OK, just realized that this chapter got messed up when I tried to post it. I don't know why and I am sooooooooo sorry for any confusion. It has done this before, so if anyone notices any thing else confusing, please PM me. It would be greatly appreciated.

I'm scared to listen to Ed, but I hit the ground immediately. I hear something snap and a fire quickly materializes above me. I feel its heat as it heads toward Vale and I can't help, but feel as though he is still towering over me so I look up slightly and see that it hasn't even touched him. In fact, he has a red glow around him. When the fire disappears, the red glow that must be a shield disappears.

Vale chuckles lowly and glares at the person who had tried to burn him. "Did you really think that you could kill me?" His voice is a little frightening; it sounds much like thunder the way it echoes in the alley. "You must be a fool to think that I would die so easily." He looks back to me and smiles. "I will not die until I have you."

I look into Vale's eyes and see nothing but blackness; no color in his eyes, not even the slightest hint of happiness or sadness; they are just cold and evil. He reaches for me, but someone shoots him. Again the glow appears and stops the bullet. Ignoring attempts to kill him, Vale continues to reach for me and instead of screaming, I cry. I shut my eyes and curl into a ball.

I don't understand what is going on, and I just want it to end. More than anything would I just love to walk around and not worry about someone trying to kill me. Suddenly, I feel a hand upon my shoulder. I don't move or breathe because I know I let my guard down.

"Dawn, are you ok?" a familiar voice asks me.

I look up and see Roy standing above me. "I thought he was… I thought I was…" I can't finish. I jump up to hug him and cry. "Thank you."

"I'm sorry this happened to you. From now on you will stay with me. Just to be safe," Roy says and pats me on the back.

I look through my tears and see Maes and Al helping Edward into the back of an ambulance. "Is Ed going to be OK, Roy?" I ask in a chocked voice.

"Yeah, he'll be fine. You need to see the ambulance as well, just to make sure you didn't break something."

Roy lets me go and we walk over to the ambulance. I look around and see a lot of military people standing around. I look at him and ask, "What are they all doing here?"

Roy smiles and says, "You are under military protection, and this is now considered a crime scene. That just happens sometimes." He shrugs his shoulders and sits down on the end of the ambulance. "It could be worse."

"How the… how could it be worse?" I ask a little ticked and trying my best not to curse.

"He could have gotten you and you could have been dead." Roy gives me a sharp look. "I won't allow that to happen, though."

I sigh. "I guess you are right," I say to myself. Ed opens the door of the ambulance and knocks Roy on the ground. Ed laughs and lets me in. He shuts the door and Roy starts to yell at him. I laugh and feel happy for once in my life. I sit down and I let the paramedic make sure that there isn't anything wrong with me.

I exit the ambulance and see Roy, Maes, Ed and Al, and some other people standing there waiting for me.

"Dawn," Maes says, "I want you to meet some people. Introduce yourselves."

A woman with blond hair in a bun and bangs walks out first. "I am Riza Hawkeye. I work with Colonel Mustang and I am here to help as much as possible." She bows and goes back to her position.

A man this time walks up. He has a golden color of hair with bangs and is smoking a cigarette. "Hello miss. My name is Jean Havock. I also work for Mustang." He walks up to me and kisses my hand. "I hope you like it here. I know I will."

I giggle. Roy walks up behind him and drags him away. Ed walks over to me and whispers, "He kinda is a playboy. Watch out."

"All right," I say with a smile.

The next one is sort of small with black hair and glasses. "My name is Kain Fuery. I will be more than glad to help you with anything if you need me."

The next is a little "big" with red hair. "I am Heymans Breda. You give me a job and I'll do it as long as there isn't a dog involved."

The last one has a grayish color of hair and has small eyes. "I am Vato Falman. I may not be able to do what everyone else can, but I can shoot a gun when necessary."

"Well, those are all of my subordinates. They will be here to help you as much as possible. If I am not with you, one of them will be. I promise you that much," Roy says.

"Please don't make promises you can't keep," I say as I look at the sky. I notice that it has grown dark over the last few minutes.

"But it is something I can keep," Roy says.

I look at him with an angry face. "Just don't make promises. That is the best way to live; a life with no promises broken and nothing to be ashamed of. Don't you agree?"

