Somewhat Human (Fullmetal Alchemist)

3: Freezing Alchemist's Parade

It was about 30 minutes before sunrise and Edward was still out cold, "Should we wake him up?" Alphonse ask, (Y/n) walks over to Edward's sleeping body and hums, " Give it 5 minutes." Alphonse shrugs, making a paper plane out of one of their tic-tac-toe matches and throws it.

The plane flew for a brief moment until it took a nosedives to Edward's face, (Y/n)'s eye widens as she looks at Alphonse who is sending many nonverbal apologizes to (Y/n) and Edward. In reaction to the paper plane Edward's face twitches before clutching some of blanket and sharply turning to lay on his side.

Alphonse and (Y/n) look at each other and sputter out a laugh at Edward's childish behavior, trying to keep it down but it's unsuccessful. Edward shifts in his sleep and turns on his back, slowly waking up, " Good going Al, you woke him up."

Alphonse scoffs, " That's not true!" (Y/n) shushes Alphonse but breaks down into a laugh and turns back to look at Edward who just opened his eyes and makes eye contact with (Y/n)'s giggling face. She covers her mouth as she laughs and ruffles Edward's hair with the other, "Rise and shine sleeping beauty."

Edward looks at (Y/n) laughing and he is quiet for once, it was odd waking up and the first thing he sees is (Y/n) giggling and ruffling his hair, it was a good feeling though he would never say it out loud being the stubborn little boy he is.

Snapping out of whatever state he was in Edward frowns deeply, " What the hell do you all want?" (Y/n) gestures to the fort around them, " We can't just leave this up, idiot." Edward grumbles but he stands, not noticing that he has (Y/n)'s blanket and rubs his eyes.

The first order of business was to take off the blankets first before chairs and the lamp, it was more difficult taking down the fort than setting the fort up because they had to mind any chairs that were keeping the fort somewhat stable.

Alphonse felt bad he couldn't help since if he did, he would definitely knock something down so he had to sit while (Y/n) and Edward worked together to pull down the fort. After some hushed bickering of what should go where the two of them managed to disassemble the fort, Alphonse insisting he fold up the blankets since he didn't do much.

With the fort disassembled and put away the three of them were able to relax, " Guys look!" Edward and (Y/n) shush Alphonse harshly but he keeps pointing at the window, "Look!" following his finger Alphonse was pointing at the sunrise that shone through the room. Edward and (Y/n) gasp softly and slowly walk to the window.

Edward is the first to make it to the window and looks at the sunrise resting his hand on the window, " I want to look at the sunrise, not your hand Eddie." Edward looks at (Y/n) who's wearing a mischievous grin, Edward elbows her and removes his hand and looks back to the sunrise.

(Y/n) uses the height she has on Edward to rest her elbow on his head which she knew he hated, Edward muttered curses at her but she only chuckles softly which Edward heard clearly, he eventually caves and lets her do what she wants.

The usually chatty group is put to silence by the sunrise, a rainbow of the warmest hues put the group at ease. The sunrise was the start of a new day, any traces of the day prior completely erased and it served as a dose of hope for the group, for as long as the sun rises they will too.

" I'd like to get our bodies back as quickly as possible" Alphonse mumbles under his breath, Edward sighs and keeps looking at the sunrise while (Y/n) pats Alphonse shoulder with her free hand.

" We'll get there someday."

=TIME SKIP=

The peaceful sunrise of the morning was replaced with the ominous darkness of the night, chaos echoed across the city, soldiers desperately searching for Issac McDougal, " Eddie is that steam or fog?" (Y/n) taps Edward's shoulder and points to the shots of gas scattered around.