Chapter eight
StIP: Although I know it's now hard for me to update, I still try, for your sake atleast. And thank you for the reviews. You really made this story worth it. To tell you the truth, when I first posted this story, I was so sure it would bomb...:sighs:... Just like all my others, but then all you people reviewed, thus making a lost dream come true :sparkly eyes: And so now I feel compelled to continue for the ever faithful readers, oh and to let you know, I'm making a FMA romance quiz for Ed on quizilla. But I do fear that in this quiz it'll take a while for you and Ed to hook up but it will happen. I'll post the link to the site in my profile, it'll be under adriftsoul not invisibleguy, if you're interested.
SD::laughs: You're so dramatic :StIP grins:
StIP: I also have wonderful news... Disclaimer guy has come to his sense and has returned.
Disclaimer guy: Yeah after realizing I didn't get pay
StIP: Right'e'O
Ed: does this mean I'm no longer needed::hopeful look:
StIP: Sorry, I still need you
Ed::sighs: Oh :looks depressed:
StIP: But don't worry, your brother will be here now::Al poofs in: Say hi to the readers new disclaimer helper person
Al::waves nervously: Hi :StIP glomps:
StIP: He's such a sweetheart::Ed screams in the background:
Ed: Leave Al alone, he hasn't done anything to you :over protective older brother:
Disclaimer guy: She doesn't own FMA, or Rae, only Sei, and me.
-Chapter begins-
Sei, taking a deep breath began looking at her hands. "Ed please don't be mad at me, but the cat was let out of the bag a while ago." You could see Ed was baffled by this answer.
Ed looked at her confused, "What do you mean?"
Sei grinned even wider, "Think real hard, like about the part where you I said I liked you."
Ed blinked, "You mean that was it."
Sei couldn't stop grinning, "I love to make a moutain out of a ant hill, metaphorically speaking of course."
Ed looked at her confused, Rae interjected, "She means, she likes making people think she knows something big, and then have them find out it's nothing." Rae said stiffling a laugh. It took Ed a few seconds to regeister what this meant.
"You mean there is no secret?" Sei looked over at Rae, and they both watched Ed freak out over this. Rae pulled out popcorn, and sat down in a chair and watched with a huge grin. Sei looking over grabbed some popcorn and began eating it.
"Rae, where did you get this." She said gesturing to the popcorn. Rae shrugged, continuing to shove the popcorn in her mouth. Ed continued to rant, causing several people to look over alarmed and frightened. Sei shook her head, then also continued to eat the popcorn. After a few minutes Ed finally calmed down.
"Feel better?" Sei asked taking a sip of coke. Ed glared at her, then stormed off. Sei looked over at Rae slightly alarmed, and worried. Rae began laughing, then walked off. Sei sat there, deep in thought. "I feel real bad about joking with Ed... but, what do I do. I can't just walk up to him and say I'm sorry..." Sei looked down at her hands trying to think of something to do. After a few more minutes she stood up, and went strait to Ed.
"Ed, I just wanted to say I'm sorry for being such an idiot, and an inconsiderate bitch." Sei said looking down ashamed. Ed rolled his eyes.
"You're not an idiot, or a bitch."
"Then you forgive me?" Sei said with a hopeful look. Ed looked away, obviously scheming thought running through his head.
"I don't know..."
"I'll do anything you want me too." Sei said in a rush. Immediatly she regretted saying that. Ed looked at her with a smirk on his lips. Sei stepped back slightly alarmed, looking behind her incase she needed to flee quickly.
"Hm, anything?" Sei reluctently nodded, "Okay then, how about..." He looked in deep thought, considering the possibilities with a smirk playing upon his lips. Sei felt as if she could die, she was afraid of what he would say. Ed chuckled with a glint in his eyes. "Anything?"
Sei's eyes popped out of her head. "OH MY... Ed what exactly are you implying?" Sei asked a bit frantically. What the hell? Is he thinking what I think he is? HOLY $!&, Sei screamed in her head. She began licking her lips nervously while thinking of very perverted images.
