Everyone, I am so sorry for the delay, apparently, life hit me hard on the head, got writer's block for a while and I didn't get much sleep. But I'm still alive! This chapter was requested by 205. I hope you all enjoy this chappie!^-^ Again I apologize for the late update. :C
Disclaimer: Last I checked, I can't draw guys with muscles, suits of armors, automail, giant rabbits with chains, the Abyss itself, Gate of Truth, etc. I never have and never will own Fullmetal Alchemist or Pandora Hearts. *goes to emo corner to go into depression mode…T^T*
CAUTION: SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT GOTTEN FAR IN PANDORA HEARTS!
Anyway…on with the story! Enjoy!
A few weeks after the Food Eating competition, things have actually been quiet at Abyss Gate High School. And by quiet, I mean as quiet as a school would get as if it were a certain guild.
Let me explain about the school before we go back on topic. Practically everyone going down to the principals (yes, I really mean principals) are not exactly normal. Those out of school find it strange to have a sword skill class and survival tactics. Or the way a normal subject is taught actually makes things livelier than usual. And for the principals…there's not one principal and one vice principal. No. there's not even a vice principal at all. There's, in fact, two principals. One of them, the students swear that she and Alice are twin sisters. As for the other one…no one really sees him and whenever he does, it's usually on Halloween or a day when he just feels like to come out and scare the students and staff a bit (mainly Ed). If you can take a guess, and you have a feeling on who the principals are, then you are right if you thought of Will of Abyss Alice and Truth.
Anyway, back on topic, Oz and Al were carefully planning out their next motive to enlighten the school in the form of a competition. They both agreed that their next plan was flawless.
"It's all set and ready to go?" Oz asked his friend.
Al gave him a smirk and a thumbs up. "Yup. I'm sure it'll work. Let's just hope that they don't blow up the school while doing so."
The next day, Oz decided that he and Alice should meet up with the brothers in the library before school starts. As soon as they got to the library, they were greeted by Sheska, the school librarian.
"Hello. Are you here to check out a book?" Sheska asked.
Oz waved a hand as he and Alice went to occupy a table. "Not today, sorry. We're here for a meeting."
Sheska went back to her desk and took a seat. "Ok."
Almost immediately, Alice spotted Ed and Al enter the library and smirked. "Hey, Little Miniature Runt."
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A RUNT?!"
"Brother! We're in a library!"
Ed let out a small "huff" as he took a seat next to his brother. Oz and Alice sat right across from them.
"So what's this meeting about?" Ed asked as the tension was getting too thick.
"We're thinking that you and Alice should do another competition," Oz explained with a innocent looking smile.
Both Alice and Ed twitched violently at this, remembering what happened last time they agreed to do the competition. They both had to take a trip to the clinic and rest there for a long while before the nurse let them go with a cookie each. Upon leaving the infirmary, both agreed that they would never do a competition again and that they would save the cookie until they woke from hibernation a week later. Both teens were true to their word. Upside: the food went down. Downside: MAKE-UP WORK! If there was something that Edward and Alice had in common besides food and personality, it was the hatred they bored for make-up work. Especially a week's worth of make-up work.
Upon seeing the sudden silence, Al decided to poke his brother in the arm. "Uh…Brother? Are you alright? You look a bit pale."
Oz tried to do the same thing to Alice and got no response. "Al! I think Alice turned to stone! And Ed looks like a ghost!"
Alphonse sighed. "I guess it's to be expected. Anyway, the next competition will be held at the track after school today. Make sure you're there."
The bell rang.
"See you on the track!" Oz got up and left for his class. Al waved back at him before turning to give Ed a slap on the head before leaving for class, not wanting to be late.
"What?" Edward asked as he noticed that his brother and Oz left already. Alice got out of petrification.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE TWO THINKING?!"
"SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH! We're in a library!" Ed shushed her.
Odd enough, Edward and Alice shared the exact same schedule so they spent as much time as they could to figure out what their friends were up to after school. Their first period class was chemistry, and Ed loved chemistry to no end. It's the teacher that gets him in a bad mood sometimes.
