run, i'm a natural disaster
10. Anger
"Will you stop throwing things at me damn it?!" Ed screeches and they all take a moment to… admire the high pitch and absolutely don't rub at their ears in pain (animal senses have their downsides).
"Not", says Heinkel, the leader of today's session, "Until you can shoot the targets whilst dodging our larger missiles". They had planned to start simple, but they were surprised when Ed was revealed to be able to do a large amount of combat. Hand to hand, knife throwing, all kinds of spears and swords; as well as explosives. They'd had to teach her the nastier holds and throws, and where to stick knives if you wanted to keep someone alive but in pain, or the places where they'd bleed to death fastest. Greed had been an unwilling volunteer, but he had been a good practise dummy for Ed, and it had helped her face reality somewhat. It was hard to see her lose her innocence, even harder to deliberately manipulate her into doing so. But this is what they need to do to survive, because Ed's got their backs, and they've got hers, and they're nearing the sort of bond where they'd kill for each other.
Ed sighs loudly, bringing them back to the present. Greed seems to be having a spirited argument with full-on facial expressions with the over-excitable puppy that lives in his head (they'd met the prince a few times now and were quite friendly with the kid), and Darius is preparing to throw the next few knives at her.
"Don't be an idiot, kid." Darius grunts. "Soon I'll be firing bullets at you while you do this, and then you'll have a gun to take round all the time."
"Oh, yay. I do know how to use a gun pretty well-"
Heinkel interrupts. "-No, you know the countryside way of using a gun. You can use old rifles, clean them and fix them and split them in less than a minute. You can use a pistol, but not as well as you should, especially if you were military, and you're not good under fire. Now treat this as you would treat any other new thing to learn about, and take your focus off of killing a person, but on neutralising a target. Go."
Ed starts to shoot and dodge, seething at the beginning due to all the bruises and blood on her; but she's laughing in the end, her trousers ripped, her face muddy, but she's smiling and alive (and that's the way they all want to keep her).
A.N: I'm only putting this up because I promised it. I'm tooooo lazy to write number 20 (my muse has gone to sleep, complaining of too much work), and to top it all off I'm back to school. D:
However, A*-B all round over all GCSE results, is great. C:
I need to do a Pride one and a Havoc one, so they're going to be coming up.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
-Tom