run, i'm a natural disaster
14. Holiday
trials by fire, setting fire
it's not a way that's meant for me
just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws, yeah
Holiday- Green Day
"Fuck, Mustang" chokes a voice as Roy steps further into the room. "Could you, you know, for once, not blow fire everywhere? You could've killed us!"
"Well, not unless he did it more than once," the Xingese Prince (why was he here? Roy had thought he was dead when he'd failed to regroup with them) says, shielding Ed from view. "But the point still stands."
A man with the face of a lion glares, before putting a paw to his head. "A bit of help would be great, thanks. We need Greed and the ninjas do go and stop the homunculus that according to Lan Fan just appeared upstairs with the Brigs soldiers, ands stop the central soldiers coming this way. And with those two"- he looks pointedly at the figure in the red coat that Roy thinks is Ed, and the Prince now named Greed (is he a homunculus too? Is that why he talked about dying more than once?) before continuing- "making a stupid contest out of this, we've been making pretty slow progress. Especially since Darius joined in." The hulking mass of gorilla next to him has the grace to look sheepish.
"Guess this is bye for now, Kitten," the Prince says, kissing the golden haired figure on the head -what? Ed's not gay, is he? So why…?- and motioning to the ninjas and bounding out of the doors with a cheery wave. "You're a dick." Ed says, but there's a fondness there, unlike when he calls him a 'Bastard' with no malice, but no cheerfulness there (he supposes he's not entitled to it, but it still is painful).
Fullmetal turns, and glares at him. "What're you waiting for Mustang? Are you gonna help or what?" Roy glares back, but obediently snaps, eradicating all traces off the mannequins.
"That's pretty useful." The gorilla man grunts –Darius?- and turns to Ed. "Why didn't you 'boom' them or something?"
Ed shrugs. "Dunno. Didn't feel like it, I guess. It was more fun to spear them anyhow, and Greed and I were having a contest about it, and I was winning." He sticks his tongue out, as if to say 'so there'. Darius laughs and claps him on the back. "That's good enough, I 'spose. D'ya think that next battle, you could use your alchemy again?"
The lion man nods. "There's no Greed to save you this time, so you're going to have to clap and hope that that'll work for you again."
Ed nods. "Let's go."
And as the trio turn, he sees that under Ed's coat he's wearing tightfitting leather (as per usual). And that Ed has apparently turned into either a girl or a transvestite, because he's pretty sure he just saw rather large boobs for a teenage girl, especially if the last time you saw her he was male. If he survived this, Roy would demand, as CO, to know exactly what Fullmetal was doing during his little… holiday on the run. And he would tell him.
A.N:
Right, well, this makes sense because it is all AU, so at this point Scar's group is with Al, Hoho and co. This is so we can have all of team Greed in one place.
Yeah, poor Roy doesn't know if Ed's really a girl, or just a disguise.
Roy is so hard. I mean, he's awesome, and I love him, but... really, really hard. D: Also, shameless manipulation of prompt to fit Roy in because he was popular and I wanted this one written. C:
I am not taking requests for drabbles at this time. D: Sorry.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
-Tom
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