HEY GUESS WHAT! I'm not DEAD! YAAAY! Lol, sorry for not updating regularly. I've been busy. Real life. You know. Lol! Anyways, River part duex!
If you're looking for a song to listen to while reading this, try Hurricane by 30 Seconds to Mars or The River by Good Charlotte. Both. Are. EPIC! :D
Pleas review!
The water came quicker than he thought.
FWWOOOSH!
Ed landed painfully in the rushing water and began sank immeditaly, being pushed down river as well. The water roared in his ears and stung his eyes. He paddled franticaly, grasping the water, trying to pull himself to the surface. Surprisingly, this worked. His head broke surface and he caught a breath of air before going under again.
He struggled in the water's grasp, swimming upward again, and breaking surface again. This time, a rock in the water caught his attention. Leaping through the water like a dog in the snow, he let his fingers slip into the grooves of the rock. Clinging despreatly to his savior, he peered up the river beaten wall, to the top of the ridge. He caught sight of something running along the bank. Not something, he told himself, someone!
Edward saw the figures start to run further downriver. They didn't see him! Pulling himself further onto the rock, he attempted to call for help. Before any noise was made, a wave splashed into his mouth, causing him to sputter and spit out the foul tasting liquid. Ed tried again, keeping his head higher and away from the water. One word sparked in his head as he screeched for help.
"ROY!"
Another wave crashed onto the rock, stonger this time. Ed's fingers slipped from the rock, bit by bit.
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Oooohhhh shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit SHIT! Roy sprinted down the bank, following the current, keeping one eye on the river, and one in front of him. the grass blurred underneath his feet, and Alphonse could be heard running behind him.
The waves of the river crashed below, splashing over small rocks that jutted from the swirling liquid. As he past a large rock, Roy thought he heard something like a sputter, but it was too small to tell. Pasing it off as a splash form the river, he kept running, until-
"ROY!"
The Colonel stopped abruptly, almost falling and almost having a speed Al crash into him. He turned and looked back at that larger rock. At first, all he could see was water.
Then something bright red shone in the dark.
Edward. Was clinging. To a fucking. ROCK.
"Oooh DAMN!" Mustang made to turn back when Ed washed off the rock, sinking into the murky water.
At that moment, Roy made a possibly stupid decistion.
He jumped head long into the water.
A cold rush chilled him instantly.
For a moment, Roy floated there in the churning water, before snapping into action. He dove deep into the river, the muck burning his eyes. He waved his arms around wildly, trying to feel for the young alchemist rather than seeing him. With rising panic, he found nothing.
Then something brushed past his hand. Cloth. Roy grabbed out blindly, managing to snatch onto whatever had touched him. Pulling the cloth towards him through the water, Roy found that it had incredible weight. 'I've got him!' Roy thought, his fear fading.
But his panic only returned when he saw the blonde. He was unconcious. A dead weight with steel anchors.
Roy slipped one arm under the alchemist's, and with as much strength as he could summon, pushed off the river bottom.
Both their heads exploded on the surface, and the older struggled to stay above. Keeping Ed's head out of the ripping current, Roy reached out blindly again, looking for anything to hold onto. Relief washed through him as he came to another large rock. He grappled for a hold on the slippery surface for a moment before finding a crack. The Colonel sunk his fingers between the split and hauled as much as their bodies out of the river as possible.
Roy lied there for a moment, trying to drag oxygen back into his lungs. He flicked his eyes over to Ed.
And a whole new flood of fear slammed onto his chest.
He watched. And watched. Looking for a sign...
Edward wasn't breathing. His sides didn't rise or fall. They stayed so still...
Roy leaped to action again, panic giving him new found enegry. He flipped the young alchemist onto his back, intertwined his fingers, placed the heel of his hand on his chest and pressed down hard. Basic medical training in the military had served him well. 'I guess it's a good thing Havoc pushed me to take that up, after all!'
Roy repeated this motion for a while. After around 20 seconds of no reponse, he moved on with a twing of uncomfortablilty. He tipped Ed's head back and pinched the blondes nose shut. With as much trained professionalisim as he could muster, Roy took a deep breath and placed his mouth over the youngers. Forcing down his panic, Roy pushed the breath of air into Ed's lungs.
With a feral-like snarl, Roy clasped his hands together again and pushed down on his chest once more. With a jolt, Ed almost shot up with a strangled cough. He turned himself on his side and continued to hack roughly, coughing out a stream of water onto the rock.
Roy rubbed Edward's back soothingly, raising his head up to the ledge above. He saw Alponse staring down at the pair, eyes wide. Roy flashed him a quick smile of reasurance, and returned to looking over his older brother.
Ed now lied on the jagged rock, his breaths coming quick and shallow. His golden eyes were dull and half-lidded with exuastion. Just as his eyes almost closed, Roy nudged him, "Hey," he said with a soft voice, "Stay awake. Alright?"
The young alchemist opened his eyes again. He seemed to glare at Roy stopping him from getting rest. Roy chuckled and said, "Oh, come on. Please?"
