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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 20:48:00 GMT -5
Ed screamed and squirmed in the bathtub as his shell began to glow, the pain in his chest was getting worse. "W-What's happening to me??" he yelled and then screamed again, sinking under the water. He looked up through the surface of the water, not being able to move. His whole body hurt and now he was going to drown. 'Am I going to die? What's happening? Why can't I move? This is pathetic... Dieing in a bathtub. Al, I'm sorry...' he thought helplessly.
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Cathy gasped and fell backwards, seeing the creature that was once Al. "AL!! What happened to you?" she cried, slowly crawling toward the boy...creature...that lie before her. She then lifted her head, hearing a scream come from the house, sounding a lot like Ed. "Ed, too??" she cried.
"I'll go check! You two stay here with Al!" she ordered Cathy and Roy and ran inside.
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 20:55:37 GMT -5
Al panted heavily, weak in his legs. "What... what... happened...?" He tried to stand up, but couldn't. He still hurt. He didn't even noticed he changed shape.
"I can't believe it... a Enfield Beast..." Roy said, his mouth agape, "ALPHONSE IS AN ENFIELD BEAST!"
"A... A what?" The boy asked, slowly lifting his head, "That's insane!"
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A pounding came upon the wooden door to the bathroom, as if someone trying to get in. "Shit, piss, dammit!" came the familiar swearing of the Brigadier General. Suddenly, the door flew off it's hinges and onto the floor. A large cat that looked oddly like a snow leopard on steroids prowled it's way into the room. It's right eye was closed as if there wasn't one there and the two right legs it had were automail...
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 21:18:00 GMT -5
Cathy lightly picked the boy up and placed him on her lap, petting the back of his head. "How did this happen?" she asked and looked up at the moon. Her eyes went blank as she stared at the sky, a streak of lightning shooting across the sky, but there were no storm clouds. She then held her head and screamed. "Aaahhh!! My head!! Why does my head hurt!? MAKE IT STOP!!!" she screeched and backed away from Al, squirming like the boy was doing before. She then planted face first into the grass and didn't move, a little feather glowing in her pocket.
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Riza ran inside, looking around to see that Sierra was no longer in the living room. She then heard Cathy scream and sigh. "Oh for heaven's sake!" she said and ran back outside, figuring that Sierra was taking care of Ed. When she got back, Cathy was now a small yellowish red bird. "What the heck?"
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Ed could faintly hear a crash and opened his eyes. He was still under water. 'Why am I not dead yet? Am I...breathing...under water?' he wondered in confusion.
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 21:26:22 GMT -5
The large cat peered it's head over the side of the bathtub to look at the boy that had sunk to the bottom. It used one of it's large paws to scoop Edward's head out of the water and onto the back of the tub. It then shook out that same paw and began to lick it in frustration.
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"CATHY!" Alphonse screamed as he saw what was once a girl was now a tiny little bird. He tried to stand up again, but only for a small bit before falling back down on his belly. He tried to crawl to her now, digging his claws into the ground and pushing with his back legs.
Roy stumbled off the back deck and suddenly fell on all fours on the ground. My body! I-I can't move! He suddenly felt a terrible pain in his back and yelled at the top of his lungs, the chain Havoc gave him for his birthday that hung on his medals too began to glow as two giant black wings sprang from his back. When the light faded... Roy was on his side... heavy and in immense pain...
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 21:35:02 GMT -5
Ed gasped and blinked several times and gulped. "I'm...I'm alive..." he muttered and sat up a bit to look at a giant leopard sitting next to the bathtub. "AAAAAAHHHH!!!" his scream was hoarse but still very loud and smacked his head against the back of the tub. "CAT! BIG CAT! How'd you get in here? Where did you come from??? Ow...." he yelled and held the back of his head with one hand and his chest with the other. He then noticed that his automail arm was missing and in place was his real arm. "What the FUCK???"
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Cathy groaned as she sat up, finding it hard because her body was in pain. "That was the worse migraine I have ever had..." she muttered and looked at Al. "Al, you got bigger!" she said, her eyes popping out of her head.
