Chapter 6: Battle Royal

Nikooru sat up in her bed. She had ended up falling asleep in the same outfit she had worn the night before so she decided to change into her normal clothes before leaving her room. Edward was luckily passed out on the couch but, Al on the other hand perked his head as soon as he heard her door open.

"Hello Nikooru so how was it?" Al asked.

"Oh it was fun," Nikooru said with a tired look on her face, she was still waking up.

"What happened? I mean was it really okay going out with Havoc?" Al asked.

"We went to dinner then the movies then back here that's all," She said while making her way to a cabinet where her breakfast awaited her.

"Oh," Al said while slowly standing up trying not to make to much noise.

Nikooru sat at the table quietly eating her breakfast while Al sat across from her watching her. It made Nikooru feel a bit strange with Al just sitting there, and looking at her in silence. After breakfast Nikooru jumped in the shower, this is when Edward woke up. For a second Edward appeared to have forgotten about Nikooru's date last night but, after sitting up for a minute he finally remembered.

"Al has is she up yet?" Ed turned to Al with wide eyes.

"Yeah she is taking a shower right now," Al said pointing towards the bathroom.

"Have you talked to her yet? What did she say? You have to tell me." Edward said frantically jumping up from his postion on the couch, making his way towards Al.

"Calm down brother she just said it was fun okay nothing more," Al answered him.

"FUN…, what could have been so fun? How could she have fun with him?" Ed asked.

"I don't know brother calm down it was just a date. One little date."

Ed sighed, "Yeah I guess you are right."

An evil grin appeared across Ed's face he then jumped out of his chair making his way towards the door, "I am going to work early Al okay," He said turning to Al with that evil grin of his still on his face. "Wait brother." But, it was already too late Ed had already shut the door. Al sighed from where he was sitting what was his brother up to.

After Nikooru was dressed again in her military uniform, she walked out to find Ed gone. "Hey Al where's Ed?" "He went to work early today strangely," Al said. "Oh," Nikooru looked at the door wondering why. "Well I guess we should get going… It looks like you'll be going into Eastern Headquarters again today." Al said making his way to the door. "Yep," Nikooru replied. They both then made their way towards Eastern Headquarters. Nikooru noticed Al was being quieter than normally as they walked. It sort of made her sad.

Havoc walked fast with a big grin on his face making his way towards where Roy and the others were. He couldn't wait to talk about his date with Nikooru. He had tried to call them when he got home from the date but, no one would pick up their phones. Havoc pushed open the door to Roy's office, "Roy," his voice rang out pitched way, "Have I got some news for you."

"What is it Havoc," Roy said giving Havoc a weird look. "You're pretty cheery this morning." Breda added in. "Yeah it is creepy," Roy said giving Havoc the same weird look.

"I just had the best date ever with a cute girl named Nikooru," Havoc's grin getting even bigger if that is possible.

"You got a date with a cute girl," Roy said pointing at Havoc, "That sure is a change now isn't it. So how was it?"

"It was great she was so cute a little black slender dress…," Havoc said clasping his hands together. This is when Edward appeared in the door way his attention obviously focused on Havoc. Roy raised an eyebrow when he noticed Ed looking at Havoc in such a grumpy way.

"What is it Fullmetal?" Roy asked.

"……." Ed didn't even notice that Roy had said anything to him until he realized everyone in the office was looking at him except for Havoc who was also oblivious to what Roy had asked. "Huh?" Ed said looking at everyone until his eyes met with Roy's.

"Well Fullmetal what is wrong with you?" Roy asked raising another eyebrow.

Ed's eyes moved to Havoc, who during all this was still talking about his date with Nikooru. "Ummmm… Are you sure you don't know anything about Marcoh?" He said moving his eyes to meet with Roy's now.

"Nope nothing at all." Roy said with this Ed turned around to make his way out of Roy's office. "Wait Fullmetal don't you want to stay, and hear more about Havoc's date?" Roy called out. This stopped Ed in his tracks for a few moments then he proceeded to quicken his haste out of Roy's office.

"Wonder what was wrong with him," Roy asked turning towards Hawkeye who just shrugged out his question how would she know.

"So that's how it ended up me kissing her at the end of the night. It was great." Havoc said spinning around.

