After the Battle (An FMA Story) Chapter 25: Ow!
"Kitty..." Al said looking at her.
Silver was brought to a building. She looked at the two men, "Master, we have the chimera." One man said. A large man walked out of the shadows. He wore a black tarp and some black pants. He went over to silver. He grabbed her head with one hand and held it still. In his other hand he held a collar. He put it on Silver. She tried to scream but couldn't. Her eyes went blank. He lifted her up and let go of her neck. She stood there," Kill..." The man said and gripped her head. She turned into her wolf form and ran out of the building. People screamed and ran. One boy stood there too scared to move. Silver pounced on him ready to bite down into his neck.
She looked at him terrified. "I-I-I-I'm I'm I'm s-s-sorry." she stuttered. "I-I shouldn't h-have just t-t-t-told y-you that..." she said shaking. Everything told her to run, Kitty's legs wouldn't budge and she continued to stare at Al.
Al just looked back at Kitty.
Silver bit into the boys neck and killed him. She ripped at the body getting blood everywhere. She howled and sniffed the air. There was someone she was after: Kitty. She ran towards Kitty's scent growling. The men in black cloaks followed her in the shadows.
Kitty twitched and turned around. "YOU need to get out of here, now." she said nervously. "I got you into this...now I'm going to get you out." she said staring off into the distance, hearing Silver coming. "Go, and that's and order!" she called out behind her.
Al backed up," But Kitty..." Al said
Silver ran up to Kitty and growled. She pounced on Kitty ready to kill her.There was only one thing on her mind, death.
Kitty grabbed the stone and pulled it off her neck. "RUN!!!!!!!!" she yelled after him. "I'm not letting you get caught up in this!" she called and put the stone on Silver making a series of small explosions. "Oh no, I've been through too much to die now!"
Silver backed off of her and howled.
Al nodded," Ok Kitty." He said and dashed off.
"WHAT?!" she looked shocked. "Ok, something went wrong somewhere...that should have...wait...could that?" she catching sight of the collar. "we'll just have to find out then wont we?" she grabbed her sword and jumped onto Silver's back and hung onto the collar putting her sword underneath it.
Silver growled and tried to shake Kitty off.
Kitty flew off of Silver and landed flat on her back. "There is something very wrong with her..." she mumbled to herself and got into stance staring at Silver.
Silver howled again and ran towards Kitty. Her eyes still blank and ravenous. She craved blood.
"Like last time, I apologize for this." she said and ran towards her cutting her cheek, not badly, just cutting it.
Silver growled and bit Kitty's arm as hard as she could drawing blood.
Kitty swung her sword hitting Silver's side in attempts to make her let go. "SILVER!!!!!" she demanded. "What has gotten into you! If I wouldn't have seen you kill him, I'd swear you were Gluttony!" she screeched hoping that maybe Gluttony would bring her back to her senses.
Silver just bit down harder. All of her sense was gone. The silver some people knew was completely gone. Replaced by this monster.
"That's it!" Kitty said surprised and ripped her arm out of Silver's jaw, which tore the skin and mussel completely off the top of her bone.. "That collar is manipulative, it has to be!" she concluded jumping onto Silver's back once more and this time sliced the collar then jumped off.
Silver backed up a little. She morphed back then back to wolf. She howled and collapsed. She was breathing heavily. She almost morphed back human but stopped midway. Her eyes opened and she stood up. She was in her regular form but her hair was silver. Her head tilted to a side. Her eyes were still blank. Her teeth where that of a wolf's. She was still breathing heavily. She cried out to the sky. It sound like a young girl's scream but it was high pitched. She looked at Kitty and ran towards her crying out.
Kitty backed up, not knowing what to think of all this. "Ohmigod ohmigod, ohmigod" she kept repeating over and over as she backed away. "S-Silver?" she asked nervously. "Who did this to you? Why won't you speak? Silver, answer me!" she said in the most demanding voice she could.
Silver stopped in front of Kitty," t-themmm..." she groaned. She was still breathing heavly. She put her hands on her shoulders and tried to bite Kitty's neck.
