Dawgs of the Military

The First Test

     The week flew by, especially since Maise packed extra pencils in her bag. She kept herself busy drawing, and now the door was finally opening, she would finally get Tilly  back. She packed her things, fixing her bed then stood next to the door, with a smile on her face. After a couple minutes she heard the "click" of the key, unlocking the door. Her smile soon turned into a frown. "Blondie?" Maise said confused. "First of all, it's Riza, Riza Hawkeye, secondly, when did you get so skinny?" Riza said annoyed. "Hmm, I don't know, maybe WHEN YOU LOCKED ME IN A ROOM FOR A WEEK WITHOUT FOOD OR DAYLIGHT!" She said, angry. She walked out the door, noticing Ed and Al in the corner. "Hey Ed, Alphonse, how you doing?" She wondered, stretching out. "We were gonna ask you the same thing!" Ed exclaimed. "Damn, I almost died, lucky for me I found a pencil in my bag!"  She looked around. "Where's Roy?" She asked surprised not to see him. "Mustang will not be able to come to your tests." Riza replied. "Oh, okay." She said disappointed. Ed looked at her, "You okay?" He asked. "Oh, yah I'm fine." Maice said quickly. Turning around she said, " Now, I don't want to miss my first test do I?" She said leaving the room.
     They reached the great, white, building where Maise would be taking the first test. This test was on paper, one of her favorite kinds of test ( mostly because she got to draw on the side after words!). Maise walked in the building, hundreds of people were scrambling to find a spot in the large room. Maise quietly sat down in a spot and let the adults square out their problems. A large voice soon boomed across the room, vibrating the floors. "Please, find your seats immediately. The test will begin in one minute." The voice explained. Once everyone found a spot when the test began, silence fell over the room. Maise got her test and looked through once, then answered the questions. She found it simple since most of the answers were in the test it's self, you just had to look at the next question. She decided every five questions she finished she doodle a little. Amazingly, she was the first one out the door. Riza looked at her, like she was an alien from outer space. "What? Is there a problem?" Maise asked curious to know what Riza was thinking. "Yah, were you kicked out?" Ed chimed in. "What? No, I finished my test." She said shocked. "But, but that only took you 45 minutes?" Riza said doubting her. "Yah, so? Does it usually take longer?" Alphonse watched blankly. "My brother took over two hours to finish that test!" Maise shook her head. "No way!  But, but the answers were in the test! How come it took you that long, Edward? " she said confused. "What do you mean? The answers were in the test! How come I didn't know?"  Ed said just as confused as Maise. Riza, stepping out of the conversation, changed the subject, "How about we talk about this over lunch, you can tell Mustang about it as well." Satisfied with the plan, the four of them walked back to Roy's office. Maice was excited yet frightened of what Roy had to say about this.