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Snakes of the Element 47/Ag
Chapter 5:Gold and a Bit of Silver
By pure-thornless-rose
Much, much later that day…
It's nighttime; Kaida, Ed, and Al were sitting outside of another restaurant, waiting for Mr. Hameilo's truck to show up so they could execute their plan.
I mean, why not stalk the old man just to find out who his last client is? It's an ingenious plan! I think.
"So…" Kaida whispered. "When the truck arrives, I'll hitch a secret ride and you follow…?"
"Yeah," Ed sat up, "Chasing the truck around town will only tire us anyway…"
"Oh… And when the truck leaves don't forget drop these coins for us to follow since I'm too big to get on and you volunteered before Ed had a chance."
"Killjoy…"
"Well it's only better for one to get caught rather than two… that way,I can saved!" She teased and smiled, sitting up. "Oh, and don't forget to pick up the change okay? It's all the money change we put together…"
"Just don't get caught already…" Ed whined.
"She won't get caught, Ed, right Kaida…?"
"We can only hope…Huh?"
Ed elbowed her and nodded toward a truck coming their way. She nodded back and stood up.
"Here we go…" She held onto the satchel of coins, letting Mr. Hameilo deliver his cargo and reenter the vehicle.
Then she climbed onto the back, lifting up the canvas flaps to look inside.Only one crate left; she went further in and inspected it. Quickly, she used alchemy to pick out a few nails and lifted one of the wooden planks, she looked inside.
"Unh, it's too dark…" So she looked around and stepped backwards. She heard herself kick something and picked it up.
"What the… now what were the chances of that?" Then the truck's engine started. "A box of matches…! Maybe I can borrow a stick for a second."
She lit it and peered inside; then the truck began moving so she stuck the nails back into the crate. "Veggies and a paper-wrapped package, I guess that helps…"
Mindlessly, she stuck the matchbox in her pocket and sat down and looked outside. The truck continued to flinging out on a steady pattern.
Soon, Kaida could feel the truck's speed slow way down.The truck was nearing its destination. She tossed one last coin and hopped out before the truck stopped. Then, she hid behind a bush and looked around.
They had entered a secluded place, down the road was the entrance gate and up the road was a large building.The truck was parked before the building.
Shortly, Ed and Al showed up so they hurried and hid behind some shrubs. Then Hameilo made his way and knocked, a tall man answered, but they couldn't see his face, the light from inside made a shadow and there wasdark outside.
Al already made his way up behind a closer shrub, the others followed suit and shortly they could hear the two men.
"Here's your delivery, Mr. Aldeger."
"Very good, thank you."
"Now are you expecting anymore cargo soon? It's just so I know in advance."
"Yes, in about two days. Now, just leave the cargo out there, I'll have some of my assistants pick it up."
"Right away." Mr. Hameilo then went back to the truck and unloaded the large crate on his own. He was a big, strong man (almost like Armstrong) so he was able to do it. He looked back into the truck and searched it. "I could have sworn I tosseda box of matches in here…"
"Uh oh…" Kaida froze and stiffened. "Crappit…"
"What is it?" Al looked at her.
"I know where his matches are…" she answered reluctantly; now slipping the matchbox out of her pocket. Ed saw it and shot a look at her. She backed away. "I didn't mean to… I'm sorry!" she whispered.
Ed was about to lecture her, but Al interrupted. "Guys… I think I saw a flash emit from one of those windows."
Ed sighed, "Let's go check it out then."
Watching Hameilo wave bye and leave, they quietly snuck towards the window. He peeked into the window first and quickly ducked back down. Someone in the room had nearly spotted him.
"Did you see anything?"
"Just a couple of men."
Then another flash of light, so they all looked in quickly. It was an alchemic light. They ducked down.
"I assume you all saw that." Kaida whispered. They nodded. "They were using alchemy… but for what?"
"Don't know…" Ed whispered back. "I couldn't see, some of the men were in the way…"
"I couldn't see either." Al added. "But do you think this is enough to accuse them for doing anything illegal?"
"Yep…" Kaida said as she peered in again. "They're making gold…"
In their temporary dormitory…
"We should report this now right?" Kaida asked Ed.
"Yeah…" he replied in a sigh. "Too bad those assistants of Mr. What-cha-ma-call-it's were too stupidto shut their curtains…"
"It's Aldeger, brother."
"Yeah I knew that… Which also brings me to think he's that thief..."
"Good point, brother. I noticed that too."
"Same here... And about the cargo… There was a package, filled with who-knows-what, stuffed in there with some vegetables. But why veggies?"
"Because you idiot… vegetables are carbon-based life forms, figure it out from there...It's either that, or they were used for cover…Just how did you pass into State Alchemy...?"
"Oh yeah...!" she laughed. Then her face became serious. "But hey… I'm not like the great alchemy genius, Edward Elric: the youngest State Alchemist ever recorded! I'm not as talented as you and I still have learning to do, I'm only fourteen… And I'm not an idiot..."
"Oohh…" Ed said like something just dawned upon him. "I see now…"
"You're thinking of something mean again aren't you, bro..."
"I bet I know why Kaida's been assigned as our new partner…!"
"Don't Ed…"Al caught on to Ed's thinking.
"Colonel's keeping training wheels on for her since she's still fresh material!" He laughed. Al shook his head. Kaida blushed and pouted angrily. "And we're probably here to make sure you can survive…"
"Brother, didn't Colonel do that to you too?"
"I bet he did… but I was twelve and she's fourteen… Two years makes a BIG difference!" Ed was still sobering down from laughing… "Training wheels… what a good way to put it… I mean now I can understand why you forgot to put the matchbox down, heh, I was going to lecture you about that too…"
"You better be glad I'm not taking this personally, FullMetal…" (Comical) beads of tears appeared and her mouth wavered. "You're so mean...!" Then she broke into more tears, comically, as she sat helplessly on her bed. "Aahhhhh…"
"Brother you're so evil…"
"Whhaat…? I was only joking…! Geez, girls are such cry babies."
"You wanna say that again?" Suddenly, Kaida was standing next to his bed.
"Crybaby." Ed found her weakness…
WHAP!
"OW! WHY'D YOU HIT ME WITH THAT PILLOW!"
"I'm not a crybaby…"
"Sure you are…"
"AM NOT!"
POW!
"HIT ME AGAINAND I SWEAR!"
"SWEAR WHAT? YOU'RE GONNA GROW OR SOMETHING?"
"Guys… calm down…! It's already late.… Sheesh..."
For Ed's sake, I needed to give Kaida some kind of weakness. Couldn't think of one until I noticed what I was typing…
Well I hope you all liked this one too. Was it long? I don't wanna bore you guys or anything... So again, if there's something wrong, let me know, I might do something about it. Oh and PLEASE REVIEW! I like hearing from you guys, you know that. I like to wait for a couple or so reviews before adding another chapter too. See ya!