I leave and jog towards Central. They follow me, but I just want to be somewhere safe right now. But I am stopped by Ed who finally catches up with me.

"You do know we are here for you, right? If there is anything you want to talk about-"

"Ed, just do me a favor and don't promise anyone anything." I walk around him furiously.

"But why?" Ed asks.

I stop and look at him and try not to cry, but I can't stop it. "Because, when you promise someone that you are going to save them and you fail, it hurts like hell Ed!" I shout.

I turn around and run. I know what happened the last time I ran, but I don't want anyone else to see me cry. The last thing I promised was that I would save my sister from dieing.

I feel a drop of water on my head. I look up and see that it is beginning to rain, slowly at first, but now coming down in a poring rampage. I look behind and I see that the others are nowhere in sight.

"Maybe I'll wait for 'em," I say to myself. I take cover under a canopy just as a black car pulls up. A man of about his fifties gets out. He looks at me and I observe that he has an eye patch over his left eye.

"Are you Miss Dawn Mustang?" the man asks me.

I know my first name, but where did "Mustang" come from. "Yes," I say slowly.

"I am Fuhrer King Bradley. I heard of what had happened earlier and I thought I would try to catch you and ask if you were alright. Are you?"

I stare at him. I don't know a thing about this town or who he is. "Umm, who are you?" I ask.

Bradley laughs. "I am sorry. I forgot you aren't from around here. I am the one who runs this country. You can trust me. I don't bite." He smiles, but I still don't know how much I can trust him.

"How do you know me?" I ask, still very confused and cautious.

"Roy and Maes talked to me about you and how they had met you. I said it would be fine if you stayed at command. It isn't every day a beautiful young lady, such as yourself, comes into town."

"Dawn, there you are," Roy says. He looks out of breath.

"Look who I found, or who found me," I say pointing to Fuhrer King Bradley.

"Oh! Fuhrer King Bradley. What are you doing out here?" Roy asks quickly.

"I heard about what had happened. I assume everything is fine. Am I correct?" I look behind Roy and see the others running up.

"Everything is fine," Roy says. "We didn't get him, but he didn't get her either."

"Good. Now if you will excuse me, I must get some things before I go back to my office."

Bradley walks into the store behind me and the others give me the evilest glare known to mankind.

"Hehe, sorry," I say as I scratch my head.

"Come on," Ed says as he picks me up and carries me away.

"I can walk you know," I say.

"Yeah, but you run away when you walk."

Can't argue with that, can I?

We enter Roy's office and Ed puts me down.

"We wasted a whole three hours chasing after you. Are you happy now?" Ed asks me.

"Yep!" I say cheerily.

"Ugh!" Ed face-palms himself and sits down.

"Oh, shut up Ed," Roy says.

We all grow silent. Nothing is said, but I can tell that everyone probably hates me right now. I look around at everyone's face, and I can tell they are at least pissed. "Um, so…" I don't even know what to say, and no one says anything back. I decide to look through Roy's window at the rain. It falls quickly, but it looks so beautiful as it pours down. "Does it rain often?" I ask.

"In a way it does. Why?" Roy asks me. I glance and see he has a lot of paperwork to do. A lot of paperwork.

"'Cuz I miss the rain. I can't tell you the last time I saw rain. In the past few hours I have seen more sunlight than I have in twelve years altogether, and I have friends, more than I have had my entire life." I look at everyone's reflection in the mirror and see their faces. "But, don't worry. It doesn't bother me." The room becomes quiet once more and I just stare out the window.

I decide to ignore the awkward silence and think about today's events. Mostly good things, but horrible things that get in the way of the good ones. My thoughts soon jump to King Bradley and what he said, saying my last name as Mustang. "Roy," I say, "why did Fuhrer King Bradley call me Dawn Mustang?"

I hear people get up and rush out the door. I don't look back because I don't wanna know what he did to make 'em leave, but it must have been something. I hear him get out of his chair and I see him walk to me. Roy puts his hand on my right shoulder and looks at me. I look up at him and his face his somewhat practiced, you might say, but with a hint of tenseness to it.

"Your sister thought it would be best if you were somehow kin to someone in the military. Maes wanted you to have his last name, but we knew that wouldn't work since you will be staying with me. I am one of the few people that can protect you right now."

