A/N: Looks like we got some serious ties, so far, Medaka, Ichigo and his friends in the lead, Nobuda and Yoshiharu, Sakura Avalon and friends have been tied so far. Remember to keep voting even if you're the same voter! Here is chapter 4 with Edward Elric and a Prinny from Disgea! This Prinny will be like the one in Cross Edge, don't worry, Etna will join in this generation later.
Chapter 4: The Fullmetal Alchemist and the Prinny
Meanwhile, at a faraway land further away from the one Leo and friends are on, a dark meeting was taking place. In a dark room, six dark figures watched a holographic screen closely as the ragtag group, led by Leonhardt and Renee, headed towards Dodone.
"It seems the rat and his friends are heading to Mimas..." A sinister voice stated.
"How true, Master Moo. But never thought our master's summoning of those who have light in their hearts be scattered throughout Agarest..." A male's voice inducted.
"True, Widdershin. Our master was supposed to brainwash them and make them look for the key to controlling the universe." The man chuckled in a way that would unnerve the common citizen.
"Shut up, you snake! Summeril was supposed to make those heroes — especially those two bratty CPUs — our servants in finding it and then we would have killed them when they did their jobs!" a female voice growled angrily.
"Calm yourself, Arfoire," spoke another voice that was feminine yet more calm than Arfoire's. "Sooner or later, they'll bring it to us. I will send my three useless lackeys to destroy them once they have completed their tasks."
A girl, perhaps thirteen years of age, stepped forward. Her red hair was held in two ponytails that splayed everywhere. She wore a skimpy black outfit that consisted merely of a VERY thin tube top suspended by what might as well have been two pieces string, a skirt made of two belts and black thigh-high boots. Such revealing attire would have been very off-putting and it was; it was just that the two devil wings and spade-tipped tail topped the outfit in that regard. "Then why don't you skip the crap and kill this bastard already?"
"Oh? The great Etna thinks she can defeat a lowly human and his friends?" a calm male voice mockingly asked.
The demon girl smirked. "Damn right."
The calmer feminine voice sighed. "Very well. We will inform Summeril of you heading to Lucrellia but know this..." the feminine voice got lower, abandoning all notions of gentleness. "If you fail, then your title as one of Summeril's Dark Generals will be revoked and you will not show your face here ever again. Understand, Etna?"
Etna frowned. She hated taking orders from them... but there are things you need to put up with. She turned around. "See ya..." she muttered before her form disappeared in the shadows.
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Two people walked into the village of Dodone. The first was a boy that stood at about 149 cm, had braided golden hair tied in a ponytail and wore a long red coat with a hood.
His even shorter companion was... possibly a boy. It depended on how you identified male penguins from female penguins. Even more oddly, it had stitches on its stomach, a knapsack around it, two bat wings and two peg legs.
The penguin sighed as he looked around. "We finally made it, dood. This village looks like a great place to kick back and enjoy some beer, dood."
The boy grunted as he looked at the penguin. "I'm too young to have alcohol, remember?"
"Sure dood, but remember; we're amnesia buddies since we both woke up in this strange world in the middle of a fricking war, dood," the penguin told him casually.
The boy sighed. He turned to his left arm and looked at a red bracelet with a dark gem embedded on it. "I still can't get this damn thing off. I shouldn't have put it on to begin with!" the boy grunted through gritted teeth. It would have been nice if he chose to put it on but no; some unknown voice told him to put it on and he couldn't resist it.
"Say, dood, have you remembered anything about your world and all?" the penguin asked the boy.
The blonde sighed again. "No. I only remember my name, Edward Elric... What about you?"
The penguin shook his head. "Nothing, dood. All I know is that I was called 'Prinny' and that there might've been others like me ... but let's not worry about it, dood! Let's go to an inn and put our troubles behind."
Ed was annoyed by his companion's drooling, no doubt brought on by thoughts of beer and who knows what else, but he didn't protest. "Yeah..."
The odd duo went inside the inn. The innkeeper looked at Prinny oddly. "I'm sorry sir but I don't allow pets in my inn. It has to wait outside," she told the two companions sternly.
"W-What?! But I ain't no pet, dood! I'm a Prinny!" The penguin began to panic as he flapped his wings very quickly.
"Prinny, just drop it. You have to wait outside," the boy commanded him as he pulled some gold from his pocket to pay for his room.
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It was the afternoon and Ed was in his room taking off his red coat. Now, while Ed was comparatively more normal than Prinny was, he had some odd characteristics of his own. For example, his right arm was made of metal. As he pulled up the left leg of his pants, he was reminded that his leg was also metal.
Ed stared at his metal parts intensely. He tried as hard as he could but why he had metal prosthetics rather than actual organic limbs was completely absent from his memory. Ed held his head and shook it to clear his thoughts.
