Sorry for the REALLY late update. I dun own FMA!
I woke up to the smell of smoke. I usually wake up to the sound of footsteps when I'm sleeping at the hotel because of Cameron delivering our daily 'room service'. I looked around and saw Melonie and Akima still sleeping. Akima was in cat form and snuggled up against her back. I stood up stealthily and put on some clothes that consisted of black shorts and a red tank top with a short black jacket. I grabbed my weapon belt and hurried while brushing my hair. I sniffed and realized how far away it was.
"My vampire skills must be increasing." I whispered to myself. The smoke was miles away, even though I could see it perfectly. I climbed up a building and started hopping from house to house. I looked down and saw Ling fanning cardboard over a small fire.
"Hey, what are you up to out there?" I heard Barry's hollow voice ask from inside the house I was standing on.
"Building a signal fire."
"Signal fire?" I hopped down and waved casually to Ling.
"Bringing someone back here you know nothing about, how could you be so stupid?!" I giggled and Ling looked up and recognized I was there. Suddenly there was a whoosh of wind beside me.
"Young Lord, we've been looking for you." Fu said.
"Wow, impressive response time." I sweat-dropped as he munched on a fish.
"Looks like a party." I heard Barry mutter inside.
"Gaaaaah!" I heard Falman's frustrated groan.
"So guys, what's up?" I asked casually, sitting down beside Ling.
"Hey! You were that girl that was in jail with Ling!" Barry exclaimed. Falman's face got serious once he saw me.
"Kaiden? What are you doing here?"
"You know that girl?"
"Yeah, she used to work for the military." Barry looked back at me.
"She did?" Falman nodded.
"I was thrown in jail with this idiot." I poked my thumb at Ling.
"Hurtful." Ling whined. I smirked.
"So Ling, have you seen the Elric Brothers anywhere?" he shook his head.
"Nope. They're probably in their hotel room."
"The Elric Brothers..." Falman muttered. "Oh yeah! Hey you two. Foreign dude and Kaiden, come here." I stood up and hopped through the window, knocking Barry aside. Ling followed suite.
"What about them."
"You know of the Maria Ross incident, right?" I nodded. "Yeah well she's in Xerxes Ruins now, according to the Colonel. Major Armstrong is going to escort him there. He doesn't know either."
"What about Alphonse and Winry?"
"Nope, just Edward and the Major." I looked at Ling. He nodded and he looked back at his bodyguards. They followed. "Fu, you should probably go now." I looked at them confusingly but Fu was already gone before I could question them.
"Well, Falman, I'll see you around" I saluted lazily and jumped out the window. I swung onto the roof and the others followed me. I started hopping from house to house again until I got to Ed and Al's hotel. It was already dark outside when I got there and thinking about Edward made me want to thirst. I shook my head. This was no time for that. The light was still on.
"You alright, Kaiden?" Ling asked. I gave him a confused look. "You just seem a bit pale." he opened his eyes seriously. I nodded but started breathing heavily. No one ever said that not drinking blood would get you tired easily. Lan Fan narrowed her eyes.
"You're weak right now." I glared at him and leaned up against the hotel.
"Let's head back, we'll come back in the morning." I shook my head.
"That wouldn't help."
"What do you mean-" he stopped talking when he saw my fangs. I squeezed the brick wall.
"Kaiden...how do you usually get all your...blood?" Lan Fan asked. I snorted.
"Edward."
"Oh yeah...the short blond one." Ling commented. "Well, you can-"
"Master, she didn't do anything for you, how could you possibly offer-"
"Ling you don't have to..." My eyes turned red again as I sniffed blood in the air. I looked around for the source and saw a red flash in an alleyway. I ran off to go see what it was. I definitely smelled blood, but it was a different kind of blood. It wasn't human nor animal. I turned a corner and my eyes widened at what I saw. It was Envy, he was recovering from a wound. But who could've done this to him. I heard someone rush behind me. I turned around and saw Silver-mist. Man, this doesn't make any sense! Why would she be attacking Envy?
"Low on blood, much?" I growled at her. Her two flunkies came up behind me and stabbed me with their swords. I froze and pulled out my own sword as slashed at them. They jumped back and fell onto Envy. I breathed heavily and attacked Silver-mist while Envy started attacking the other two. "I'll give you another chance. Join us...or die."
"Damn vampires, get off of me!" I heard Envy shout. I looked behind me and saw Envy fighting the other two. They looked ready to kill. I looked back at Silver-mist and she was holding up a blood bag.
