Twists Chapter 12

'Warehouse 15...Damnit...'

Ed had left the office in a hurry, making sure Roy didn't know where he was actually going. He wouldn't stand for anyone of the man's team getting hurt, let alone Roy.

He'd told Hawkeye he was going to the Library to research something, and to tell the colonel he'd be late for their meeting.

'Sorry...Roy...Damnit...we just started this and I'm already lying to him...'

Ed stopped infront of the entrance to the warehouse district and looked at the note he'd found on his desk.

'Now where the hell is number 15?' He stuffed the note in his pocket and ran along the dirt road that led through the small district.

He stopped when he saw the numbers 13 and 14 painted on two large buildings.

'Ok What the fuck? 15 should be right after 14...but there's nothing there. Fucking Hanaki better not be pulling my fucking leg or he will know what It's like to have a steel foot shoved up his asshole.'

Ed's internal rant was cute short when he heard something.

" Major Elric...over here..."

Ed looked over towards the southern wall of the warehouse with the number 14 on it, there was a hand waving at Ed to come towards it.

'Oh Wonderful Another fucking freak to deal with.'

Ed walked towards the rather thin hand and as he got closer it receded into the shadows.

He rolled his eyes.

"Who the fucking Hell are you, are you one of Hanaki's men?"

The lithe owner took a step forward into the light so that Ed saw him completely.

Talk about someone who needed a sandwich.

The man had a pale face that ended at his pointed chin. His hair was a dusty black, nothing like Roy's beautiful midnight colored hair. His hair was longer than Ed's, ending at his waist.

"Major Elric...welcome to our little project." The man hissed, his voice was almost as irritating as Hanaki's. The man lifted his arm in an attempt to shake Edward's hand.

"Uh...sorry I don't really like touching other people..."

The mans eyes thinned, Ed guessed, that is was an attempt to glare at him.

'Like I'd ever fucking touch a guy that looks like he's made of moldy leather...even if one of my hands are metal...gross...'

"Anyway...Major Elric...welcome to Warehouse fifteen..." Another hissed response, and the man started to walk down the alley, and Ed guessed he was supposed to follow.

'I really hope I'm not working with him alot...gross...seriously I hope all of Hanaki's flunky's aren't like that..'

The two had been walking for a while, when the skinny man stopped infront of a side door that was hidden behind a rusted dumpster.

'OF COURSE this is where we are working, in a fucking gross side building...'

The thin man pushed the obviously old door open, and they both walked in.

Ed was actually quite surprised at the way the inside of 'Warehouse 15' looked.

He'd expected it to be...well dungeon-esque, not this...

The floor was covered in the clean white tiling that the main Laboratories of Central were, and there was a room in the center, the walls were made of mirrors, Ed guessed them to be two-way mirrors, just for the plain fact that this was a lab for human experimentation. Ed shuddered at the thought.

Within the smaller room he could see a chair that sat in the middle of some kind of transmutation circle. The moment he saw the outer edges of the circle, Hanaki's explanation of this assignment ran through his mind.

"Well...As I'm sure you know, there's one taboo among Alchemy, that even us non-alchemists no is forbidden...and for good reason... Well...My research team knows that the main ingredients for said taboo are pretty simple to obtain..but well...there's one thing that isn't so easy to fabricate...Well...we need you to figure out how to create this piece of the puzzle."

He shuddered as the last thing Hanaki said clawed it's way out of his memory...

"Your going to create a human soul."

His thoughts were interrupted as his eyes were drawn to a group of people that had walked there way towards him.

The tallest of the group, a woman, spoke first.

"Slovester...am I to understand that this young man is Major Elric?"

The skinny man, who Ed now new as Slovester (a creepy name for a creepy person...) took a step forward and nodded. Obviously whoever this woman was, she was atleast a little terrifying.

She was, as said before, quite tall, her ice blue hair was pinned into two small buns on either side of her head, but the most noticeable thing about her were those slimy green eyes. Ed looked away. There were three other people behind her, each as strange looking as the rest.

'What the hell? Hanaki has got strange taste...then again, I'm not exactly the poster boy for normalcy either...'

The tall woman walked forward and stretched her hand out, obviously expecting a greeting from Ed. He saw here give Slovester a quick look and the man went skuddling over towards the rest of his group.

He didn't notice that the woman had directed her attention solely on him, and still had her hand stretched towards him.

'Seriously whats with you people and wanting me to fucking touch you?' He rolled his eyes and repeated what he'd said to Slovester before.

"Sorry, Miss..."

He stretched out the miss, hoping to learn the woman's name,

"Heinireich..."

'Oh you have to be kidding me..."

"Alright...Miss Heinireich I don't really like touching other people." He saw her react almost the same way Slovester had, and he had expected her to back off but, she immediately grabbed Ed's hand and pulled him close to her.

"Major Elric..."

She leaned in close to Ed's ear and hissed..."I think you should be aware that I'm quite different from the rest of them...I'm much more...forward..."

He felt like he was going to be sick as the woman ran her tongue down form behind his ear and half way down his neck.

"I am quite happy that the General has chosen such a...Delicious new researcher for out team."

She pulled back leaving Ed with a disgusted look...

'S-She...licked me...Ughh...well she's just kicked her ass up to number one of my 'Creepiest Bastard' List.'

He wanted to run and find a good place to burn his now tainted skin. But he quickly pulled himself together and looked straight ahead.

"If I am going to be working for you people, I expect to know your names atleast"

He pointed to the two he'd already been introduced too.

"Your Heinireich, and Your...Slovester, I got that, so what are the two of you called?"

The short stubby man that had previously been hidden behind Heinireich stepped forward first. He didn't look all that strange, actually Ed thought he actually looked like a plumper and shorter version of Fuery. Then the man spoke and that opinion had been thrown away.

His voice...was way to feminine, it actually had Ed grinning.

"M-My name's...Umm...I'm...well uh..."

Ok, he had a funny voice and way shy, all the more comical for the blond.

Suddenly a very muscular looking man pushed the plump one out of his way.

"Oh Cut the crap Chioro, he's just some fucking short-ass alchemist"

'Well this Bastard just earned himself a good ass-kicking in the future'

The man gave Ed a good look up and down and glared fiercely at him.

The man wasn't as built as Armstrong, but he was close. He had an scar over his right and left eyes, both in the form of a Z. His hair was cut short, but Ed could still see that it was a dim brown. All in all the man was as scary as the woman, minus the slimy looking green gaze.

"The fat one over there is Chioro, They call me Zeirkerz, don't get in my way, or I'll kill you on the spot."

Ed forced a grin, expecting to be forced into another hand shake, but instead the man just gruffed and stomped away.

'So, these are the morons I'm being forced to work with...Roy..what the hell have I gotten myself into?...'