"What do you mean by that?" I ask.

"Vale is very powerful. I am an alchemist and I can at least get you to safety if nothing else. Maes is only your average military officer, so he can't do much other than shoot at him, and we know now that bullets don't work."

"What do you mean? Will he not stop even if the military is involved?"

Roy looks out the window, but I don't take my eyes off of him. "No, Dawn, I'm sorry. Now that I have seen him, I can tell he won't give up. All Maes and I want for you is for you to be safe. Can you forgive us?"

"Forgive you for what? You didn't do anything wrong," I say.

Roy looks back at me with a smile. "Thanks." He kisses my forehead and sits back down in his chair. I continue to stare out the window. The others haven't come back in yet and Roy won't say a word. It the atmosphere is kind of weird, mainly because I don't know him well enough and he just kissed my forehead, and the fact that I have his last name. What am I supposed to be, his daughter?! Oh, well. I guess it doesn't matter.

After a few minutes, I watch through the reflection of the window as the door slams open with a big bang and Roy jumps out of his seat. I turn around immediately and I turn very white. The person standing in the doorway is wearing orange clothes; someone from the prison. He had two guns; one pointed at Roy and the other at me.

"Roy, what's going on?" I ask as I backup in to the window.

"Who are you?" Roy asks angrily.

"How could you betray this country by bringing her here?!" the man yells.

"She has done nothing wrong," Roy says as his right hand reaches for his gun.

"Don't move. Put your hands behind your head and take your gloves off," the man orders. I can't even breathe and I watch Roy do as he is told. Roy lays his gloves on his desk along with his gun and puts his hands behind his head. The man looks at me with rage in his eyes.

"You, Stone, I want you to come here," he says. I look to Roy, but he won't even glance at me. "Now!" the man shouts.

I walk over slowly, hoping that Roy will say or do something, but he hasn't. I get the feeling he is useless without his gloves, but I don't even know what they do. When I am within three feet of him, I stop walking towards him.

"I said come here," the man demands.

"No," I say. I look him dead in the eye. I try not to shiver as I say, "I'm not afraid of you."

"Big mistake girly."

The man lifts his gun to my head and starts to pull the trigger. I shut my eyes and hope he doesn't pull it. Without warning someone grabs me and pull me to the ground. The gun goes off and misses me, but I soon hear a scream and I bury my face into the persons chest. I hear someone sheath a sword, but I don't recall one being taken out. I don't bother to open my eyes to see what had happened, though.

"Dawn, listen to me. I don't want you to open your eyes, alright?" Roy says over me, apparently being the one that protected me from the gun.

"OK," I say softly. Roy doesn't offer to get up so neither do I. It may be stupid, but I need someone to hold me right now. Just someone to be close to. I used to have my sister, but now all I have are these people I just met. And I need to know someone cares about me. Just a single person.

"Roy, are you two alright?" someone asks.

"Yes King Bradley. Thank you," Roy replies.

Fuhrer King Bradley saved me? I think to myself. Roy gets up, but I grab onto his arms.

"What's wrong Dawn?" Roy asks me as he kneels back down.

"I thought he was going to kill me, Roy. I thought you weren't going to do anything to save me."

Roy hugs me and says, "No, I knew that King Bradley was here, that is why I didn't do anything. I'm sorry it seemed like that."

"I'm so scared Roy. I want my sister," I cry into his shirt. He pats my back and hugs me. I cry until I can't cry anymore with Roy by my side the whole time. And Fuhrer King Bradley stays in the room with us as well, probably just to make sure no one else tries anything. I feel safer than I have for a very long time. I know they won't let anyone do anything to me. I suppose they are my new family. There is enough of them to count as the ones I… the ones I killed.

"Dawn, I hate to do this to you, but I need to get up. King Bradley is going to watch you for a little bit until this is cleaned up. Is that OK?" Roy says at last.

I haven't even opened my eyes the whole time. "Uh-huh," I mumble.

"Keep your eyes closed," Roy says as he helps me up.

I keep them closed. I know I don't want to see what his room looks like if Fuhrer King Bradley used a sword to kill that guy and they don't want me to look. Roy holds on o me and helps me walk until we get a ways down the hallway away from his room.