Ed's face changed into confusion and he blinked a few times. "What are you talking about..." He faultered, another smirk appeared. "I was just thinking about having you grovel on your knees, but now..." Sei felt she could die any minute now. "You were thinking about something entirely different weren't you?" Ed's grin grew with every word.
"Ed, her mind is in a whole other leauge, now don't go easy on her." Rae said with a wink jumping through the window. Sei's head turned to her.
"What the hell? As if! I'm a saint, and why are you jumping through a window, and of all windows ours?" Sei asked. Rae looked at her, then with a grunt she walked to the door.
"Don't lie, we all know you want to screw Ed. It's written all over your face. And why I'm jumping through window's you'll never know." And with a laugh, she walked out the door. Sei turned crimson, staring after her friend, her jaw dropped. Ed looked over at Sei, then back at the door. He too, was slightly embarrased by what just happened.
"Is it true, what Rae said?" Ed asked cautiously. Sei, if possible, blushed even more. When she spoke, she couldn't stop smiling.
"Of course not. I would never be that... ummm... it's.. No." She said finally. Avoiding eye contact she walked out the door, feeling the beginning of a headach coming on. She began rubbing her forehead feeling a sharp stabbing pain right between her eyes. The longer it continued, the more painful it got. Ed looked after her concerned. She didn't realize that people were looking at her, until she realized that she was muttering under her breath. At the foot of the stairs, she collasped, the pain her her head increasing immensly.
"Holy--, what the hell is wrong with me." She murmured. She tried not to look around, everywhere she did hurt her brain even more. Leaning against the wall, and screwing her eyes shut, she willed herself to not scream. "Damn, is this what a migraine feels like?" She whispered in agony. The pain was still increasing. She was sure her head was about to explode. Barely noticing, a few people ran to her. They were people she didn't know, but then she heard Ed's all to familar voice. "Make it stop." She whispered, tears came to her eyes and streamed down steadily. "Make this stop..." Finally the pain was so intense she fell into darkness, relieved that it finally did stop.
Coming to, she jumped out of the bed, throwing the sheets off. She was in a dark room, completly unfamilar to the tavern. A woman with long black wavy hair, and crimson eyes smirked sardonically. "Well, how nice of you to finally join us." She said looking at her left hand. Another person moved, he or she, Sei really couldn't tell, smiled, but it didn't reach their eyes. "It" As Sei would like to refer to the thing as had long green hair, a head band, and wore a belly shirt and shorts. All clothing was black.
"Lust, why exactly is she so important to us." The "It" said walking towards Sei. She backed up slightly, but stopped half way. Think they'll intimidate me? HA! I'll show them, I have balls! Sei thought determindly. Straiting herself, she smoothed her face, giving off no emotion.
"Because Envy, she's the key to the philosophers' stone." The beautiful woman said still observing her left hand. The "It" which was known as Envy nodded it's head.
"She's pretty cute, maybe after the stone is created I can have some fun with her." Envy said musing to itself. Sei blinked, then began poking Envy.
"Are you a guy, or a girl? It's hard to tell, I mean because of the way you're dressed, and your hair. And are you gay?" Sei began walking around Envy. Envy gave her a baffled look, then offended.
"What's that supposed to mean?" It asked with a composed voice (StIP: I think Envy is an it! I swear it infact! YUP, what else could it be :Envy kills authoress: Envy: I'm a he! StIP::currently a ghost: prove it, IT!)
"It means that I can't tell if you're a guy or a girl, and for that matter, if your strait, bi, or gay." Sei said stepping back. Envy began shaking with anger. Lust had an amused look on her face. "Are you a transvesite? Boy, I've always wanted to ask you these questions." She said to herself. Back home, since he was a cartoon I couldn't ask him, but since he's here in the flesh... The grin on her face grew with each new thought coming into her head. "Also, I've always wondered. Why do you hate Ed so much, is it because his dad created you?" The last statement made Envy's anger vanish, and Lust's amusement fade.
