The House in the Forest
Hurray for quick updates! :) I've decided that every other chapter will be from Mikayla POV and the others Michelle...soo it's Mikayla, Michelle, Mikayla, ect. Anywho, ENJOY!
~Michelle~
Awkward silence…
What am I suppose to say to the Fullmetal Alchemist? Hi, my name is Michelle and I'm a huge fan of yours? Yeah, that would go over well.
"Who are you two?" Ed asked, his guard up.
"I'm Michelle Stones and this is Mikayla Ryan." I replied, gesturing to Mikayla.
"Who are you?" Mikayla asked, even though she knew who it was.
He looked us over for a moment before replying, "Edward Elric."
He then crouched down next to Al (who was in his human body) and nudged his shoulder, "Al wake up, Al!"
Al groaned and opened his eyes, "Brother?" He sat up and looked around him, "Where are we?"
"I don't know Al. I remember us walking into this house to get out of the rain and then falling through the floor." Ed replied.
He looked up at the ceiling and raised an eyebrow, "The hole is gone…"
"Yeah, it just randomly closed a few minutes after Michelle and I woke up." Mikayla said.
She then dug into her jean pocket and took out her purple LG Lotus cell phone.
"Get any signal?" I asked, looking over her shoulder.
"Nope, nada." She replied, putting it back in her pocket.
I groaned, "What now then?"
"What are an Ishballen and a Xing doing here?"
Mikayla and I turned to see Roy and Riza had woken up and were looking at us oddly.
"Ishballen?" Mikayla questioned, "I'm not Ishballen."
"And I'm not from Xing." I added.
"Then who are you?" Roy asked.
"I'm Michelle and she's Mikayla." I replied.
Roy started looking around the room- looking at the papers on the desk.
"Merlin Ross?" Roy muttered, tracing his index finger over the paper.
"It's his will. I think this is his house." I said, walking to stand next to him.
I feel like a shrunk little…
I've always been vertically challenged (Mikayla: SHORT!)…Shut up Mikayla. I'm 5 foot 1 inches and standing next to Roy made me feel like I was an ant.
But then I thought: Ha! I'm standing next to Roy Mustang! Suck it fan girls!
"Well, that would explain why his will is here." Roy said, going through more documents. "By the looks of the bank statement this guy is rich."
I walked over bookshelf and found some more papers, "Hey, Mustang look-"
"How do you know my name? I never told you it."
Crap…
I looked over at Mikayla who was glaring daggers at me.
"Great, now they think we're spies or something." She mouthed to me.
There was a click of a gun and Mikayla was at gunpoint by Riza.
"Explain." Riza demanded.
"Um…well, you see what had happened was-"
I interrupted Mikayla but saying, "Mikayla, let me handle this."
If I left it to Mikayla to explain she'd probably get us killed (Mikayla: I'm glad she has so much faith in me…).
No problem best friend. So, I took the initiative to explain how we knew them in the sanest way I could muster. The looks they gave us was very amusing.
"So…you're telling us…we're characters from a series?" Ed asked.
"Exactly."
"Bullshit."
"No, it's real shit."
Mikayla gave me a look, "What? Stop messing around! Dude, I'm still at gunpoint!"
I went back to being serious and I turned to Riza, "Can you put your gun down please. I can promise you Mikayla is probably the most harmless person you will ever meet."
Yeah right, she's the most violent person I've ever met.
Riza put her gun down and Mikayla breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't believe anything you just said but I can tell you guys aren't spies." Roy said.
Well that's a step.
There was a wave of silence and no one really knew what to say.
"So," Mikayla started, "What now? I opt that we all go home."
"Good plan, let's go." Ed said, heading towards the door of the study.
We all followed him out the door and into the dimly lit hallway. Dusty picture frames lined either side of the narrowed hallway in each direction. The floor beneath us creaked with each step we took and I took mental notes on what to write in my novel.
"This place smells like crap." Mikayla muttered against her hand that was over her nose and mouth.
We fond two stairs cases- one that went up the next floor and another that went to the floor below.
"This one should lead up back to the front door." Roy said, climbing up the staircase.
