Alrighty, heres chapter 2! :D
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Chapter 2
Melanie was torn. She didn't know if she should talk to Roy or Ed first. The smart thing to do would be going to Roy, because she always went to Roy with her problems. But her gut said to wait and talk to Ed. So she followed her gut.
Ed had a meeting with Roy tomorrow morning to discuss his living arrangements for the next few weeks to prepare for the test. So until then, everyone was staying at Central HQ for the night.
Melanie tiptoed down the hallway leading to Ed and Al's room. She wasn't sure why she felt like she shouldn't be there; perhaps it was just her conscience.
The sound of Al's loud footsteps nearer made Melanie jump nearly ten feet in the air.
"Oh! Sorry Melanie!" Al apologized, "I didn't mean to scare you I was just…" a small 'meow' escaped from the inside of his armor cutting him off.
"Uh, Al how do you fit a cat in there with you?" Melanie asked, "Or more importantly; why do you have a cat in there?"
"Ah! What cat?! I don't know what you're talking about!!" Al yelled.
"Err…right. Anyway, where's your brother?" Mel asked confused.
Al giggled, "He's in our room. Now I have some…" -meow- "business to take care of, bye!"
Melanie raised an eyebrow at Al as he ran away. He was a bit of a strange kid. She wondered why he wore armor all the time. Oh well, it wasn't her place to judge. Mel bet that she was at least ten times stranger than Al.
Melanie walked up to Ed and Al's door, took a deep breath…and knocked.
She heard a muffled, "Come in."
Mel peeked her head in and saw Ed lying on a couch with his arm over his eyes.
His arm was fake.
"Automail." Melanie whispered to herself.
Ed moved his arm and looked at the door…it was Melanie. Strange…he was just thinking about her.
Ed stood up quickly and walked toward her. "Melanie…"
"Oh you don't have to get up…by the way; you can call me Mel if you want." Melanie said calmly.
"Right… Mel." He said as he sat back down on the couch and patted a spot for Melanie to come sit.
Melanie hesitated, but soon came over to sit next to him.
"You were inside The Gate." Ed stated, it wasn't a question.
Melanie looked down at her hands, "yeah."
Ed looked deep into Melanie's lost eyes, "H-how?"
Melanie felt her eyes tear up, this was a painful memory. She looked at the distressed boy and said, "I have no idea how I got there."
"Well there has to be some reason!" Ed said angrier now.
"I told you I don't know!" Melanie yelled, standing up and throwing her hands in the air. "If I knew, don't you think I would-" Melanie went silent. Ed watched peculiarly as he saw her pupils get smaller.
"Err, Mel?" He asked, confused.
"I need a pencil." She said, in a monotone voice, "and paper." she added.
"Hey are you alright?" Ed asked handing Mel her requests.
Melanie said nothing as she began to draw a very complex looking transmutation circle, and she wrote in a language he had never even seen before.
"Alchemy... The science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, the reconstructing it into something else…" Melanie mumbled.
"Uhh, Mel? You're kind of creeping me out here…"
Melanie, still drawing, began speaking in a different langrage.
Ed considered slapping her, "that's what you do to crazy people right?" he thought.
But Ed couldn't hit a girl, so he just touched her cheek. The second he did, the electric current flowed, and Melanie's eye went back to normal.
"-tell you! I mean, what kind of person you think I am?!" Melanie yelled, finishing her sentence from before.
Ed looked at Melanie like she grew three heads.
"What?" Melanie said, rather annoyed.
"Umm…" Ed glanced down at the paper she drew, minutes earlier.
Melanie looked down, "Aw, hell. Not again."
Ed seriously considered slapping her now. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Melanie sighed; she guessed she should tell him. "Alright, after I got back from The Gate, every once in awhile I would go into these "trances," like you just saw. I would say something that had to do with Alchemy, then Roy would get me out of it. Funny, you're the only other person that's ever been able to do that."
Ed flushed, "What happens if the colonel's not around?"
"Well I usually get myself out of it, it just takes longer and I could probably write a book of that gibberish." She said, pointing to the paper.
"Does it mean anything? The writing I mean."
"I guess. Roy takes the stuff I write down and gives it to someone to decode or something."
"I'm going to hang on to this one if you don't mind." Ed said taking the paper and putting it in is pocket.
"Fine with me."
Melanie didn't tell him about the strange tattoo all over her backside and stomach. She'll tell him some other time.
"So," Melanie began, "why where you inside the gate?"
"Hey! You didn't finish your explanation yet!" Ed yelled.
"Yes I did. I said I don't know how I got there. Now it's your turn.
Ed grumbled, "Fine. We transmuted our mother."
Melanie sat, wide-eyed at Ed's story. When Ed finished he folded his hands in his lap and waited patiently for Melanie to say something.
"So…Al's…empty?" She asked.
Ed laughed, "Yep, that's Al!"
At that moment, Al walked in the room.
"Speak of the devil." Melanie murmured.
"Hey Al! Melanie knows your armor's empty, so you don't have to pretend anymore." Ed said.
"Oh, okay." Al said, unaffected.
Melanie's eye twitched. Okay… maybe Al was a little stranger than her.
"Al, look at this cool drawing Mel drew." Ed said, taking the paper out of his pocket and hanging it to Al.
'Cool?' Melanie thought to herself, "when have I ever been, 'cool?'"
"Oh wow! That looks so difficult to draw or attempt!" Al said, "You must be a great alchemist!"
Melanie turned bright red. "Yes…well, I know a bit." It was a tiny lie. In fact Melanie knew a lot about alchemy; but most of it was in her head. She could do tons of alchemy; she just didn't know how she did it.
"Really!" Ed exclaimed, totally interested now, "What kind of alchemy do you do?"
"I can control the elements, you know, wind, earth, fire, and water. All that good stuff. Not that big of a deal." She said casually.
Ed's jaw literally dropped to the floor and Al gasped.
"What?" Melanie asked, confused.
"Y-you can do all of that? How?" Al asked. Melanie shrugged.
"Are you ever becoming a State Alchemist?" Ed asked.
"Heck no!" Melanie screeched, "If war breaks out there's no way I could kill people!"
Ed gulped, he hadn't thought about that.
"Can you show us?" Al asked.
Melanie nodded and walked over to a cup of water. She swept her right palm over her left palm slowing, held out her right hand towards the cup of water. The water rippled at first, then slowly the water lifted in the air, like it was floating. She laid her hand flat so the water could float over top of it. She turned around towards Ed and Al who looked completely blown away.
Melanie shrugged, "I suppose it could become a weapon." She moved her left and across the water and it turned into jagged and seriously looking sharp points.
She then closed her hand into the fist and let the water drop onto the carpet.
"But I'm not a fighter…sorry about the carpet, it'll dry."
"How did you do that without a transmutation circle?!" The brothers asked at the same time.
"Because I saw The Gate of course."
This was news to Alphonse but he kept quiet because he didn't want to get too personal. His brother on the other hand…
"Does that mean I can do that?" Ed asked, excited.
"Probably. You just need to find out how I suppose. Now I better be going, I'm sure Roy's looking for me." Melanie smiled, feeling a bit cocky. Maybe the colonel was rubbing off on her.
Before she walked out she turned and smiled at Ed, "Good luck, Elric. See you two tomorrow!" She winked and strolled out the door.
"Weird girl." Ed commented. Al nodded.
"And yet," Ed thought, "I think I might like her."
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