"How do you know that?" Lust asked alarmed. Sei crossed her arms, and sat herself on the bed.
"Best secrets are kept to themselves." She said with the same tone she used with Ed the first time she said this. "Oh, and another question for you Envy. How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" This time utter confusion spread across Envy, and Lust's face. They looked at each other, then back at the intriguingly strange character.
Sei began laughing so hard that she fell off the bed with a yelp. Standing up, she rubbed her head. Envy walked over to her, then pushed her on the bed, pinning her down. "Talk you little bitch. What all do you know?" Envy glared down at her tracing his finger on her stomach drawing a little blood. Sei began to glower. With a smirk, he push his lips to her roughly. Reflexively, she began to struggle, but to no avail. "I'm going to have lots of fun with you." He whispered with delight. Terror and dread filled Sei, she felt Envy's nails dig into both of her arms. She screwed her eyes shut, praying that Ed would come, or anyone for that matter, but mostly Ed.
Sitting up, she wiped the sweat off her forehead. She was breathing heavily, and looking around wildly. No one was in the room, except Ed. He had a worried look on his face.
"Sei, what's the matter?" Alarmed, Ed took her hand in his and held it firmly. She blinked a few times waiting for her eyes to focus.
"I'm not really sure…" She trailed off, the dream playing over and over in her mind. Hugging herself she was surprised to find nail marks indented into her skin. Her breath froze, as blood swelled to the surface. Ed's eyes followed her arms.
"Sei, your hurt!" He said examining her arms, Sei blushed.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it." She said as Ed began to rise.
Ed shook his head. "I'll be back with a wash cloth, and some bandages, so sit tight, okay?" He looked pained that he would be leaving Sei for a second. She nodded her head smiling.
"Fine, take all the time you need." Sei said sounding perfectly fine. A small smile spread across Ed's lips as he exited the room. After the door clicked shut, Sei began to examine her arms. "What in samhell is this?" She murmured a little shooken up. Rubbing her temple she tried to remember exactly what happened in the dream.
"What were they talking about--. 'Key to the Philosophers' stone...' It doesn't make sense..." She trailed off. Looking at her arms more closely, she began to sweat. "I couldn't of done this to myself regarless of how strong I was--." She took a deep breath, "What if that wasn't a dream..." She trailed off. For the first time in days, Sei felt scared. Breathing deeply she whispered faintly, "I want to go home." The realization of the whole situation began to sink in. "I want to go home." She whispered again, tears brimmed her eyes. Sqeezing her eyes shut, she mentally scolded her self for being weak.
"What am I doing, I'm complaining like a little baby. What will crying accomplish? Nothing! If I just sit here and cry like a baby, then how will I get home? I won't!" Her voice grew harder with each word, more determind. "I will find a way home, and I will be okay." Opening her eyes, she wiped the tears away. Standing up, she walked over to the wash stand. Looking at her refection, she dampened a washcloth, and began to scrub her face. Then she moved on her her arms, careful not to spread blood. If that wasn't a dream, and Envy kissed me, then that means... EWWWWWW I'VE GOT ENVY GERMS! She thought cringing, and washing her mouth furiously. Just then, the door handle clicked, and began to open.
Sei looked through the mirror, and saw Ed walk through, carring bandages in his arms. He glanced over to the bed, then looked around the room to see Sei standing infront of the wash basin with the cloth in her mouth. His brow creased in worry.
"Sei, you shouldn't be moving around, You're still pretty weak." Ed said, setting down the bandages, and rushing over to her side. She blinked a few times before removing the cloth from her mouth.
"I feel a bit better now. It's okay, really. When I pass out again then you can worry." She said forcing a grin. Ed smiled shaking his head at her foolishness. Just looking at him, her worry and fear, began to ebb. He has such a magical effect on her, whenever she began to worry, whenever she got scared, he always made her feel better.
"Just sit down to put me at ease, okay?" Ed said, holding her elbow, and guiding her to the bed. She sat down, and Ed began to dab away the surfacing blood. They both sat in silence, as Ed began to clense her cuts, then wrap them in bandages. Sei was so wrapped up in her thoughts, that she began mumbling her thoughts aloud.
