Thank you hanjuuluver for the review! Glad ta know someone understands n.n, and since you're the first and well…only one to review to chapter two, you get a cookie! (Gives hanjuuluver a cookie).
Disclaimer: Don't own it…but such is the cruel world…
One last note, I've made up my mind, this'll be a RoyxEd story with just a hint of Envyness (as in he'll be a skoch suggestive…nothing more, nothing less). (Sigh) if ya can't beat'm join'm (hearts Roy/Envy/Heiderich/LingxEd…don't as on the Ling one, I saw it somewhere and was like…whoa…but yeah…). I'm not gonna get into my reasonings for liking it…that'd take too long…
Enjoy!
It was about five in the morning when Edward returned to his dorm, he slowly opened and closed the door and walked into the kitchen. He walked around, Al must still be out, sighing he walked over to the sink and took out a wash cloth and ran it under the lukewarm water coming out of the foist. Walking into the front room and sitting down on the couch, Ed placed the wash cloth over his eyes' and leaned back, he sighed again.
A moment later he took out a file folder he had tucked away, flipping it open, Edward started reading it. It was a report on the disappearances of different people, some of them where alchemists, others just random people. He pondered for a moment what they had in common, it was staring him right in the face but he was feeling tired and his mind was still buzzing from last night…or this morning…well that was over with and he needed to rest.
Setting the papers down on the couch and getting up, Ed went back to the kitchen and turned the foist back on. He ran the wash cloth under the lukewarm stream and got it wet again, then wringing it out he walked back to the couch and flopped down placing the wash cloth on his face. Placing his hands behind his head, Edward laid back and drifted off into a dreamless slumber, he was so deep in sleep he didn't hear Al walk in.
Alphonse paused when he saw his brother lying on the couch, with his hair loose and one arm over his face, Al sighed and walked over. Crouching down, Al gently picked up his older brother and carried him to his room, gently setting his brother down on his bed. Al returned to the front room and picked up the papers lying on the couch, he glanced down at one,
"Ah…so this is the report he went to get. I guess he knows about the vanishings." Al straightened up the papers and put them back in the file, he set the file on the kitchen table. He then started to wonder what it was his brother had to do for this, Alphonse picked up the wash cloth his brother had over his face, it had fallen off when he picked him up. Bringing it over to the sink,
"Brother…what have you been doing?"
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Five hours later, Ed walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. He picked up the report and started reading it some more, it went on about disappearances and how some of the disappearees have been fairly decent alchemists. Edward sighed, he had a very sinking feeling he knew what this all was about and if his suspicion was correct he had two choices. One being to let it take place and get the Philosophers' Stone and two, he could try and stop it from happening, which would lead to having to find another way.
Seeing how he'd never live with himself if he went with the first, Ed decided to go with the second. He wouldn't inform the military or the colonel about what he was gonna do, Ed got up just as Alphonse walked in,
"Brother, when did you get up?"
"Just a few minutes ago," Ed replied, "We're going to investigate this."
"Huh?"
"These vanishings, we're going to investigate them." Edward repeated.
"Oh right! Where do we start?"
"It says here that nobody knows where the people are taken, they may not even be in Central anymore. Best guess would be to search the usual spots, back alleys and abandoned buildings."
"Right!" Al nodded, "Um…brother, why won't you tell me about last night?"
Ed looked up at his little brother with a blank expression; he then sighed and shrugged his shoulders,
"What's done is done Al, now come on, we've got a lot of searching to do." He started for the door but Al grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Come on Ed, you can tell me," Al persisted, "Listen, if the colonel gave you another 'pointless' mission then I under…"
"That wasn't it," Ed interrupted, "Now lets go, we're wasting time." He stormed out of the dorm in a huff; Al heaved a big sigh and followed his brother.
Down on the main street Al walked up behind his brother, as much as he wanted to figure what was up with his brother he knew to push too hard would mean aggravating him even more. They came to a stop near an alley,
"Let's' start here." Ed said, he started down the alley without hesitation, he paused when he came to a perpendicular alley, he looked both ways and sighed, "Well, are ya comin' Al?"
"Coming!" Al rushed forward just as his brother made a left turn down the perpendicular alley slipping out of sight, "Hey wait a minute!" Al came around the corner and paused, his brother was nowhere in sight. Al looked around, "Brother?"
"Hey! Get back here!"
"Huh?" Al spun around, "That came from the other direction." He started running in the opposite direction, that was definitely his brothers' voice he heard.
"I said stop!" Ed was sprinting darn near full speed after a cloaked figure, "Hey!" the cloaked figure turned a corner, Edward turned the same corner and stopped, it was a dead end, "Huh?"
The cloaked figure had turned around so they were facing each other; Edward glared and asked,
"Are you the one responsible for all the disappearances?"
"Tsk." The cloaked figure took a small step back.
