Wow, probably the quickest I've ever gotten a chapter out. I even posted a new story in Inuyasha, so if you're interested in that series why don't you go to my profile and read the summary and read it if you're interested. I have a test in Japanese in a few hours, so now I'm going to study for it. I'm so going to fail. Lol. Anyways, make me feel better by remembering to review! Oh, word of warning, not a very happy chapter.
Roy felt his eye lids try to open on him, though he wished they wouldn't. He shivered, it was cold. Wasn't he in Seacole? It shouldn't be cold in Seacole it never is. He found himself in a rather uncomfortable position his arms stretched above his head, cool metal wrapped around his wrists. His feet not touching the ground thus there was a lot of pain in his shoulders from hanging. He shook at the chains as if that would help any. He tried to kick his feet up but found them in a similar postion as his arms except the chains were coming from the floor, so he could only lift his leg maybe half a foot away from the wall. The stone wall behind him was cold suggesting that he was in a basement somewhere. Shit.
His eyes scanned the dark room looking for anything that could be Ed unfortunately it was so dark he couldn't even see the end of his nose, so he'd have no luck in finding Ed. "Ed?" He called out for him. The sound of his own voice seemed to bring his attention to his throbbing head, reminding him of just how he got here. Being knocked out while what…molesting…making out with Ed? He didn't know which one it would fall under. Now really wasn't the time to be thinking about that though. "Ed?" He called again.
"Shut up." Came the blonde's voice from his left. Not right next to him further away. Small thuds were heard above him and seemed to get closer, footsteps. Good one Roy, just let this freak know they're awake. He cursed himself having should have known better. Suddenly the door was illuminated and Roy swallowed hard and braced himself for whatever was to come. The handle jerked a bit then turned and the door gave a low whine. Roy had to look away his eyes not able to focus with the light that suddenly poured in. The footsteps got closer and then a dull light lit the room he was and he heard the door shut.
He turned his head to get a look at the man that had apparently gotten the better of them. He was taken back at what he saw. It was that same vender he had been forced to buy that stupid bracelet from.
The vender grinned at his scowling face. "You know, I can't decide what to make of you. At first I thought you were military. You stand with a straight back shoulder are always leveled, even when you lean over, classic military posture. You're eyes were on everything but the lovely little thing you brought with you to the festival." He motioned towards Ed, who while still dressed in the kimono was missing his arm. Unlike him though. Ed was on the floor his flesh foot shackled to the wall. Roy wondered if the man realized the other foot was automail since Ed had used tabi socks to keep the automail from showing and still go with the more traditional look of the kimono. "However," His attention was turned back to the vendor, "you took your little play thing into the alley for some fun it would seem. Something a military man, especially one on a mission would never do unless they were trying to lure me out. Curious I went to see if this was true, but the two of you were so into it, I was able to knock you both out before you knew what was going on." He shook his head as if he was scolding them.
Ed, for his part, felt himself being stabbed by the man's words. After all Roy had been all about the mission, it had been him who hadn't been. He had been more into getting what he wanted from Roy and because of that it landed them here. In the care of this…freak.
"Then I made a very interesting discover." The vender grinned like a cat with the canary "I found out your lover is actually male, which would explain your need to be so…aware of your surroundings in a place like this, and then your loss of inhibition. Now normally, I like to rape the women in front of their lovers, but see this one is not a woman and I've never been much into men. So I'm going to do things a bit different. I'm going to jump right into round two." Out of seemingly no where the man lifted a heavy looking hammer, Roy could only assume it had been hanging off the Vender's pants, perhaps something he had used to set up his stand not that it mattered at the moment and he needed to learn when it was time to contemplate things and when it wasn't. He brought the hammer hard on Roy's left shoulder. The Asian man squeezed his eyes shut not able to actually do anything at the moment to stop the onslaught. Again he was hit in the same place and burst of pain followed it but he didn't make a sound.
Apparently the vendor didn't appreciate this because he turned the hammer around and slammed the prong end into Roy's shoulder and he couldn't help but cry out at that. It was roughly yanked out of his shoulder and the blunt end hit the shoulder again before he moved on to do a similar thing to the next shoulder.
Ed sat there horrified by the sight, knowing this was all happening because of him. Without his automail arm he wasn't able to perform his usual alchemy, there was not dust in which he could hope to create an array, nor something he could use to scratch into the wall with. He couldn't even reach them because his stupid foot was chained to the wall. Ed started to panic as he listened to bones being crushed under the heavy hand of the Vender. Roy's now cries of pain, though it looked as if he was trying everything he could not give the man the satisfaction of hearing him. Ed knew Roy was trying to be strong for him, but it such a situation that wasn't possible. Ed was going to have to be strong for Roy. "Leave him alone!" Ed yelled. "Stop it!"
The vender turned to look at the wide eyed blond. He loved the scarred look on his face. In fact he relished in for a bit. "What? You want me to stop this." He took a strike at Roy's knee.
Roy looked over at Ed so close to passing out his head hung not able to find the strength to keep it up. He saw Ed's mouth move but he couldn't hear his words as the blood rushing to his head was far too loud. He needed to protect Ed, he needed to do something to get Ed out of here. He needed to…
Ed stared up at the man that was coming towards him. He felt the hammer slide under his chin and lift it up even further as if the man was trying to expose his neck for some reason. "You don't get to decide what happens boy." He crackled a bit but stopped when Ed kicked his automail foot up hard hitting the man in the groin. The man made a pained noise as he fell forward a bit and onto his knees. Ed then slammed his metal foot across the balding man's face making him fall to the ground in a heap, out.
The blond alchemist starred at the man for a bit as if to decide if he was going to get up again or not. Upon deciding he wasn't he let out a breath of relief that was short lived because now he had to figure out a way to get them out and by the look of Roy, it had to be fast. He looked around quickly and saw the hammer. It was covered in Roy's blood and made him want to wretch, however he needed it. It could scratch the stone and he could get them out. He laid on his stomach and stretched for it and managed to get it. He opted not to focus on what it was covered in even though it stain the palm of his hand and his fingers. He worked on getting the shackle off his foot, etching an array into the metal. Finally he got it released and then went to get Roy released. He couldn't concentrate on Roy's condition; he just needed to get him off the wall and out of here.
It took some time but he got Roy off the wall and had him slumped against the wall on the floor. His dark eyes opened and looked up at the blond alchemist seeming dazed. Those dazed eyes then shifted away from his face to something over his shoulders. "Ed." The older man chocked out and Ed turned just in time to see the vender coming down on him with a sharp looking object.
Obviously it's not over yet. I'll leave you all hanging to see what happens next. until then i'd love to hear your predictions, ideas, or general thought on the fic. I've been known to use a few of them. Till next time.