Kitty pulled off Silver's hands and jumped backwards with her left arm in defense position and her right prepared to strike. "Them? You mean? The homunculi?" she asked her suspiciously, not letting her guard down for even a second.
"nnnnnnnno..." she groaned. She ran towards Kitty and tried to bite her left side.
She blocked it with her arm and held her sword to the side of Silver's neck in such a way that she couldn't move. "Who then?!" she asked her angrily.
"I did." The leader said walking out of the shadows followed by the two men.Silver looked at them, "Massssssssssster..." she said. "Thats right chimera." He said and walked over to Kitty. He slapped her, "Drop your weapon wench." He said.
Kitty eyed him, "How idiotic do you think I am? And she has a name, Silver it is." she looked into silver's eyes for a moment. "Silver, I set you free a long time ago, you have no master." she took her sword away from Silver and put it to the man's neck in the exact same way still prepared to fend Silver off with her left arm. "What did you do to her?" she demanded, not revealing her secret weapon.
"K-kiiiiiiiiiiiitty?" Silver groaned.
" I didn't do anything. I just put the collar on her and like any dog or wolf it shows them that they have a master. It's your fault she's like this. You are the one who took the collar off." He said and smirked.
Kitty began to move the sword closer to his neck slightly cutting it. "Am I?" she asked coolly (hey kinda like Lust actually...) She smirked. "If you wouldn't have put that collar on her then she wouldn't have been turned into that monster either." she pointed out and spoke to Silver. "Yes Silver, I am Kitty, your friend, you are free, you obey nobody, we've been traveling together and we killed the homunculi together." she said hoping that maybe bringing up some memories might bring her back, it was working so far. "Kitty's face went cold as she once more spoke to the man. "but it doesn't matter who's fault it is now. Just tell me how to change her back and I'll let you go with that minor scratch." she said trying to deal.
"How am I suppose to know? I didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to take it off her." The leader replied.
Silver looked at the leader and growled, "yyyyyour a hhhhhoribbbbble maaaaan.." she groaned
"Stupid?!" she was trying desperately to keep her cool. "You mean that you never thought anyone would oppose her. I stopped her from destroying the city and was trying to get the Silver I've come to know as my best friend back." she begun to speak to Silver. "Yes, he is a terrible man, he's trying to manipulate you, change who you are. You can break free of his control." she then smirked at the man. "Well then, if you wont give me information, then I suppose I should kill you." she looked t the sword. "but not with this, oh no, that wouldn't be any fun." she began to laugh slightly. and held up her necklace with her left hand. "with this." she continued to smirk.
"A ruby? Heh how are ya gonna kill me with that?
Kitty sighed and rolled her eyes. "and you were calling me stupid?" she had a you are the single stupidest man on the planet sort of expression on her face. "This ain't no ruby. even if I did tell the military that. it's not, in fact..." she smirked. "it's more then you could possibly imagine, the most powerful tool in alchemy, the one thing that is said to be impossible to create." she held it tightly and close to her heart and spoke smoothly with a hint of ice in her words. her eyes were nearly closed. "This is the philosopher's stone." she then looked at him with the cool expression again.
"T-The stone!?" He asked in amazement. There was a flash of light that lasted for 5 minutes when it cleared Silver stood there her eyes back to normal," You. Bastard! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO MINIPULATE ME!" She yelled angrily and walked towards the leader. Hatred was in her eyes.
Kitty smiled at Silver. "Would you like to finish the job or should I?" she asked with an evil tone in her voice. "You can't run." she smirked wildly, and yes, I have it." she had a flare in her eyes.
"I'd like to." Silver said and cracked her knuckles.
The leader was freaked. His two followers had run off.
"Have fun Silver." she said passing her the handle to her sword which was still to his neck in the way that kept him still.
Silver smirked evilly," Can't we just forget about this?" The leader asked," Nope." Silver said and smiled. She pushed the sword into his neck and pushed down.
Kitty smirked. "I love seeing manipulative idiots die in the morning, don't you?" she smirked. "I suppose he's dead now, we should go find shorty and Al now huh?" she smiled and acted as if nothing had happened.
