A/N: If I owned Disney, Hannah Montana wouldn't exist. And no, I don't own FMA.
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Fuery woke up early, as usual. When he got out of his tent he didn't expect to see someone already up.
And he most certainly didn't expect that someone to be Alphonse.
And the top of all this was that Al was climbing on the pole with the arrow. He was further than any of them ever managed to reach, and he was doing a good job.
Fuery noticed the trick. Instead of trying to climb and having the golden rings pull you down, Al was using them to hold on the pole. He was throwing them, and the elastic material that held the rings was tied around the pole. That way the soldier could climb very well.
Riza smirked for herself as she saw the arrow closer and closer. That's it. She could do it.
Thank God for her originality. If she wouldn't have noticed that trick, she would have already been on her way home.
And that couldn't happen. Not yet.
She didn't even notice the other soldiers waking up. But after she reached the arrow, she took it, climbed a few more meters and she was at the top of the pole.
She sat on it and took a deep breathe. She had done it. She heard cheers and looked at the mass of people applauding.
That was…unexpected. She smiled and waved at them, and she was happy when Havoc and his friends waved back.
Right then Roy got out of his tent. He heard noise.
Riza threw the arrow at his feet and smiled. He starred at her in shock.
Al had done it! He was at the top of the pole. His huge smile was proof.
Roy didn't smile back. But he was proud. So proud.
And really happy that Al didn't have to leave. He shook his head, once again telling himself that he didn't like Al that way, and waved at him.
"Good job, soldier. Now come down."
Riza palled. Come down? How the heck was she supposed to come down?
…
"I was there, and I saw it with my eyes, but I still couldn't believe it!" Falman explained happily at dinner. "Al was up there, and I couldn't help but cheer!"
"I agree, man. Sorry we misjudged you." Havoc said and patted Riza's back.
She smiled at them and took another bite.
"It was a challenge. My arms are still hurting" she said, using her 'manly' voice. "Anyway, the worst part was coming down"
They all laughed and Havoc lit up a cigar.
"It was a pretty cool show. It was like going down a tree, right?"
"A big, long, straight, slippery tree" replied Riza, and they laughed once again.
She was right. They were cool. They just had to accept her. And doing something they couldn't do yet, made them more confident that 'Al' was a good guy.
"Tomorrow we've got training in the morning?" Fuery asked.
"As usual. Mustang is going to take us through hell once again." Havoc mumbled, puffing his cigar.
Riza took another bite of her meal. She knew she would go through hell with him if he asked her to.
…..
The next weeks were still hard, but much more pleasurable.
When they were caring grains on their shoulders, Riza was running ahead of them.
When they were jumping on poles on water, Fuery was the best.
When they were running between projectiles, Havoc was one of the best at avoiding them.
Falman was really good at breaking bricks with his head.
They could all shoot tomatoes.
They could all catch fish with their bare hands.
They could always hit the target.
Not it was just trying to make their technique better, they had the basics. More than just basics.
They were good.
They all knew how to use a staff or a sword. And at physical combat, Riza could actually punch Roy.
That earned a smile from him every time.
And every smile from him meant making her heart flutter.
Of course, she kept all that for herself.
…
Wrath took the little doll from the ground and breathed in, inhaling it's scent.
"What do you see?" he asked Kimblee showing him the doll.
"Black pine, from the high mountains" he replied.
Sloth took it and looked at it. So did Cornello.
"White horse hair. Imperial stallions" Cornello said.
"Sulfur, from cannons" Kimblee added.
"This doll came from a village in the Tung Shao Pass, where the imperial army is waiting for us." Wrath told them.
"We can avoid them easily" Archer smirked.
"No" the leader said. "The quickest way to the emperor is through that pass. Besides, the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her."
…..
"Hey, uh, ah, this is not a good idea. What if someone sees you?" Edward asked covering his eyes.
"Just because I look like a man it doesn't mean I have to smell like one" Riza replied stern taking her clothes off.
"So a couple of guys don't rinse their socks. Well I kind of like the corn chip's smell"
Riza jumped in the water, splashing Edward and her horse in the way.
"Aghhh" she moaned enjoying the way the water was feeling on her body.
"Okay, all right, all right, that's enough. Now come on, get out before you get all pruny and stuff."
"Shut up, shrimp. If you're so worried go stand watch."
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT A GOLDFISH CAN EAT HIM?" Edward shouted, but left to stand watch. "Stand watch Edward, while I blow our secret with my girly habits" he said in a womanly voice. "Humph, hygiene."
The red dragon narrowed his eyes in shock when he saw three men walking towards the water, throwing their clothes away.
"Me first! " Havoc laughed and jumped into the water.
"We're doomed!" Edward said to himself. "There are a couple of things I know they will notice"
Havoc, Fuery and Falman entered the water.
"Hey, Al" Havoc said approaching Riza who gulped.
