30/06/2009 15:23:00
Authors Blog: Sorry for the long wait guys. This is all my fault. But to prove my guilt I am posting two chapters…maybe 3… wow I wrote for hours today.
The moon glowed as the stars glittered in the night. The dark sand highlighted by the moons rays. The stillness only disturbed by 3 sets of feet…one which was clunking armour, another dragging his heels, and the grinding against the sand with each step.
"Can't we sleep now…" Edward moaned. "We have been walking for hours."
"Stop whinning it's been less than 3 hours." Ana grunted pulling her coat closer to her.
"And what if another snake comes Brother. I don't like the idea of waiting for one." Al whispered worriedly.
"He's right Ed. We have to keep moving no matter how..." Ana stopped mid sentence to yawn. "…tired we are. We must keep moving." She shook her head as she yawned again. "Besides, we are only about another 20 minutes away from Desemar. We can sleep there."
"The sun will be up in an hour…then we wont want to sleep." He grumbled back.
"Brother stop fussing."
"I like to grumble…" He replied wrinkling his nose.
"Alright children..." Ana interrupted rolling her eyes. "Actually we should be ably to see the city just above this dune…" She trailed off slowly climbing the sandy mountain.
The dune was surprising well packed enough to climb. However, Al did have to pulled out of the sand twice, making him have sunken a total of 27 times since they left Ranamade.
"Al stop sinking!" Ed moaned helping pull him out of the sand again.
"Wow. It's just as wonderful as I remember…" sitting on the dune, Ana paused. "It's stunning. Like a continuation of the stars…"
Ed walked to the top of the dune and dropped his suitcase in surprise. Al simply gasped. Ranamade sparkled. It's many lights looking literally like thousands of stars, except for the background lighting making the buildings stand out against the consuming darkness.
"It's the city that never sleeps…some shops are open 24 hours a day. One of my laws actually. I never understood how the city could be alive all evening with no shopping."
"Do all girls like shopping?" Al questioned softly.
"We need to get moving." She stood up before smiling avoiding Al's question. "Race you boys down." She took off at a run down the dune.
"No fair head start!" Ed yelled back running after her pulling his red coat tighter around himself.
"Brother!!!" The armour shouted following.
Purple fabric floated behind the Freeze Alchemist as she ran full speed down the hill. She laughed joyously, before her foot sunk slightly in the sand ad she lost her balance tumbling down the rest of the dune.
"Ana! I'm uggghhh…" Ed started before he too lost his footing and started tumbling as well.
Al ran faster sinking more and more each step managing to not fall over however, or completely sink.
Ana stopped rolling at the bottom of the dune giggling. The other blonde alchemist suddenly crashed into her and they tumbled slightly together further away from the dune.
When Al reached the bottom, he found both laughing tangled together.
"Ummm…don't we need to keep moving…" he whispered trying not to laugh at the State Alchemists position. If he had been human, he would have been blushing a deep red.
Both stopped laughing realizing the position they were in. Ana was lying on the ground, her flesh arm across her stomach, while her automail was tangled in the fabric of Ed's jacket surrounded by a few rips. Ed was ontop of her, his flesh hand tangled in her hair by the base of her neck where his hand instinctively placed it to protect her head when they kept tumbling, and his automail was caught in her jacket, more wrapped in it however and this was what supported his weight as he leaned over her. His right leg crossed her left, and her right was bent upwards as his left leaned against it.
They both layed there in shock for a second before trying to untangle themselves, legs first than arms. Yet, their automail didn't want to untangle from their jackets and in their rush to separate, tore the material, making it even more caught in the connections of the metal and wires. Ed lost his balance and fell flush to her, his eyes opening wide before he ripped her jacket practically in half as he rolled over off of her.
Luck wasn't on their side however because her automail was more caught than his and when he rolled over he pulled her arm back with him. She gasped in pain as her arm bent the wrong way, and she rolled as well to right her arms position.
Al watched the two struggling against each other trying to untangle, loosen, and for all other purposes destroy the others jacket trying to get away from the other. He wasn't sure that if he could show emotions he would be smiling and laughing, or blushing and look away. But because he could not truly smile or blush he simply chuckled to himself. The two were really quite a sight tumbling around limbs going every which direction, possibly making the tangle worse with each movement.
Both blondes were huffing as they tumbled and yanked on their automail, finally freeing themselves, and effectively ruining not only their jackets but making a few tears in their shirts as well. Ana now ontop of Ed swung one leg over him to meet the other and stood. Ed kicked onto his knees before standing up himself.
They wouldn't speak of it even when Al asked to explain why they wouldn't just unhook one arm at a time and save their clothes. Both wouldn't talk as they walked in silence toward the city, inwardly and outwardly blushing.
Suddenly Ana stopped moving her hand to her waist before running back to the dune and shinning a flash light on the hill. Ed and Al followed her, trying to get her to speak before they noticed that her gun was missing from its holster.
"Where is my gun…oh no…help me find it. I can't loose that gun!!!" She started yelling as she walked back up the path the two had made keeping her light close to the sand. "I can't loose this gun…I need it!!!" She was almost hyperventilating before Al yelled that he found it. It was sticking out of the dune near the middle when she had first tumbled. He ran it back down to her as she