Posted a day (Wow so much time difference) early for The Flame Alchemist 13 who convinced me to! By a full day! WHAT! Anyway...
Can you tell I like to get off track... a lot
Anyway...
And special thanks to:
aylengm
The Flame Alchemist 13
Brenne
And The Leaf on Italy's Head (Love the name BTW)
Hope you all enjoy!
Chapter 7- Unknown Meeting of Friends
(Roy's POV)
Six months after (September)
Roy pulled out his two ignition gloves, quickly placing them on his hands, he ducked into the alley next to the building and clicked his fingers, blowing away the door. He ran through the smoke, he had to find Ed, he couldn't wait any longer. He ran into a figure in the smoke both falling to the floor, it let out a feminine grunt as they hit the ground. 'Crap! I was hoping not to run into anyone' He leaped up as the smoke was almost gone, 'There goes my cover...' the women was on the floor feeling for papers and such which sprayed the floor. She had long brown hair and a soft face, one that would belong to a mother. Her head rose to see the man standing in military uniform, she began to panic and left her mess and ran upstairs, Roy attempted to follow but a man had kicked his legs from underneath him, sending him into a wall. Roy quickly found his bearings before the next attack. Smoke still lingered in the air, making it hard to make out the man's features. He was definitely a man, broad and strong looking, but he moved slowly. Roy could easily beat him before anyone else came to the man's' aid. Roy was now a good few meters from him, he clicked his fingers and it was done, he ran in the direction that the women took, to demand to take him to where Ed was. Before Roy even made it to the stairs a loud siren sounded twice, 'Crap! An alarm!' Without more thought Roy made his ways to the stairs. He saw the women next to a young adult, pointing in his direction. The child quickly moved and had punched Roy straight in the jaw. Roy quickly hit the floor and tumbled down the stairs, 'Was that metal?...' Roy was on his back on the last few stairs, he laid there dazed for a few moments by quickly shifted when the child launched for another attack
(Ed's POV)
Five Months (August)
"Your up! Thank god!" the man was a tall, thin man, that would be no bigger than a broomstick if it were not for his large brown coat that covered most of his body. His face was long and emotionless, a creepy smile lingering on his lips.
Ed rubbed his head, not surprised by his ears. "What... happened." His throat ruff, like he hadn't drunk anything for the past year, and he yelled the whole time.
"You were in an accident just outside as you were leaving for the day... You don't remember... getting hit by the car?..." Ed's eyes widened and his breaths quickened and his tail whipped the bed frequently. "Calm down, Eddie boy." The man was by his side, putting his hand on his back. "In... Out... In... Out..." Ed's breathing became under control as he was calmed down, he couldn't remember anything, nothing at all... he felt fear towards the man and felt like he should answer him, or, at least, says something when he spoke to him.
"I-I can't remember a-anything... w-why?" Ed still showed panic in his voice.
"You did hit your head pretty bad... Look, I can explain a bit to you, but it's best you remember the rest yourself or not at all.." Ed nodded in acceptance. "You worked here..." He pointed to the ground. "It's a research lab, as security personal." His hands flying everywhere as he spoke. "You were in an accident when you were young and a scientist fixed you up..." Poking Ed in the nose. "...but we had to make you a chimera to save your life and we couldn't do anything about your limbs. Scientists aren't miracle makers... You have no family..." The man trailed off, knowing that he said all he needed. He tried to change the subject as Ed looked distressed by the man's words. "...My name is Joe." He pointed to himself "Do you recall your name..."
Ed dug deep in his mind, trying to rescue anything he could save from the mess of his mind. "...I think... Ed... Edward..." Ed attempted to dig deeper but his tunnel collapsed in his mind and all he could salvage was his first name. "That's all I can remember..."
Joe wrote something on a clipboard now placed on his hands. "That's very good for now, Eddie my boy."
(Ed's POV)
Six months after (September)
Ed laid asleep in Bed, with his tail dangling off the bed, his flesh arm followed suit that night, as he stirred a lot at night. His face dug deep into a pillow and a sheet half covering his limp body, the only way you know he hadn't died, was his slowly rising and falling of his chest and the light flicker of his left ear ever so often. Two loud alarm sounds bounced painfully in his ears, Ed fell to the floor and covered his head. "S-stupid alar-rm...!" Ed slurred. Slowly climbing back into bed, curling into a ball and pulling his blanket over his head. Victoria entered his dark room in a sudden commotion, Ed jolted off his bed once more, by the sound of the door. He looked up at her with his still sleep filled eyes. "Wh..." A yarn followed his attempt at speech, "What... what do you want... at this time of the morning?" Ed looked at his clock it showed Ten am.
