So today my Band teacher was finally back :D He had to leave for six weeks because he had to get surgery for Cancer but it's all okay now :D He has to go in for 2 more weeks though because he's either being tested for Chemotherapy or has Chemotherapy D: He was being funny about it though. Quote: "So if I come in bald, no one freak out because I'd rather be bald then have patches on my head...my wife and I were talking and she said 'What about your eyebrows, would they fall off too?' and I said 'it would be pretty cool if my eyebrows fell off.'" So everyone had a laugh at that. I'm glad he's back though :3 Lol I actually wrote this entire chapter while I was in school. My friend was literally squealing because she saw the title 'Vampiric Love :3' on the paper. Read the A/N at the end and don't skip it, otherwise you'll be confused on Chapter 30!
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Previously on Vampiric Love
"Roy!" I called out. He stopped but didn't look back. "Come back alive."
As I was on my way back to the hotel, I started thinking about Hughes' murderer. Why would someone want to murder him in the first place? Sure, he gets annoying sometimes but that doesn't mean...wait...wasn't Hughes trying to help Ed and Al out with the Philosopher's Stone? What if he found out something important? I stopped walking, trying to remember exactly what we were talking about in the Hospital. Bonded Souls, the Philosopher's Stone, Homunculi...wait...the Homunculi! They must've seen or heard Hughes find out about them! But how? The only ones that know are me, Ed, Al, Hughes, Major, and Bradley. The Homunculi didn't kill Ed and Al because they were 'sacrifices'. They barely know about me and none of us works with them. That leaves the Major and Bradley...you wouldn't think that the Major would be in on this but looks can be deceiving...take me for example. No one would expect me to be some 'dead' bloodthirsty monster. But the Major loved Hughes so why would he kill him? Well, plan to kill him. That leaves Bradley. He's the Fuhrer so I wouldn't think it'd be him. He also warned us about it...trust no one in the military...his words echoed through my head. Wouldn't that count for him too? I shook my head. This just doesn't make any sense! There's something important missing here. Didn't it say in the newspaper that Maria Ross was spotted with Hughes? But how could she be in two places at once? Unless someone disguised themselves as her-ENVY! So it had to be Envy who killed Hughes! I have to tell Alphonse! But wait...how did Envy find out? Unless he disguised himself as the Major or Bradley. But then wouldn't Bradley notice? Oh my god, none of this adds up! Unless Bradley was working with the Homunculi...but then why would he be helping the country? I need to discuss this with Ed or Alphonse. Even Ling would be fine right now. I sighed. What to do now? I saw military officers running to where I just came from. I saw Bradley and decided to follow them.
"Something the matter, Miss Shade?" Bradley asked smoothly.
"I was just curious...what are those military officers doing?" I lied. I couldn't trust him right now. How could Bradley even find out about Mustang's troops? I don't believe Mustang called for help. He told me not to. Either Bradley is working with the Homunculi, or he figured it out because Mustang 'abandoned his post.'But Bradley shouldn't know for sure of where to find him. DAMN THIS IS CONFUSING!
"Mustang just charged into the building after a murderer." Well, I already started this act, I might as well follow it. I thought about how I would normally react and I pretended to look shocked.
"HE DID WHAT?!" I inwardly smirked at my good acting. I started heading towards the building in 'anger' and Bradley walked ahead of me and stopped me.
"I would rather you not get involved, Kaiden. I understand your anger but you must not be rash." I walked past him 'angrily' into the building. I was actually slightly worried. Theses were Homunculi we were talking about! I don't hear Bradley behind me. I heard an explosion from downstairs and hurried over. I passed by a room and saw a body but-wait...what? I back tracked and walked into the room. I saw Havoc lying on his back, in blood. My eye twitched. I could feel them changing. I saw a burn mark on his side. Mustang must've done that to close his wounds. I heard more explosions. I picked Havoc up, thanks to my Vampire strength, and ran to where I had heard explosions. I stepped into a large room where Lust was pointing her bladed finger at Mustang's face. She started to fade away. I saw a large wall in the middle.
