Great news guys! There's only this drabble and one more before the pile on my hard-drive has all been posted! ...which means I'll actually have to get off my butt and write more...lol, that means no more posting like five drabbles in one day, but aside from that it shouldn't be too bad. I'm hoping to try for one a day or two every two days, so we'll see ; D

Thanks to all reviewers, again! You guys rule!

wellduh...: I'm glad you liked Ed and Nina bit, lol. I have a friend who thinks Nina is just plain annoying, which I don't understand in the least. But then again, she also thought the only sad part of episode 25 was Elysia's line at the end, so...I mean, I thought that was an exceptionally grevious part, but I was tempted to bawl and sob through the majority of the episode, lol. And the Winry line...well, she does put people back together ; P Like when your little brother rips the arm off of your teddy bear and your mom sews it back on. Except, Winry reattaches people's automail limbs after they get busted or blown up (-cough- Edward!), heh XD

Hagane no neko

This a shameless attempt to make a story behind my LJ username, lol. That, and I thought the idea of a cat with the same automail limbs as Ed...was just hilarious XD

My first real Gen drabble! No pairings, no spoilers, just some random event I thought up! Yay!

So, here's Fullmetal Cat, in all its cracked up glory, lol.

Edward Elric was walking home from the First Branch Library, alone, balancing a towering stack of books. Passers-by gave him a wide berth as he progressed down the darkened streets, muttering curses and snarling under his breath vehemently.

Stupid books. Stupid library. Stupid, goddamn librarian…this elicited another growl of anger from him.

At least the moron had gotten a ridiculously huge dictionary right between his eyes for going to the trouble of asking if he wanted help with a pile of books taller than himself.

The bastard could go look up 'fuck' and 'off' in that dictionary when he stopped writhing on the floor in agony. Sucker.

Ed finally made it onto the deserted street leading to the military dorms. He gave a small sigh of relief and lengthened his stride.

…and slowed to a stop when the feeling of being followed raised the hairs on the back of his neck.

He whirled around, reading to either attack or swear at the person and blinked.

A small, tawny cat was sitting behind him on the sidewalk, tail waving contemplatively in the air.

As he stood glaring at it, the feline stood and walked closer, its eyes and coat gleaming gold in the streetlights and…Edward blinked again. Its right front and left back legs shone with the silvery sheen of automail.

He set his stack of books on the ground and hunkered down beside the cat, who had stopped at his feet and was staring at him with its wide, golden eyes. He took off the glove off his flesh hand and stroked the cat lightly. At first it looked like it might bite his hand or claw his face apart but then it lent into his touch gratefully and nestled snuggly into his arms when he picked it up. Because of the metal limbs it was pretty heavy, even for its small size.

Ed chuckled softly and proceeded to sneak the animal into the dorms.

It was a futile effort, however, because as soon as Ed got into his room, Al started to say something about the, "cute little kitty" and all hell broke loose.

Ed's mouth turned upwards in the smallest of smirks.

--Owari--