Al's-best-friend: My mom's birthday was this week so I'm dedicating this chapter to her!
Disclaimer: I no own you no sue?
Winry dropped the bag with a loud 'thump' after dragging it up seven sets of stairs. "Stupid elevator just had to break down!" After kicking her bag a couple of times to make her self feel better she sat down upon it. "This better be the right hotel Terri." Her voice was stiff and cranky.
Terri grunted and simply dropped his suitcase of the ground, not caring if he broke anything. "I doubt any other hotel has guests described as a 'preteen in red clothing' and a 'giant, armored man'."
Winry would have laughed at the fact that Ed actually did look like a preteen if she had the energy to do so. After looking around five hotels and dragging all her junk around all she could think about was taking her anger out on somebody. She looked at Terri but shrugged. If she attacked him they would both probably be knocked out from lack of strength.
A young couple passed them while merrily chatting. They were holding hands and the woman was laughing. Winry suppressed a scream, making it sound like she was growling at them as they passed. They looked at her with shocked faces and walked faster lowering there voices and giving her scared looks. The woman turned at her and huffed, "Why I never-" She was cut off when Winry threw her tool kit at her. Luckily Winry was tired and the tool kit was heavy or it might have hit the woman.
Terri half way laughed glad to find something other to think about that his sore body. He looked at Winry who was glaring at the tool kit that had missed the young woman. Terri was some what reminded of a guard dog. Don't they growl at and attack innocent people? Yep. World, meet the newest, fiercest guard dog of them all: Winry!
"I think this might be their room." Terri said while the tired mechanic picked up her dented tool kit, "Didn't the guy at the front desk say their room number was eighty five?
"Finally!" Winry yelled finding the strength to shove past Terri and open the door that was, luckily, unlocked.
Terri opened his jacket and pried the sleeping cat out of his biggest pockets. The cat dug her claws into it, refusing to leave. Terri, who couldn't technically feel the ground beneath his feet, stumbled.
"Stupid cat! Don't you want to see your master?"
The cat finally let go of Terri's precious jacket and ran inside the room, happy about something. A loud bang and screech of "Kitty!" was heard and a lot of shouting soon followed.
"Then WHAT is that?"
Terri recognized Edward's voice at once and so did Winry. She huffed, feeling ticked off at him for what ever reason. Terri leaned in the doorway and saw poor Alphonse of the ground and Marla hauling her off of him. Marla! Terri's heart missed a beat. She's here, she's safe! After making his presence known by apologizing to the youngest Elric brother he ran up to her and gave her the tightest hug he could manage.
"You idiot!"
Marla flinched but returned the hug and buried her head in his chest.
"Do you know how much I worried about you?" His voice lowered as he dropped slowly to the ground, unable to hold himself up, bringing Marla with him. "I thought you were dead or worse." He tightened his hold on her, "Don't you ever do that to me again. Don't leave me."
Marla was clinging on to him, "I'm sorry, so sorry. But Terri, I had to, I just had to. I need to see Anna! I just have to."
The touching moment was interrupted by Winry's favorite tool kit coming down roughly upon Ed's head.
"Ouch, that hurt you-" Ed stopped complaining when he saw the look she was giving him. Her eyes were full of rage and tears.
"Why didn't you tell me about this?"
"What?"
Winry shoved past him and hugged Marla who was just getting off of the floor.
"I had no idea what you are your brother were going through," Winry was squeezing Marla hard, "I wish you would have told me! I could have helped."
"It's okay Winry," Marla was smiling slightly.
Ed, on the other hand, snorted, "I don't know of any way you could have helped."
Winry stopped hugging Marla and turned to look at him, "I could have taken her here myself instead of her sneaking around inside Alphonse! No offence Al."
"None taken."
"She hid inside Al? How the heck did she do that?"
"Umm, brother, they tried the same thing." Marla answered.
"Huh?"
Marla sighed and pointed at her metal arm.
