Chapter 4!

Kye could feel the bright sun's rays beating down on her. She looked around and saw not only Lloyd, but other people too. Kye was tied with rope around her torso and wrists as she sat on the sandy ground near a bunch of ruble that looked like it used to be a building. She stomped her feet. "Hey! Why am I here? Untie me right now or else!" Lloyd stopped chatting with the other people there and turned to face Kye. He crouched down in front of her. "Or else what? I don't think you'll be trying anything here. You see them?" He pointed to a group of people behind him; they were all dressed in black. "They're homunculi. You know what that is don't you? I mean you of all people should know."

She shouted, "Shut up! Don't ever talk about that ever!" She shut her eyes tight; she didn't want to see his face. How could he be so cold? He knew those words were taboo around her.

The night she lost sight in her right eye. 'How could I have been so stupid?' Kye thought back to the night. She was only ten years old and she was fed up with her parents always leaving.

And of all things her bird just died too. She was so tired of everyone leaving her; she feared that if her bird died, then Lloyd would be the next one to leave. So she did what no alchemist should ever do. Thirteen year old Lloyd burst into the dark room where he found Kye holding her eyes tightly as she lay on the concrete floor of their basement. "Kye!" He ran over to her and helped her sit up. "What happened?" She didn't answer; she was in too much pain. Lloyd looked to his left where he saw a transmutation circle and Kye's dead bird in the center. After that she never wanted to do or even think of alchemy again.

She opened her eyes and saw Lloyd had gotten up and went back to talk with the homunculi. There were three of them. One was a tall woman with long, black, curly hair.

Another was very fat and bald; he clung to the woman's dress as he pointed at Kye. The woman shook her head. He looked hungry but it seemed that the woman wouldn't let him eat Kye.

The last one was a guy; he had fierce eyes and long hair.

Lloyd walked back over to Kye and crouched down in front of her again. "Kye, you can do alchemy, can't you?" "You know I won't use it!" Lloyd sighed. "So? I'm not asking whether you want to or not." Kye got angry. "What happened to you, Lloyd? Why are acting this way? You used to care about others and you were always so kind! What happened to the brother I loved?" Lloyd stood up. "He disappeared in the lab along with his humanity." Lloyd picked Kye up by her shirt collar. "You really expect me to be the same brother I was after what they did to me? You're so stupid." He dropped her and turned his back.

"We can use her for the stone." He said to the homunculi. "What are you talking about now?" wondered Kye. Lloyd didn't answer. "Yeah, once we get rid of the Ed, there'll be no stopping us!" cheered the long haired boy. "Now Wrath, don't get too excited first we need to negotiate with the girl." said the woman. She walked over to Kye. Kye shifted her feet not sure what the woman would do to her. "You obviously won't cooperate unless we make a deal; how about you help us and we'll spare the Elrics' life."

The Wrath homunculi grinned. Obviously they weren't going to keep their promise but Kye, being the clueless girl she is, agreed. "Fine, just…don't hurt anyone. But what do you mean when you say you'll use me for the stone?" Kye said nervously. Lloyd untied Kye and she stood up. "Do you remember the night we were taken to that laboratory after our parents never came back?" "Yes, I do." She replied.

"In that lab, they implanted small fragments of different stones, each one containing the lives of multiple people. You have enough lives in you to trigger the transmutation to create the stone." Kye froze. "B-but why would…they do that?" "Hey, don't ask me. I'm guessing they wanted a storage space for it and hiding the stones in a person would hide all clues from the military." replied Lloyd. "Why would they hide it from the military? It was the military who kidnapped us!" "You're right but we were taken to a secret laboratory hidden from the public's knowledge, so in short the military are the bad guys."

Kye thought, "You're right…but, it's not everyone. Not everyone is bad."

What is Kye thinking? Will she really help them create the stone? Find out next time!

(LOL! Hooray for cheesy television lines!)

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