Ice Prince Alchemist
9foxgrl
I do not own Harry Potter or Fullmetal Alchemist in any way or fashion
Thank you to Laora, Sandanio,and reader713, SilveredFoxeh, and everyone else whose words inspired me to start this story - 9foxgrl
Ch. 3 - The Swordsman of Briggs
Miles had entered the General's office to leave her an inventory of the artillery and Development's progress on new weaponry when he noticed a photo lying on the ground.
'It must have fallen off her desk when she left earlier.' He thought.
He flipped it over and couldn't help but smile. It was of Zephyrus when he was around five years old in Oliviers' arms. They were dress like civilians, playing in the snow, with big smiles.
He remembered this. It was a late celebration for Zephyrus' birthday since she had to go to Central for a month, and since Zephyrus was getting over a cold at the time he stayed behind under his and Dr. Elsie's care. Miles and Buccaneer covered for her an entire day so she could spend some time with him.
It wasn't the mother and son patented 'I am going to kill you' smile but an honest to God smile.
Miles carefully tucked it into Oliver's desk and left. It had been right about this time a few years ago when he first met Zephyrus.
*flashback*
Miles was heading to his private quarters, he had just heard about his family's deaths in Ishval, and had barely been able to keep from crying in front of the General until he was dismissed for the day. That was when a small red ball bounced off his foot.
He picked it up confused. What was a child's toy doing here?
"Mister, can I have my ball back please?"
Miles looked to see a small white haired boy with crystal blue eyes standing right in front of him wearing pale blue pajamas.
"What are you doing here kid?" Miles asked confused as he handed him the ball.
"I live here with my Mother." The boy replied.
Miles blinked. A child lived in this Hell hole known as Briggs?
"We haven't been introduced. I'm-".
"Zephyrus, you were supposed to be in bed ten minutes ago."
The two males turned to see Olivier coming down the hall.
"Sorry Mother I was playing and lost track of time." Zephyrus replied, not noticing Miles paling.
'She's his mother?' he gasped. He looked closer and did notice that he had her eyes. 'I wonder who the father is though.'
"Well playtime is over. Go to bed or you will fall asleep during your morning lessons."
"Yes Mother. Good night." Zephyrus hugged her then turned to Miles. "Good night Mister. Rest well."
Miles stared as the child ran down the hall then disappeared around a corner.
"To answer your question I adopted him."
Miles jumped. He forgot she was still there.
"Go to your quarters Miles. It's been a long day for all of us."
"Yes Sir."
"And Miles."
"Yes Sir?"
"Just so you know I drilled it into him to shoot intruders first, ask questions later."
*flashback ends*
'For an 'Ice Queen'…she does have a heart. Deep down, she's just a mother.' Miles said with a smile as he tucked the photo in the Generals' desk then set the reports down. 'Maybe I should get her to write Zephyrus a letter or vice versa.'
Zephyrus was not having a good day. First that idiot Ronald Weasely annoyed him throughout breakfast because he sat with Neville at the Hufflepuff table, to the point the red head threw away his mug of coffee, claiming that it would rot his brain, and trying to make him drink pumpkin juice instead of coffee with his breakfast. Only to spill the vile liquid onto Zephyrus's potion essay.
If it were not for Lisa and Ethan pleas not to kill him, he would have drowned the bastard in the damn juice instead of dumping it over his head and then hitting him upside the head with jug.
That was a detention that was well earned in his eyes.
Then right after he managed to restore the document with a neat charm from Flitwick, another moron burned it with a missed aimed jinx.
Now here he was agitated, tired, and ready to kill something.
"TROLL! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!"
That will do.
In the screaming mayhem Zephyrus made his way to the door, eager to finally have an opponent.
"Zephyrus! I can't find Lisa!" Ethan shouted as he shoved his way to the cold Raven. "Ron yelled at her earlier!"
Crap, the fight would have to wait.
Zephyrus and Ethan broke away from their Houses and ran towards the Charms corridor where Lisa was last seen. They were arrived just in time to see Lisa trying to hold the troll off by blasting it with fire.
"Ethan, what do you know about trolls?"
