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January 5th...
"Come on! Please? It was your idea anyway!"
"No! What if I embar--"
"Let's go!"
Ed grabbed Ruri's arm and dragged her halfway across campus until they reached the lunchroom lobby. Flinging the door open, he walked inside and let go, reading the list posted on the wall. He marked Ruri's name under "#7" and his own under "#13". He turned and smirked. "I signed it in pen, so you can't erase! HAH!"
She growled. From behind them came a female voice of an adult.
"Good. We now have two hundred participants. We may continue."Ed and Ruri whipped around to see First Lt. Riza Hawkeye. Even though Ed was shocked to see her on their mission, he still saluted. Ruri didn't, brcause Riza wasn't wearing her military uniform, so she had no idea who she was dealing with. "I will be the host of the tournament. He..." she jestured toward the door, "will be a judge."
A man walked in. He was tall and had white gloves. Jet black hair, and a smirk. Now who does that remind you of?
"Colonel Mustang!" Ruri saluted this time, too, because she knew he was military personel. "What are you doing here?"
"Like Hawkeye said, I will be judging. Good luck."
Riza reached into her pocket and withdrew a small device. Pushing a button, she spoke into it with a loud voice. "All participants of the alchemy competition, please come the the lunchroom lobby. I repeat..." Her voice rang out loud and clear throughout the grounds, signaling for the students to come for instructions.
A few minutes later, there were 200 people in the lunchroom lobby.
"Alright," Roy said calmly, "Here's what you have to do..."
January sixth, 10:00 am...
Ruri sat nearvously, twiddling her thumbs. It was her turn next, for part one. She was battling Ben. Ed had already fought Courtney, and beat her easily. But he was still in the recovery ward, having his right leg stabbed by a dagger. He was very lucky it missed all serious tendons.
A cheer went up from the crowd. A scream from a student, gasps whispering over the audience. A whistle, clapping, laughing, and she could softly hear "Good fight, I enjoyed it."
Over the speakers came Hawkeye's voice. "Nice fight. Talia will move onto the next round. Let's thank Nichole for putting up a good fight."
"Thank you Nichole!" swept from the crowd.
"Next we have Ruri Matsumoto and Ben duPont. Please step out."
Ruri slowly rose, wondering if the Ben from Ed's dorm was the one she was up against. Walking out of the small room on shaky legs, she relized it was. Meeting in the center of the field, they bowed to eachother, then she lifted her right hand for him to shake. Her color was silver, his was gold. She saw the metalic-colored links around their wrists as he shook her hand.
"Go easy on me," he whipered. She looked up to see him smiling at her. A faint blush was unseen on her cheeks.
"Begin!"
Ben did not hesitate. He jumped back, crossing his arms, and shot an attack strait at her heart. Quickly she reacted, bringing up a sheild from the dirt floor. The wall held as the yellow stream hit it. As she peeked around, she saw he was transmuting a block of metal into a sword. Looking back, she saw there were also raw materials on her side for combat use. As she looked back, he stood in attack position. A chain necklace held a transmutation circle pendant around his neck.
Ha. This will be so easy, it wont even be funny. She could hear Al cheering her on in the crowd.
Pointing to the gound beneath her feet, a stream of black and lime green shot from her fingers. Wha-- I though it was black and blue, not green!
But all the same, Ruri's plan worked. A pillar of solid dirt rose, elevating her 30 feet. Ben looked up and smiled, crossing his arms and bending down.
He too rose into the air, at her level now. They were on pillars, three feet from eachother.
"Hello," he said tauntingly. He swung his sword with unmatched speed, and cut off about an inch of Ruri's hair as she ducked. He now swung from overhead. It was coming strait down at her, and she hadn't made the pillar wide enough to move around.
The crowd fell silent as the next couple moments went by like a dream. The sword was coming down at her.
So she stopped it.
Her automail arm came to the rescue. The steel sword fell upon it, clanging loudly and echoing within the stadium. Ben's eyes grew wide. The fabric on Ruri's arm was now shredded. The silver braclet to determine which team she was on clattered against the uncovered wrist.
"Don't like automail, Benny-boy?" she said, voice seeping with temptaion at a fight. "Deal with it!" With her other hand, she flipped up two fingers at his sword, still pressing against her other arm.
"Augh--" Ben's sword melted into a blob in mid air, reshaping as a longer, thicker, sharper one.
"And so what if I con do what no one else can? You'll have do deal with that, too." Her eyes flashed black, a big contrast from her normal, crystal purple eyes. She ran her hand along the blade.
It turned clear. And froze. Ruri had transmuted a blade of steel into diamond. There were screams of astonishment surrounding her.
"Hello, Ben, I forgot to greet you." She flicked the sword up to his neck. But she didn't push. All she did was swipe the chain around his neck. The one that held his transmutation circle. "And goodbye."
He was frozen in shock. The necklace fell to the earth, far below. And she jumped. She even caught the necklace in midair.
Under her breath, Ruri murmured, "Sorry, Caitlin, going to have to steal your move for a minute here." From under her, she transmuted the air to a extremely,... um... un..dense... gas. It bouyed her up, and let her land safely on the ground. Smiling, she turned fast and cut the column holding Ben up. It was easy, considering the quality of the diamond blade she now had. It cut through like water. He jumped to her old column, but she just cut that one too.
He started to fall. "Are you really going to give up that easy?" She did the same thing for him, but made it a slightly harder landing.
Only slighly.
"Argh! Damn you!" Ben stood and ran.
But Ruri wasn't paying attention.
He had another trick.
Benny boy had a knife in his sleeve, protected by a plastic case.
"Wha-- Gnn... No... " His knife went strait into her stomache. But that's not what she was worried about.
The tingling in her back came again, along with the wave of nausia.
"Ed..ward..." Ruri vomited blood all over Ben. It dripped down her shirt and pants. She could see about 20 people rushing to her. "No! Bck off! You too, Ben." He pulled out the knife in shock. It seemed feeling her blood run down his sweating body woke him up.
And they came.
Her wings.
And the light.
The light encircled her, picking up off the gound. Her wings fluttered uselesely in the unseen breeze.
And she was slowly lifted toward the sky.
Ed's point of veiw...
Ruri floated upward toward the heavens above, no longer bound by the harsh rules gravity.
No... Ruri...
She glanced his way, almost reading his thoughts. Even though she was so far away, bleeding to her end, she smiled and said, "I love you Ed. I will come back. Don't forget."
And she disappered into the snowy clouds. Before she was completely gone though, Ed saw...
His mom.
She smiled at him, filling him with a longing to reach into the sky and hug her, tug at her apron like he did when he was little. He wanted to tell her about the days since he met Ruri, how muched he missed being with her, how much he loved her.
The image of her and Ruri dispersed, leaving Ed with an empty feeling. The two women he cared the most for had left him. Before consciousness completely left him, his thought one thing.
...I love you too, Ruri.
Did you like it? Yes, this is the end of this story. But there will be a sequal to it! And Ruri will come back, and the second part of the prophecy will be fulfilled, sadly. I'm sorry this took so long to post. But did you like it? That's what I'm getting at. Please give me comments of constuctive critisism in the review you will post! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! YOU ARE AWSOME!
Ruri out! Until next time!