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The train had been going on course for about three hours and Willow looked like she was decaying from the inside out, due to boredom. She had tried everything, writing, reading, playing cards with Ed (he won every game so she quit), she even tried bugging the other passengers but she was still bored out of her mind.
"Who knew that trains were this boring…?" Willow asked slowly.
"That's right I forgot you have never been on a train before. Well they are boring…" Ed said sarcastically.
"Thank you for pointing that out captain obvious." Willow said as she leaned her head on the window. Then a scream rang through out the train and there was yelling from the next train car over.
"Did Mustang send us on another rotten train?" Ed asked.
"Oh god there's a dog on the lose." Someone yelled as they ran to our car.
"A dog…?" Ed slowly looked to Willow and she kept her eyes to the front of the train as her eye brow twitched.
"No way…"
"What?" Now Willow turned to sit again.
"Ed I think that dog is Cody…" Then Ed stared at her for a moment before bursting out into laughter.
"Willow he couldn't have gotten onto the train after it was moving, that's impossible."
"Ed remember when I told you that he was the worst dog ever?" He nodded.
"Well we used to think something's were impossible until the dog ate the walls, and the fireplace, and the plates… glass plates, and the daily paper, eventually he ate a whole room full of stuff and fully digested it with no problem. So nothing is impossible."
Willow stood up from her seat and walked down the isle, when Ed realized that she was planning to go to the other train car he tried to stop her but she was half way across. Then she slammed the train car door open and everyone in that car was running around or jumping over seats to get away from one big golden dog.
"Sit boy!" She yelled. Immediately the golden monster sat and from what it looked like to Ed he smiled.
"Come!" Cody slowly walked to Willow noticing that she was furious.
"Maim' we don't allow dog on the-"
"You think I don't know that?!" She yelled at the train attendant. The man stepped back a bit because she was so angry.
"This dog is mine and he will stay right next to me this whole ride, he knows exactly what will happen to him if he doesn't do just that." Cody barked and wagged his tail. This one dog would only listen to this one girl. The three of them plus Cody all went back to their own seats and began to do their own thing. Ed and Al were paying cards while Willow kept thinking about what the military people would be like. What's this Mustang guy gonna be like? Is he strong? Why dose Ed hate him? What the hell am I gonna do about Cody?! The last question had no answer. She couldn't just mail a dog back home, so maybe he would just stay with her. She was overwhelming herself with questions so she decided to sleep.
After a while of playing cards with Al, Ed began to get bored himself. But that was until the car door slammed open and a three men with guns stepped through the door holding their guns out.
"Alright everybody hands up!" On of them yelled. So all of the passengers did so, but Ed turned to look at Willow and she was still asleep. How did she sleep through that? The men started to raid peoples stuff and take all the valuables. One of them walked to the back where Ed, Al, Willow and Cody were. Cody growled at the man and that was when Willow woke up.
"What's wrong boy?" She asked as she sat up rubbing her eyes. Then she caught the mans attention. He pushed Ed to the side and grabbed Willow's arm.
"Lookie what I found here boys, A mighty fine girly!" The other men began to laugh as they grabbed more valuables. "You're gonna come with me pretty lady."
"But aint she kinda short?" One of the men asked. Willow's eye twitched and she slowly turned her head to the man that was holding her captive.
"Let go of my arm right now." Growled Willow.
"Sorry sweet stuff that's not gonna happen." Willow sighed.
"Okay then you asked for it." She swung her leg around and was able to kick him in the kisser.
"That was for touching me!" She yelled as she ran towards the man that had called her short." She jumped onto the back of a seat and jumped off in the meanwhile having her feet come down on the man's head. When she landed she was standing on his back.
"That was for calling me short!" She looked around the train car at all of the other men. "Do any of you want some of this or are you all gonna leave?" Most of the men dropped their stuff except for one. He was in the front and he was big. His muscles were huge, his head was huge, he was just huge. When Willow looked at him her eye twitched at his bigness and she backed away.
"Right okay so it looks like you don't wanna leave."
"Not with out my money I don't" he said in a deep voice.
