Disclaimer: I own FMA!
Mustang: You do not! -Hits with radio-
Me: Ow! Fine I do not own FMA. Or Pony Boy here.
Err uh CAKE IS A LIE!
I freefall for a few seconds, during which I decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to jump straight in. I was starting to wonder what was going to happen when I landed when the vertical tunnel I was falling down turned diagonal. It turned into a slide, I sped down it, after a least a minute of sliding I shot out and landed on a cold, solid rock floor. I stood up and tried to look around, but I couldn't make anything out in the darkness.
Ed came sliding out of the shoot and crashed into my legs, I fell over and my hand hit the edge of a table, causing the torch sitting on it to fall off. I caught hold of the end and scrambled up as fast as I could, leaving Ed on the ground in my haste to find Oryx. I switched on the torch and the room was bathed in a weak yellow light, I saw that there was a stone passage leading off of the room I was in. Al came sliding out of the shoot and landed on Ed.
"Sorry brother." He said as he got up and helped Ed to his feet. I turned to them and motioned down the passage.
"Ready?" They nodded and we set off into the darkness.
"Let's eat grandpa!" "Let's eat, grandpa!" Punctuation saves lives.
We walked through the hallway and into a dungeon room with rows of cells.
"You guys check that side, I'll check this one." We split of and ran down the rows. About halfway along I heard Ed shouting.
"She's over here!" I ran over to the other side and up to where Ed was pulling at the doors of a cell. He growled and clapped his hands together, melting the door open. He opened it and I ran inside. Oryx was in a corner, chained to the wall by her wrists. I ran up to her, knelt down, and started pulling at the chains, they were thin but impossibly string. Oryx felt the movement of the chains and stirred, when she looked up and saw me she gasped.
"You have to get away," she said in a rasping voice, "The chains drain my energy and yours too." She passed out again; I could feel it now, sapping my strength, making me weak.
"Ed, help!" I called out, falling forwards until I was on all fours. Ed ran inside and saw me.
"What's wrong?" he asked running up to kneel beside me. I pointed weakly at the chains.
"The chains sap my energy. I can't get close to them."
"Help me get her away from the chains!" Ed called to Al, who had run in with Ed, Al grabbed my legs and he and Ed carried me out of the room. Once I was away from the chains I stood up and peered into the cell.
"How come you guys didn't get weak when you went in?" I rubbed my temples; I had the beginnings of a headache. Ed shrugged.
"Maybe it doesn't affect us." I nodded.
"So that would mean that you two can go break her out of here. Meet up with me at the slide exit, I'll look for a way out." Ed and Al nodded and ran into the cell I ran back up the cell block and through the tunnel. I came out in the first room and scouted around in it for an exit; we couldn't go up the slide, too slippery.
I found a small button next to the slide and pushed it, a door slid oped to reveal an elevator. Ed and Al walked in at that moment, holding Oryx between them. I showed them the Elevator and we got in and pushed the button for the surface. We ran out of the building and I Ported us back to Oryx and Al's castle. Me and Ed left Al with a sleeping Oryx and went back to our castle to sleep ourselves.
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I woke up the next morning to the sound of birds shrieking their dislike at each other and of Ed cursing loudly as the stack of books he was sitting next to fell on him. I got up, stretched, got dressed, and went downstairs to the party Hall. Ed wandered in half an hour later and watched me hover in the air sticking giant crystal snowflakes to the ceiling. I looked down, saw him, and waved.
"Good Morning to you Ed."
"What are you doing?" He asked looking at some of the other decoration piled in the middle of the room; a tree, some grass, flowers.
"Why I'm decoration for the party of course." Ed raised his eyebrows.
"What party is this?" I floated down to the ground and snatched up bunches of flowers; floating back up to the ceiling, in the next corner along, I hung the flowers from the ceiling.
"A party to celebrate the four seasons." I started running green streamers around the roof of the corner I was decorating.
"Why are you throwing another party?" Ed was now sifting through the pile of decorations on the floor. I floated over and poked Ed on the head.
"Can you set up that hill and tree over there, in Autumn, please?" Ed nodded and dragged the grassy hill top over to the back right corner of the Hall. I put up the rest of the decorations and went hunting for some party food, leaving Ed to write invitations to various characters.
I carried my game back to the castle, cleaned and cooked it, well I got minions to cook it, and set it on the tables. I rummaged through my clothes until I found an outfit coloured in icy blues and greys, as my favourite season is winter, and dyed my hair white grey. I tackled Ed and forced a season out of him, he picked summer, so I dyed his hair and black clothes fiery colours and pulled him downstairs to wait for our guests to arrive.
