Dun dun duuuuuun...chapter nine! Yatta! And the series ain't even close to being done, whoot! So yeah, to manage my time better, for now I'll be updating every Monday, giving myself room for the other 50 something fanfics I have to work on...
So yeah, I decided the Author's Notes are too long and will be replying to reviews at the end! Yay! And no reviewer shall stay...unreplied too...because like...my email doesn't work, so it's harder to reply to reviews, so I'll do it at the bottom. Yay laziness!
The mystery person is revealed this chapter! And more! Whoot!
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"We're here!" My mom yelled to us in relief.
"Yay!" We all yelled back, impatiently waiting for Dad to at least stop the car so we could get out. He finally found a place to park on the sidewalk and we all scrambled out, standing in front to face the high convention center.
This was the big secret I've been hiding from Ed, since I knew he wouldn't approve at a time like this. We're at Anime Boston '07! Ed wasn't so happy about that The whole 2 hour ride from 'Risembool', New York he was complaining in my head. Who knew he could find so many things to white about! He even started complaining that the sky wasn't as blue here as it was in Amestres. Amazing! (Even if it is understandable) As if it wasn't enough to have Rei's annoyingly blonde wig in my face the whole time.
Of course, Kiyoko and I were 'cosplaying' Lust and Ed. Wasn't really anything else we could do. I got Ed to transmute our outfits and everything! They were perfect, even though Ed forced me to put my hair in a braid. Rei was cosplaying Sailor Moon for some reason, and kept fighting with Kiyoko, trying to hit her with her...scepter thingy, and instead hitting me several times.
"You guys go have some fun while we find a hotel to stay in!" Mom told us with a semi-trusting smile. That was so unlike her, but I guess she assumed that since Ed was 16, he would make me more responsible. Pfft...good thing she didn't watch the anime. We all waved and they left.
"I cannot believe we're goofing off at a time like this!!" Ed shouted as soon as the car was out of sight. "Ow!" I winced, giggling to myself.
"I think it's a good idea. This way we can locate more of the reincarnations." Lust said through Kiyoko. We had figured out before that because she has no soul, she can freely take over anytime she wants. And somehow, she could read Ed's mind.
"That's right! We just gotta look for really good FMA cosplayers with Amestrian accents!" Rei said excitedly.
"That's not gonna work." Ed grumbled. I shrugged. "Worth a try! RED DAWN!" I suddenly shouted, charging into the convention center. We had already paid online, so I showed the guy my nametag thingy and ran inside with my sisters.
Man, it was crowded! As far as you can see were anime fans! I've never seen so many in one place! "Isn't this awesome?! It's like anime heaven!" I told my sisters, just to get no reply. I blinked and looked around. I spotted Rei running off and attacking random cosplayers with her Sailor Moon attacks, and Kiyoko flirting with a kinda cute Scar cosplayer. "Of course..." I deadpanned.
"Oh em gee, that's such an awesome cosplay!" I heard someone say excitedly. I blinked, looking at a small mob of cosplayers staring at me with wide, almost sparkling eyes. I gulped, suddenly reminded of mad fangirls. Dammit! "Th-thanks?"
They all rushed at me before I could get away, all of them asking me questions or complimenting me. Dammit, I know I look like Ed, they don't have to swarm me! But I'd do the same to anyone else...dammit!
"Wow, you look exactly like Ed!" One cosplayer squeaked.
"Is this a wig?" Someone started yanking my braid. Ow!
"Wah! Awesome automail!" Someone else pulled off my gloves and started pulling at my automail for a better look. Some of the others tried to get it to see too.
"Gah?! You're a girl!!?" That one got me mad, because they touched me where they shouldn't. This was like a bad anime!
"Leave me alone!" I yelled, instinctively clapping my hands together. I ducked down and slammed them to the ground. Somehow, I transmutated the floor into a pillar that brought me up and hurtled me into the air. Everyone looked up from the sound of my screaming and gasped, pointing and staring at the pillar. But of course, nobody tried saving me. Thanks alot.