What we found was definitely not the front door. It was an empty room with a single chair in the middle. By chair, I mean an electric chair they use to send people do their deaths.
"I dare you to sit in that." I said, nudging Mikayla.
"No, I'm good." She said, looking at the chair wearily.
"Let's go this way." Roy said, taking a left turn down a hallway that was connected he room.
"Why on earth would someone want to have an electric chair in their house?" I wondered aloud.
"Who knows, I just want to get out of here." Mikayla said, her brown eyes darting around the hallway.
She hated scary movies and haunted trails so I could imagine that this house was driving her insane (and not the good kind of insane).
A heard something scamper across the floor and Mikayla almost pissed herself.
"Calm down, it's just a couple of rats." I told her calmly.
"Michelle, I hate houses like this." She muttered, inching closer to me- her shoulder brushing against me. "I freaking hate you right now."
"Oh stop, we'll be out in a few minutes."
A few minute turned into a few hours.
"Brother, what time is it?" Al asked.
Ed took his silver pocket watch out of his pocket and opened it up, "My watch stopped…"
SILENCE
"We're so dead…" Mikayla groaned.
"Oh stop it." I snapped, "Why would we die when we have alchemists on our side?"
"Michelle…timed stopped. It's movie law that when ever the characters walk into a house and times stops at least two of them die." She replied as if it was the most reasonable explanation.
I suddenly walked face first into Roy's back and would have fallen on the floor if it weren't for Mikayla catching me.
"Where did Hawkeye and Alphonse go?" Roy asked.
Shit, I didn't even notice they were missing! Wasn't Al just talking!
"Al! Alphonse!" Ed shouted down the hall.
"Hawkeye! Lieutenant Hawkeye!" Roy shouted.
"Damn it!" Ed shouted, punching the wall causing a picture frame to fall, "We have to find them before we leave!"
We continued our trek down the hallway and made sure to keep on eye on each other. We came to a room they held fifteen doors.
"We should take that one." Ed said, pointing at a door.
"No, Fullmetal we're taking that one." Roy said, pointing at a door on the opposite side of the room.
"Let's be rational about this." I said, examining the doors.
"Let's see there are fifteen doors, four of us, three planes of existence and one house. The sum of these numbers is twenty-three. The Number 23 is a movie staring Jim Carry and has an 8% rating on rotten . The most popular brand of ketchup is Heinz 57. 57 divided by 23 is about two and a half. Two and a half men is a sitcom staring Charlie Sheen. There for-" [1]
"Are you being serious right now?" I asked, "Did you seriously just quote Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged?"
"You said, be rational and since I'm being rational is should be this one." She said, going to the door farthest to the left.
"I'm lost…" Ed muttered, confused on why Mikayla had said all that, "Who the hell is Charlie Sheen?"
"Trust you me you don't want to know." I replied, walking over to Mikayla, "Let's take a different door."
She rolled her eyes, "Either way we have to go through one if we want to find Riza and Al! We might as well go through this one."
"Let's just go." Roy said, walking past us, "I would like to go home."
I followed Roy and Mikayla walked next to Ed. The narrow hallway only allowed us to walk two by two.
"What's that noise?" I heard Ed asked from behind.
A rumbling sound was heard from behind us and it sounded like it was closing in on us.
"Run!" Roy shouted.
We all started sprinting down the hall trying to find somewhere to hide.
"This way!" Roy shouted, pushing me to the right.
I saw Ed push Mikayla to the left down another hallway and a huge bolder rolled by us.
"Thanks Mustang." I said, standing up from the grimy floor.
"No problem." He said, "Where did Ed and Mikayla go?"
We looked across the hall and saw the hallway that they where just hiding in was replaced by a wall.
"You've got to be kidding me." I muttered.
Lesson of the day? Don't let Mikayla choose the door.
Author's Corner:
~[1] Though a tad bit altered that came from episode 18 of Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged by Lanipator. I couldn't help it...I had to put it in XD
~OH NO! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW! EVERYONE SPLIT UP! (you know how scary movies work everyone gets split up to either pairs or on their own)
~I think you should review or I will send Germany and England out to get you (Hetalia Axis Powers FTW)