As always Al and Oryx were the first ones to turn up, Oryx dressed up as a daffodil, Al dressed in a suit of greens and a little yellow. Along with them came characters from Maximum Ride, Harry Potter, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, +Anima, and Rave Master.
I noticed Harry had dyed his hair green, for spring, so I snuck up behind him and dumped a bunch of hair gel onto his head and styled his hair into a molawk. Before he could turn around I ran off and disappeared into the crowd, sniggling. It was unlikely that he would be able to get that gel out of his hair, even with magic. I wandered around the crowd for a while, and then I got dragged into a conversation with Howl.
"I have heard some things about you." He commented, looking down at my with a small smug looking grin on his face.
"I should think so, or you would wonder who the heck this weirdo was and not come to the party." I shot him a sneer, his grin got, if possible, even smugger.
"So out of concern," I raised an eyebrow, he sighed, "okay Sophie nagged me, anyway I would like to give you these. They make it easier to keep track of someone."
He dropped two rings into my hand, they both had thin band and a stone set into another twist of metal, one with a silver band and gold twist, the other reversed, there was a golden stone that shone like the sun set into the silver twist of one, and a stone like an electric storm set in the gold of the other.
"Yes they most certainly make it easier to keep track of someone; they do it very well, what else would you expect, they do have one of my spells on them after all." Howl flicked his hair, looking smug, I laughed quietly.
"You are such a… Mustang." Howl laughed and swept away to talk to Sophie, I put the rings in my pocket and went to dance with a deep Forest wood nymph. The dance was energetic, so ten minutes later I slumped down under the Oak tree on the hill Ed had set up in Autumn panting.
Ed, who had been coaxed into the same dance by an Elf-Piskie, came and sat down next to me, though not nearly as out of breath as I was. I pulled a leaf out of my hair and slipped the rings out of my pocket. I turned them over in my hands unconsciously, and Ed looked over to see what the faint tinkling noise they were making was.
"What's that?" he asked, looked over curiously, I showed him the rings.
"Howl gave them to me; I'm supposed to give the other one to someone who I'd like to keep track of." Ed looked even more curious now, probably wondering about the rings molecular construction or something.
"Who are you giving the other one to then?" He asked, looking up at the branches above us. I got up and swung myself into the oak tree, climbed over to where he was looking at, and hung upside down just above him.
"I've got absolutely no clue whatsoever. Who do you think I need to keep track of the most?" Ed shook his head.
"I'm not sure either, Oryx maybe?" I shook my head.
"She has Al following her around like another shadow."
"Hayashi?" Ed asked, watching the cat make his way through the party.
"He comes and goes as he pleases; I don't need to keep track of him. Anyway, where would he keep the ring?" Ed shrugged. I hung in silence or a minute, and then slapped my hand to my forehead.
"Of course!" I swung up so I was the right way up then dropped down next to Ed. "Howl meant me to give the ring to you!" Ed looked slightly confused.
"Why would you think that?" I searched for words to explain my thought.
"It was kind of a cross between process of elimination and thinking about who I really want to keep track of. Al notices if Oryx is missing and she doesn't go missing very often anyway, so she's unlikely. Oryx would notice if Al went missing, which he hasn't even done yet, so that's no for him. Hayashi has his freedom, he'll come when he wants or needs to, so not him." Ed nodded.
"So I'm the only one left who he could possibly have meant." I nodded, and held out the rings.
"I was thinking that since this one reminds me most of you," I held up the ring with the stone like the sun, "That I'd wear it, and you could take this one. Is that okay?" Ed nodded and took the ring with the storm-like stone and slid it onto his left hand, he'd stopped wearing his gloves around the castle.
I slid my ring onto the middle finger of my right hand and felt it shift to fit snugly. The rings blazed up and I covered my eyes with one hand, as did Ed. The light died down and I brought my ring closer to my face to study it again, it looked perfectly normal. I shrugged and stood up, looking back down at Ed who was still looking his ring over.
"I'm going to go dance some more, there's a friendly looking werewolf over there." Ed nodded distantly, and then his head snapped up.
"Wait what?" I chuckled and skipped off, in the direction of a friendly looking werewolf.
You made your own dice?
Yep!
I waved goodbye to the last guests, hugged Oryx and closed the door. It had been yet another successful party. I did dance with the werewolf, his name was Tom, and then I fell asleep on the hill for an hour or two. During which I had a dream that Oryx was playing her Oboe and Al was basket dancing to the music.
Ed woke me up in time to say goodbye to the guests, he then told me to go to bed while he cleaned up. I said 'thank you' a kaprillion times and gave him a hug before Porting up the stairs, getting changed and performing other nightly rituals, and falling into bed.
Yay! That was fun! Right? Right! RIGHT!
Randoms: Right!
Good.
Next time on CCC: There is camping.