Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ A Ghra Moi Chroi ❯ Is Minic A Bhris Duine A Shron ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Disclaimer: don't own fma. I only wish that I did…. -sigh-

TITLE: Is minic a bhris beal duine a shron. “Many A Time A Man's Mouth Broke His Nose.”

------AT THE PARADE GROUNDS-----

The crowd had been cheering wildly.

The announcer pointed at Edo, who was smiling cockily with his hands in his pockets.

“In this corner! EDWARD ELRIC!”

The crowd cheered with a loud roar for Edo. Many people started yelling comments like: “Don't let her beat you kid!”

“She's just a girl! Don't let her win!”

and “There's no way a girl can win!”

I clenched my fists and bit my tongue so hard that I could taste the blood in my mouth out of anger from being demeaned by those idiotic jack-asses who were making those damn sexist remarks.

Yeah right! Like he could ever beat me! There's no way I'm gonna let that little pipsqueak win! Not now, NOT EVER.

“And in this corner!”

The announcer shifted from Edo to me.

“CARAMEL EDANA!”

The crowd didn't really boo or cheer; it was more like a confused sound:

“A girl against Fullmetal? That's like suicide!”

“There's no WAY she can win against him!”

“Personally, I put my money on the red-head. She looks like she's got a lot more fighting spirit in her.”

“I'm rootin' for the girl! Someone needs to shut that small fry up for GOOD.”

“YOU CAN DO IT GIRL!!!”

“HEY! DON'T CALL ME `GIRLY' YOU SONNOVA-GUN!” I yelled back hastily.

“Okay! Both of you, come here to the middle so I can go over the rules.”

“Right!” Both Edo and I said in unison.

Edo and I both walked up to the middle towards the announcer. Edo walked with wide, swift steps, still with that cocky smile on his face, while I on the other hand I walked up more steadily, trying to contain my anger about all those people thinking he could be ME because I'm a girl, AND because he seemed to agree judging by his attitude.

We were now in the middle of the very LARGE arena. The announcer leaned forward slightly with his mic still in hand.

“All right kids, there are only two rules: One: No using a person who is not fighting for help. And Two: No exploding the other persons body.”

I nodded my head in agreement, while Edo started smarting off.

“Yeah, yeah. Like I'm gonna hurt a girl. That badly!” Then he looked at me and said: “Don't worry, I'll go easy on ya'!”

Oh my god…is he serious?! HIM?! Go easy on ME?! Yeah right! He'll be lucky if he even survives this whenever I'm done with him! Oh he is SO going to be BEGGING for mercy from me later…

“Don't get so cocky you little pissant sonnova-“

“Okay! That's enough of that! You two, go back to where you were and then we'll begin the assessment.” The announcer cut me off before I could finish off my oh-so-WONDERFULLY COLORFUL words that I had for him! (Edo, that is).

The announcer left the arena in a hurry.

“And fight!”

Before the first punch was thrown, I noticed Edo's hair. It was so blonde, and blew freely in the wind.

That pretty-boy hair of his is gonna be so matted with blood when I'm through with him that it's going to take WEEKS to get fully out of his hair. This went through my mind, with an intimidating sneer creeping slowly across my face. My emerald-green eyes glared menacingly at Edo, and my sharp cat-fangs were very obvious.

I cupped my hands around my mouth so Edo could hear me from such a far distance.

“Don't think that I'll go easy on you just `cause you are stupid, dense, and incredibly oblivious and ignorant!”

Edo: “Yeah, sure, whatever!” He replied with a none-believing smile.

Doesn't matter what you think right now, `cause I'm gonna win no matter what!

“Gimme you're best shot, pipsqueak!” I yelled so fiercely that my fangs could easily be seen, and I spit some saliva out while yelling.

“HEY! DON'T CALL ME PIPSQUEAK!” Edo clapped his hands together out of anger without thinking.

“Uh-huh…”

So it's true…no circles…uh? The ground…it's…

“Whoa!”

HUMONGOUS spikes shot up rapidly from the ground right underneath me, causing me to run backwards fast enough to avoid the spikes.

“So that's how you wanna do things eh?! Well fine with me!”

A yellow light appeared in front of my hands as I crossed my hands with each other with my arms stretched in front of me. The light shot off straight towards Edo with ferocious speed.

