"We've got to get him out of there!"
The person Luffy accidentally saved was, how to say… interesting. When Luffy stretched his arms to pick up the figure, it had been very heavy, almost too heavy to be of a person. In fact, this 'person' had a boy-ish face but was as tall as two Choppers on top of each other and that didn't help explain the weight. Although being a boy (his very-dark-red-that-it-looked-almost-bloody-coat was taken off only to reveal a flat chest and another black jacket, which the crew decided to leave it on, and Sanji was disappointed-WHA?! D8), he had his hair long and tied up in a braid, with a slim figure, making him somehow look like a girl.
"Who do you reckon he is?" asked Zoro, the marimo swordsman who just came back from his intense training of lifting 7 tons of weight.
"I don't know…", said Chopper, the crew's doctor, "he doesn't seems to be hurt… at least there's no blood seeping out."
"How do you know that? His clothes are black! I he might have broken a bone or something…"
"Well, his clothes are soaked, and there aren't any blood flowing… and all joints and bones are moving as they should. I think he's just dehydrated. He must have drunk a LOT of sea water."
"Now why does that boy look similar?" muttered Sanji, and all eyes went to the man.
"What do you mean?" said Luffy, "Do you know him?"
"No. Actually, I'm pretty sure we're never met."
"Eeh … I think he's wearing some sort of a gauntlet underneath his clothes." said Chopper, "It's really hard."
"Heavy, too." Added Usopp, the straw hat crew's sharpshooter.
"Ungh…"
"Hey, he's waking!" said Chopper.
Edward Elric was NOT happy.
He had just returned from the other side of the gate, and not long after he's caught up to be a military dog again, AND his first mission ever after he came back and the first ever to be done over the sea was, literally, in the bottom of the freaking sea. The fucking ship got caught up in the freaking hurricane and got torn in half with only barely enough time for Ed to somehow manage to make a crappy makeshift floating chunk of wood with the debris when the damn hurricane suddenly stopped and he fell.
"Ungh…"
"Hey! … …ng!"
It sounded somewhat like a small child, and then another, older but still annoyingly childish voice spoke up.
"Hey! Hey! Are you awake yet? Are you alright? What were you doing on a raft? Did you ship get wreaked? How long have you been here? Who are you anyways? What-
"Ugh, shuuuuuut uuuuup……" he groaned. His head hurt like hell.
As he came to, he saw a face which he thought was a raccoon with a horned hat, and that of a boy with a stitched scar under his left eye and a straw hat.
"Hey guys!!" Luffy shouted. "He's awake! And his eyes are GOLD!!"
"Wah… I've never seen a person with gold eyes… how did you get that?" said Chopper, intrigued.
"GAH! Chimera!? And a talking one, too!!" Edward yelled, almost deafening a certain doctor, and jumped back in a fighting position.
Luffy, amused by the stranger's reaction, glomped him, secretly minding that he didn't do any damage to the surroundings. "Haha! You're funny!"
"Luffy! Get off of him!!"
Well, this is one wicked nightmare, Ed thought. A chimera that looks like an oversized squirrel was talking, not to mention being stranded on the most dangerous ocean on a pirate ship… this had got to be a dream.
"So… you can start by telling us your name." Said a woman with red (red? It was more orangey than red) hair. Most people (some of the people he knew in the military) would have started to drool over the sight the lady was giving in her very small T-shirt and hot pants, but Edward Elric was not what some would say as 'perverted kind'.
"Who wants to know?" Ed growled. Rule number one. Do not spill anything until you know something about the others, especially if you have no idea where the hell you were. Even more if the only thing about this place that you know of is that it's a pirate ship.
Apparently, that wasn't the right move, either. Ed suddenly had a shadow loom over him (not that he was short). When he looked up, he saw a bright green (WTF?!) flop of hair and two very hard eyes. Noticing the very obvious implication of those eyes, he stared intently back at them, determined not to lose.
"Look, we won't hurt you, or anything," helped Sanji, "You seem to have been in a shipwreck, even if you don't want help, you'd at least have to be here for another two or three days, and it'd be better if we knew who we are talking to."
"You don't expect me to believe that, do you?" Said Ed, "You pirates would probably try to sell me off to Drachma or Aurego or some other place."
"Ah, so you're from 'the continent'." Said the black haired woman.
"So what if I am?" challenged Ed.
"Hey, you punk! Don't you use that tone with a lady!" Said another man, this one with blond hair covering half his face. He reminded Ed of Russell; except for the funky curled eyebrow that he was sure wasn't real.
"Che." Was all he said.
"Well, we saved your ass so the least you can do is thank us, you know, ya prat." Said … someone (or maybe something-who has a three split chin?) with a very unnatural blue hair.
"Hmph. … fine." Ed was stubborn, but as he hated people when they were ungrateful, decided not to be a hypocrite. "Name's Ed, thanks, and I hope this ship is heading to Amestris, or somewhere near there."
"Name's Ed, thanks, and I hope this ship is heading to Amestris, or somewhere near there."
