Don't own FMA, although it sounds as if it would be quite fun if I did ;)
Melonie and I just stood there in shock. Telling by the look on her face, the both of us had so many unanswered questions it wasn't even funny. I didn't really smell any blood (and trust me, I probably would've since I hadn't had any in a LONG while) so that question was answered. Both of our jaws coincided to drop to the ground. Hawkeye sat there in shock for a spit second before going in defense mode.
"What was that...?" I heard Hawkeye murmur, readying her gun for action. Her question was on all of our minds at the moment. "Colonel! What's going on?!" She ran and hopped in the huge crater that was created not too long ago. Everything was gone, including the ground! Just what happened? Was everyone alright?
"Hawkeye! Stop!" Hawkeye stopped instantly just as another wave of wind had swallowed the ground beside her. Mel and I stared at her in shock. The tip of her gun was completely wiped off, like a straight edge was cut through it. Determining the situation, I would say that there must have been some type of black hole swallowing everything. My immediate thought was Gluttony. He was the only one around who could swallow things...so did that mean that there was a black hole in his stomach? The cabin began to rattle as if it were to collapse any second.
"Kai, let's move!" Melonie grabbed my hand and dragged me away from the dangerous building. Once it had halfway collapsed, we both just stood there in shock. My hypothesis was indeed correct. Gluttony's stomach was busted open and what looked like sharp ribs was protruding from the sides of the huge hole. Inside the hole was an eye...similar to the one of the gate! Shocking scene really, I just thought it was ironic that Gluttony had a black hole in his stomach. He did like to eat people a lot...where did it all go then?
"Hawkeye! Don't provoke him! It's me that he wants!" I heard Roy shout from a couple yards away. He, Ed, and Al were all standing (sitting?) just beside the second crater that was just recently created. Being me, I just stood there like an idiot, clueless as to what was going on. Mel grabbed a hold of my wrist and took off to protection, A.k.a., Ed.
"Edward! What's going on?!" Melonie stopped beside him. Roy ripped his glove off of his hand with his teeth.
"Let's go, we have to bring him down!"
"But we worked so hard to catch one of the homunculi!" Alphonse tried to reason with Roy's brash plan. Roy put on one of his flame gloves.
"Survival is our first priority, besides, he knows our names and faces now, it would be foolish to let him leave here alive!" Roy exclaimed as he sent alchemic flames at the round homunculus. I narrowed my eyes at this. But...Gluttony was with the homunculi and if Bradley too was a homunculus...then wouldn't he have known everyone already. My eyes widened. That's it...Bradley must be using Ed, Al, Roy, and the rest of the military as his pawns! Was he the one behind all this madness? Meaning he was the one behind Hughes' death?! Or was there some greater force that was behind the homunculi?! I watched as Gluttony's stomach dilated and all of the fire was sucked through the bottomless pit. My eye twitched.
"He swallowed it?" I heard Edward say beside me, sweat dropping. Everyone seemed defeated over this fact. Roy sat there, staring in disbelief.
"Uh oh..." I heard Alphonse mutter. Gluttony roared and sent another vacuum wave at us. Melonie yanked me out of the way and soon enough, we were all booking it as far as we could. We were all running for our lives.
"What's going on?!" I shouted at them, but they all seemed to be ignoring the fact that I was actually here.
"Hey! That worked well!" Edward shouted over the commotion.
"Think you can do better—be my guest!"
"Or we could just leave you behind, Colonel, you're the one he really wants!" I would never believe Al would say such a thing if I didn't hear it with my own ears.
"Those trees over there! Spread out!" This was when Mel and I accidentally parted. At the same time I turned with Ed, she turned with Al. Yeah, not exactly a good plan for the two of us. We were basically better when we worked together. She had the alchemy and I had the strength. Just great. I looked around and saw an injured Mustang kneeling at the ground.
"Hey! Since he wants Mustang, why don't we make a substitute and all hide!"
"Won't that just piss him off?!" Okay, so now you're finally talking to me! Thanks Ed, I really appreciate it!
"Do you have a better idea to distract that wild creature?!" Edward sighed.
"Fine!" Edward clapped his hands and created a substitute beside the real thing. Hawkeye appeared out of nowhere and held him up.
"Come on, let's go!" I demanded and, surprisingly, they listened. We met up with Al and Mel not long after.
"Kai! There you are! What the hell did you think you were doing—running off on your own like that!?"
