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Believe it!!

Screaming silence…

“You’ll sleep here.”

“I want to sleep here.”

“That’s where I sleep. You sleep,” he pointed to the floor again, “Here!”

“I don’t want to!!”

“Well, tough!!”

The two stood, in Edwards bedroom, face to face, nose to nose. The very notion that he, the great gate keeper, was going to sleep on the floor was ridiculous! Edward sat down on his bed and crossed his arms. Edwards room was small, even without Al in it, who had his own room.

“I am the person. You are the dog. So you sleep on the floor, and I sleep on MY bed! it’s the way it works!” Ed laid down on his bed to prove his point, not bothering to go under the covers, for it was hot, even at night. He was surprised when he felt the sensation of fur brush up against his naked chest, and even more surprised when he nearly fell out of the bed.

“We will both sleep here then.”

“But its not big enough!”

True enough, Zeit was crushed against the wall, and Edward was nearly falling out of bed. Being nearly the size of the bed however, the wolf didn’t seem to care about who was in it or how squashed he was.

“I preferred you when you were small.” The boy hissed. Looking to the side of him, his eyes met one big, round eye, the exact color of his, with a slit for a pupil.

“And I preferred it when I wasn’t born to be chained to you.”

“I preferred it when you both were asleep!”

Roy shouted from his bedroom. The walls were rather thin, and the man was sitting upright in his double bed, Riza next to him.

“God,” he grumbled, laying down again once there was silence, “Children!”

“That’s all you ever say, Roy, but then you don’t regret having them.” Riza whispered back, feeling an arm snake round her waist as she was pulled to him.

“I know, I know. But, its just that thing…” He sighed, tickling the hairs on the back of her neck. “Its unmanly of me to say this, but I am scared of it, what it can do to everyone, what it could do to this family… and don’t tell me you like it being here either, because I know you don’t.”

Even if Roy couldn’t see her front, he knew he was right.

“I saw your face yesterday. You pretended like it didn’t exist.”

“Its very unlike me to admit this, but it scares me too.” She breathed in shakily. “I would rather not see it at all-”

“I knew it-”

“But!” She cut in. “Those boys… they lived without us for a very long time. They lived without their real father for a long time, too.” She smiled sadly. “They are fine, they know what they are doing. It is obviously here for a reason. And if Edward thinks that it is safe…”

“…Then it is safe.”

“Exactly.” She snuggled up backwards into Roy some more. “Its fine. Trust them. Trust him.”

Roy sighed softly. “I do.”

Al woke up in the morning first. Saying ‘good morning’ to his cat, who slept in his room with him, he proceeded to make himself decent, putting on a plain shirt and shorts. It was weird to do this, after so many years in that steel can.

Then, quietly tiptoeing down stairs, he was surprised to see a shaggy black rug lying at the front door, staring at him.

Oh right! This was…

Edward walked briskly past Al, with the wolf at his heels, heading straight upstairs without pausing to get anything to eat. The younger of the brothers stared with shock. This wolf! It was the one who had helped get his body back!!

“Brother!” Al called, and Ed turned.

“I’ll talk to you in the morning, Al.” He had said with a smile, before running to his room. The wolf stopped at the top of the stairs and glanced at him with eyes of molten yellow, before following him. Riza, who was lecturing Roy outside, had regarded the wolf like it wasn’t even there, instead choosing to shout at Roy, who had nearly started a wild fire…

This was him!

Al reached the bottom of the stairs and put Pumpkin down, who hissed at the creature before running into the living room and away from it. The wolf kept staring, and so did Al.

“You helped me.” The boy said finally. “You helped me get my body back.”

“What was wrong with your body before?” Zeit asked, genuinely inquisitive. Al was taken aback. He… doesn’t remember?

“Oh, a few things.” He giggled. The bright yellow eyes kept staring at him with an unreadable emotion. Even when sitting, he was only a little shorter that Al, and the boy felt small. But, he wasn’t intimidated. It just looked like a big, black dog…

And so he walked up to him, knelt down, and put his arms around Zeit’s neck.

“Thank you.” He said emotionally.

Zeit didn’t know what to do. Was it an attack? Should he kill him? What should he do?! He pointed his nose downwards and made a hurring sound which he hoped sounded non-threatening.

“What for?” He said.

“For helping brother and me.”

Ah, the boys brother. He still didn’t really recognise him, but judging by how he looked, he was guessing that he was young, possibly a few years younger than Ed. This boy, clinging to his fur, saying thank you to him for something he didn’t remember doing, was the brother of the guy he was tethered too, who had set him free. He decided to give him the comfort, and rubbed his muzzle against the side of Al’s face.