Riza ran out of the house as fast as she could until she tripped over something large and black. "Oof!" she said and went face first into the dirt. She then looked up, glaring at whatever it was she tripped over and her face went pale. "C-Colonel??"
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 21:42:33 GMT -5
"Lieutenant? Ow, that hurt! MY LEG!" Roy winced as he pulled in one of his legs and tried to grab it with his arms... but there was no feeling in his fingers. He opened his eyes and looked down and saw... hooves? "HOLY MOTHER!"
Alphonse looked at Cathy in shock, "No I didn't! You got smaller!" He nudged the bird with his nose to try and get her up. "What happened? What are you?"
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"Quit complaining," came the cold voice of Sierra from the cat's mouth as she continued to wash her wet paw, "You got your arm back, big deal. Your automail arm and leg are still gonna rust in that bath water if you leave them in there..."
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 21:51:31 GMT -5
"You talked! TALKING CAT!" Ed yelled, feeling dizzy and ready to pass out. "Wait that voice... Sierra?" he asked and was ready to get out when he noticed he couldn't move his legs. He then looked down to see his automail arm and leg were floating in the water and where his legs once were was a large fish tail that his legs fused into. "FiiiiiSH TAIL!!!!!" he yelled and started flailing his arms, his tail flapping against the water, getting everything in the room wet, including Sierra. "AaaaaAAAAhhhhHHHH!!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME???"
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Cathy looked at Al confused, her body shocking his nose when he touched her. "Huh?" she asked and was ready to run a hand through her hair when she noticed that she didn't have arms and hands but wings and feathers. "WAH! What the heck??" she yelled and looked down at herself. "I'M A BIRD!!!"
Riza was about to say something but found it hard to talk and gasped, curling up on the ground. She didn't let out any audible noise but started twitching like she was having a seizure. "C-Col...R-Roy..."
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 21:58:16 GMT -5
Sierra lept onto Edward and grabbed his tail in her mouth, strong enough to keep the boy from flapping around but soft enough not to sink her teeth into his flesh. "STOP THAT! YOU'RE GETTING EVERYTHING WET! I HATE THE WET! IF YOU KEEP THIS UP, I'LL NEVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING!!" Once he stopped moving, she let go and ran her tongue along her teeth in disgust, "UGH! Worst taste I've had in years! And I even like fish!"
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Al yelped and pulled back from the shock, covering his nose with his talons. "Owie! I don't care if you're a bird, you still hurt me!"
Roy lifted his large head in horror as he saw his Lieutenant go through the same pain as him. "HAWKEYE! HAWKEYE!!"
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 22:08:25 GMT -5
Ed gasped and stopped moving, fearing that Sierra was going to eat him alive. "DON'T EAT ME!!" he yelled, not hearing the comment she made that he was nasty tasting. He was so scared and confused he wanted to burst into tears. "I don't taste that good!! AL!!!"
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Cathy covered her face with her wings and gasped. "I'm so sorry! I don't even know how I did that!" she said, standing up wobbly on her two bird feet. "I don't think I used alchemy...Did I?"
Riza curled up and squeezed her eyes shut, her top part of her body forming into a hawk and the bottom half of her body was a lion's.
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 22:18:05 GMT -5
"Now a griffin!? What the hell is happening here!?" Roy howled. He tried to roll onto his stomach to at least try and stand up, but the wings on his back were keeping him down. And I must be a pegasus and Cathy a lightning bird... what's with the mythology here? I hope Sierra and Ed didn't get caught up in this too!
Alphonse shook his head. "Nu-uh! I know what alchemy feels like and that wasn't it!" He tried to touch Cathy again, but retracted his talons in fear of being shocked again.
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"NO SHIT YOU DON'T TASTE GOOD!" Sierra literally roared, nearly knocking the tub over with the volume, "NOW GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!" She rested her head on the side of the bath and sighed, "Listen to me Edward... Listen to me very carefully. You are not human. You never were human. None of us were. You're not the only one who transformed tonight." She flicked her ear in the direction of the window as there was a flurry of cries and yelps from out back. "I'm going to tell you everything, but you need to promise me you won't cry."
