Totally Screwed Transmutation
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA. Duh.
Funny. Didn't I say that there will be a long break again? But I came back! Hahah. Never mind. Let's continue from where we left off, shall we? Lemme see… oh yes. Poor Ed had a funny dream. Let's go!
Chapter 10 Of Scheduled Meetings and What-Not…Part I
Ed slowly made her way to the bathroom. There wasn't one in her room, so she walked ((hmm, shuffled would be a better word)) to the one that was located in the kitchen.
Meaning that she shuffled past Roy, who was clearly having trouble trying to make breakfast for two: he was such a terrible cook. Why, he can't even simply spread strawberry jam properly on to two pieces of bread without spreading some on his hands and the table as well.
As a last straw, after standing there looking blurrily as Roy dropped the third slice of bread, she walked over to him, took the butter knife, dipped it in jam, took two new slices and evenly spread them onto both slices. She slapped them together, handed them to the stunned Roy and walked to where she was heading for in the first place: the bathroom.
Roy continued to stare at the completed jam bread in his hand, even after Ed had emerged from the morning necessities. She sat down in front of him, then pulled the loaf of bread, bottle of jam and the butter knife towards her. His jaw dropped, if possible, even further when she began to spread jam on her own bread, and there by consuming it on her own. While chewing, she glanced up at him and realized he still had his mouth open. Leaning forward, she grabbed his hand with the bread and stuffed it into his mouth. He woke up instantly.
"Mmmph pfffhhmmm… " and he took a bite out of the bread. Edward stopped chewing and gave him a strange look.
"Wha…?"
Roy swallowed his mouthful of bread.
"I said, I would have never imagined… "
"Imagined what?" she continued chewing.
"Imagined that you even know how to make your own brea…!" He stared somewhere off Ed's shoulder.
Edward caught that look, then followed his gaze to her shoulder and saw what he saw. She sighed, then pulled the strap back to her shoulders and glared at Roy.
"What's the matter? Can't it slip off my shoulders?" She blushed a little, then carried on eating her bread.
Roy ignored the question, and stammered, "…Bu….But that's… Funny… You weren't wearing one the… the night before…" At this, he nervously bit off another mouthful of his bread.
Ed, too, blushed all the redder and looked down. Murmuring, she replied softly enough as if she didn't want any one else to hear (though it was only the two of them around), "I… I only wear it when I go to work… Riza's…"
At the mention of Riza's name, Roy recovered. He smirked at what the blonde had said and made a comment of his own to spite the little alchemist.
"Ah… Riza's is it?...No wonder. You're definitely smaller in size compared to her…"
He ducked as a half-eaten bread flew past where his head had been a few seconds earlier. Her face still relatively red, she was on her two feet and positively swearing under her breath. Before Roy could ask her to calm down though, she grabbed the last piece of jam bread (she made two) and walked off to sit down at the sofa.
Considering what had happened the night before on that very sofa, Roy was surprised she would even sit there at all. He got up from his crouched position and slid onto the sofa next to her. He was also kind of surprised that she never exploded in the usual way she did when anyone called her small. ("WHO ARE YOU CALLING…" you know, that one?)
She didn't shift away even though he was beside her. The only thing that she did though, was to give Roy a good kick in the leg when he tried, taking her hand with bread, to take a bite out of it. He simply rubbed his leg for a moment then slung his arm around her.
"Matured finally? Never knew you could hold your temper that well before…" He smiled as Edward gave a small "Hmmph" in response, and turned her head away.
Roy reached out with his other hand and turned her face back to look at him. With an absolutely straight face he asked, "You remember what happened right here, last night?"
That brought an immense blush to Ed's face as she almost jumped right out of the sofa. Almost, that is, Roy managed to hold her back and brought her beside him again. He got a bread slap in the face for that, as Ed spat, "If that's what you want, you can have it!" She tried to pull free again, but failed as Roy held fast to her. Ed blushed all the more; she hadn't forgotten what she had seen in the last parts of her dream… it almost felt as if it was replaying right before her eyes.
True enough, Roy stood up and hugged her tightly. As they pulled apart, they encountered a moment of silence as, Roy gazed into her eyes. Sort of expecting a kiss after that, Ed made to turn away.
But once again Roy turned her face back to his. Slowly, but surely, he leaned forward in an effort to seal their lips together. Ed was startled; her dream WAS coming true! She tried in vain to pull away, but knew she couldn't because Roy still held her tight. As his lips gently brushed against hers, she tingled all over with a funny feeling that she couldn't put a name too. Roy pulled back for a moment, waiting.
True enough, she tip-toed (she couldn't really reach him, hahaha) and kissed right back, though a bit clumsily. The tip-toeing caused her to go slightly off balance but Roy was still holding on to her, so she…how should you say… did a stumble-forward-then-kiss. All in all, it WAS clumsy.
Their lips sealed tightly for a few moments, before Edward broke off and murmured with a totally red face, "We're gonna be late for work…"
She almost walked away, when Roy held her hand back.
"Wait…" Roy pulled her back and then reached out nip the sensitive skin at Ed's neck. Ed gasped, and turned all the more red. After a while, he released the girl (who face now resembled a tomato) and smirked at her.
"That," he said as he stood upright once more, "was for kicking and slapping me. NOW we can go."
Ed put a hand over her neck that just had been nipped by Roy. Knowing that a mark would probably be there, and pretty much visible to anyone should they walk past her, she glared at him.
"So I supposed that you want the whole wide world to know what we possibly do every time we step into this house!"
"… I guess you can say that." And Roy walked out of the door with Ed fuming and swearing in his wake.
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In the dark corners of an alley way, a cat prowled out, but just managed to remain in the shadows.