"You idiot!" Ed screamed. I didn't answer, already too preoccupied with falling to really do anything else but scream. I finally landed on some Al cosplayer, knocking us both to the ground. Half the room exploded with applause, the other nicer half rushing over to ask if we were alright.
"Owww..." I whined, rubbing my head. "Hey, you al-" I stopped, my face turning red when I noticed the position we were in. Let's just say it really fulfilled the yaoi fangirl's dreams.
Catcalls about Elricest started up, making me blush harder. "S-sorry!" I squeaked, jumping off and trying to help the Al cosplayer up. "This is oddly familiar." Ed muttered to himself, probably reminded of Psiren.
"It's fine." She muttered (yes, it was a girl). hiding her face behind her very Al-like bangs. I blinked and gasped; she sounded Amestrian! "Hey you're-" I got cut off again, because the same mob from before surrounded me and Al's cosplayer, separating us.
"Woah, you just did alchemy!!"
"How'd you do that?!"
"Teach us!"
"Dammit Ayumi, that was Al!" Ed shouted over them. "I know, okay?! But I ain't using alchemy again!" I shouted back, adding an Amestrian swearword in that. I quickly thought of something almost equally as stupid as using alchemy without knowing how.
"Ed, I'm counting on you to help me do this right!" I yelled to him. "What?!"
I jumped into the air, twisting my body into a backflip that I knew I couldn't do before if I wasn't Ed. I went over them while screaming my lungs out, Ed freaking out in my head as I flipped 3 times in the air and landed the wrong way. I felt something snap in my automail leg and stumbled back, crashing into a Riku cosplayer. We both fell over, with Ed yelling at me that I was an idiot.
"Ow, what was that?" The Riku cosplayer asked. I opened my eyes -I closed them when I jumped- and turned red. Why do I always have to be put in these positions?! Riku was right on top of me! He was also blindfolded, which was lucky.
"Uh...um...uhm..." I stuttered dizzily. Ed called me an idiot again.
Riku-I'm calling him that because I don't know his name- sighed in frustration. "Screw this." He muttered to himself, ripping off the blindfold. He blinked several times and stared at me with bluish-gray eyes.
I gasped. "You're the lifeguard!"
"Huh? Oh, right, it is you!" Riku smiled. I fangirled in my mind. "Glad you're alright."
A group of fangirls randomly started singing. "Riku and Edo sitting in a tree, F-U-"
"Shut up, you sickos!" I shouted, making them all run off giggling. Riku blinked, rolling off me and standing, blinking his awesome blue-gray eyes. "That was weird." He commented.
"Yes." I replied, standing up and fantasizing. He was the perfect guy; hot and anime obsessed. He was perfect! I was just about to ask him something when I heard my mom chasing me again. I cursed. "Riku, if you find any Al cosplayers with a weird accent, tell her I'm looking for her!" I yelled, running off to leave him looking confused. "Real smooth, Ayumi." Ed mumbled angrily.
"Shut up!" I yelled, running as fast as I could with a probably broken automail. I weaved in and out through people, spotting a dark corner behind a row of plants to hide in. Apologizing quickly, I grabbed another Ed cosplayer and threw her in the way, then ducked behind the plants. I heard screams just seconds later as the fangirls got her.
"You're evil!" Ed accused. "You woulda done the same thing." I answered with a smirk. He didn't respond. Someone suddenly grabbed me around the waist and covered my mouth, pulling me further into the shadows. Freaking out, I tried to kick whoever had me from behind, but my foot connected with nothing. I was let go, and instead of running like I should've, I turned to see who it was. It was someone wearing a long black cloak that reminded me of the Organization XIII cloak, but it was more simple then that. In the darkness of the hood, I spotted the familiar glint of light reflecting off glasses. (Because I'm slow, I only just realized this morning that I didn't need glasses anymore. Go figure.)