"Oh, crap! I'm really stuck in poo poo, so what do I do do." Sei, paused thinking about she just said, unaware that it came out of her mouth. Wtf! Where did that come from? She thought blushing about her random stupidity, Ed was oblivious to what she just said.
(SD??? What's up with the random corny rhyming? StIP: Heheh, sorry, it just comes to me as I type :smiles stupidly:)
Sei bit her lip, thinking furiously. She wanted to ask Ed a bunch of questions regarding the homuculi, especially Envy. Hoping that Ed knew who Envy was, and maybe if she could tell him the truth about her origins, and that she wasn't really from this world, that where Sei really came from, Ed was really just a show in a anime. The moment that thought came into her head, she shoved it into the deeper recesses of her mind. It would be better if she tried not to push her luck, telling Ed that would probably be the beginning of her demise.
Ed looked at Sei intensely, trying to decipher what was running through her head. Something had to be on her mind for her to be this quiet. She really loved to talk, so whenever she grew quiet something was weighing on her mind. She took a deep breath breaking her gaze from the window and looking at Ed. "What time is it?" She asked a little breathless. Ed broke out into a smile, she looked so innocent and sweet.
"It's a quarter after eight." He said. She nodded biting her lip. Tomorrow they would be leaving on a train. She would be leaving Rae here, and it was unknown when she would run into her again. Sighing, she looked at her hands folded in her lap.
"Ed, would you please get Rae. I need to talk to her." Sei appeared distracted, and worried. Ed stood up, giving Sei a slightly sceptical look. Walking over to the door, he turned his head to take one last look at her. Shaking his head he opened the door.
"...Yeah, I'll be right back." He mumbled closing the door behind him. Sei turning her head to look beind her saw her coat hanging on the post of the bed. Grabbing it she began searching through all of her pockets, until she pulled out a hand sized notebook. Pulling out a pen, she began to scribble down notes. She bit her lip, and tapped her pen on her note book a few times, thinking of what to write next. Her thoughts were inturrupted as she heard a rap at the door. Looking up, she hollared. "Come in."
Rae walked through, giving Sei a strange look, Ed was right on her heels, peering over Rae's shoulder to make sure Sei handn't ran off for some stupid reason. "You called?" Rae said bowing with grand gestures. Sei smiled, and sat straighter, holding herself proud.
"Yes, I have some important buisness to discuss with thee." Sei said with a fake brittish accent, her nose slighty tilted up. Rae walked over to the bed, and sat herself comfortably, sitting cross-legged. Then she turned her head to Ed, giving him a impassive stare. Sei followed suit with Rae. Ed looked at them both, puzzelment crossing his face. Neither girl blinked.
"Fine, fine, I'm going!" Ed said throwing his arms in the air, and turning around walking out. The moment the door closed, Rae's head turned to Sei, just as Sei did with Rae. There faces beaming with delight.
"Remember when we did that to your grandma everytime she walked in your room." Sei said with a toothy grin. Rae smiled rolling her eyes, she also laughed lightly. The laughter faded from Sei's eyes, and she sighed. "You do realize what's going on, don't you?" She said, all mirth gone from her voice. "We were brought here for a reason... I had a dream-"
"What?" Rae said giving her best friend a slightly strange look, her voice mirrored Sei's feelings.
"Hear me out, I had a weird dream... But it wasn't a dream..." She said, thinking about what had happened. Shaking her head, she pushed her thoughts into a dark corner in her mind. "Well, what I'm getting at, is we were brought here to do something, and I've been thinking... What if more of our friends are here?" Rae looked at her friend, face calm, and unreadable. "What if we were brought here for some purpose that shouldn't be forfilled. I mean, look at us. We're fangirls for crying out loud. Not hero's. We're the people that watch shows like these, and write stupid fanfics about what we wish would happen."