She hid behind a lily pad.
Her first impulse was to run away. She realized they would notice her if she did, so her second impulse was to go under the water and stay there. That would kill her, so it wasn't an option.
Only her neck and head were out of the water, and she tried to use the lily pad to cover herself as good as she could.
"Oh, hi guys. I didn't know you were, eh, here"
Havoc and Falman exchanged the 'this dude is weird' look.
"I was just washing, and now I'm clean, so I'm gonna go. Bye, bye." she said, as manly as she could, feeling very exposed.
"Come back here" Falman said smiling, from behind Riza. She was trying really hard not to slap him for being so close to her. "I know we were jerks to you before so let's start over." He extended a hand. "Hi, I'm Vato Falman. "
Covering her chest with her left arm she shook his hand smiling.
Good part: they were friendly.
Bad part: they were all naked. Including her.
"And I'm Fuery" the smiling man said.
"Hello Fuery" Riza grimaced.
Havoc was climbing on a huge rock in the middle of the lake. Riza coughed than covered her eyes with one hand. She really, really didn't want to see Havoc that way.
"And I am Jean Havoc, king of the rock! And there's nothing you girls can do about it!"
"Oh yeah? Well I think Al and I could take you!" Falman said pulling Riza's elbow.
"I really don't want to take him anywhere" she replied horrified.
"Al, we have to fight!" Falman insisted.
"No we don't" she replied. "We could just….close our eyes and swim around!"
That sounded lamer than she intended.
"Come on, don't be such a girl!" Vato said. "Ouch something bit me! A snake!"
Riza whistled and her horse came near the water. She walked behind the animal and wrapped her towel around her.
The three men were on the rock, trying not to be bitten by the 'snake'.
"Some kind of the rock" Falman said ironically and pushed Havoc off.
"Boy that was close" Riza mumbled.
"You owe me big!" Edward said cleaning his mouth. "Snake, hmpf."
"I never want to see a naked man again" Riza sighed, when about half of the army ran towards the lake and entered the water.
Riza blinked. Damn.
"Don't look at me" the dragon said. "I'm not biting any more butts."
….
After the lovely experience with the bath, Riza returned to the camp. She walked by a tent and heard voices.
Yoki.
"You think your troops are ready to fight? Hah! They would not last a minute against the Huns, or Homunculi, or whatever they are called this days."
"They completed their training" the colonel replied.
"Those 'boys' are not fit to be soldiers any more than you are to be colonel! Once the general reads my report, your troops will never see battle!"
"Oh no you don't" Edward mumbled for himself. "I've worked too hard to get Riza into this war. This guy is messing with my plan"
"We're not finished!" Roy argued inside the tent.
"Be careful, Colonel. The general may be your father, but I am the emperor's council. Oh, an by the way, I got the job on my own" he smirked slyly. "You're dismissed."
Roy stormed out of the tent and walked by Riza.
"I'll hold him and you punch" Riza said and Roy looked at her.
Normally, he would have laughed. But he didn't feel that amused right now.
"…or not" she mumbled as he walked by her with no apparent reaction. "For what it's worth, I think you're a great colonel"
Roy looked at the soldier. Yes, it was worth a lot. But he wasn't going to say that.
I didn't matter what the soldiers thought, if he wasn't good enough at training them.
No matter how 'pretty' the soldiers were.
He had heard stories of this kind before. With soldiers becoming gay in lack of women. He shook his head. This was no time for thinking about his weird issues.
He went to his tent.
Riza starred after the man. She felt uncomfortably bad for him. That bastard was messing with her life once again. They were ready to fight, damn it!
"I saw that" Edward mumbled and Riza looked surprised at him.
"What?"
"You like him, don't you?"
Fuck.
"No I don't. Let's go to bed."
"Yeah, yeah sure" Edward mumbled as the young woman entered her tent. "It's time I took this war into my own hands"
He went to the kitchen tent and took all the ingredients he needed. Than he entered the forest and used alchemy to transmute it into something that looked like a man, but it was empty inside. He put it on a horse and went to Yoki's tent.
The man had gone bathing.
Edward wrote a letter, making it as extreme and apocalyptic as he could.
Than he went to meet Yoki when he was coming from the lake.
Inside the alchemy made body, Edward was controlling it's moves. The horse approached Yoki and gave him the letter he wrote.
"Urgent news from the general" he said.
"Who are you?" Yoki asked worried. The man was really pale and had skin like porcelain.
That could be explain by the fact that he was made of porcelain. Yoki didn't need to know that, of course.
"Excuse me! The question is who are you! We are in a war, man! There's no time for stupid questions." Edward improvised, "Carry on before I report you!"
"Colonel, urgent news from the general!" Yoki shouted entering Roy's tent as he read the letter. "We're needed at the front"
"Pack up your bags, guys. We're moving out" the red dragon smirked for himself.
That was chapter 5 :D.
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