Rae is (c) ME. Steal her and you will die.
Kaori and Mac are (c) Leyca
Kai is (c Jenny
"X" is (c) Haley
Jae is (c) Jessie
All Fullmetal Alchemist characters in this fic belong to Hiromu Arakawa.
"Why did Kaori leave?" Ed asked.
"She left something back at the inn." Roy said.
"Hmm... How do you know she just wasn't going to ditch us?" Ed asked.
Al looked over. "Does Kaori always skip parties?" He asked.
"Not all the time." Rae said, smirking.
Back at the slope, Kaori and Mac kept snowboarding, Kaori still shooting into the woods.
"Dammit! Who is that?" Kaori asked.
"I have no clue. All I know is, we have to get back to the party." Mac said.
Kaori continued to shoot at the mysterious person until her snowboard hit a rock, sending her flying into the snow. Kaori's eyes widened as she felt her ankle break under the pressure.
"Are you okay?" Mac asked, getting off of his snowboard and walking to Kaori's side.
"Yeah..." Kaori lied.
The two quickly reached the bottom of the slope. Kaori's ankle felt worse after time passed.
"Holy shit!" Kaori yelled. A grenade has been thrown to her.
Without thinking, Kaori clapped her hands and created a small dome to incase the grenade.
Wait... OH SHIT! She yelled in her head. I don't want to die! Why did I use alchemy?
Kaori felt woozy and tired as the grenade exploded in her hands. The dome she created protected her from the small explosion inside it. The alchemy had made her weak though, making her body feel like it was going to collapse.
I've never felt this weak before... She thought. No! I won't die... Not yet...
Kaori fell to her knees as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. She closed her eyes as she remembered something from when she was a child.
She saw herself crying, and being hit by her father.
"Never cry!" Her father yelled, slapping her. "Crying is for the weak."
When Kaori opened her eyes, Mac was staring at her. "You okay?" He asked.
Kaori nodded. "Just fine." She lied. "Let's get going."
The two then walked (Kaori, in her condition, limped) to the inn.
"Oh shit!" Kaori yelled softly as she pulled Mac behind a bush with her.
"What?" Mac whispered.
"I just saw Roy." Kaori replied.
"So?" Mac asked.
"I'm gonna have to listen to one of his lectures," Kaori said, sighing, "again.
Mac and Kaori then snuck around the inn and walked to their separate rooms and changed back into their formal clothes. They then snuck back into the party, acting as if nothing had happened.
"Where were you?" Kai asked.
Kaori showed Kai her necklace. "I was just finding this."
"And I was getting my watch." Mac said, laughing softly.
Roy then walked back to the party and ran over to Kaori. "Where were you!" He yelled.
Kaori growled angrily. "Look, Roy, I don't give a shit what you think, so stop nagging me about everything I do!" Kaori yelled back, getting into Roy's face.
Rae looked over at the fight and ran over. "Kaori! Roy! Calm down, please!" She then grabbed onto Kaori's body and wouldn't let go.
Roy glared at Kaori. "I know why you're such a great alchemist," he began, "it's because you're what we call an 'Alchemic Tool', not a real person. Your blood is mixed with the crimson elixir because your damn father made your mother a living Philosopher's Stone just before your birth."
Rae gasped. Kaori's body shook with both anger and sadness. Roy then continued to talk.
"I've never thought of you as my sister, Kaori, and I never will!" He yelled.
Kaori shook hard enough to make Rae let go of her. "SHUT UP!" She yelled. She ran off, not even caring where she was going. All she knew was that she was crying uncontrollably.
"...No way. Kaori isn't a 'real' person?" Ed asked.
"Yes she is!" Rae yelled, shaking angrily. "Don't ever say that about my best friend!" She then punched Ed as hard as she could with her automail hand.
Kai and Rae then set off after Kaori, Al and Mac following behind.
Dammit... So all that guy said was true... Why? How... Did he know and how come! Kaori yelled inside her head, still running.
Kaori ran until she came across the train station.
