Chapter 4 - Hanging around Central Hallway
The bright morning sun peaked overthe hills of the Central buildings. Birds chirped in the distance, flying everywhere in the morning sun. The gentle morning breeze blew across the tall, damp trees. The grass below, shimmering as the morning sun rose up upon the peaks of the tall far buildings.
Just like any other morning to Katrina. Only this time the scenery seemed a bit different and there was a whole lot more different smells that filled the air.
Katrina sighed soundly to herself, hating mornings, but knowing she could never sleep well enough during any time of day. She was a humunclus. No time for sleeping. She was far to busy with other important matters anyway.
Katrina hugged her knees up to her chest, watching the morning sun over the tall buildings, her eyes shimmering as she was watching the cold wet ground from below mixing with the sun.
Deep in thought as always to herself. Hating and cursing as usual about this stupid mission she had to go on. Yes, of course she were eager to kill someone, yet hated the fact that she actually had to wait instead of just getting it over with.
Katrina had met her master and the rest of the humunculi last night, and had told them the news. They of course already knew, due to Pride and Sloth and already started to tell her what to do.
Katrina closed her eyes, remembering what her master had said to her. And all the plans they all had discussed:
//FLASHBACK//
Katrina growled, sitting high up in the tree, waiting yet again for her master to come, as well as the other humunculi who had called her back for one of their boring meetings.
"Ugh, dammit! What the hell takes so long just to get here?! Isn't that far! Geese!" Katrina muttered outloud loudly, still cursing under her breath.
But as soon as saying that, there was a sudden rustle through the bushes.
Katrina's highly sensitive ears, twitching at the sound, quickly turning her head towards it, twitching her nose, trying to reach the scent.
Katrina growled, slightly when finding the noise still there and then suddenly hearing even more noises all around.
She quickly started getting into a fighting stance upon hearing the noises around, still growling.
"Alright! Who's there?!" She shouted out.
Then, right as she said that, she suddenly started hearing a small chuckle through the bushes and then suddenly saw a tall dark firgure popping up out of the bushes.
Katrina growled upon seeing the figure and was about to attack, when she suddenly saw the figure walking into the shadows, revealing themselves as none other than Envy.
"Hey, hey there. Chill would ya squirt. It's only me." Envy said smirking as he took some more steps forward.
Katrina looked at him, glaring, before she finally sighed and stood back up strait and crossed her arms, frowning.
"Ugh, it's about time you got here! What took you guys so freakin long?!" She shouted growling at him.
"Now, now. You still need to learn some patience there Hate. Don't know what i'm going to do with you, if you keep on being so persistant." Katrina suddenly heard out of the shadows, along with a few chuckles here and there.
She growled and snorted.
"Ugh whatever! Like I care! Now come on out and lets get this over with! I have something else i'd rather do then just stand here all freakin day long." Katrina mumbled, watching the dark figuring coming out of the bushes to reveal themselves as her master, and the other humunculi.
"My, my. Eager, already just to spend some time with your new friends?" Her master asked with a small smirk.
"Ugh no! Just eager enough to kill the annoying brats!"
"Well then. You'll soon get your wish, no dought about that, but we just need to get through a few things before going on to your duty. Ok?"
Katrina only snorted and turned her head.
"Good. Now, on to business. You have been paired up with the Elric's, correct?"
"Psh, yeah."
"Excellent. Now that you are finally partners with the brothers thanks to Pride and Sloth, you may finally be able to travel with them. Hows that make you feel?"
"Sick. I still don't get why you didn't let Envy do this, crap." Katrina said sighing.
"Because, i'd rather be cutting my head off and slamming it against two rocks then be flirting and seducing those two brats." Envy said snorting.
Katrina smirked, and chuckled at Envy's comment.
"Yes, well anyway. Now that you are paired up with them, you may now be going on their missions. And on these missions I want you to try and play nice, nice with them for a while, just to get them to trust you. You know, the usual things. But now on your little missions we will be there once in a while to check up on you, and your little brothers. Understood?"
"Yeah, yeah got it. But I only have one question. What about the military heads? What am I suppose to do about them?" Katrina asked, lifting an eyebrow.
"Oh, they shouldn't be a problem really. Except maybe that Mustang. Keep a close eye on him for a while too. We all still don't trust him. But other than that, I don't think they'll be any problem at all for you."