"Oh, come on." she tempted me. My eyes had gotten darker. Then a kunai came out of nowhere and popped the bag, snapping me out of my stupor. I looked past her to see Ling.
"Thanks, Ling!" I shouted at him and charged at Silver-mist.
"Damnit...there's too many...lets go!" She disappeared along with the others. Envy attack me with his arm as a blade and tackled me to the ground.
"I know what you're doing. Stay away from the Elric Brothers." he hissed at me. I snarled at him. Lan Fan came from behind Envy and yanked him off of me.
"Why you."
"Envy...leave." I heard a child-like voice whisper from the shadows.
"But!"
"Leave." Envy growled and ran away from us. I pulled myself up and Ling pinned me to a wall.
"What were you thinking?! You don't just chase after a scene if you smell blood." I was only paying attention to the blood pumping through his veins. My fangs grew longer and I had the urge to just bite him then and there.
"Let...go..." I made those two words come out of my mouth. "Need...blood." I tried to explain.
"Bite me."
"No." I struggled against him.
"Don't be difficult. Just do it."
"But..." Ling leaned in so close to me and I could no longer resist him. I bit down on his neck.
"Uh!" he exclaimed from the pressure. Lan Fan was watching me carefully. I slowed down and my eyelid started to fall. I retracted and breathed. "You're not finished." Ling took this entirely seriously.
"I'm not filling up. I'll just do that when Edward comes back."
"And if he doesn't?"
"He will."
"If you say so." I looked up at the sky and saw that it was already morning. That fight must've lasted longer than I imagined.
"Let's go check on Alphonse and Winry. I'm pretty sure the Major and Ed have already left."
We started climbing the hotel and stopped upon their window. I heard Al's voice from inside. We hopped through the window and stealthily made our way onto the bed. Alphonse was looking down so he didn't hear us. Winry didn't even notice. I nearly giggled but Ling made a 'shush' gesture at me. Alphonse was rambling on about something serious, which I wasn't paying attention to. That was until Ling's voice came up.
"I have no idea what's going on."
"Good thing I can explain it all." Al and I both looked up. Winry looked to her left and saw us.
"Huh?"
"WAAAAAAH!" they both screamed in surprise.
"Uh, when did you get here?" Winry asked, leaning away from us.
"And how did you even get in?!"
"The window." Ling and I both said together. Winry looked at the open window.
"I mean, it seemed appropriate for a criminal..." Winry was looking out the window suspiciously. "First, there's no need to worry about Ed's well being.
"Huh?" Winry looked at him.
"I'm sure he's just fine." Ling encouraged.
"Not to intrude on this conversation but I gotta go call Melonie." they nodded. Ling began to explain to them about the previous events. I walked down the hall and grabbed the phone and dialed our hotel room's phone.
"Hello?" I heard Mel answer.
"Oh hey Mel I just wanted-"
"KAI!? WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?! I WAKE UP AND SEE YOUR WEAPON BELT AND YOU GONE! NOT TO MENTION I HAD TO FILL IN FOR YOU AGAIN! THEN YOU DON'T COME HOME AND YOU'RE JUST NOW CALLING ME?!" I held the earpiece away from my ear.
"Mel! CALM DOWN DAMNIT!" I yelled back.
"CALM DOWN...CALM DOWN?! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN MY LITTLE SISTER GOES MISSING?!" I rolled my eyes.
"Me, I've been in the military for years. I can take care of myself." I heard her sigh from the other side of the phone.
"I know...I just don't want to lose you like I almost did ten years ago." I sighed.
"Yeah, I get it. I'm sorry. I would've called you earlier but I ran into some trouble along the way."
"You're not hurt, are you?" Mel asked worriedly.
"No, I'm not. Thanks for filling in for me. I have to go, I have a feeling that something big is about to go down. I'll call you later. Bye."
"Wait Kai-" I hung up the phone and walked into the room.
"So Lieutenant Ross is innocent!" I heard Al exclaim as I slumped down on the couch.
"But why take Ed? The Colonel was trying to keep him out of his hair, wasn't he?"
"Heh, you got it. So, I struck up a deal with Barry during the jailbreak for exchange to his secret in immortality." all of us sweat-dropped. "Of course...he said that he was already in that body when he woke up so here I am. You're supposed to tell me your secret and I was promised, you'd tell me."
"Yeah but, I don't exactly see how I have anything to do with this." Al whined. Ling started to discuss how the Colonel was trying to get the people from the 5th laboratory to come out of hiding. I heard gunshots and tried to strain my ears to hear more. Al and Winry stood up.
