Chapter Four
Since Fate wrote the last half of chapter three... my run of inspiration had to be changed... Oh well, just that little blurb will probably send what I had planned originally on a slightly different course. Enjoy.
I was listening to DNAngel soundtracks while writing this.
Shinji
I looked at the huge building. My eyes went wide. When I was reading FMA as a manga, I never imagined-Scratch that, I did.- that I would be standing here in person, going to take the exam. My mind reeled as I went over the basics of alchemy to the tough crap that came with the clapping.
I felt Dark hug me from behind. Since I was shorter than the tall freak I was dating, his hands were on my breasts. Hey, I'm still pretty short! He's like Hohenheim's height to me. I blushed.
"You can do this." I touched his left hand with my right, metal on metal.
"Okay."
"Oh," Roy looked at me calmly. He tossed one of his gloves. "Since you can do Flame Alchemy without the gloves, you'll need this as a cover." I nodded as I tugged the Pyrotex glove over my right hand. "Now, those who are not qualified to be in the building during testing, or without Edward, stay out." Roy looked at the rest of our group. Armstrong had long-gone on his way. I sighed.
"Let's go, Shinjitsu." Roy ushered me inside. He pushed me to a large hall. Two soldiers stood outside.
"Who's this, Colonel Mustang?"
"This is Shinjitsu..." He looked at me.
"Shinjitsu Elric-Mustang." I bubbled happily. The two sweatdropped.
"Is she your daughter, sir?" The one on the left asked Roy. He shook his head.
"No. Another Mustang." He sighed. Half true.
"Anyways... Is she an alchemist?" The soldier on the right looked at me.
"YUP!" I puffed out my chest. "Now, lemme in so I can do the exam." I stepped towards the door. They blocked the door. I crossed my arms.
I looked at them with a good damned glare Dark taught me. "How old are you?"
"I'm fourteen, almost fifteen. And you don't ask a lady her age." I lifted my head defiantly. The two looked at each other.
"Are you an alchemist?" He asked again. "You look too young to be taking the test."
"Two words: Edward Elric. Was he too young?" I walked to the doors. The two soldiers looked at me, then at Mustang. He made a hand motion to let me through.
"You'll regret it..." A bead of sweat rolled down his face. I smirked as I lifted my gloved hand. They looked at me quickly, panicked and pushed the doors open. One handed me a pen.
"Go take it." I took the pen and went to sit down. I looked at the first page and went crazy on the easy answers. The next page was harder. I looked at how many there were.
Five pages, double sided, the last page hard. I sighed as the pen scratched across the page.
"Too easy." I muttered, half tempted to stick my earbuds in. No. I thought. Too risky here.
I smirked as the man beside me was still on the first page. I was on my third. I hummed Be Prepared from the Lion King. My favourite song. I smirked as I flipped the page and scribbled a couple notes in. I sighed.
Two hours passed since I started. I wrote the last answer and turned it over. I stood up and stretched. I walked to one of the officials and handed it in. They nodded.
"Come back tommorow. We'll see if you can go onto the next portion." I nodded and left. Roy had been flirting with a female soldier who slapped him and left.
"HEY! Lilly!" He turned. His gaze was on her ass. Ass man. I rolled my eyes. He noticed me. "Oh, done?"
I nodded. "They told me to come back tommorow."
"Okay. The total testing takes about two weeks in total for everything to be ready for you to go on duty." He looked at me. I nodded in comprehension. I rolled my right shoulder, the metal pulling at my skin. Not quite yet used to the arm. Roy looked at me.
"Arm hurts?"
"Yeah." I grunted in a lower tone. "Just not quite used to it..."
I moved my arm, the metal clinking and creaking. I rubbed my shoulder to loosen some of the muscles.
Roy smirked. "Lets go." He led me out and to where the hotel was.
-Hotel room-
I stood in the room, Dark massaging my shoulders.
"So..." Ed leaned across the coffee table. "how'd it go?"
"Too easy..." I sighed. "They need to make it a little harder."
I moaned softly as Dark's hands moved to my neck. "Ahhhh..." I sighed happily. Ed and Al just stared at me.
Now, if you want to know where Autumn and Krad were, look in the next room. The two were making out. We shouted 'GET A ROOM' when Krad started to use the moves on Autumn.
My chest throbbed painfully from my linker core. Dark patted my chest. "You'll be fine."
I nodded and kissed his arm. I heard a sigh from Al and a groan from Ed.
"Get a room..." Ed complained.
"Nope~! Haters gotta hate, lovers gotta love." I smirked. He rolled his eyes.
I looked at my watch. "It's 11 pm. We should get to bed." I walked to the door. "Night. See you in the morning."
Al nodded. "Night." His eyes narrowed.
"Night." Ed went to his room.
I walked out and Dark held my hand as we walked down the hall to our room. I unlocked it and opened the room. I walked to the bed and flopped down. Dark closed the door which locked behind him. He lay beside me and kissed my neck.
"Dark, you sappy, sappy man." I murmured as he pulled the sheets up over us.
"I'm no sappier than you." He kissed me. I happily fell asleep.
"Watashi wa anata o aishite..." I murmured before drifting off in his arms.
"Watashi mo." Came his reply. (I dare you guys to figure out what that means.)
I walked into Headquarters and went to the room the men told me about before I left. A man holding a list was standing in front of about 4 dozen people. I shuddered as I hoped my name would be on the list to continue on.