"It's been a long time...Edward..." The figure said in a low, disguised voice. I blinked slowly, feeling Ed suddenly getting really angrily. I suddenly grabbed the person by their collar and pulled them closer, narrowing my eyes into a glare. "Arakawa." Ed growled through me.
I was shocked, despite the sudden anger I felt towards this person. Ed just controlled my body without transferring! What the fricking hell!?
Then I gasped when I really realized what Ed had just said. "Arakawa?! As in Arakawa-sensei?! Himoru Arakawa!!? Wow, you-you...wow!!"
Himoru chuckled, prying my fingers away from her cloak. "You turned out nicely." She whispered. I barely heard her, continuing to ramble on about how great she was, and that she's a genius and so on and so forth.
"Ayumi, shut up and listen to me! This whole mess is her fault!" Ed snarled in my head. I blinked, stopping in my tracks. "What?"
"So it would've been better if Amestres was destroyed?" Himoru asked with a sneer in her quiet voice. I gaped at her; she read my...er...Ed's mind! Ed cursed at her, so I guess he knew already. "If you had created Amestres as easily as you say, then saving it would've taken a second!"
"You created Amestres!!?!" I gasped, getting ignored.
"Shut up, Ed. You have no idea what you're talking about." She paused, and I just barely saw her smile under the hood. "Ayumi, we'll see each other again."
"Um...okay?" I replied, confused. She laughed again, pointing behind me. I looked and saw Riku trying to wave me over. "Riku...?" I blinked twice, looking back at Himoru, but she was gone.
"Dammit! You should've punched her face in when we had the change!" Ed yelled angrily. "Okay, shut up, Ed, you don't know what you're talking about." I answered distractedly, not realizing that I just quoted Himoru. He muttered something in Amestrian, too quietly to hear. I chose to instead ignore him, climbing out from between the plants, and stumbled my way towards Riku. But at the last second, I tripped over my own feet and fell, crashing into someone again and sending us both to the ground. Again. Stupid leg!
"Ow! How many times are you gonna crash into me?!"
"Um... Edo...? I brought that girl you were looking for." Riku said sheepishly.
I gasped (again), pulling my ace off the floor, which by the way, did not taste that good. "Really?!" Before either of them said anything, I threw my arms around Al in a 'tackle'hug, which caught her off-guard and she made a very Al-ish squeak. (I don't know what that is, but she did it and it sounded really cute)
"I'm so glad you're alright...I was worried about you." I whispered in her ear. I wasn't exactly sure if I was saying that or if Ed was. My voice kinda sounded Amestrian, but kinda didn't. She just blinked, reflecting Riku's expression of shock and confusion.
"B-brother?" She whispered back, her voice sounding the same as mind; half Amestrian, half whatever accent she already had. Some people in the background went "Awwww" while some others were cheering about Elricest again.
"So it really is you, Al?" I asked curiously, slowly letting her go. This time I was sure that it was me talking. Al blinked and nodded.
Is there a reason we're both girls? I wondered to myself, hoping that Ed didn't hear. He probably did, since he made an annoyed sound.
Al giggled for some reasoned. I smiled sheepishly, studying her face. She seemed familiar somehow, but it was hard to tell because she also looked so much like Al did. She had the same hazel-ish eyes as Al, and the same hairstyle, same basically everything. Except she was shorter then me by like, half an inch. Yay! I also just found out this morning that the transmutation made me shorter. "Oh, dammit." I mumbled.
"What's wrong?" She asked in that same half Amestrian accent that confused me so much. "Uhm.." I didn't exactly feel like answering in case it sounded weird. Instead, I chose to stare at her eyes. See, I have this thing with eyes and I like studying the colors and shapes, because I'm weird. Her's had bits of blue and green freckled in with the dark golden brown. Something told me that I've met someone with eyes like that, from a picture online.
"Oh!" I jabbed a finger in her face. "Melissa! Wow, it's really you!" I yelled excitedly. "You're Agent Triple Zero on fanfiction!"
