Hi guys! I realize I'm really bad at making chapters long, so my goal is to write 1,000 words in this chapter (not including author's notes) without rambling. Please don't kill me for not being the best at this. Thank you and I really appreciate all of the people who review and read this! I will try to make my chapters longer as I progress!
Winry's POV
I watch him fall, at first I see his eyes widen in shock, but gradually, they close, those beautiful golden orbs finally disappear and I was afraid that they'd stay that way forever. I don't even realize the situation until my eyes trail down to his muscular, toned chest, where his rumpled up tuxedo is stained with a color I'd seen too much- red. It doesn't click yet for me, not until it seeps through and shows itself. He's bleeding, Ed's bleeding.
"Ed! Ed! Are you ok? Damn it, say something! Please Ed, please." I find myself kneeling next to his lifeless limp body, searching for a pulse, his face almost almost completely drained of color. My vision's blurry, and I can't see his wound clearly.
"Ed, please. You can't do this to me. Not now, not ever."
I get no reply. I hear Riza in the background, saying something in that soothing voice of hers, the voice that can calm almost anything down. I snap my head back.
"What! What are you telling me to do? Ed's not waking up." I feel tears streaming down my face, I know I look like a mess with my make- up smudged and ruined, but I could care less about how I looked. All I could think of was Ed. Why did this have to happen to him? Hasn't he already gone through enough pain? I don't understand. He always said everything could be explained through science, and everything has a reason, but I will never understand it. I will never see a reason for killing. In reply, I see this stern face, almost trying to see through me.
"What! Why are you so calm?"
"Winry, he's alive. Ed's been through things much worse than this. This was a mere gunshot. I … I should know after killing so many the exact same way. He's going to be fine, that I'm sure of. I'm sure just fucking mad at the bastard who did this to him."
Wait, Riza's right, someone did this, I'm sure it's not an accident. This is a wedding, no one just randomly brings a gun in, especially not someone that's as skilled as this person. Their aim was pretty good to have hit so near the heart.
"Who the hell did this! Huh? Who?" I was desperately screaming at people who'd, in shock, forgotten how to respond. "Who?"
I felt another person violently shaking next to me, obviously in the state I was in, maybe even worse.
"Al, are you alright?" He nods, still shaking tremendously from the sight, but he'd stopped crying. It really was a sight to behold though, I'm sure. A handsome young man with tousled hair, covered in nothing but blood, and a traumatized girl in a blood- stained wedding dress. My eyes search the room, for any evidence, any type of proof that this was just one big mistake, that though it was a terrible tragedy, there wasn't anyone that was after Ed. Nobody after him, after us. I watch as people rush by me to take Ed to the hospital. One by one, they set him gently on the stretcher and out of the corner of my eye, I see his gold. His eyes were open and staring at me as if he were to tell me once again that everything was fine, but a second later, they were hidden from the outside world again.
Red. I see so much red. Caressing his face and my hands. Suddenly, I see a little Xingese girl, somewhere around the age 9 in the back of the building, looking satisfied and not a single trace of sadness was shown on her finely tanned face. She resembled Mei so much it was like she was her younger sister. I wonder if Al noticed that. But I know it's not Mei. Mei was in Xing, in her village. She was too far from here to know what was happening. No, this little girl is a stranger. I expect to find her scared, a hell lot more than me considering she's so young, but instead, I see her holding a gun in her lowered hand, one that you could see was still smoking at the tip ever so slightly if you saw it at the right angle. I was at the right angle.
What does this mean? Why, why would she have any reason to kill Ed? What did he ever do?
"Why! Why would you do this? Do you know what you did, do you even realize how easily you could've taken someone's life away? What did he do to you? You have some reason right? Ed says everything always has a reason." Nobody else knew what I was screaming at. She was hidden away from sight now, but I've seen her already, I know she's guilty. She smiled. A smile that would have been so cute and adorable and innocent to everyone else, but to me, it was as if she was evil in another form. (This is a hint as to who she is. Wink Wink.)
BANG! BANG BANG BANG!
Three more shots were fired and one by one, I see people falling, not nearly as hard as Ed, but the THUD confirmed their death or a terrible wound. I feel as if my whole world was shattering apart, like pieces of glass breaking on impact. And this all was caused by this one kid. I see Roy, Riza, along with some other military friends I don't recognize defending us, but I don't care. I don't care about anything anymore. Nothing will be the same anymore. My supposedly wonderful wedding day has become a full out massacre. I don't care. I don't.
I try to swipe a gun to end this horrific sight, but someone grabs my hand. It's the little girl.
"I hate you! Let go of me! You started this and you're smiling? People are dying… Ed's dying… don't you realize that?"
The kid pulls me harshly into a corner, one that isn't a canvas for the blood work of my friends and family… yet.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Miss. I'm just a Xingese girl who's come here to witness a terrible tragedy. One that might have occurred because of my accidental slip of a gun. Oops!"
Wow. She really put a lot of effort into making that one cute. She even added her own touch of sweetness and a smile.
I grit my teeth in annoyance.
"Who are you? Why did you hur-" That's as far as I got until I noticed something. Her hair… its changing… it's almost getting spikier as I'm looking at her. It kind of looks like… a palm tree I guess…
Alright! I think you guys know who this is! If you don't then, you'll have to read the next chapter to figure it out! Although I think I've made it pretty obvious already. Well, I don't want to make excuses, but I can say that I will update very soon. But I will so don't think I've given up on this! Thanks for all the read my sucky fics! Thanks!
