Preparation for a Christmas Party

Fullmetal-Alchemist10: Well, that was a quick update, wasn't it? I'm also planning on having the next chapter up on Christmas Eve as a Christmas present for everyone. Also, with the comment that Roy has on Christmas, I personally don't believe that, it's just that Roy is agnostic, meaning that he doesn't believe in any God... same with Ed. So I apologize in advance if you are offended...

Disclaimer: How many times do I have to say this?.! I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist! I also don't own Party City...

Me: -Randomly beating Ed with a rubber hose-

Ed: DAMMIT STOP BEATING ME WITH A RUBBER HOSE!

Me: I don't feel like stopping anytime soon...

Roy: I'll save you Ed!

-Five minutes later-

Me: -Beating Ed and Roy with rubber hoses-

Today was SAT day for Ed. Roy had a day off from work and he was annoyed that Ed wasn't there to spend the day with him. It was a Saturday, so Al was home as well.

After Al had done all of the chores, he sat on the couch in the living room and read his book. Roy was just lounging around on a different couch, listening to his phonograph.

He was trying to find out what Al was reading. Then he decided to just ask Al. "Al, what's that you're reading?"

Al suddenly snapped his eyes up and said, "Nothing! Nothing at all!"

"No really, what are you reading? I won't tell Ed."

Al was silent for a minute and mumbled, "It's a book that I borrowed from Fury."

Roy bust out laughing because he knew what Fury read.

"What?"

"Why are you reading that crap? Read some better books."

"I just so happen to like these books, so leave me alone." Al was wondering what his brother saw in Roy because he was kind of annoying.

"Fine, I will." Roy got up and got himself a sandwich. He came back into the living room and started eating.

"You really shouldn't eat in the living room."

"It's my house. I can do whatever I want. Why are you acting like my mother?"

"Sorry, I'm just used to telling Ed what to do. You're very much like him." Well Al just answered his own question. They were very much alike. That's why Ed loved him.

"Well, I'm a twenty-nine year old man. I think I know how to take care of myself." Just then a piece of lettuce fell out of the sandwich and got mustard on the couch.

"Shall I say it? I told you so. No you will have a mustard stain on your couch. You should've eaten in the kitchen."

Roy grumbled, "Shut up," and went into the kitchen.

Al laughed a little and went back to his book. It was starting to get good. Janet found her long lost twin, Nicole, who ended up being evil. Nicole is trying to take Janet's boyfriend away.

After reading the book for a while, Al decided to get to know Roy a little better. He felt like playing poker with Roy.

"Roy! Want to play cards?"

"Sure. What are we playing?"

"Poker. Me and nii-san play it all the time. I have my own deck." Al took out a pack of cards from his chalk pocket. "Sorry about the chalk dust." Al started dealing.

"There are pretty cool looking cards. I like the transmutation circles on the back of them. Oh, wait. I think I have some poker chips somewhere." Roy went over to the end table drawer and pulled out a box of poker chips.

While Roy was doing that, Al noticed he had a bad hand. He used the transmutation circles on the back of the cards to change the cards into a winning hand.

Al won ten times in a row this way and had almost all of Roy's chips. "Will we have to turn this into strip poker, or are you giving up?"

"I think you're cheating. I swear I keep on seeing alchemic reactions."

"Do you want to continue?"

"No, at least not with these cards." Roy snapped and made the cards catch on fire.

"AHH! MY CARDS! IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO TRASMUTE THE CIRCLES ON THEM!"

"You're just as bad as Ed when playing poker!"

"Well, with being with him for my whole like, I pick up some of his habits, you know."

"Yeah, I guess…"

"I know this is really random, but could we get a cat?"

"No, I don't like cats."

Al sighed in disappointment.

Roy then got an evil sparkle in his eye. "I love dogs though! They will always do anything for you! You could treat them like crap and they can't complain! Plus, they don't need salaries like the other dogs that I have in the military!"

Al slowly backed away as Roy was saying this. "That's nice, Roy… are we getting a dog, then?"