"Oh, sorry," Terri looked startled and shocked, wishing he had misheard. He turned to the elder Elric and said with some interest, "I have some questions I'm hoping you'll answer Edward."
I leaned my back against the wall, my knees wobbling slightly. I blinked, my eyes going dull from being up so late. I ducked as he aimed another punch at me and smirked as he cursed for missing. I turned around and ducked lower, almost doing a split, as he aimed a punch for my stomach. He was slightly off balance and I used it as an advantage. I shoved my legs under his and pulled, bringing his legs down. He turned his body in mid air landing on his hands and flipping a few times to get distance from me. Running forward I side stepped him and threw my arms around the back of his neck. He turned sharply, causing me to tighten my hold. Cursing he ran into the wall backwards. I was squished. He moved forward ready to ram me into the wall again. I turned my body slightly to the left then on top of his.
We landed on the floor, rolling. I came up on top, ready to attack. I twisted my left hand in his long hair and tightened my right hand on his neck. His hand was literally shoved through my shoulder, causing it to bleed. His other hand was pinned under him. Our faces were inches away from each other. My scowl tightened on my face as I pushed him away and getting up with one movement.
"There, I won."
He sneered, "Barley."
I shuck my hair out of my eyes and grinned slightly, "Now, can I go to bed?"
"You're bleeding." He said, ignoring me.
I looked at my shoulder and winced. It looked like a dog had bitten a big chunk of my flesh out. Envy walked up to me and grabbed my arm, forcing me to move to the side and let him have a better look at my wound. I hissed feeling pain shoot up into my arm and through out my shoulder.
"That hurt you insensitive jerk!" I yelled, no longer feeling tired.
He ignored me and walked out of the small living room and into the hallway. I heard him move through the thin, old walls. I sighed and sat down of the cheap, torn up carpet. How he ever found this old, abandoned house, I would never know.
I looked down at the bloody thing that I used to identify as my shoulder. Even though it was healing a lot quicker than most humans would ever be able to it still hurt. At least the blood stopped flowing so fast.
"Here."
I jumped; startled that Envy had come back. In his hand was a roll of bandages.
"Roll your sleeve up." He demanded.
"Sheesh, you sure are bossy." I muttered but did what he said anyway.
He knelt in front of me with a look of concentration and rolled the bandage around and around my injured area. The blood was leaving a stain all over it.
"You have to pull tighter."
He nodded and pulled.
The room spun. My head felt like an elephant had come through the living room and thought it would be fun to stampede all over it. I fell on the floor.
"Ow."
"Okay, now you can go back to bed."
I looked over at him and glared as I felt my temper rise, "First, you drag me out of bed saying you MUST have a sparring partner. Then, you put a freaking HOLE through MY ARM! You at least have the decency to bandage it but then you HURT ME and IGNORE ME!" My head began spinning again so I lowered myself to the floor, "You jerk."
Wrath turned and looked at Lust from the corner of his eye. "They're fighting again" He whispered in a sing-song voice.
"It's good for them. They get stronger together and I think that they are starting to get along."
"What!" Wrath yelled as loud as he dared so he wouldn't get caught eavesdropping.
"He helped fix her injury." Lust said simply.
"Oh."
BANG!
THUD!
BANG!
Wrath sighed, "Lust, will they ever stop fighting?"
Lust just shook her head causing her long, black hair to swing.
"YOU JERK, GIVE ME THAT BACK!"
"IN YOUR DREAMS!"
"OUCH! THAT WAS MY FACE!"
BANG!
Al's-best-friend: Okay, I stayed up 'till one o'clock to write this. I KNOW some characters are not acting normally, I KNOW my chapters are so short, and I KNOW this chapter was useless! But I promise the next chapter will be VERY exciting and it WILL have cliffhangers. –huff-
Terri: Do NOT mess with her when she's cranky.
Marla: -eating a cookie- Okay, I am Al's-b-f's new 'minion' so press that review button! Come on, don't be shy! –continues eating cookie-