Well then, chapter 4 is up! I wonder if anyone actually read this story besides Jen... Oh well.
Took a while cuz Jen took forever with her part and then made me finish it...
anyways, stuff happens. yeah. and I think I forgot this a while back, but Jen's account is Rose of Salkara. I'm not sure if I said that yet.
Anyways, on to the story.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. There. I mean really, it's fanfiction. Fanfiction. Really now, I can't own FMA if its fanfiction, can I? No, I can't. So get it in your thick skulls. (Sorry if that's offensive, but I'm in a self-esteem bashing mode, and I have no one to use it on.)
Chapter 4- stuck with a moron… oh great.
Ed groaned as he began to stir, blinking away the bright lights that dotted his vision. Sitting up, he looked around. Al was lying sprawled out on the ground with his head in his older broth's lap. Greed was laying face-down in the pile of pillows that had been made by the swirling lights… the swirling lights! As he remembered, he thought he recalled seeing the Colonel, Lt. Hawkeye, and Winry… looking at the other side of the room, he froze. Oh great… they were here… frickin' colonel bastard. He then turned to the window. Song and Kou stood there, watching and talking quietly. Song then proceeded to walk over to Greed and violently shake him awake while Kou sighed.
Greed groaned as he awoke. "I think I'd rather die than get woken up by song again."
Kou rolled his eyes. "You'd just get reborn or healed, then Song would shake you awake again!"
"But still…" Greed continued to complain until the dark-haired alchemist punched him on the back of his head, shutting him up and… knocking him out… again. Song sighed, annoyed, and shook greed once more.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, I'm awake! Sheesh. Ow."
Ed blinked, "Eh?"
Kou turned to him and them to an unconscious Al. "Wake up Al and Winry; I'll take the Popcorn and Lt. Hawkeye." Then the dark-haired teen turned to the military members and shook them awake, but way gentler than Song.
Song pouted. "I was going to shake Ed awake to see the look on his face, but he woke up himself!"
Al sweat-dropped. "I have an evil brother and an evil friend now? I am really unlucky…"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT AL WASN'T I THE ONE WHO SACRIFICED MY ARM TO GET YOU BACK AND THEN GET YOU BACK TO THE REAL WORLD AWAY THAT THAT CREEPY TRUTH DUDE WITH HIS BIG CREEPY SMILE AND WASN'T I THE ONE WHO WAS TAKING CARE OF YOU FOR THE PAST, I DON'T KNOW, 6 YEARS AND YOU REWARD ME BY SAYING YOUR UNLUCKY TO BE STUCK WITH ME AS AN EVIL BROTHER? HOW COULD YOU AL?"
"Sorry, Brother… I was just reflecting on how Song seems to be the only person here as evil as you…"
Kou decided to cut in. "Besides, I could be more evil than Song when I want. It's her personality, live with it."
Song sighed, "Anyways, who brought us here?"
Lt. Hawkeye pointed at the Colonel, who was looking sheepish. "It's for a mission that went wrong." He defended.
Song's eyes twitched and she growled in a dangerously flat voice. "Get your fat ass over here." The others whipped their heads towards the two. It was once in a blue moon that Song ever cusses. The Colonel reluctantly scooted towards Song. When he was within range Song's right hand caught him in a lightning-fast right punch. Then, to everyone's amazement except Kou, Song began beating the Colonel thoroughly into pulp and stomped him into the ground, growling, "Someone dig him out." Then she went to perch on the windowsill.
Ed looked confused. "But… he's a colonel; won't you get court-marshaled for that?"
Song looked at him with a smirk. "Oh yeah?" She pulled out a medal.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Every one, except Kou yelled. Even the Colonel was surprised. "A general? You are seriously a general?" Song shrugged. "Easy promotion. I'm talented, eh?" She smirked at the Colonel, who sweat-dropped and deadpanned.
"Anyways, Kou is also a general."
They all turned to the dark haired teen who sighed. "I became one a bit before Song."
He paused to pull out his State Alchemist watch, his general medallion, and several other assorted awards. "It's all Song's fault that I got stuck with the military…" he whined as said girl smirked.
"Yep, I dragged you up with me, or else you would have stayed an anonymous mercenary forever."
"But I like it that way…"
"Oh well. Anyways guys, get your stuff. I bet the second we step out of this room, it'll be gone."
"EH?" The unanimous cries echoed throughout the room.
Kou groaned internally. "Song and I were talking about it. I figured that it was likely the room's just to transport us."
The others made various noises of agreement before gathering their stuff and exiting. Just as Kou had predicted, as soon as the last person was out, the blue sparks of alchemy raced over it and all that was left was sand as the eight stood on a beach.
It was late evening when they finished their preparations for their living quarters. A one-room wooden cabin with six beds and two windows was where they planned on sleeping. Ed had asked why there were two beds missing. Song's answer had been as blunt as it was odd: "Kou and I sleep on the windowsills."
Outside was a fire pit where several fish were roasting. The alchemists had mad plates and utensils for everyone, and Song had convinced Kou to help her cook with the remaining ingredients she had in her bag. Now everyone was seated by the fire, eating spaghetti with meatballs and seasoned fish.
Al blinked as he ate. "Song, did you make this spaghetti?"
She shook her head. "Actually, I convinced Kou to do it for once."
Winry smiled. "No wonder, Song's cooking is usually more spiced with many seasonings, right?"
"Well yeah, but how do you know that?" Mustang couldn't help but butt into the conversation.
"She let me sample some of her cooking while you boys were arguing over how to cook the fish."
"Oh." The vertically challenged blonde scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I knew that."
The others (even Al) just rolled their eyes. "Right…"
Several days passed in the same manner, especially once Song found a rock pool with many types of fish and crabs. It was all going fine (especially when they got revenge on the Colonel for sending them there in the first place) until…
A loud screeching suddenly sounded, and everyone clutched at their ears. Song looked to be losing her focus on what was around her, while Kou looked to be in pain. The others were extremely irritated and couldn't concentrate on what was going on.
Several shadows also emerged from the forest beyond the beach that they hadn't explored yet, reminding Ed of Pride. They started to wrap around everyone. (Kou insisted that they couldn't go since there was too much "darkness" concentrated there to be normal, whatever that meant.) Ed growled lowly.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I have no idea, Fullmetal. No idea whatsoever." Mustang replied.
"A fat lot of good that's going to do to help. If you don't have anything useful to say, be quiet! You're causing too much noise pollution!" Kou scowled as he said that, before painfully moving his hands away from his ears and slamming them into a shadow so fast, the only signs of what he was doing were the blue sparks that sprang up around them before the shadows were gone.
Greed groaned. "What in the name of Father was that?"
Al blinked. "You use 'Father' instead of 'God' or whatever?"
The homunculus nodded. "Yeah. Better than Kou at least; he uses 'God' a lot, and he's an atheist!"
"Not always, sometimes I use "Goddess', 'Ashera', or 'Saint Elimine'!" the Shadow Alchemist protested.
Riza frowned. "If you don't mind me asking, who or what are those?"
"Video game characters. More specifically, the equivalents to God in Fire Emblem 6, 7, 9, and 10." He deadpanned.
Everyone else collapsed anime-style, with their legs up in the air.
"Oh wow…" Ed groaned, sitting up. Then he realized something was wrong.
"Hey guys?"
"Yeah?"
"Where's Winry?"
Dun dun dun... yeah. Cliffhangers are my specialty. Whenever I see potential for a cliffhanger, I feel like putting one there. Anyways, I wanted to end the chapter already.
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