"Ok. Sooooo is that everything?" Katrina asked.
"Well there is one last thing I would like to go over."
"Yeah, what?"
"Over this time you will be spending with the brothers, I want you to try and understand when I say not to let your guard down on them. They may seem nice, but once they figure out your true identity you'll be quit in alot of trouble. So try and not to get too close to the brothers."
"Alright, alright! I got it! Anything else?"
"No, I believe thats everything. But lets go over this one last time to make sure you understand what to do."
"Ugh, but I do!"
"Yes I know, but one last time----and maybe testing out your new abilities for a while too. Cause you may have to use them once in and a while on your mission as well." Her master said with an evil smirk, as they all then began to talk about Katrina's mission of killing the Elric brothers.
//FLASHBACK//
It had been about five hours since Katrina's parting with the other humunculi and her master. And all she could think about, was what to do with her time, untill it was the right moment to kill the Elric brothers.
Katrina sighed when thinking about it, and leaned back against the roof top and looked up at the orangy, glittery sky.
"Ugh. This freakin sucks. What do they want me to do with my time here anyway? Just play all nice, nice with them, and pretend i'm a preppy little slut. No freakin way am I doing that crap. Why can't I kill them now? In there freakin sleep! Ugh I just don't get it!" Katrina mumbled to herself, frustrated.
But then, once more she sighed again, and just looked down.
"Maybe it's just because of---everything thats happened lately I guess. I mean I have just been awakened, and this is my first big mission. Maybe they might have something big planned for me or something. Ugh, I don't know. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it. Oh well, I guess." She said shaking her head as she started to stand up.
But whenever she did, she quickly started hearing her stomach growling. Katrina looked down at it, and sighed while placing her right hand across it.
"Ugh, man i'm hungry. Haven't had anything since yesterday." Katrina mumbled to herself as she then started to walk on towards her bedroom window, and crawled back through it and jumped back in towards her bed.
Katrina yawned whenever doing so, and scratched her head.
"Man, i'm tired. I should of gotten some sleep whenever I got back. Oh well. I'll catch my z's later, right now it's time for my meal time." Katrina said, licking her lips as she walked towards her door and walked on out of her room.
After leaving the room, Katrina slammed her door shut, as old habits, and started walking down the central hallway, looking for the lunch room.
"Lets see here---" Katrina said to herself, stopping slowly for a bit whenever she made it to two ways down the hallway, and turned her head down both of them, wondering which way to go.
But as she did, she quickly started hearing some footsteps not to faraway. Katrina's senses quickly started picking up the sound of someone whistling, as her ears twitched and her eyes traveled to the sides. But whenever doing so she quickly started smelling some smoke as well, whenever her nose twitched. Then as she was about to turn around, she suddenly heard the footsteps and the whistling quickly stop whenever reaching behind her.
This caused her to quickly herself around to see who it was who had stopped. But as she did, she quickly saw a tall blong haired guy with a cigerette in his mouth, looking at her with a smile on his face.
"Oh hey there! Long time no see." The guy said smiling at her.
Katrina only sighed and crossed her arms, giving him a blank look.
"Uhhhh yeah. It's only been, what about yesterday? And your whatever's friend, am I right?" She asked.
"Yeah pretty much. The names Jean Havoc, pretty lady. But you can just call me jean, or whatever you'd like." Jean said grinning as he gently took her hand in his and rose it up to his lips and placed a gentle soft kiss on it.
Katrina grimaced as he did, and growled, not like what he had done.
"Uhhh yeah. Whatever. And I would appreciate if you called me Katrina. Now would you let go of my hand please? Thank you!" She said jerking her hand back from his lips, and started whiping her hand on her jeans.
Jean smiled sweetly at her and nodded.
"Yeah you were in the office yesterday. Congrats on making it as a state alchemist. We're very lucky to have such a pretty girl like you, on our side." He said grinning, and blushing a little. But as he did, he couldn't help himself as his eyes started traveling down Katrina's body. All the way down her chest, her perfect curves, her long, thin, soft legs, then back up again to her perfect nice big breasts, that nearly had Havoc drooling as he looked at Katrina's full grown woman body.