"You're way too obsessed for your own good." Ed said in my head. Her face brightened though. "Oh, Ayumi! I didn't expect you to be here!" She replied cheerfully, her voice finally back to normal. "And I didn't know Ayumi was your real name."
"Long story." I mumbled. I didn't feel like explaining the whole weird story behind my name. "Yo, how long have you been Al?" I whispered to her as I helped her off the floor. "About a month." She whispered back, looking quizzically at me.
"A whole month?! Holy crap!" I yelled by accident, earning a couple of strange looks. I quickly redeemed myself by unconvincingly yelling, "That long until the next FMA manga comes out, no fair!" They walked away, and I was once again reminded of being in an anime.
Riku cleared his throat a bit, reminding me that he was still here. "My sister's coming." He muttered nervously.
"You have a sister?" I blinked, looking in the direction Riku was pointing. An Izumi cosplayer (a really good Izumi cosplayer!) was charging herself towards us. "Crap!" Ed yelled.
"What?!" Izumi had suddenly jumped into the air and kicked me hard in the face. I crashed into the wall behind us and swore through a now bloody nose. "Ah?! Brother!" Melissa/Al ran over to me. People around us stopped and stared with wide eyes. When will I not be able to bring attention to myself?
"Idiot, what the hell took you so long?!" She demanded. She had an Amestrian accent! "Oh crap, it's really her!" Ed shouted in terror.
Ah, so this is what Izumi was like when she was mad. Hahaha...I'm staring death in the face right now...
Well, it was nice knowing me.
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And cut! x.x; Finally! I couldn't find a way to end the chapter and it got so long! And then this spider came out of nowhere and freaked me out! T.T Worse, it took an hour to type this chapter up! Gah!
Okay, now to the reviews! -gives cookies to all reviewers-
Chibi Kabuto-Cute name! X3 And personally, I think that Ed does dazzle as much as Edward...he smeeexy...
Shoushin- Rei acts like Wrath? XD That's kinda funny, cuz in real life I cat more like Wrath then her. I'm like a mix between Ed, Wrath and Envy...mwahaha!
Chibi-Elric-Chan- X3 Thanks! I'm not that good an author, am I? .o. Huh, I never really notice...
agent000- Sister! -glomps- I finally updated! Dunno what else to say, cuz I replied to this already...except...you were in this chapter, yatta!
wolfboy1021- I'll reply to both your reviews this chapter, okay? X3 It was Himoru, not Dante. Someone no one could possibly guess, but she's the most important 'character' in FMA. Mwahaha! Rei's staying without a Reincarnations, cuz I prefer the idea that only 2/3 of the family has FMA souls/spirits. And I'll PM you about putting up a story! X3
Yami Hikari-Yeah, the review thingy is a wonderful little button on the bottom of the screen...and yeah, Kiyoko's fine. n.n She suggested being Lust in the first place. And how'd you fall off your chair? o.O
Skyler25- O.o Lot's of capital letters there, Skyler...and Reincarnations is an awesome distraction from homework...which by the way, I still need to do mine...oops!
Monkey Mist Robo- Okay, I decided that the grammatical structure thingy for Amestrian is...the same as it is for German...so yeah, I dunno. XP And yesh, I planned on making a guide to learn Amestrian up...someday...
Harry loves Ginny- Yay HarryxGinny! I updated! X3 Mistress of Fullmetal...I like that! -evil smirk- I am ze Mistress of Fullmetal! Mwahaha! That is now one of my many titles now!
Alexa- Somehow I spelled your name wrong at first...I fixed it though...and yeah, send me the real life profile of you n.n
Somizura-Si, poor Edo...-brief tear- And you weren't supposed to expect it, I've trained in the art of surprise! And to Rei being a brat, she says, and I quote "HEY! I am NOT a brat, take that back!" But she is, so who cares what she says! And the Amestrian I'm currently inventing...n.n I have a notebook and everything!
Well, that makes the chapter a little longer...ah, well! Reviews please!!! Ja mata!