"The hell happened here?" I asked the Colonel. He turned around. Riza and Alphonse walked from behind the wall. Alphonse's jaw was off (lol) and his arm was a bit broken.
"Kaiden!" he shouted in surprise and ran over to me. "What are you doing here?! And how can you even carry him?! And what is wrong with your eyes? They're purple." I showed my fangs at Al. "Oh...right..."
"So, Bradley was outside here last I saw him. Mustang shot his head in my direction.
"What?!"
"Yeah..."
"Take Havoc there and get him some help." I noticed Mustang was hurt too.
"And what about you?"
"I'm coming too but you're faster than I am, now go." I nodded and ran off, Alphonse trailing behind me. I ran up the stairs and passed many flustered laboratory people in white coats...heh. I ran outside to one of the cars and threw Havoc in. He groaned and woke up in response. Hawkeye came rushing out with her arm holding Mustang up. I opened the door and climbed into the driver's seat. Alphonse stood there, puzzled.
"Uh, Kaiden?" Al asked. I looked at him and rolled the window down. "Do you know how to drive?" I laughed.
"No, but I'm pretty sure I know what to do. I've been in cars several times." Hawkeye and Mustang sat in the back with Havoc. Mustang was looking at me suspiciously. The keys were already in the ignition.
"Let's see here...I'm pretty sure if I push this pedal..." I pressed down on the gas and we practically flew.
"Kaiden, slow down!" Mustang scolded.
"Okay one, I'm trying to hurry here! And two!...I don't know how!" Havoc groaned.
"Boss, if we live through this, remind me to kill her." I glared at him through the rear view mirror, which made me swerve on the sidewalk. Some random guy started screaming at me as I barely missed him. I yelled out my window.
"If you don't like my driving then stay off the sidewalk!" I heard Mustang chuckled and the others sweat-dropped. I swerved back on the road. We were almost there. I looked in the backseat at the others to make sure they were okay.
"EYES ON THE ROAD!" Mustang yelled at me. I looked forward to see...a cow? I screamed and took the turn to early, chipping a stop sign.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS A COW DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD?!"
"You nearly crashed into a stop sign and you're worried about the cow?!" Mustang exclaimed.
"WHERE DID IT EVEN COME FROM?! DO YOU SEE A FARM ANYWHERE AROUND HERE?!"
"That wouldn't matter if we were dead!" Havoc practically cried.
"You guys are a bunch of babies." I glared at Havoc and Mustang. They went pale.
"TREE!" They both screamed. I jolted my head forward and sure enough, we were heading for a tree. A huge tree. It kinda reminded me of Armstrong. I swerved to miss the trunk. This time the mirror had fallen off and the tree branches whacked us in the face since my window was down. I saw the Hospital and relieved a sigh. I got to the parking lot and nearly ran Alphonse over. I slammed my foot on the breaks and the car screeched to a halt. The car stopped instantly and the guys face-planted the seats. I was afraid Hawkeye would start scolding me. I looked back at her-was she smiling?! Holy hell, she was smiling! Did she literally have fun from that?! Mustang looked at Hawkeye and paled. Havoc opened his car door and flopped onto the cement.
"I'm alive!" I rolled my eyes.
"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad!" Mustang looked at me, terrified. "But I am so reporting that cow!" I saw Melonie rushing at me. She held her hand over her heart as I carried Havoc over my shoulder, much to his embarrassment.
"Thank Gate, you're alive!" Melonie hugged me.
"This is so not right..." Havoc moaned. Hawkeye helped Mustang out and we speed-walked into the Hospital.
"How did you know I was chasing after a murderer?" I asked, wondering if Bradley called her.
"YOU WHAT?!" Okay...maybe not...
"Then what were you so worried about?" I asked her, confused.
"I heard that there was a crazy driver on the loose. That's how Mustang and that cigarette guy got hurt, right?" I glared hardcore at her.
"I AM NOT A CRAZY DRIVER!" I snapped my mouth shut.
"That was you?! Do you even have a license?!"
"It was an emergency!"
"You nearly ran your boss over! He's the one that told me!"