"Answer!"
"Isn't it obvious…FullMetal?"
"That…voice…" Ed took a step back as well, "Show yourself!"
"I was planning on it FullMetal Pipsqueak," he lowered his hood to revel the blackish green haired sin, Envy, "Lets make this simple, you are to come with me the easy way or the really easy way."
"What?" Edward glared, "Oh…I see…"
"Heh," Envy smirked, "Come on…" he charged at the elder Elric and threw one of his deadly round house kicks. Ed dodged it and threw a roundhouse of his own nearly catching the sin off guard, but not nearly long enough, Envy caught Eds' leg and threw him against the alley wall.
"Hng!" Ed slid down the wall, the wind knocked out of him. Envy smirked and walked over to him.
"Awh…did that hurt FullMetal?" Dropping down so he was kneeling in front of him Envy continued to smirk, "Now, you're going to come with me, without a fuss."
"D…damn you…"
"So, you're gonna be difficult," Envy grabbed the front of Eds' shirt and picked him up, he then slammed him back into the wall, "You're lucky you're needed…otherwise I'd kill you. But how about this, I just beat the crap out of you until you decide to cooperate."
"Tsk…like hell…I know what you're up too and you won't get away with it." Ed tried to lash out but Envy caught his attack and stepped back dragged Ed with him, he kneed Ed right in the gut. The blonde dropped like a rock gasping,
"Don't kid yourself," Envy picked him up again and slammed him into the wall, "You can't win against me."
Ed just smirked back and replied,
"You think so?" he then clapped his hands and went to transmute his automail, Envy quickly let go and dodged his attack. Using his agility, the sin dodged again but instead of backing away Envy lunged forward and punched Edward in the face, while he was distracted Envy spun around and threw a sidekick.
Once again Ed was thrown against the wall, he was slouched over on the ground gasping for air, he couldn't place it, why was he moving so slow? Ed looked up at the smirking sin and glared, normally he'd be able to stand his own, at least longer then he had. Where was Al anyway?
Envy crouched down again so that he was face to face, this time though instead of continuing to beat him up, Envy got real close. Ed involuntarily flinched as the sin placed his hands on the wall just behind him, a very sinister grin spreading across his face. Envy then played with his bangs,
"You're coming with me…FullMetal Runt," He then pulled the elder Elric up by the hair and punched him until he lost consciousness, " Stubborn brat…"
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Alphonse came to a halt after running for a good five minutes; he hadn't come across his brother since he heard his voice yelling. Looking around franticly Al tried calling him,
"Brother! Where are you!" he looked around once again then started running down the alley again. Something didn't feel right, why was it so quite all of a sudden? Why couldn't he find his brother? Then it hit him; Al stopped as the full weight of what was going on fell on him,
"No…it can't be…" Spinning around Al made a mad dash back to Central Headquarters, he had to tell the colonel about this…he had to tell someone. When he reached HQ and ran all the way up to Colonel Mustangs' office, he paused just outside the door; a thought crossed his mind. Would the colonel tell him what he had Ed do for the file? Shaking his head, Al knocked franticly on the door.
"Come in."
Alphonse opened the door and ran in, Colonel Mustang was sitting at his desk looking over some paperwork, which he was overall going to neglect in the next day or two. The colonel looked up and tilted his head questioningly,
"Alphonse? What are you doing here?" he asked, "Where's FullMetal?"
"E…Ed…he disappeared." Al said sounding very upset.
"What?" Roy jumped up from his chair, "When did this happen?"
"We were investigating the disappearances, and we went looking in the back allies when we got separated…I heard him yelling so I followed his voice but I never found him." Al explained.
"Are you sure he's disappeared?" Roy asked.
"Yes…there was no trace of him or the hooded figure we spotted before we got separated." Al nodded. Roy frowned, he walked out from behind his desk and made his way over to where Al was standing.
"Don't worry Alphonse, I'll see to it that he's found." Roy said with a tone of reassurance. Alphonse nodded; he then looked at the colonel and asked,
"Um…colonel…what was it you wanted Ed to do for the report?"
Roy raised an eyebrow at Als' question, he sighed and gave Al a pat on the shoulder, he had a faint smirk on his face as he relied,
"Alphonse…I think you're old enough to know what's going on." Roy gestured for Al to sit down, which he obliged, "I'll tell you, and I'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not to tell Edward you know this or not."
"What do you mean?" Al asked.
-To Be Continued-
Whee! Ed and Envy fight! I am totally zoned out…stayed up till 3:44 in the morning watching Rurouni Kenshin and typing up this chapter. I'm probably going to stay up longer but man…I'm gonna be funky later on…as in not quite with it, glad I don't have ta work till Sunday. Well, there's chapter three, review! I like reviews…reviews are what keeps me goin'. That and ya may get a cookie!