Hello everyone! I want to dedicate this chapter to ThePhantomHero for giving me advice and encouraging me to write this chapter. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, because I was developing the Mystic Maiden's personality and it was awesome! Also, the reason the Elrics were calling MM 'him' or 'he' is because everyone thought MM was a man with overgrown hair :D Read and Review my fellow readers... and make some suggestions on what the next chapter might be about! Disclaimer: I don't own FMA but I do OWN, that's right, OWN Mystic Maiden and here feisty personality... ;D
Chapter 2 - Shut Up and Fight!
Nightfall struck Central, evolving the sky with stars and a full moon. The building the brothers were watching was painted black and had large glass windows in the front. Dim light shone through these windows and you could make out the light shadows of abnormal figures. This same building was warehouse number ten; the same warehouse that held the pig and hawk Chimeras.
The Elric brothers were keeping an eye on them from across warehouse number ten, which was number twenty. They stood watching the large bulky doors of number ten from the roof of number twenty.
"Brother, when do you think he will show up? It has been a while..." Alphonse commented. His blond braided brother shook his head in frustration. "This sucks! I knew Colonel Bastard would make us do a overnight mission!"
As if on cue, the brothers turned their heads to look for a noise that came from the left side of number twenty. They nodded to each other and headed towards the edge of the building. A shadow was inside the alleyway, creeping alongside the wall. It stopped when it sensed something, a presence that was the twin alchemists.
"I think that is the hunter, brother!" Al whispered.
"All right! Now we are getting somewhere!" Ed whispered back and jumped off the ledge. He landed next the dark shadow that was at least two heads taller than him. Al followed his actions and stood on the opposite side of Ed. Together they surrounded the shady figure.
The figure threw something on the ground and out came thick gray smoke. The Elrics gasped and coughed as they tried to exit the alleyway. Edward was the first to spot the figure sprinting to warehouse number ten.
"Oh no you don't!" He shouted as he clapped his hands once and placed them on the ground. Out of the ground came a large wall blocking the dark figure's path. It turned around a glared at Ed.
"Brother, are you alright?" Al called beside Ed with a worried look on his face. He nodded a 'yes' as the figure came into the light of the lamppost.
To the Elric's surprise, the 'Big Bad Hunter' was actually a female! She had long back hair that came together at her widows peak. She had on black baggy pants, a gray sleeveless shirt and dark combat boots. Strapped to her arms were daggers and knives at her disposal. A red bow was draped over her shoulders and her quiver on her back. But what intrigued the brothers the most is that she had coffee colored skin and dark crimson eyes.
She withdrew a dagger in each hand and said, "Get ready to die by the hands of the Mystic Maiden!"
She dashed at the boys but they jumped away when she swiped her daggers at them. Al then skillfully sweep kicked her legs but she back flipped away from him. Once Al got up, the Elrics charged the Mystic Maiden, with Ed in the lead. She saw this coming and grabbed his auto-mail arm and swung him into Al as they went crashing into some garbage cans.
"Give up now! This is non of your business! Give up now to avoid dying in my hands!" She yelled as the Elrics sluggishly got up.
"Damn you!" Ed shouted furiously.
The Mystic Maiden shook her head and chuckled, "Idiotic bastards." She got into her fighting stance while the two teens charged her. When Ed was mere feet away from her, he got down on one knee and crouched down. This gave Al the chance to leap frog over Ed's back and land a flying kick to Mystic Maiden's face.
She staggered backwards but quickly recovered to throw three daggers at Ed which he easily dodged. Al came at her again and threw some punches and kicks at her face and sides. She dodged them and swiped her daggers at his chest, cutting a gap in his dark orange shirt. Ed saw this and snapped.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!" He screamed as he ran towards her while she was busy with Al. She saw this coming but couldn't stop or else she would get hit by one of Al's kicks or punches. Ed slammed her against the wall of warehouse number ten and started punching her senselessly. She got a bloody lip and cuts on her face and neck because of Ed's auto-mail.
"Brother stop! You're going to kill her!" Al yelled as he ran towards the fighting teens. Rain clouds started to form in the black sky, covering the moon and stars. Al reached for both of Ed's arms but then Mystic Maiden kicked him in the stomach, making both brothers tumble down.
