Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeello everyone! As I had said yesterday, today I wrote the other version of "Ed the Cat." Some of my cheerleaders (yes, all of the authors that had talked with me already because I reviewed/PMed them before are now considered my cheerleaders XD) started freaking out when they read my other two previous stories and I could just imagine a peppy blonde girl with pompoms yelling "You can write more, yes you can!" or something like that. And right before I was about to post this someone said they wanted more chapters about everyone's favorite short cat... :3 (WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT) Thank you Guest, (and Snipperita, if that's what you meant) for answering my call!

Something some people might be happy with is that in this one, I could come up with how it happened. BUT, (hehe, butt) don't ask me who this mysterious person is, cuz I'm not sure. *sweat drop* Probably just someone who's had to deal with them in the past and really hated them. What criminal wouldn't?

On with the story!

Al the Cat

A mysterious person had broken into where the Elric brothers were staying, somehow making not a SINGLE sound. They had something against them, specifically the younger one, Alphonse, the soul stuck in a suit of armor. At this point he could clap his hands to transmute just like Fullmetal, and it just added to the threat he was already, because it becomes extremely hard to beat ARMOR. This person had done an excruciating amount of research on blood seals, and was ready to make Alphonse pay.

He made an interesting sound that was just loud enough to catch the attention of the brother without waking up the other, or making the younger feel the need to wake him up. He could hear the kid say "Huh?" and get up to leave the room to check out what made the sound. This time, they were staying at a place that had more than one room, so the person hid in another, and made the sound again, to confirm the giant's suspicions and enter. The mystery man sneaked back out of the room to close the bedroom door, hoping it would muffle the noises that were bound to happen soon. Entering his hideout again, he closed that door and prepared to attack the enemy.

He kicked off the armor's head and jumped inside of the body with his tools. Working at lightning speed, almost an inhuman speed, he transferred the soul in the blood seal to what would be his new body, all the meanwhile Alphonse gasping and yelling trying to get the invader out in time, but failing. When the deed was done, he felt the armor collapse to the floor, no longer having anything holding it up. He left the new body inside of the bedroom, who was knocked unconscious, disappearing quickly before anybody knew what happened, although he got a bit slowed down carrying/dragging a lifeless suit of armor with him out.

What had the new body been before it was inhabited with Al's soul? A dead cat.

Ed's POV:

I got woken up... differently than I usually am. I was licked on the face with a rough tongue. Of course this really got me, because usually Al wakes me up by tapping my shoulder and whispering. He doesn't even have a tongue, much less one like THAT. It almost scared the pee out of me and I bolted straight up, wondering what just happened. I turned to where my pillow was, and saw a cat there. I immediately bonked it on the head, cuz that is about the worst way I've ever woken up, and I figured that with a cat there was no reason to have gotten up at all, it just wanted to annoy me. It looked at me with angry/sad blue eyes as it rubbed a paw on its head.

"Meooooow-woooooow!"

It kinda confused me because it sounded just like when Al is complaining "Broooooooootheerrrrr!" Speaking of, where was Al? I turned around to see he wasn't where he usually is, sitting on the ground staring at me in my sleep. (I guess some people could call that creepy...) I decided to leave the bedroom to see if he had wandered to another room. The moment I opened the door the Siamese-looking cat bolted out and looked around frantically until it ran towards a mirror, in which looking at its reflection something seemed to dawn on it. Then while looking in it, it searched its paws, stomach, tail, whatever other body parts it has like it was looking for something. It finally decided to stick its ear towards the mirror like listening to something, but got freaked out yet happy at the same time.

Then it walked up to me, while I was still searching for Al, and stretched up its paws towards my knees, kneading them on my right leg (like it knew my left is metal...) and meowing at me. I knew that it was a sign that Al always took as it wanted to be picked up, and I figured if I didn't it would just keep getting more and more annoying. I picked it up, trying to remember the things that he said cats liked/didn't like, not because I wanted it to enjoy this, but so it wouldn't attack me. I felt the cat be kinda as confused and uncomfortable as I was, like this has never happened to it before.

It tried to get closer to my face, then started to rub its left ear and stuff, trying to point out something was wrong with it. I held the ear trying to see what the cat wanted me to see, and eventually I saw that about a half-inch from the edge of the ear inside was some blood. I directed all my attention to it and realized it looked like a BLOOD SEAL. And just like Al's! I accidentally dropped the animal in surprise, but cats always landed on their feet. Well, it was like this cat wasn't used to being a cat, and the landing wasn't quite as smooth as you'd expect.

"...Are you trying to tell me something, cat?"

The thing actually nodded its head.

"Well, what is it? It looks like you're a soul inside a cat's body who's not supposed to be there, but I don't think I can actually help you, at least not without knowing who you are."

It seemed to think for a moment, then turned its head towards my suitcase, which I had left open while grabbing something last night, and forgot to close before falling asleep. It jumped up into it and started throwing everything on the ground.

"Hey, you idiot! Stop messing up my suitcase!"

I went over to pick up the stuff, but the cat turned around towards me, and pulled back its ears and hissed menacingly. Knowing a cat's wrath, I just backed away. Meanwhile, it kept digging up my stuff until pretty much all of it was no longer inside of the case. It jumped back down and started rearranging, using clothes and other objects, into what seemed to be a specific pattern. I noticed it jumped onto the bed a few times to see how it looked from a higher angle before continuing. I had been putting on my boots and braiding my hair when the cat started yelling really annoyingly.

"What do you want, cat?!" I said as I trudged angrily towards where I had last left it.

Then I saw that the cat had arranged everything so it wrote in huge letters "AL." All I could think was Holy crap.

Well, this is interesting... I hope people will say if they want me to continue this story. I wanna knoooooooooow! This one actually sounds more like a cliff hanger than the other, though... I guess someone will just expect me to add to it. I just didn't want it to end the exact same way as the other.

Oh, and I have a response for Not so human: ...Sorry for confuzzling you for a moment, buddy. I figured the title could be taken differently, but that people would still like the story. If it was something else, please tell me so I don't confuse someone again.

OK, I think that's all for now. Happy Holidays! K bai!