Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or any of their characters (any of the others are mine)

A/N: Sorry for the wait, I was having difficulties, but again, thanks to my dear co-writer whom I love dearly for helping me, I got through it. XD Oh, and next chapter will be Aftermath, sorry, but it's gonna be pretty long hopefully.

Ok, on with the story...

"DAMN IT!" Edward screamed, absolutely furious.

He had found the hole and quickly repaired the damage taken to it, but once he had arrived back on the top deck to save Winry, a blur of black and blonde rushed past him and swiftly landed on the neighboring ship. He was taken aback for a second as he looked to see what had passed him. He grew even more frustrated and pissed off as he realized Winry was hanging on someone's shoulder, bound by ropes, her mouth covered by cloth. She was frightened.

Ed's eyes took on a look that even rabid beast would run away from as he noticed who the one carrying her was.

Ed thought back to the first time he had met the humunculus holding his servant, and probably only friend.

"The name's Greed. I want everything this world can offer. Money, power, women." the awful being had said with a voice of pure evil.

Ed found the nearest rope that was there specifically for boarding other ships in attacks. He made sure his grip was tight, stepped back, and sprinted to the edge of the ship, jumping before he reached the rail. He soared over the water below, and landed safely on the other ship, never stopping as he raced towards Greed.

"Greed, let the girl go," the human captain growled at the man with venom in his voice.

The humunculus grinned at the boy's reaction, "Well, well, I see I've found a weakness in you with this girl here. She is beautiful, but she's more of my type, don't you think?"

Ed growled, not knowing where this level of of hatred to this humunculus was coming from, he had never hated someone more than he hated the man in front of him now. 'It can't be because of Winry, can it? No, she was only a friend.' He tried to convince himself, but he couldn't help but feel a longing for her to be safe with him by her side. 'Where did that come from?!'

He had to push his thoughts to the side as he saw Greed lay the tied up girl on the deck by his feet. She started to squirm and scream trough her gagged mouth, trying to tell him to run. Ed caught what the girl was begging him to do through the look on her eyes, but he couldn't just leave her here. She wasn't safe if he left.

The teenager lunged his sword towards his opponent, striking his neck, but not before his skin covering the man's neck turned a dark grey, becoming an ultimate jumped back to his original position looking at the new man in front of him.

"Like what you see FullMetal? This is my ultimate shield nothing can penetrate it." Greed's eyes gleamed at his statement.

Ed kept silent, putting a plan in place for his attack. There had to be a way to defeat this guy, if not he wouldn't be just a mere member of the ship. As Greed continued to gloat, Ed gave a quick glance in Winry's direction; he had to get her out of here. He entered his fighting stance once again and concentration glazed over his eyes. Greed caught this action.

"Well then come at me."

That was all Ed needed to bound at his opponent striking the soft spots first the shoulder and then the ribs, but his sword would just make small sparks and bounce off. Ed landed behind Greed and Greed gave a look of disappointment.

"Is that all you got, captain?"

Ed scrunched his eyebrows, this is ridiculous, first Envy's swiftness, then Wrath's regeneration, and now this? If he couldn't defeat him he had to at least distract him long enough for Winry to undo her restraints and get out of here. With that thought Ed brought his hands together making a storm of lightning appear under Greed's feet, breaking the wood and making the two men fall through.

The dust had clouded Ed's vision; he would have to be alert. A sound came from behind him as he turned around just in time to block Greed's blow. They were stuck in a duel off sword pushing against sword and Ed was slowly loosing strength due to his still injured side so he drug his sword along Greed's until finally it reached the end, where Ed immediately slashed his sword towards his opponents head. Greed quickly blocked and jumped back into the dust cloud laughing.

Ed scanned his surroundings desperately looking for a clue as to where Greed was hiding, finding none and becoming frustrated he clapped his hands together making the walls spike out all around the room. Ed's planned worked as Greed had jumped out from the shadows and ran up the steps back to the surface.

"Damn it!" Ed exclaimed as he ran after him.

Ed opened the door and the sun shined on his face as his eyes adjusted to the light he saw a pair of claws in his face. The young boy clenched his teeth together and once again used alchemy to make the wood from the door next to him to spike out at Greed. Greed dodged the attack giving Ed an opening to move out of Greed's clutches.

"You aren't so bad kid."

