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"Blah" Speech. Blah thoughts
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A visit to the military"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's and Al's terrifying master, Izumi.
"GAH!" Screamed both of them, and Ed jumped to Al's arms.
"B-brother, what was it that you were going to ask again?" Al managed to say.
"I asked what was going to happen after the Tarot reading."
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A few seconds went past…
Izumi's eyes studied the room, (especially the girls) and before anyone could say anything—
"EDWARD ELRIC! WHAT ARE THESE GIRLS DOING IN YOUR BEDROOM!" Her voice boomed in the small space of Ed's room.
"You son of a…!" Ryu exclaimed angrily while pressing her hands over her pointed ears. "Can't you scream any LOUDER?" She bellowed sarcastically at Izumi. "My ears are really sensitive, you know!"
Izumi didn't seem to like this comment much. "SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE BITCH! I'LL SCREAM AS MUCH AS I—" One of her blood-coughing fits got her.
Izumi's husband (who seemed to have been out of the room all this time) moved his enormous body hurriedly into the room, and helped Izumi to her medicine.
A certain vampire got excited at the sight of blood.
A pair of black, small, leathery wings sprouted from Kiara's back, to everybody's freakening-out-ness (I just made up that word, so don't sue me for misspelling!) Even the oh-great-Izumi. Kiara hovered a few centimetres from the ground while fluttering her wings blissfully towards where some drops of the red liquid had landed.
Izumi backed away a few paces, like everybody else except for Ryu who was too focused in trying to gain her ability of hearing once more.
Kiara slid her index finger on one of the biggest drops and then licked her finger with the tip of her rather pointy tongue.
Her thin and pale lips broadened to a grin, showing her sharp fangs making everybody get goose bumps.
"Eep! She scares me!" A high pitched voice came from the corner where our fortune-telling friend was trying to conceal herself. Hoshi then started whimpering. So much for her attitude issues.
And there goes once again our tinned-gentleness to the rescue, sitting beside her trying to comfort her as when Ed had yelled at her.
"God…" Izumi muttered to herself.
"Edward, you got yourself the ultimate freak-show." She glared at her short apprentice. "Who are they, what are they doing here and where the freakin' hell are they from?"
"That vampire freak that's leaning over your blood right now, she's Kiara. The silver-haired one's called Ryu. We both found them unconscious in the street last night. And the one with the blue neck kerchief tied around her face is Hoshi. She uses alchemy to do her fortune-telling, and just told us you were coming." At that point Ed seemed to shiver. "We don't know where they all are from, we've got to ask them."
"Then do it already!" Izumi plopped on the sofa and massaged her temple in irritation.
"Ok! Hum…You three!" Ed turned to the three girls.
Kiara had just finished licking the blood from the floor, Ryu got back the gift of hearing and it seemed Al had calmed Hoshi down. Ed had total attention of the three.
"Well, then, can you tell me where are you from?" Ed waited for an answer.
…
"I don't know" Three voices rung in unison. Everybody fell down anime-style, except for Izumi who was sitting down, but still sweat-dropped.
"You don't know?" The three teens pointed at each other while uttering that question in unison again. "Neither do I!"
"How come you DON'T KNOW?" Ed's left brow started twitching.
"Who knows" Ryu shrugged. "It's just I try to remember something, but everything comes blurry when I try."
Al sighed that white mushroomy thing. "Don't you think it could be some kind of amnesia?" He said.
"Mmm.. Maybe so…" Izumi rubbed her chin in thought.
"I think we could ask at HQ if there have been any disappearance declarations or something about these three." Ed proposed.
"Oh yeah, I nearly forgot" Izumi stood up. "I'm going with you, I've got some things to take care of with the military, so I'll be going with you."
Ed and Al shared a quick glance in utter confusion.
"But master… We thought you never wanted to have anything to do with the military…" Al said.
"That's none of your business!" She yelled at him. "But I'm going with you, even if you want it or not. Now let's get going"
"WAIT! I haven't even changed!" Ed shouted, and it was true. He was still in his light blue boxers and black shirt, and he hadn't got a chance to change with all the confusion of this morning.
While Ed had gone to the bathroom to change, three people in the room seemed to be in the International Glaring Contest.
Ryu glared at Kiara. Kiara glared at Ryu. And then both of them glared at Izumi who had been glaring at them.
On the other hand, Izumi's husband, Al and Hoshi sat apart sweat-dropping.