"No time for questions! Let's get back to the cabin!" Mel nodded in all seriousness. There was no time for arguing with a crazy homunculus on the loose. We all made it safely to the cabin where Dr. Knox was parked in a car, waiting for us. I felt extremely relieved at this point. We all heard Gluttony howl in anger.
"Perfect, he fell for the Mustang decoy."
"Doesn't sound like he's very happy about it."
"Well, it was the only thing I could come up with—are you guys even listening to me?!" Nope. Once again, I was being ignore. I growled in frustration as I watched them argue over who was getting in the car and who was staying while Roy was having one of his Useless fits. This was the part when Edward started to lecture Roy. Getting a taste of his own medicine now, that smirking idiot. I was a bit surprised at how mature Edward had gotten ever since I first met him...when I first met him...
"This is Kaiden Shade and she will be accompanying you with your travels, understand?"
"What? Why she would only get in our way!" I let my duck face fall and glared at him though he didn't seem to be paying attention to me. Mustang nodded at me that basically said 'you can tell him' I know he didn't mean the vampire part but the assassin and bodyguard part.
"Well Major Oblivious!" Mustang smirked holding in a laugh, "I would hope that you know that I'm a highly trained assassin that can murder anyone without anyone knowing and if Colonel Smirky over here wasn't such a bastard I could even help him become Fuhrer! The only reason I'm going with you is to track down someone and kill them." I glared at Fullmetal and he raised an eyebrow at me. Wow. He's not scared by my glare. That's a first even Mustang is afraid of me.
"Hmph well as long as you don't get in our way then that's fine by me." He turned his head away from me obviously furious that I just called him what I did.
I snapped out of my flashback when a certain Major spoke, "Are you coming or not?"
"Huh?" Melonie rolled her eyes.
"We have to go after Gluttony."
"What for?!"
"Information, Kaiden, get with the program! You're lucky I'm letting you go off with them." I scrunched my nose up in distaste.
"Who are you, my father?" I stopped and thought for a moment...Roy did adopt me after all...he opened his mouth the say something but I interrupted, "Don't answer that." He closed his mouth. "Alright, Alright, I'm coming!" I ran after them. Once I actually caught up, they were all shaking, hiding behind a bush. I looked ahead and saw Gluttony having a spaz attack.
"I know we said we'd stay and all...but that's seriously freaky." Edward muttered.
"He seems to be a bit angry." Ling muttered back.
"How are we going to catch him?" Well hell, even Al was shaking! Jeez, these guys are creeping me out. I looked to Mel to see if she had any bright ideas, being one out of the three alchemic genius' here. I felt a nasty aura behind me and instantly turned as well as Ling. So he could sense it too huh? Alphonse, sensing all three of our uneasiness, turned to see what we felt. "What was that?" Standing there was a dark reddish Great Dane. He had piercing red eyes, that demanded answered. "A dog?" Alphonse questioned aloud.
"Stop it now, Gluttony!" It shouted—wait, it talked? Dogs don't talk! Unless it's...Envy perhaps? That was the only reasonable explanation for this talking dog nonsense.
"A talking dog?" Edward too questioned it's existence. Wow Ed. Really? You're a genius and you seriously think there are such things as talking dogs? Well then again...there are chimera's...just like...I shook my head, I can't think about depressing things right now, I need to focus! Yeah, and dogs definitely didn't grin like that!
"Envy..." I whispered to myself. Melonie looked over with a puzzled look.
"Jealous?" I shook my head.
"Hey, long time no see..." Envy said, his form slowly started changing into a human's form. "How are ya, Fullmetal Pipsqueak?" Edward took off in anger. We all sighed, sweat dropping, besides a clueless Mel.
"Damn it! I told you before, don't call me small!" Edward flew into the air, sending a powerful kick Envy's way. Envy simply ducked out of the way. He threw his hands in front of him, as if trying to...reason?
"Hey calm down! I'm just trying to get Gluttony back, nothing more than that! I don't want to fight you-" Envy was cut off as Edward's automail fist flew at him. Once again, Envy jumped out of the way, but the poor tree didn't stand a chance. It was dented—worse than dented, he practically destroyed the tree!
"THAT'S FIVE NOW!" Envy hopped on a nearby branch.
"What are you talking about?!" Edward spun around in a flustered manner.
"That's five times. You called me pipsqueak twice here, AND THREE TIMES AT THE LABORATORY!" Really Ed? So much for being more mature. But seriously! There's a killer homunculus right in front of you and you're going off track because he called you short? You're so short tempered! Heheh...short... "Don't tell me you've forgotten already!" Was it really that much of a big deal?
