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Mornings. I have never liked them, even as a child. Even after all of these years in this world, I've never liked them. So waking up to shouting and screaming wasn't high on my list of my rare good mornings. I groaned, shifting in the bed I was in, rolling onto my back, and rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I found it was quite early in the morning since the sun was barely coming up. Listening to the shouts I could tell that Ed was here and having a short rant, and that the other was a woman, though she didn't seem to be yelling at anyone in particular, more like everyone in the house.
Rolling out of bed, highly annoyed, I padded barefoot out of the room and down the stairs until I came across Sirius trying, and I mean it when I saying trying, to silence a portrait. It was definitely an odd sight to see. I put it off as having to do with magic, it being to early to figure it out rationally. The woman's screeching made me wanna tear out my ears. Having enough of it I stormed over, clapping my hands together, and placed them on the wall. A flash of light later the painting and part of the wall fell to the floor. Sirius looked at me shocked for a second before grinning madly. He nodded his head in appreciation of me and I continued on my way to the other source of noise, Edward. I found it to be coming from the kitchen. I pushed open the door so hard that it hit the wall with a resounding smack. Everyone looked at me with mixed emotions. Most were confused but my brothers both held looks of terror on their faces.
"Sky I-" Ed started before I was in front of him. I flipped Edward onto his stomach and dug my automail leg into his back, hard. Ed was lucky that I had taken some of my anger out on that portrait.
"Edward," I growled. "Yelling at people before the sun is even up properly, is rude. You also woke the rest of the house with your fit." After that I let him up and Alphonse ran up and hugged me, realizing that my anger wasn't directed at him. I laughed at my little brother's antics, but I would expect nothing less from him.
"Oh Sky I'm so glad you're alright. We were so worried about you!" Al said glad to see I was safe. He was always the worries of the three of us. I patted his head softly, and he pulled away smiling. Edward finally recovered from my slight beating, smiled at me as well.
"All they would tell us was that you were safe," Ed said.
"And I am for the most part. Now did Dumbledore speak with you before you blew up?" I responded and he nodded.
"He said some things about a school, magic, and Dad," Ed explained. Now that was new. Dumbledore didn't say anything about my father last night. It must have been Ed's looks that made him mention it.
"Magic is real, and find out what he knows about Dad. The school is called Hogwarts if I remember correctly," I told him and he still looked skeptical about it. Ed turned to Dumbledore and before Ed could say anything Dumbledore beat him to it.
"Why don't we talk upstairs, my boy?" Dumbledore asked, and I saw Ed glare at the two words 'my boy'. Ed nodded and the two left the room leaving me with Al, Mrs. Weasley, and a woman.
She was a little shorter than myself and had bright pink hair. I found her hair kinda awesome. I didn't like the color, but I loved her boldness to have it that color. She notice me looking at her and smiled at me. She came over to me and introduced herself.
"Wotcher. I'm Tonks," she said and I looked at her confused. He greeting was also a little confusing as well.
"Tonks?" I questioned.
"I don't like my first name," she grumbled making me smile.
"That's understandable. I'm Skylar Elric," I said shaking her hand. We parted and Mrs. Weasley came over.
"Are you hungry dearies?" Just then my stomach chose to groan loudly. Al, Tonks and I all laughed. Mrs. Weasley smiled at us and started cooking. Tonks, Al and I went over to the long table and sat down. We were just about to start talking when the kitchen door opened and in the doorway stood four red heads, one girl and three boys, two of which were identical, and a girl with bushy brown hair. The red heads all looked to be siblings, and must be Mrs. Weasley's children. I vaguely remember them from last night. They all stared at Al and I before they joined us at the table. The twins were the first to speak.
"I'm Fred-" one twin started.
"And I'm George-" the other twin continued.
"We're the Weasley twins," they said together in perfect sync.
"Ed and Sky are twins," Al commented and I groaned. Most people didn't realize that Ed and I were twins with how different we look. Ed looks like a younger version of our father with all of his colorings. Myself on the other hand got my mothers coloring with a softer version of my fathers features, except for my nose, which I got from my mum. I don't have his height either. If the gate had closed right Ed could reach his full height, but until then he's stuck at my five foot six inches. I could see their confused faces, and Ed not being in the room didn't help any, unless they saw him on their way down.
"You mean the blond guy we saw with Dumbledore?" Fred asked.