Which, by the way, was totally not begging. Roy Mustang did not beg anymore, led alone his snappy suborbinate.
But Ed gave in, not agreeing for disagreeing, but still forcing himself to stay awake.
Roy snapped his head up with he heard a clap. From above, a vine-like-rope inched it's way down the stood lowering it down. It brushed the rock and Roy snatched onto it. He looked back upto the younger Elric.
Al cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted down to the pair of them, "Hold onto it! We'll pull you guys up!" He turned and disapeared.
'We'll?' Roy mused for a second. Who else was up there?
The Colonel slipped his arm around Ed again, holding on blonde jolted sharply with a hiss as Roy tightened his grasp around his chest. Roy snatched the vine and looked back at Ed, a thought dawning on him.
"This will never work..." He said in a soft voice. One of them was certaint to slip and fall. If Roy slipped, they were both going down. But there was a strong possiblilty that Ed could slip out of his arm and fall back into the unforgiving waters.
Roy let go of the vine and thought hoplessly. He looked around, trying to figure out a way to get out of this gorge with both their lives. He lowered Ed back onto the rock, keeping his arm around him so he wouldn't take another dip in the cold river.
'This is hopless... There's no purchase on the sides, there's no way to scale the walls, and there is no way we can swim down stream. Who knows where this stream could end up...?'
Lost in his own dispair, Roy almost didn't hear the small clap and the crackle of engery. He snapped his eyes back to Ed, and traced his arm down to where the vine brushed rock. The end of the vine was tied in a knot and just above it was a slat of the stone they were sitting on.
"Ed, that's brilliant!" Roy said, looking at the young alchemist. Ed merly shrugged, looking more tired now. 'The transmutation must have taken some energry out of him...' Roy mused.
Roy stood again, his arm still looped around the blondes chest. As pressure was increased, Ed hissed sharply again, his face scrunched in pain. 'He must've broken something... a rib...'
The Colonel stepped onto the slat, shifting Ed in his arm carefully. An idea flashed into his mind, ad he put it to work. Roy put Ed in front of him and the rope, looping both arms over his chest, trying to be gentel but effective. The youngers heels brushed the slat and he planted his boots onto the edge, gaining some sort of foothold. Roy held onto him has he felt the rope jerk and begin to assend.
He forced himself not to look down at the water, only up at the edge of the ledge. As it came in reach, Roy heaved Ed up and over the edge, pushing him slightly so he would be safe from falling. Then, he reached up and tried the haul himself up and over. A strong hand grabbed onto his wrist and helped pull his up. 'Alphonse?' Roy thought, but when he looked up, he saw a pair of glasses gleam in the sunlight. Underneath, a pair of soft yellow eyes gleamed. 'Maes!'
As Hughes helped Roy up, he caught a glace at Ed. Al was already all over him, seemingly trying to keep him in one spot forever with his viper-grip hug. The older Elric struggled against him, but relief was written all over his dirt-covered face.
Once Roy was fulling up, Maes flashed him as grin while his flicked over his body, checking for injury. "What are you doing here, Maes?" Roy asked.
"Well," The bespeckled man started, "I came down here to surprise you guys, but you're the one who surprised me! All I saw was you leaping over the edge of the river!" Maes huffed good naturedly and turned to Ed, "Don't you know better than to swim alone? To swim at all?"
Said blonde turned on Hughes with a glare, "Like I meant to almost drown myself!" He rasped, not getting the itimidating effect he wanted.
Roy looked over at Ed, "You did drown," he said, "You weren't even breathing when I hauled your ass out of the water."
Ed looked shocked, before a look of understanding fell onto his face, quickly followed by disgust, "You mean you-!" Ed cut himself off with a strangled cry and started rubbing furiously at his mouth.
Roy laughed out right at his childish behavior, "Hey! It wasn't exactly pleasent for me ethier!"
Al sneaked a glance at his brother, who was still freaking out, and laughed as well. Maes was barely holding in chuckles of his own. Clearing his throat, he stood up, reaching a hand out to Roy, "Welp," he said, "We better get you two back and get you warm before you both catch a cold." Roy took the mans hand and stood up as well, casting a glace at the Elrics. Ed tried his best to stand up on his own, but Al ended up steadying him. As they made way up the hill, Roy looked back at the river and narrowed his eyes at it.
'Screw you, river...Screw you...'
But he still smiled and carried on.
Hawky: YAY! And that's the end!
Ed: WHAT? You mean you're going to stop hurting me? YAAAAY!
Hawky: No, you idiot. That's the end of The River.
Ed:... awww... D:
Hawky: Yep! Well! Tell me what you think, guys! I think the endinh could have been better, but... yeah... I was out of ideas... and YAY FOR MAES! YAAAAAY! :D He is absoulutly one of my favorite characters. I don't have the heart to kill him. Call me soft, but he's so cute and funny! :D MAAAAAAAEEEES!
Have a good one! Please review!
~Hawky