Suddenly, he heard screaming. Confused, he ran outside and saw people running from something. As he opened the door, the airborne Prinny crashed into Ed's face as it wailed.
"Mmph! Get off of my face, damn it!" Ed shouted angrily as he pulled the penguin off, only to be greeted by the shocking sight of a monster with a lion's head and wings on its back. A terrifying beast, to be sure, but it prodded something at the edges of Edward's memory...
"Chimera..." he muttered.
"You know what this thing is, dood?" Prinny asked him, surprised.
"Yeah... we have to kill it before it destroys this village!" Ed shouted, taking off his red cloak. He clapped his organic and metal hands together before bringing the organic hand over his prosthetic arm. As the hand ran over the metal, sparks began to fly around Edward and the forearm stretched out into a narrow blade.
"Coool! I didn't know you can do that, dood!" Prinny's bottom half of his beak dropped but he quickly focused on the Chimera again. He got out two daggers and held them in front of him.
Just then, Renee, Leo and the party ran to the inn front. "What is that thing?!" Leo shouted, staring at the Chimera with wide eyes.
"Your curiosity will have to wait. We have to help those two," Vira-Lorr answered with a frown as she got out her staff.
"She's right, Leo! We have to help them! Impulse" Ellis cast her spell on the Chimera, rays of light rained down on the monster. The Chimera howled as it received damage.
"Neptune! Don't hold me down!" Noire ordered as she charged at the Chimera.
"I won't! It's butt whooping time!" Neptune leaped into the air and slashed the Chimera in the face three times.
Noire got behind the Chimera and was about to attack until the Chimera noticed her and whipped her into a boulder with its snake tail.
The party (except for Dyshana and Vira-Lorr, for obvious reasons) winced as Noire embedded herself into the rock like a stone.
"Ugh..." Noire groaned as she pulled herself out of the rock with all the ease of taking off a jumper. "Damn it, that hurts!" Noire she rubbed her head to ease the pain.
"Try attacking it with long range skills! Wolf Strike!" Yuri got close and slashed it twice. The Chimera retaliated with a swipe of its claws but Yuri jumped back out of range.
Neptune tried to attack but the Chimera hit her with its claw, knocking her into a building. Unlike Noire, she didn't pull herself out of the rubble.
Prinny charged at the Chimera and slashed it repeatedly its daggers before the Chimera knocked the penguin away, landing him a few feet away from Ed.
Leo and Kirito were next as they combined their attacks to slash the Chimera ten times.
This pattern of attacking and dodging repeated itself for quite some time. Most of the party members were panting heavily.
"Damn... This thing won't go down..." Yuri wiped some sweat from his forehead.
Edward grunted. He clapped his hands and slammed them down on the ground. Even more sparks danced violently in the air this time as the earth itself morphed into a cannon aimed right at the beast.
"Eat this!" Ed shouted in fury as he pulled the rope, firing a spiked cannon ball also made of dirt. It hit the Chimera head on, cracking its skull. The Chimera let out a dying roar as it fell on its back.
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"... and this is where we are now," concluded Dyshana after she explained to Ed and Prinny their situation and their mission to fight Gridamas.
"I see..." Ed nodded while frowning. "I guess I'm not in my world anymore due to this Summeril guy and he's got a lot of nerve manipulating people to do his dirty work."
"So, will you help us?" Leo asked with a kind smile.
"I dunno..." Neptune scratched her chin. "He looks like a kid by being too short like that."
"Did you just called me short?!" Edward yelled as he turned to Neptune so sharply that she recoiled back.
Vira-Lorr smirked. "Anger will get you nowhere. It'll be interesting to see a boy who can use some weird move like what we saw and a bird who may be weak..."
Meanwhile, a short distance away from the commotion, Ellis was scratching Prinny's beak.
"You're so nice, Miss Ellis. I remember a cruel flat chested girl who was mean to me and my brothers, but I don't know her name. But who cares, dood! I'll follow you till the end of time, dood!" the penguin purred.
Ellis giggled. "I hope you stay as our friend forever, Mister Prinny."
Leo stared at the dead Chimera's body. 'What was that thing? It didn't look like any of the monsters I seen in Lucrellia. Is it... from another world?' he thought.
"Something wrong, Leo?" Renee asked, walking up to him.
"Oh. Uh, it's nothing. Just wondering about that creature..." Leo told her with a smile which made her blush a little.
"Y-Yeah... it is weird looking..."
Dyshana walked up to the two. "It is called a Chimera, a creature native to Edward Elric's home world," she explained calmly.
"So... how did it get here to Agarest?" Leo asked her.
Dyshana was silent for a moment. "I have feared that Summeril's evil is causing an dimensional distortion to bring in creatures of other worlds to Agarest. We will face some of them as our journey continues. So you must be prepared for whatever happens," Dyshana advised.
Leo and Renee nodded in agreement.
To be continued...
Next chapter: The Syrium Girl