back down the stairs and along the street.

It was then that Roy figured out what was different about Ed. He noticed that he actually started to enjoy Ed's company, rather than try to reject it.
Roy smiled and in his mind, pushed Ed up from 'Totally annoying and I can't stand him or his bullshit' to 'Not so bad, but still annoying'.

"This new holiday thing might not be that bad after all." Roy sighed, looking up at the moon.


TA-DA!! Gomen, I couldn't get it out before Independence Day. Oh well. Happy (belated) Independence Day!