"Damn, I should've tried to hit him then..." Melonie laughed. Nurses rushed to our sides as Hawkeye opened the door for us. Many of them were staring at me.
"Can you put me down now?" Havoc whined. Poor Havoc. He must be embarrassed. I giggled as nurses rolled a stretcher in front of me and gave me an incredulous look. I put him down on the stretcher and they rolled him off. They then took Mustang away from Hawkeye, who followed. I looked up to Al, who was just now catching up. I didn't blame him. I'm sure I'd piss my pants if someone nearly ran me over.
"What the hell happened in there?!" I asked Alphonse, referring to the laboratory. Melonie watched closely as she was also curious about where I had been.
"When we got down there, we split up. Hawkeye and I found Barry, who already murdered his body. Then Lust appeared and shot off some nonsense about killing Colonel Mustang. She tried killing Hawkeye but I stepped in the way, that's how I got all beat up..." I nodded.
"Continue."
"Then I built that wall to protect Hawkeye and I from the flames that Colonel Mustang had produced."
"I was wondering how that got there..." I muttered. "Alphonse I need to talk to you-" I stopped talking. There were too many people around and what if the Homunculi were close? "Actually, can we go back to my hotel?" I glanced at Melonie, she nodded. Alphonse stared at Melonie's appearance the entire time we were going back to the hotel. Her and Winry looked the same, except for the eyes. We all sat down. Alphonse suddenly stood up and walked across the room to leave.
"Alphonse! Where are you going?! I need to-" Al interrupted me.
"I need to return to Winry! I'll be back later!" Alphonse shut the door as soon as I yelled at him.
"You better!" there was a long silence.
"So," Melonie said, breaking the ice. "Where did you learn how to drive a car?" I groaned.
"I never learned! I had no clue what I was doing, to be honest." she laughed.
"I can tell." she laughed again. "Did you even see what you did to that car? Like the outside?" I shook my head. She pulled out a blank photo and started shaking it. I looked at the photo which now shown a black military car. One of the tires looked flat and it had scratches on the side of it. All of the windows were cracked except mine, which was open.
"You don't think they'll charge me for it, do you?" Melonie looked at the poor defeated car.
"You better hope they don't-OH MY GATE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR EYES THEY KEEP DISTRACTING ME!?"
"My eyes?...oh yeah Alphonse said something about that...purple?" she nodded.
"Light purple. That's so cool! How did you do that?!"
"Well actually, I think it's because I'm a bit low on blood, but not too low. I think my eye color mixed with the red." Melonie started backing away slowly, jokingly. We both laughed.
"So where's Ed then?"
"How did you know that he was the one? I don't believe I ever told you." she smirked.
"I didn't. I was just fishing for answer." she smirked victoriously.
"You neaner-head." she laughed at the word. That's what she would always call me me when we were little. She would also make a neaner noise-
"Neaner, neaner, neaner!" we laughed. "So where is Ed then?"
"I believe he's at the Xerxes Ruins."
"Why?"
"No clue."
"That sucks."
"Yeah."
"So...want to go for a drive?" we both smiled evilly.
"Now, whose car to borrow?" we grabbed our chins in thought. Melonie's evil smile had gotten bigger. She dialed a number. "Hey, Cameron!~" my evil smile grew. This was going to be fun.
Okay so READ THIS OR YOU WILL BE CONFUSED! The next chapter is Chapter 30, which is awesome. That's like awesome. So, I was going to do something special. The next chapter will probably only be for a 'filler' or whatever you wanna call it ;) you can only guess what's going to happen next! But that's not why I need your attention DON'T YOU DARE CLICK BACK! READ THIS NAOW! So, I'm going to be writing a crack-fic for all of my precious readers. I remember LeFay doing something like this to reward her readers and I actually thought it was a pretty good idea-BUT! I need topics! Her's was 'Frog War' if you're curious. It took place in a swamp and Ed and Al were lost. So, any suggestions? If you haven't reviewed at all in this story then you wont be able to be in the fic! So review, followers/favoriters! I want suggestions! Thanks for reading ;)