"This might lead us to the people who had killed Hughes." Alphonse stopped to get ready to leave.
"Hey! Not so fast! Tell me your secret first!"
"I'll tell you when I get back okay?" Al reassured him.
"Awe come on, that's so unfair!" Al turned to Winry.
"I'll be back soon."
"Okay, just be careful."
"I will. I promise." I sniffed blood and my eyes started turning a light purple(1).
"Kaiden?" Ling asked. Al looked down at me. I stood up and rushed off to find the scent. I wasn't exactly 'thirsty' or anything, but I had to see where this was happening. Stupid Colonel. He should've told me his plan sooner! I ran into the building it was coming from and a dog bowled me over. Soon, Fuery passed me, following Black Hayate.
"Sorry Kaiden, no time to chat!" he yelled and ran up the steps. I pushed myself off the ground and heard gunfire. Then Mustang passed by me. I followed after.
"Why didn't you inform me of this sooner?!" I yelled at him.
"I honestly didn't want you to get caught up in this. I don't need another comrade of mine dying." he said seriously and snapped into a room and leaned against the doorway. "I barely made it."
"Phew." Fuery relaxed and Black Hayate was wagging his tail affectionately.
"Colonel...why the hell did you leave your post?!" Mustang sweat-dropped. "No matter what could've happened to us you could still have captured an involved secret, that was the whole idea, right? But, you just come waltzing in her playing it safe, ARE YOU A COMPLETE IDIOT?!" Hawkeye scolded him.
"Yeah, yeah. Fine, fine, that's it. I'm a complete idiot. Happy?"
"Who the heck was that fat guy?" I heard Fuery mutter. "Colonel, the targets on the move, sir!" Fuery yelled back. I looked out the hole in the wall and saw Barry chasing someone. Mustang and Hawkeye barked orders at Fuery and Black Hayate.
"Colonel..." I heard Riza mutter while we were going downstairs.
"What?"
"Thanks for saving me back there."
"Tell me later. Let's just say focused on the mission for now."
"Sir." we got into a car that Hawkeye parked when she got here. Mustang sped off and pulled up beside some random guy in a mask.
"Get in." the masked man nodded and walked towards the car. I got out after hearing Alphonse's footsteps.
"Are you trying to go after Mr. Hughes' murderer?"
"You in?"
"Yeah." They both got into the car leaving me no room. I hopped onto the top of the car. Mustang started driving again. He pulled up beside Barry.
"Don't let him get away."
"He ain't goin' nowhere." Barry gave a maniacally laugh. "My soul wont be able to rest. Not until I obliterate that meat-bag!"
"So do you think we can expect another appearance from that blubber beast back there?" I heard Hawkeye ask. I poked my head through her window.
"I doubt it. I scorched him off the ledge."
"Yeah. But I shot him in the head and he didn't really seem to mind."
"He didn't have an Ouroboros Tattoo did he?" Alphonse asked. I looked in the backseat and saw Havoc being crushed.
"A tattoo?...well, actually yeah. On his tongue."
"He was a Homunculus!" I exclaimed and they all looked at me and was shocked. Mustang nearly hit Barry.
"AAAAAAH! WATCH IT, MUSTANG!"
"Hold on a damn second! That's impossible!"
"Yeah, that's what we thought...until Alphonse and I got kidnapped by one."
"Yeah, he called himself Greed." Al joined in. "He told us that nothing was impossible. I know for a fact that he has amazing human powers." I took my head away from the window before Mustang could try and crash into a brick wall. I looked back where we had driven from. That Homunculus is going to chase us down. The whole way to wherever we were going was quiet. Mustang stopped the car where Barry's 'body' ran into.
"My body ran in there. He's probably hiding away from me."
"The 3rd laboratory, huh? Let's pull back."
"Well you have fun with that!" Barry said and ran into the laboratory.
"Get back here!" Havoc called after him. "He just stormed the building!"
"Yeah, it's our lucky day."
"Huh?" Havoc asked. I could tell what Mustang was going to do next. He's going to charge in and tell everyone that he's going after him and tell them to evacuate. Mustang started to go forward. I didn't follow.
"Should I go call for help?" I asked them. They stopped and turned around. Mustang just noticed my eye color.
"No. Just go back to the hotel. I'll call you later Kaiden." He started walking forward.
"Roy!" I called out. He stopped but didn't look back. "Come back alive."
Okay, no more to say on this...except...review! Lol. Sorry it took me so long to update!