Edo immediately jumped out of the way, but the light was so fast and powerful that it grazed his left cheek and shoulder. All the way across from the corner of his lip and the edge of his left ear was bleeding from the graze from the Light Magic that I attacked him with.

“What are you trying to do, KILL me?!”

“No!-”

My red hair whipped around behind me as I shot off like lightening at rocket speed towards the very short, very shocked, blonde-braided boy to attack.

“-Just trying to knock you unconscious!”

My foot skidded on the concrete ground as I halted and high-kicked Edo square in the face, causing him to go flying a couple dozen feet in the air and away from where he was standing before. He crash-landed into the concrete. A huge puff of smoke filled the surrounding area.

Uh oh. I groaned in annoyance, smacking my hand against my forehead. Overdid it I guess.

My feet walked swiftly towards where he must've landed.

I looked around a few times looking for him to make sure he wasn't dead or anything yet.

“Hey! Edo, are you still alive?!”

The silhouette of Edo's small body appeared vaguely through the smoke.

As he stepped closer and closer towards me slowly, I noticed that he was limping pretty badly on his right leg. He also had several scratches on his face that were bleeding.

Suddenly, I sensed something coming for me from behind and subconsciously avoided the attack by flipping to the side a few feet.

“To slow!”

My right hand reached out in front of me and shot off a sonic wave of energy towards where I sensed something before.

The sonic wave cut through the dust like a loaf of bread. Then a loud crashing sound was heard.

What was that sound?

Before I could even finish my thoughts, the ground crumbled beneath my feet.

“Oh shi-!”

My feet fell through the crumbling pavement beneath me.

“Grrr…”

Over the years that I've been with the military, I was in training. Mostly physical training, like my fighting skills, but also mental and emotional training, even training to enhance and increase my magic skills. So this wasn't really that much of a problem to evade because of my skills AND my cat-reflexes.

Only seconds after falling through the ground, I immediately grabbed onto the side of the concrete with my right arm and thrusted myself up out of the hole; all within a matter of seconds. Three seconds tops.

But the edges of the concrete I had grabbed onto were pretty sharp, so I ended up with several large gashes in my hand and arm. Also, bits of concrete that were rather large went through the air hitting my face after I was out of the hole. My face was now cut some too. But still not as badly as Edo's.

When I landed back onto my feet out side of the hole on solid ground, Edo was taken aghast by my footwork.

“H-how did you do that?!”

I put my left hand on my hip and slightly shifted my weight onto my left leg.

Tossing my hair back coherently and gazing at Edo with piercing emerald eyes:

“What, you're surprised? I told you that you shouldn't underestimate me!”

I veered my gaze off away in the opposite direction and raised both eyebrows in boredom.

“God, I can't believe you'd still think I was weak even after all of those warnings I gave you earlier too…”

-sigh-

Edo didn't know what to say back too me. He began stuttering.

“Ya…whu…I-I….”

I looked back at Edo.

“You sound like some moron stutterin' like that an' all.”

Since Edo seemingly just became brain-dead, I took this chance to attack.

This time, my attack wasn't magic. Instead I ran lightening fast and punched him square in the face.

I was so fast at running and attacking that Edo didn't even have enough time to respond to it and try to counter it or dodge it.

Edo's face started bleeding mildly on his right cheek.

I spun around and tried to turn kick him in the face, but this time he dodged my attack by ducking. He then clapped both of his hands together and then grabbing both of my arms.

Agonizing shots of pain shot through every corner and nerve of my arms. I jumped back.

What the…? What the hell did he just do…?

Both my arms were limp as noodles. I had almost no feeling at all in my left arm, and my right arm was completely paralyzed.

It's not much of a handicap though. I've still got my legs you moron!

My feet moved incredibly fast at Edo to attack. But unexpectedly, he ran at me at the same time.

But this time Edo attacked ME faster than I would've expected.

Edo had clapped his hands together and transmuted his automail arm into a blade and cut a big gash into my right shoulder all the way to my left collarbone.

“ -gah- …d-dammit…” Dammit. That little fek dug in deep.

Edo laughed harshly at me. “Ha! I finally and I guess you underestimated me as well!”

I looked at Edo annoyingly with half-circle eyes (you know the ones.) “I didn't think that a bean like you was worth much is why.”

Edo started flailing his arms and legs about wildly ranting and threatening me.

