Chapter 3: Shopping Days Present
Ding… Ding… Ding… It was 1 AM now. Roy was drooling on his covers and then he woke up from another cold wind. He shivered and sat up. He fell off his off his bed when he saw another ghostly figure in front of him.
"Dr. Marco!" Roy asked startlingly as he pulled himself up. Marco rose up one of his see-through hands in a gesture saying "Hello." It was quiet for a second the Roy said. "Let me guess… You're the Ghost of Christmas Shopping Days Present?"
"Yes, I am. You didn't learn your lesson with Hughes so now I have to try. And I'm warning you, you don't want to mess with Future."
"I'm still having this crazy dream…"
"It's not a dream Roy. You really need to put more though into the gifts you get people! Even the Homunculi spend money to get presents for each other!" Marco said. "Yeah right. The Homunculi are evil. They don't do that type of thing." Roy said as if it were taught to first graders.
"Really, let's take a look at them now then."
They suddenly appeared in front of an old abandoned house. Inside of it were two of the Homunculi sitting at a table. It was Wrath and Gluttony.
"I'm hungry… Can I eat you?" Gluttony asked as he looked at Wrath. The little boy looked nervously at Gluttony. "NO! Jeez, where's Lust? Isn't she supposed to feed you?" Wrath said. Then the door opened and Lust came in with bags in her hands.
"Lust! Do you have food?" Gluttony asked eagerly. Lust sighed and dug through one of the bags. She took out two boxes of 24 packs of candy canes and threw them on the floor. Gluttony pounced on them.
"Well anyways… Wrath, here you go." She said as she took out a tin can and handed it to him. Wrath opened the can and "Oooh! A Darth Vader Star Wars watch from BK! Thanks Lust!" He said happily. Then from another room, Sloth came out holding a huge plate with a huge turkey on it. "I made Christmas dinner!" She said with a smile. "Yay! Let's just hope Gluttony doesn't scarf it down!" Wrath said giving a harsh look towards Gluttony, who still pigging out on his candy canes. Then Greed came through the door holding a box.
"Hey look! Pride got us presents!" He said. Everyone was surprised. Normally, Pride never did anything like that. Except last year but… they just hoped it wouldn't be the same as last year. They all dug through the box and each got themselves a small little package wrapped in tissue paper. When they opened them "Oh… He gave us pictures of himself… again…" Lust said grimly. "But the frames look really expensive. We might be able to sell them for some good money." Greed told them.
"Hey… Where's Envy? Shouldn't he be there too?" Roy asked Marco. Marco simply ignored that question and said "See, the Homunculi are better with their gifts to each other than you are with other people!"
"HEY! I pick presents for people just fine!" Roy snapped.
"Really?" Marco asked. Then the background suddenly changed to Resembool. They were now near the Rockbell residence.
"WHO'S HE CALLING SO SMALL YOU CAN CRUSH ME LIKE AN ANT!" Ed shouted angrily. They turned to see Ed about to pounce on a card on the porch. Al quickly held Ed back. "Brother, it's just a card! And that's not even what it says! I'm sure whatever the Colonel put he didn't really mean it!" He said.
"Yeah right! That bastard loves to send these things to me!" Ed said twice as angrily.
"You know he's right." Mustang told Marco with a grin. Marco sighed and shook his head in disappointment.
"So what did mustang get for you?" Ed asked Al. Al gave a little groan that obviously meant he didn't want to tell. "C'mon Al it can't be that bad!" Al sighed and then said "He gave me some cheap armor cleaner…"
"Ooooh… it is that bad. I wonder if he knows you don't like getting stuff like that."
Al shrugged. "C'mon Brother, Aunt Pinako gonna have our heads if we don't get back inside." He told Ed. Ed gave an evil smile and said "What head Al?" And with that snatched Al's helmet and ran inside. "Hey! Ed, give it back!" He shouted as he also ran inside.
"Do you see that you have to put more thought in your gifts Roy?" Marco asked as the scenery went back to that of Roy's room. "Nope, I know this is all just a whacky dream that I'm going to forget as soon as I wake up." Roy told him. Marco gave another sigh ad said "I warned you Roy! Future will be coming and trust me… you'll be sorry." And the pearly white figure of Dr. Marco disappeared. "Yeah right. What ghost can possibly be that bad?"
So is this really a whacky dream that Roy's having? Will Roy learn how to give real girfts? Where's Envy and who can possibly be the Ghost of Christmas Shopping Days Future? Why am I asking all these questions! Most of them to be answered in the next chapter!
Now let's give Rei good reviews or we'll make Ed here drink milk every hour!
Ed: What!You never said that!
Now, now Ed. You should know I lied.