They call him Flame mainly because he does experiments with fire during his free time. But Ed likes to call him Colonel Bastard for some reason.
"All you have to do now is add a pinch of Uranium in the mix and-?" Mustang noticed Alice and Ed were not listening for the first time. Alice wanted to make sure that something would explode during the experiment, but today, however, neither her nor Ed were paying attention. Instead, they were hunched over some notes about something. " *Ahem* To the two runts in the back, pay attention or else you'll get some strange result that would make you even more short."
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING RUNT?!" Edward and Alice shouted at the top of their lungs simultaneously.
"I didn't know you had to jump up in order to be seen, Fullmetal." Mustang commented with a smirk.
"Dammit, I'm not short!" Edward shot back. Just then, the sound of a gunshot could be heard and a second later, a bullet hole was found on the chalkboard right next to Mustang's head.
From an invisible door in the wall, Hawkeye, the gun tactics teacher stepped out with her pistol in hand. "Sir, it would help if you focused on your lesson and not on making retorts to the students. And Edward, Alice, please try to pay attention." Mustang, Alice, and Edward all nodded without a word, all three of them shaking in fear. Hawkeye nodded to herself and went back to her classroom next door.
"I never understood why there's a window for a wall between the two classrooms," one student whispered silently to her partner.
"Didn't you know?" her partner whispered back. "Both Ms. Hawkeye's classroom and Flame's classroom used to be one big classroom until the two teachers decided to split it up with a window to separate it into two classrooms. I also heard that Ms. Hawkeye keeps an eye on Flame so he doesn't slack off."
All the other classmates nodded in agreement. Ed and Alice sweatdropped.
"Wonder if Colonel Bastard knows that the entire school knows this." Ed mused to himself.
"I HEARD THAT, ELRIC!" Mustang shot at him.
After first period had ended, Edward and Alice had to head over to Art. This is one class that Oz and Al are in with them and as for their teacher…
"Good morning students! Welcome back to the very room that holds all the marvelous projects you all did within the first few weeks of school!" Ed and Alice made sure to duck and cover before they were hugged to death…again…*sigh*
"As you can see, the technique of drawing has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!" Armstrong bellowed. Everyone sweatdropped.
Oz leaned over to his friends. "I can tell that this is going to be a long day." They all nodded in agreement.
Classes later and it was finally lunchtime. Practically almost every day, it gets a bit out of hand in the cafeteria. For the ones who run it are as lively as the students themselves. The students like to address the cafeteria people by their first names since they get along with them.
"Alright, gather up folks! Today's special is the Shepard's Pie! Better than any other school's Shepard's Pie!" Kaylin shouted into the microphone.
Meanwhile, at the cashier, Edward punched in his ID number so he can go on to his table and eat.
"That'll be 375 cenz, please." The redheaded cashier said happily.
"You're charging me?!" Edward exclaimed dumbfounded. "I thought I turned in my free reduced lunch!"
"Then you owe me 3,643 cenz." The cashier deadpanned.
Just then, the cashier's ear was pulled on by the other cashier's hand. "NO MORE NAGGING STUDENTS OF THEIR MONEY, MISTER!" Summer shouted into the redhead's ear. "You hear that, Edward?"
Edward rubbed his ear while Ed (I know, confusing. It'll be explained later) sweatdropped. "We hear you, Summer," both Edwards said dryly.
Summer smiled before returning to her post. "Thank you."
As Ed moved on, ducking from a broom being swung by Tony due to the possibility of Siera breaking-cough cough-destroying the dishes again, Al came up next to him. "You do know where you're supposed to be after school, right?"
Ed gave him a confused look. "At the library?"
Al facepalmed. "At the track!"
"How was I supposed to know that?!"
"I told you this morning!"
Just then, Oz and Alice caught up with the brothers. "Hey, Al," Oz said cheerfully, "I managed to spread word throughout the entire school about the next competition. Apparently, even both the principals are coming to watch!"
Al gave a thumbs up and high fived Oz. "Great! Now we can set up the boundaries!"
"On what?!" Alice and Edward exclaimed.