"Uh how about I give you my lunch money and we call it even?" He just glared at her. He brought up his hand to show that it was mechanical, it looked like it was a gun and a hand in both. Then he pulled up his other hand to show another mechanical arm but this one just had a knife built into it.
"Uh can we talk this over?" But the man just grunted.
"Right looks like you don't wanna do that either." Then the man took a single step forward and Ed clapped his hands together and ran towards him. Within five seconds an all out auto mail battle broke out between the two of them. Willow turned around and ran to Al.
"Willow where did you learn how to so that?" asked Al.
"Oh right, well I have taken martial arts lessons ever sense I was six. Chris thought it would be a good way to let out some nervous energy." Al just smiled and nodded. "Aren't you worried about Ed, I mean this guy is huge."
"Ed can take care of himself, he's done this kind of thing before. Plus he has the greatest mechanic in the word." Willow nodded and whispered to herself, "I love you Winry, you rock".
Ed and the man were in an arm lock. Hand to hand and Ed was clearly winning. Then the man took his knife and tried to stab Ed in the side but Ed moved out of the way. To finish the match quickly, Ed clapped his hands and put them on the wall, causing the metal to move and wrap around the man. Ed jumped down from the seat he had been standing on and he punched the man in the face knocking him out.
Then Ed turned around and put thumbs up towards Al and Winry. After pushing the man under a seat that was empty Ed walked back to his seat and sat down with a sigh.
"Ed that was so cool!" Willow screeched. Ed raised an eyebrow.
"Willow have you ever seen alchemy before this?" She shook her head with a smile.
"But you were all like, Whoosh and then Boom and then he was all like Ahh no! Then you were all like BAM! And it was cool!" She said finishing her rampage of sound affects. Ed and Al just started to laugh at the look she was giving Ed. Her eyes were twinkling and she wore a huge grin.
"You're not a very normal girl are you?" Ed asked making it more of a statement.
"Nope! You wont find another girl like me on this whole entire planet!" She yelled enthusiastically. Then the train came to a solid stop and Ed realized that they had arrived at Central station.
"Were here!" Willow yelled as she jumped out of her seat and grabbed her bags. She was practically jumping up and down while waiting for Ed and Al to get their bags. Right when they stepped off the train they were met with the sight of at least twenty soldiers standing around the men that had tried to rob the train. Then a man with coal black hair and black eyes with a uniform walked out of the crowd and towards Ed, Al, Willow, and Cody.
"First of all Ed good work on getting these men. Looks like you haven't lost your touch. So where's your friend?" He asked.
"Mustang meet Willow, Willow meet Mustang." Willow walked to them man and started to walk around him. Roy raised an eyebrow and looked at Ed.
"What is she doing?"
"I think she's inspecting you…" Ed said as he eyed Willow strangely.
"Mr. Mustang?" She asked when she got to the front of his.
"Yes?" He asked not wanting to be rude to such a young little girl (To him she looked to be about twelve).
"Dude this uniform looks horrific!" She yelled. Ed cracked up with laughter and Al was soon to follow.
"Blue and yellow? Really? Come on! Ewe!" You see Willow would normally not act so girly but she wanted this guy to think she was girly, just for fun.
"Well Miss, this is the Military Uniform." Havoc said as he walked towards her.
"Willow why are you putting on that… façade"
"Well because I thought it would be funny, but you ruined it Ed." She stuck her tung out at him and turned to Havoc.
"Who might you be?"
"My name is Havoc…"
"Ah okay." He then puffed out some smoke from his cigarette and Willow held her nose. Then Lt. Hawkeye walked towards them being followed by Fuery, Breda and Falman.
"Willow this is Fuery, Breda, Falman and Hawkeye." Ed said pointing to each of them. Then out of the crowd walked Major Armstrong.
"Holly crap!" Willow said as she looked up at the man. Then Armstrong ripped off his shirt like always.
"Hello Young Maiden! I am Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist!" Willow's eye twitched and she rubbed her eyes.
"I know Ed said you were tall, but he didn't say this tall." She said in a whisper. Armstrong put out his hand for her to shake. When she did her hand felt like a speck of dust compared to his. Then as soon as he let go of her hand she ran behind Ed.