"Kendra Greengrass!" The official called. A woman with blonde hair and green eyes stepped up.
"Ritchie Walker!" A man stepped up. He had (what appeared to be at my distance) pale green eyes. His black hair was shaggy and his height rivaled Ed's.
"Livia Maxime!" A woman with dark eyes, wavy platinum blonde hair cropped to mid-neck length.
"Dorian Moon!" A short man walked up, his hair braided neatly back in a thinner braid, not the fat one I liked to wear my hair in. He had dark eyes.
"Nola Peterson!" The tension started building. A medium height woman, taller than me, walked calmly up. Her brown hair was long and looked like it hadn't been cut in a couple months. Her clothing was a little outrageous. She had olive skin and was a little pretty... God... stop thinking like that!
"Shinjitsu Elric-Mustang." My name was called. I sighed as I walked up to the group. The official listed off about five more names.
"These are all people who got the test 90 to 100 percent correct. Everyone else, try again next year." The rest of the group muttered complaints and started leaving. The official turned to look at us.
"I'm Kay." A girl started. I turned. She was pretty.
"Kay means rejoice, right?" I smiled. "I'm Shinji."
"Kay Koren."
"K. K." I smirked. She laughed.
"Now, it's time for the second part. The physical exam." The official turned. I turned back. "Follow me."
He led us to another room. A male nurse and a female nurse stood in a room. "Now, the women will go with Gemini." The female nurse waved. "And the men will go with Anakin." The male nurse saluted.
The group spilt and they took us to a separate part of the room. She had us each strip down to our underwear, then poked at our bodies, like 'measuring muscles' and making sure we were healthy.
"Okay. The final part is later today." She told us after she had looked over us all. We saluted.
They had given us the clearance to be in the headquarters and I was now wandering the halls, in search for Roy's office here. I found it and knocked on the door. (Is this a lead in for another little plot? Nope... It could be though)
"Come in." I heard him call. I opened the door. "Oh, it's you. How's the testing going."
"We're on the last bit. I need to get to the alchemy show off session in about two hours. Nothing else to do."
"Paperwork." He held up some. I rolled my eyes and took it from him, taking a page with his signature and copying it down.
I had spent a good two hours in his office, doing the paper work. I looked at my watch and stood up.
"Gomen. It's the last part." I bowed, handing the sheet with the exact replicas of his signature back to him. "Hopefully I'll make it in."
(=^x^=) (KITTY)
I stood in the room, Kendra going first. She drew a circle on the ground, connecting it smoothly. She slapped her hands down, the circle lighting up. A glassy sheen apeared on the cement before a crystal glass folded up, followed by another eleven. A judge picked it up, turning it over. He nodded. "Sorry, but it's not quite the type we need. Sorry, but you will not be a state alchemist." She had a downcast look.
The others tried out. Then, Kay stepped up. "Okay!" She clapped her hands, gloves on, circles on her palms. She slapped them to the ground, it exploded under her. She rocketed up and landed on a railing.
"Pass!" A judge called. She smiled. She lept down, absorbing the impact with the balls of her feet.
"Shinjitsu!" The same one called. I stepped forward, clapped and placed my hands to the broken floor. I imagined it smooth as I drew the appropriate circle in my mind.
"Nothing?" Livia Maxime exclamed, her brown eyes wide with shock. "NOTHING?"
I stood up, paced a little on the floor, before snapping, the glove on, flames shooting out and lighting feathers I threw in the air on fire, scattering light ashes in the wind the flames created. I folded my black wings out, letting them flap out and create a large gust. The judges were gobsmacked.
"Did I make it in?" I asked, sweat collecting on my forehead.
"We would be crazy not to." I heard the Fuhrer say. The judges parted to reveal a man with an eye patch. Bradley, or should I say... Wrath. "You make it in."
He stood up. "Nola, you are assigned to Armstrong here in Central. Kay, you are assigned to Colonel Yui in the East, Ritchie, to Colonel Ford in the west and Shinjitsu to Colonel Mustang in charge of the East Command." I saluted. "Dismissed."
I sighed, lounging on my couch. The papers for my State Name and Certification would arrive in East City, next week. I was happy that Kay was going to be at the same command as me. I looked at Dark, who was picking at his nails.
"We'll go back to East City soon. Like, tommorow, Dark." I started. He turned.
"Oh?" He lifted a thick eyebrow.
"Yeah. Ed and I talked it over. He's told Mustang." I grabbed the assignment page.
Shinjitsu Elric-Mustang is officially in the Amestrian Military, under Colonel Roy Mustang's command. She is expected to have high qualities in her missions and assignments.
-High Command.
I sighed as I tucked the page into my skirt pocket.
I stood up, Dark holding a bar of chocolate in his mismatched hands, taking large chomps out of it. I laughed as I stole a little from him. He smiled. I kissed him.
His lips tasted like the milk chocolate he'd just been eating obviously. I felt his tongue on my bottom lip before he started sucking on it. I blushed when he gently bit it. He let go of my captive lip and sat on the bed.
"Soon, you'll go into the military's full disposal..." I nodded.
"Yeah."
"You'll be a human weapon."
"Ummmn." I crossed my arms.
"You'll be sent to kill."
"Hai..."
"And..."
"Don't finish that." I looked at him, a deadly glare in my eyes. He laughed.I glowered before pushing him over. One of his feathers hit the light switch. The lights went out. I feel peacefully asleep in his arms.