"Fullmetal vs B-Rabbit." Oz explained to the two.
Silence reined throughout the quartet before they heard a "WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?!" from Alice and Edward.
"Are you saying I should fight that Miniature Bean?!" Alice erupted.
"Did you just call me a Miniature Bean, you Mini Rabbit?!" Edward hollered.
"Hey, Ed!"
Ed turned around to find the source of the voice only to meet a wrench to the head tossed with precision aiming by Winry. "Good luck on the match today! And don't break your automail!" she hollered before disappearing into the sea of students.
The golden haired teen rubbed his head as he stared after her. "How does she have precise aiming anyway?"
Everyone present at the remark immediately faceplanted, including the cooks. "SERIOUSLY?! THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY?!" everyone hollered aloud.
The rest of the day passed and after a few key moves from the Martial Arts teacher, whom Ed and Al always call her Teacher, Ed, Al, Oz and Alice all met on the track field after school, where there was a huge ocean of cheering students, staff, cafeteria mayhem, and including the two principals!
One of the administrators got up on stage and started hollering into the megaphone. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! BOYS AND GIRLS! IT IS TIME FOR THE EVENT OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL LIVES! TAKE A GOOD LOOK-"
Before he could finish, Oz pushed him off the stage in a gentle way. "Okay, okay, Hughes. We don't want to end up with another accident like last time."
Just when Hughes was about to protest, Al decided to continue for him. "IN THE RED CORNER, WE HAVE THE B-RABBIT, ALICE!" Roars of cheers erupted from the bleachers and Oz took his time to quiet them down.
"IN THE BLUE CORNER, WE HAVE THE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, EDWARD!" Oz continued for Al until he realized what he said. "Alchemist? Oh well." A roar of cheers erupted from the bleachers once again as some teachers were trying to process what Oz had said.
"I would've hoped that Alchemist part would have stayed a secret." Edward mumbled to himself. True he's not an alchemist but that doesn't mean he doesn't have an interest in alchemy. Plus, he liked the nickname 'Fullmetal Alchemist.' It went well together.
"TODAY'S MAIN EVENT IS FULLMETAL VS B-RABBIT! THE COMPETITION IS GOING TO FOCUS MAINLY ON MARTIAL ARTS AND ANY OTHER COMBAT THAT EXISTS!" Alphonse continued. "AND TODAY, WE'LL BE YOUR SPONSERS! MY NAME IS ALPHONSE ELRIC! AND MY PARTNER IN CRIME-scratch that-PARTER IN COMPETITION IS OZ BEZALIUS!" Al finished off.
Another roar of cheers rang out through the bleachers. Meanwhile, Alice, the principal, mused to herself, "I wonder if this is going to become a normal routine for the entire school?"
Truth decided to answer for her, "Could be. Although, I have to wonder what they would do if the School Board were to pay an unexpected visit?"
"They would probably try to make you take off that ridiculous suit you're wearing!" Alice pointed out the completely white, head to toe costume Truth wore every day that gave off a black fuzzy glow.
Truth flinched. "I doubt they would do such a thing!"
"Yeah. Rumor has it that a student is haunted by a certain principal."
". . ."
Back on the track, Edward and Alice both gave each other an equal glare. "I hope you're ready for what's coming, 'cause I won't go easy on you!" Edward warned.
Alice gave a smirk. "Hmph. I've been ready for this day, Little Midget."
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A LITTLE MIDGET, YOU CRAZY RABBIT?!"
"THE RULES ARE THAT YOU ARE TO KEEP THE DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM! THE FIRST ONE TO DROP DOWN AND IS RENDERED UNABLE TO FIGHT ANY LONGER LOSES!" Al announced. He passed the megaphone over to Oz to let him continue.
"THERE IS NO TIME LIMIT! REFRESHMENTS AND SNACKS WILL BE GIVEN OUT TO THE AUDIENCE BY THE CAFETERIA STAFF!" Oz passed the megaphone to Dean, one of the staff stationed in the cafeteria.
