Chapter 2
"Why are you out here?"
Edina's head popped up. She'd been sitting on the front porch for…who knows how long.
"He's making dinner," Edina replied.
"Why would he be…he forgot to pick you two up, didn't he?"
Edina nodded.
Maes, Uncle Maes, sighed, "Please tell me you didn't walk home."
Ed shook her head, Maes Mustang drove us home."
Maes went to say something, but was cut off by Edina.
"No, we didn't bury the hatchet."
"I still don't get why you hate him so much," Maes said, scratching his head.
"Genetics," was all Edina said.
It stopped with that. Edina said it every time and Maes didn't feel like making an argument.
"Well, at lease you didn't push home out of the car."
At that, Edina smiled and got up. Together, the two walked into the house.
-oOo-
"Edina…"
The blonde whipped around quickly. There was nothing there, only darkness. She reached up and clutched her necklace.
"Edina…"
"Leave me alone," she screamed.
"We want you, Edina Elric."
The voices echoed all around here, but she still saw no one. Only the darkness.
"Come to us. Come home."
"No!"
Just as Edina turned to run, she slammed into to something, well someone. She looked up and her eyes locked with a pair of violet-gold ones.
"William," she gasped, clutching at the person.
"You did good this time. Keep resisting them."
"I don't understand what they want from me."
William ran his long fingers through Edina's hair.
"They're from the other side of the gate, your true home."
Edina looked up, confused. True home? What'd that mean?
"Don't fret about it tonight. You'll understand in time, O'chibi."
-oOo-
For the second night in a row, Edina bolted awake. At least this time the room wasn't shaking. She groaned in frustration and smashed her face into her pillow. She knew what "chibi" meant and it made her blood boil. Still, she didn't know who this William was who helped her nor why he was so intent on protecting her in her dreams.
She groaned again. Soon enough she fell back asleep and had no more dreams for the rest of the night.
When Edina's alarm went off the next morning, she felt as if she had been steamrolled. She would have stayed asleep, but instead she was overwhelmed by the smell of French Toast. Zombified, Edina made her way downstairs to the kitchen.
"Good morning Ed."
Edina froze. There, at the stove, stood Hohenheim. The bastard was up to no good again.
"What smells so…" Alphonse began, but was shoved out of the way by Edina, "…good? Hmm?"
While the guys ate downstairs, Edina stayed in her room till it was time leave for school. All the while cursing her father.
-oOo-
The beginning of school went off without a hitch. No Mustang to be seen, which calmed some of Edina's nerves…sort of. Lunchtime, totally different.
Edina sat at her table, bored. She sat there, sat there and stared. She didn't even jump when a pair of hands grabbed her shoulders.
"Hi Rosalie."
"Hi," the smiling brunette replied, "You seem perky today."
Edina groaned in response. Sometimes Rosalie was too air headed for her own good, but she knew when to stay quiet when Edina was having one of her days, like today.
Slam!
"You little slut!"
Every head in the cafeteria turned in Edina's direction.
'Oh joy…'
"Look at me when I'm talking to you, you little slut. You're pretty gutsy trying to take Maes from me!"
Not amused, Edina turned to face her harasser, Lydia "Look-at-me" Dante.
"You must be joking."
"I saw you last night with Maes. You were all over him," screeched Lydia.
"And why would I want Maes?"
Lydia scoffed, "I've seen the way you two look at each other, and now you've been caught. Did you think that tacky wig would help disguise you?"
"Huh?"
"Stupid whore!"
Lydia made a grab at Edina, but a hand grabbed Lydia before she could reach Ed.
"You two lovely ladies aren't fighting over me, are you," Maes asked, while letting go of Lydia's wrists.
"You're cheating on me with her,," accused Lydia, "You were with her last night!"
"I gave her and her brother a ride home yesterday. That's it. After that, I was home all night. You can ask my parents," defended Maes.
"Typical story. Both of you were wearing leather and…the tattoos…" Lydia began to trail off in hesitation.
"I don't even have any tattoos, you know that," said Maes.
"Leather, haha!"
All eyes drifted momentarily to Edina, who was still sitting in her chair and now picking at the table.
Before another word could be said, the floors began to shake. It would have seemed like a normal earthquake except for the fact that the sky kept flashing with a blue light. Students were diving under tables and running out of the cafeteria, some were trying to get away from the windows, which were slowly creaking up. Edina stood silent amongst the chaos, staring at the windows.
"Elric…"
Oh no…
"Elric…"
Crash!!
One of the windows finally gave way causing even more panic. Edina, who was on the other side of the room, away from the windows suddenly felt herself being pinned down.
"Oh dear, dear Elric."
That voice. It was very familiar. Why did it sound familiar?
"Edina!!"
Her eyes snapped open. From her spot on the floor, she could see Maes standing near her, on her right. The look on his face read of both shock and confusion.
"We're finally here for you, Elric."
Edina's head snapped forward. Her golden eyes met with violet ones. Eyes almost similar to William's, but they were more similar to…
"What's wrong, Elric? Do I look familiar?
Only now did Edina realize that it was like she was looking a mirror. Her double hovered over her, pinning her arms at her side. They could have been twins, save for Edina's double having violet eyes and hair that was longer, wilder, and black-green in color.
"Time to get rid of you for good."
"What…ah!"
Edina's double began to choke her, fingers tightening with each passing second. Edina tried clawing at the hands but to no avail. The hands only gripped tighter.
Maes watched from the sidelines as the dark haired girl choked Edina. Could this have been one of the people Lydia saw last night. Especially since she looked almost identical to Edina.
"Envy, let's go."
The girl loosened her grip on Edina's throat and whipped her head around. There, at one of the windows, stood another dark looking person. Except that this one looked like Maes.
"Oh, but Greed, I already found her," whined Envy.
"Now's not the time. You know that."
"Yeah, yeah," Envy mumbled as she climbed off a still wide eyed Edina. Halfway to the window, Envy turned back. "I'll be back for you, cutie."
As soon as the two were out of sight, Maes and Rosalie ran over to Edina, who still lay dazed on the floor of the cafeteria.
Many of the other students had left cafeteria after the rumbling ended. For those who stayed, they wondered about what had just happened.
Inside Edina's mind it was a jumbled mess. Envy and Greed, who looked like herself and Maes Mustang. The constant earthquakes and the blue light. Why they were so intent on getting her. None of it made sense. Why would they want her? Deep down, she began to panic. What did this all mean? All Edina knew was that it wasn't going to be good.
Hola! It's only been a year. XD I'm sorry it took that long though. I originally had written about half of this up after posting the first chapter and then I lost the notebook, which isn't good, but guess what? I found it...obviously. Now that I've found it and gotten back into the groove of things, I will be updating this, hopefully, more often than usual. It's scary though how I remembered how this was all set up. Anyway, I'm going to keep this short and sweet. Make sure to review...or something. Please?
Ja!