“WHO'S A BEAN?!?!”

Cupping my hands around the edges of my mouth so he could hear me, I yelled back altercately: “YOU ARE, YOU BEAN-SPROUT-MIDGET-FREAK!!!!!”

Although that obviously didn't make him shut up, but I knew that it wouldn't already anyways. I just said it because I didn't want him getting the last shot in. I don't ever let people beat me on insults. Plus, I just felt like it.

Edo fell to his knees in angst, throwing a mental fit. There was even an aura of anger around him.

I stepped cautiously over towards edo.

“What the `el you doin'?”

“Gra…grrr…”

Out of anger and rage, Edo furiously charged at me, aiming to strike me again with his blade.

Ah. Interesting

But I'm no moron. Like I'm even about to fall for a trick like that again! Especially not two times in a row!

So as Edo charged at me, I leaped into the air with ease. Then to counter, I….

….landed on his face, and landed graciously on the ground again.

“Grah! You….! Stay still so I can crush you!” He yelled with anger.

“Hmph!” I stuck my nose in the air scornfully.

“Heh…you shouldn't let your guard down so easily!”

“What?”

A massive shock went through my brain as some kind of concrete object slammed into the back of my head, causing me to be paralyzed for a few short seconds.

I turned around back at Edo rapidly, throwning a mighty punch at him, but he was quicker.

“Heh.”

And then he took the perfect opportunity to get me.

A quick flash came from his automail arm, and shorter than an instant later.

“What the…?”

His movements were too fast for me to respond to quickly enough.

He reached out to grab my arms again, but because I swung to the side, he missed and grabbed the right side of my stomach.

Even more excruciating shots of pain went through me. Only this time, they were from my side where he'd grabbed me by accident.

I nearly fell to my knees from the pain when another appeared from Edo clapping his hands together.

He didn't waste a singe second to attack me again.

But this time, he had changed his automail into something much, much harder than it was before, and punched me directly in the gut.

But the last thing that I remember was that large pools of thick blood were forced out of my body, through my mouth, and then out onto the ground. The ground was now soaked in blood.

And then that was it. Everything went black.

EDO'S POINT OF VIEW

The crowd gasped at the sight of the fiery redhead fell to her knees and then out cold on the ground.

I stepped back a step shocked from all the blood that came from her once strong, but now very fragile body.

The crowd shouted.

“Somebody should help her!”

“She needs some medical attention!”

“What happened? I can't see!”

“What happened to her?!”

“Yeah! I told you he'd beat her!”

“Someone, get a doctor!”

“Ed!”

Al came running up out of the crowd to me frantically.

“What'd you do to her nii-san?! She's coughed up so much blood!”

“I-I didn't know…that…”

Al looked down at me. “We should go bring her to the colonel. Maybe he can help.”

“R-right…”

I bent down on my knees and tried to scoop her up in my arms to carry her to the colonel, but my automail was broken and wouldn't move at all, so I couldn't.

I looked at Al nervous about why she coughed up so much blood. Most people wouldn't be able to even survive losing that much blood.

“Al, my automail's broken so I can't carry her. You're going to have to take her.”

Al nodded his head understandingly.

“Right.”

Al bent down and scooped her up into his arms.

She looked so small in Al's large metal arms. She looked so much different from her usual crude and sarcastic self.

AL'S POINT OF VIEW

She looks so small…

She looked so different compared to me. On our first meeting, she seemed so much different. It's almost easy to forget that underneath her rough exterior, she's still just a fourteen-year-old girl. But when she's unconscious like this, it's surprising really. Even her atmosphere seems to change.

“Al! Come on, we have to find Mustang quickly!”

“Ah! Right.”

We climbed through the frantic crowd and left the arena, in search of Mustang and some answers about this unusual girl.

yay! well, there's the second chapter for u! and surprisingly, its only four pages shorter than the first chapter. when I started typing this chapter, i was actually worried that it wouldnt be long enough… but i guess i dont have to worry about that now, now do i? well, please review! oh and flames r still NOT welcome, but questions r! (just dont be mean when asking questions k?) now its time for me to start working on the third and fourth chapters! -starts cracking knuckles, neck, back, arms, ankles, toes, etc……- gotta limber up and get ready for several days and nights with no sleep to do this. -hits keyboard- alright! im gonna do this thing!