Ed obviously wasn't to far from Roy's office in fact he was standing right outside the door listening to Havoc talk about his date apparently he was the only one that had been. Everyone tuned back in to hear Havoc to hear his say that he ended up kissing the girl they all were a bit shocked, Ed too. Ed clenched his fists at hearing this he felt like going back in there, and knocking Havoc's lights out. Ed thought no I won't do that it isn't like Nikooru is my girlfriend, just a friend who is a girl.

Nikooru and Al both were walking through the hallways of Eastern Headquarters in search of Ed. While they searched they ran into Hawkeye and Roy.

"Hello Al," Hawkeye said.

"Have you seen my brother any chance?" Al asked while Nikooru hid behind Al's armor.

"No but, he was acting pretty weird… He didn't seem to like the fact that Havoc had went out with some girl last night," Roy said. Roy's last sentence caught the attention of Havoc who was walking down a hallway above Roy. Havoc quickly ran down the stairs tripping down the last 5 stairs. He quickly brushed himself off, and ran towards where Roy was.

"Speaking of Havoc there he is, ahhahah," Roy laughed as he saw Havoc making a mad dash down the hallway coming to a screeching stop beside Al. Havoc looked back behind Al to see Nikooru. Havoc grabbed Nikooru's wrist, and pulled her out from behind Al.

"This is the cute girl I was talking about. This is Nikooru." Havoc said introducing Nikooru to Roy and Hawkeye. They were both a bit surprised to see the cute girl was cute and in the military.

"Don't see too many females in the military these days so what do you do?" Roy asked.

What should I say? Nikooru thought. "I'm a ummm.. I'm a sergeant."

"Oh yes so who's your commanding officer?" Roy asked.

So many questions, Nikooru turned towards Al. "What should I say?" was the look she implied towards Al.

"Basque Gran," Nikooru remembered the name from her past somehow.

"Oh you work for him I'm sorry now if you worked for me…" Roy's words cut off by Hawkeye's cold stare which was upon him.

"I don't really see him too much though… I try and work around him." Nikooru replied.

The conversation floated on for about 25 minutes before Al said "C'mon we have to go look for my brother."

"Oh yeah," Nikooru said she had almost forgotten. She hugged Havoc kicking popping her right ankle up to show her cuteness. It was fun showing cuteness, and she loved showing towards Havoc. She thought Havoc himself was cute. As Nikooru started to walk off Havoc grabbed her wrist swung, her back into his arms, and kissed Nikooru.

Nikooru felt sad again as she continued to walk down the hallway with Al. She knew she couldn't stay here with Havoc long. They eventually did find Ed in the library where Hughes was informing him that his evaluation to stay a state alchemist was coming up. Ed gave an evil grin he had a good idea.

"An alchemy battle royal" Nikooru laughed that sure will be interesting.

"Ed are you sure about this," Al asked his brother with concern.

"Yeah this way we can get more info about Marcoh, and give the kitty you found a home," Ed said.

"Oh yeah I hadn't thought about that," Al said while a meow sound came from his armor.

Nikooru, Al, and Havoc stood by each other on the sides of the grounds in which Roy and Ed were going to fight.

Hughes walked out to announce the beginning of the fight. First, he began to talk about his daughter Elicia who turned 3 this year before he revealed a huge billboard picture of his daughter. Then everyone began to throw stuff at him even Nikooru and Havoc joined in on it. The billboard then tumbled down on top of Hughes causing everyone in the around to start laughing. Hughes reappeared a few minutes later with bandages on him.

"Ready …Start… Go," Hughes took off running to get out of Roy's way who snapped his fingers creating flames in the air.

The fight started and ended pretty fast with quite a few casualties. Roy had sent his flames out into the crowd in hopes of getting Ed. Roy had went a bit overboard torching half the crowd. Al, Nikooru, and Havoc sighed in relief that they weren't the half of the crowd that had been torched. The Fuehrer had stopped the fight just before Ed could win it. Roy and Ed had to clean up the entire mess they had made in their fight. Roy told Ed about Marcoh which became Ed, and Al's next destination.

Nikooru headed off with Havoc somewhere to say her goodbye to him. Like the night before they ended up making out for like 10 minutes before Nikooru headed back to the hotel leaving Havoc wanting more. Nikooru hoped this wasn't the end but, she had told Havoc they couldn't go out anymore. She told him that she wanted him to find some one else that would love him. She didn't want him to wait around for her.

I do intend to spiral away from the tv series eventually for a bit.