Today was like every other day, that is until we learned about Furnace. Everyone in our group was sitting in the office reading or signing paperwork.

"Hey Colonel why do we have so much paperwork? We haven't had a case for such a long time." Breda was complaining like always while the others awaited his answer.

"Well I have no idea but we have to get to a meeting soon so hurry up and finish." He went back to signing like crazy so Hawkeye didn't shoot him. The Furher had called a mandatory meeting for all of the officers later that day. No one knew why or what it was about.

"Hey Hawkeye can you go find Fullmetal? He needs to be at the meeting as well. I asked you because I know your work is done." Sure enough all her paperwork was completed and ready to turn in. He looked at her and gave a smirk when she got up and saluted.

"Yes sir!" Riza then walked out of the office slowly closing the door behind her.

"Do you know what the Furher wants to talk about sir?" Feury asked.

"No idea but it has to be important if every officer is going to attend." He got back to work and tried to think of what the meeting would be about.

…...

Riza made her way to the hotel where the Elrics were staying and walked to their room. She stopped in front of their door and knocked. On the other side of the door she could hear Al moving around while Ed was saying something about it being to early for visitors. Ed came and opened the door but was shocked to see Lieutenant Hawkeye alone.

"Hey Lieutenant. Can we help you with something?"

"Yes Edward. There is going to be a mandatory meeting later today and you are to attend. The Colonel asked me to come get you."

"Uhhh…okay well be ready in a minute. Please come in." He moved aside to let her in. When she was in he shut the door and went to get his coat. Riza had noticed all the papers lying around the room.

"Have you boys been researching again? You made quite a mess." She picked up some of the papers and read them. They were about the lab 5 incident.

"Yeah we were. We might find something out about the philosophers stone since lab 5 had a huge transmutation circle in it."

"I see just don't get in over your heads. Let us help you." She looked at him and gave him a small smile. Ed smiled back. They were finally ready to leave and walked out the door. They headed back to HQ in silence until Ed asked a question.

"Hey Lieutenant. What is the meeting about?"

"We don't know yet but it has to be important." They continued on and finally reached HQ. They then headed to Mustang's office where they would regroup and head to the meeting.

…...

Roy looked up as Riza walked in with the Elric brothers. The men were finished with most of their paperwork and waited for Riza to return.

"Welcome back Lieutenant. I thought you were supposed to bring Fullmetal back." He got up and walked over to her and looked around. Ed was getting mad at the Colonel.

"I don't see him anywhere. It must be because he's a shrimp."

"WHO YOU CALLING A SHRIMP SO SMALL THAT HE CAN'T BE SEEN WITH A MICROSCOPE?" Roy was laughing at Ed's attempts to attack him. Al was holding him back.

"Brother please stop." Al was trying to calm Ed down. Meanwhile Riza was trying to restore order.

"Colonel that was unnecessary. We have to get ready for the meeting." When her words failed to calm the men down she pulled out her gun and fired two shots at the ceiling. All eyes were on her and it was silent.

"Good now that everyone is calm we can head to the meeting." She put her gun back in the holster and waited for Roy.

"Yeah let's get going then. Before Hawkeye puts more holes in the ceiling." He quickly regretted saying that last part because Riza shot him a look that sent shivers down his spine.

"I only do it because you guys act like children. Sir." She turned around and walked to the door. The men slowly got up to follow her. One by one they exited the office and headed to the courtyard where the meeting was going to be held. The courtyard was filled with people. The higher-ups all stood together while everyone else looked for familiar faces to stand by. Mustang's team found Maes Hughes and Alex Armstrong standing on the far right side of the courtyard and went to stand by them.

"Hey Hughes. Mind if we join you?" Roy walked up to Maes and grinned at him.

"Of course Roy!" Maes was grinning to and started chatting.

"So what do you think this is all about?"

"I don't know really but I heard it's got something to do with all those murdered families last month." Hughes had a look of disgust on his face as he remembered when they found out about all the dead families.

…...

The day was quiet and peaceful. Everyone at HQ had the day off and was enjoying their day of freedom. Mustang's team was headed to the beach. Even Ed and Al were coming along. When they arrived at the beach Havoc, Breda, Feury, Falman, and Armstrong jumped in the water. Riza was talking to Rebecca about how Armstrong could scare a shark with his sparkles. They were laughing when Roy spoke to them.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing sir." Riza bit back her laughter when she spoke.

"Were off duty so drop the sir. This is our day to relax so have some fun." He walked off to find Hughes. Soon after the men got out and joked around. Riza and Rebecca were off cliff diving. Roy was watching Riza with fascination. He had no idea that she did things like that.

"Hey Roy you should wipe away that drool before Riza sees it." Maes was laughing at the site of his best friend drooling.

