Chapter 4: Help! My birthday cake is evil!
(A/N: Last chapter! Yay! Finally done with this story. Now on with the ficcie!)
Ed's foot tapped impatiently. He heard the dumb dog barking, so he assumed Ryou was home. He braced his hands against the table and went to open the door. When he saw who it was, his jaw dropped about 3 feet, and his eyes were the size of saucers. Standing there, instead of Ryou, was his younger brother, Alphonse Elric. And instead of jumping for joy and hugging his brother whom he hadn't seen in a year, he pointed at him, yelling, "What are you doing here?"
sweatdrop "Roy brought me here. He's, uh… gone to get you a present," Al said. Ed's eyes narrowed.
"Since when did you start calling him by his first name?" he asked suspiciously. Al face faulted.
"Uh… um… uh… hehehe. He's uh, sorta my… boyfriend now." Al chuckled nervously.
Ed's jaw dropped and he fell over with a THUMP. His legs and arms twitched. "Brother?" Ed went into a full blown chibi spazz.
"What! He's your boyfriend? He's like ten years older than you! And plus, Colonel Mustang? I mean, c'mon! You could've done a whole lot better, Al!" He took deep breaths when he finished.
"Brother? You're no mad, are you? I mean, with me being…?" Ed's face showed surprise.
"Christ, Al! Of course I'm ok with it! Geez! What kind of brother do you think I am? And besides, there's no shame in that. Heck, I've got a boyfriend, too," Ed replied.
"Is this his house?" he asked. Ed nodded, as he led Al inside, shutting the door.
They sat down at the kitchen table across from each to other. Ed poured himself a glass of coke and drank it in one long gulp. He grinned at his younger brother.
"So, Al. Tell me. What's been going on in the last year?"
"Well, Winry and Pinako have been doing just fine. I visited them just last week. Winry's really missed you, Ed," Al said, looking his brother in the eye.
"Al, I miss her too. But I doubt she'll be happy about Ryou and me."
"I know that. But she won't care once she sees you. Ed, I really think you should talk to her," Al said. Ed sighed, smoothing a hand over his blonde hair.
"I would if I could, Al, but she's not exactly within walking distance. Maybe later I'll go see her, okay?" Before Al could respond, the doorbell rang.
Ed jumped up and ran to the door.
"Hi, Ed!" Reina stood there, waving, grinning like an insane idiot, with Winry at her side.
"Hello, Ed," Winry said, smiling at him.
"Um, hey Winry. Hello, Rena." Right behind them was Colonel Mustang, holding a medium sized box, wrapped in silver wrapping paper. He held out the box towards Ed.
Smiling at him, he let all of them in and closed the door. He served all of them soda pop.
Ed excitedly opened his present while the rest sat on the couches in the living room. His eyes went shiny, tiny hearts in them, beaming at Roy. He tackled him to the carpeted floor, hugging him like you would a teddy bear.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" he exclaimed, clinging to Roy. Mustang struggled to pull the over excited chibi off of him and managed to drag him off.
Happily, the blonde alchemist set up his new X-box and began playing Mortal Kombat. There were two controllers, but when anyone else tried to play, Ed didn't take it that well and he brutally destroyed them.
After that, they all just watched him play and beat up every person on every level until the doorbell rang again.
Everyone looked at Ed, expecting him to open the door. He was so engrossed in the game, he didn't even hear the doorbell. It rang again.
"ED!" They all shouted in unison.
"Game over," the announcer on the game said. He froze. The controller dropped to the floor. Ed slowly turned around, eyes red, anime veins everywhere, looking demonic and ready to kick some booty.
One collective, "Oh che," before Ed lunged for them with a vengeance. Winry managed to scramble away at the last second. She went to open the door. Standing there were three teens: a tall, blue eyed, brown haired girl, a blonde boy with brown eyes, and a short boy with large violet eyes and spiky tri colored hair.
What caught her eye was the golden item that hung around his neck. It was a pyramid with an Egyptian eye on the front.
"Wow, cool necklace," she complimented, letting them in and closing the door. "Ed! Your friends are here!" she shouted in that tone of hers.
Momentarily, he dust cloud fight going on behind the couch stopped. Yugi, Joey and Tea stared. Ed, Al, Reina, and Roy stared. Reina waved, quickly waving her hand side to side.
"Hi---!" That was all she got to say before she was pulled back into the dust cloud and the fight continued. The others sweatdropped.
"Shouldn't we help them?" Yugi asked uncertainly, eyeing the dust cloud. Winry shook her head.