(StIP::nods head: Yup, yup, so true. SD: -.- I prefer not to comment)
"So, are you telling me? That we shouldn't be here, and that we don't belong."
Sei nodded her head, her features set. "Exactly!" Her voice was convicting. "I know you haven't seen too many episodes of FullMetal Alchemist, but these events never happened in the show. I would know if some girl tagged along with Ed, especially since I'm a fangirl. We tend to know those things."
"Like how you hate Winry." Rae said smugly, remembering her friends many rants about how Winry should die (sorry Winry fans, I don't really think that :most of the time anyway: XP)
Sei glared, crossing her arms. "It's not like that. Why would I be jellous of her, she never hooks up with Ed."
"You jellous of a cartoon character."
"YUSUKE GETS WITH KEIKO IN THE END, AND KEIKO DOESN'T DIE!" Sei yelled with the purpose of ticking Rae off. Rae's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Stupid Keiko. Yusuke should've ended up with Kurama..." Rae trailed off, muttering.
Sei tilted her head in thought. "Really? I saw Hiei, and Yusuke hooking up, but then that's just me." The last part was directed towards Sei. Both friends sat in silence, both wrapped in their own thoughts. Looking up, Rae finally broke the silence.
"Wow, Sei's silent. It's a miracle." Sei looked up, and gave Rae a dark look.
"You've got a problem that. You know, I do like to think." Sei said with a chilly voice. Rae shrugged, then put her hands behind her head.
"Just not used to it, that's all." Rae said simply, neither implying being offened, or trying to offend. Sei gave Rae a frosty look, then sighed standing up, and walking over to the window.
"Tomorrow, Ed, Al, and I are leaving. I'm asking now, do you want to come with us? I don't know what's ahead of us, but I feel that if I do nothing, I'll go crazy. I know you're not into the 'always on the run' but, I guess it would be nice to have someone that I know, and knows me, to travel with, and to talk too..." Sei trailed off, looking out into the sky. The colors of the setting sun, was mingling with the oncomming night. Orange, red, pink, purple, blue, and black, with little specks of stars scattered among the vast sky. Her eyes danced across the sky, taking in the beauty, calming her thoughts. Rae looked at her friend ruefully, then leaned back on her hands, staring at the wooden ceiling.
"Sorry Rae, forget I asked. That's such a selfish thing of me to ask. Do what you want, don't let my pleas pull your decisions in unwanted directions." Sei said, looking at down into the city. The street lights were comming on, illuminating the street. The earlier hustle of people was now dwindled to few random people, moving cautiously. Most likely thugs, and cutpurses.
"I don't care, if you want me to come, then I will." Rae said indifferently. Sei turned to her friend, her face set in determination.
"Don't give me the 'I'll do whatever you want' thing. I want to hear what you want!" Sei said planting herself firmly, hand on her hips, and her voice firm.
Rae smiled, "Sei, I want whatever you want. I don't care." Rae said standing up her full height of five foot ten inches, holding her self with ease. Sei held herself as if she was taller, her nose slightly in the air in a arrogent manner.
"Don't play this game with me, I'm not in the mood to play your silly mind games. For once, tell me what you want to do." Sei's eyes were narrow slits now, and her voice was a deadly calm. Her hands were clenched tightly into fist, and her breathing was focused, even, and forced. Rae was the complete opposite. She stood there naturally, as if nothing of importance were going on. Her hands rested by her sides, and she had an air of ease around her. She breathed easily. The tension in the room was building fast.
Ed sat in the common room, next to a wall. He was leaning over the table, staring intensly at nothing.
"Brother, do you really think you should be listening in on Sei's and Rae's conversation. I mean that is why the chased you out of there." Al said, hoping his brother would listen to sense, although he knew the effort was futile. "Ed, I'm seri-"
"Al hush, something is about to happen." Ed said, excitement filling his voice. "I can feel it." He had a huge grin on his face, unaware of what really was going on. He was leaning over the table, next to a little contraption that bared a slight resemblence to the blonde alchemist and it extened out of the wall. The voices coming of it were the familiar voices of the two aurguing friends, which were loud enough to seem like they were sitting right next to you talking, instead of a few rooms away, and upstairs.