"Let me go Al!" Ed struggled as he was held back by his brothers iron grasp. Mystic Maiden on the other hand, stood up shakily and spat blood on the ground. "Don't move. I'll be back after some business is taken care of." She said as she walked into warehouse number ten. Soon she disappeared inside and it started to rain.
"Al what is your problem?" Ed shouted as he unlatched himself from his brother's grasp.
"I didn't want you to murder another human being, that's my problem!" Al shouted back, getting in Ed's face.
"Your acting like she was your girlfriend!" Ed yelled back as Al blushed.
"No she isn't! Didn't you see her appearance? She is an Ishvalan! Wouldn't that look bad to kill another Ishvalan now that Scar is already our friend!" Al cried. Ed couldn't protest about that bit of information. It was true that Scar was their ally when he helped the Elrics retrieve the Philosophers Stone and turned Al back to normal.
But after that, he left to go travel around Amestris, with his new goal. Changing Amestris to become a safer place for the remaining Ishvalans.
"Okay, okay. But let's get that Mystic Bastard on a leash." They nodded to each other. Then they ran into the doorway of warehouse number ten to find the nasty looking half pig, half human Chimera dead on the ground. The hawk Chimera however, was pinning the Mystic Maiden up against a wall and clawing at her torso.
"GET OFF HER!" Al screamed at the Chimera. Ed clapped his hands together and slapped the ground. Out came a fist that knocked the hawk away from the her. The brothers went their separate ways; Ed to the Chimera and Al to the collapsed body of the Mystic Maiden.
When Al reached her, she was barely conscious and tried to pull her bow from her shoulder. Al helped her sit up while Ed kept the hawk away from himself, Al, and the Mystic Maiden. Once the bow was off, she notched her trademark silver arrow into the bow and aimed at the Chimera.
"Tell your brother to move." She said to Al who propped her up.
"But Mustang said not to kill the Chimeras." Al explained.
"I said, tell him to move." Her voiced was raising.
"But you're in no shape to do this, let me."
"I'm fine, now tell him!" She was getting frustrated.
"Oh no! Your chest is bleeding, let me help!" He said while he tried to stop the bleeding on her torso.
"If you want to see your brother get slaughtered in front of your eyes and be the one to carry his remains to his grave fine by me!" She grabbed the collar of his shirt, pulling him closer to her face. "But if you want to save his life you'll tell him to move his ass out of the way!" She let go and then Al stood up with the Mystic Maiden in his arms.
"Brother! Get away from the Chimera now!" Alphonse called out to Edward who heard the message right away and ran away from the hawk Chimera.
Once he was clear, the Mystic Maiden reloaded her poison tipped arrow and fired. It hit the hawk dead in the head, killing it instantly as it fell to the ground limply. Ed jogged over to Al and the Mystic Maiden.
"Is everyone okay?" He panted.
"I'm fine brother. But she isn't, she got clawed in the stomach and is losing a lot of blood." Al said worriedly as he stood in the increasing pool of blood. The teenage girl lay limp in Al's muscular arms, very close to passing out from blood loss.
"Leave me... here to die... before you...ugh." Her head fell back as Alphonse held her bridal style.
"Come on. Let's hurry and take her to the military's infirmary." Ed said as he helped Al position her on his back. Then they ran through the pouring rain to get to the military base that was around the block from warehouse number ten.
'I need to hurry, she can't die now. I want know her real name and get to know her. Maybe she may help and travel with us. She even might know some information of the Philosophers Stone and help us find one! I need her to live!' Alphonse thought to himself as ran alongside Ed.
'Even though she tried to hurt Al, she needs to be treated. If she knows what the Chimeras are then she must know what a Philosophers Stone is. Maybe she can help us find a Stone but there is no way in Hell she is joining me and Al when we travel.' Edward thought as they arrived at the infirmary.
The doctors helped the Mystic Maiden off Al's back and onto a stretcher. Then she was wheeled away, leaving a thick trail of blood on the white marble floors.
"I hope she makes it."The Elrics said at the same time as they stood in the hall, painted with the blood of the dying Mystic Maiden...
A Medium cliffhanger on this ending... WILL THE MYSTIC MAIDEN MAKE IT OUT ALIVE? OR WILL SHE GET HER WISH BY DYING AND MAKING THIS FANFICTION SHORT AS HECK? Find out on the next episode *cough* errr I mean chapter of ''If You Fly With Me You'll Die With Me'' I'd give you an electronic ice cream cone if you guess what the title means...