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Snakes of the Element 47/Ag: Chapter 7: Let the Fight Begin
By pure-thornless-rose

Somewhere outside on any random field…

It was still morning and Kaida and Ed were supposedly going to have their first spar here. Kaida looked around and spotted a tiny patch of flowers. She paused and began studying them.

"You ready Kaida?"

"…" Incoherent mumbles could only be heard as she plucked one of the flowers from the root and studied the dirt.

"Well?"

"… Huh?" She snapped out of her gaze. Ed gave up and shook his head.

"You should be warming up instead of picking flowers… I'm not going to take it easy on you cause you're a girl…"

"So? I'm not just picking flowers anyway…" She jumped up and tucked the flower behind an ear. Then she slipped her coat off and threw it aside. Exposing bandages that bound its way up her left arm. "I guess you can say that I'm also warming my mind up as well… NOT picking flowers…" Then more incoherent mumbles escaped her mouth. Ed rolled his eyes and mumbled 'whatever', then began a few stretches, as did Kaida. "Let's go…" Kaida straitened up and walked further out into the field.

Ed joined her and smirked. "You nervous?"

"Maybe… but I can't tell you that."

In Central Head Quarters…

The, oh so, young Lieutenant Colonel Watson and Fury cleaned up immediately. Later, she overheard the scolding the three of them got from Mustang.
Hawkeye had gone and taken them to that (made up) sector and let Watson make that call. In the background, the first and second lieutenant stood patiently away from Watson, speaking a little amongst themselves. Hawkeye stood in the same room and watched over them.

"W-what do you mean I've 'been relieved of my duties for the next week, take a vacation'…? What about the two officers with me and our escorts…?" "… … …" "Them too…?" "… … … … …" "Yes, sir…" "… …" "Complications, sir?" "… … …" "Yes, I understand: You cannot tell me over these lines, it's confidential even to me now. I shall tell my staff this immediately." "… …" "I bid you farewell, good bye."

Click.

"Did you guys hear that? We're stuck here for the next week…" She turned around and faced them. "And our only instruction is: take a vacation…"
"A vacation…?" First Lieutenant Roth questioned.
"Strand three of their commissioned officers in another country with very little instructions… Have they even done that before?" Second Lieutenant Flora wondered.
"Well I wouldn't really say strand… But those were the General's orders… and he won't tell me why…"
"Must be bad…" Roth sighed
"I'll have to agree…" Flora sighed as well.
"Now what to do…" Watson then turned and Hawkeye entered her sight.

Back with the trio…

They moved all over the field. Ed and Kaida had finally begun sparring; Al wasobserving the fight. It was easy to see that Kaida lacked strength and some skill: Ed was easily able to overpower her. She just had to stop dodging and moving so quickly and try throwing in some more hits.

Al then noticed she seemed to be a little distracted; her eyes constantly glanced down to any patches of dirt, especially when it was kicked around. Ed also noticed this, but he ignored it and continued to swipe at her. And again, she continued to dodge; blocking his automail punches only seemed to bruise her more so she had no choice but to dodge.

"Are you—ugh—lookin' for something?" He finally asked and punched.

"May—eh—maybe!"

"Hm… You should—ah—try throwing in more—hp—punches Kaida. You chicken or something?" He jumped back and away from her.

Both were breathing a little deeply. She stood there and scowled at him. "Fine, if you insist."

She dug her shoe into the ground and loosened the dirt. Then Ed and Kaida went at it again. Ed swiped at her; she ducked, attempted to trip him, failed, grabbed a handful of dirt, clasped it in between both hands as if she was praying and pulled them apart. Alchemic light glowed as the dirt formed into a short sword.

Ed scowled in a challenging way. "So I guess we're playing with sharp objects now huh?" Then he transmuted his automail arm and the blade appeared once more.

"Well you wanted to see what else I could do—other than spoon bending…"

Then they attacked each other once again. Kaida swiped more often but never made a hit, while Ed's blade grazed her left arm, slicing only the bandages. Their quick movements caused her loose bandages to slowly fall apart. Soon the notorious silver snake on her arm appeared, along with the array it surrounded.

The brothers took a long second to look at it. She too paused when she saw them. "Told you there was one on me…" She suddenly lunged for Ed. "Hup—hah—hp…!" She swiped the short sword at Ed. He easily blocked all her attempts.

They glared at each other in a challenging way and continued to go at it. The sound of metal against metal lasted for a good five minutes. Until her stamina began to run low, she was tired now. "You're not too bad with a short blade little girl!"

Then like all fights should: it ended.

"I. Am. NOT. A. Little. Girl!" As Kaida was about to strike once more, she made a mistake, allowing Ed to strike at the same time. "Huh?" He manipulated his blade quickly and slid her weapon from her hand and sent it flying towards Al. "Crap..." They paused.

CLANNGGGGGGGG!

The sword hit him one the head and ricochetted off. "Heh-heh…"

From the distraction, Ed quickly tackled her down and pointed his blade at her. "Never get distracted in the middle of a fight—might cost you something," he grinned. "I win…!"

"Bull."

"Oh—and sorry about that Al!"

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