"They are all really, really, really weird… except for the girl. She's cool." Ed laughed and patted her hand that was latched to his shoulder for dear life.
"The girl's name is Lt. Hawkeye." Willow slowly nodded. Mustang took a step forward to talk to Ed but Willow took a step back bringing Ed with her.
"Willow can you latch on to Al for a minuet."
"Sure…" And just like that Willow was latched onto Al for dear life, and Al just sighed at how silly she was acting.
"So Ed you didn't tell me this friend was a girl.." Ed chuckled.
"You didn't tell him I was a girl?" Willow asked a little surprised.
"No…" Ed hesitated because he thought of the possibility of her getting angry.
"Sweetness…"
"Any way, Ed you need to head back to Central or you might start a commotion." Ed looked around and finally noticed that a lot of people were looking their way because of the scene that Willow was making.
"Right." Ed nodded.
Then Ed ran over to Willow and Al and tried to run the other direction to get to a car, but Willow walked the other way.
"Where are you going?" asked Ed.
"I got to get Cody." Willow ran behind a pillar and walked out with the golden dog right by her side.
"Uh Maim we don't allow dogs in the" Willow cut Fuery off.
"This here is not a dog sir."
"Then what is it…?"
"It is a thing, a very calm and obedient thing and he shall not be considered a dog. I got him from mars so that means that he is not a dog." And with that Willow walked back over to Ed leaving Fuery to think about what she had said.
The three of them got into a car and Willow made Cody sit on the floor. When they started driving Willow was immediately fascinated by the amount of people that lived in Central. They were all so different too, tall, short, loud, happy, angry the differences never stopped. There were shops and stores all over as well. Willow's face was practically glued to the window.
"God Willow calm down it's not like Central's going anywhere." Ed said through his chuckles.
"But this place is huge…" Willow said as she sat back in her seat. Ed chuckled and patted the top of her head. She glared at him and punched him in the arm making Al laugh.
Moments later the car came to a stop and when Willow stepped out she was amazed by the size of the Central building.
"This is nothing like Risenbool…" Ed smiled and grabbed Willow's hand to lead her through the quarters. They walked through large stone double doors that led to a large hall with stone walls and gray floors. To any normal person this place would seem depressing but to Willow it was fascinating. She especially took a liking to all of the paintings that hung on the walls. The place almost reminded Willow of her old dojo, the one place that she could escape and the place where she practiced the one thing that her sister couldn't do. It wasn't the way the building looked that seemed familiar, it was the wisdom and bravery that hung in the air like a blanket.
Back in the dojo that Willow would train in there was not a single adult that didn't have a sense of wisdom and power about them. Just being around a person like that makes you feel stronger.
In this air though you could also feel the sadness and tragedy that hung there, the deaths of loved ones and the loss of something valuable to you.
Willow walked with the Elric brothers through the dark gray halls and finally came to a large door. When Ed opened it they saw everyone that had been at the station in that office, and they were all working hard. All except for Mustang who was sitting with his feet up on his desk.
"Ah, hello Ed. Well we have your rooming figured out again. We even got an extra bed for your lady friend."
"Alright then do you want to tell us where it is?" Ed an Mustang had a three minuet stare down until Willow got bored and stole Mustang's pencil and threw it at Ed's head.
"Stop staring at the man and get directions." Ed rolled his eyes and looked back to Mustang with a smile.
"So?"
"Room 123, building 6." Roy was concise and to the point. Ed spun around and grabbed Willow's arm and dragged her out of the room. When they stepped out of the office Cody stood up and began to walk down the long halls with them. They stepped out of the main doors into the sun and headed towards their new room. Then a new thought occurred to Willow, What am I going to do when I can't go back to sleep?
What will she do? Who knows... but i do. And i can tell you that when you leave your room at night in Central HQ it's not a good idea. But don't worry it should be funny! :) Thank you for taking the time to read this chapter and so for all that is holy and good in this world ... PLEASE REVIEW! I BEG OF YOU! PLEASE!