p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Even though the pain was making my whole body twitch and overheat, I couldn't stop staring at my eye. How could I have gone so long without this type of knowledge? This makes me realize how my outbursts have gotten more common and stronger. But maybe since I'm aware of this, I can teach myself to control it. Maybe even use it on my own will./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" I picked up my eye patch and used alchemy to fix it. After putting it back over my eye, I kneeled down next to Roy's unconscious body. His wound didn't look as serious as Havoc's. While Havoc's wound spliced a side of his spine, Roy had a flesh wound; nothing inside him was injured./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "Roy?" I pleaded. I knew he was still alive, but I didn't know how injured he was./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" The chip in my ear made me jump as static was coming in which then formed into Alex's voice. "emXena . . . get here . . . now!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"em "Alex?! What's wrong?! You're breaking-" /emIt was no use. I began to stand when I felt a hand grip my ankle. "Colonel?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "You use . . . fire magic, correct?" He spoke while breathing heavily with strain in his voice./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "Yes, why? You're not planning on—"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "—Burning my wound closed? Yes. Can you?" He's got to be out of his mind to ask me this. The pain will knock him out again. But I can't refuse. I can't even leave him here. Who knows what other trouble he could get into./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" I kneeled down again, and lifted up his shirt. His whole torso was covered in blood. To use my magic, I used my metal hand to gently close both sides of his wound, and placed my other hand over it. And to his disgrace, I had to use the most powerful fire spell I knew to actually burn flesh: "Firaga!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" ALEX P.O.V/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" We found our way to the farthest room in the building which housed a giant transmutation symbol to give Barry's body life. But to our dismay, Lust followed us here. "Number 66," she began. "Your body worked as bait to lure you here. Why did you cooperate with the Colonel?!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "You know how I am. I never intended to live and work for you in the shadow."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "You are impossible. You too, iron boy. You are such a rascal. I can't believe you brought yourself you. Having to kill two candidates for human sacrifice in a single night is just too much of a loss for us."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "Two?" I accidentally muttered. "You left my sister alive?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "I had no choice. If I killed her, my alliance would end and that would lead no one anywhere. But I'm sure you're not even aware of what she is . . . and you never will!" Her spears stretched towards us and Alphonse jumped in front of my and Riza who was in tears. As her spears retreaded, they came back, but stopped 20 feet from my face. I looked at the doorway of the room to see Xena, using magic MY way to use Gravity, while helping the Colonel to stand./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" XENA P.O.V/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" Seeing Lust's spears nearly piercing my sister struck something in me cause I was able to use magic like her. I used Gravity to stop her spears, but it was gonna let go soon. I was new to this, so I wasn't able to use it to it's entirety. I probably had about 2 minutes. "Roy," I whispered. "Anytime, now . . ." He was able to gain what little stamina he could by using my right shoulder to hold himself up. And he did what he does best: he burned that bitch as many times it took to burn her to the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" Roy burned her 8 times until she turned into disintegrating ash. Her heart was a Philosopher's Stone that broke along with her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" The Colonel fell and I was able to catch him. He was still weak and needed a doctor. Hawkeye came to his aid, while Alex came up and slugged me in my fleshy shoulder. "You scare me like that again!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;" "That's cute that you were worried. It means your heart will live long." A tear fell down her cheek and she wrapped her arms around me. It sucks to know that this has become our life. Nothing but danger and the thought of death haunting your every move. My sister is my everything. She's the only family I got, and I'm the only family she's got. I love her to death, and if anything were to happen to her . . . the devil will be unleashed./p