"Magic resistant, not too bright, smells wretchedly, and is as strong as your Uncle Alex."
"I see, get Lisa out of here." Zephyrus said tossing aside his robes.
"What?"
"Just do it."
The troll was just about to smash Lisa out of existence when it felt something stop the club. It looked and saw Zephyrus holding the club up with his bare hands.
"Looks like I get to kill something after all." Zephyrus said as he shoved the troll into a wall then drew his sword. "Get moving Lisa."
Lisa scurried out of the way as Zephyrus charged at the troll.
"Now students please settle-"
CRASH!
Everyone in the Great Hall jumped as Ethan and Lisa ran in and slammed the doors.
"It's okay!" Ethan gasped. "Zephyrus is killing the -"
CRASH!
The duo pulled open the door enough to see the troll face plant into the floor with several stab wounds that were causing it to bleed heavily. It tried to get up, but Zephyrus jumped from God knows where and kicked it's head down so hard that it made the floor crack.
It tried to crawl away but Zephyrus grabbed it by it's trousers and dragged it back.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked it with a blood thirsty grin that would make grown men cry.
"Lis…is the troll….screaming mercy or mermaid?" Ethan said as he grabbed some popcorn to munch on while they watched the Prince of Briggs merciless beat the troll up.
"I think that was mercy." Lisa said munching a candy apple. "Hard to tell since he crushed the jaw."
"Die!" Zephyrus screamed as he shoved the blade into the creature's throat.
One enraged battle cry later, Zephyrus had THROWN the dead/dying troll out a window.
"I win." Zephyrus growled. Sheathing his sword Zephyrus headed back to the dorm for a nice shower then to bed Mother was right. Holidays were a pain in the rear.
The silence that he left in wake erupted. Several students looked at him in awe and fear. The teachers ran outside to see that the troll was dead, and had landed in the large acromantula nest in the Forbidden Forest. Needless to say they were enjoying the free meal when the wizards arrived.
"Hell." Was all Ethan could say as he dragged Lisa back to the Gryffindor dorm.
Flitwick raced up to the Raven Tower after returning from the forest to eagerly award his pupil forty points for defeating the troll without a single spell. Then he had to tell him he had been assigned a detention by the Headmaster for destruction of school property.
Ice Prince Alchemist
"A detention for killing a troll. Are they mad?"
"Zephyrus, I think they were more upset that you caused a ton of property damage."
"I used alchemy to fix it in the morning!" Zephyrus snapped. "And how the Hell did you get a detention?"
"I slugged Ron in the nose just as McGonagall came in this morning for our weekly House meeting. I found out that he made Lisa upset last night, called her an Orphan and murderous snake." Ethan replied. "Hey how did you get assigned out here? I thought your detention was with Flitwick."
"Someone changed it." Zephyrus replied as headed with Ethan to Hagrid's hut where they would be spending detention assisting him.
After hearing through his mystery channels about the change and possibility of entering the Forbidden Forest; Zephyrus armed himself with his .45 caliber handgun.
"What is Lisa doing?"
"Well, she's in detention too."
"Dare I ask why?" Zephyrus asked curiously.
"…Draco tried to assert his power over her as her 'male relative' in order to get her to hang out with him and she basically set his ass on fire in Potions. She's serving her detention in the Library."
"Lucky, at lease she knows what she is doing already." Zephyrus huffed.
"'Ello boys!" Hagrid called out as he exited his hut. "Blimey 'Arry, I 'aven't see ya since ya was a baby…what happened to yer hair and eyes? Yeh look nutin like yer parents."
"Accident." Zephyrus replied. "And my name is Zephyrus."
Hagrid frowned. "Your name is Harry."
Zephyrus snarled. "I was born as Harry, but I am not any longer. I was abandoned as a child by that family that your boss left me with! Now could we please get this over with?"
Hagrid looked at Zephyrus then whistled for Fang. The large dog bounded out and jumped on Ethan. After licking his face a few times it turned to do the same to Zephyrus.
"Heel." Zephyrus said with a bit of malice in his voice.
Fang stopped.
"Sit."
The large dog obeyed.