It quickly shuttled back into deeper shadows when a car drove past. As the great machine drove past, the cat managed to spot the faces in the car. A middle-aged, black-haired man took the wheel, and his passenger, a teenage blonde female with a grumpy look on her face. Both had military uniform on them, and the cat, if possible, registered all looks of shock on its face when he spotted the young passenger.
And, if all the more possible still, it managed a malicious grin, then bounded up the alley wall in three leaps. At the top of the wall however, the cat had changed. Spreading its night-black wings, the raven took off to the skies…
It was about three in the afternoon. Edward had just finished her lunch in the canteen, and was now in the military library at her own leisure. Reading totally drowns out anything else; even as they were kids, she and Al would totally be engrossed in the alchemy books of their father's and could hardly hear their mother calling them to eat from the kitchen. That is, until she strides right up to them of course.
So much to the extent of drowning anything else out, Edward didn't even notice a raven perched at the window sill right beside the comfy chair that she was seated on, reading.
The black raven hopped in from the window and onto the back of Edward's chair. The little alchemist didn't notice. Why, she was so small, her head hardly reached the top part of the chair. The raven bent down to look at what she was reading.
"THE BIOT-SAVART LAW
In the previous section we saw how B could be found experimentally; it can also be calculated utilising the Biot-Savart Law.
The calculation involves considering a conductor as consisting a number of very short lengths, each of which contributes to the total field at any point. Biot and Savart stated that for a very short length(l) of conductor, carrying a steady current(i), the magnitude of the flux density at a point P distance r from l is…" And there after followed a series of complex formulas.
The raven cocked its head to one side. The little pip-squeak was reading Physics! …Whatever she read, she was utterly engrossed in it. 'Why, here I stand and she hasn't noticed a thing!'
The raven straightened its head. It hopped down to the arm of the chair. Still oblivious. It hopped down onto the table in front of Ed. Utterly ignored.
Almost squawking with fury now, it flew up…
And landed onto the pages of the book she was reading.
Edward was the one who did the squawking. Totally caught off guard, she let out a cry that was not very different from a crow's as she hadn't been talking since her meal ((not using your voice makes you croak… why do you think you sound like you do when you try to talk after being woken up?)) and both book and raven flew up in surprise. The raven remained airborne, while the book sailed and landed with a dull 'thud' onto the floor.
Edward was glaring at the raven. 'Of all places, it HAD to fly into a library. AND pick on me.' She retrieved the book from the floor and tried to chase the flying creature away.
"Shoo!" she whispered. Though there was no one in her area of the library, she didn't want to be driven out in any case. "SHOO!"
The raven ducked sideways as she swung the book towards it. Squawking now, it landed on the table and started to shimmer. Edward stopped in surprise. However, at the dimming of the dazzling light, her face totally changed.
Shaking out his long and many strands of dark green hair, he stretched a little then plopped onto the seat where Edward had occupied earlier.
"Hello once again, O-chibi-san. Or… should I say, O-chibi-chan." Envy chuckled.
Not even bothering about noise now, Edward threw the book across the floor and charged straight at Envy. The Homunculus however, deftly caught her hand as she flew at him and quickly reversed the situation. Edward was now seated on Envy's lap.
"Now, now; no need to be that pleased to see me!" Envy chuckled all the more. He was positively grinning away as his theory proved right: the little alchemist was now weaker in physical strength. She could hardly get out of his grip. With a hand holding each of Edward's he made sure she wasn't able to transmute something into his face.
"I see that you've gone through some miraculous change! You look different!" Envy smirked. "You've even gotten your normal arm and leg back, from the feel of it." He added in a slight tone.
Edward kept struggling. 'No good; he's keeping my hands apart, and I can't even break free! What's going on? Has he grown stronger?' she thought desperately. Kicking his legs didn't seem to work; looked as if he didn't even feel the pain.
"Hahaha… It's useless, Hagane no. You being female certainly has several advantages… mine, that is." He brought his head down close to hers.
"Even for a kiss… can be considered an advantage, though you are my 'hunter'." He pecked her on the cheek. Edward froze in horror, then doubled her efforts in struggling. In the midst of it, Envy suddenly let go; and Ed kind of tumbled to the floor. Rolling away from Envy, she stood up and quickly rubbed her sleeve against her cheek, and by which her face was slightly red.
"Aww, do I sense embarrassment? Is Chibi-san blushing now?" He smirked. However, Ed was far from blushing. Sure, her face was red, but not from the embarrassment.
It was from anger.
In a flash, she sped towards Envy again. This time, when Envy tried to catch her, she dodged, and planted a kick right in the middle of her target's body. On the contrary, the kick hardly did any damage. In fact, Envy stood rooted onto the spot. Edward found herself slightly dazed and a few feet from Envy. She had ricocheted off him.
Envy slowly walked towards the alchemist, who was still seeing stars, but they were clearing up. Before she could do anything though, Envy knelt atop her and had her arms pinned to the side of her. She gave him the fiercest glare she could give, but Envy smiled at that.
"Now don't give me that look; why, I've enjoyed myself this afternoon, but I can't say I'm sure about you. What I AM sure is that this isn't over… I'll see you tonight, O-chibi-san." He released her arms and leapt off the window. A raven was seen flying off a moment later.
Edward sat up, but didn't stand. She kept hearing the words "I'll see you tonight…" over and over again, and kept thinking about how her attacks totally failed.
And the thought that she'll probably get killed tonight.
Funnily enough, I decided to jump straight into this chapter. I really wanted to build up Roy and Ed's relationship, but just simply couldn't resist the temptation to type out the other chapters sooner or lose them completely later. Well, yes, I do have them written down but still? Maybe because I want to get it over and done with. After this chapter things may take a serious turn… maybe. I don't know what's the right word for it. So till' the next chapter then. Byez.