Hai! Here is author12306's reward for giving the 50th review on "Ed the Cat!" Woo-hoo! *party* Hope you like this, friiieeend! :3
By the way, I've desperately wanted to tell this to someone, but no one in real life would be interested in what I have to say... So I say it to you people! XD A few nights ago, I had a weird dream where I don't even understand entirely what is happening, you know, the usual stuff, but this time I remembered the very last thing to happen...
Some guy pointed to me and said "She's part armadillo right now, you know." (Meanwhile, I was thinking about Sonic the hedgehog.)
Some guy who I guess was the eldest/our leader of the group or whatever said "I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me?"
I kinda shrugged and said "Because I don't like being ignored."
*BEEP BEEP BEEP* And I wake up.
Yeah. That was weird, huh? XD Made more sense than most dreams. I thought it was funny, though. ...Gonna shut up now. :x
On with the story!
Ed's POV:
With the job done, Alphonse and I walked with mixed emotions to Garfiel's shop. I probably looked depressed, and Al looked like he was trying to keep a positive air, but I could see him shaking in anxiety, which brought to mind all the clanking his nervousness would be causing if he was in the suit of armor. I was in the middle of trying to decide if being a cat or armor was better when we finally arrived. We glanced at each other nervously before I knocked on the door.
Winry opened the door cheerfully, since she probably used up her anger earlier when pummeling me with wrenches... She told us to come in, and we walked up awkwardly behind her to a table, where I sat down nervously, Al jumping up onto my lap. We heard some noise in the kitchen as Winry was finishing up the meal, and then she popped her head out holding two bowls filled with soup.
"Of course, I had to make stew, your favorite!"
She placed a bowl in front of me and I looked inside greedily. I saw that she went out of sight and brought back a plate with cooked chicken and placed it on the ground for Al. I immediately grabbed it and put it next to my bowl, in front of the empty seat next to me. She gave me a confused look, but it softened when Alphonse walked off of my lap onto the other chair and stood on his hind legs with his front paws on the table, ready to eat. She probably thought it was cute that the cat was eating with me, and just brushed it off.
The dinner was generally silent, as all of us were enjoying the food. We were about to finish when the creepy guy that Winry works for came in, saying that someone needed a repair. He explained in detail, but I didn't understand any of it.
"Um, okay, this is urgent, but should only take a few minutes. So sorry, Ed!" She ran out of the room, leaving me and Alphonse alone.
We looked at each other, saying silently 'What now?' I stood up and walked into the small kitchen, wondering if I could still have any extra stew, and noticed that there were some ingredients out for making apple pie. I looked at the large pile of apples, and took the one on the top. Making sure it was clean, I bit into it, surprised that it tasted so sweet. I turned back to see my brother looking up at me.
"Al, these are delicious. If you don't mind having a plain apple before pie, I suggest you try some." He nodded to me as he walked up and jumped onto the counter, pawing an apple off the pile and munching into it. I heard Winry walking closer, so I left the apple I bit into on the counter and walked back to the table, sitting down before she had seen me do so.
"Again, really sorry, Ed. But Mr. Garfiel already closed down the shop, so there shouldn't be any more interruptions." I nodded as she sat down relieved.
"It's fine, Winry. That's your job."
"Anyways, I have learned so much since I became an apprentice!" She continued to talk about her work while we both finished our stew, me trying my best to look like I was paying attention to everything she said. It was a while of talking until she interrupted herself.
"Oh no! I forgot to start the pie! Come over to the kitchen, we can keep talking while I cook." She motioned for me to follow her, and I did so. When we entered, Winry practically screamed.
The entire kitchen was a mess; eggs cracked, flour and other powders coating the counter and some of the floor, with some white still lingering in the air. Pawprints were imprinted in the ingredients spilled everywhere. My eyes lingered over to where the apples had been. Only cores remained. In the middle of the kitchen was a cat, who upon seeing us looked ashamed.
"ED! WHAT DID YOUR CAT DO?!" Edward looked back at what was once a pile of bright red fruit, and then returned to Alphonse.
"...Did you get a sugar high ...on apples?"
Wow, this is the shortest chapter of "Al the Cat" ever! (Without the author's notes) That fact saddens me so. :'( But this was pretty much a special chapter, so just ignore that. Hope it was cute and all! I decided to not tell Winry that that was Al, because they never tell her anything anyways, except maybe when everything is totally over. This can just be added to that list. XD And this makes the two versions I'm writing more different, since in the other Winry is with them the whole time. I guess next chapter I will be bring in Ling. I'm worried about maybe not writing him correctly, but I say that for all characters, so just ignore my anxiousness. :P
K bai!