Hey there!

Phew. What a rough week. Had my first exam yesterday and I have my English exam tomorrow. Exams end next wednesday, so from then on I'll be able to write more. :)

As usual: I'm not a native English speaker. If there are any mistakes, I'm sorry.

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA because if I did Envy wouldn't have committed suicide.

Chapter 6: Pineapple

Sleeping was such a struggle when you were freezing. I was covered with 4 blankets and didn't feel any difference. I was so cold. Ed on the other hand was sleeping soundly on his own bed. Sometime after midnight I finally fell into a frozen sleep.

The sound of rain against the window woke me up in the morning. Ed's bed was empty and I assumed he was out and about already. I put my hair into a bun and sleepily walked towards the bathroom, my eyes barely open. I completely ignored Ed's startled face, he was currently in the process of brushing his teeth, and went to the shower to wash my hair. I was too lazy to shower and didn't feel like dealing with the cold that came with it (or more from me but whatever), brushed it and left the bathroom before Ed did. But I felt his confused look in the back of my head.

I joined Al in the kitchen (it was a hotel suite so we had a small kitchen in here as well as a table), took two slices of bread and ate them with a cup of milk. Shortly after Ed came in as well. "Ugh. Milk."

"You should drink more, otherwise you'll never grow." I couldn't help myself.

"Says who? You drink milk and you're short, too!"

I waited for him to get what he just said. It took 10 seconds, then he got furious and hit his head against the wall. "Fuck it, I just called myself short! Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

I smiled sadly and shook my head. "Either way, I'm taller than you are."

After we had breakfast Ed clapped his hands. "Alright, lets get going!" he said, suddenly in a better mood.

"Get going?" I asked irritated. "You mean as in leaving the house and actually go outside? No thanks." I was covered with my four blankets and with a cup of hot chocolate in my cold hands. "I'm quite comfortable right now, so I'll pass."

Ed took the cup from me and pulled me out of my cozy heaven. "Ugh, why!" I groaned.

"Mustang wants you to learn some alchemy so we're going to do that before his annoying self orders us back to his office." he announced.

I pointed at myself. "Alchemy? Me? Huh?"

"Did you forget already?" Ed sighed. "You're unbelievable. Hey, Al, you say something, too! Why are you so quiet today?"

Al raised his head a bit too fast, he seemed distracted. "Ah, gomenasai! I'll clean up and then join you guys!"

Ed shook his head, confused, but let it be. He left.

I sighed, giving Al's armor a slap. "How long are you going to hide the cat this time?"

Al yelped. "H-H-ow did you know?!"

I smiled. "Told you I know a bit more."

"That's a bit too much.." he mumbled. "But can't we keep her? Look, she's so cute!"

He took the tiny kitty out and held it up for me. I frowned. "Sorry, I hate cats. I'm a dog person."

"But don't girls always like kitties?"

I shook my head and sighed. "Maybe I'm not your average girl. You take care of the cat while I go out with Ed. Make sure it's gone before we come back. Ed will be furious."

Al sighed sadly, but then nodded. "Fine.."

I left the hotel looking for Ed and found him on a bench on the other side of the road. I was wearing black skinny jeans, ankle boots (I never thought they'd have something like that in Central City but I was wrong!), a black sweater and the black coat we bought yesterday. A young girl in Central City dressed in all black. People were giving me weird looks.

Ed sighed when he saw me coming. "You look like someone died."

"Well, I did." I murmured, but he didn't hear me.

"Okay, lets look for place to teach you the basics." He got up and along the road we went, me following him.

We went into a small side road where no one except for us was. He nodded, convinced that it was the right place to teach the girl in black some alchemy. Booyah for being a weirdo!

"You said you saw the truth right?" I simply nodded, to lazy to say "yes" out loud. Sometimes I was too lazy to breathe but I was also too lazy to die so I had to breathe for now.

"Okay, then clapping your hands to form an inner transmutation circle should do. But I should let you have draw some anyway."

I held my hand up. "Sensei?"

"Yes?- Wait. Sensei? Oh god don't call me that reminds me of-"

"Izumi? Ah but she's pretty cool!"

He looked at me in shock for a second, but then seemed to remember something. "You said you knew everything, right?"

I nodded. "Basically."

"So you should have known that my sensei is a bit scary."

Again, I nodded. "Yup. But I wanted to tease you anyway."

Ed sighed and let me be. "So what was it that you wanted?"

"I'm a horrible artist." I explained. "I can't promise being able to draw a transmutation circle, and I remember they look quite complicated."

"So you don't want to learn that?"

"Well I don't need to, do I? I should be able to clap my hands and do it like you, shouldn't I?"

"Mh, I guess so." Ed clapped his hands and then touched the ground. A wall appeared between us. He did it again, destroying the wall. "Do I need to explain anything or do you know the basics from what you.. know?"

I stretched myself. "I'll try and if it doesn't work you can still explain."

I clapped my hands and touched the ground, just like he did before. I didn't really know what to expect but what happened was beyond what anyone could have expected.

I felt a cold power forming in my hands, and the water in the ground we stood on began to form a wall made of ice between us. It was exactly what Ed did, with the slight difference that the wall was made from ice and not earth.

I was staring at the ice wall with my mouth open and my eyes wide. "What the fuck?"