“Ah! Stop! It tickles!” Al giggled, trying to stifle his laughter.

“Alphonse.. that’s who you are, right?”

“Yes!”

Zeit got to his feet and Al let go of him, looking with puzzled eyes. Zeit smiled to himself as in his mind, faintly, he could see him, Edward, and… a suit of steel armour that talked…

He remembered something.

“Thank you for telling me about myself.” He grinned at the boy. “I’ll do whatever you want me too.”

Alphonse’s eyes went wide with possibility.

Edward awoke to a lonely bed, and he was instantly awake. It took him a little while to register the fact that he, who had fallen asleep that night which a giant furry creature in his bed, was now alone in his room, not a scrap of fur to be seen.

“…Zeit?” He called, looking around. Nothing. Aw, shit.

He clambered out of bed in nothing but his boxers, and ran to Al’s room to check if Al was alright. Al wasn’t in the room.

Shit shit shit!!

Do I really not trust him this much?

“Nhhmm… Edward?” Roy poked his head out of his and Riza’s room with a confused look. “Why are you running up and down?”

“I can’t find Zeit… or Al.”

Roy was suddenly alert. Riza had apparently heard what they were saying, and was also getting out of bed in alarm, grabbing her pistol (which she kept next to her bed). Roy, who was in his plain red pyjamas and Riza, who was in a cream night gown, followed the semi-naked boy as he dashed down the stairs.

“Zeit!” Edward called.

“Al?” Roy joined in.

“Maybe they are outside?” Suggested Riza, who was quite calm despite her inner feelings. She opened the door, and all three went outside in the morning sun, not slightly conscious of their appearance in the least. Nope. There was not a single soul around.

“See, Edward!” Roy shouted at him, on the brink of panic. “He has Al! I knew we should have never let him in!”

Edward visibly flinched and looked downwards in shame, heart hurting and wanting his baby brother. He tried to reach out to Zeit with his mind, but there was nothing there.

Zeit?

He tried. Nothing.

Ziet, where are you?!

And all of a sudden, he felt a rush of air blow past him, roughly tussling his hair, yet there was nothing there. Riza and Roy felt it too, and all of them swivelled instinctively to the direction it was blowing to.

“There!” Ed pointed upwards.

And there, on the roof, was a wolf running across it, with a boy on his back clinging on to his antlers for dear life. They kept moving, Zeit looking as if he was dancing across the tiles, before he jumped off gracefully into the air and landed lightly on the grass, not pausing for a second before running a considerable distance and jumping high, impossibly high, into the air, and then landing, only to start running again. It looked mesmerising, and neither of the three on the ground could take their eyes off of them.

“What the hell are they doing!?” Roy hissed. Zeit leapt up into the air and twisted around in mid-flight before another perfect landing, Al squeaked in amazement as he managed to keep a grip on the wolf even when upside down.

“He’s going to get himself killed!!” Roy was about to run over there, when Riza grabbed his hand and shook her head in a clear indication of ‘no’. Turning to the bewildered Edward, she smiled as he acknowledged her.

“Edward, can you ask your wolf to come back please?” She asked politely. Ed nodded, put his real two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly. Zeit was still running around, but he turned his head slightly to Ed. The boy waved his arms, telling him to come over, and the wolf sped over to them, Al screaming in delight at the sheer speed. They skidded to a halt in front of the trio, Zeit’s face emotionless, as usual, and Al’s eyes shining with delight.

“Did you see?!” He panted. “We span- flew- all the way over there- and then we ran- it was brilliant!!” He jumped off of Zeit and immediately ran into Riza’s arms.

“Did you see, mom, did you see?”

Riza laughed and patted his head. “I did, Al. It looked fun. We were just a little worried when we woke up and you were not there.”

“A little?” Roy huffed, turning to the wolf. “Why were you running around with him on your back? He could have gotten seriously hurt or something!”

“Well, you see,” the mocking tone of his voice annoyed the man till no end, “He asked me too.”

“He… asked you?”

“I wanted to ride on his back!” Al let go of Riza, and then hugged Roy. “He said I could. I’m fine!”

Zeit allowed Al to hug him as well, seeing as he was hugging everyone, and after Al had hugged Ed too and had then ran over to his parents to tell them about his short adventure, Ziet trotted up to Edward, who was looking at him with a mix of emotions.

“Why did you do something for him?” Edward tilted his head. “Its not like you.”

“He done something for me!” Zeit pulled back his lips in a mild snarl. “Isn’t that reason enough?”

He flicked his tail submissively, and walked away to the edge of the house, and collapsed in the sun, closing his eyes.