"THE REFRESHMENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE! WE'LL BE MORE THAN GLAD TO HAND OUT REFRESHMENTS TO THE STUDENTS AND STAFF!" Dean passed the megaphone back to Oz.
"THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO WEAPONS ALLOWED! SO PUT AWAY THE SCYTHE AND SPEAR!" Oz continued. Alice and Edward put away the weapons that seemingly popped out of nowhere. "COMPETITORS GET SEEEEEEEEEEEEEET. . .READY AND FIGHT!"
Within seconds, Ed and Alice charged straight towards each other; both throwing kicks and punches to the opponent. Ed tried to low kick Alice, but the stealthy teen simply jumped over to dodge and surprised the boy by landing a kick to the face!
"You're not bad for a girl," Ed complimented.
Alice smirked. "You're not bad yourself. See if you can dodge THIS!" At that moment, Alice ran forward to do a karate chop, but Ed blocked the incoming attack with both arms and counterattacked.
Meanwhile, as the fight went on, students and teachers ordered for refreshments, keeping the cafeteria staff busy. Al and Oz sat on the edge of the stage, inspecting the battle going on before them.
"How long do you think this'll last?" Oz asked.
Al took a moment to think to himself, then gave his friend a mischievous smirk. "Maybe for a few hours. I guess it depends on who will tire out first."
After about two hours of fighting, with both teens panting heavily, almost half the track needing gardening again, and the entire school still cheering them on, both teens staggered backwards and fell flat on the field.
"I think. . .we should call this *pant pant* a draw. . ." Ed admitted as he drew up a little white flag and waved it.
Alice raised a small white flag which she got out of nowhere and waved it as well. "I *pant* agree with you *pant pant* as well. . ."
All of a sudden, the bell used in wrestling matches rang.
"BOTH COMPETITORS HAVE ADMITTED DEFEAT?!" Al screamed loudly in the microphone. "THE MATCH IS NOW A TIE! EVERYONE, GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR TWO MOST DARING RIVALS!" The crowd's roar grew tenfold as Oz helped Alice and Edward to their feet and started leading them to the clinic.
After the crowd dispersed and left for home, Al soon caught up with his two friends and brother. "That was an interesting match. You two were great!"
"I could have sworn I got the little pipsqueak," Alice muttered.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LITTLE PIPSQUEAK TOO SMALL TO EVEN CLIMB AN APPLE?!" Ed ranted with a tickmark on his head and smoke fuming from his head.
"Brother," Al sighed, "she didn't even say that."
Ed grunted and Oz sweatdropped. "Well, it's to the clinic you two go. You both need to get treated for the small injuries," the latter said.
"At least the nurse there is nice. She gives us sweets whenever we pay her a visit for important matters or not," Ed sighed and started daydreaming about eating all the candy in the world and swore to take over Candy Mountain.
Al and Oz stopped short simultaneously. Ed and Alice noticed that their friend/brother stopped walking beside them and turned around to face them.
"What is it?" Alice asked.
"You don't know?" Alphonse started.
"Know what?" Edward cocked his head to the side in confusion.
"The nurse had some family issues and had to quit her job. Now we have a replacement," Oz continued for Al.
"SERIOUSLY?!" Alice and Ed scream in stereo.
"Edward? I didn't expect to see you here. What's going on? And what on earth happened?!" Hohenheim asked as Edward and Alice stood in the doorway, both gaping in shock.
Ed slowly lowered his head and raised his right hand in a fist. "I never thought," he started off in a dangerously low voice,"that YOU OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD BE THE NEW SCHOOL DOCTOR!"
Outside the clinic, Oz and Al were having trouble containing their laughter.
I'm shocked to say that this is the longest chapter I've ever written so far. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed, followed, and favorited so far. It means so much to me. I also apologize if the fight scene wasn't very good. I normally suck at them, but I will eventually get used to it. Anyway, about the Edward at the cash register, sometime last year, I got bored out of my mind and decided to make some oc's and for some odd reason, I wanted one of them to be named Edward. If you have any suggestions or ideas for the next chapter, feel free to leave it in a review or pm me. I'll see you next chapter! *disappears into the void that's Abyss*