R4994W: If anyone still wants to guess what Mrs. Arlen was doing, feel free to guess.
Tiger: I can't believe some of you guys are still reading this story!
R4994W: Did you ever think they might like it? (tosses a fake mouse across the room)
Tiger: (runs after it and pounces on it)
R4994W: Well that will take care of him for a while. Okay, Enough jabbering. More reading!
Disclaimer: I own Goldie and Shadow, but not Fullmetal.
Chapter 2 I.O.U.
Alchemist. What does alchemist mean? It's such a funny word.
"Hello there. Rose is that you? It is. Here are your eggs." Mr. Arlen came up and handed me a carton of eggs. His face was plump, round, and red. I guess he was out back tending to his garden when he must of heard Goldie and I coming.
"Thanks. Here are your apples. Um… do you know what alchemist means?"
Mr. Arlen looked at me with hard, cold eyes, the eyes he usually doesn't and said, "No I don't." I could tell he was lying. It was in his eyes. I can tell people's emotions through their eyes. He was definitely lying. Mr. Arlen went into his house and slammed the door behind him.
I put the eggs carefully, but securely in the saddlebag. I mounted Goldie and rode off confused and angry at the terribly rude fashion he went into his house.
When I got home Mike was tending to the garden. "So how's the garden? You killing everything."
"No. Very funny. So how's Mrs. Arlen? You annoying her?" Mike snapped back without looking up or stopping what he was doing.
Mrs. Arlen wasn't there. Mr. Arlen gave me the eggs. There was a note on the door that said Mrs. Arlen was out. She said she had to do 'alchemist' business."
"What in the hell is that?"
"I don't know."
"Does Mr. Arlen know?"
"I think he does, but he lied to me and said he didn't."
"You used your eye thing again didn't you?"
"Well yeah. Is there a problem with that?" changing the subject I said, "You owe me big time."
"For what? You haven't done anything for me in a long time."
"Oh yeah? Go take a look at Silver." We walked into the barn and Mike looked at Silver. "See anything different?"
"No. He looks perfectly fine. Now what about that huge favor you said you did for me?"
"This is it. You neglected him and I had to groom him along with Goldie!"
"Oh, I see. Why did you put that stupid bow in his hair. You make him look like a sissy." Mike reached up and untied the bow. "What do you want me to do?"
"Well, for starters, you have to go to the homunculus building, knock on the door, and offer to sell some apples to that creepy captain."
"But, okay. What else do you want me to do? I'm in debt to you now." He looked extremely annoyed.
"That's good for now. Hurry up! The quicker you get this done the quicker I can think of your next task. Oh, don't forget to call him captain. I'll be watching."
I heard Mike groaned and muttered something that I couldn't understand. I think it was something like stupid sister. This was going to be the perfect revenge. Mike saddled Silver and mounted. He gave me a cold glare and rode off.
I quickly ran after him, waiting for the day's humiliation. Mike and Silver trotted over to the brick building. He dismounted and knocked on the door. A tall skinny-faced man came to the door. "Who are you and what do you want?" He hissed in an annoyed way.
"I need to see the captain." Said Mike in the same annoyed fashion.
The skinny man looked Mike up and down. He raised an eyebrow and rubbed his long chin. "Why do you need to see him? Is it urgent or is it just a teenaged prank?"
"Honestly it's a-" he let out a long sigh, "it is urgent news."
"Very well." He closed the door. Mike looked back at me. I was hiding in a bush, trying to hold back the laughter until my eyes watered. The steel handle of the door turned and a man with short, black, somewhat spiky hair came to the door. He stared at Mike with hard amber eyes.
"What do you want? This better be important."
"Do you want… to buy some apples?"
"Apples?" He pulled the bag of apples away from Mike and grabbed one. He shinned it on his coat and took a bite. "This isn't what I call urgent news. How much do you want?"
"Fifty cents would be the right price, wouldn't it?" Mike asked coldly.
Ignoring the way he said that, the captain pulled out a half dollar and flipped it towards Mike and said, "Heads or tails?" Then he walked into the building smugly and slammed the door in a rude fashion.
I was standing behind a bush laughing so hard that I fell over. I felt a warm wet feeling on my face. Midnight and Shadow had followed us over here. They must of thought that I was playing dead. I kept my eyes shut and just laid there. That was until one hundred ninety pound Midnight jumped on my chest. Now I couldn't breath.
"OW! Midnight! OFF!" She looked at me, then drooped her ears and tail and got off. "Oh, don't act like that." I ran over and tackled her, but she didn't budge due to her huge masculine body. She just sat there.
I threw a stick and she ran after it. "So you want to play Shadow? Come on. I bet you can't get me." I bust out of the bush and fell to the ground as Shadow jumped on my back. "Ow, get off."
Out of nowhere this huge booming voice cut through the air. "What do you think you are doing? Playing on military grounds!"
I froze and looked up. It was the captain.
R4994W: Okay, just to keep you thinking, Matt is related to someone off of the show. Of course Matt doesn't exist on the show, but his relative does.
Matt: How do you know I'm related to-
R4994W: Hey! Don't spoil the surprise! How did you get here! You're just a character in my story!
Matt: (grins evilly)
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