"Sei, give it up. I really really don't care." Rae's voice echoed out of the contraption. She sounded laid back, and laughed slightly at her friends stubborness. The silence streched, and it got eerily quiet. Ed leaned his head closer to the contraption he had made. Wondering if the girls noticed it, and had quit talking, or it if had quit working altogether.
A piercing scream of anger, and fustration filled the inn's main room. Ed jumped away holding his ear, and rocking back and forth in agony. Several people jumped up alarmed, and Al quickly ripped out the contraption, ending it's agonzing scream.
But it didn't stop. Sei's voice echoed through out the entire in by itself. The scream was only lessened by a little. Finally the scream stopped, and a few seconds, Sei came stomping down the stairs, her eyes dark, and panting. She stormed right by Ed and Al without so much giving them a look of recongnition. Her eyes gleamed murder, and she was shaking visibly with anger. Rae emerged from the room only a few seconds later, seeming unfazed by what happened, rubbing her ear looking slightly pained. She watched Sei stomp to the entry of the inn.
"CHICKSHO, GESO BAKA ONNA!" Sei turned to point a finger at Rae accusingly, then storm out of the inn without looking back. Her hair swayed angrily, as she faded into the darkness. Rae walked calmly to where Ed and Al sat, then took a seat.
Rae grunted sitting down. Then she looked at the table in front of her. Grabbing a corn-muffin sitting in front of her, she took a bite. Ed was still rocking back and forth in agony, holding his right ear. Al looked at Rae, then at the door, and back at Rae.
"What happened? What did you do to tick Sei off?" Rae opened her mouth, then closed it.
She looked down in deep thought, then looked back up. "I don't know." She said finally nodding her head in confirmation. Al shiffted uncomfortably.
"Are you sure." He asked, his gentle voice inquiring. Rae shrugged.
"I guess she's mad because I wouldn't give her a direct answer..." Rae said finally, then took another bite of the corn-muffin. "I think somebody should get her before she gets mugged and raped. This town isn't really the best place for a stroll out in the middle of the night." Rae said calmly munching on her muffin. Ed bolted up, then leaned over to Rae.
"WHAT'DA YA MEAN MUGGED AND RAPED?" Ed yelled, his face dark, and impatient.
end chapter nine
StIP: I think this is a good place to end it :grins: Oh, and I made it long to make up for me not updating soon!
SD: Man! You're cruel
Ed: Hey! Maybe if she's cruel to the readers then they won't review, and you'll have no use for me.
StIP: Hn, whatever, I don't need you. I got Al :hugs Al:
Al: .:blushes:.
StIP: So cute!
Ed: Get off him :attacks, Sparky crawls out, and avoids a narrow escape (es-cahp-eh)
StIP: OH! -.- Gomen-sai, well sorry it took me so long to update... gah! Bloody writers block. Well anyways I hope you enjoyed the story so far, I have so much planned for it. Oh! and for you Ed loving fans I have wonderful news. If your in for something intersting, my story indelible sin, which is on my quizilla site is for any of you into rp's. I made it for you girls in mind. It's under my adriftsoul name though, so don't go under invisibleguy! Well anyways' thanks a bunch for reading up to this point
SD: ... uh.. yeah...
StIP: OH! and sorry for talking so much, but I must say. Never had I had so many reviews o.O I LOVE IT! I really didn't think this story would fly with you guys, but you proved me wrong, and I'm glad. Over 50 reviews, and over half death threats! It's AWESOME! (to think, I'm cheering on death threats -.-) Well, please do review, and I will try to update as fast as I can, oh I hope it is fast though! I will try, but I do have a lot going on right now (like homework, B.H is EVIL...:algebra 2 teacher: I'm not lying either. Everyday he tells us he hates us...) Well, once again read and review.
Al: Yes, please do :bows politely:
StIP: SO CUTE::glomps: