Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ The Butterfly Alchemist ❯ Family Reunion ( Chapter 6 )

Roy looked out the window of his office and sighed. He hadn't seen his niece since she was very little. She would beg him to perform alchemy for her. Breeze would laugh and giggle as he repaired things around the house and would stand in aw as he and her mother would practice their alchemy skills in a mock battle.

 

Her mother.

 

That was sort of a sore subject for Roy. Gwen was his older sister, by how many years even Roy wasn't for certain. Gwen had always believed girls could do exactly what boys did, to a point. Gwen had told him stories of the army right after she had joined. Roy thought that his sister would make it to the top. Both Gwen and Roy were shocked when Gwen found out that she was pregnant with Breeze. The unanswered question was simple: who was the father?

 

But Gwen never answered that question. At first, she would remain quiet and ignore who asked her about the father. As time went on, all she would say was that it was an old friend in the military.

 

Another thing was Breeze herself. She had turned Gwen's world upside down in more than one way. Breeze was just not the kind of girl her mom wanted. She wanted Breeze to be like a doll that she could dress up in cute little dresses. Breeze hated dresses.

 

Gwen wanted a girl who loved pastel colors. Breeze liked darker and brighter colors; in other words, Breeze didn't see her mother eye to eye when it came to her clothes.

 

Gwen wanted someone to ride sidesaddle with. Breeze couldn't stand sidesaddle and always rode astride.

 

Gwen wanted alchemy in the back of her daughter's mind. She wanted a china doll girl. Breeze was disappointing to her mother in both ways.

 

Breeze loved alchemy and rough housed with the boys in her town. When she saw her uncle the last time, she asked him over and over again to see him create flames using alchemy, and each time he did she watched with such intent that he could only with the conclusion that she was trying to do it herself and was studying his technique.

 

What, in a way, was most scary to Gwen was the fact that her daughter swore like she was in the army and at the same time kept saying, “I ain't going to be no dog of the military; I'm going to be wild like a wolf all my life.”

 

Roy smiled. His niece was wild alright, wild like thunder over the land or like the wind in the middle of a storm.

Breeze could be unpredictable in what she said and did. She hardly let anyone know what she was feeling or thinking. And that seemed to not bother at all. She was a tomboy through and through.

 

Breeze was always defying her mother. Getting her ears pierced a second time and then a third time in her right upper ear was only the beginning for Bri. She also refused to wear skirts or dresses and always opted for men's cargo pants and baggy t-shirts. This latest thing that pushed Gwen over the edge still had not been made clear to Roy. Something about a butterfly.

 

Breeze refused to study anything too girly. Instead she took weightlifting, automotives, alchemy, and other “boy” classes as her mother called them.

 

And now she was coming here, to East Central. It had been quite awhile since their last face to face encounter, and that was what was making Roy nervous.

 

What is she like now?

 

Did she still strongly resemble the Mustangs?

 

Was she still obsessed with out doing the male of the species in everything?

 

Would she sneak away from her military protection?

 

Riza walked in the door.

 

“They're here, Sir.”

 

“Okay.”

 

He walked out into the hall and down the passage with Hawkeye close behind. I guess it's time to find out.

 

 

 

Ed sat on the couch. He was thinking of the million things he would do to Roy for giving him a babysitting job. It was when he reached number 4,890 that he noticed that the smart ass of a girl was messing with her notebook. Al noticed it too.

 

Al leaned over her shoulder, “What are you drawing?”

 

Breeze automatically covered her work, “It's none of your business, Elric.”

 

Ed sighed. Breeze has Mustang's attitude alright. The youngest Mustang had taken to calling Alphonse just Elric and Ed just plain Shorty. She is even making fun of my height.

 

Al looked at Breeze. He wished she would let him she what she was drawing. Her head was bent back over her notebook. Every now and again she would look up at Ed.

 

Alex Armstrong looked at the girl. Already she was proving to be a handful. She didn't show any once of respect on the way to the headquarters to any one of the three alchemist. In fact she didn't talk to Armstrong at all.

 

Breeze hated that they were all staring at her. She looked at her picture. Satisfied that it looked the best that it was going to get, she closed the book and switched her attention to Al instead. She was about to ask him why he wore that big hunk of tin, when her uncle walked in.

 

Roy looked at his niece. She's defiantly a Mustang.

 

It was Al that broke the silence, “Aren't you going to say hi to your uncle?”

 

Breeze looked at her uncle through her bangs.

 

“Hi. Bye.”

 

She got up to leave.

 

Roy was at a loss for words. He watched as she walked past him, putting what she had out back in her bag.

 

Riza was being watchful as always.

 

“Aren't you boys suppose to be watching her?”

 

Ed looked up at Hawkeye and for a second what she said didn't compute. Then Bri stuck her head back into the room.

 

“Yeah, not doing your job too well, huh, Shorty?”

 

“Why you!?!?!”

 

Ed ran after Breeze; he was after blood.

 

“Come back here!”

 

“No. You want a piece of me; you're going to have to catch me first, boys.”

 

“Oh! I'm going to kill you, Breeze!”

 

Ed was out the door.

 

Al leapt up, “No, Brother. Don't hurt her!”

 

Riza starred at the tree from the office window as they ran out on to the street. Those two had their hands full with Breeze.

 

Roy sighed for the third time in less than an hour. So much for a nice family visit.

 

 

Author's note: I am trying to make my chapters longer so I combined 2 chapters to make this one. Sorry if its kind of boring at first had to get some points in there about Bri's personality. It might take a while to update. I have 4 advance classes and tons of tests to study for; plus I have another story I'm writing, so it might take some time. I apologize ahead of time.