Oh my gosh, I am so sorry for that crapalicious chapter I gave you! Must be all that chocolate and mock-champagne I drank. Jeez. Anyway, this is the second part of the Christmas special (Also, it's really late, so I hope you can forgive me). I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes I've made, because I wrote this on my phone.
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Disclaimer: When I checked in my stocking on the 25th, I didn't see anything about owning Fullmetal Alchemist and Ouran Host Club. WHY SANTA WHY!?
Christmas: Part II or
When Alphonse Freaks Out About Christmas
Ed was scared, no. Scared is too weak for a word. Terrified. That's it. That's the word. Or, maybe not. Al isn't scary, but the person he brought with him, well let's just say that she brought fear, terror into the older Elric's heart. Now, he was sitting in front of a big suit of armor and a frowning teenage girl.
"Have you been taking care of your automail?" Winry asked, still frowning.
Ed responded with a shrug. "Yeah"
She took a wrench out of her pocket, ready to hit the alchemist. Edward didn't flinch at all, but his eye did twitch. Winry's frown twisted into a sneer.
"Lemme ask this again, have you been taking care of your automail?" She asked again, leaning closer to the older brother. Edward still did not move a muscle. "Do I have to repeat myself? I already told you, I'm taking care of my automail"
Although Ed was acting tough on the outside, he was scared as hell on the inside. He had to show that girl that he wasn't afraid of her.
Alphonse, on the other hand was watching the conversation happen. He noticed that his big brother was acting differently. Usually, when Winry was getting angry, Ed would cower in fear of getting hit by a wrench. But now, it looked like Ed was trying to scare her. He watched, as Winry leaned closer to Ed, still trying to intimidate him.
"Well?" She raised an eyebrow.
"I am taking care of it"
"FINE!" She yelled. "Let me see!"
Ed sighed, and took Winry's hand.
"Al, stay here, please" Edward told his brother.
Al nodded and went to sit on one of the couches.
Tamaki was trudging through the heavy snow of late December, cold and exhausted. He was hoping that he could make it to Ed's place to return his watch, and maybe ask how things were going. The young Suoh was planning to ask Ed to celebrate Christmas, because he didn't want the new host (and cousin) feel lonely. Family stuck together, and it didn't matter if they were blood-related. He looked down at the watch. It glimmered, like a light of hope in the darkness, a star shining in the dark, cloudy skies.
Ed never talks about any of his family... or does he even have one? I doubt that Roy guy and that Riza lady are even related to him. He must always be so lonely...
Tamaki immediately spotted Ed's mansion in the distance. He gripped the small pocket watch even tighter than before, and sprinted to the gigantic house.
He rang the buzzer at the gate. No answer. He did again. Still no answer. Tamaki waited. Ed was probably busy.
Maybe I should just leave, and come back tomorrow...
But just as the king of the Host Club stopped thinking, the gate opened, without anyone answering. Tamaki gasped in delight, and rushed through. He stopped at the door, lifted the knocker, and hit it against the door once. After a few seconds, he knocked twice. The door opened, but he wasn't prepared for what he was going to see...
Winry was on Ed's bed, trying to see if the pipsqueak was actually doing his maintenance. She was so surprised at what she saw. No scratches, dents, not even a speck of dirt or rust. His automail was immaculate.
"Holy crap, he actually took care of his automail" she whispered.
Edward, hearing this retorted "I take care of my automail! Except I don't have a lot of time on my hands to do it!"
"Maybe I would've known if you'd sent me a letter!" she replied, voice rising.
Edward scowled. Both of them were glaring at each other. They didn't even hear the loud buzzer echoing around the mansion, or when Al was asking why there was a loud buzzing noise. They didn't hear when Al went to answer the door, unknowing to what was out there. They were just too focused on glaring at each other.
Too focused to even hear Tamaki scream.
Tamaki was trembling with terror at the giant suit of armour looming over him. After a few seconds of staring, he started to scream.
What is this? Did this monster try to kill Ed? I'll make sure he gets his end!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD OH ED! ARE YOU IN THERE? DON'T WORRY, I'LL COME AND SAVE YOU FROM THIS MONSTER!"
The "King" of the Host Club attempted to ram himself into the suit of armour, but as soon as his head made contact with the chestplate, he felt a searing pain.
He had to keep going, no matter what.
And so, Tamaki Suoh kept ramming his head into Alphonse Elric's chestplate. When he finally looked up, he saw the suit of armour trembling, then just as he had done before, the suit of armour started to scream. The voice sounded childish, it was higher than his. Almost l He felt relieved for a second, then started to scream again. The armour tried to run away, but Tamaki held on to it's hand.
