Author's Note: OMG I GOT ONE REVIEW! That's… -counts with her fingers- one more than I ever expected! Well, here's sucky chapter number 2! Please, try to enjoy!
Oh, yeah, I forgot to put this in the first chapter: I don't own FullMetal Alchemist, 'cuz if I did, Ed would be all mine! MWAHAHAHA!
Ed: EEK! A FANGIRL! –Hides-
"Blah" Speech. Blah Thoughts
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There can't be a two without a three
Ed turned towards the window to find himself face to face with a pale-blond-haired girl with tanned skin, with half her face hidden by a blue silken handkerchief, only letting her black/dark blue/dark green eyes to be seen, peering at him through her blond locks.
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"WHAT THE CRAP!" Ed backed away in surprise and nearly toppled over Ryu who was wrestling with Kiara who was trying to bite Ed yet again. "What's the matter Ed?" Al asked while trying to get to his brother without stomping on the struggling girls.
With a click and a swishing of clothes, the tanned girl opened the window and entered the room.
She was pretty tall, and she was maybe 16 years old. Her wavy blond hair reached down to her elbows. She was wearing a long light purple robe that reached down to her ankles, with long sleeves. She had a loose light blue silk scarf round her neck, and had a plain cloth backpack hanging from her right shoulder. Round her hips she was wearing a loose leather belt from which many things were dangling, mainly amulets, lucky charms and the sort.
The girl blinked a pair of times, and pointed at Ed and asked with genuine curiosity in her voice: "Who are you?"
"Who am I! That's my line!" Ryu and Kiara stopped fighting to watch at Ed and the girl who had just arrived. "AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE ANYWAYS?" Ed exploded at her. "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET LIKE THAT! I WAS JUST DOING WHAT THE CARDS TOLD ME!" She screamed back.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT CRAPPY CARDS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! NOW JUST GET OUT OF HERE!"
To everybody's utter surprise, the blond girl didn't answer back, but suddenly sat on the floor, grabbed her knees and started crying and sobbing. Al, the always nice Al, kneeled beside her. "H-hey, are you ok?" He asked. "T-that mean guy… H-he c-called the cards c-crappy…" She sobbed and cleaned some of her tears with the handkerchief she had on her face. "And he screamed at m-me." She hiccupped. It looked like a little five-year-old girl had been screamed at, not a 16-year-old teen.
"It's ok, he didn't mean it" Al humored her. "Did you Ed?" He looked sternly at his brother. Ed scratched the back of his head, unsure of what to say. "Hum, huh, nope! I didn't mean it at all!" Al looked back to the girl and gave her a soft hug. "See? It's alright. Now, can you tell us your name?"
In less than a second, the blond girl was standing up, a 16-year-old girl again. "My name's Hoshi" She said with a smile in her eyes and her tears dry.
"Wow… Talk about attitude issues…" Kiara whispered into Ryu's ear. Though it seemed she didn't whisper low enough, for Hoshi turned her head and glared at her with so much strength, Kiara had to make a great effort to suppress a whimper.
"Hoshi, eh? So what are these cards you just were talking about?" Ed inquired.
Hoshi suddenly got really excited for no particular reason. Wow… seems she DOES have some attitude issues…Al thought.
She put down her backpack, opened it and started rummaging through it in a frantic search for something. "Here they are!" Hoshi exclaimed triumphantly as she took out a pack of cards out of her backpack.
Kiara, Ryu, Al, and Ed got nearer to get a good look at them.
Hoshi held them in front of her smirking as if they were some kind of trophy. Ed grabbed one of them and looked at it on both sides. On one side there was a quarter of a silver moon in the angle necessary for a girl to be sleeping on it, with long blue robes. On the top it read: "The Moon" in golden letters. It was a very attractive card. Though what called Ed's attention was the back of the card. There was a white transmutation circle on the dark violet background.
"What do you think you're doing!" Hoshi shouted at him and snatched the card from him.
"Hey, how did you get those cards?" Ed asked her.
"It's curious… I don't remember…" Hoshi answered while lifting her left eyebrow, looking up at the ceiling with her dark eyes. "But even though I never ask them about my past, they always answer right about my path." She recited her tiny poem happily.
"Hum..." Ed started. "But tell me something, do you use alchemy for your… fortune telling?" He asked.
"Alchemy? What are you talking about?" Hoshi asked in response.
"You don't know what alchemy is…? Ok then, tell you what, just show me how those things work." Ed said.
Hoshi's eyes beamed, and she then rummaged again into her backpack. She then took out a big dark blue cloth which had another transmutation circle on it, and placed it in front of her. Ed, Al, Ryu and Kiara watched her inquiringly, not sure what Hoshi was going to do now.
