The cat like Alchemist

Ch. 10

Max sulked. "What, am I annoying, or something?"

She moved under the covers and poked her head out from under them. "I guess I was pretty cold towards Alphonse. Her eyes widened and then she shot up from the bed, sending the covers flying. "EH?!?! What if they left me because they didn't want to put up with me?!"

She rushed around the room trying to look presentable for the outside world, during which she was knocking things over. Max was panting, worrying to much was making her energy drain already. She rushed out the door, hoping that she would find them somewhere.

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Edward yawned. They had to search through over 32 books, but they finally found the kind of transmutation circle that Max's kidnappers used. It was an old fashion circle that probably hasn't been used in decades. The way the circle worked was that, instead of fusing the two organisms 100% together, it only fused then halfway through. However, that method caused many fatalities because the host usually rejected the intruder part within a week or so. Basically the body killed half of itself. The outcome of the transmutations left a lot of the experiments extremely weak.

Edward couldn't figure out how Max survived the ordeal. Truth be told, she was small, had no muscles or body weight what so ever and only had speed to her advantage. Alphonse had told him how Max got sick a lot, probably just the after effects.

"Ed..." Alphonse started.

"Yeah?"

"The book says that since it only combines the two half way, there is a chance it separate them. But the success rate is only about 20% I'm starting to think if trying to turn Max back to normal is such a good idea..."

"Yeah, I know what you mean... She doesn't have very many deformities besides her ears, she looks completely normal besides that. The only thing that's wrong is that she get sick...that and Mustang's guilt..."

It was silent after that.

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Max traveled the unfamiliar city looking for her two friends. "Oh, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." She groaned. "Maybe I should just go back to the hotel." She turned around and didn't recognized anything in her new surroundings. "Uh...which way was the hotel?" She sweatdropped. "Damn it."

He heard a bunch of people laughing on the other side of the street.

"When did they show up?" Max asked herself. "Eh, doesn't matter. Hey!" She ran across the street. She realized they were a bunch of teenagers around her age. "Do you know where my hotel is?"

All the boys quieted, then started laughing. "Huh?!" The girls rolled their eyes and scoffed at Max.

Max looked puzzled. "Huh? What are you laughing about?! I'm lost!"

They laughed even harder, "You're something!"

Max's face turned red in anger. "I don't get it! Fine, if you don't know then you're all useless!" She stormed off angry. But to her surprise, she was being followed.

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Al and Ed were back into the hotel. "Max, we're back! How 'bout we go get something...to eat?"

Max was no where to be found. Things were knocked over, the whole place was a mess, something had happened here.

Alphonse panicked, "Max's been kidnapped! ...Again!"

"What?!"

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Max was frantically running down the side walk. Somehow she'd got an even bigger crowd of people, chasing her. 'How'd this happen?!' Max thought to herself.

She just kept running, the crowd still chasing her. They reached outside the city like part of Eastern city and gone to dirt roads. Max found the tallest tree and climbed up it as quickly as she could. She had lost her shoes earlier before and splinters had dug into her soft feet. She went to the strongest, yet farthest from the ground, branch and sat down. She watched the crowd grow frustrated and slowly left. Apparently Max wasn't worth the effort. "What'd I even do?" She sighed. She slowly tried pull the splinter from her feet. "Ow! Of course I choose the tree with a thousand splinter sticking out of it! Damn tree!"

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Alphonse and Edward were running around the town looking for Max. "Have you seen a girl? Kinda tall, but small. Has black hair, kinda long but shoulder length?" Edward asked.

The shopkeeper just stared at him. "A short, tall girl, with short, long, black hair?" She said bewildered at the boy's description of a missing person.

"You've seen her?" Ed said hopefully.

"No, sorry kid." She said going into the store.

The two brothers gloomed.

"We're never gonna find Max." Al said worriedly.

"Mustang's gonna kill me..."

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Max had pulled most of the pieces of wood out of her feet. However, it had left them very sore and sensitive. Max looked around to see if anyone else was around. When the coast was clear Max used mostly her hands to slide down the tree. She froze when she heard storm clouds rolling in. "Ah, that's right. We were supposed to get a big storm today..."

Max gloomed. "Why am I such a dumbass, sometimes?!" She shouted to no one.

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Ed and Al fought against the wind and rain that seemed to come out of no where. "Al, we should split up! Maybe one of us will find her first!"

"Ok, Ed! see you back at the hotel in a hour!" Alphonse shouted running in the oppisite direction from Ed.

A/N why don't they just call Mustang? He'd have a search party in like 3 seconds. =_=;

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Max slowly walked the sidewalks of Eastern city. She was cold, lost, wet, sad, sore, in pain, and also shoeless. "If there's any god up there that hates me, just kill me now!" Max shouted up and the thundering sky, sarcastically. Thunder roared in response to her shouts. She began breathe faster, she shivered from the cold and trembled at the unavoidable tears. She hollered up at the sky as she continued on, trying to find her hotel and lost friends.

why can't Max just stay put? +_+;; Please review