Katrina quickly noticed this and growled in annoyance at what he was doing. Every guy she had ever met seemed to just fall strait in love with her body. Even Envy had, a while back when they both had met. So much that he had almost raped her. Same with all the other guys, which made Katrina hardly trust any of the dogs. This was why she always hated to have a body of a goddess. It was annoying, even though it could help as a distraction sometime when trying to play little games with Envy whenever Wrath was going out to get things to play with.
"Uhhh, sorry to interupt, but you keep staring below my face and i'm gonna have to rip those stupid eyeballs right out of your freakin head." Katrina said growling and glaring at him.
Havoc quickly started blushing and laughed nervously at what she said and quickly looked back up at her face.
"Oh, I-I-I uhhhh s-sorry! Sooo ummmm, w-what brings you down this way of the hall?" Havoc asked nervously as he scratched the back of his neck.
Katrina sighed and crossed her arms.
"I'm looking for the mess hall or whatever you dogs call it. I'm hungry and want some breakfast, now." She said.
Havoc smiled and nodded.
"Right. Thats just where I was headed. There maybe I can meet you up with everyone that way you can know all your other sulvians you'll be working with besides just the Elric brothers. Come on, i'll show you the way." He said as he grabbed her hand and started tugging her towards the other direction.
Katrina growled whenever he did and took her hand back in a flash causing him to look back at her.
"Don't touch me---" Katrina said, giving him a glare.
"Oh right sorry----ummm here we are!" He said nervously as they both then made it to some big blue doors.
"Ummm ok." Katrina said, lifting an eyebrow as she watched Jean open the doors.
He then turned back to Katrina and smiled.
"Come on. This way. You can sit with us, since your new and everything." He said leading her over towards a long blue table with a few military officers sitting around it, laughing and talking as they ate their breakfast.
Katrina blinked a few times, watching them, untill she suddenly felt a tug on her arm, nearly causing her to fall frontwards.
"Hey watch it!" Katrina said glaring up at Havoc when he had finally stopped.
"Oh sorry. But come on! We're here! And I would like for you to meet all your sulvians!" Havoc said grinning as he pushed her forward so she could see tons of military officers smiling and waving at her.
"Uhhhhhh----" Katrina said, blinking.
Havoc laughed at her reaction and smiled down at her.
"No, no, chill. You won't be able to get to know all these people for a long while. Till you've been here for as long as me, Roy, and Riza have. these are your sulvians. Or should I say new guy friends!" Havoc said grinning, as he pointed down at the table to three military people smiling and as well waving at Katrina.
"Riiiiight---" Katrina said as they both started walking over.
"Hey sup, you guys." Havoc called out, as they both stopped in front of their table.
The men all looked up at him and smiled, as they nodded.
"Hey Havoc. Whats up?" The guy with red hair asked.
"Nothing much, just showing our new friend around." Havoc said grinning down at Katrina.
She, of course, only sighed and crossed her arms, mumbling. All the military guys looked at her.
"Oh, yeah! I remember her! She's that new state alchemist girl! Ummmm---Crystal was it?" A guy with short black hair and glasses said smiling up at her.
"Yeah, thats right. And it's Katrina four eyes." Katrina mumbled glaring at him.
"Oh uhhh sorry---" The guy said nervously while scratching the back of his neck.
"Whatever." She said, as she rolled her eyes.
"Riiiiight----anyway, Katrina I would like for you to meet your new guy buds. Right there's Breda." Havoc said pointing towards the fat, red haired guy.
"And thats Fuery." He said pointing to the black haired guy with glasses.
"And that Fallman." He said pointing to the last of the three men with gray hair.
They all smiled at her and nodded.
"Yep, thats pretty much us! It's really nice to meet you Katrina. I've seen you whenever you were taking your exams. Nice job by the way. Glad your finally a state alchemist! How does it feel?" The guy named Fallman asked, smiling at her.
"It's ok I guess. Not to crazy about it." Katrina said shrugging.
"Really? Well I hope you enjoy it here Katrina. Whenever you need anything, just come and get us ok?" Fallman said.
Katrina sighed and only nodded.
"Yeah, yeah got it. Now, is there any place where I can eat?! I'm starving here! So starving I think i'm about to turn into Gluttony here." Katrina said, mumbling the last part quietly to herself.
The guys all laughed.
"Yeah there is! Come on, i'll go show you to the place where you can get your food at." Havoc said smiling as he then started walking towards a line not to far away to where they were sitting.