"I would get a dog, but no one would be around enough to take care of it. You and Ed will be coming and going, and I have to go to work almost everyday. Maybe when you guys find the Philosopher's Stone we can get a pet."

"That could be in a month or twenty years… have you found any leads for us?"

"Not really, but Scar is doing something in Lior. I'm not sure yet, but I'll have Ed look into it soon. We really need to capture Scar. He is quite a burden for the military, especially the state alchemists."

"Thank you. Ed should be able to look at that when he has graduated. That should be in a few days."

"Yeah, and I'm going to lose fifty dollars…"

Al laughed and pat Roy on the back. "You really shouldn't underestimate nii-san. It seems to cost you money. He may not show it all the time, but he may be the smartest person you'll ever meet."

"That makes me feel very inferior… knowing that a fifteen year old is much smarter than I am. There are some things that I know that he doesn't know… he needs more common sense."

"Yeah, he could use some more of that. I'm his common sense, though. He never remembers his manners."

Ed then walked into the house. "That test was so easy! I'd have to say that the state alchemist test was harder, and I took and passed it when I was twelve!"

Roy whispered to Al, "He likes to brag a lot, too."

Al held back a laugh and nodded. Then, he got up to get his brother and Roy something to eat.

While Al was making lunch, Ed walked over to Roy and sat in his lap. Ed wrapped his arms around Roy's neck and quickly kissed him. "Roy, you owe me fifty dollars."

Roy poked Ed in the stomach. "Not until your actual graduation day."

Ed laughed when Roy poked him, and then said, "Aww, but I want the money now!"

"Why do you need money, anyway? I always pay for everything."

"Not everything and the military funds can't pay for everything…"

"Can't you just transmute things if you're desperate?"

Ed glared at Roy. "Sand does not make a good sandwich, even if it is transmuted."

"You've got a point there. Oh! Lunch is ready!" Roy quickly got up, dumping Ed onto the floor.

Ed cursed at Roy because his head hit the end table when Roy got up.

While Ed was getting up, he had looked out the window. "Look! It's snowing!"

Roy and Al ran to the window. "So it is," Roy said.

"I hope it snows enough so we can make a snowman!" Al was really excited. He loved to play in the snow.

"Hey wait! Snow means winter which means Christmas! Damn! I forgot to buy presents!"

"You know, now that I think of it, so did I… maybe we should go shopping for a day and get it done."

"We could have a party, too!" Al said.

"Yeah, we can really break in the new house and have a party. No one has really been to out house yet."

"Let's go to Party City and buy stuff!" Ed said then ran to the front door.

Roy shrugged and followed behind Ed, but not running. "Al, would you stay behind and clean. We'll clean our room."

"Sure." Al headed towards the cleaning closet.

Roy and Ed drove over to Party City to buy stuff.

Ed was looking around and then found a room called the 'Party Blowout' room. Ed walked into it, and then there was a big boom.

Roy ran over to the room to see what happened to Ed. He walked out and he was covered in confetti and streamers. He looked really pissed off. Roy burst out laughing and asked Ed what had happened.

"Apparently the 'Party Blowout' room makes big giant canisters of streamer and confetti explode on you if you touch them."

"Well, then I won't go in there. We need to find red and green streamers."

They found some thing and then Ed just asked randomly, "Wait, why am I celebrating Christmas? I'm agnostic and you are too, aren't you?"

"Yes, I'm agnostic, but it's the season of giving. Meaning free stuff for no reason. You don't need to believe all of that religious crap to get free stuff."

Ed smiled. "I like the way you think."

After buying a crap load of party supplies, they went back home. Al was almost done cleaning and he told Ed and Roy to clean their room.

An hour later, they started writing out invitations. "You realize we need to get a Christmas tree, too," Roy said.

Ed sighed. "I guess we can do that tomorrow."

Fullmetal-Alchemist10: Well, the next chapter is the party! I shall post it on Christmas Eve, like I said before as a gift! I'm so happy that I have a nice long vacation to just do nothing! I'll try to post a few times during the vacation as well...