"There's..." Victoria was clearly in panic mode, fast paced breaths and failure at speech. She took a deep breath as Ed moved in a crossed-legged position, his hands grabbing his legs like a young child. His tail swishing behind him. "...There is a state alchemist downstairs!"
Ed stood in an instant, he could finally have a good fight... no one had dared enter in the past month he had remembered working here. "WHERE!" With no other word exchange, they left his room.
A man was quickly making his way up the set of stairs at the end of the hallway, dead ahead. Victoria pointed at the man in question, "He..." Before she could finish, Ed raced at the man, taking him by surprise and bashing him down the stairs with his automail hand. "Wait, Ed! He is the flame alchemist, Roy Mustang!"
Ed turned to see Victoria's worried face and reassured her. "Don't worry Tori... I'll be fine. You know me." He shot her a smile and pursued the man that laid at the base of the stairs. He leaped aiming his automail foot into his face, Ed just wanted to beat up this guy. But he didn't know why... The man moved quickly to evade the impact, a large divot was left were automail hit the ground. "You're fast for an old man." Ed still had a feeling that he know who he was. "This will be a good fight, I'm gonna bash that face of your in."
"You seem to know a bit about this place..."
"Well if you want to find out anything, you have to get through me first..." Ed was worried, for Victoria, she was right behind him if he lost he would go to her first. Ed alone was the only person liked Victoria and she was alone and scared. Ed always looked out for her, she was married, but her husband and child were killed not long ago. Ed was all she had left and he saw her like a mother.
"If she tells me what I want to know, then no one will need to get hurt... Ok." The hallway was dark, Roy couldn't see anything, that was the point of it. The natural light from the open door gave extra light on the bottom floor.
"Your in no position for bargaining... You see it's dark for a reason, chimera have a good sense of smell or hearing or can see well. I can see clearly with little light, the light reflects inside my eyes and it amplifies. You're in the dark, but i can see you bright as day..." Ed was walking around the confused and pretty much blind military officer. Roy clicked his fingers towards Ed's location. "You have a nice shot... But your much too slow..." The light from the fire quickly burnt out.
"But you can't hide in the darkness forever... Now can you." Roy clicked his fingers once more creating a large ring or fire surrounding the two. "No, you have no more darkness to hide in..." Ed bounced around Roy kicking him square in his back. All of Roy's air was let out of his lungs before the man could do anything, he punched Roy in the gut. The man stumbled backwards a few steps, drawing in serval large breaths. "You move like an animal."
"WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN!" Ed got Roy's legs from under him, in anger, forgetting he was a chimera... and he was an animal. Ed could hear footsteps coming. 'I needed to end this, now...' Ed placed his automail leg onto Roy's chest, pushing down hard, Roy couldn't get any air in. Ed clapped his hand together and created a blade from his automail arm, it shined at the fire. Ed raised it above his head and went pulled it down to decapitate the intruder. Ed was stopped by a man grabbing his arm.
"35! We need this one alive!" A loud voice screamed from the roof, stabbing his brain, making his ears pin to his head.
Ed had the same face he had when Roy would tell him what to do, disgust and anger. He gave him a glare then back to Roy, he took his arm from him. "You're no fun, Charles..."
"Immobilise him."
With no other words, Ed lifted his automail leg from Roy's chest. He sucked in all the air he could in one go. Quickly Ed planted a kick in Roy's face to render him unconscious. "It still would have been more fun my way..."
Victoria came up behind Ed and hugged him. "Don't be so stupid..." He could hear a whimper catch in her throat, he pinned his ears to his head in sorrow.
"Never... Not when I need to take care of you."
"...It's the other way 'round you idiot..." The two shared a full-hearted smile.
Soz for its short length, I'll post next chapter in the next few days early... since this is so damn short! (Like Ed! OHHH! Jokes, I'm so bad at them... Just forget that I just said that...)
Hope you enjoyed it.
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