"You can open your eyes Dawn," Roy says as he lets go of my arm.

I open my eyes and blink. I have had them closed for a little while and the light is somewhat of a shock. I look at Roy and smile. "Thanks Roy," I say.

"For what?" he asks me with a funny look.

"Nothing," I say. He shrugs his shoulders and walks back to his room. I look at Fuhrer King Bradley. "So, now what do we do?"

Bradley ponders for a moment and says, "Why don't we go to our exam room and you can show me how good you are at alchemy. I've heard a lot about it, but I'd like to see it for myself."

"Heck ya!" I say as I jump into the air. "Let's go."

We walk into a concrete room. "Here we are. Show me your best," King Bradley says.

"Ok." I walk into the middle of the room and turn to face him. I smile and clap my hands together, which I only do for a spectacular show or when I have to. I touch the ground and a tall stool-like table with a series of circles in the middle forms. I then clap my hands once more and touch the middle of the stool with a single finger and a delicate rose appears.

"Bravo Dawn," Fuhrer King Bradley says as he claps. "That was amazing. You have that special talent that Ed has. Are you two kin?" he asks me.

"Umm, I honestly don't know. I had a big family, so I might be. I wouldn't be able to find out though," I say. I pick up the rose and smell it. "You want it?"

"Sure." I give it to him and he smiles. "If only it were real."

"It is real," I say.

King Bradley gives me a curious look. "But how?"

"I don't know. That is just how my alchemy works. I make something and it is real. Like if you wanted a lot of trees or something like that I could make it for you. But, I have to do what I just did and make some kind of platform with those circles on it. Otherwise it won't work."

"What about animals and things like that?" he asks.

"I won't go against alchemy's law. I don't want to do something stupid."

"You are very smart Dawn. I would like to ask you something."

I look at him. "Ask away and I will try to answer."

King Bradley walks close to me. "How would you like to become a state alchemist?"

"Really? Are you serious?" I ask hysterically.

"Yes. And I won't make you take the exams because of how exceptionally talented you are at alchemy."

I am happy. Overly happy in fact. "Thank you so much. Now I have something to show for all my hard work."

"We probably better see if Roy's office is cleaned. We have been gone a while. Come on," he says.

We leave and walk back to Roy's office. I am overjoyed with my new status. I am going to be a state alchemist. How cool!

We get to Roy's door and we find that it is wide open. I look in and Roy is looking out of the window. I walk up behind him and tap his shoulder.

"You OK Roy?" I ask.

Roy turns around and smiles. "I'm fine. I was just thinking. Have you had fun?"

I glance back at Fuhrer King Bradley and he nods. I look up at Roy and say, "I'm going to be a state alchemist, Roy. Isn't that great?!"

Roy smiles. "Do you know what that means?"

"Well duh, I'll be known as "a dog of the military" and I'll I have to fight wars. But it also means I'll be protected against Vale, or whatever his name is."

Roy wraps his arms around me. "Just as long as you know."

"Well, I must be going home. My wife and son are waiting for me. Goodnight Roy, Dawn," Fuhrer King Bradley says.

Roy waves bye. I hear the door shut and Roy lets me go. "Are you sure you want to do this? I can protect you, and you won't-"

"Roy, can I ask you something?" I say. I know that he can protect me, but I have a feeling it will be a great experience to become something for once and not be a damsel in distress.

"Uh, sure," he says uneasily.

"Have you, have you ever…"

"Have I ever what?" he asks. He sits down in his chair and looks at me.

"Have you ever kissed someone before?" I ask. I look out the window because I know what his face looks like and I don't want to see it.

"Yes, why?"

"Wha…what's it like to kiss someone?"

Roy doesn't say anything for a minute or so. I feel as though I just made it really awkward for us.

"It isn't something I can explain, Dawn."

I look at him. "What do you mean?"

"I'd have to show you," Roy says. He looks me in the eyes and I look back at him. The atmosphere is a little tense, but I really shouldn't have asked that question in the first place.

"So…" I say.

"Hmm…" he says with a smile.

Oooooooohhhhhh! Where is this going to go? Who knows! Please keep reading and thanks for reading so far. Leave a review if you have time and enjoy life!