Not a Normal Girl

FullMetal Alchemist

EdXOC

Chapter 8


"Go on Ed, all you have to do is sit in your underwear and show off your auto-mail! Just like a model!"


We walked out the shop and back out onto the street. And we heard a commotion down the street

"WOOHOO!"

"YEAH!"

"What's going on?" Al wondered out loud.

"Are you ready for some machine arm wrestling?" A guy with a Hawaiian shirt shouted.

We had to push our way threw the crowed to see what was happening.

"Step right up to see if you can beat the champ of auto-mail arm wrestling!" The man shouted again.

The man scanned over the crowed.

"I'll go!" A man shouted walking out the crowed.

This should be interesting. I thought to myself.

The young man sat across from his opponent.

"Ready? Go!" The Hawaiian-shirt dude shouted.

In under three seconds the young man that had stepped out of the crowed was defeated. His auto-mail arm was practically ripped off. It hung by a few surviving wires.

"Holy crap." I muttered.

"Anyone else wanna try?" The Hawaiian-shirt guy shouted.

He scanned the crowed again and spotted Al, "Ah, you sir! You look like you could be a good match. What do you say, care to give it a shot?"

"Me? No, I don't want to!" Al replied quickly.

The man then looked at Ed, "Well how about you with the auto-mail arm?" The dude said (screw it I'm calling him Steve). "Oh, my bad, what am I thinking? A little sprout like you would never offer any competition! Are there any grown-ups who want to try?"

Ed snapped; Al and I stood back as Ed sat across from the huge man, (I'm calling him Frank).

"Don't do this Ed, you don't stand a chance!" Winry shouted at him.

"That that was encouraging." I muttered to Al sarcastically.

"Ready? Go!" Steve shouted.

Frank was defeated in seconds. His arm ripped clean off. Instead of blood flying everywhere it was metal. The crowed was shocked, even me, to me it was like watching FullMetal Alchemist in High Def, 3D even!

"How did he do that?" Winry asked.

"He used alchemy to chance his opponents metal into a weaker substance." Al answered.

"That's cheating!" Winry shouted at Ed.

Ed chuckled evilly, "I don't hear a word you're saying!"

I tuned out till Ed started shouting something about his pocket watch. That's when I noticed he was shirt-less.

"We gotta find it!" Ed shouted, he then turned to me and shook me by my shoulders, "Mikayla, Mikayla! You know who took it right, right? You have to know!"

I smacked Ed over the head, "Dude, calm it down will ya? Yes I know who took it. Her names Paninya and she's most likely over in the west ally right now."

I feel like such a cheat sheet. Stumped and can't figure out what to do? Ask Mikayla! She knows. Gosh…

We searched around and found a shop called Glatz.

"Don't wind it!" Ed shouted angrily as the tanned skinned girl who stood there in the shop with his pocket watch in her hands, "Don't open the lid either!"

"Uh-oh." The girl muttered, picking up a glass vase with her black boots, much to the store owners dismay, "Catch!"

Ed caught the vase as the girl ran out of the window. He sat the vase down and chased after her. Al, Winry, and I watched Ed's rage and destruction from the middle of town. The girl and Ed soon and brought their battle to the middle of town for all to see. I sat leisurely on a bench and watched as Ed and Al put a cage around the tan girl.

The girl chuckled, "Like this is really going to keep me down."

She used her auto-mail leg to cut the cage open. She then began to run off, "Catch me if you can!"

Bad move sweetie, your running right past me. I casually stretched my leg out and tripped her, "Sorry, but you're going to have to give him, his watch back before he gets even more pissed off then he already is."

Winry, Al, and Ed ran up to me.

"Good, job Mikayla! Don't let the thief get away!" Ed shouted.

Winry smirked, "She's not going anywhere until she lets me see that auto-mail up close!"

Ed, Al, and I stared at the blonde girl blankly. I seriously think she needs some help.

Paninya sat on the ledge of the fountain, hands bound together. Winry went on a auto-mail rant. I sighed and looked at my reflection in the fountain. I strained to remember what was going to happened. Every thing seemed to mush together. It was rather annoying. My hair needed washed. If you didn't know African-American hair didn't need to be washed everyday, maybe once every week or every other week. Its been two weeks and I knew I needed a retouch sooner or later. This was slowing beginning to aggravate me. I ran a hand threw my bangs. Wow, that was an off-track thought. I really should stay focused. I soon found myself walking through a canyon in the heat.

"You weren't kidding when you said your engineer lived in the middle of now where." Winry muttered.

My feet stung, but I wasn't about to voice my complaint. Don't need Ed calling me weak or something.

"We're here!" Paninya announced.

We met Paninya's engineer and his family. Ridel and Satera were expecting a child.

"Can I feel your tummy?" Ed asked innocently.

"Yeah, me too!" I chimed in.

"Sure, go ahead!" Satera said with a smile.

"Wow, so cool!" Ed commented.

"To think we were inside mom's body like that too!" Al said.