Maybe I can live with Kari... Kaori thought as she bought a train ticket.
"DAMN IT!" Rae yelled. "Why did Roy have to blurt that out?"
"I don't know!" Kai said.
The two girls then stopped.
A worker at the train station ran up to Rae. "Excuse me, miss," he said, "but are you Rae?"
"Yeah. Why?" Rae asked, cocking her head to the side and fixing her glasses.
"A girl told me to give this to you." The worker said, handing Rae a bag. He then walked off.
"What is it?" Kai asked.
Rae opened the bag and looked inside it. She fell to her knees, shaking violently. "It's... The Crimson Elixir."
On the train, Kaori looked out the window, sighing heavily. Next time I see Roy, I'm going to kill him. She thought.
She was pulled out of her thoughts when a familiar voice rang in her ear:
"Can I sit here?"
Kaori looked over and saw Mac looking into her eyes. "Sure, whatever."
Mac sat next to Kaori. "Where are you going?" He asked.
"To Kari's place." Kaori replied, looking out the window again.
"Who's Kari?" Mac asked.
"Roy's younger sister." Kaori said, saying Roy's name very rudely.
"Don't you mean your sister?" Mac asked. "I mean Roy's your brother and al--
"Look," Kaori interrupted, "that bastard Roy doesn't think of me as a sister." Kaori said, her voice shaking a bit.
"Are you ever going back there?" Mac asked.
"Maybe, I'm not sure... What's with all the questions?" Kaori asked, now looking at Mac.
Mac shrugged and laughed softly. "I just want to know stuff."
Mac then looked at Kaori's hand and gasped, picking it up. There were transmutations circles carved into them. "Why did you do this!" He asked worriedly.
"That's always been there," she lied, "don't worry about it."
"No, this is new, Kaori; I can tell." He said, taking Kaori's other hand and examining it.
Kaori groaned softly. "How can you even tell?"
"Because if it were old, it wouldn't be so bloody." Mac replied, smirking.
When the train stopped, Kaori looked out the window and stood up. "This is where I'm getting off, are you coming?"
"Yeah." Mac said, standing up, too.
When the two got off the train Kari walked up to them.
"Hello little sister. How did I know you'd be coming here?" Kari said, laughing softly.
"Don't call me your sister." Kaori said, growling softly.
"Why?" Kari asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Because," Kaori began, "that bastard you call a brother says I'm not a part of your family; that I'm not a real person, I'm an 'Alchemic Tool.'"
"Look, Kaori, I don't give a shit what Roy says; I still say you're my little sister." Kari said, smiling a bit.
"Well, at least one person likes me." Kaori said softly.
"Do you guys want to stay at my place?" Kari asked, changing the subject.
"Yes." Mac and Kaori said together.
The three of them then walked to Kari's house. When they arrived there, Kari showed them to their rooms and Mac and Kari went to sleep. Kaori stayed awake and waited until everyone was asleep.
Kaori walked out of the house and took a walk outside.
Rae and Kai walked back to the party.
"I'm confused." Kai said after a long silence.
"Shut up!" Rae yelled, her voice shaking. "I'm so worried... The only way to extract the elixir... Is to cut up her body up."
Kai gasped. "You're not serious..." There was a short silence. "Are you...?"
Rae sighed sadly. "I am. I was the one who slashed up Kaori during the war."
Kai gasped again. "So... That's what her scars were from..."
Rae nodded. She then closed her eyes just before two spikes erupted from the back of her hips, ripping her dress. She then opened her eyes, which were now a deep shade of purple. Two long, black tentacles then shot out of the back of her shoulders.
"I'm a Sin, Kai; I'm Passion." Rae said, her voice changed.
Kai looked a Rae, a small smile on her lips. "That's okay!" Without thinking, she glomped Rae, making her spikes and tentacles smash into the ground.
Rae screamed in pain. Her body shook as she threw Kai off of her body. She stood up and dusted herself off as her tentacles and spikes shot back into her body. Her eyes reverted back to their normal blue color.
