"Umm...Edward? It's time to get up..." Olivia said quietly as she tapped the guest bedroom door. "Breakfast is almost ready and my sister is-"
"What the hell are you doing?" Shina asked her little sister harshly, clearly annoyed at more than the fact that Olivia was being so polite as to wake up someone that Shina already hated without even knowing him very well.
"Uh, I was just waking Edward up like you-"
"You were waking him up? I bet even you couldn't hear that knock!" Shina frowned down at her young sibling and sighed. "Look. If you wanna wake someone up, you gotta do it like this."
The Lightning Shard Alchemist walked in front of Olivia and faced the wooden door.
"Edward, get up!" she yelled, pounding on the door with brute force.
"Sister, I don't think you should do this," said Olivia.
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing," Shina replied without taking her eyes off the door. A yawn and the sound of covers brushing against sheets came from the other side of the door.
"Edward! Get up, damn it!" Shina yelled.
A whole ten seconds went by without any response. "Go away," Edward Elric replied.
Shina made a sound low in her throat. "Edward...get out of bed...right NOW!"
"Why should I?" the Fullmetal Alchemist whined. He looked at his beside clock in disgust. "Our train doesn't leave until eleven. It's seven thirty!"
"Like I care! I'll give you 'till the count of three to get out here before I knock this door down."
"Oh yeah, like you can do that. Just try!"
"One…" Shina started to count. Edward rolled over and chuckled to himself.
"Two…"
"S-sister, please don't," Olivia pleaded.
"Three!!"
'Too late,' Olivia thought.
Shina kicked the door to the guest room with one foot. The door landed on the wooden panels of the floor with a loud "bang!" and Edward Elric jerked up to a sitting position in shock.
"B-but...h-how did...I mean...what was that?!" he stammered.
"I warned you," Shina said, a smug grin painted on her face.
Olivia sighed. "I told you not to do that sister...You done that to our six previous guests," she said in her normal, timid voice.
"Yeah, well it was their fault," Shina replied as she raised her arms up and put her hands behind her head.
"You've done that to six guests?" Edward asked. "No wonder no one else comes here. They can't stand being around you!"
"Shut up!" Shina barked. "You don't know what you're talking about!"
"Both of you, please, calm down!" Olivia said. No one could hear her over to two alchemists' bickering
The hall was filled with noise when Alphonse came up the stairs.
"What's going on?" he asked as he reached the doorway to the guest bedroom. "I heard a crash and-" He was cut off by the sight before him. The door was lying on the ground, hinges still on the door frame. Shina and Edward were standing face to face, their noses practically touching, arguing about nonsensical things. Olivia was standing next to Alphonse trying to calm both of the State Alchemists down.
"Hey, brother…" Alphonse tried cutting in, but obviously wasn't heard. "Shina, could you please…" Shina didn't hear him either. Alphonse sighed and raised his voice so that he could be heard over all the commotion. "Hey!!"
Everything went silent. Shina and Edward turned their gaze to the suit of armor in the doorway and Olivia looked up at Alphonse with grateful eyes.
Alphonse continued. "Why can't you two get along?" Shina and Edward looked at each other and were about to yell something at Alphonse when he quickly added, "Never mind, don't answer that. Look, everyone meet downstairs in five minutes. Olivia, why don't you finish breakfast for us?"
"Alright," Olivia said with a smile on her face, already trotting down the hall. With that, Alphonse turned and followed Olivia downstairs.
Shina sighed and looked back at Edward. "Okay, sorry. Guess I didn't have to get you up so early, but there's something in need to talk about with you. And sorry about the door." With that last sentence, Shina laughed slightly and glanced back at the entry.
"It's alright, but what are we going to do about that? I mean, about the door," Edward replied.
"Easy," said Shina. Walking over to the door, she lifted it up so it fit onto the hinges again. She laid her right hand on the door so that it was also touched the frame and a bright blue light filled the room.
Edward blinked to clear his eyes and looked back at the door, which was good as new. He looked at Shina, then the door, then Shina again. "How can you do alchemy without a circle?" he questioned.
Shina laughed. "They don't call me the Lightning Shard Alchemist for nothing!" She lifted her right hand so that her palm faced Edward. He looked at her in shock. She had a neon green stone in the shape of a diamond implanted the center of her palm with a lightning alchemic circle etched into it.
After a few moments, Shina let her hand drop and walked out of the room. "Hurry up and get down stairs. Alphonse and Olivia are waiting."
Edward just stayed at his standing point for a while, thoughts racing inside his head. Finally, after some time, he put on his jacket, gloves, overcoat, and shoes and walked to the bottom floor of the cabin to fill his growling stomach.