Ch. 4: the party

Once Al, Winry, and Aunt Pinako came back from grocery shopping, the party area was all set up and it was dinner time, so Robert left and the Rockbells and Elrics ate, talking about what the party would be like. After eating, everybody went to bed early to wake up early the next day also and make sure that everything was perfect for the party that night.

With everything ready, all the food cooked, and all the lights lit, the party was ready by the time the guests came that night; Most of the people that were there were either old friends of Ed or had moved in while Ed and Al were on their journey of the Philosopher's Stone. As the girls started to come in, half of the invited guests paid their attention to Ed and the other half to Robert. That night, Robert was wearing a white dress shirt with stunning black dress pants while Ed was wearing his regular clothes. Unfortunatley, he didn't know that Winry was gonna have a party beforehand, so the only thing he had to wear was either his regular clothes or a suit that used to belong to Winry's father, which were EXTRA baggy on Ed.

"So you're Edward Elric, right?" One of the girls asked. "I don't remember you being so handsome."

"Um, thanks?" Ed answered while rushing over to one of Winry'sfriends who were with her not too long ago in the house. "Do you guys know where Winry is?"

"Winry's just getting her party outfit on," one of the girls said. "There she is!"

When everybody turned around, they saw Winry and gaped in amazement. Winry was wearing a pearl white and sparkling pink medium cut dress with a pink butterfly pin in her hair with her hair being down. "What do you guys think?" Winry asked everybody.

"You look great, Winry!" All of the girls cried while rushing to Winry's side.

"Thanks, you guys," Winry thanked, then turning to Ed. "What do you think about my dress, Ed?"

"Y-Y-Y-You l-l-look great!" Ed stuttered, amazed at how beautiful Winry looked. "You look awesome, Winry."

"Thanks, Ed," Winry thanked while blushing a bit.

Once Winry was there, the party started getting started. Everybody was doing little games that were set up, like bobbing for apples and other games. Towards the end of the party, Robert approached Winry. "You look beautiful, Winry," Robert said while taking Winry's hand and kissing it. "Absolutely exquisite. In honor of your birthday, I have a present for you."

"What is it?" All of the girls asked.

"It's a performance," Robert said while pulling a chair in the middle of the party zone, making sure that he was nowhere near the ridge. "Please sit in the chair, my dear."

Once Winry was sitting in the chair,Robert drew something on different pieces of paper from his pocket with a writing utensil and then took off his dress coat. "Ladies and gentlemen," Robert began. "May I present to you…Winry's birthday performance!"

At that moment,Robert started throwing all of the pieces of paper in the air, causing fireworks to burst out from the paper. Robert's performance was really cool, but instead of finishing off the performance, he pulled out a giant piece of paper that had a giant transmutation circle on it, and threw it in the air, causing a giant firework to burst out from the paper. Unfortunately, the leftovers from the giant firework looked more like flaming balls as they were coming down and were heading straight for Winry. "Those balls of fire better be gone before they get near Winry, Robert!" Ed shouted.

"This is bad!"Robert shouted. "I guess I put too much energy into the transmutation! Those are real balls of fire!"

"Winry!" Ed cried while running towards Winry at full speed, before the balls of fire could come down on Winry, Ed clapped his hands and transmutated his auto-mail arm into a giant umbrella and covered him and Winry from the flaming fireballs. Once the fireballs were gone, giant burning circles were implanted on the ground around Ed and Winry. "You bastard!" Ed shouted. "What the hell were you thinking! You could've killed Winry!"

"I'm sorry that I almost killed Winry, but those fireballs were meant to go to you, Edward,"Robert said. "You said it yourself this afternoon. I was your rival and in order for me to win this little battle, I had to annihilate my opponent."

"Ed! Robert! Stop!" Winry cried. "I'm alright!"

"I can't do that, Winry," Ed called. "This insane freakalmost killed you and he can't be forgiven."

"Ed…"

"You sound so noble, Elric,"Robert said while pulling out dozens of papers with transmutation circles. "Now die!"

At that moment,Robert started attacking Ed with giant fireballs, but Ed dodged each one. Unfortunately, all of the fireballs thatRobert was shooting were attacking everything that it touched and while Ed andRobert were fighting, one of the fireballs spotted Winry and started chasing after her. Before the fireball could hit Winry, Ed used his transmutated umbrella-arm to block the fireball, but accidentally pushed Winry and himself into the rushing river near the cliff that the party was. After that, everything turned black for Ed for a few seconds, but when he came to, he found himself still being thrown around down the river with Winry right in front of him, trying to swim. "Winry!" At that moment, Ed started swimming towards Winry, held onto her, took the pin from Winry's hair, and transmutated the pin into a very long staff, long enough for Ed and Winry to be above the river and fell over onto land. "Cough Cough. Are you okay, Winry?" Ed asked while coughing up water.

"I'm fine," Winry said while squeezing the water from her hair, but shivering. "But I'm really cold."

"I have it under control," Ed said while gathering the sticks around them. "You stay here, okay? I'm gonna go in the forest and find some more sticks to burn."

Yay! Fourth chapter done! Who wants to go on a hunt to find Robert? lol. jk. Well, u kno the drill. R&R n i'll give u the fifth chapter. Keep readin, folks!