"Yeah," Al nodded.
"You two don't look alike," the twin's brother stated.
"They're fraternal, not identical," Al explained and that seemed to clarify things for them.
"I'm Ginny," said the red headed girl.
""Hermione Granger," the other girl smiled. Just hearing her speak made me think she was a know-it-all.
"Ron," said the last boy.
"Alphonse Elric," Al told them.
"Skylar Elric," I said grumbling. I look over and see Hermione staring at my eyes just like Harry was doing when I first met him.
"Vat is vith you damn people and my eyes?" I shout at them and they flinch. Hermione seemed brave enough to face me and spoke up.
"Gold in the eyes usually mean werewolf here." This made me question her sanity. I mean sure that Remus guy mentioned werewolves at the end of my interrogation, but I honestly didn't really believe him. Seeing my look she decided to clarify. "You remember Lupin?" I nodded my head and she continued. "Remember the gold in his eyes? Well he's a werewolf." I think back and remember there being some gold in them but not that much. I guess for these people they are real. So what if the guy turns into a monster once a month, he's okay so far once he stopped questioning and untied me anyway.
"It's genetic," I said lapsing back into silence, not bothering to elaborate any further.
"So are you coming to Hogwarts? Because I've never seen you there before," Ginny asked.
"It's depends on Ed. I vould like to go, but it's all or none vith us," I explained.
"How old are you?" Ron asked.
"I'm fourteen, but I tend to act older most of the time," Al said.
"I'm ei-" I was about to say eighteen when Ed walked in and finished for me.
"Sixteen," he said and I glared at him. He mouthed the word later in Amestrian, so I went with it for now.
"You don't look older than us," Ron said standing to face Ed. Ron was a good few inches taller than Ed, and I could feel the tension rise in the air. This boy wasn't very bright if he's unable to feel this tension.
"You're really short," Ron said stupidly. Before I could stop Ed he punched Ron with his automail arm. You could hear the crunch of the idiot's nose, when Ed's fist connected. Ed stormed out of the room leaving the bloody faced Ron on the floor, where he had fallen to. Mrs. Weasley had turned when she heard the crunching of her son's nose. She started fussing over him putting breakfast on hold until she got him situated. I felt no sympathy for the moron.
"I'm sorry about Brother. He has a temper on him," Al apologized. I rubbed the bridge of my rose in annoyance.
"Alphonse, there is no need to apologize for Edward," I told him, then turning my glare to the idiot on the floor. "You on the other hand, I hope you learned your lesson on calling Ed short or any form of the word." I stood up and put my hands in my pockets. I went over to the stove to finish cooking, since who knew when it would be finished now. I ignored the filing of more people in to the room, including Ed coming back. I knew he wouldn't last long without food. I had just finished when the moronic Weasley opened his fucking mouth again.
"What man can cook and have it be good?" He also assumed I was a man just like everyone else did, no surprise there. I ignored him and placed the food on the table. Ed and Al knowing my cooking piled their plates and dug into the food. Everyone else slowly did the same, but Ron wouldn't touch it.
"Vat is your problem now Weasley?"
"Why would I eat your cooking?" he snapped. I smirked at how stupid and childish this boy was.
"Vell everyone else seems to be enjoying it. Oh and men can cook. Ed burns water but Al can cook just as well as any woman can."
"And what about yourself?" Hermione asked noticing I didn't include myself.
"I might not have the boobs you do Hermione, but though they are small I do have them." At this Ron flushed and gaped at me before he finally gave up and piled food on to his plate as well.
After breakfast people slowly started dispersing out of the room. Mrs. Weasley started the clean up so Ed, Al, and I left the room. In the next room I find Sirius and Remus quietly speaking with each other, though they seemed to have forgotten that they had some explaining to do to Ed. This was gonna be funny to watch and I knew it.
"Ah just the two men I needed to see. I'm guessing you haven't talked vith Ed yet?" At this they both backed away and Ed perked up at the mention of his name.
"There's more to tell?" he asked annoyed.
"Oh yes. Though they vere only present in the room, the one you'll vant after they explain is Moody. Now you two, tell him."
Both men turn to Ed and start telling him what happened and the further along they got the angrier Edward got. By the end Ed just completely snapped at them, and started yelling.