Ed didn't seem too surprised. "So it's limited to freezing water, Mustang was right."

I touched the ice and it began to shatter into a million tiny pieces. It didn't melt though and then turned to face him.

"What do you mean?"

"Well Mustang had this theory that you're able to freeze the water in our surroundings and that you could be able to control this ability by using alchemy." He pointed at the pieces of ice at hour feet. "Looks like he was right. That's interesting."

I let myself fall on my knees. "How's that interesting? I'm a fucking failure. I can't even use alchemy, all I do is freeze water. How could that be a cool ability? I'm nothing but a living freezer. At least your food won't go bad with me around." I laughed bitterly.

Ed was watching my breakdown with annoyance. "Pull yourself together." he demanded.

I looked up, freezing tears falling from my cold eyes. "I came here because I was a complete failure in my world and now I'm one here, too?" I shook my head.

Then I realized Ed was leaving. "Where are you going?"

"Back." he stated. "I don't have the time to deal with your insecurities."

"And now you're leaving? Isn't it your job to keep an eye on me?"

"My job was to find out if you're useful or not and you just found out you're a failure. I'm done here."

I stopped breathing, my eyes wide. "He said it.." I whispered, letting his words seep into my freezing heart.

"I'm sorry for being a failure." I said a bit louder, turned around and ran away.

I ran for 5 minutes straight until I realized it started raining again. I was glad I was wearing my coat, otherwise I would have been freezing to death by now.

I didn't really realize where I was running, until I suddenly fell into nothingness. A squeal escaped my mouth followed by a pained yelp as I crashed into the ground. Coughing and moaning I got up, realizing I fell into a shaft.

"Looks like I'm where I started.." I mumbled, whiping the freezing tears from my face.

"That's my line." A mocking voice said, making me jump.

Envy! And right behind him.. there was Gluttony, licking his mouth.

"Corpses aren't supposed to walk around." He looked at me in curiosity. "Mind to explain me how you're walking around? Pretty damn sure I checked you were dead for sure last time we met."

"Let me eat her, let me eat her, I'm so hungry!" Gluttony begged, making me shiver.

I tried to stay calm. I had to give him a reason to let me stay alive for some more.

"You shouldn't be so surprised about a supposedly dead person walking around, homunculus Envy."

His eyes widened a bit, but then he smiled. "You sure know a lot for a corpse. A bit too much for my liking. Gluttony? I guess it's lunch time."

"Yay!" Gluttony moved closer.

"Fuck." I hissed. Now that didn't work at all! I clapped my hands and threw them to the ground in a desperate attempt to protect myself from being eaten.

Ed opened the door to their suite, expecting to see Al, but he was disappointed. No one was there.

He sighed, throwing the empty glass of milk at the wall, breaking it.

"Nii-san? What are you doing? Where is Ciela?" Ed jumped at the sudden words behind him.

"Crap, Al, don't scare me like that. Where were you?"

"Uh.." Al didn't seem to want to answer but didn't know an excuse either. "Mind answering my question first? What happened? Where is she?"

"She ran off." Ed explained. "We had a fight or something." He scratched his head.

"It's raining outside, Nii-san! You know she'll get cold!" At times like this it was hard to tell that Al was the younger brother. He always had to take care of the trouble his brother Ed caused. "What did you fight over anyway?"

Another sigh. Ed buried his face in his hands. "I think I might have called her a failure.."

"You.. what?! Edward Elric!" Al exclaimed, calling is brother by his full name to further underline his anger. "Why would you do something like that?!"

"Uh.." Now it was Ed who didn't want to answer. Yep, brothers.

Al groaned. "Lets go look for her. The colonel will kill us if she ends up hurt or something because we couldn't take care of her. And you should apologize."

Ed sighed. "Yeah.. I guess you're right. I shouldn't have said that. I didn't even mean it, it's just because she called herself a failure a minute before."

Al just shook his head and pulled his brother with him. "Come now."

And out to look for Ciela they went.

They ran around in Central City, desperately trying to find a girl dressed in black. But no one had seen her. That was when a car stopped next to them. The window went down, and the face of Roy Mustang appeared. "What are you two doing out here in a weather like this? And where's the girl?"

Ed and Al looked at each other. What now? Then, Ed had an idea.

"We're playing hide and seek." he explained.

"And.. she won." Al added.

Hawkeye, who was driving, nodded. "You lost her."

"Why are you here anyway?" Ed wanted to know.

"We were called out because of a shaft collapsing." Hawkeye explained.

"Why would they call the HQ when a shaft collapses?"

"Because-" Roy said "There was ice involved. And I had a bad feeling about that."

"Ice?" Ed nearly screamed. "Shit, that sounds like Ciela. But why would she do that down there?!"

Roy nodded. "She wouldn't unless.."

"Danger.." Ed finished the sentence. "She's in danger."

Yay for writing a longer chapter this time!

I guess you noticed the change in the point of view. It was no ones point of view towards the end. But I had to write what was going on with Ed & Al and their meeting with Roy & Riza. The next chapter will explain that. :P

ANYWAY, I really really liked this chapter. The Ice Alchemist.. At least by now the title should make sense. :)

And did you wonder about the title of the chapter being pineapple? Well that's because being a failure is something I hate and I also hate pineapples!

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Much love!