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Chapter 1: Fire

It was a normal day, with no interruptions I finally thought that nothing seriously bad was going to happen. That was until I heard an explosion and a scream from Sakura...In our house…

I ran into the living room to see fire everywhere, and it was way too big for us to put it out with just a bucket of water. "Sakura!" I screamed. When I did so, smoke filled my lungs causing me to cough. I began to wonder what the hell happened to the smoke alarm and just then it sounded off filling the entire house.

I began to move around the big fire and try to see if I could find Sakura, Al, or Ed. I managed to see across the room but I had some difficulty with all of the ash flying around. I looked around a bit and something smashed into me and held tight.

"Eh, Sakura?!" She was crying and she said "I'm sorry" That's when I noticed she had her flame gloves on.

The fire was spreading to the ceiling and eventually some wood came down really close to us. Before it hit the ground someone grabbed me and pulled me backwards really fast. Whoever it was, I fell on them soon thereafter with Sakura still in my arms. Sakura got off of me, enabling me to get off of whoever I fell on. Low and behold...It was Ed.

I crouched down beside him as he sat up, obviously with the wind knocked out of him. "Are you alright?" I asked softly "Yeah I'm fine...Damn maybe I pulled you back too fast.." I helped him up saying "Actually you had two people fall on you."

I heard the sound of metal shifting around followed by Al's voice "A-Are you guys okay?" We all turned to face a big suit of blue armor that actually had a 15 year old boy inside. "We're fine, but we all won't be if we don't get out of here…" Ed said looking around for a way out.

He stood still for a moment then turned to me and looked at Sakura. "Sakura, ride inside Al..." She finally stopped clutching me tightly and walked over to Al who let her inside the armor. Ed quickly clapped his hands together and put his hands onto the floor. In front of him a lot of dirt rose over the fire that blocked the door and fell put most of the fire out, enough for us to get past.

"C'mon!" Ed yelled running towards the door. Al Closely followed and I started to run after them as well, only to be stopped by a large piece of smoldering ceiling that nearly fell down on me. I attempted to get around it and I got burnt on my leg. I howled in pain and came to my knees clutching my burn.

Then someone grabbed my right arm, I looked up to see Ed saying "C'mon! Get up!" I stood up my leg hurting horribly, then Ed pulled my arm over his shoulders and held my waist. This made it a bit easier to run, but for some reason I sort of enjoyed the feel of Ed's warm hand on my waist.

When we came outside many people were surrounding the place staring at the fire that had visibly spread only to be quickly shrank by the fire fighter's water hose. Still holding me, Ed and I both watched as the fire was put out, and I wasn't sure if it was just me but slowly but surely it seemed that Ed pulled me closer to him. At the thought of being closer to him I remembered what he had said a few months back, I could never truly forget those words.

My burn was luckily not a third degree, but they still made me go to the hospital and I really don't like hospitals. At the hospital, they cleaned and wrapped my leg and told me to come back in a day, when I got out I knew exactly what I wanted to do; talk to Sakura.

Al, Ed, and Sakura were sitting in the waiting room very bored, Ed especially. I walked over to them, and the moment Sakura saw me she said "How do you feel?" I looked down at my leg, it still hurt a little but it was tolerable "I'm fine...Sakura, about the fire at home…" Sakura shifted uneasily at the thought "…What exactly happened...?" I asked calmly. Ed looked over to Sakura and said, "That's a good question…" Sakura was visibly tense, but she didn't let this stop her from explaining.

"Um…Well…" She began, all three of us had our eyes on her, waiting for her to continue.

"I…I was going to practice my alchemy, so…I got my gloves on and…" She looked scared at this point, but of what? Us being mad at her, or was it something else?

"…I guess I…Accidentally snapped my fingers and…" She stuttered.

"Wait, what do you mean, "You guess"?" I questioned.

She looked up at me, and said, "Well, now that I think about it…I don't think the flames came from me…"

Ed and I cocked an eyebrow at her, Al probably did the same in spirit.

"I mean, the amount of flames that burst out…It was 10 times more than what I've managed, I would have had to have more fuel, or more power…The only thing is…" She got a scared look on her face again. "I…I did try and…pretend I snapped my fingers…"

We all were just confused, did she do it or not?

She saw the looks she was getting and said, "I am as confused as you guys right now, I didn't think I rubbed my fingers together that hard."

Ed rubbed his forehead and said "Why the hell would you be pretending to snap your fingers with your alchemy gloves on…"

Sakura blushed, I had an idea of why though, she just wanted to play around a little.

"Sakura, you know you should be more careful about that stuff." I said, gently scorning her.

Sakura look down at the floor and sighed, "I know…I'm sorry…"

"Um…She's got a point though." Al spoke up.

We all looked at him, he continued "I mean she isn't nearly as practiced and skilled as the Colonel yet, he would have been able to set the whole house on fire, but not Sakura. She can barely make a small couch burst into flames."

Sakura looked insulted, "Give me a few blows and I can!"

"Exactly, you would have had to do more than just snap once to set the whole house on fire." Al said.

"So the question is…" I said.

"…Who can…" Ed said.

"AND who did, I don't think that fire was any sort of accident." Al said.

I turned my head to look at Al, "You think someone was trying to kill us?"

"Well, if they are, then they're bound to try again." Ed spoke in a low tone.

"But why, what have we done to make someone mad?" Sakura exclaimed.

We all three looked at her like she was a dork for asking that.

"Bad question." I said.

"Yeah…" Sakura mused.

Ed stood up and stretched, "Well, no good sitting around here. Maybe we should go to HQ and report this…"

I looked at Ed in utter shock, "You'd be willing to see the colonel?"

Ed immediately looked annoyed, "Its not that I want to! Its just…I know he'll help us…And with such a huge threat on our lives, we may very well need that help. I mean we BARELY escaped that fire alive, one of us even got injured, I can only hope that's all that this person is capable of throwing at us."

Everyone sat or stood in silence, pondering the ideas Edward had expended.

Ed began walking away and said, "Like I said, there's no good in sitting around here."

We soon all started to follow him, next stop; Central City.

Can't I ever have a normal day?

End Chapter 1