Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Fullmetal Alchemist. Al though I wish I did own Edward Elric though. He is the cuteist character ever! Any way these Characters belong to the great and talented Mrs. Hiromu Arakawa. I do own the OCs that are here in this fic. I hope you guys enjoy it! I loved writting it! Please R&R Arigato!
Chapter three: Study Week One Edward Elric's House
On the way to Ed's house Arwen was in front while Ed was behind her. Edward was still mumbling under his breath about Roy's descison of having to have a girl rookie Alchemist staying with him. " I'm gonna kill Mustang for this." Ed said hoping it was to himself. Arwen however heard Ed's comment.
" Oh don't worry Ed. I won't be a bother to ya. You just have to learn to deal with someone for the next couple of months other than your brother."
" Yeah right. Do you expect me to just up and change who I am just so you can live with me! You're out of your mind!" responded Ed.
" Oh stop your whining. You sure I'm going the right way Ed?" asked Arwen feeling weird that Ed's not in front leading her to his house.
" Yeah you're headed in the right direction. Just keep going straight and then take a right at the next corner." Ed said with a small smirk appearing on his face. Arwen did what she was told and wound up walking right into a parked car.
Ed couldn't help but laugh when he heard the sound of a body colliding with a solid object. " Now. That settles that. I can go home without a wannabe state alchemist." Ed said to himself finishing with a laugh. His laugh only lasted for a few seconds when he heard an angry voice behind him.
" WHY YOU LITTLE PIPSQUEAK!" Arwen said with a murderous glare. Her facial expression was the only thing that prevented Ed from getting mad at the pipsqueak remark. All Ed could think of was running away to his sanctuary.
Ed ran as fast as he could with a girl no more than a few feet away running after at full speed with three huge duffle bags on her back. ' Damn she's fast. What is she a super human? I have to run overtime just keep ahead of her a little.' Ed thought to himself as he reached his and Al's house. Ed ran into the house and past his brother running in to his room to hide.
Al was just coming from upstairs when he saw his brother running as faast as he could to his room. " Ed, what's wrong?" was all Alphonse could say befroe Ed dissappeared into his room. " Okay." Al said softly before the door busted in again.
" PIPSQUEAK! WERE IN THE HECK ARE YOU!" said a girl Al just noticed.
" Um excuse me? Who are you and why are you here?" asked Al calmly and nervous of the ticked off girl.
Arwen turned to Al. ' So this must be Ed's little brother.' she thought to her self. " I'm Arwen. I'll be staying here to study for the alchemy exams in two months." answered Arwen.
" Pleased to meet you Arwen. I'm Alphonse Ed's little brother."
" Hi ya Al. Hey do know where Edward went? And why are you wearing a suit of Armor?" she asked calmly noticing the huge suit of armor infront of her.
" Yeah he's in his room I'll go get him for you. I'll let my brother explain that."
" Thanks." with that Al went upstairs. It took Al quite some time to try and get Ed out of his room. Al had to tell Ed that Arwen wasn't there and she just left to tell Mustang that he wouldn't let her stay.
Once Ed finally came down Arwen stepped out of her hiding place and was holding one of her duffle bags. " Al move." said Arwen. Arwen liffted up the bag and flung it at Ed. The bag found it's mark smack dab in the middle of his forehead. Ed fell back with a huge bump appearing on his head.
Al turned to Arwen who was picking up her bag. " What was in that thing?"
" Oh in here!" said Arwen holding up her bag and pointing to it. " Just every single Alchemy book I own. He'll be fine in a few minutes. Can you please show me my room Al?" asked Arwen smiling.
Al placed his hand behind his head. " On yeah! this way Arwen." replied Alphonse.
" Oh you don't have to call me Arwen all the time. You can just call me Teresa. That's my real name anyway." Teresa said to her new friend.
A few hours later Edward finally woke up from being hit with a bag full of books. " I'm gonna kill that woman!" yelled Ed as he stood up.
" Ed. I don't think you should do something like that. She is after all here to study for the exams." replied Al as he walked in hearing Ed.
" I don't care that maniac can be outside for all I care. She's gonna pay for what she did." Ed said charging up the stairs to Arwen's room.
" Oh no." responded Al as he too went after Ed.
" Ed! Wait!" said Al. Before the last word was out of his mouth Ed busted open the door and went into her room. Ed stopped when he saw Arwen sitting at the desk racking her brian as she read her advanced alchemy books. " Come on Al let's go." said Ed.
" But Ed..."
As both brothers were about to walk out of the room they heard Arwen give a supressed scream of frustration. " WHY IN THE HELL CAN'T I GET THIS!" she yelled putting her hands to the sides of her head.
" We better go Alphonse." whispered Ed. Al nodded his head.
" I agree with you brother" both then walked out of the room.
The next morning Ed and Al woke up to the sound of birds in the morning sky as usuall.
"Good morning Al."
"Good morning Ed." Both said walking out of their respective rooms.
" I wonder if Teresa's up yet?" Al asked.
" Teresa? Who's Teresa, Alphonse?" aske Ed getting suspicious that two girls might be in the house.
" Oh! You don't know Ed? Teresa is Arwen. That's her real name." answered Al.
" So Teresa is just using Arwen as an alias. So no one could know her real name. Why did she tell you her real name Al?" asked Ed getting curious.
" Oh, I um... think that she thinks I'm a real good friend even though we just meet yesterday." responded Al.
" I'm gonna see if she is up or not." said Ed going up to her room. Ed knocked on the door. " Arwen! Are you up?" he asked through the door. A few moments of silence reached their ears.
