It was another elongated hallway like the one upstairs, but his one didn't have any doors. But that didn't stop Ed from continuing down it. He was determined to show that Colonel Bastard what he could do. Ed and Al did seem to notice all the papers and notes on the floor like that one room upstairs. Although this place was a bit cleaner than the one upstairs.

Ed did stop to take a look, but to no avail. The notes had nothing significant, like the one upstairs. All the papers were useless, and the ones that seemed to have something, just disappointed the brothers even more. Even through this, they still trekked down the hallway. With a new sound other than Al's clanking and the boards creaking.

At first, Ed and Al just assumed it was their imaginations, until that same sound got closer and closer. Ed and Al both look at each other simultaneously, confirming that it wasn't just their imaginations. They noticed that is was a growl, full of anger and fear, that kept the same tone. Ed and Al thought it must have been an animal, perhaps a dog. That's when they came to the end of the long, dark hallway, at a turn.

There was a door that looked like even Armstrong could go through without bending over. Ed, quietly, was peeping through the crack in the door. He was stunned. That sound he and Al heard wasn't a dog, but instead a chimera, half dog, half-. Inhumanity. He thought he had seen the last of it. But no. Not another one. There are still more people like Tucker. To think that he would use people to make a talking chimera. But now, now there was another like him. The guy in the room was utterly disgusting. With his bleached white lab coat, his scraggly black hair, and his blood stained hands and face. His lips were maliciously grinning.

The chimera which had been growling was gruesome. The half dog, half human creature stood by the man. It looked dark, black, and ominous. It looked obviously terrified of the man. And I wouldn't blame it, the man was frightening.

"Another failure, well now we need a new specimen."

'What the hell?' Ed thought, still appalled by that man.

"Will you help me?" The man turned to the door, looking at it with his bloodied face. Ed could now tell that the man had blue eyes, but they didn't look sane. Ed could feel his heart race. Al just stood there, looking at Ed's horrified face.

"Brother?"

"Al, run!"

Ed turned around, grabbed Al by the arm, and started running like crazy back down the extensive hall. 'Damn, no doors!' Ed screamed in mind. How the hell are they gonna get away? The man in the room didn't run after them, and the grin he spread across his lips made Ed even more uneasy. But Ed didn't stop running.

Ed now thought, 'Well, at least now I can make a report for Colonel Bastard.'

Ed and Al were running as fast as they could, and even though Ed had short legs, he ran at a velocious speed. Ed couldn't erase the vivid pictures of the man from his mind, his nasty grin. The words he said, "Will you help me?" echoed in his mind. Ricocheting in his brain. Ed just shut his eyes, trying to use the darkness to elude those thoughts. But a sudden jerking made him open his eyes.

Now he knew that the man had accomplices. And they weren't scrawny and weak. They held Ed brutally, without any mercy.

"AL!" was all Ed managed to say before they had covered his mouth. They had trouble with Al. Al was bigger than them, although they were buff. He was able to hold them back for a while, until reinforcements came. That's when they got him.

Ed and Al were both tied up, held against their own will. Inside a room just as messy as the room upstairs and the hallway. But it wasn't messy with papers and notes. The papers and notes were neat and stacked on the table there and the cabinets that were open. That surprised the brothers. This one room which they were being held captive in was the only one that seemed tidy, aside from the wrappers, dust, and trash that was all over the place.

"My my my, what do we have here, the Fullmetal Alchemist?" That man said in a deep voice, looking at Al.

Now that ticked Ed off, as a frustration mark appeared on his forehead.

"No you bastard! Me!" Ed yelled despite the pain from the tight ropes binding him and Al.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Elric," That man said sarcastically.

"Just shut up and untie these ropes!" Ed yelled.

"Now, you know I can't do that," That man said, spreading a smirk across his red face, "You're an important specimen to me."

A.N.: You like it so far, was it a cliffhanger, hope so! *Evil grin appears on author*