Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ The Love of A Neko; The Heart of an Inu ❯ Book Two ( Chapter 2 )

A/N- Ah, thank you for the review kiki14. Here's the next chapter.

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Roy Mustang mumbled to himself as he signed the paperwork. Hawkeye was not even thirty seconds away, also doing paperwork.

Roy didn't dare try to not do the paperwork. That was until the phone rang.

RIN . . . Click "Hello. Colonel Roy Mustang."

A panicked voice could be heard. "Mustang! Thank the gods, Mustang-taisa, there's something wrong, I mean, well, I just . . . " Roy silenced the man.

"Calm down Country, calm down and say that slower," Roy said, taping his pen against his desk.

"Well, Taisa, er, how do I say this . . . " Eric said, his panting clearly heard over the phone. "Did you, er, did you send someone after Honkytonk?" The pen stopped tapping as Roy dropped it.

"Why, yes. I did," Roy replied, normal mask still in place as he picked the pen up. "Did something happen?"

Eric gave a guilty cough as he mumbled something incoherent.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that," Roy said. Eric gulped.

"Well, Fullmetal kinda barged in on Honkytonk, Honkytonk pissed him off, and, well . . . Leon activated his circle," Eric replied in one breath. Roy dropped the pen again, and this time, he didn't even take the time to pick it up.

"We'll be there in no less than ten minutes Country," Roy replied, hanging the phone up. Looking up, he saw everyone in the small room staring at him.

"What was that call about, Taisa?" Fuery asked, putting his screwdriver down. Roy sighed, pulling his ignition glove out of his pocket.

"Seems like Fullmetal has yet again gotten himself in trouble," Roy replied, running a hand through his hair. Everybody knew what kind of trouble Ed could get into, so it was quite unsurprising when half the office, Hawkeye, Havoc and Fuery, got out of their chairs, knowing that there help would more than likely be required.

Not seven minutes later, and to Roy's word, the four were standing outside the mansion in which Eric and Leon lived in. Roy went up and knocked on the door.

To his surprise, nobody answered, and when he tried to open it, the door was locked. "Hawkeye."

Riza nodded, pulled out her gun, and shot the lock off the door.

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Back in Leon's room, Leon had just barely regained consciousness and now had a large, red, fist shapped mark on his cheek, and he and Eric were arguing.

Ed moaned as he came back into consciousness, prying his eyes open, before shutting them quickly, the light far too bright. He heard Leon and Eric arguing quite clearly, deciding for the moment just to listen.

"God dammit Leon, what did you do that for!" Eric yelled, glaring at his brother. Leon raised his eyebrow in amusement and laughed.

Shaking his head, Leon replied. "Hey, I know you don't want to have the military learn what you are. I don't want them to know what I am. Why not make him one of us?" Ed heard Eric growl before he heard what he well knew to be a lock being shot off a door.

Eric and Leon looked up as Ed opened his eyes again and struggled to get up. One of them? Wait . . . Ed gasped as he ran a hand through his hair, only to have it get snagged on a pair of ears. Leon and Eric still hadn't noticed that he was conscious and standing.

Ed vision turned to his hands, seeing that both the flesh and automail hands now had claws, and the flesh hand's claws were retractable. Something flicked into his sight just briefly, before disappearing. When it flicked back into view, Ed grabbed at it. A tail. Ed nearly fainted.

So, that meant that he was a chimera. Looking over at the two brothers who were frozen in shock, Ed saw something about them that he hadn't seen before.

Eric had large, grey, wolf ears and a large, fluffy tail.

Leon on the other hand had large reddish-brown ears, claws, a long, reddish-brown, kangaroo-like tail and deformed legs that ended in four-toed paws.

It was then that the door to the room they were in was blast open by none other than Roy Mustang, looking impressive just standing in the doorway, fingers poised to snap.

Ed's heart skipped a beat.

Roy looked around the room, his eyes quickly settling on Ed. Roy's eyebrows raised in shock, before going back to their normal state. Roy turned his glare on Leon.

"Honkytonk," Roy said, malice lacing his words, causing the man to gulp. But before Roy said anything else, Leon darted to the back of the room and, putting his hand on an alchemical symbol, darting out through the door it created before the door shut again, the symbol fading away until it wasn't there.

Roy then turned his attention back to Ed.

"Ah, Fullmetal, it seems that you have, so to say, finally become as short as you claim you are," Roy said, smirking. Ed hissed at the colonel, knowing full well that the colonel was right. He had shrunk a full ten inches, auto mail included. Ed knew Winry would be pissed, for something catastrophic had yet again happened to his automail. "Not responding chibi?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT HE NEEDS A LADDER JUST TO GET THE FIRST BOOK ON A SHELF?"

"Ah, that would be you Fullmetal."

Ed was fuming all the way back to Eastern Headquarters.

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Hope ya'll like it.

Ah, I know I said that Eric was a wolf chimera, but I didn't say the animal Leon was fused with. Not that it's important or anything right now, but it's a thylacine.