"I do not appreciate being jumped on." Zephyrus told him. "So none of that understand soldier?"
The dog barked.
"Behave and I may actually pet you." Zephyrus warned him. "At ease Fang."
Fang barked then joined Hagrid's side again.
Ethan just shook his head. "You never cease to amaze me. The fact that animals obey you like you're their commanding officer."
"You just have to show them who's boss." Zephyrus replied. "Now come one, the sooner our task is done the sooner we can go inside. So, what's our job?"
Hagrid snapped out of his stupor. "We're tracking an injured unicorn. If we have to, then we'll put it out its misery."
"So what's our tactical plan?" Zephyrus asked.
"Well…just follow the blood drops." Hagrid said pointing at the droplets that led into two paths. "Looks like we'll have to split up here."
Zephyrus twitched. "Or we could just get Fang to track the scent for us."
"He can do that?" Hagrid replied.
Zephyrus resisted the strong urge to face palm and the stronger urge to use the man as bait. "We don't have for impromptu training, so we'll do this manually."
Zephyrus surveyed the area then pointed. "There are some hoof prints here in the brush, the creature went this way."
They followed the tracks until the path split again. Hagrid followed the other path before Zephyrus could find any signs of the unicorn. Zephyrus then noticed large droplets of blood and withdrew his gun.
"It's close." Zephyrus muttered as he took the safety off. "Get ready."
Ethan slipped on his alchemy gloves. Unlike the ones Roy and Lisa used, his were made from a pair of dragon hide that Fabian had given him. He managed to sew in the transmutation circle and added some iron to the knuckles to add an extra punch.
They reached a small clearing where the unicorn laid dead, a something was feeding off of it.
"Hell." Ethan whispered.
"KILL IT!" Zephyrus roared shooting at the creature as it charged at them.
Ethan slammed his fists into the ground in order to make several large pikes slam into the creature; general chest cavity. It fled just as Zephyrus ran out of bullets and reached for another magazine from his pockets.
"You think it's dead?" Ethan asked.
"No, but we must have fatally wounded it." Zephyrus said looking at the large puddles of red blood stained with silver.
"Should we go after it?"
"No." Zephyrus said walking over to the unicorn. "We are in unfamiliar territory, and not to mention we don't know what other creatures may live here."
A roared in the distance made Ethan quickly agree with him.
"HARRY! ETHAN! YOU TWO OKAY?"
Zephyrus growled. "Why can't anyone remember my name?"
-Lisa-
At the moment Lisa was busy cleaning and re-shelving ten cart loads of books that 'conveniently' added up over a day. Lisa just ignored the librarian's glares and got to work when she arrived.
She was on cart number five when she found a book that caught her eye.
Nicholas Flamel- the Great Alchemist of Europe
Lisa skimmed it and stiffed a gasp.
Only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone.
Lisa paled as she kept going.
Over 700 years old.
'That was about the time Father and those Homunculi started reaping havoc on Amestris, and the same time the country was founded. It can't be a coincidence.' Lisa thought uneasily as she kept flipping, each time a different word or sentence made her stomach turn.
Creation of Chimeras
Blood Alchemy
Creation of Homunculus
Blood crests and their use for protection
Human transmutations
Seeing that the stuffy old witch was not looking Lisa stuffed it into her bag. This was not going to be pretty in the morning.
-Next Morning-
Lisa waited with bated breath as Zephyrus and Ethan skimmed Flamel's book. The entire time the temperatures dropped and Zephyrus glared.
"All of this is a bunch of lies. Fullmetal explained all of these topics to me and none are how they are described in this book."
"Yeah, according to this human transmutation is simple."
"Er…now what?"
"Let's forward this to Central." Zephyrus replied. "We'll let them investigate this. We have a treaty with both mundane and magical Spain so the Alchemy branch can get them to help get ahold of him. In the meantime we need to get a hold of some more information here."
Ethan smiled as he took a card out of his pocket. "Err…well it's not 100% reliable but…"
Zephyrus raised a brow. "Your source of Intel…is a Chocolate Frog card?"
"Well it's a start, it does have a little information about Flamel on it."
Zephyrus took the card.
"Hey you guys."