"I won't let you hurt Ed"
The armour tried to pull away, but Tamaki still held on. All of a sudden, the armour screamed " Niisan!"
It kept screaming, and Tamaki tried shut it up. Just as he was about to punch the helmet off, he heard a familiar voice from above.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Tamaki looked to the heavens, and saw Ed staring down at him, his gold eyes burning into Tamaki's head.
"Niisan! Niisan!" the armour yelled.
"Tamaki?! What the hell are you doing here!" Ed asked.
"Well, why don't you tell me what this is!" The taller blonde said while punching the gigantic suit, almost breaking his hand in the process.
Ed facepalmed and sighed. "That's my brother, stupid"
A face of shocked replaced the young Suoh's angry face.
"Y-you m-mean th-this is y-your brother?" King of the Host Club asked, stammering.
The shorter male glared even more. "Yes, why do you ask?"
"W-well, he doesn't really lo-" Suddenly, Tamaki felt the same choking sensation he felt when he called Ed short.
If Ed has a brother, then I've got another cousin! But, why does Ed's brother wear a suit of armour?
Tamaki reformulating his question, so Ed wouldn't get pissed.
"Why does your brother wear armor?''
Tamaki's cousin smiled nervously. "He's uh, a whaddya call it? You know, those people who walk around wearing costumes and whatnot? Y'know?"
"A cosplayer?"
"Yeah, a cosplayer"
Even the dumbest of the dumb would know that Ed was lying, and he was doing a crap job covering it.
"So why are you here?" Ed asked.
The taller blond held the small silver pocket watch in his right hand.
As if he had just seen a ghost, Edward paled and his eyes widened.
"Where did you get that?" he asked, voice trembling.
"You dropped it on your way out of the music room" Tamaki answered. He held the pocket watch up to Ed.
Ed rushed down the stairs and snatched the watch away.
"Well, I guess since you're already here, I guess I could let you stay for dinner. But-"
"EDWARD! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" Suddenly, a wrench came flying out of nowhere and hit Ed on the head.
Both Ed's brother and Tamaki gasped in horror.
Tamaki looked up, where he saw a young girl, around the same age. She looked like Edward, with blonde hair and same coloured skin, except hers was a bit paler. Her eyes weren't gold, they were bright blue. To sum it all up, she was really pretty.
The girl ran downstairs, picked up the wrench, and started to hit him with it, repeatedly.
"Ow! What the hell, Winry!?"
"Don't 'what the hell' me! You went sprinting out of the room! I wasn't even done checking your automail!"
The girl turned and took a glance at Tamaki, who was watching the whole fight.
"Who's this?" She asked, pointing at him.
I hope Ed doesn't mind that I show a little Host Club to his... sister
The leader of the famous club walked up to the girl, took her hand and kissed it.
"You are so beautiful, it's no wonder that a girl like you would be related to Ed"
As Ed watched, his eyes widened in terror. How dare Tamaki try to flirt with Winry?! He didn't hear anything that Tamaki said, for it was all just a whisper.
Winry was watching everything. Who was this man? And why was he kissing. The only person who could kiss her, much less kiss her hand was Edward. She raised her wrench and prepared to strike Tamaki.
Ed's hands trembled. Why!? What if Winry thought Tamaki was cute, and decided to go out with him? He loved Winry, (but didn't say so) and didn't want to lose her to some idiot rich kid. Fists clenched, he prepared to punch him.
Then, out of the blue, Ed's brother took Tamaki's hand, pulled it away gently and shook his head, as if disapproving of Tamaki's actions.
Ed and Winry sighed in relief. It was good that Al came in and stopped him. Poor Tamaki looked up in confusion.
"Huh?" he asked. "I thought both of you were related!" he said pointing at Ed and Winry.
"WE'RE NOT!" Ed yelled, placing his hands on his hips. He glared even more, and Tamaki was sure he could see hell in short blonde's eyes.
Finally, Ed sighed in exasperation.
"You know what? How 'bout you stay for dinner?" he asked, a hint of compassion in his eyes. "You're probably tired too, because you thought that Winry and I were related!"
Edward put his hand out, and helped the taller blonde up. He made a small 'hmph!" and crossed his arms.
Even if Tamaki was an idiot, he sensed something.
Is Edward in love with that girl?
Later that evening...
"So, what's your brother's name?" Tamaki asked.