"Impressive, you've got a short memory there." Envy muttered and looked away, hopping down from the tree and into the bushes, where Gluttony caught up with him.
"Hold it!" Envy looked at Gluttony.
"You're becoming bothersome."
"Mustang was here!" Well that's just great, Gluttony ruined that part of the plan. "Mustang killed Lust, Swallow, Swallow, Swallow-"
"You don't get the Colonel." Wait...was Envy actually siding with us? "Or the Elric Brother." Gluttony started whining like a fat kid who didn't get his snack...well, that was basically what was going on right now...
"Wait a minute, I've sensed this multiplicity before." Ling walked from behind Al, but Mel and I stayed put. If Envy found out I was still alive, I'd be done for! "How many people are inside you, Homunculus?" Wow, Ling actually opened his eyes. Envy kicked back and rested his elbow on Gluttony's back.
"I know you, you're the kid who crossed swords with Brad, aren't you?" Ling aimed his sword out in front of him at Envy.
"What do you mean, kid? I happen to be the twelfth son of the emperor of Xing. My name is-"
"Eat him." Envy patted Gluttony on the head. I sweat dropped as Gluttony chased after a screaming Ling, who was squealing like a little girl. "Oh no, no, no, no, no, noaaaah!" I rolled my eyes and pulled Melonie into a nearby bush.
"What's up?" she whispered silently.
"I can't be seen by Envy. Fuhrer Bradley thinks I'm dead."
"Then why the hell did you come along?! If you-" I slapped a hand over her mouth and put a finger on my lips.
"Sh." she growled and licked my hand. I tried not to cry out in disgust and wiped the saliva on a nearby leaf. Poor leaf. "You're so childish!"
"Says the childish one! So what's the plan?" We felt the earth beneath our feet shake and saw our team separated...haha our team, that's a good one.
"I say...well...I guess I'll hang out until things get intense."
"Intense?"
"Serious. As in someone get's injured. But for now, I can only watch. It has to be a last minute resort for me to show up."
"Alright, sounds like a plan...say, can I join the fight?"
"No."
"What?! Why not-"
"Sh! You'll only get in their way." Melonie placed a hand on her hip.
"I can help."
"Well, Miss Attitude, this is serious. It's nothing like the training you did. These are homunculi we're talking about. No matter how many times you slice and dice them, they heal automatically! Come on, just do as I say. I don't care if I'm the younger or not, we work best when we're together." she put on a pout face and sat next to me, crossing her arms.
"Fine, but only until they're in trouble, Mom!" I snorted.
"Yeah, that's just what I said...all we can do now...is wait." So we just did that. I felt my eyes changing as Envy's blood was splattered. But I only paid attention to how heavy his footsteps were. They were heavily put in the ground...he doesn't look very heavy but-
"Kai, that's really creepy."
"Huh?" I looked over at her.
"You were staring at Envy with a concentrated look in your eyes, not to mention they've turned bright red."
"Really? I haven't noticed." I watched, amused, as Gluttony threw Alphonse at Edward and they broke through, interrupting Envy and Ling's fight. I know I shouldn't have thought it funny, because that really had to hurt, but I couldn't help it. I saw as Envy slammed into the ground. Everything in my mind flipped upside down when Envy transformed into Lan Fan.
"GLUTTONY NOW!"
"Crap, he's going to get eaten!" I exclaimed and ran in the battle. I heard Melonie calling out for me as she ran after me. Edward hopped in to save Ling and Envy grabbed Edward's foot. This can't be good! Hopefully Gluttony's not stupid enough to swallow Envy! But, the wave was already coming. Just as I was about to pull Edward out of the way, everything blacked out.
I think I'll stop right there! Hahaha, sorry for the cliffy again you guys! But can you all imagine the look on Kaiden's face when she wakes up in a pool of blood? ;) I was actually looking forward to this part -sigh- I hope this is longer than my other chapters D: I recently though I should make my chapters longer because they just seem to short, so I decided to see how many words I would need for a reasonable amount...4k of words...I tried my best but I just couldn't make it without ending it in a cliffy! TT^TT they're too tempting, I'm sorry you guys D: XD but anyways, hope you enjoyed this EARLY chapter ;) I'd like some more reviews, not that I'm demanding them from you! One, they could point out any dumb mistakes I made and two, they give me bunches of motivation—why I was just talking with one of my friends, telling her that I was planning to update another chapter or TWO of VL! But it all depends if I'm motivated right? Teehee, call me evil. Yeah, this is like in red writing on my word document because the damn computer wouldn't make it go black D: Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and here's the answers to your reviews!
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