"Yeah, weird huh?" Ed said.

"Oh Ed!!"

I chuckled at Ed's expression, "Go on Ed, all you have to do is sit in your underwear and show off your auto-mail! Just like a model!"

"Shut up, Mikayla!" Ed snapped, walking into house.

I laughed and fallowed him into the house, this was too funny!

Later that day it began to rain. Storm, actually. I once again let my mind wonder. Homesickness was starting to settle in.

I'm in the for the long hull, better get use to it.

I was snapped out of my train of thought by a scream. I turned my attention away from the rain and went to the source. Setra was on the ground, holding her stomach, Ridel holding his wife.

"I'll go and get the doctor" Dominic said, rushing out the house while throwing his coat on.

"Be careful!" Ridel shouted.

A few minutes later Dominic was back, "The bridge is out."

We all rushed outside and stared in shock at the destroyed bridge.

"Ed, don't try to fix it." I said.

Ed gave me a sharp look, "why not?"

"Because it will just collapse half way."

Ed frowned when he asset the situation and realized I

was right, "what do we do then?"

We went back inside just as Satera's water broke. Ed, Al, and Paninya began to freak out.

I rolled my eyes, "Calm down, it just means the baby is coming."

"How are you so calm Mikayla?" Al asked.

I didn't think they would understand if I said I watched medical shows so I said, "I've seen this before."

"Really?! Then do you think you could help Satera?" Paninya asked.

I bit my lip, I said I've seen it not done it!

"W-well-" I stammered.

"I'll do it." Winry said putting on an apron.

"Do you know what you're doing?" I asked.

"No." She answered.

I sighed and retied my hair, "I'm going to need wet towels and a bowl of water."


Mikayla began to give us orders like a real doctor would. Almost like she had done this before many times.

"Ed, can you get me some alcohol for disinfectant?" Mikayla asked. It was more of an order then a question.

"Sure." I answered, and gave it to her after I found it.

"What's gonna happen? Do you think everything will be okay?" Paninya ask franticly.

"All we can do is trust Mikayla and Winry. I know that Winry comes from a family of doctors so she use to look through medical books but that doesn't mean she actually studied it. Mikayla on the other hand I'm not very sure about. By the looks of it she knows what she's doing or She's putting up a good front." I replied.


I stood outside the room Setera was in, running the list of things I needed over and over.

Towles? Check. Disinfectant? Check-

"Mikayla." a voice called, breaking me out of my train of thought.

I turned around and saw Ed and Al.

"Hey, what is it?" I asked.

Ed smiled, "You can do it."

I smiled back, "Thanks."

I then looked at Winry and Paninya, "Can you two give me a hand?"


I watched as Winry and Paninya fallowed Mikayla into the room, the door slammed behind them. A few minutes later screams were heard. Al and I huddled in a corner.

"Ow! Nooo it hurts!!!"

What seemed like hours was actually only minutes when Paninya crawled out the room, "Blood…so much blood."

"What happened?" I asked Winry who was collapsed on the ground.

She points weakly over to Satera who was holding her new baby boy with a smile.

"Geez, Paninya don't scare me like that!" I shouted over to her who was still mumbling about blood.

Mikayla sat over in a corner slumped against the wall.

"You okay?" I asked.

She looked up at me with a weak smile, "Yeah I'm fine. I'm just in shock that I actually did that. I can't even feel my legs right now."

She was shaking a little.

I chuckled, "Idiot."

I carried her on my back to a chair in the living room.

"You gonna be okay?" I asked her.

She took a deep breath then exhaled, "Yep, I think I'm good. Geez, I'm not even the one who gave birth and I'm all shook up like this."

"Didn't you mention once that you had a sibling?"

"Yeah, my little brother but I wasn't in the room when he was born, I had to wait in the hall." She answered.

"Oh."


A real doctor soon came and checked on the baby.

"Even adults get scared over being in charge of delivering a baby. You're really something else!" The doctor told me.

I laughed nervously, "N-no I'm not really anything. I went with my gut feeling and hoped for the best."

"If he had waited and came out on the day he was suppose to none of this would have happened!" Satera said.

"He was probably born early because big brother touched her tummy. Some of his impatientness must of rubbed off.

"So its my fault now!?" Ed shouted.

"Well the baby was born with out problems so everything is fine." The doctor said.

"Especially you young lady." Dominic said, "I don't say this often, but you earned it, Thank you."

"Y-your welcome but really you don't have to be so formal." I replied.

"Well to repay you I will allow you to spend the night and we will feed you." Dominic said.

Wow…I wasn't expecting money or anything, believe me I wasn't but that's an interesting payment.

"Sweet!" Al cheered.

But its enough for Ed and Al.


Yes, yes I know. Bad ending! I'm also very sorry for the epicly long wait. School, other fics, my novel that i've been working on, and the fact that my computer got wiped and i had to redo this fic got in the way. I'll try my best to start updating faster. I hoped you liked this though. Please review!