"You don't think...?" Al started.
" No Al if she was Arwen's room would be locked." said Ed who opened the door sligtly. " See Al. Arwen is still in her room." said Ed peeking through the crack he created. " Oh. you're right Ed. Look Teresa's lying on the floor." said Al as he scaned the room.( a/n This room is only used for a study not a bed room.)
Alchemy books were everywere on the floor and on the desk was a mountain about to collapse. Ed saw numerous pages lying around. Teresa was a sleep in the middle of the floor an advanced alchemy book lying across her stomach and a fountain pen in her hand. " Where in heck did she get all these books from? Some of these I have never read or heard of." said Ed picking up a thick and old black leather bound book.
" Teresa reminds me of when we were kids living in Resembool. Remember Ed?" said Al placing a pillow under Teresa's head from his an Ed's room.
" Yeah we sure did make a huge mess in the study back home before we burnt it down." said Ed
"We would spend hours upon hours reading dad's notes." Al said getting up from sort of tucking Teresa up with an extra sheet.
Ed turned to the bulge now on the floor. " You know what Al. I think this room needs a bed don't you think?" suggested Edward smiling.
" Yeah you're right Ed. We can't leve Teresa like that." replied Al excited that Ed is showing a little compasion for the rookie alchemist.
The middle of the week has passed and now the day was friday. Edward and Alphonse were at the Central Headquarters from a summons by Colonel Mustang. Arwen was left at the house and was studing when a knock came from the door. " Who is it?" asked Arwen loud enough for the person outside to hear.
" It's me Arwen. Beth." said the voice. Arwen opened the door to see a short girl with long brown hair and green eyes. She was wearing a dark blue t-shirt with a pair of black shorts.
" Hi Beth. What brings you here?" asked Arwen letting her friend in and sitting down on the couch.
" Oh, I just came here so we can study together." Beth said looking around at her surrondings. " So this Fullmetal's house. It looks very neat. I thought it would be a pigsty." Beth replied.
" Yeah well it was a mess till Al and I cleaned up the place." Arwen said sighing. " So what do you want to study today Beth?" Arwen asked turning her attention to the girl next to her. " Beth looked off into space away from anything.
A moments silence Beth answered. " I want to learn about the wind alchemy you can do Arwen. Can you teach me on how to do it?" Beth asked turning to her friend.
Arwen looked at Beth and placed her hand behind her neck. " Alright I'll teach you. You just have to promise not to do anything to fancy till you get the hang of it okay."
" I promise Arwen." Beth said smiling and getting giddy again. Arwen grabbed her Elemental Alchemy book and both girls headed outside to the backyard.
" Alright Beth. The first thing is clearing your mind. Think about nothing other than the wind that surrounds you." Arwen said drawing a transmutation circle in the ground around Beth.
" Okay. Once you have that mind set draw this circle. It doesn't have to be around you. You can have a small verson around or on you." Arwen replied. Beth nodded her head understanding what her friend was saying. " Alright. Now act as if were doing the alchemy you already know how to do. However, you have to have in mind what the shape, strength, speed, and consisentcy you want your wind to have. Then you manipulate the air around you and change the liquid in that air to form your wind." Arwen finished explaining.
Beth placed her hands on the edge of the transmutation circle with every detail of the wind she wanted in her mind. Arwen stood to the side watching. Blue and light purple sparks began to form around Beth and engulfing her in the circle of light. Beth condesed the wind into a small jet of pure white pushing away from her. Within a split second the wind dissappeared and Beth was still sitting inside the circle.
" Man am I exhuasted." Beth said feeling relieved that she just acomplished advanced alchemy ( to her at least.).
" Don't worry you can get use to it. It just takes time and practice." Arwen said hepling her friend up. " I think that ends our study session for today." Arwen replied when she saw the shadows Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric coming back from HQ. Even from her spot Arwen could tell Ed wasn't in a good mood.
" Alright Arwen see you later." Beth said heading back to the Hughes's residence.
Edward and Alphonse arrived home. Ed was irritated by Roy from earlier. " I can't believe Mustang! I swaer one of these days I'm gonna give him a nice punch in the face." said Ed clenching his automail hand into a fist.
" Brother don't you think you should at least be nice to him." said Al worried that his brother might do something stupid.
" Why in hell should I? I don't want to become another one of his todies Al. It's enough already when he starts being arrogant and cocky. He thinks he has nothing to worry about when the exams are coming up." Ed answered getting more and more irritated.
" Hello Al, Ed." said Arwen greeting the two alchemists who were inside standing in the living room.
" Hello Teresa." Al said bowing to the girl. Ed just flung his hand up in the air as a small no meaning hand wave while he sat down on the couch.
" Uh want happened?" Arwen inqured.
Ed turned to face her and held a cold and mean stare at her. " It's none of your damn bussiness." he said still holding the stare.
" You don't have to be so hotty about it! It was just a simple question! I'm just worried about you as person who has to be under the same roof as you!" Arwen retorted placing her hands on her hips.
Ed got up and looked eye to eye with Arwen. ' She's just as tall as I am.' Ed thought before he could talk. " If you don't like the fact that you can't know everything then why don't you just leave!" Ed yelled walking away and outside the door.
" He is so freaking stuborn. How in heck can you stand him Al?" Arwen asked looking at the door that Ed just went through.
" It takes awhile to understand Ed. He hasn't let anyone else get really close. He's just a hard person to get know. I'm his brother and yet there are somethings I don't even know and still trying to figure them out." Al responded moving an armored hand behind the helmet.
Arwen turned to Al and said, "Al can you tell me what happened at HQ today?"