"Al... Alphonse" Ed replied.
Winry and Al had long since left the dinner table.
"Ed, can I ask you something?" Ed turned to face the other teen.
"Where did you get that watch?"
The older Elric couldn't actually say where it came from, and he tried to think of a good lie to say.
"It's a good luck charm" he whispered, just loud enough so the young Suoh could hear.
The golden-eyed boy exhaled slowly, trying to hold back tears.
"A long time ago, in Germany, my grandfather had this big company. Since my father was going to succeed him soon, our family stayed with grandpa. My father was always working, so my brother and I rarely saw him" he paused, for a moment."Actually, we never saw him at all. Mom, Al and I, we never said anything about it. We were all sad, but we hid it, but mom, she was strong. Real strong"
Ed stopped again. This next part was true. "Lots of people hated my mom. They hated her so much... because she never really married my father. Kids made fun of me and my brother. It was horrible. Some guys even tried to kill her. I wanted to beat those guys, up to make it all stop"
What!? Auntie Trisha never married Ed's dad? That's weird. But why? Did she have some kind of reason why she didn't marry?
"Can you continue?" Tamaki asked.
Those golden eyes stared off into the distance, but their owner nodded slowly.
"To make things worse, the company almost went bankrupt. Mom got sick too. My brother and I stayed by her side all the time. She told us to go outside, to play with Winry, who was our only friend at the time"
Edward turned to his friend, to make sure he wasn't sleeping or doing anything stupid. What he found though, was Tamaki actually listening to him, eyebrows furrowed and staring back.
"We kept holding on, and, well, after a few months or so, the company got back on its feet and mom got better. After grandpa died, they gave the watch to me, to remember how hard things were, and how we were able to push on..."
"OH EDWARD! I DIDN'T KNOW YOUR LIFE STORY WAS SO HEART-WRENCHING!" Tamaki said dramatically, shedding tears and squeezing the life out of Ed.
The shorter blonde blushed, and the taller one drank in the sight of his cousin being cute.
"Hey Ed, do you want to come over and celebrate Christmas with me?"
Winry was exploring Edward Elric's room. Maybe not exploring, but she was not tearing everything down and trying to find out how everything worked. Okay, maybe she was tearing everything down, but she was putting them back together.
All of a sudden, she spotted something on her friend's bedside table. Something small and red. Upon looking at it, she saw a button, no bigger than her thumb. She pressed it, and the entire thing lit up.
Oh Edward, what have you been hiding from me now?
Time Skip...
It was Christmas Eve, and all the Host-Club was sitting in Tamaki's enormous dining table, eating dinner. Haruhi even showed up, but King of the Host-Club ended up receiving a death glare from Ranka Fujioka. Ed brought Winry along because he felt something was going to happen if he left her behind. He even had to tie a ribbon connecting both their wrists so she wouldn't disassemble the first thing she saw.
Earlier...
"So are you the Edward my son has been talking about?" Yuzuru Suoh asked the eldest Elric.
Ed nodded, flustered.
Tamaki and his father faced each other.
So this is Trisha's child...
So, we'd have to take care him...
He is Anne-Sophie's nephew, her sister's son.
Even earlier then...
"Al, I have to a Christmas party" Ed told his brother.
"Brother, what's Christmas?" the younger one asked.
"Well, it's a holiday where people give presents to each other. It's like the Solstice, except even better"
Al was glowing with excitement.
"Really? What else happens, Brother?"
"Well, apparently, there's a dude that brings presents to children... that have been good, and to the bad kids, I think he drags them to hell or something... I don't know, I wasn't listening to that part"
Al shuddered. He didn't like the idea of a guy dragging kids to hell, but he did like the presents.
"Can I come too, Brother?" the suit of armour asked.
Ed gasped. "Uh, I, Al..."
"You don't want me to come, don't you?" the younger brother said. "It's because of my body, isn't it?"
Alphonse's older brother hung his head.
"You can have all my presents, I promise!"
"Don't worry Brother, I'll make lots and lots of gifts for you too!" the younger brother cried as he pulled his older brother into his squeeze of death.
The present...
"Well guys, it's time to give out the presents!" Tamaki yelled from afar.
"Oooohhhh, I hope I get lots of nice presents with cake, kittens, bunnies, baby chicks, etc,etc,etc..." Haninozouka Mitskuni said, dreamily.
His cousin, Morinozuka Takashi, nodded his head and gently pushed the Boy Lolita to the giant Christmas tree.
Winry tapped Edward's shoulder.