Katrina sighed as she watched him, and then slowly started following him towards the line, so she could finally get her long awaited breakfast.
An hour had passed, and the Elric brothers where already up in the middle morning day, on their way down to the mess hall.
Ed yanwed and scratched his head as they walked, still a bit sleepy from last night.
"Ahhhh---man i'm still beat Al! Maybe I should of slept in late today." Ed said sighing, as he slumped down, with droopy eyes.
Al chuckled at his brother and smiled.
"Yes, but Colonel Mustang said he wanted us bright and early today, about our new mission. So you know you couldn't sleep in, even if you wanted to today." Al said.
Ed sighed.
"Yeah I know, I know. But now all I want is some breakfast."
"Yeah that should get you going, but wait. Shouldn't we be looking for Katrina first? I mean what if she wants some breakfast too?" Al asked looking down at Ed.
He shrugged.
"I guess, but I don't feel like looking for her now Al. Who knows, maybe she's already down there eating." Ed said sighing.
"Yeah I guess---" Al said as he looked down to the floor, his thoughts wandering off to Katrina.
'I hope she's down there eating. I wouldn't want her to be starving all day today during our new mission, and it will be her first. So maybe if she's not down there i'll save her some of my breakfast and give it to her---yeah that would be nice.' Al thought to himself, blushing and smiling.
But soon after a while, the brothers had soon arrived towards the lunch/mess hall.((whatever you want to call it))
As they made it, Ed sighed once more and looked around.
"Ok! Now lets see what they got for breakfast! Hopefully it's not that oatmeal junk they tried to make last time. Ugh, I couldn't get out of bed for a week because of that." Ed groaned while rubbing his stomach as him and Al started walking.
Al chuckled.
"Yeah, how could I forget brother? There's still that stain on my favorite shirt, so how could I?" Al asked sighing.
"Oh---yeah sorry about that---" Ed said nervously, as he scratched the back of his neck.
"It's ok brother. It was a while back so i'm fine with it now." Al said smiling at his brother, nodding.
"Yeah, thats good----oh hey look. I found Katrina." Ed said pointing over towards a table to see her and the other military people talking. Actually Katrina mostly just eating, as the others talked.
"Really? Where?" Al asked, franically looking around the room.
"Over here Al. Come on!" Ed said grinning as he started walking over towars the table where Katrina and the others were sitting at.
As they both made it over, they quickly saw Katrina still gobiling down on her breakfast, stuffing whatever she could down her mouth, as the other guys watched her, all of them sweatdropping and looking like this: O.o
Ed and Al also sweatdropped as they saw her and smiled nervously.
"Uhhhh hey there Katrina---" Al said, blushing slightly as he saw her stop eating and look up at them.
"Oh hey. You lazy bums, finally decide to get out of bed?" She asked.
"Yeah, pretty much. When did you get down here?" Ed questioned, crossing his arms.
"An hour ago, hanging with these weirdo's." Katrina said looking over towads the military people, with faces like this: --
Ed and Al both chuckled.
"Cool. So it seems like you've already ate breakfast." Al said, smiling sweetly at her.
"Yep. And now i'm pretty much stuffed." Katrina said burping outloud and sighing.
"Yeah----you save anything for us?" Ed asked.
"Hm? Oh right, yeah there's still plenty left---or at least I think." She said shrugging.
"Awesome! Then lets dig in Al---" Ed started to say, but quickly cut off whenever he ran into someone, hard.
"Ouch---" Ed mumbled rubbing his nose as he looked up to see who he had ran into. It was a tall black haired military guy with some papers under his arms.
"Edward and Alphonse Elric? Katina Seteshi?" The man asked looking at them.
"Uhhh yeah?" Ed asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Colonel Mustang would like to talk to you now." The man said.
Ed groaned.
"Ugh! Now?!" He complained.
"Yes now. It's important. It's about all of your all's new mission." He said as he turned around and started walking away.
Katrina, Ed, and Al all sighed together, as they then stood up.
"Ugh come on. We better get down there to see what that lazy horse wants." Katrina mumbled, walking towards the doors.
"Yeah, come on brother, lets go." Al said, as he and Ed began to follow Katrina on out the lunch room and on down the hallway and towards Mustang's office.