'Who was that guy

'Who was that guy?'
Daniel kept spacing off. He didn't know he was just angered from the man's taunts, or if he was stunned from his points. Either way, he was dazing into nothing.
"... Earth to Danny? Hello?"
He suddenly blinked back to his senses when he noticed a auto-mail arm was waving in front of him. His sister was now standing in front of him.
She poked his forehead "You were dazing off a bit there. You okay?"
Danny flinched, almost forgetting about his sunburns until then.
"Oops! Sorry Danny!" She began patting his forehead lightly in atonement.
However, Danny wasn't too amused. "In that case, please stop touching me."
"Well, sheesh!" Naomi crossed her arms, a tad bit offended by his snappy response.
Ignoring his pouting sister, Daniel immediately refocused on his main reason for being here: Lieutenant Vytas Vaznelis.

"Anyways," he faced the waiter, who discovered one of his customers went missing. "I'm looking for Lieutenant Vytas Vaznelis. Would you happen to know where to find him?"

The waiter scratched his what was left of his gray hairs, "Mr. Vaznelis, eh? I see the lad here occasionally. Same order here every time: Green Tea."

Daniel interest grew more in Vaznelis' where a bouts.

"So you know where this guy lives?"

The waiter was about to respond until a small squeak could be heard in the distance.

"H-hey you! Get back here!"

The waiter's moustache twitched, "Well speak of the devil... That's gotta be him."

Looking down the street, Daniel and Naomi could see a stubby military officer tailing down what looked like a tall muscular man. People jumped out of the way of the man and the pursuing officer. The bulky man's mane of hair thrashed in all directions in the chase. The dog tag around his neck beat on his chest.

As they came close, the waiter sighed, "They're at it again..."

Naomi stared at the chasing duo and stared back at the waiter in her confusion, "What's that supposed to mean?" She curled her fingertips in her hair.

The waiter responded, "It's them damn chimeras... Always wreckin' up the place."

Danny twitched; he had heard of creatures like these: humans or animals that have been combined with other animals by alchemy, but he thought he'd never see one in a lifetime.

The waiter continued on, "About a year ago, we were gettin' chimeras all over the place; ain't got a clue where they're comin' from anyways. The military sent Mr. Vaznelis over to these parts to deal with the problem about half a year ago."

Danny raised an eyebrow as the officer squeaked at the fleeing chimera, "He... sure don't look like much..."

The waiter sighed, "Well, he ain't been much help, 'fraid to say... I gotta admit, he can run two miles straight but he can't catch up to the little suckers. He did manage to catch a few chimeras though."

Out of curiosity, Naomi asked, "Which ones?"

"... A turtle and an alligator."

The siblings stared in awe at the failing lieutenant. The three could see him draw closer, squeaking, "Aw c'mon! Gimme a break!"

Daniel sighed, pushing his hands towards Naomi, "Back up a bit, sis."

The two drew closer; Daniel lunged towards the raging chimera. His clods could be heard pounding against the ground.

"Hey, you punk! What the hell are you doing?!" The chimera roared.

Daniel kept on charging towards the chimera. Naomi stared at her brother, who didn't seem to know what he was doing.

"Hey Danny, you know what you're doing?"

Danny, dumbfounded, did not have the slightest idea of what he was doing, as he bluntly and out of instinct charged into the chimera.

Bodies collided and tumbled across the gravelly dirt road. Naomi's eye twitched at the sight of the mangled bunch.

Lieutenant Vaznelis brushed his scruffy beard as he tried to get up, "Sheesh..." he dusted off his hair, "What was that all about?" The ground underneath him felt rather velvety. He rubbed his eyes, to figure he wasn't on ground: He was now on top of a trampled teenager. Unfortunately, his target had now taken a turn and escaped from his pursuer. Danny idea of tackling the chimera to the ground was an epic failure, as Lieutenant Vaznelis tripped over the boy. Vaznelis stared down at the boy he landed on and immediately replied, "Oh! Salve!"

The waiter sighed, "Looks like we lost it, but it looks like you got who your looking for." He rubbed his wrinkled forehead.

Naomi couldn't believe it, "Danny, you idiot! You let that chimera escape!"

Danny's voice was muffled under the Lieutenant. "Shut up!"