Ed continued to stare on.

How odd.

It was late in the day, when Roy saw Zeit again. The wolf was yawning and stretching out on the lawn, whilst everyone else done chores and other things. Ed had gone to visit Winry, and decided against bringing him, leaving him bored. He wasn’t even sure if the boy was going to tell her that he was here, but he didn’t care either way.

Roy walked over to him stiffly, and Zeit pretended to not see him.

“Oi.” The fire alchemist called. Zeit ignored him. “Don’t pretend you don’t hear me.”

“What do you want?” The wolf looked at the man with narrow eyes.

“I want to know what you are planning.”

Zeit looked at him blandly. His ear twitched in annoyance, and he felt the urge to snap the mans neck in half deep within him, but he contained himself.

“Planning?” He grinned. “I’m not planning anything.”

“But you disappeared, on the ice field, quite some time ago.” Roy pointed out. “Edward told me you had destroyed yourself. So, why are you still here?”

“… No idea.” He shrugged as best as he could with his shoulders. “I forgot a lot of things. But, when I was in the gate, I kept remembering things, about Edward, and I want to find out why I am here, and why I don’t remember anything-”

“Oh yeah, you don’t remember anything.” The man cocked an eyebrow on him and placed his hands on his hips. “Why?”

“Duh, , I don’t know! I don‘t remember anything!” This man, Edwards father, was terribly annoying, not to mention extremely thick. “Look, seriously, what do you want?!”

“Nothing.” Roy sniffed, and began to walk away, back towards the house.

“Bastard.” Zeit sniffed, rising and walking in the opposite direction. It was a nice day out, even if it was late, and after spending the day doing absolutely nothing, his legs had gotten stiff. He needed to walk, anywhere at all, but he was sure to stay away from that girls house, ‘Winry’. He had a feeling she wouldn’t like him.

The house had disappeared in the horizon, when he found the barn which was no longer cornered off. He remembered, he had killed some guy here, who had tried to do some stupid alchemy in connection to that useless ‘Pro-duty’ place.

He walked inside, and snuffled around in the hay. He could smell men, rats, dirt, but nothing else. He looked at the transmutation circle, that had not, surprisingly, been removed. He studied it.

It seems… they were trying to attract me. The circle was quite simple; it was like the ones Ed were wearing when he had first seen him, in his room. They must have already known about him to be able to use alchemy like this-

Suddenly, something snapped outside. Zeit whirled around, ran to the door, and swung his head left to right. There was a man, running away from the barn. Zeit, never one to let prey get away, chased him.

The man looked quite young, and wearing a lab coat that was pristine white. His hair was messy and black, and his trousers were beige and generic. He smelt, to Zeit, like he was one of those dead-beat guys that enjoyed their work, even if they were paid little.

The wolf ran, so fast he was almost flying, and the man, who looked behind him to see where the wolf was, realised he hand no chance. He stopped and pivoted on the ground, reaching into his holster and producing a gun.

It didn’t stop Zeit.

Bang bang bang!!

A few rounds fired into the wolf, but still he leapt, clamping his huge jaws around the mans shoulder. He screamed and fell, pinned by the creature to the floor. The gun fell away from him.

Who are you?!

The man was shocked to hear a voice in his head, but Zeit couldn’t talk because his mouth was currently full. He could feel himself bleeding from the bullet wounds, but he wasn’t going to die, so it didn’t matter.

“I… I am Jake!! Please… ahh!!” Zeit bit harder, producing blood.

Are you from the pro-duty ward!?

“Ye-yes, I’m new!! Please! Please!!”

Why are they following me and Edward?!

“Be-be-be-because y-y-y-y-y-ou an-” The man became unable to speak. He was shivering uncontrollably and his voice had completely left him. The yellow eyes that were fixed on him narrowed in annoyance.

Pitiful.

Zeit let go, and the man breathed a sigh of relief. He then screamed as the jaws were clamped around his left arm. Zeit yanked up, hard, breaking it cleanly, and then he ripped the flesh apart, ignorant of the screaming. In a final twist, the arm came away from the mans body in a bloody mess, and Zeit spat it out away from him. The man continued screaming in horrific pain.

Shut up! Zeit hissed, grabbing his leg. Your arm is gone; the one you used to fire the gun with. You are harmless.

And so, he started to drag the man, who was bloody and hurt and screaming and crying, towards the house where he lived, bullet wounds leaking,

And a smirk on his face.

Lol, evil! :D Also, Al likes Zeit! Woot! -Party- But, sadly, Roy still hates him. D: Also, Zeit doesn’t seem to like Ed much. Why is this?! WHY?!

Whitewolfkitsune x