I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood. But there will be some direct lines from the story.
This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.
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I gulped and felt the blade still pressed to my throat.
"Immortality you say?"
"Come to think of it some guys were asking about that a little while ago too." Al said. Surprisingly enough I felt calm with a blade against my throat I grew a bit cocky. The person holding the blade left me an escape.
"Is it the new hype or something? Why would you want immortality?"
"For family reasons." He told me.
"How idiotic." I laughed at him.
"I'm serious!" He didn't liked to me laughed at, 'he's cute when he's flustered. Stop that serious moment going on.' I scolded myself mentally.
"Is that really the attitude you show to someone when you want a favour?" I teased him. I quickly grabbed the blade with my automail arm and yelled. "I don't think so!" It was a bad idea I admit that, but I wanted to get the blade away from me so I could have room to move. The masked man threw me to the ground and apparently the one holding Al back threw him too.
"They're tough." Al said standing back up.
"But hey they're weaker then teacher." I said. We each charged our own masked man while everyone in Rush Valley watched us destroy their town for a second time. Every move I made he meet it with a counter. He keep trying to break my automail so I tried to get some distance between us. I kicked him over me and rolled away.
"Close one." I was trying to find a way to beat him. 'He's not trying to take my life or I would already be dead. But it's still difficult to beat him with his fighting style. Think dammit! Okay what would Mustang do? "If your opponent has a temper seek to irritate" Okay let's see if he does.' "What's with that guy? You know the ones with the funny eyes, what the hell is that moron thinking?" I asked trying to piss the man off. He pointed at my eyes 'What?' Then his fist met my nose. We started fighting again until I rolled away from him. I grabbed my nose to try to stop the bleeding. "Aiming for the critical spots right away you are weaker then my teacher." He was a bit insulted at that so I saw my window and elbowed him in the chest. "To have a subordinate like this, I guess that droopy eye dude isn't that important then." He charged my this time and I blocked and dodged him. Mustang was right make someone made and they are easier to fight. He keep throwing wide punches and kicks. I clapped my hands. "Time to look at your face." I touched his mask and it broke. He had long hair and a really girly face, maybe because he was a she. 'no fair I thought I was the only one that was pretending to be a boy.' I was mad at that. She threw a bomb and me but I dodged it and grabbed on of the knives that she threw at me and cut my arm off. 'Winston don't hate me!' I prayed even though he was going to anyway. I dropped the arm and set a rabbit trap really quickly 'man when is this smoke going to clear out?' I asked myself. I threw a bit of rubble around the arm to hid the trap and to make it looked like I was buried in the rubble and I hid. After the trap went off I step into view. "Hey missy! What the hell made you think that that was a good idea? If a was a regular person you would've killed me!" I yelled at her. I bent down to pick up the arm 'maybe Winston could save it?'
"Bastard you broke your arm!" She yelled from the trap and I countered.
"You tried to blow me up!"
"Brother!" Al called walking up to me holding the man that he caught. He saw my arm then said. "Winston is going to kill you."
"Yeah maybe I should research immortality for my self." I joked with Al.
"Feel free I could always use the help." The foreigner said.
"You have a lot of nerve showing up after you sicked those guys in us."
"I know my guys are really hot headed, but you two seem hot headed yourselves."
"When you pick a fight then that's what you get."
"You guys are strong . How about you guys become my underlings and let's take over the nation?"
"Stop day dreaming and go back to your own country!" I yelled at him.
"I'm not going back until I find the stone." He said. Over his shoulder I cold see the town people of Rush Valley coming to find out who was behind all of this.
"You! Every time you come here you destroy the town!" An angry man said.
"Pay for the fixing cost!"
"And the meal cost!"
"What no that should be on that guy he started it and he's the one that ate your food!" I pointed to the foreign man.
"Sorry I no understand much language of this country. Okay bye bye now." He said with a very heavy accent. And with that he ran away from the group of people. We turned to look at the two goons he had but they were gone too. The mob went back to yelling at us and I was feeling over whelmed
"I'm sorry I can't fix it like this." I said showing them my arm.
"Okay I'll have to do it." Al said and clapped his hands.
"Al you can do alchemy without a circle?" I asked
"Yup after remembering that thing." He said. I felt really proud of my brother and a little upset now that Al could do that maybe he wont need me any more. "Why don't you rest and I'll fix this up." I sat down feeling completely useless as Al fixed the town.
After Al fixed the town we walked back to Mr Garfields where the Ling was sitting having tea with Mr Garfield himself.
"Hi Edward" He waved to me. I felt my heart beat quicken, I couldn't tell if it was because I was angry at him or if it was because of something else.
"Hey, Ling" I said I half waved at him I tried to look anywhere but at him.
"What took you guys so?" He joked, and with that I ran up to him and hit him with my automail
"Why the hell are you here?" I grabbed his shirt and brought him closer to me.
"I fainted again and that beautiful man over there offered me help."
"Is that a custom where your from to faint all the time?"
"Is it a custom in your culture to be violent?" I hit him again with that.
"Not so much or culture just me." Ling looked to Alphonse
"Are men in your culture always this violent?"
"Not so much just him." Al said. At that moment Winston came into the shop.
"I'm back!"He called into the the shop. I stopped mid swing and I was still clinging to my arm like a club.
"Edelle! Elric!" He screamed "What the fuck did you do to my automail this time!" He yelled at me and clubbed me with his wrench. I dropped to the ground after the hit and tried to protect my head with my one hand. He looked at Ling. "Did you do this to her?" He threatened him this his wrench.
"What he's a girl? Well that's upsetting"
"Did you." He asked one more time. Ling started sweating.
"Not me per-say but one of my men." Ling told him. Winston swung the wrench and hit the table with it. Ling jumped. Then Winston bent down and lifted me off the ground.
"Hey you okay." He asked as he pulled me into a hug. I was confused, 'What? Why is Winston being nice I ruined his automail?' "It's okay I'm not that mad at least you aren't hurt." He let go of me and turned to Ling. "You explain now." Ling explained what he was doing in our country and what happened to cause the fight.
"Winston can you fix my arm now I just want to get back to Central and forget that this happened?" I asked him.
"Central take me too" Ling said grabbing onto my leg.
"No way in hell."
"Please I thought we were friends."
"Let go! You can't just grab onto girls like that in this country!"
"If you're a girl why did you say your name was Edward?"
"Because the military thinks I'm a boy."
"What happens if I tell them you're a girl?"
"It's you word against mine."
"But they'll check anyway, just to prove me wrong and when they check and find out I'm right what's going to happen then?"
"Fine! You can come with us but after we get there you are on your own. I'm not babysitting anyone!"
"Deal. Now Winston was it? Could you be a dear and fix her arm quickly so we could get a move on?" And that was the first person I've seen Winston hit, other then me, with his wrench.
Hey guys I'll see you on the Train Ride to Central! And when we get there some Hughes. Like always feel free to comment.