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 22:27:05 GMT -5
Cathy thought for a moment and shrugged. "I wonder if I can control it... I'll be sad if I can't touch anyone because of that." she said and looked up, hoping her way over to Roy and Riza. "Onii-chan, you're a horse!" she said, trying not to laugh at the irony.
Riza opened her eyes and sighed. "Me too, huh?" she asked, not wanting to know what she had turned into. "What is this world coming to?"
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Ed stopped shaking and shrugged down into the bathtub, a bit afraid of the leopard. "O-Okay..." he said, staring at his tail.
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 22:39:54 GMT -5
"I pretty much figured that out..." Roy groaned, still upset that he couldn't get up.
Al, who had been sitting on his hind legs, figured that the pain was less enough for him to walk over to Mustang and Hawkeye. It still felt weird, but there wasn't much he could do about it. "Colonel... what... what just happened?"
"Frankly, I have no idea... but I think it had to do with the moon."
"The moon? But we've been out in dozens of full moons, this doesn't make any sense!"
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"We are only half human, all of us," Sierra began, "How this occurred is something I can't explain. However..." She looked away from the boy, "Something made us transform into our other halves. Obviously your change wasn't as dramatic as me turning into a mngwa, but I sensed it happening earlier today. I somehow knew that tonight would be the night the five of you would discover your other selves... That's why I convinced Roy to come to Resembool under the guise of a check-up on you boys..." She walked towards the window and looked up at the moon, "This has been happening to me for a couple of years now, so I'm more used to it. I can transform at will, but on a full moon, I have no choice. Sort of like... a werewolf's transformation. But they don't exist... yet that doesn't mean other creatures of mythology don't. You could say... it's magic."
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 22:50:54 GMT -5
Riza was still in pain and she tried standing up, using her hind legs as support to push herself up. She then pushed her head under Roy's back to lever him up onto his feet. "How could this have happened?" she wondered out loud and looked to Cathy. "So what did I turn into?"
Cathy tilted her bird head to the side. "Um...you look like a Griffon, Lieutenant!"
"Great..." Riza muttered.
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"Magic?" Ed asked. "There's no such thing as magic!!" he said and looked out the window. "So the others changed too? What about Al? What has Al become?"
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Post by Edward Uzumaki on Aug 19, 2010 22:59:49 GMT -5
"Let's go find out for ourselves," Sierra replied simply, grabbing Ed by the back of his neck the same way a mother would grab her cub. She pulled him out of the tub as gently as she could and his tail flopped on the floor in one wet mess. "Goddammit... Wet again," She grumbled between her teeth.
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"Irony is everywhere tonight," Roy sighed as he was able to get to his feet with Hawkeye's help. He stomped on the ground with one of his hooves. "I am never going to get over this..."
Al looked up in Roy in awe. "Colonel... you're so big! Like... really tall!"
"Seems I must be some kind of draft horse... a friesian perhaps."
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Post by Edward's Alter Ego on Aug 19, 2010 23:09:18 GMT -5
Ed gasped as Sierra pulled him out of the tub. "H-Hey!! Wait!!" he yelled and scrunched his nose. He felt like a fish out of water...LITERALLY! He could still breath, but his fish side felt like he was suffocating. Like he was getting dehydrated again. "Wait! Put me back in the water! Put me back in the water!" he cried, trying not to flop like a fish does but he couldn't help it.
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Cathy flapped her wings up and stated "I wonder if Ed and Sierra are okay! I heard Ed screaming before..." she said in a very worried tone.
Riza shrugged. "Well, I don't think we can walk in there without freaking the hell out of them. What do we do?" She then looked at Cathy, noticing that she was the most normal looking creature out of all of them. "Cathy why don't you go in and check on them? You look like just a normal bird."
"Me??" she asked and looked around. "Well, okay, but I hope they don't try to squish me..." she said and hoped on over to the doorway. She wondered if she was able to fly, but she would find out later.
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