Chapter #3

Don't mess with me, I've got a stick!

Soon after Pianko and Winery showed up at the house, they brought me to the Rockbell's for prep. When I asked 'for what' Winery attacked me with the way auto-mail works, how it's built etc... and with this insane glint in her eye. Edward constantly called her a gear-head, earning a few bumps to the head from a mighty large wrench; but I didn't care.

I'm now laying in a guest room with a very Irritated Kin by my side. I've been here for over 12 hours.. Apparently my arm is infected.. so Trisha has been helping with the infection while Winery and Pinako make my new Auto-mail as quick as possible. My eye burns, but Trisha said it wasn't infected.. and that it's still intact. She's crazy right? I can't feel anything there! Not that you really feel your eyeball there, but still...

Tisha comes to visit me every few hours to check on me. It's pretty boring just laying here. My fever has lifted - which is good cause fevers are so gross. Tisha is cleaning my arm again while I stare out the window.

"So, what happened to you, Ayce?" I feel my eyes widen, and the question makes me snap my head back toward her. Did she really ask that? I smile sadly at the thought. All that blood, having my arm torn from me; that mind splitting information. She catches my face and frowns with concern.

"I just wanted-" I cut myself off, then " No, I committed a sin and now I'm paying for it." She nods and gets up from her stool. Her mouth opens, as if to say something; until Winery and Pianko burst into my room.

"IT'S DONE!" Screams Winery.. Who looks like a walking corpse if I might add.. Pianko doesn't look much better.

"Is the infection taken care of Trisha?" Trisha nods and flashes me a sad smile.

"Yes. The infection wasn't that bad to being with.. You sure have a tough immune system Ayce!" She flashes me a thumbs up before exiting the room. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?

"GET YOUR BUTT TO THE OPERATING ROOM BEFORE I KILL YOU!" Screams Winery... Whoa I think I just TELEPORTED I ran to fast!

Time skip, 20 minutes

Some would think getting their arm torn off by little black hands would be painful, but this tops it all. Right before they started to connect the nerves & wires, Pianko had to amputate about 3 inches of my arms to correctly fit the auto-mail parts. Thanks to this my once -already- sensitive nerves have jumped into over drive, and are being WAY over-stimulated. Before even attaching the arm the two had to make a permanent housing system type of thing, so the nerves can connect simultaneously when they actually give me an arm. What's worse? Three years of recovery! No way, I'm gonna make it a year! However, after about five hours, I faint from exhaustion.

Rehabilitation usually takes about three years. From what I understand, the first thing I need to figure out is how to properly move my new arm. Yeah, it's been about a week since the operation, and Winery does a 'tune up' every other day, saying 'Auto-mail needs to be properly attuned to it's user' She's a sadist! Already a week and I have no idea how to move this darn thing! Wires and steel are completely different from nerves and muscle, after all, and it takes a long time before the nerves themselves adjust to the signals they're receiving. Trisha helps me sometimes, but recently she seems distracted... I've been living in their extra bedroom to work... to repay the Rockbell's. Tsk this is ridiculous! Al follows me around, asking me questions about my 'accident' while Edward just stares weirdly at me... He's a year older then me! At leased he could be nice!

I sprint down to the town to get some milk a I let a wide grin spread over my face. Should I force Ed to drink milk? Yes.. No.. Yes.. Naw too much trouble. I slow my pace as I hit the square, turn left, then right, and Vuwala! A Dairy store called "Cheese Please" Yeah, weird right? I grab a glass of milk, pay the weird old lady I met when I first got here -Mrs. Carmichel, and waltz out the door.. only to slam into a beast.

The man I'm looking at has gotta be around 7 feet tall, but he isn't.. repulsive. Like he's not so fat his rolls look like an ocean, but he's like pure muscle- Why do I feel like I've described this guy before? An equally familiar lady walks around him.

"Sid honey, what's wrong-" She doesn't even finish her sentence when she catches my eye, and promptly throws me into a neighboring wall. "You little brat! Where did you go?" I slide down the wall, and flip over to glare at the women.

"I got... sidetracked.." She throws me over her shoulder again – when did she MOVE? -and I end up in a alley smelling like cheese... She claps her hands together and slams them on the ground. I blink.

"WHOA when did this cage get here?" I yelp, grabbing the stone cage bars. She doesn't need a circle? Oh.. This is Izumi and Sig! Those people from the truck! I feel myself shrink under the women's gaze.

"Sorry old-" I fly into a wall, cage in all. Oh no- excuse me. I get round-house kicked into a wall by a banshee. She slams her leg on the ground and snarls; a demon look I her eyes;

"I'M NOT OLD YOU SORRY EXCUSE FOR A MITE!" My eyebrow twitches while my mind screams "Don't mess with me! I've got a stick!

"A MITE? ATLEASED I'M NOT AN OLD HAG!" I howl, breaking out of the stone cage.

"BEAN-SPROUT!"

"SAGGY!" She gasps and grabs my collar.

"RED HEAD BRAT!" Oh, I won that match.

"YOUR SKIN NEEDS IRONING!" Her mircobraids shield her face, making me look at the burly man behind her... who is giving ME a concerned look mixed with a "nice knowing u kid' look.

"Why you stupid, red haired, mismatched BRAT!" She explodes.. I slam in the other alley wall.. thanks to a round-house kick, a few punches, and being smacked by a alchemy made stone hand. I stare at the women in disbelieve. SHE'S A MONSTER!

"Come on Izumi, you'll kill her at this rate!" I slam myself into the ground in a low bow, stopping Izumi in her tracks.

"Look, she's kneeling-" I interrupt her.

"TAKE ME ON AS YOUR APPRENTICE!" I scream at the ground; nearly making Izumi fall over in disbelief.

"No way! Where are you're parents anyway? Or was that who you tried to being back?" I jump up, and stand as tall as I can.

"Don't bring that up you old witch! My brother -and family- have NOTHING to do with this! I want to get strong!" She stares at me for a moment.. until she punches me -hard- in the stomach, making my eyes blur.

"...Dublith.." Was the only thing I herd before my vision went black. Again.

I don't know if I put this out clearly..

Ed -9

Al- 8

Ayce - 8 and you pronounce her name like Ace, not Ice.. The Y is silent.