Ed furrowed his eyebrows refusing be distracted. Greed lunged at FullMetal bringing his claws down hard on the boy's sword until he heard a crack.

Ed's eyes grew wide. What was he going to do now? He couldn't beat him with his sword and alchemy combined; there was no chance for him to go bare knuckles. He had to come up with a plan, he let his mind race as Greed came at him again and again, but Ed was able to dodge the attacks.

Ed was backed up into a barrel of an unknown liquid, it wouldn't be much of an attack but it would at least give him a fraction of a second to clear his head for a plan. With that the lifted the heavy barrel and threw it straight into Greed, the barrel broke spilling the liquid.

'Gasoline' Ed realized, he took a quick look towards the sky and eyes lit up. That was it! He looked back toward Greed with a smirk on his face, this enraged Greed and his attacks came quicker and more forceful. Until Ed was finally backed up to the bow of the ship where Ed quickly jumped up onto a board, and Greed swung at the wood holding Ed's weight, the wood shattered but not before Ed had jumped up to another board. Ed kept bounding upwards in this fashion until he finally made it to the lookout post.

He only took one second to look down to Greed's position on deck and the sail in front of him before lunging toward the cloth. He used just a bit of alchemy to burn a hole into the fabric as he fell back to the surface of the ship with the cloth wrapped tightly around his wrists.

As he reached Greed he kicked out his feet into Greed's chest causing him to loose balance, but before he could hit the ground Ed had already wrapped the cloth around the man from head to toe. As the man struggled to get free of the small trap Ed ran back to the puddle of gasoline, clapping his hands together and falling to the floor. Immediately the ship caught fire, the wooden boards on the floor were already starting to give way.

Ed looked back up at Greed who was close to freeing himself, the fire wouldn't reach his opponent in time he would have to quick start it. Ed looked around for something to use, as he did not want to get too close to Greed risking him getting burned as well. His eyes landed on his broken sword and suddenly remembered that when he would strike the ultimate shield it would cause sparks. Ed's eyes lit up and he bounded for the weapon, bringing it up to his face he ran is hand across the broken blade, sparks of lightening shot out as his new blade was shaped.

Ed glanced back at Greed who was now poking his head out of the cloth just seconds away from ruining Ed's perfectly thought out plan. Not wanting to waste anymore precious time, Ed quickly disposed of the knife and lunged toward Greed, striking him across the chest. He saw the sparks; then the blaze.

At this moment, railings on the ship were breaking and crashing to the deck; wood bursting, blowing chunks of wood in all directions. The ship was going to sink.

'Winry'

Ed took off to the place where he left her; he slashed at the rope binding her ankles and wrists. He then took the cloth out of her mouth, but before anything could be said the fire on the ship had finally found the stash of gun powder and exploded.

Thankfully, they were near the edge of the ship when the entire thing blew. Ed could feel excruciating pain begin in the base of his right arm, creeping throughout his body. Time seemed to pass in slow-motion as the teenagers fell from the ship. He blacked out moments before the two plunged into the icy black ocean.

Winry felt the unconscious boy weighing her down deeper and deeper in the dark depths of the freezing cold water.

She had to save this boy the same way he had saved her. He used his body risked his life to protect her from her kidnapper. She kicked her legs trying desperately to get to the surface, but her efforts were in vain, Ed was weighing her down.

Winry could feel her body become numb from the cold and needles were starting to prick at her lungs, taking her breath away. Her arms went limp and her eyes became shallow. There was no hope this was the end. Winry felt Ed slip from her grip and with one last ounce of strength that the girl possessed she reached out and grabbed hold of her captain's coat and shoved her feet as hard as she could towards the surface. The sun on the water shined brighter, signaling that she had indeed pushed them further upwards, this gave the girl hope as she continued kicking until finally she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her torso and lifted her out of the black abyss.

Winry was placed on the deck and immediately she started to cough up the oceans salty water. Ed laid next to her, flat on his back, exposing the wound to his right arm for the first time to Winry. Her blue eyes widening in fear, she crawled his left side, so as not to cause him more pain as he was already in. She could feel the tears and exhaustion creep into her, threatening to overpower the poor girl. She held on as long as she could, until she finally let a single drop of water escape her eyes before allowing unconsciousness to take it's next victim. "Ed...ward..."

A/N: Chapter 4: Aftermath