Silver took the sword out of the leader," That was fun for some reason!...But yeah let's find short stuff and Tin can." Silver said and smiled
"Dunno where I sent tin can, but short stuff is most likely still at the diner...eating..." she said and sighed. "come on." she began to walk towards the diner.
Silver followed Kitty.She was smiling.
Kitty got to the street down to the diner. "Ed!" she called out, not really paying attention to where she was going and tripped on a small pebble. "Ok then." she got up and continued running.
Silver followed her.
Ed was in the diner...again drinking sodas...AGAIN
She ran in. "Hi Ed! don't drink too many sodas, wouldn't wanna drown yourself!" she said perkily...almost to perkily.
Silver ran into the window.
Ed continued drinking," I don't care! Im trying to break a record!" Ed said and continued drinking
Record: 500 Ed: 450
"Well then keep tryin! Where's Al? I need to talk to him." she asked him, perking it down a bit.
"I don't know. He didn't come back here." Ed said
Kitty sweat-drooped and mumbled under her breath. "when I said run i meant where I could find him again..." she looked up. "I'm gonna go look for him. she said and walk up the way she had come back to the diner.
Silver went inside and sat next to Ed,"...Roy in a miniskirt." she said. Ed started laughing and soda came out his nose, "OW!!!" Ed yelled and held his nose
Kitty ran up the Ally and caught up with al. "Al..." she looked down at the ground. "I-I'm sorry. for getting you involved in...whatever's going on..."
Al looked at her," Its ok Kitty." He said," it wasn't your fault."
Ed glared at Silver then started drinking the sodas again,"...Armstrong in a mini skirt." Silver said. Ed laughed and soda came out of his nose again," Stop it!" Ed said
Kitty had put on a light jacket and a black glove to hide where Silver had ripped her skin off. She ran up to Al and hugged him. "I'm glad...your alright." she said leaning her head against him.
Al hugged back," This is the second time you've saved me..." he said.
Silver smiled. Ed looked at her then started drinking again. Silver kept quiet. She didn't have any comments to make him laugh.
Record: 500 Ed: 495
"I couldn't just let you die." she said with tears welling up in her eyes. "because, your one of the few people on this earth that I actually care about, and don't want me dead." she closed her eyes and sank to her knees holding her arm.
Al kneeled down beside her," Are you ok Kitty?" He asked.
"y-yes." she said and forced a smile, she didn't want Al to see what had happened. "...I love you Al." she whispered and closed her eyes.
Al hugged her again," I love you too." he said," In the brotherly sisterly way."
She smiled warmly and got up. "We have to go back." she continued to smile and hold her arm.
Al got up," Yeah." He said.
Ed finished the last soda. Then drank another:
Record: 500 Ed: 501!
Kitty walked into he diner and saw all the gasses. "OMG ED!!!!!!!!!" her jaw dropped. "why did you...no, how did you? when did you...how many sodas did you drink?!"
"501..." Ed said and fell backwards off of the chair and fell asleep.
"It was so freakin' cool!" Silver said
Kitty raised one eyebrow. "and why would he drink 501 sodas?" she asked suspiciously.
"To get 10000 dollars of course!" Silver said and smiled
"$10000?!!!!!!!" she screeched.
"Yup!" Silver said
Kitty laughed. "well then, i guess I'd better wake him up..." she held out a peice of bacon. "Oh Ed..." she smiled waving it. 'Bacon!"
"BACON!" Ed yelled and opened his eyes. He grabbed the bacon from Kitty's hand and ate it," Did I win?"
"I do believe so." she smiled. "It's hot in here." she said taking off her coat, forgetting what was underneath it.
Ed looked at Kitty's arm," What happened?" He asked.
Al looked at Silver. Silver sunk down in her chair
"he heh...nothing." she smiled. "I just fell, that's all."
"You sure?" Ed asked.
"...It was Silver wasn't it Kitty?" Al asked
"Kitty shook her head." no, it wasn't Silver." she said understanding completely what had happened back in the ally. She knew that it wasn't really Silver back there, even if it was her body. "And yes I'm sure, I fell, honest."