"Hello Neville!" Lisa said waving at him.
"So did you hear about Quirrel?" Neville asked.
"Did the vampire finally come back for his revenge?" Zephyrus asked dryly.
Neville shuddered. "Maybe. They're saying that he never showed for his morning class with the Seventh Years. When they went to his office to check there was blood and these metal thingies called bul-l-ets everywhere."
Zephyrus paused. 'So it was Quirrel we encountered in the forest?'
"Is there something else Neville?" Lisa asked.
"Professor Dumbledore wants to see you in his office Zephyrus."
Ethan quickly wrapped up the alchemy book while Zephyrus hastily wrote a letter to Ed & Al. Who better to ask about the Philosopher's Stone then the men who had the most research data available to them?
"Send that on ahead while I go deal with this." Zephyrus told them.
Zephyrus got directions to the Headmaster's Office from an upperclassman. Within seconds of seeing him the gargoyle jumped aside. He knocked and the door swung open.
He paused a moment to look at the bright red bird sitting on a perch. It whistled at him. Zephyrus then merely gave it a curt nod.
He looked to the Old Man who had yet to look up from his paperwork. Zephyrus cleared his throat in order to draw his attention.
"Ah Harry my boy. How are you?"
Zephyrus growled. "Other than people constantly calling me by the wrong name I've been just peachy.
"Other than that, I have arranged for you to spend the holidays with your aunt and uncle in at their home in Surrey. Get reacquainted with them before you return for the summer."
"The Durselys?" Zephyrus questioned. "Why in the Hell would I go to spend the summer with them? I have no desire to spend neither Christmas nor the summer with a bunch of strangers."
"They are your family. They've missed you."
Zephyrus laughed coldly. "If they missed me so much why did they leave me for dead in the wilderness? Better yet, why did you stick your nose into business that isn't yours by deciding where I would spend the holidays?"
"I was only trying to make your transition back to England easier." Dumbledore said in his grandfatherly voice.
"Why in the Hell would I need to do that?" Zephyrus snapped. "In case you didn't already know, but I am here on a student visa! Both governments are aware of magic and have set wards to make sure it is not tampered with!"
Seeing the man not understand he continued.
"On these records is the information of the school I am attending as well as my scheduled return and departure dates and since I am the son of a high member of my country's government I have to comply with international laws. Which means if I do not return home my country could potential declare war on yours. And in the words of the Prime Minister 'If those wizards want to maim/kill/control the boy so bad then they will be the ones crushed when his mother retaliates. The mundane government and it's citizens will have no part in it!' In simple terms, you force me to stay somewhere against my will and my country will declare war on magical U.K. and destroy it."
Zephyrus tilted his head with a very taunting smile. "Do you really want to take that chance?"
The Holidays are a time of joy, and adventure. A gift can become special.
Next time: Winter's Folly
You never know what you are going to get in life
Sorry for the long wait folks. As compensation please enjoy this special OMAKE!
OMAKE
"Olivier?"
"Kitchen."
Strongine and Amue paled; hoping they heard wrong and entered the kitchen. They were in shock from two big reasons.
Olivier was cooking.
She was in a dress…A casual plain dress, but still a dress.
"Where is little Zephyrus, we thought we would give him his presents early."
"He is out running with Alex." Olivier commented as she turned revealing a mix bowl.
"So you're making your son a cake?" Strongine asked as she watched her elder sister practically massacre the cake mix she was making.
"Is it not traditional to make our children's birthday cake?" Olivier asked as she shook the cake batter into the pan then scrapped the rest out with a butcher knife.
Amue blinked. 'Cake mix is not supposed to cackle….or have cackling skull shaped globs in it.'
"Well…it is…" Strongine sweat dropped as she took in her sister wearing civilian clothes and with a batter stained apron, her hair tied back in disarray. 'Oh Sister, if only the Drachmans could see you now…'
"Besides, we are playing this off as an early Christmas party, so people from Eastern Command are coming too. I will be making some more food."
When Zephyrus returned to the manor later on with his uncle, they were surprised to see Strongine and Amue practically running out.
"Sisters, is something wrong?"
