Hey! So, I've kinda been waiting for this moment since last night. I was going to start writing earlier, but I told author12306 I would read their story, and I hate to break promises. However, it took most of the day cuz it's pretty long... So now you learned something new about me! I also never give away secrets, as long as you tell me not to. I am quite trustworthy. *glows* I hope you guyz like this chapter. I put plenty of effort into this, and wrote this while there were, like, 10 girls in our living room, and none of them knew what I was doing... XD
On with the story!
The next day, Ed had some business as the Fullmetal Alchemist to be done, and deciding Al couldn't do much there with him anyways, left his brother sleeping in their room at the inn. The kitty had eventually woken up a few hours later, surprised that his brother had left without waking him up. Not having much to do, but not feeling like sleeping, he wandered around the locked room. He started figuring out how to move his arms and taking out his claws, because fighting like a cat is different than fighting like a suit of armor. After satisfying his natural curiosity, he sat on a window ledge, watching all the people on the sidewalk. Just minutes before his brother was to return, he saw a few cats gang up on a smaller one in an alley perpendicular to the street. It looked like they were about to attack.
Panicking, but knowing there was nothing he could do, he watched from the other side of the glass. Then suddenly loud clicking was heard as Edward unlocked the door. Al's ears perked up as he saw the human started coming in. Quickly glancing back to the window, and saw he still had a chance to help, jumped down and galloped out of the open door.
"What the- Al! Are you not even going to acknowledge me?! Why are you in such a hurry?"
Figuring Ed would be mad to continue to leave without a response, the kitty ran back to its post and placed a paw on the glass. He looked through and quickly saw the situation.
"Oh, you wanna be a hero. But going down the stairs might take too long. Just jump out the window."
Of course, he received a face that was screaming 'Are you crazy?!' mixed with a little 'No way!'
"Al, you are a cat. As long as you can land on your feet, you are totally fine. They can fall pretty far without injuries. Do it or I throw you."
After saying this, Ed opened up the window and waited for Al to do so. The little brother was a little hesitant.
"You could have been over there by now! Jump before it's too late!"
He finally took the death wish, but somehow landed perfectly fine on the ground. Looking back up at the 3rd story window he just came from, he saw his brother was no longer there, probably running down the long way.
Ed's POV:
I quickly ran out of the room, slamming the door behind me without bothering to lock it. I bolted down the flights of stairs, letting my footsteps echo through the building, one heavier than the other because of the auto-mail. I had managed to get out of the front doors in one minute, panting really hard. Wow, that took a lot of effort. While catching my breath, I sneaked over to the corner of a store so I could peek into the alley and watch what happened.
I saw Al step up to the larger cats with a puffed chest. A few seconds later, they started sneering at him while the victim jumped back in shock for some reason. My brother started looking in between the 3 cats during what I supposed was his reasoning phase, where he usually would say things like 'I suggest you just walk away and leave us alone' or 'think about what you are doing.' It's so weird that it looks like they are talking but their mouths don't move. I wish I could understand cats. Wait WHAT NO I DON'T! I shook my head to clear the stupidity in my thoughts, when I saw that things just got serious.
The bullies and Al started circling around, their ears pressed to their heads and backs arched. The cat that looked to me like the leader put on what seemed to be a conceited smirk, when suddenly I heard Alphonse make a really menacing growl. He is usually such a sensitive caring gentleman, so I got caught off guard. They must REALLY be pissing him off. Then he pounced onto the pompous jerk of a cat (well, I'm just guessing...) and the fight began.
The gang jumped on top of the two, creating a big pile of fur, and they all moved around inside, swiping and kicking at each other. All of the moments were so fast I could barely keep up. I couldn't even see Al until he was somehow kicked out and stood there panting. He turned towards me and our eyes met. It looked like he was about to do something that perhaps needed my cooperation.
He stepped back a few times away from the cats, who had stopped once he got out of the fight, and he quickly stood up on his back legs and slapped his two front paws together. Somehow, he was still able to use his alchemy! When he dropped back down, I watched as alchemical light spread through the ground in-between him and the other cats, and I felt a small earthquake as a wall grew. It climbed up and stopped once it was at a height that I knew no one could get past.
Alphonse then trotted over to me, and pushed his paws into my leg with a pleading look.
"Were you gonna go to the other side of that wall? You should've just made some stairs on this side to the top or something."
He just glared back, and I just sighed as I picked him up.
"I'll try my best to aim, but sorry if you don't end up where you want to be. Call if you need me."
I stood up onto a crate near the entrance of the alley, and not praying because I'm an atheist, I pitched the cat up, and miraculously he flew over the wall. Right when he should've landed, I heard a few "MROOOOOOWR"s that sounded like cats getting squished. I started laughing as I complimented myself on my awesome aim.
Al's POV:
Now I had stopped the cats from being able to escape, because the other end of the alley I already knew was a dead end. I also stopped a future fight, because I freaked all of them out with my alchemy, plus falling from the sky. I still haven't figured out how all of us are talking, but somehow we are, and I understand all of them.
"...How the heck did you do that?!" the leader, or 2 Clawz, (whose name would've cracked me up if this wasn't a serious matter,) said sounding traumatized.
"Well, I know how to do alchemy, and after that my ...human threw me up over the wall. But never mind that. Where did you see that suit of armor?"
BOOM total cliff-hanger! XD I, at times, love to torture people indirectly. I had actually originally planned to make this chapter longer, but decided to stop here just to see what happens :) My sister came up with the cat gang's leader's name, and it made me laugh out loud, which made all the girls mentioned at the beginning to look at us confused. I don't know if/what holidays are still going, since I only celebrate Christmas, so now I'm just gonna say "Happy Winter Break!" which will also in the process make people who have full-time jobs to read on miserably. Muahahahaha!
Happy Winter Break! K bai!