Nami didn't fail to notice the golden word (the beli word, in her mind), Amestris, come out of their temporary ward. "So you're from Amestris?"
"… Yeah. What about it?" 'Ed' still sounded wary. It was kind of refreshing to have a somewhat normal reaction from people after being with only weirdoes.
"Well, we are just heading to this port in Xing, my name's Nami by the way, and we were discussing of the country around it …" Tried Nami, trying to calm Ed down a little with small talk. It didn't work.
"Just get to the point." Said Ed, seeming even more irritated than before.
"Can you make gold?" Interrupted Luffy, almost bouncing up and down in excitement.
"No." was the short reply.
"But I thought there were alchemists there!!" cried Franky, and Ed seemed to relax a bit.
"Yeah well, not all of them are." The reply was somewhat smug, as if knowing a secret that he won't share.
"Edward Elric?" said Sanji suddenly.
The boy tensed up again and glared daggers at the man, successfully scaring Chopper.
"… Who are you? …"
"I am not telling you until you talk..."
"Do you know him?" Interrupted Luffy.
"Actually, yes. You know that idiot I talked about?" said Sanji to the rest of the crew. "He also mentioned something about a child prodigy ending up as 'military dog'. Named Edward Elric, the Full Metal Alchemist."
"WAH!! You're Full Metal?!" cried Luffy, eyes turning into sparkles. "Are you a cyborg too?!"
"What?! No!!" Edward yelled. "And you!!" He pointed at Sanji. "How do you know I'm an Amestrian, let alone the Full Metal Alchemist?"
"…"Sanji stared at Ed. Ed tensed, as well as the others, preparing themselves as to what the man would say.
"… Good point." Everyone sweat-dropped, at least until the cook said "… although at some point he said something about being sensitive…"
"Sensitive? He doesn't seem like the type. He seems like a guy with big heart even if he's somewhat short." said Usopp, trying to impress the shorty with his 'heroic' movement.
No one, and by that no one, had envisioned that coming.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST OF MICROSCOPICAL LARVAE COULDN'T SEE HIM EVEN USING THE LARVAN WORLD'S TINIEST ULTRA ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPE?!" Yelled Edward, reaching toward Usopp to try to strangle him. Yes, he was still small, although he did become taller during his years across the gate. Now he was just an inch smaller than most small people.
"I'm sorry!! I'm sorry!! Please forgive me!!" pleaded Usopp, running away from the infuriated blond.
"…Well that was uncalled for." Said Sanji.
"Kishishishishishi! You're funny!! Do that again! Shorty!" said Luffy, most evidently amused by the outburst.
"I AM NOT SHORT DAMMIT YOU SONUVABITCH!! I JUST HAVE BAD STATURE!! I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH CHUNKS OF M-" yelled Edward, slapping himself mentally of the word that almost came out. "-m-ph-FUCKING WET LEATHER!!"
"…so noisy…" muttered Zoro.
"Well I guess that confirms our suspicions as to who he is…"said Nami, to no one particular.
"Hmph. So what are you gonna do now, sell me off somewhere?" huffed Edward.
Nami's eyes sparkeld. "Although that is a very nice thought, I was thinking more about-"
"Hey, you wanna join our crew?" said Luffy, to everyone's (except for Ed, as he didn't know Luffy tends to do this to people he thinks are cool… or funny.) annoyance.
"… Say what?" asked Edward, more confused then ever.
"Luffy!! We told you not to go around asking strangers to be in your crew!!" yelled Nami.
"But he's funny!! And he's an alchemist!!" whined Luffy.
"… Is this crew always like this?" asked Edward to the black-haired woman.
"Yes, Mr. Alchemist," replied Robin. Edward stared at her. "What is it?"
"Nothing, it's just… weird."
"What is?"
"That… title. Just call me Ed. … or at least Edward. It's… weird." mumbled Edward, becoming more and more embarrassed by the situation. "Besides, I'm not the only State Alchemist."
Zoro's face turned to the short (hum) blonde. More information to wherever they were going would have been nice, most especially because there was almost to no info in the huge library that was in the ship.
"There are more of you?" asked Zoro.
"Well, yeah." said Edward simply. The eyes turned to him, expectantly. "What?" asked Edward, getting unnerved by the stares.
"Well, if you're going to pick at our interests, then don't stop talking, or I'll beat the shit outta you." Said Franky, starting to get annoyed by the stubborn blonde.
"What do you want to know?" asked Edward. Inwardly, he was preparing himself to answer as simply as possible, as even though his identity was discovered, the least he could do was try to keep important information out. By the looks the green-slop-hair was giving him (he now noticed that the man had 3 swords – intriguing, because last time he checked male anatomy, men generally had two arms), it seemed like he was the one to question him…mostly.
Hum. Well, This is the next chapter. I'm really sorry about whomever was reading this before, but I accidentally erased it the first time ;; R&R, please!...please?
ps. I'm not going to disclaim this again because everyonw knows that I don't own the FMA or OP, cause if I did, I won't be drooling over them, and I said in the first chapter that I WON't DISCLAIM AGAIN! (although I did)