"Shut up Hughes before I…" Roy was cut off by a scream. All the men shut up as they listened for another scream. Soon Rebecca came running out of the water with Riza being half carried. From where they were standing the could see both girls had blood on them.

"Riza! Rebecca! What happened?" Everyone was up and running to the women limping towards them.

"We were jumping and then smashed into some sharp rocks. Riza took the brunt of it but I hit my leg. Well both live though." Rebecca said as she laid Riza down on a towel and then sat down herself.

"Damn we need to get you to a hospital now. There goes our day off." Havoc said as he got out a cigarette.

"Thanks Jean your so caring." Rebecca was giving him a dirty look. Riza sat up and Roy was beside her trying to stop the bleeding with his shirt.

"Let's go before someone else gets hurt." Everyone packed up and headed to the hospital in silence. When they got there a nurse took the girls to an examination room while the others had to go to the waiting room. Many passing women stopped and talked to Roy. He forgot he didn't have a shirt on. After what seemed like hours Riza came in with her arm in a sling and Rebecca was on crutches.

"I am so not happy about this!" Rebecca yelled as they walked out and headed home.

"Well we should have been more careful." Riza looked at her arm.

'This better not interfere with my shooting.' She thought bitterly.

"Yeah yeah." Everyone but Roy and Maes had left to go home. Riza spaced out and ran into a pole. The group busted out laughing as she tried to get her composure back.

"Nice going Riza! Your face made a new friend." Rebecca loved making fun of Riza.

"Shut up Becca!" She stopped when she heard gunshots. Everyone listened as more shots were fired and they could hear screams.

"We should go check it out." Maes said.

"We have two injured women Hughes. What damage can we do?" Roy said as the group had already moved on without him.

"Well sir I assure you that me and Becca are still able to fight." Riza kept walking but she was upset because Roy thought she couldn't fight. As if an injured arm could stop her. They made there way to a street that looked eerie in the setting sun's light. There were no lights, people, or any signs of life for the matter.

"What should we do?" Rebecca asked as Riza slowly made her way to the closest house.

"I guess go check things out. Riza you and Rebecca go check that house well wait here for you." She was about to protest when another shot rang out. She ran up the steps and banged on the door. When there was no answer she kicked in the door. Her gun was raised because there was something bad about this place.

"Becca stay there and don't let anyone pass. I'm going to check around." Riza could smell blood and gunpowder.

'Something happened here but what?' She gasped when she saw the lifeless bodies of four people. The parents were holding onto the bodies of their children. A boy was clutching his sister's arm while she held a teddy bear. Blood was splattered everywhere and bullet holes were in the walls. She walked out to where the rest of the group was conversing. They looked up and noticed that she was completely pale and that she was shaking slightly.

"Riza? Is everything okay? What happened?" Roy walked up to her and hugged her. She looked at him.

"There's a dead family in there. They were shot to death. Blood is everywhere and the smell of death…" Riza was going on when she felt a tear escape her and she looked down the street.

"Riza it's okay we called it in after we heard more gunshots. I'll go look at it." Roy let her go and walked into the house. He was horrified at what he saw.

'Now I know why Riza is so upset. This is disgusting!' He sighed and walked out. The police where there and going to other houses. He spotted his friends and walked over to them. Riza was silent and Hughes was talking about the other houses.

"Roy this isn't just murder. It's a slaughter."

…...

Hughes snapped back to reality when Roy started talking.

"I still hate thinking about it." Riza nodded in agreement. She hadn't really talked since the day she saw the family lying in their own blood.

Roy sighed " We finally caught the bastards that did it. I can't believe they were laughing!" He always got angry when he remembered them.

"I hated looking into their eyes. They enjoyed everything they did." Riza said before she hid behind her mask. Roy had stayed at her place the night they found the family because he knew nightmares would haunt them both. It was a rough night and they didn't really get any sleep. Nightmares came and so they talked to pass the time.

"Yeah I don't see how anyone could be like that." Hughes had to agree with them both since the guys they caught were complete psychos. They were brought back to what was happening now. The Furher had come and everyone saluted.

"At ease. We have important things to talk about." Everyone put their arms down and looked at him expectantly.

"I'm sure you all know about the slaughter last month and that we caught the criminals. Well I have decided to open a prison that will hold every murderer. Anyone who kills from now on will be sent there no matter the age." Roy and his group stared wide eyed at the last statement. A place where murderers go no matter the age? That's outrageous.

"I know we soldiers kill but from now on if any of you kill someone you will also be imprisoned for life. We must keep our world clean of any killing. You can only kill when I have given you permission to. This new place is worse than hell itself. The prison is called Furnace." Everyone was in complete shock. Roy looked around the crowd and saw that many people were frightened. They were dismissed and Roy led his group to the office but before they got to the doors a gunshot rang out. After that all hell broke loose and Roy looked at the person lying on the ground covered in blood. He couldn't believe his eyes.