Naomi smacked her palms against her head, "You are unbelievably stupid, Daniel Sullivan. Unbelievably stupid."

He snapped back, "I said shut up!"

His sister scoffed, "Is that the best comeback you can come up with?!"

"Oh yeah? Well, your mom's a hamster-brain!"

"She was your mom too, you know!"
"Damn it, sis!"

" 'Scuse me, but ummm..."

The siblings subsided in the argument, looking at the young lieutenant. Lieutenant Vaznelis got off the mangled teenager, brushing the dirt off his uniform. Danny grumbled about how dirty his pants were, attempting to scratch the dirt off his velvet jacket.

"Did you say you were looking for me?" The lieutenant asked politely.

Danny, brushed down to whatever he could get off, spitting dirt out of his mouth, replied, "Actually, I was looking for you."

The Lieutenant cocked his head to the left, "Eh? What the heck you want from me?"

The teen immediately fell to his knees, begging the lieutenant, "Please! If you can, I want to join the military?"

There was a long pause, Vaznelis twitched, "Ummm... What was that?"

Naomi berated at her brother, "You just took his chance to get a chimera and now you ask him to let you join the military? You really are a moron!"

The lieutenant stared blankly at Daniel. "Well, errr... actually... I'm not exactly at authority to do that..."

Daniel paused, his mouth agape. His eyes slowly turned to Vaznelis, bewildered. "Huh? What was that?"

He replied back to the boy, "Well, you see here, I'm only a first lieutenant. I can't just allow people to join the military, you know, especially kids! Besides, I don't think you would be eligible to be a military officer."

Daniel heart began to sink at the refusal, what the hell as that supposed to mean?" I... I don't get what you're saying, man!"

Vaznelis rubbed his forehead, "Bah, I'll explain everything at my headquarters. You two aren't from here, right? Since most of the hotels are full, I'll just have you two stay at my place until then."

His 'headquarters' wasn't all that much, but it was better than nothing. The twins sat in front of his desk; that being, a unstable wooden desk full of old files and papers. Naomi's chair squeaked as she moved around for comfort.

'This guy could really tidy up the place' she pondered.

Daniel sat completely still, a bit stunned from the refusal of his request. He was surprised, upset, and confused at the same time. He didn't understand what he did not have that other men did have.

Mr. Vaznelis spun in his tattered leather whirly-chair, direct eye contact at the siblings, "Ehhh... sorry about the mess." He chuckled, scratching the back of his brown hair, "Having an office isn't the cheapest thing in Amestris, so I had to use my own house." He rubbed his hands together, grabbing for a pencil; however, being a clumsy oaf he was, the lieutenant tipped over a can full of pencils, clattering to the floor. After flailing his hands forward with a squeak, he immediately picked them up. The siblings couldn't help but stare at the lieutenant.

When he was finally reorganized, he brushed himself off, "Now, where were we?" His eyes glanced at the stunned boy, and his memories aided him, "Ah, that's right. Well, about that kind of request; first off, we can't just take anyone into our military just like that, I hope you know."

Daniel spattered, "Look, I understand that much, that's why I'm asking you to let me take the State Alchemist test!"

The lieutenants eye's boggled at the determined Daniel, "Wh-what was that? Did you say the state military?"

He grinned, nodding at Vaznelis, "Exactly, which is why I am requesting permission to take the test!"

Vytas Vaznelis sighed, "Look, I'm sorry, but I'm not in charge of that! Besides, what on earth do two kids like you want with the military?"

Daniel couldn't answer precisely. He wasn't exactly sure he knew why. He stuttered to answer, but no words came out.

Huffing, the lieutenant gathered some papers, cleaning off his desktop, "I really don't think you know what it means to be in the military. It's not all excitement and adventure like those radio shows and comics display it as."

Danny opened his mouth, trying to reply, but Vaznelis cut him off. "If you ask me, I honestly think you two are too young to experience the true meaning of joining the military."

Daniel growled under his breath, "So it's the same crap that other guy gave me..."

Vaznelis sighed, shuffling papers into small folders, "Sorry kid, but I just don't think you're ready to join the military. I hope you understand that."

Daniel paused for a moment, his heart sunk. Sighing out the words, he replied, "Yes sir..."