I was now shaking, for I was pretty sure that I was gonna die right then and there. Naroh now had a very insane smile on his face which only worsened matters. As scared as I was I refused to let him see any fear, so I stood my ground and looked as tough as I could. Dammit I am so stupid. If I had listened to Ed in the first place none of this would be happening. Ed is gonna die and its all my fault. No, I'm not gonna live with that on my mind for the rest of my life. Naroh stepped closer to me and said "So, you're willing to fight me, eh?" I nodded "Yes if it means you'll let my friend go..." I couldn't believe that I was calling Ed my friend, I barley knew him. Naroh grinned "A'right yer little boyfriend goes free un-harmed IF..." I prepared myself for what he was going to say next "...You win the fight" I continued to shake in fear now visibly.

"Wait a minute, I thought you said that you wouldn't hurt him if I-" Naroh interrupted me "Yes that was if you agreed to fight me." He walked over to Ed and squatted down next to him "I never said anything about letting him go" He said grabbing Ed's face. I stood there thinking Dammit why do people do this crap, what's in it for them? I said finally "Fine, but I have to warn you I'm tougher than I look" Naroh looked amused by my attempt to seem confident.

He drew his katana and said "Well then, let's begin!" He charged forward and swung his sword at me. I couldn't think of anything else to do accept try to block the attack which was probably useless. I lifted the spear horizontally and to my and Naroh's surprise the sword stopped cutting about half way thru the spear. "W-What? But that's impossible!" Naroh yelled. Now I was feeling more confident "I think you need to get that thing sharpened" I said then I kicked him missing is privet and hitting his stomach instead. He charged at me again swinging his sword aiming to slice my head off. I ducked and tripped him, a combo Ed had taught me. Naroh fell on the ground but got up quickly to my surprise. He began swinging at me repeatedly all shots that had barley missed me. He tripped me causing me to fall down on my butt, I was about to jump up when he pointed his sword at me.

"This is it girly, prepare to depart from this world just like your stupid mother did" That was something that he was going to regret for the rest of his life. I wasn't sure what I was doing now, I began looking for a place he my have left open for an attack. Then from the feeling of terror that I was going to die I swung my leg up and it hit Naroh right in the privet. That gave me a chance to get up but as soon as I did Naroh swung his sword up and then trying to dodge it I felt a shooting pain on my right side. I came down to the ground holding my wound when Ed shouted "Raven! Hang on! GRRRR! LET ME GO!!!" I didn't look up to see if he was struggling or not I could just hear it. "Hold still you stupid brat!" I heard one of the men yell.

"Lift your head up so I can see the fear on your face..." Naroh said. I did what he told me realizing that I now had tears in my eyes. He put the sword to my neck "This would have ended quickly if you had just held still" There was no way I was going to make it out of this one, I looked over to Ed who had stopped struggling to look at me with a very scared and sad look on his face. It pained me to see his face like that, I started to cry a bit more now. Man I can't believe this is how it'll end, I can't believe Edward is so sad about it. Well he is sensitive when it comes to things like this.

Naroh now brought the sword closer, to the point where the blade was touching my neck. Feeling the cold metal gave me chills, it was time for me to go and visit my mom I guessed. Just then I heard a click, like someone snapped their fingers really hard. Then I saw a red flash of light and yelling from all of the gang members. Could it be? Then Naroh began backing away I looked over and saw of coarse the Flame Alchemist himself, Roy Mustang. Roy smirked as he watched Naroh cower, then Ed ran over next to me.

"Are you alright? How bad is it?" He said lifting my arm to examine my cut. "Calm down Ed I'm fine" I said, I never expected someone besides my mom making such a fuss over me. I looked up at Roy who was now smiling at us in a very warm way, I said "Now as much as I'd hate to say this but it looks like we owe you one" Roy sort of giggled under his breath then looked over at Naroh with a very cold look. Naroh shaking said "P-Please, I know what I did is wrong! J-Just don't kill me!" Roy looked at Naroh in amusement he then said "Now what makes you think that I'm going to kill you. Your not worth it" Naroh then seemed a bit relieved then he was grabbed by two soldiers "You are under arrest" One of them said. "Yeah we've been tryin' to get you for the past two months" The other said. They took him away.

Roy then said "Fullmetal what are you still doing here?" Ed looked at him confused "Hmm? What do you mean?" Roy sighed and continued "Get this girl back home and clean up that cut" He looked sort of annoyed and said all of that to Ed in a 'What an Idiot' sort of way. Ed blushed, he looked at me and said "Oh! Right!" I couldn't help it I had to laugh. We went home to a lot of worried hugs and questions about what happened. Edward cleaned up my cut which was a lot smaller than I thought because of how much I bled. Another day that I nearly died, second time man if it weren't for Ed and Roy and all of the other new people in my life I would be dead. Yet again, this day has been quite weird.

To be continued...

End Chapter Three

since this chapter was so short (well to me it was) Here's a prologue for the next chapter.

PROLOGUE:

I had just finished telling Sakura what had happened with the gang leader Naroh and how Roy sort of saved our lives. Sakura was truly amazed by the way Roy had saved us. "Do you think I could do that?" she said enthusiastically. "Do what? That flame alchemy thing? Well I don't see why not, but if you wanted to learn anything about it you'd probably have to talk to Roy" I said. Sakura still excited said "Oh okay could you take me to central sometime?" I looked t her for a minute "Uh, sure but you'd have to go with Ed." Sakura stood up and said "Okay I'll go ask him!"

A couple of days later Ed took Sakura to central while I was across the street at the library. I thought it was rather cute that Sakura was so interested in that style of alchemy. I also began to wonder if she was developing a crush on Roy. Roy had given Sakura a pair of the gloves he used, now I wish he didn't. I was writing when I heard Al frantically yelling "FIRE!!!!FIRE! EVERYONE OUT!!!"

End Prologue