"Nah. It's better just to stay out of it and from a safe distance. Believe me. Ed is a very spastic chibi, and you don't want to get involved," she explained. "By the way, I'm Winry." Yugi smiled, shaking her outstretched hand.
"I'm Yugi Motou, and these are my best friends Joey Wheeler and Tea Gardner," Yugi said. Joey and Tea shook her hand also.
"So, I'm guessing the blonde one was Ed, right?" Joey asked, laughing. Winry nodded.
"He doesn't like it when he loses in games. Especially if someone distracted him," she said.
"Do you know where Ryou is?" Winry blinked.
"Who's Ryou?"
"He's Ed's boyfriend. Wait till you meet him. He's super nice," Tea replied.
"Look who's talking Friendship girl," Joey snorted. Tea growled and glomped him.
"Quiet, mutt!" she exclaimed.
"What?" Winry said, through gritted teeth. "Ed has a boyfriend? That inconsiderate… wait till I get my hands on that little chibi!" she growled.
Lunging directly into the dust cloud, breaking it up, she dragged Ed out and started beating him senseless. The others had no reason to fight anymore, so they all just watched the two friends fight.
"How could you have a boyfriend without telling me?" she yelled, swinging at him.
While dodging most of her punches, he shouted, "You just came today! I'm sorry if your feelings are hurt, but I can't help who I fall for!"
"If you cared you would have told me!" she yelled.
"I do care! I cared enough not to tell you, because I knew you'd be angry! But I did love you that way before I met Ryou!" he countered.
Winry stopped and went shiny eyes, clasping her hands together like she did when she saw anything mechanical.
"You did?" she asked. Ed sighed.
"Yes, Winry. Don't think I didn't care about you before. And I still do. Just not that way. As a friend now. We grew up together, Win. How could I not care about you?"
Tears welling up in her eyes, she leapt into Ed's arms, squeezing until he gasped, "Can't breathe! Need… air!" Winry laughed and let go. "Sorry," she apologized.
The lock clicked, and everyone turned as Ryou and Bakura came in. Ryou was holding a delicious looking cake in his hands. And on top was a perfect miniature replica of Ed.
Ed squealed and glomped Ryou. The cake went flying, and almost magically landed upright on the floor.
Everyone stared. Bakura sweatdropped.
'Play it cool. Don't freak out.'
Smiling, he casually picked up the cake, placed it on the kitchen counter, and said, "How about some cake?"
Everyone shouted, "Yay!" and charged into the kitchen. Bakura lifted the plastic cover off the cake, and picked up a large knife. Brandishing it with the hem of his shirt, he eyed the cake out of the corner of his eye. Everyone stared as they heard a small "eep!" come from the cake. Joey pointed.
"Did it just…?" he asked, trailing off. As Bakura raised the knife, the cake made a loud shriek, hopped off the table, and lunged at Ed. Eyes, a mouth, and red demon wings had sprouted on the cake.
Everybody stared as Ed spazzed, being chased by an evil, man eating, demonic birthday cake. It chased him around the whole house, fangs ready to devour him. Tears poured out from his eyes.
"HEEELLLLP! I don't wanna get eaten!" As Ed was pursued around the house, everyone glared knowingly at Bakura. Ryou said, "Bakura? Where did you get that cake?" Bakura grinned.
"The shadow realm," he answered.
"The Shadow Realm?" Ed came back. Screaming, running out the door with the evil cake hot on his trail. He was chased throughout the entire city. People stared. Some laughed. And some went running for spoons and forks.
Many hours later…
A tired, hungry, and very annoyed chibi alchemist trudged home, slamming the door when he came in. Reina, Roy, Al, Winry, Ryou and Bakura looked up at him.
Joey, Yugi, and Tea had to leave earlier. Bakura grinned malevolently at the blonde. Ed glared.
"Not a word," he growled. His shirt was torn, one boot was missing, and the fang shaped bite mark in the bottom of his pants depicted the cake had managed to sink its teeth into him.
"Look at it this way Ed: this was a birthday you'll never forget. And you have me to thank," he reasoned. Ed glowered.
"I hate you." Bakura stuck his tongue out, and Ed lunged for him. There was a dust cloud fight.
"Is he always like this?" Ryou asked.
"All the time," Winry answered.
"Should we stop them?"
"No way! This is way too amusing."
So, for the remainder of the day, they watched Ed and Bakura battle it out. Ryou shook his head.
"That's the last time I trust Bakura for anything." Everyone gave him a look, like "you didn't know that already?"
Ryou just shrugged.