As Kaori walked around town, a mysterious man walked up to her.
"You're the Darklight Alchemist, the child combined with the Crimson Elixir, right?" He asked.
"And what if I am?" Kaori asked, crossing her arms.
"Well, I know how to separate the Elixir from your blood," the man said, "making you a 'real person.'"
Kaori wanted nothing more than to be accepted as a real person. She had never wanted to be an Alchemic Tool. She smirked. "What do I have to do?" She asked.
"I just have to do some tests on you." The man said.
Rae sighed in her firearms class, looking up at the ceiling. Al looked over at her.
"Rae, I hate to see you so sad," he said softly, "everything will be okay. Just please, cheer up."
Rae looked over at Al sadly. "How can I?" she whispered. "Kaori has been gone for three whole months now. I'm really worried!"
Hawkeye cleared her throat loudly and looked over at Rae and Al. "Anything you'd like to share with the class, Ms. Antkowiak and Mr. Elric?"
Rae stood up at her desk. "Yes, I do, Ms. Hawkeye. I'm worried about Kaori. She hasn't showed up to school in three months."
Hawkeye looked at Rae. "I know that. Now please sit down, Rae."
Rae didn't sit down. "No. I'm goin' to Mustang's office!" She then excused herself from the classroom and walked to Roy's office.
A test had backfired on Kaori's blood. The Crimson Elixir pumped so fast through her veins that it started to control her body. She ran off towards the school with a strong urge to kill.
"Mustang, aren't you the least bit worried about Kaori? I mean, she still is your sister, no matter what you think or say. Families aren't just bound by blood." Rae said, sitting in the extra chair in Roy's office.
"I'm not worried at all." Roy said. "She can make it on her own."
"Roy!" Rae said standing up, angrily. "I can't believe you don't care! What if she's…" tears started to form in her eyes. "What if Kaori's dead!"
Roy simply looked up at Rae, who was shaking with anger. "Calm down, Brokenhearted. It's these kinds of things that make your passion to kill come out."
Rae gasped. "You... Knew?" She asked, her body's shaking finally calming down.
Roy nodded. "Yes. I also know about your parent's death, and your living conditions. You are living in an abandoned church with the Fox Alchemist, aren't you?"
Rae nodded and sat down. "I guess this is why I'm called the 'BrokenHearted' Alchemist..."
Roy smirked. "Yeah. The Furher gives out fitting names, doesn't he?"
When Kaori reached the school, she clapped her hands and made the front door of the school explode. Some students tried to stop her, but they were killed just for being in Kaori's way.
Rae ran out of Mustang's office and met up with Al, Kai, Mac and Ed. The group then ran to where Kaori was. Rae gasped as she watched Kaori killing other students.
"Guys!" Rae yelled, running in Kaori's direction.
"Rae!" Al yelled. "What're you going to--
"Just don't look!" Rae screamed.
Two spikes then shot out of the back of Rae's hips and her two tentacles quickly shot out of the backs of her shoulders. Al, Mac, and Ed gasped at the sight.
"Kaori..." Rae whispered. "Forgive me!"
She then made her spikes curve around her body so that they pointed at Kaori. She shot them into Kaori's shoulders. Rae sighed sadly as she saw blood splatter onto the floor. She then shot her tentacles out at Kaori and wrapped them around her friend's neck.
Kaori immediately clapped her hands and touched Rae's spikes, then the tentacles.
Rae screamed in pain and Al ran over to her side. "Kaori!" He yelled. Rae then fell to the ground. Her tentacles fell limp onto the floor, leaking blood everywhere.
Roy then ran over, glaring at Kaori. He pulled on his special gloves and snapped at Kaori.
When the blast of flames came toward Kaori, all she did was hold out her hand and the flames disappeared.
"Holy shit!" Ed said.
"How did she do that?" Al asked.
"I... Don't know..." Rae said weakly. Her tentacles and spikes shot back into her body and she stood up slowly.
