Keepers 3

"Kesho what is it?" Al asked as he ran toward her. Her scream had woken everyone in the house.

"The kids! They're gone!"

"What?" Al gasped. He looked in the room and saw only Elicia, who was looking scared. Kesho ran down the stairs and went outside. She was yelling for her children. She heard a muffled sound around the corner of the house. She swiftly and queitly moved around the corner and saw Deric and Cassy tied and gagged.

"Oh, thank god! Deric where's Kiara?" Kesho asked as she untied the children.

"I don't know. In the middle of the night Kiara got out of bed and woke me up, which then made Cassy wake up. We followed Kiara outside, but before we could catch up to her we were grabbed from behind and were bound and gagged." Deric said.

"Where's big sissy?" Cassy asked.

"I want big sissy!" she cried.

"I know little one. Come on, let's go inside and get you two some hot cocco." Kesho said as she led the two back into the house.

"Where were they?" Winry asked. "Where's Kiara?"

"I don't know. They think she was kidnapped." Kesho said.

"Kesho, what do you mean 'kidnapped'?" Ed asked her.

"I mean that Kiara must have been taken last night." Kesho said. Her eyes widened and she let out a pained sigh.

"She must have a gift from the Gate. That would explain why she was the one to find Mark, the one who realized that someone was coming to the door of Roy's office, and why she was up last night."

"WHAT!!!!" Ed asked.

"You can't be sirious. I expected, if any of the kids would have a gift from the Gate it would be Cassy." Al said.

"Well, it wasn't Cassy who did all those things. And also I had a feeling something like this would happen." Kesho said. She sat down in a chair and held her head in her hands.

"I wish I could talk to the Gate." she said.

"Why?" Winry asked.

"Because it would know what's going on." Ed said. He was catching on to Kesho's train of thought. Kesho stood up and walked outside. Glacier took the kids into the kitchen for hot chocolate. Ed, Al, and Winry walked outside to find Kesho sitting on the steps in front of the house crying. Winry sat down next to her and patted her on the back.

"I wish I hadn't lost my wings when I asked the Gate what I did. I wish I had the ability to use KETAH. I would use it to find who did this and then kill them." Kesho said through her sobs.

Later that day they all went to Roy's office, only to find that Roy and Riza were not there. They did find Roy's little group of subordinates. The kids didn't run and glomp them as they would normally have done. This was noticed and would have been commented on but was not because of the looks on the faces of Kesho, Ed, Al, and Winry.

"Uncle Havoc. Where's Uncle Roy?" Cassy asked.

"He hasn't come in yet this morning my little butterfly." Havoc said. He always called her "my little butterfly".

"Hi, Uncle Kain, Uncle Heymans." Deric said as the two walked in. They were slitly surprised to see the Elric's there. They were just about to ask why they were in Central when Roy, Riza and Armstrong walked through the door.

"Hey, it's Uncle Army!" Deric pointed as he said this. Armstrong looked down and saw that Deric was pointing at him. He smiled at him and then he smiled at Cassy.

"I thought that you guys would've gone back home this morning. Why the glum faces?" Roy asked.

"Kiara was kidnapped this morning." Ed said.

"What?" the entire room, except for the Elrics, gasped.

"Maes has already gotten the investigation squad out looking for her." Winry said.

"Do you know why she was taken?" Armstrong asked. He didn't have any sparklies flying around his head this morning.

"Kesho thinks it's because of a gift from the Gate." Al said.

"What?" Roy said.

"Yeah." Kesho said. At that moment there was a knock on the door and Roy went and opened the door himself. There was Maes. He was soaking wet.

"Well, if you're wondering why I'm soaked, I fell off a bridge into a river and then when I was able to grab the bridge...I found this." He held up a piece of cloth that had come from a gray jumpsuit, and that gray jumpsuit belonged to Kiara. The piece of cloth that Maes had in his hand had the Flamel Cross on it. It was a little tradition for all the alchemists in the Elric family to wear it.

"Oh...my...god..." Winry said as she fainted.

SK: some what bleh ending but this is how i wanted to end the chapter. in the next chapter you will find out who kidnapped Kiara. So see you next chapter.

SK & Gang: Chao!!!