Dawn: Wow, I didn't think I'd be updating again today.
Roy: You also didn't think Ed would be so problematic, did you?
Dawn: Nope!
Ed: *pouting* I'm not a problem.
Roy: Of course not, love.
Ed: WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY?
Dawn: *points at chapter*
Ed: You've got to be kidding me.
Roy: Nope.
Ed: *hides behind Dawn*
Dawn: Because people asked, I'll reveal this to those who didn't get it. Eddo-kun here gets thrown out of villages because he uses his powers to help people, which freaks them all out, and either he leaves before they kill him or they kick him out 'cuz he's blown up half the town.
Roy: Only half? I assure you, I can do far better...
Ed: ImmortalDawn18 does not own FullMetal Alchemist.
Roy: Dawn would like to thank dreamschemer and SakuraLetters for reviewing. Reviewers will now get a little kitten Dawn found somewhere.
Dawn: Yay kitten! *pets her own kitten* His name is Fuzzbutt.
Ed: Fuzzbutt. You named your cat Fuzzbutt.
Dawn: No, my friend Ace5980 named it Fuzzubutt, which I liked. His real name is Luchesi, which is from Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe and means lucky.
Roy: JUST GET ON WITH THE STORY!
Dawn: FINE! *pouting* You don't have to be so pushy...
Maintenant et pour toujours (1)
II: Trouver l'amour vrai à durer longtemps (2)
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SMALL ENOUGH TO NOT EVEN SUSTAIN A VAMPIRE FOR MORE THAN A MICROSECOND?"
Roy momentarily faltered, concern stealing over his mind. There was a human further down on the trail, which would only make his job harder if the creature actually got down and fed to heal over wounds. The vampire shot forward, unwilling to let his prey elude him over a mere human, changing his form as he did so into a four-legged form that was far faster than his vampire form.
There was no way Edward could deny the werewolf would have killed him, but of course, when one's target shapeshifts into a wolf as well, that's generally enough to elude a killing blow, though Ed did sink to the ground as added insurance. The werewolf snarled in frustration, nails digging into the dirt, but the blond refused to back down. His animal instincts wouldn't allow it.
Roy's midnight eyes widened as the blond boy changed. One minute there was a beautiful boy, the next an adolescent wolf, both recoiling underneath the snarling werewolf. His claws tore up the earth beneath him in a full-body spasm as his brain exploded. Fear, agony, worry, adoration, all these feelings and more rushed through his unsuspecting body as the blond locked eyes with the werewolf then as the werewolf launched himself, cuffing his adversary across the shoulder and barreling the wolf's head into a tree, which caused instant unconsciousness.
Anger lent size and strength to Roy's wolf form as the ink-black vampire stepped out of the trees, purposefully draping his body, injured as he was, over that of the now-human blond. The werewolf shrunk away, darting into the trees, and Roy would've pursued and torn it limb from limb had he not caught the scent of blood, normally a scent to make him hunger but for once, it only made him anxious. He let his form slip away, donning his normal appearance, and knelt at the side of the beautiful figure of his Soulmate.
Roy examined the boy with a critical eye, determining he would not suffer if the vampire brought him to the little safe hollow before healing him. The boy twitched, and Roy frowned, worried that his Soulmate was in pain or uncomfortable. The vampire mentally reached out, stroking the very edges of the blond's mind in an attempt to soothe, but the only thing he could gleam was a name, Edward Elric.
"Shh, chiot,(3)" he murmured, stroking a few golden strands from Edward's face. "It's okay, I'm here. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." He scooped up the human in his arms, careful of both the scrape on his shoulder and his face, and then he ran through the forest, stopping at a hole in a rock wall just large enough for Roy himself.
Roy was relieved Ed was as small as he was, a thought that had the blond twitching again after its conception, which worried the vampire, but since the human still wasn't in any pain or discomfort, he merely pressed his chiot closer to his body, sucked in his gut, and carefully maneuvered them both into the wider tunnel beyond. "Here we are, chiot," he murmured, nuzzling into the blond head happily, "home sweet home."
The main chamber held a king-size bed with dark blue sheets, which is what Roy laid Edward on before closing his eyes, reaching out with his mind once more. This time, however, he went no more than skin-deep, healing the wounds and smoothing over the transition from unconsciousness to slumber. Once back in his own body, the vampire spared one last look back at his Soulmate before he reluctantly turned and strode down to the lower chambers to heal his own wounds before the exhaustion of fixing his human chiot further impeded his mental and physical well-being.
Ed had been ready to withstand the werewolf, but the slash across his shoulder hurt like hell, along with the collision into the tree that sent him into the domain of his own mind, fully expecting to die. But the final blow never came. Ed waited and waited, but it never came.
Instead, the strongest mind the human had ever seen approached him. Curious, he reaching out, catching part of a thought, little.
NOT LITTLE! Ed yelled in his head, an outburst which was followed by a closer look into his psyche. His name was ripped from him in exchange for that of the invader, Roy Mustang, a vampire.
He was aware of being pulled into a strong embrace and carried somewhere, then a comment about Ed being as small as he was, which prompted another mental fit. The arms laid him down on a feather bed covered in what he assumed to be the finest silk sheets, followed by the strangest prickling feeling.
Roy's mind was inside his body! Before he could even bother trying to come up with any kind of horrible scenarios and hypotheses as to why the vampire would do that to him, the wounds were healing over as though they had never been there in the first place. Next, the immortal proceeded to Ed's entire body, calming it with sophoric implications, and all of Ed's own considerable mental strength could not prove enough to resist the vampire. In all of Ed's travels, he'd never seen anyone that powerful before...
(1)-Maintenant et pour toujours- Now and Forever (French)
(2)-Trouver l'amour vrai à durer longtemps – True love at long last (French)
(3)- chiot- puppy (French)