Kaori ran up to Roy and punched him, then kicked him. She then grabbed his gloves and destroyed them.
The guy who did the tests on Kaori ran into the building, breathing heavily. "Quite a powerful girl, isn't she?" He said, walking near Ed, Mac, Rae, Kai, and Al.
"Who the hell are you, and what did you do to Kaori?" Mac asked, a tone of anger in his voice.
"She simply agreed to go through the testing; she was tired of being an Alchemic Tool. The only thing that went wrong was that an experiment went wrong." The man said.
Kaori charged towards Mac and tried to punch him, but he grabbed her fist before it made contact with his body.
"Predictable." He simply stated.
"Dammit!" Kaori yelled, still trying to punch Mac.
Mac continued to block Kaori's attacks. He actually seemed quite bored.
Damn! This is taking too long... Kaori thought.
She then clapped her hands and grabbed her pocket watch, turning it into a sword. She then took down Mac so quickly that she took the chance to attack the others.
Kai noticed Kaori's eyes changed from light purple to dark red.
"Kaori knows what she's doing, but she has no control over it." Kaori whispered to Rae.
Kaori fell to her knees in pain, shaking violently. She knew that something was happening, but she didn't know just what.
"Shit," the man who did the experiments on her stated, "the side effects of the experiments are getting worse."
"What's going to happen to her?" Ed asked.
"She's either going to go back to normal, or she's going to die." The man replied.
Rae growled at the man. "You better do something before I kill you." She then clapped her hands and transmuted her automail into a blade. Rae's eyes widened as she coughed hard and blood shot out of her mouth and splattered onto the floor.
The man ignored Rae's coughing fits. "I don't know what to do." He said, shrugging.
"Do you even know what you did to her!" Ed asked.
"Nope." The man stated bluntly.
Kaori fainted, falling onto the hard floor.
Rae and Kai looked over at the man. "I am so going to kill you." They both said. The two girls then attacked the man and Rae slashed at his neck. Rae backed away as Kai snapped her fingers and made a small dark cloud appear.
The dark cloud sent a few lightning bolts at the man, killing him.
Rae and Kai high-fived each other. "SCORE!" They yelled, giggling. Al sighed, shaking his head.
Kaori woke up, lying in a hospital bed. She noticed Mac was sitting in a chair next to her bed. He was peacefully sleeping with his head rested on Kaori's bed.
What the fuck happened? She thought.
The next thing Kaori knew was that both Rae and Kai had glomped her.
"YAY!" The two girls yelled, hugging their friend. "You aren't dead!"
"Dammit, get off of me!" Kaori yelled.
"Okay." Kai and Rae said, getting off of their friend and sitting on her bed.
"What did you mean by 'dead?'" Kaori asked.
"You don't remember a thing, do you?" Kai asked, frowning a little.
"Remember what?" Kaori asked.
Ed walked over and started to explain the past events.
Kaori then looked over at Mac and asked, "How long has he been here?"
"Ever since they put you in this room." Rae said, sighing.
Ed looked over at Kaori's hands. "Kaori, what the hell did you do!"
Kaori didn't look at her hands. "It's nothing. Don't worry."
Ed shrugged and walked out of the room.
Rae smirked evilly. "You know, if I were you, I'd be staring at Mac sleeping. You know you love him."
"RAE!" Kaori yelled, blushing heavily. "SHUT UP!"
Rae and Kai looked at each other and nodded, smirking evilly.
"Ohhh," They started to say in a singsong voice. "Kaori loves Mac! Kaori loves Mac!"
Kaori's face was dark red now. "SHUT. UP."
The two girls continued to sing as they rocked side-to-side on the hospital bed.
Kaori grumbled and groaned as Rae and Kai's voice rang in her ears.
"Kaori loves Mac... Kaori loves Mac..."
Heheh, this chapter has got to be one of my favorites.
Rae: sings Kaori loves Mac shot by the other writer
Kaori: Shut up, Rae! has her gun in her hand
Rae: shotted
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