"Olivier is cooking!" Amue said. Alex paled, remembering what happened when their mother 'attempted' to try and teach Olivier the basics of cooking when she was younger. The kitchen barely survived just learning to make a grilled cheese.
"I dearly sorry we will not be able to attend your party Zephyrus; your gifts are in your room."
"Thank you Aunt Strongine." Zephyrus said as he watched his aunts practically jump into the town car. He then saw his Uncle looking at it wistfully as he drove off
"Is something wrong Uncle? You aren't leaving either are you?"
"N-no…We should go see if your mother has set the kitchen on fire yet."
"Huh?" Zephyrus replied tilting his head curiously.
"OH YOU PRECIOUS CHILD, YOU HAVE NOT YET HAD THE TRAUMA OF TASTING THE DANGERS OF YOUR MOTHER'S CULINARY CREATIONS!" Alex cried hugging his nephew.
"UNCLE! I NEED AIR!"
-At the Party-
"Th-thank you all for coming for my birthday party. I greatly appreciate you all taking the time from your busy schedules to celebrate with us not only this event, but the holidays to come. Please enjoy yourselves."
The guest clapped politely as Zephyrus stepped down and walked back to his mother. Since none of them had children, the guests were primarily adults. The youngest was Private Feury who tried to get Zephyrus to act more like a little kid.
"I'm surprised you invited Mustang." Riza said keeping an eye on the man.
"I figured that he could provide comedy entertainment." Olivier replied watching Feury try to explain what a snowman was to her son who looked confused. Miles was next to his trying not to laugh at the boy's concept of fun games.
Roy smiled sneakily as he took a fork and poked into the cake. They wouldn't miss just one bit of frosting.
BOOM!
On instinct many in the room dropped to the floor or drew a weapon. In Zephyrus' case he was dragged down by Miles, both of them pulled a knife. It was a moment before they all processed the scene before them.
Roy stood frozen covered in cake and chocolate frosting.
"Big Sister…did you booby trap the cake?" Alex asked uneasily as Roy slowly tipped over and fell onto the carpet.
"No." Olivier replied with a mixture of confusion and amusement at the sight of Roy being smacked awake by his Lieutenant.
"I was afraid of that."
BOOM
The Armstrongs turned to see Zephyrus being shielded by Miles, who appeared to be covered in pudding. One of them had tossed a knife into the dish to check it.
"…Sister…"
BOOM!
"NO! NOT THE PUNCH!"
BOOM!
"Um…"
"All this food is explosive at the touch." Hughes gawked as he saw Miles grabbed Zephyrus and rolled under a table as Havoc made a salad explode.
"So what now?"
Feury grinned and turned to Zephyrus who poked his head out from behind a table. "You want to play a kid game?"
"Ok…?"
"FOOD FIGHT!"
-An hour later-
"The Fuher is here!"
Olivier grabbed her son (who, to her pride, had bombed Roy with various baked potato grenades and a bowl of punch) and shoved him into a hidden crawlspace behind her father's portrait. She was going to let Alex explain why it was covered with various fruits.
Fuher Bradley came in with his assistant and stared at the battle torn room with some of his best decorated soldiers covered head to toe in various foods.
"Do I want to know?"
Olivier smiled. "It would seem sir that my cooking is the cause of all this."
Bradley took a look at a seemingly harmless plate of gelatin that had been spared in the onslaught. It looked just like the fancy cuisine his servants make.
'Wait. She can cook?'
"You can cook?"
"No." several voices replied.
"This looks good." The assistant said as she took a serving fork and poked it.
"NO!"
BOOM!
-After that day several soldiers and government officials swore never to eat, or touch, anything that Olivier cooked. Bradley had an alchemist or two try to exam the samples of the food he had collected, believing it to be a form of alchemy…but they reported it only as really bad cooking.
What he didn't know was that the scientists never checked. They were terrified if it was Alchemy…Olivier would make it into her newest weapon.
No one would be safe.
Author Note: The FMA story line never give Olivier's mother a name so Antoinette is just a guess. Sorry about the delay, but I scrapped this chapter over four times trying to figure out a good way to uncover the new villain.