"Sit down" Hoshi said while she pointed at the space in front of her of the cloth in a dreamy voice. Ed knew she was talking to him and sat down cross-legged with his arms folded while Hoshi was shuffling her Tarot cards skillfully with a misty look on her shadowy eyes.
"Shuffle the cards with the question you want answered in your mind" She said with the same distant, dreamy voice as before, the cloth covering her mouth waving with her breath, and stuck out her hand with the deck of cards towards Ed. Ed hesitated a moment, and then grabbed the cards and shuffled them. He then handed them back.
Hoshi got them and shuffled them again a bit more, passing them from one hand to another.
She then proceeded to divide the deck into five small groups, placing the five of them one beside the other on the transmutation circle painted on the cloth.
Hoshi kneeled in front of the cloth facing Ed, and placed her fingers around the cards on the border of the circle. By the look in her eyes, it seemed she was going to explode of excitement any moment soon.
"And here comes the interesting part…" She muttered to herself.
With a flash of light coming from the circle on the navy cloth and the back of the cards (which made Kiara gape, giving her a look of utter stupidity, and made Ryu open her eyes wide in sheer surprise, though the rest of her face remained expressionless) the five groups of cards were transmuted just a few centimeters away from their original positions, where there was only one card left on each place.
"That's it?" Ed asked. Hoshi put a finger over Ed's lips to make him keep silent.
"There's something left to do" She spoke in a hushed voice, whilst seizing the first card on the left and showing it's reverse to the blond boy in front of her. "That was just the selecting, now I've got to do the reading"
Hoshi then grabbed the two cards following the one she had just got hold of, and after a few moments of focused "reading", she nodded as if in acknowledgement or understanding.
Following this, she then took the other two cards and again nodded knowingly.
"So? What is it?" That was Ryu's melodic voice.
"Well, here are your readings, erm, what's your name?" Hoshi asked sheepishly. Ed sighed. "It's Edward Elric"
"Ok then, here are your readings, Edward Elric. I'll explain them to you" She said.
Hoshi turned the first card to reveal the picture of a tall dark haired woman with a stern face and mysterious indigo and blue surroundings behind her. She was wearing long and black robes, and had a sort of golden headdress on her long black hair. She had a blue flame in her cupped hands in front of her. On the top of the card it read, on gold letters: "The High Priestess"
"This card speaks of a woman of great importance, who would be the subject of my fore-telling"
Hoshi then proceeded to grab and show the second card to Ed.
It had on top of it on the same golden letters but now "Wheel of Fortune" was what was written. It showed a gold and silver wheel held by a pair of young fair-haired girls wearing long white dresses, who were smiling happily.
"This card means a turning point, and combined with this one…" She grabbed the third card and let Ed see it too.
It said "The Tower" A short-haired girl wearing a short scarlet dress falling from a stone tower with her eyes half closed was illustrated on it. On the background there was a dark thundery sky.
"…combined with this one, both cards mean a sudden turning point. An unexpected twist in destiny." Said Hoshi.
Then the fourth card was lifted from the navy blue cloth.
"Strength" Could be read on top. It showed a mighty man heaving an enormous rock on his back. He had a dark brown bushy beard and a strained look on his face.
And so the last card was brought up to be seen too.
"The Emperor" A man wearing a golden suit of armor, and with a crown on his head instead of a helmet, was looking up to the sky and raising his big sword up.
"These two cards mean of somebody of great strength and authority. Maybe a master, for it also means harsh influence." Hoshi continued. "In summary, an important and authoritarian woman, maybe your master as it was you who asked; may , by a sudden change in her fate, be heading here."
Ed's face got pale by the end of the Tarot session. "N-no… Please, please tell me it's not true…"
Al had those funny blue lines that anime characters have when they're in distress or when they're sick, under his left eye.
"Ed… What did you ask to the cards…?" Al asked, not really wanting to hear the answer.
"I asked what was going to happen-" Ed was cut short once again in the middle of his sentence when the door of the dormitory was slammed open by no other but Ed and Al's terrifyingmaster Izumi.
"GAH!" Screamed both of them, and Ed jumped to Al's arms.
"B-brother, what was it what you were going to ask again?' Al managed to say.
"I asked what was going to happen after the Tarot reading"
EnD Of ChApTeR
Draco-san: Phew, that whole Tarot thing really wore me off.
Ed: WHY THE HELL HAS IZUMI GOT TO BE IN THIS FANFIC? 'TWAS BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT HER!
Draco-san: Cos I want to. Now shut the fuckup and let me say something.
Ed: -scoffs-
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