Instinctual mistake

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Growling and in slight pain the creature made its way over the ridge of a small crowd of boulders. He let his great head fall into the green grass and closed his yellow eyes. The breathing was harsh, not what it should be, and the mind was jumbled, not of a sane reasoning method. His tail slithered between smaller rocks and came near his head where he could rest the tip of his jaw at the tip of it. The scales on his sides rattled as he breathed. His large crest rattled for a moment before he settled down. The mind was full of irrelevant thoughts. Ones such as must kill, must eat, must survive. It was as if the nervous system had taken over his reasoning, and yet another form of reasoning entered his mind, one of riddles and great knowledge. The knowledge was too great for him to understand even in the form of the one that would understand it. After a moment of resting he lifted his neck up and looked around fluttering his griff, the great fans around his ears. He heard footsteps coming. Had someone followed him? He would not have guessed who, had he been resting that long? His sun heated back shivered as he stretched when he stood. Like a cat stretching in the sun he yawned, his tongue coiling inside his mouth. He stood now, his claws digging into the ground and dirt as he walked slowly. He was sure not to make a sound of his own as he followed the distinct sound of a human intruder.

Alphonse gasped for air as he continued to run. He had been running in the direction he saw his brother fly off too. Why hadn't he told him what was the matter? Did he not trust him? He felt crushed about his lack of knowledge about the subject, and anger among all, but he also was concerned. His brother had not been doing well the past days and he was sure that it was not the sudden change Edward had. After all judging by the way Edward had taken flight and transformed so suddenly it seemed that he had been the way he was for a very long time already. Also the disappearances during the night did not match up to his strange behavior.

He had been walking through a small forest for about 2 hours now and still no sign of his brother. The sun was now beginning to set and Alphonse knew it would do him no benefit if he were to get lost in the dark in such a wild place.

He sighed as he sat on a fallen tree. The moss grew on one side of the tree Al noticed as he watched a slug slowly make its way across the moss bed. Exhausted and parched Alphonse knew that it was too dangerous to turn back and find his way out of the forest. He was thankful that him, being the always prepared brother, always had necessities that would come in handy. He pulled out a small match box and gathered a few dried pieces of wood ad leaves and began to set them up for a fire. Assuming that he would be able to find more wood later he began to make the fire. The camping out brought him back memories of when his brother and him were back home, in there world. He longed to return to that world or see it just once more but reality came in so fast he knew it would be impossible. Well into his thoughts he was unaware of an approaching presence and low growl until it was to late.

The creature's eyes glowered towards a figure sitting on a fallen tree. What was this… human doing in his forest? It was his territory, not some mere flesh bags. The thoughts surprised his alternative conscious, probably his human conscious as he thought this. Watching the human before him his mind began to argue with itself once again. Attack and kill? Or approach and converse? The instinctual thoughts kept blocking out the reasoning ones and reverse. It was to much for him to handle as he stood on al fours waiting till a final decision would come.

Giving up he figured that the only way to silence his urges was to react upon it. With a low growl for warning towards the intruder and his victim he crouched down and leapt. Unaware that he would land onto the flames of the small fire the human had made, he instinctively jumped foreword at the human whose back faced him. His claws contracted like a cats as he got a hold of his prey. The sent of blood in the air and the scream made his reasoning skills disappear in a flash, but just as they had disappeared they had reappeared to knock him in the face. His dulled yellow eyes glinted in surprise and his claws quickly retreated back into the paw type stance they normally resided in. He stumbled backwards shock taking over him as he crushed his tail with his back legs. Ignoring the pain, shock to great, he let his legs collapse. His eyes and head still remained fixed on the victim he had attacked. The victim held his side and breathed heavily with almost the mirror image of the dragon's shock.

"E-E-Edward……?" the victim spoke, his voice small by comparison.

The dragon looked alert at this, not just because the voice was recognizable but the name, his name was spoken. A great dread finally fell into the pit of his stomach as he stood and tried to retreat, but he knew if he did, his victim, his accidental victim would die. He shook his large head making it clearer to focus as he tried to form some sort of words with human speech.

"Allffooonnnsssaaaeeee…" He tried to speak but knew he failed miserably at it.

Alphonse looked up with a weak smile. Edward noticed his recognition and tried to smile too, but the cheek bones of a dragon would not allow such a thing. Instead he made a toothy grin that to another dragon could be seen as a threat. Alphonse looked hesitantly at the teeth than sighed. It was not a sigh of relief though, but more a sigh of lack of breath as he fell backwards closing his eyes.

Edward cocked his head to one side in curiosity not quite grasping that Alphonse was hurt. He slowly stalked closer keeping his head low and his griff down so he would not look as threatening. He sniffed Alphonse recognizing the sent instantly, but also dreading the other that hit his nose. It was one of blood.

He backed up shaking the sent from his nostrils than approaching again, this time letting his front claw come up and stroke the forehead of his brother. He saw where the blood came from when his brother lurched to his side at Edward's touch. His eyes widened as he saw that the wound was of a considerable size to a human. If something that big was inflicted upon him though, it would not have been so drastic, but here it was.

He carefully lifted his brother with his two front claws and stood on his rear legs looking around through the trees. He was completely clueless on what he should do. Finally his only conclusion was to take Alphonse back to their apartment, but being seen would be a problem. He would rather be seen of course than have his brother die at his own hand. Not able to mourn his fault he once again shook his head to clear his thoughts and took flight. It was hard for him to gain altitude but he had to as quickly as he could for time was not to be wasted; especially when someone had the potential of dying.

(A/N:)

WOOT !Another Chapter complete… finalllllyyyyy…. I have been … well I couldn't say lazy, but my priorities have been mixed up so that is my excuse for not posting this time. Ah well of course you know the routine after you read a fanfiction, you either kill the window, press the back button, or press the review button, or sit there starring and saying this chapter sucked!!! Well if you're the last one, click review anyways and flame me damnit!! MWAHAHAHAH!!! Well as always thanks for reading and PLEASE REVIEW!!