Author Comments:
Hello, this is your Capitan, Kaichii speaking to you from the front of my computer! I'm here to tell you that I don't use cussing, so don't expect it! For cussing "" are used, for instance: heck. Get it? Good. Anyways, my character comes first so for the first part of chapter one don't be like "WHERE'S EDWARD AND ALPHONSE!" There coming! I don't name my chapters (aside from "Chapter One", "Chapter Two") because I suck at coming up with names. Thank you for your patients and enjoy Full Metal Dreams!
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Chapter One
Kaichii was busy cleaning the floor in her kitchen when she heard a loud slam. Kaichii wasn't the luckiest girl. She lived when a very mean man who often beat on her. The only clothes she had was a long, gray dress with the words "PROPERTY OF ALFRED J. KANNIKEN" on the front, and an apron. She had long, dark brown hair. Her dream was to grow it down to her ankles, but Mr. Kanniken wouldn't allow it past her bottom. She had many dreams and often side tracked from work. When Kaichii heard this loud boom coming from the front of the very large house she lived in, she got scared. Mr. Kanniken was never in a good mood; accept when he pleased her enough, but when he was mad, there was no pleasing him. Kaichii would often hide from him, but it just meant getting a beating later.
"Where's that girl of mine?" Mr. Kanniken shouted.
Kaichii didn't know what to do. Mr. Kanniken would beat her if she did not come to him, but if she stopped working, she might get in trouble. Kaichii got up and walked over to him. "I'm right here."
"It took you long enough. All that hair must be weighing you down." Mr. Kanniken snapped. "Maybe I should cut it!" Mr. Kanniken grabbed Kaichii by the hair and jerked her toward him. As she screamed, he threw her down and against a wall.
"That will teach you to come to me when I call you."
"I'm sorry. I was cleaning the kitchen floor like you told me…" Kaichii said, rubbing her now throbbing head.
"Really," Mr. Kanniken said. "Did you finish?"
"No. I was almost done though. I just needed to give it a second rinse." Kaichii said. Her eyes were welling up with tears. She knew that because she didn't finish in the time she would be beat terribly. Mr. Kanniken's beatings were always worse than usual when he was angry.
"Almost done, eh?" Mr. Kanniken walked over to her and knelt down, now that they were eye level, Kaichii could see the fury and hate in his eyes. Mr. Kanniken had not said another word. He could see Kaichii was waiting for it. He grabbed her arm and threw her against the door. The sudden impact caused Kaichii to scream out. Mr. Kanniken picked her up and carried her to another room. The room was almost always locked. He set her on a table. She hadn't moved the whole time. She was hurting a whole lot; one move could cause her more pain, or more of a beating.
"What are you going to do?" Kaichii asked, wearily. Mr. Kanniken just smiled and pulled out a gun. The gun didn't shoot bullets. It shot a sort of air. The air was hot and sticky. It stung as it hit something. He shot it once on her forehead, once on her arm, and another in her eye. After that he grew tired of her and threw her into a small corner. The corner was smaller than the rest. He threw her there whenever he grew bored with her.
"You've wasted the space here long enough." Mr. Kanniken pulled out another gun. This one did shoot bullets. He intended to kill Kaichii with it. Kaichii screamed, louder than she ever did in her life.
As Mr. Kanniken was about to pull the trigger, a wall blew out, knocking into Mr. Kanniken's back, causing him to fall. Alphonse Elric had saved Kaichii's life. Edward Elric came in after him.
"What's going on?" Edward asked the knife on his auto-mail arm out.
"Hey little boy, take your friend here and go play somewhere else." Mr. Kanniken said, standing back up.
"Little boy," Edward cried. "I am not a little boy darnit"
"Well however old you are, I don't want to have to kill you." Mr. Kanniken replied, holding his gun up to him.
"Shoot, old man." Edward said a smile on his face.
"Your life," Mr. Kanniken shot, but Edward held up his auto-mail arm and the bullet bounced off it.
"What the heck," Mr. Kanniken cried as he dodged the bullet. "I don't need some midget and his pet robot giving me this snit!"
"Midget, midget," Edward cried. "Who are you calling so small you couldn't even see them with the aid of a microscope!" Edward jolted his auto-mail arm, which was now an arm again, into Mr. Kanniken's face. The blow would have killed him, but because part of his face was a more advanced auto-mail. This auto-mail had a covering to look like skin. The auto-mail included part of his nose, mouth and left eye. Although he had this, the blow knocked him out.
Edward walked over to Kaichii, whom was still unconscious.
"Hey, are you alright?" Edward asked, putting a hand on her head. Kaichii opened her eyes slightly. After the blurriness around her cleared, and she could see Edward's face so close to hers, she blushed slightly.
"Edward." She said. Her voice was small. She smiled and fell back into unconsciousness. Edward stared at her, a little confused about what just happened.
"Al, come here and carry her back to our house." Edward called. Al had watched the battle from outside; he didn't get the chance to join the fight.
"Right," Al agreed as he walked over to her. Edward and Alphonse started toward the house.
"She's so small, brother." Alphonse pointed out.
"Yeah," Edward said. He looked down and gave a slight grin. "Kind of like me." It took Edward a second to realize what he said. But he did.
"Wait! I didn't say that! Darnit," Edward stomped the ground in disgust.
