Edward Elric's Greatest Adventure: Chapter One

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A/N: I wrote this story a very long time ago, it's still a work in progress and I just want to know what you think of it. Enjoy!

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Edward Elric was on his usual journey, except this time he didn't have the company of his brother; Alphonse. Things were getting strange and he felt that his younger brother should stay home back in Resembol just in case; it was a feeling Ed had. With a fighting effort, Alphonse had finally accepted to have a personal vacation back at home with Winry and Granny Pinako. Ed sighed as he looked out the window of the vehicle he was being escorted in, nothing but a stretch of green, no houses, no people, not even any animals, apart from the dead ones along side the road. This new city, according to Colonel Mustang, was called Alabaster and it supposedly had a vast amount of information of the whereabouts of the Philosopher's Stone. Ed had never heard of Alabaster, and he hoped that the Colonel was right, or he'd have to go back to Central and personally kick the Colonel's ass, and dodge Hawkeye's bullets while he was at it. Before Ed chose to settle down for a short nap a city rose in the distance, his heart leaped, it was Alabaster. It looked like a weird city, compared to the others closer to home, buildings made of metal and reached as high as a cliff, but with regular houses and trees, this seemed like the city of the future. The driver pulled up to the entrance to the city and suddenly slowed to a stop, Ed thought that maybe there was something blocking his way but there wasn't.

"Hey, why are we stopping here?" Ed asked the driver.

"I stop here Mr. Elric," he replied.

Ed frowned and opened his door and got out, his good knee popped from being bent for quite awhile, he rubbed it as he gazed at the sign that was posted near the road where it would enter the city, and it read Raccoon City.

"Raccoon City?" he asked himself, he was racking his mind through the conversation he'd had with the Colonel trying to remember if a Raccoon City wasn't even mentioned, his search came up with no results. He walked to the driver's window, as he approached the man rolled down his window and leaned out to confront Ed.

"This isn't where I was to be dropped off," Ed told the man.

The man looked to be in his fifties, with graying hair hidden under a hat, he kind of gave you the look of an old fisherman. He only grinned at Ed.

"This is indeed your stop Mr. Elric," he said.

"Who gave those crappy orders?" Ed asked.

"Colonel Mustang," the old man replied.

"That bastard!"

The old man cackled, "Colonel Mustang told me that beyond this city should be Alabaster," he said with a grin.

Ed frowned, he knew the Colonel could be a real asshole at times, but what did Ed do to deserve this kind of treatment, he did not know. The old man popped open the trunk and Ed went to grab his suitcase, guess he would have to venture on foot for awhile, the sky above was slowly turning a baby blue and violet, night was slowly approaching.

"What the hell, I need to exercise," he said to himself and hauled the suitcase at his side.

He started walking toward the entrance of Raccoon City, this would be a piece of cake, he'd just mention that he wasn't new around here and they'd treat him like a guest, hopefully, how bad could it really be here?

"Good Luck Mr. Elric!" the old man called after him.

Ed turned and waved at the old man, "later you old coot bastard," he muttered under his breath.

He watched as the car turned and drove in the opposite direction, something told him to run after the car and just go back home, tell Colonel Mustang to shove it and marry Winry. Ed chuckled, he didn't know about marrying Winry, he was only 19, a young mature guy who still needed to see what would be in store for him. Winry was the last resort, Ed grinned, no she wasn't. Ed turned and started strolling into the city.

Raccoon City, so far, looks to be a peaceful city, a little too peaceful, that was until he reached deeper into the limits, and turned a corner, dropping his suitcase. There was something very wrong about the image that played out in front of him, cars, cars smashed together like barriers, cars on fire and windows of buildings busted through. Was Raccoon City in the middle of some kind of war, or was it the endings of a terrible war?

There was a horrible scream in the distance, it sounded female and very much like on the brink of life and death, his suitcase forgotten, Ed ran toward where the scream came from, already morphing his auto mail arm into a blade, a busted fire hydrant was in his way and spraying water everywhere, he ran through the water and looked around for the source of the scream. Nobody was around.

"Somebody help me!"

Ed began running again, the scream came from around the corner and he prayed that he wasn't too late, whatever was happening to this poor soul, he didn't want her to be hurt badly in anyway. Just as he skidded around the corner he saw a small group of men hunched near the floor, the screaming woman was underneath them, they were probably trying to rape her, and they were clawing and groping at the woman's clothes and skin.

"Hey, leave her alone!" Ed yelled and began running toward them.

One man stood up and slowly faced Ed, what Ed saw stopped him dead in his tracks, despite the screams of the woman. The man, or what was left of this man was dead, his eyes were milky white and his lips were gone, what was left of his face was outlining his teeth making him have a permanent grin, with blood smeared around his mouth. This was a damn zombie! But that wasn't possible, anything close to the walking dead was Homunculi, but here was a nightmare shuffling it's way toward Ed with it's arms reached out for him. Ed was so caught up that he didn't realize that the woman was now dead, what was heard was a gurgling and then ripping of the flesh. The zombie let out a moan, making Ed take a few steps back. He didn't know what to do; he didn't know what to think. A blast of heat and force knocked him to the side; it was so sudden it nearly took his breath away. Ed landed on the ground and it took him time to hear a sudden rat-tat-tat-tat-tat of a machine gun, apart from the ringing in his ears. Ed opened his eyes and saw a woman standing in the distance, firing a machine gun at the zombies; she turned toward Ed ready to fire when he quickly put up his hands.

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Ok I guess this is where the chapter will stop. When I wrote this story I typed it all out on about 11 pages with no breakages, so I may have to rewrite to make them into chapters. Tell me what you think!