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Shingo-sama: Don't worry, they will this time!
Cathelina: they will say what I want them to, for I am the AUTHOR! Wahaha!
Aznwhacko: Actually, the opposite might happen O.oUU judging by what I just wrote…XPP
plutobaby494: the next chapter will be mostly centered on Harry and his crew
Al's-best-friend: glad you think so
kurama-sweethart: -pets- 33
Okay, chapter eight! And I totally went off into ROYMUSTANGEDWARDELRICLAND and forgot that at some point in time I have to mention Harry and co. V.vUUU
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As Edward sheepishly followed Roy into the great hall he tried to suppress the color in his face. They had been so close to … No, we weren't about to kiss, he was just… umm… checking my temperature, Ed thought mentally.
Yeah, right…
No, honestly, there wasn't anything happening!
Oh, so I just 'imagined' that look in his eyes?
Damn right, you did! Now shut up, stupid voice in the back of my head... The alchemist growled to himself.
"Hey, Ed!" Harry yelled and came to him, "Do you understand this thing professor Snape was talking about, I got too distracted by his greasy nasty hair to listen to anything- who's that?" he stared pointedly at the flame alchemist, the womanizer of central, the one and only Roy 'freakin' Mustang! Ed let a small giggle escape his lips, but he got it under control.
"H-he's… umm… he's…" Edward was torn between telling the truth or telling some outrageous lie.
But Roy came to his rescue, "I am his brother, you can me Roy." He smiled.
Hermione looked skeptically from Roy to Edward, "You don't look like siblings." She accused.
She got them there, but luckily Roy happened to be a very gifted actor, which made Ed's insides squirm knowing that back in the hallway it could've just been acting to try and mess with him, but regardless to the shorter alchemist's discomfort, Roy said, "Forgive me, its easier to just say we're brothers, actually we're half brothers," he pulled Edward closer to him, "But he's just like a full brother to me!" he ruffled Edward's hair.
"Hands off, Mustang!" Edward growled softly so only Roy would hear him and tried to squirm away from him, but it seems that Roy Mustang, underneath the blue uniform, id quite muscular.
"Oh no you don't, Fullmetal, I'm getting your ass outta here for winter break, so while I do you are going to grin and bear it." He whispered fiercely, though not quietly enough because it seemed that Hermione, being the sneaky freak she is, overheard them.
"Fullmetal?" she looked shocked, "Did you just call him what I thought you did?"
"What?" both Ed and Roy said in unison, then, "Why?" then, "Hey, stop saying what I'm saying." Then, "Stop that!"
"No reason, I was just wondering!" she said quickly. Roy still wasn't convinced and Edward didn't like the gleam in her eye.
It was then that ed noticed that the colonel had let his guard down, so he jabbed him in the side with his automail arm. With a surprised look on his face and an oof, Roy let go of him and staggered backwards, clutching his side.
"Damnit, why you little…" he muttered and glared at Ed, who was starting to see red. But just before he could attack the colonel for calling him short he found himself bourn aloft by his real brother, Alphonse.
"Why can't you two just get along?" came the tinny, echoing voice.
"Bloody hell…" Ron had joined them and was now staring up at Al, "You're HUGE."
"Bigger than Hagrid, even!" Harry said.
"Are you two blind!" Hermione yelped, "It's a moving suit of armor!"
"Is there a problem here?" a silky smooth and low voice sounded behind them, Professor Snape had arrived on the scene.
"No, sir, I was just here to pick up my 'brother', you may set him down now, Alphonse." Roy looked regally over at professor Snape.
Snape glared, but tried to be disdainful as he answered, "Well, I suggest you get your 'brother' and leave as soon as you can, Colonel, I detest dogs." With that said he smirked and walked out of the hall.
"That bastard," Edward snarled as Al set him down, "At the end of the year remind me to transmute him into something awful."
Harry Ron and Hermione stood and watched as Roy, Edward, and Al made their way out of the castle. They said their goodbyes at the train station that would take them home. When they had secured a place on the train Edward finally asked, "So what about Harry? He still needs a bodyguard."
"Well, of course, that's why Al volunteered to do it!" he said cheerfully.
"What? If he's supposed to be at the castle then what's he doing sitting next to me?" Ed rapped a knuckle on the metal armor. "Right Al?" the suit of armor just sat there, "Al?"
"Just because I'm called the flame alchemist, doesn't mean I cant do other forms of alchemy." Roy smirked.
What he means by his previous comment about alchemy is that while Ed, and the Potter squad (that was weird, don't worry, I won't do it again) weren't looking he transmuted a replica of Al while the real Al hightailed it back up to the castle.
Edward stared at Mustang in disbelief, and the look on his face was just too much, Roy had to laugh. His sudden laughter just shocked Edward more; he hadn't ever seen his colonel laugh like this. Something in his stomach was twisting into a knot and he got up quickly.
"Ummm I need to…. Go and... And... Do that one thing that I needed to do, but you didn't know about it cause…. I'll be back!" and he bolted out of the compartment and made his way back to where the luggage cars where, he needed some time to think and get his thoughts under control.
ROY'S POV!
I watched him make his excuses and leave. Am I that scary when I laugh? When I get back to central I should make it a point to laugh more.
Well, I suppose that it was a good thing that Ed left the compartment early on; the boy is too hot for his own good. I rest my elbow on the windowsill and look at my reflection. With half-lidded eyes, messy hair and what looked like the beginning of a five o'clock shadow, I had seen better days. With a sigh I put a hand over my eyes, a slight twinge in my side causes me to look down.
Damn kid, he sure hits hard, because when I lift up my shirt slightly my eyes meet an angry looking bruise from before. I hope he can think things over quickly, because I have a piece of my mind I want to give him, a couple pieces actually.
Speaking of which, it's been awhile since he left, maybe I should see if he's okay…
EDWARD'S POV!(he's in the luggage car by the by))
Stupid damn Roy and his damnable sexiness! I want to scream, but that would attract attention, and that was the last thing I needed right now. Why does he make me feel like this? My knees are like jello and my palms are sweaty, when I catch a slight glimpse of myself in a mirror in the corner I almost jumped through the ceiling. Roy was standing right behind me with a sly smile on his lips. I whirled around, but saw no one, least of all Roy.
When I looked back to the mirror I saw myself again, this time Roy was gone and I was standing alone without my red over coat and I noticed something that almost made my heart stop…
My arm…
My arm was real, not automail, but actual flesh, along with my leg. Then another boy with sandy hair and bright blue eyes walked up behind me and smiled; his mouth moved, forming words, words that I had only heard coming from one person, "Nii-san."
I was faintly aware of my eyes beginning to sting and water, but my attention was immediately focused totally on the mirror when a woman walked into view. She pushed her brown locks of hair out of her eyes and she held up a wreathe of flowers and smiled happily.
It was too much; I let out a sob and pressed my back to a crate and slid to the floor, hugging my knees and rocking back and forth, my eyes fixed on the images in the mirror. Tears found their way out of my eyes and onto the floor, leaving dark stains in the wooden floor of the train car…
TO BE CONTINUED IN THE NEXT CHAPTER BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Okay, this was one hell of a long chapter, but I bet you all don't mind, LOVSIES AND SUCH! And for you that didn't catch it, Ed just found the mirror of desire, more commonly known as the mirror of erised!
R&R!