I got this idea from Teen Titans and Van Helsing. I wanted to write it but I didn't know a good way to make an intro…until now…. Hehehehe…

Anyway, this is a really short fic (going to be only a few chapters long) and I think this fic won't be as good as my other fic, Chibified, but who cares?

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The Beast Within

Chapter 1: It Lives Inside

Ssssssssssssshhhhh!

The rain fell down rapidly from the sky making an endless sound.

Roy Mustang – The Flame Alchemist – limped out of the dark alleyway clutching onto his injury with blood seeping through his fingers. He flipped his soak bangs out of his eyes to look around his surroundings. Police cars parked the surrounding scene of the crime, and he saw officers behind the Caution Tape trying to drive the crowd from getting closer to the crime-scene event.

"Darn.. I was afraid this was going to happen.." Roy muttered under his breath leaning against the building wall trying to gain some strength. He felt so weak and exhausted – especially what happened minutes ago.

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FLASHBACK

Roy walked through the empty alleyways fully equipped and ready to snap with his ignition gloves. Unexpectantly, he came to a sudden halt gazing down of the bloody corpses of his fellow men with expressions of fear in their faces. Roy sunk in guilt. Swish! The murderer ran by Roy and slashed his arm with a knife leaving a large wound. He then slid on his feet to slow down and gave Roy a malicious smile. "The taste of blood… so delicate but yet, it tastes so sweet and addicting…" The murderer hissed

Roy frowned. "Disgusting…"

The murderer laughed. "What's so disgusting about that? Remember the Ishabllian Rebellion? All those children.. all those cries… it was as if music to my ears." The lunatic turned back to Roy. "You may not know it, but you miss it don't you?"

"Tsk.." The Alchemist flinched.

The Lunatic chuckled. "Hehehehehe… those were the good old days….. it's a shame nothing fun goes on around anymore…" The serial killer licked his lips.

"Because…"

"Why?"

".. it's to be avoided from scum like you!"

Roy took out his remaining hand and snapped his fingers causing an explosion behind the murderer.

The insane serial killer drew out his sword. "Fine.. is that's how you want it…" He lunged out towards Roy. "YOU'LL GET IT!"

Too late, Roy already snapped his fingers causing an explosion that blew the murderer into ashes.

The Flame alchemist closed his eyes. "I'm sorry… for you living such a pitiful life…" He walked out of the alleyways still clutching onto his wound.

Flashback ends

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"Hey, Roy…"

Roy turned around startled to see his fellow friend, Hughes. "Oh, it's you…" He mumbled.

"Well, uhm, I just saw the place where you killed that Serial Killer, Roy. You literally turned him into ashes!"

"Wow. Why am I not surprised?" Roy said sarcastically.

"Hehehe… yeah…" Hughes noticed Roy's deep gash. "Hey, Roy, look at that cut you got in your arm. You should probably check that up or you might get some sort of infection."

"Don't worry, Hughes, I'm fine."

Hughes walked a little closer to his friend. "But, Roy—"

"I'm fine!" Roy hissed.

Hughes inched away from Roy startlingly. He would've sworn he heard a literal animal's growl in that tone of his. Hughes pouted. "Geez, I was trying to help!"

Roy looked down at the puddle soaking the outside of his black boots with rain droplets dripping on it. "I'm sorry.."

"Colonel!"

Roy and Hughes perked up to see Hawkeye next to the car door waiting for him to get inside. "There's my ride.." Mustang said. He then climbed inside the car and Riza climbed in afterwards. After she slammed the car door, they drove off.

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"Sir?" Hawkeye asked.

"Huh?"

"You're bleeding and you've been holding onto that wound of yours for quite some time. Maybe we should get you some medical attention." Hawkeye suggested.

Roy looked at his gash that he's holding onto. His ignition glove and part of his sleeve was drenched in his blood. Oddly, he didn't feel any pain or stinging from his injury like he did minutes ago. He took his hand off his gash that was on his arm and looked at it. It was gone.

That's odd… he thought.

"Sir… is everything alright?"

"Yes, Lieutenant… everything is just fine…"

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"Wow! It's so big!" Ed and Al gaped at the towering cathedral that stood in the middle of a forest.

"This… is another one of the State Alchemist's library?" Al exclaimed.

"Hughes said it was a secret library with only the most valuable Alchemy books ever – books that not even the Central library can't secure thoroughly." Ed explained. "Hughes said, 'The best of the best alchemists are allowed in here.' So, thank god we're here."

"What do you think the book keeper would be like?" Al asked.

Al and Ed looked up at the eerily tall cathedral and imagined the librarian to be an ugly humpback with a creepy laugh and had wrinkled all over his face. The brothers cringed.

"Well.. we'll never know until we try.." Ed tried to knock on the giant doorknocker. "GEEZ! This thing weighs a ton!" Ed grunted trying to knock on the doorknocker.

Suddenly, a beautiful long black haired woman in a black gown opened the door from the inside of the cathedral. "Sorry. I'm clueless why they would build such a big doorknocker."

The brother remained infatuated by her beauty. "A-are you the bookkeeper of this library?"

"Why, yes, yes I am.."

Ed and Al collapsed with a sweat drop.

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Yeh. That was an okay chapter. It'll be better soon.

Anyhow, the bookkeeper is my own combination of Witch Hunter Robin and Lulu from Final Fantasy X.

This sucks because I'm doing 7 fics at once! ;-; Waah…

Anyway, I'm going to go now.