Finally, an update! As always, please review. I really appreciate my first ones. I'm going to verify what Roy is this chapter, so wait no more! Also, the two nail polishes that I mention, I actually have, specifically the most ridiculous ones I could find in the collection.
Chapter 4
Roy felt hung over. What had he been doing on a trip to inspect a new hydraulic pump that could have resulted in this course of events, namely him drinking, with the lieutenant with him? She always kept him sober, not through guns, but through her very presence. He couldn't risk them having sex, not with the aura of professionalism they had to maintain, and she was so beautiful, not that she would ever acknowledge that, that with impaired reasoning, he might not be able to resist. But he was cold, alone, and on a fairly hard surface so it was unlikely unless he had fallen off the bed and, through some miracle of drunken drowsiness, not woken up. He never thought he would be relieved about something like that, but there he was. "Roy!" Someone yelled. Even through the pounding headache and the distinct feeling that there was something wrong with his ears, Roy could recognize his subordinate's voice anywhere. "Riza..?" He mumbled, his voice hoarse for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with why he had been drinking? "ROY! YOU'RE OKAY!" He looked up a bit, surprised at how happy Riza sounded, never mind that she was yelling and...
Caught sight of a glass wall and a hallway between them? Dear god, today just stood no chance of being remotely worth waking up to. Ignoring how much the action hurt his neck, (Probably just sleeping on a hard surface in what was best described as a display case.) he lifted his head the rest of the way. The lieutenant, barring her obvious relief and joy at him waking up, looked much the same as usual, her uniform as immaculate as ever, but something was different. Were those feathers in her hair? And why were her nails so sharp? The lieutenant wasn't one for manicures, a fact which had never stopped Rebecca from pouncing on her with her latest Boogie Nights orange or Unicornicopia purple.
"Any particular reason we're in display cases with me hungover?" Roy asked "No, of course not. All of us just decided to all get drunk and lock ourselves in this place for fun." Somebody said from beside him. He didn't recognize the voice, but it was definitely male. "Greed, stop." Riza said, aiming "The Hawk's Gaze", as it had been nicknamed, at the cell beside him. "He's with Edward now." Riza replied in answer to his opening mouth. "More like Ed's with me." Greed said. Doing the best glare he could through metal, Roy reinstated his yet unanswered question. "So, why are we here?" Lieutenant Hawkeye seemed at a loss for words for a second, her eyes widening for a split second, before telling him " We were transmuted with animals." Roy felt light headed. What!? They were... Chimeras?! No, no, no, no, this couldn't be happening. The lieutenant had been transmuted with some sort of bird, hopefully something more creative than a hawk, she had been hurt! That one thought transformed disbelief into rage in an instant. "Who did this?" He demanded. It was Greed who responded "Some bitch named Krista, who has a fetish for chimeras." Mustang spent a good ten minutes mapping out the pain that Krista would face. A bit less than Lust had, he decided, but then, that bitch could literally regenerate her whole body from nothing except her philosipher's stone. Suddenly, Roy thought of the first question that he should have asked. "What animal was I transmuted with anyway?"
Riza was quick to answer. "It would seem to be some sort of dog, sir, judging by the ears and tail." "The what?" Roy frantically felt around his head and discovered he did indeed have ears, triangular, soft ones. To preserve the remains of his dignity, Roy merely looked for the tail instead of awkwardly patting. It was there, full, long and reddish brown. "It looks awfully fluffy for a dog tail." he noted. "Well, I might be mistaken..." Riza murmered. Suddenly, someone spoke in the cell adjacent to Roy. "She actually came up with a good pun!" Ling laughed. "What do you mean?" The lieutenant asked. "She transmuted him with a wolf." The two military officers blinked in silence. Then, Riza broke the silence with "WHAT! She could come up with that, but not with anything other than the most obvious possible option for me?!" Roy was then hit by the speeding bus that was the reality of his situation. He was kidnapped. The lieutenant was kidnapped. Ling was kidnapped. Then they were all turned into chimeras. The fact that nobody would be coming for them for at least a month, since that was when the military would come for them and there certainly wasn't a chance that anyone that wasn't Ed, who had reportedly been captured be Krista, could find them before then.
The speeding bus then proceeded to demand that he give the contents of his stomach to the floor as payment for the bus toll. Roy's vision swirled a bit as his knees gave out, his body telling him that he wants to be on the floor for this. His throat burned as his stomach forced up acidic bile and partially digested, acid soaked food. "Oh, are you not feeling so good?" A familiar high voice said from behind him and a bit to the left. "That's a shame. We'll have to get the mess all cleaned up" Yes. Roy thought. Come in here and clean it up. She walked in front of his cell and... pressed her palm against the wall, the mess being eradicated with alchemy. God dammit. Then she opened her mouth...
Still a bit of time left before Ed! Just wait for it guys. In the meantime, enjoy reading!
