Me: Wow… a second chapter… I must remember the original concept…
Kaylee: no… you're redoing it…
Me: I know… the origional stopped at chapter…. Twelve… and bad thing for us… it was lost…
Kaylee: you better keep gong on this…
Me: I will… Wait! I have the second one! Let me re-read it first and then I'll type this chapter…
Kaylee: I'm timing you…
That Which is Lost
Chapter Two: "Is She Sane?"
Rena seemed to preen at the comments about her state of sanity. She jumped off the desk and began to circle Alphonse.
"Hmmm…" Rena paused to tap the armor, "Let's see here… Excuse me…" Rena took off Alphonse's helm, "Let's see… the blood rune is in tip top shape… almost mint condition… Roy… get my other book for me… would ya?" Rena asked as she took off Alphonse's breast plate.
"What the hell? Stop! You're taking him apart!" Edward said and Rena smiled sadistically at Edward.
"Actually Ed, I'm trying to get a good look at his Rune… no need to flip out… Ally understands, don'cha!" Rena said and Alphonse shifted his shoulders uncomfortably at the nickname he was just given.
"Actually, I don't… understand… and please don't call me 'Ally' you make me sound like some cute elementary school girl." Alphonse stated and Rena smiled before she stuck her head inside Alphonse's armor and began to bang around with her right hand.
"Alright, I won't call you Ally…" Rena's voice echoed from the depths of Alphonse's left side.
"Uh… Rena… here's your book…" Roy said and Rena held out her left hand for the book falling forward knocking Alphonse and herself down.
"Al, are you Alright?" Edward asked and Rena groaned as she sat up.
"Sorry Al… I didn't mean to knock you over… I was just curious…" Rena said as she sat crossed legged on the floor. She opened her book and began to mumble to herself. "Soul in armor…. Soul… AHA!" Rena shouted and her red eyes showed a malicious glee as she got up and handed Edward the helm and breastplate.
"I'd appreciate it if you'd stop messing with my brother." Edward said as Alphonse got to his feet and reassembled himself. Rena shrugged.
"For a human to have life they have a soul, to give a person life you have to give them a soul." Rena said as she flipped through the book again.
"What's that got to do with any thing?" Edward asked. Rena smiled at him.
"You and your brother want your limbs back as well as his body… well, I can help… I have all the necessary components…" Rena said almost whistling in sadistic glee.
"I still don't think you're sane…" Edward muttered.
-Meanwhile at Central City Train Station-
"Owwwww…. My butt hurts from sitting down so long… how can Rena stand to ride these things? There sure are a lot more people here in Central than in South City… Rena said she'd sent someone I'd remember… but wh-" (1) a redheaded girl asked mumbling to herself. The girl spotted a brunette man and waved furiously. "Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes!" The girl said and the man smiled and made his way through the crowds of people.
"Hello Keria! Or should I say Lieutenant Colonel LeFey." The man said. The man was Maes Hughes, the picture happy Lieutenant Colonel. The redhead smiled. "Rena said you were coming back and that you'd be here today… although before she could tell me more she had to leave… besides she was really busy so she couldn't come and get you herself." Maes paused and took out a picture, "Did I tell you Elicia's turning three? She's so adorable!" Maes said shoving the picture in Keria's face. Keria sighed.
"Yes, I know. They grow up so fast don't they… and make this the million and first time you've shown me a picture of her." Keria said pushing aside the picture. Keria turned Maes around and began to shove him toward the exit.
"You know Keria, I'm worried about you…" Maes said seriously as Keria stopped pushing him. He began to walk along side her.
"You are?" Keria asked. Maes nodded.
"Yep, you're fifteen and you've never had a boyfriend." Maes said and leaned back to avoid a punch from the redhead. "But you know I can hardly tell which of you girls is really the eldest… after all Rena's your younger sister and she's more mature that you are…" Maes then leaned forward to dodge another punch.
-Back at the Central City HQ-
Rena was smirking as Edward was reading her research notes, or at least he was trying. Her notes were in the guise of a backward comic (2); therefore it looked like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to Edward.
"Give up and want help Ed?" Rena asked giggling evilly. Rena stopped for a second and slapped her forehead. "SHIT! Keria's supposed to be here today! Aw fuck, I forgot and the house is a mess and she's going to kill me… why does my sister have to be a neatness nut!" Rena said looking like she had just remembered something horrible. "Damn, she's more sadistic than Teacher… ARGH!" Rena leaned back kicking her feet and holding her face in her hands.
"No I don't want help, and besides… who the dickens is Keria, and if you keep going you're going to kick one of us." Edward said looking up from her confusing notes.
"My older sister… Keria LeFey… she's the Fullmoon Alchemist… she joined the military the same year I did... she's fifteen… AND SHE'S A NEATNESS NUT!" Rena said and she looked at Roy when she stopped her childish kicking. "You got her minty choco madness didn't you! Please say you did…" Rena said and Roy shook his head.
"No… I didn't get her bitichiness anything…" Roy said and Rena shrieked.
"YOU IDIOT! YOU BOTCHED IT! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FORGOT THE MINTYNESS!" Rena screamed pointing accusingly at Roy.
Me: Yawns sorry this was so long…
Kaylee: Perfect! And you took some of the ideas from our other one! It's good!
Me: I donno… Rena's a little Random… next thing she's gunna do is dance around like an idiot shouting at the top of her lungs that Roy needs to go out and get the Fucking Mintyness or Keria's gunna kill her.
Kaylee: you didn't botch the plot this time… nice!
Me: Neh, well Roy botched the part where he was to get the mintyness…
Numbers!
(1) "Owwwww…. My butt hurts from sitting down so long… how can Rena stand to ride these things? There sure are a lot more people here in Central than in South City… Rena said she'd sent someone I'd remember… but wh-" – Winry says something quite similar in volume 4 of the manga about Edward… it's all GOOOOD…
(2) Rena was smirking as Edward was reading her research notes, or at least he was trying. Her notes were in the guise of a backward comic. – Edward's notes are in the guise of a travelogue, Roy's are in the guise of women's names, and Marco's are in the guise of a cook book… as you can guess Rena's research notes are in the guise of manga!
Authoresses notes:
This is a phone colab with Me (Kate) and Kaylee. We're each doing a fic colab via the phone… this is a redo of our origional story "Life of an Alchemist". We've botched the origional and made it completely different! Whoooo!