"They're calling us. Should we go?"
Ed shrugged. "Do you want to go?"
"Do you want to go?" she asked, unsure.
"Fine"
They both got up and started to walk to where the others were waiting. They got to the doorway, and that was when Winry noticed something above them.
"What's that?" she asked, pointing at the mysterious plant dangling from the ceiling.
"Sh!t!" Ed cursed. "They call that a- a mistletoe!" He tensed. "I-if two people are under a mistletoe, th-they have to k-kiss!"
"Kiss?" Winry asked, whimpering. "What do we do?" Her hands trembled. "I-I think we should-"
Then Ed pulled the teenaged girl into a passionate kiss.
"Here are all your presents!" Tamaki exclaimed as he gave pile of boxes to Ed. "Put them under your tree, then tomorrow, you can open them!"
The gold-eyed male hesitated.
Do I really deserve things from... him? I've done nothing for him, so why is he giving me a crapload of presents?
"Go on, take them" the taller boy urged.
"I..." Ed's words failed him. He reached out slowly and took the gifts.
"I'm sorry that I didn't get anything for Winry or Alphonse, their coming was short noticed" the Suoh told Ed.
"It's fine, don't worry about it" Edward assured his friend. "They got tons of presents from the Solstice"
They both laughed.
Later...
After a few more hours of playing stupid games, eating food (especially cake), a broken vase and a big bruise (Edward, I'm looking at you), Everyone got up to leave the Suoh Mansion #2.
It was around three in the morning when Ed and Winry came home. Alphonse was waiting in the living room.
The older Elric ran up to his brother, and collapsed.
"Brother!" Al cried.
"It's okay, Allllllllllllphonsssssse" his brother told him, tired from the party.
"Brother, I think you should go to bed. You look tired"
"Thanks, tips" Ed replied sarcastically.
Al took a Christmas present, and placed it in his brother's hands.
"Open this one first, it looks special." he whispered, lifting the smaller Elric and carrying him bridal style.
Then he turned to Winry. "Let's call it a night".
She nodded slowly and followed him to their rooms.
Edward Elric was lying in bed, in his pyjamas. The lamp on the bedside the table was the only source of light in the dark room. He held the box above him, inspecting it. Nothing weird, so far. He untied the sparkly green ribbon and lifted the lid off the medium sized red box. The first thing he saw was a small card. Ed tore it from its envelope and opened it.
It read:
Dear Ed,
I know this is your first year celebrating Christmas, but I didn't know what to get you. I tried to get things I thought you would like, but immediately returned them after. After hearing your sad story, I finally found this statue I thought suits you very well.
I hope you'll like it,
Tamaki.
The blonde alchemist dug his hands further into the box, and pulled out a wrapped object. He tore the wrapping paper and got a fairly small glass statue of an an angel, with broken wings and shiny feathers on the mini cloud it was on. There was a tag attached to one of its wings.
Icarus, the broken angel
Icarus had wings made of wax. One day, when he flew too close to the sun, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.
The older Elric gasped.
The hero with wax wings... The one who tried to get close to God! But... But how could that idiot rich kid know anything about this?!
Ed stared a bit more, until he put it on his nightstand. Finally, he turned the lights off and fell into a deep sleep.
And the angel shone through the darkness...
A/N: OH MY GOD! I am sooo sorry for everything!
Well, I've got some explaining to do:
First, I had to write my exams. I mostly spent my time studying and reviewing. Call me a goody-goody, but most of my friends were gonna fail them on purpose.
Second, I was terribly sick, and couldn't even get out of bed. Also, I had to go to the hospital, for reasons that are private.
Third, I started watching Arslan Senki, and had to drop everything. I recommend watching this show if you are a big fan of Hiromu Arakawa.
Well, the weather I'm getting here is crappy, and all my friends are going on vacation. What am I gonna do?
GUYS, YOU MIGHT NOT GET ANOTHER CHAPTER IN A WHILE BECAUSE I'M NOT DONE WRITING MY EXAMS AND I'VE GOT A BUTTLOAD OF TESTS COMING MY WAY AFTER.
So please be patient.
RATE AND REVIEW! (Also, happy 2016!)
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Guys, I'm dying... The Homunculi got me, and they've chained me to a wall somewhere. If you really want to save me and if you want me to keep writing this, please Rate and Review.
RATE AND REVIEW ALREADY! HAVE YOU EVER TASTED ENVY'S COOKING?
Bye,
Galaxia
P.S: Sorry for some OOCness