"You kidnapped my sister, drugged her to tell zee truth, and have zee audacity to ask us to come to your school of voodoo magic! Vat zee hell is wrong vith you people! Some zings aren't for you to know! If any of you in zis "Order" ever does some zing like zis again zere vill be hell to pay for everyone involved!" Ed shouted furiously and loudly, his accent showing strongly in his anger. Both men retreated with nods of understanding into the kitchen. "Sky you'll have to point out this Moody person to me ven he's here so I can give him a good punch to the face."
"Sure. I vant to get one in there as vell but I vas thinking more along the lines of a kick to the balls," I grinned at the thought of getting some revenge on Moody. Ed and Al though both grimaced at the thought of that.
"Maybe vee should discuss the details of vat Ed and Mr. Dumbledore talked about," Al suggested and Ed and I both sighed putting our plots for revenge on the back burner to discuss this school of magic.
I showed the boys up to our room where Ed started explaining everything that was going on. Ed and I would be in sixth year while Al will be in fourth year. Dumbledore also asked that we keep an eye on Harry and his friends. Dad was apparently in this Wizarding world at some point, and that Dumbledore knew him. He became know for his combining of magic and alchemy apparently. He even has a vault at the wizarding bank. We were also asked to not use alchemy openly in front of people. This request annoyed me but I had a feeling it would be thrown out the window shortly knowing my brother. Ed also said we had to catch up on everything we missed. Just how were we going to catch up was my only question.
"Where are we going to get the books from though?" Al asked him.
"I was told to ask a Hermione Granger for the majority of our books but for the fifth year books to ask the twins," Ed answered.
"I met Hermione at the table before breakfast. She reminded me of an annoying know it all," I commented.
"She seemed nice though," Al said.
"Well let's get the books, so we can start reading up," Ed said and while I asked the twins Ed and Al went and asked Hermione. The twins willingly gave me the books I asked for and we meet back up in our room. The stacks of books were quite large but one of the benefits of being prodigies is that we are quick to finish books. We quickly then went to work, starting with the first year books.
Later that evening Harry showed up and he was pretty pissed at everyone. He was yelling at his friends since they didn't send him any letters or tell him of anything that was going on in the wizarding world. He made Hermione cry even and that's when Ed had finally had enough of his attitude and started yelling at him.
"Vill you shut up! You just made one of you best friends cry with how you're acting. Stop being a dick and go get your answers from the Order!" Ed shouted at Harry and stormed out of the room.
"I'm gonna go see if the meeting is done, cause I'm starving. Alphonse make sure Edward gets down to eat soon," I said and also left the room making my way down stairs. I get close and I see Ginny.
"They are still in there and they also made it so we can't eavesdrop either," she told me making me sigh.
"I just vant some food damn it. How hard is that to ask for?" I grumbled making Ginny look at me funny. " Sorry about that. I'm guessing they don't tell you anything?"
"No they think we're to young to know, but we wanna know, just in case something happens and we need to help," she told me frustrated. I could understand her wanting to know. I remember many times Ed not telling me something important, or even Mustang keeping some important information from the three of us. Being up at Briggs for the time I was, kept me from knowing a lot of things going on with my brothers and the country.
"I can some vat understand vhere you are coming from. Ed has many times kept some thing from me to try and protect me, but it just ends badly and I end up finding out from Al later," I said smiling at one of the times he had done so, even if it was a foolish attempt of his. "Though I have a feeling vee may all get some answers tonight vith Harry being here. Edward even told him get some," I laughed, making her laugh as well.
"I hope we do get some answers soon," she said once we stopped laughing. I sighed and started making my way downstairs when I heard the boys start making there way down. Ed and Al being the last ones to join us, though I could tell Ed was still pissed off, but wouldn't turn down a good home made meal. Ed brooded off to the side with Al shaking his head at out brother's childish behavior. He would probably be over it shortly though, most likely by the end of dinner even. Mrs. Weasley came out and told us that dinner would be ready in a few minutes and to make our way into the kitchen. Dinner was delicious, and I enjoyed listening to the happy conversations going on around us. After dinner Harry demanded answers and Sirius was able to give him some but not before Mrs. Weasley cut him off. We learned though at this Voldy-shorts guys was after some kind of weapon, though we didn't know what it was. After the semi enlightening dinner we all headed back up to our room to continue with our reading of the large stack of books, just so we could attend this magic school called Hogwarts.
Edited! Not much else to add here.
~Laterz
19/7/2015