The Chimera

"Fullmetal. Glad you're here." Colonel Mustang addressed his subordinate, not looking up from the paper work he was doing under the threat of being shot by the Lieutenant.
"What do you want?" The blond haired boy, Edward Eric, asked rudely.
"There's something we need to check out. Apparently there has been a successful human transmutation." Colonel Busting told him as he stood up.
The boy's eyes widened. "W-what? Impossible! It can't be done!"
The Colonel nodded grimly. "Hughes got a call from one of his old friends. Apparently its his daughter that has been transmuted." The Colonel began to leave his office, Ed following a moment later, wanting answers and to murder the person who had done the transmutation of they weren't already dead.

"Do you know any details?" Edward asked, his voice low, anger radiating off of him in waves.

Colonel Mustang shook his head. "No. He didn't say much. Said it would be better if we saw it."
Edward nodded grimly as they met up with two other people outside in front of some military vehicles. They all looked grim.
"Ready to go, sir?" the lieutenant, Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, asked.
The colonel nodded. "Lets try to get there before it gets late."
They were all loaded into the vehicles. Edward was in one with the Colonel, Lieutenant and Hughes, who spent most of the time showing them of his daughter, Elicia, which they had all met before.
Edward was kind of glad went they pulled up to a house just outside of Central.
The group got out of the vehicles, stretching stiff limbs from being cramped inside the cars for a long period of time.
Hughes went and knocked on the door, the Colonel standing behind him with Riza and Edward.
The door opened and a clean shaven, brown haired man opened the door.
"Maes Hughes. Its good to see you." he said as he shook Hughes's hand.
"The same to you, Peter. How are you?" Hughes asked as the man, Peter, let them inside.
"I've certainly been better. Who else is with you?" he asked, looking st the three other people who entered his home.
"This is Colonel Roy Mustang, Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, and Major Edward Eric." Hughes introduced and turned to the three others. "This is Peter Agnellini."
Roy shook hands with the nervous looking man. "We understand that your daughter had been successfully transmuted, correct?"
The man gave a nervous nod. "Yes. By her uncle. Apparently he has been doing it for years. He was under house arrest and she went to take him some food. That's when it happened." the man looked down ashamed. "She hasn't been anywhere since then. She barely leaves her room."
"Can we see her?" the Colonel asked in a gentler tone than that he usually uses.
"Yes. Follow me. I'll take you to see her."
They were led up some creaky stairs and to one of the doors. Mr. Agnellini knocked on he door. "Roze? There are people here to see you."
There wasn't a sound heard.
"Roze?" he turned the handle and opened the door.
The room was a deep blue in color with books and papers lying around everywhere.
But there wasn't anyone there.
Mr. Agnellini sighed. "She's probably on the roof. That's where she goes when she has something on her mind." he said, walking to the window in her room and pulling it open. "Roze! You have guests!" he called into the wind.
The four of them stood there anxiously, unsure of weather or not they should enter the girl's room.
Peter Agnellini pulled his head back in and soon a teenage girl around Edward's age crawled inside.
She was wearing a dark blue jacket with a hood that covered some of her head and reached down past her knees, and sleeves that went past her hands, hiding them.
"Roze, they're with the military. I promise they won't hurt you. They want to help." he told her softly.
She nodded and slowly reached up to remove the hood.
As soon as it was off, they could see why she had it on.
There was a pair of fluffy pointed ears sticking out from her head and black hair.
When she removed the coat, a fluffy tail was shown.
The four were silent, in no way expecting what they were shown.
After a few awkward moments, the Colonel spoke up.
"Was she transmuted with an animal?"
The girl nodded. "A dog. A husky, to be exact." she told them softly.
Edward looked at the girl in front of him. It was like Nina all over again.
Except this girl, Roze, she had been called, looked to be more human than dog.
He looked at the tail. It didn't look like a tail that could belong to a husky. It looks more... Feline?
"He... He also tried to transmute me with more than one animal." she told them and took a heavy breath. "And many were successful."
Her eyes began tear up and she shook her head before crawling through the window again.
Mr. Agnellini looked heartbroken. "I-I hadn't heard that."
Riza placed her and on his shoulder. "Come downstairs. Tell us what you know, and when she's ready, we can talk to her."
The man simply nodded and led them back downstairs, promising to make them some coffee.
Edward stayed behind, still sharing at the window where she had crawled out of. He was about to follow them downstairs, when he decided on he opposite.
He crawled through the window opening to find the girl sitting a few feet away, a notebook on her lap and a pencil in her hand.
Edward cleared his throat, catching her attention. He held out his hand.
"I'm Edward Elric." he said and gave her a small smile.
She stared at his and for a moment, her ears twitching. She took it hesitantly "Rozanne Agnellini."
He sat down next to her. "What are you doing?" he asked, unsure of what to say.
She paused a moment and played with the pencil in her hand. "Its nothing. Just a little story."
He just nodded. He wasn't very good and having conversations with other kids his age.
"I knew a girl. She was a sweet girl. Her dad worked for the military, and he needed something to show for his work. He had previously made the first ever known talking Chimera. It had died after a few days. We had gone to his house many times to use his library. And during breaks, we would play with his daughter and their dog." he took a shaky breath as he recalled what came next. "When we went back to is house, we didn't see his daughter or their dog. Instead, there was a new chimera he had made. It didn't take long to find out that he used both the dog and his daughter to make it." there were tears gathering in his eyes as he remembered the sweet girl. "Both of them were murdered that night after they were taken into custody."
He turned to look at Rozanne who had gone still, staring out at the fields. In the distance he could see the buildings that were in Central.
"Thank you for sharing." she told him softly and turned to look at him. "That's not an easy thing to share. Especially to someone you barely know."
Edward nodded as he pulled his legs up to his chest and rested his arms on his knees.
"Along with the dog, he also transmuted me with a cat, a bird of prey, an octopus, a gecko, and who knows what else." she copied his position and pulled up her legs and rested ere chin on her knees as her arms hugged her knees.
He noticed that inside he didn't get a very good look at her. He could see a large lump on her back underneath her shirt, and a strange pattern on her fingers.
She held up her hand and looked at it. "My finger prints were changed. And the joints now move both ways." she demonstrated it by having her fingers curl inwards and outwards. "I also have wings on my back." the lump under he shirt moved. "And I have heightened senses from both the cat and dog. And of course the tail and ears." she gave a small smile, not looking at him.
He just nodded and grinned. "My brother Alponse would love you. He loves cats."
Rozanne giggled lightly. "I'm sure I would I've to meet him."
There was a moment of silence before Edward let out a little snort.
"What?" she asked smiling, laughter etched into her tone.
"I was just thinking. My brother, you and me in a group. We would be like one big odd group."
She looked at him curiously as tilted her head like a dog would. "Why d'you say that?"
"Well, there's you, a chimera. And I'm a teenager with two metal limbs in the military, and my brother...." he trailed off.
"What about him?"
He took a deep breath. "He... he doesn't have a body. He's really just thinking soul attached to a suit of armour."
"Oh. " she didn't ask how it happened.
And he was glad she didn't.
She turned to look at the sky line again. "We would be a group of oddballs." she giggled.
And in that moment, Edward felt as if he made a new friend.