"Ok, I'm ready." Ed got out wearing his every-day outfit. "Let's go! But you" he pointed at Kiara who was suspended in mid-air by her wings. "If you wanna go you better keep those wings out of sight."
Kiara snarled "Fine" and her wings were gone in a blink, but as she still was in mid-air she fell to the floor with a plop. Ryu snickered. "And you better learn to stand up." She sneered at Kiara.
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While heading towards Mustang's office (Izumi had already left to do whatever she had to), Ed was muttering under his breath "Damn… They surely stand out…"
"Hehe… We sure do." Ryu answered with a smirk.
"Eek! You heard me!" Ed backed apart in freakening-out-ness (remember, don't you dare sue me!)
"I told you already" She said while placing her arms behind her head. "I've got pretty sensitive ears." She pointed at her right ear which twitched a pair of times.
"O…k…" God, she's freaky! Ed thought.
"Al… what is this place?" Hoshi asked while looking inquiringly at his just adopted big brother who she was holding by the hand. (LOL this is such a funny thing to imagine. A 16-year-old with a 14-year-old armour for a big brother XD)
"Well, here's where Ed works." He answered. "He works when he's so… small…?" She whispered.
Ed stiffened in his tracks and turned to face her.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL YOU THINK HE'S A SHRIMP IN DISGUISE!" He exploded.
Before Hoshi's eyes had even the chance to get wet, a voice coming from another aisle reached everybody's ears.
"Edward Elriiiic!"
It was Armstrong.
"Godammit…" That was Ed.
Armstrong appeared frolicking with his pink sparkles around his head.
"Ack!" Edward tried to escape by slipping under Armstrong's arms that were just going to engulf him in a colossal hug, but he just couldn't make it.
"Edward Elric, how long has it been?" All Ed could hear was a muffled sound because of Armstrong covering poor Ed's ears.
Unluckily, it seemed that Ed's mouth and nose were also covered and Armstrong wasn't even near to let go.
"Hey, sir, I think you're going to suffocate him" Ryu said. As said before, Armstrong wasn't near to let Ed go, so Ryu had to get into action.
She cracked her knuckles and grabbed both of Armstrong's arms. Using a small effort, she started to break up his embrace from and Ed's breathing was heard once again.
Armstrong was far too shocked at this that he let go, and at seeing his opportunity ran for it and hid behind his younger brother.
"Well, well, seems you're a very strong, lady" Armstrong said.
"Just call me Ryu, I'm not very used to formalities"
"Miss Ryu, I'm very surprised at your strength" Armstrong repeated.
"Well, I can't say it's something everybody's got" She said with a careless shrug.
"You've got my respect, I wish I could spar with you one day, but my duties keep me very busy. May I know where are you going with young Edward Elric and your friends?"
"We're supposed to go to see this guy… Mustang I think it is" Ryu answered in monotone.
"Then let me accompany you! I was heading just there!" Armstrong said.
Ed groaned. "Fine… As if I had any choice anyways" He said the latter in a mumble.
"Then let's go!" Armstrong started frolicking again towards Roy's office with his sparkles sparkling brighter and pinkier than ever. The rest followed behind.
Havok was just closing the door behind him when Armstrong and co. reached the office.
He opened his mouth slightly at the sight of Kiara and his cigarette fell to the floor slow motion.
Well, it wasn't really KIARA who got his attention, but the fact of nearly half her breasts bulging out of her top/corset and that she was wearing a MINI-SKIRT.
Havok had to hurry past them to hide a trickle of blood oozing down from his nose, but still Kiara got to smell it, and had gone rushing towards him if Ryu hadn't grabbed her by the waist.
"You'll get was much of that as you want later." She said to a frantic Kiara.
They entered the office, and found Mustang buried under a mountain of paper work with Hawkeye standing at his side watching him to do his work AKA baby-sitting him ( D)
"Hey you, Mustang!" Ed stepped in front. "I want you to do some researching for me!"
EnD Of ChApTeR
Draco-san: OMG, I know, sucky chapter –covers-
Ed: Armstrong and Mustang… Well, at least Izumi's gone…
Draco-can: For now…-evil face-
Ed: -glares at Draco-san-
Draco-san: Anyways, please review! I would, as always, be really grateful for them. And just a little thing, I may not be able to update for maybe a week cos I'm going a trip with my family, so I won't be able to sit in front of a computer for a long time. Anyways, chope you liked the chappy and ciao!