Chapter 8
The next morning I get up because of some one knocking on the door. I sit up and whip sweat from my forehead.
"I'm up", I call.
"Ok, brother is down eating already", Al's voice comes through the door. Sighing I get up and walk over to the door, making sure I look all right at least with out a mirror, I open the door and follow Al downstairs, to the dinning hall. I get myself something to eat, and then half the day is spent going around fixing things. Ed being a bit out of character through out the whole time, but it made me laugh, it also helped that Al was acting strange too, waving around his arms holding two fans. Now we are sitting at a dinner, the table empty of anything, and we just talk.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm pretty sure every one in central knows my name, by now", Ed gloats, and looks so proud of himself.
"Well you where a little over the top", Al says and a black car pulls up by us. I look over and I narrow my eyes at who it is.
"When did you become so theatrical, Fullmetal"? Mustang asks after putting down his window.
"Coronal, shouldn't you still be in the hospital"? Ed asks as he gets up. I also get up and ball my hands into fists, controlling myself.
"Probably", Mustang answers. 'Just give me the chance, I'll send you their for months', I threaten in my mind at the man that killed one of my friends. Ed then walks over to the window that Mustang is sitting near, and leans in, "I've heard about Lieutenant Havoc, I'm sure Dr, Marcoh..", Mustang cuts him off.
"Hold on, people are watching us, get in", Mustang says. As much as I didn't want to, I ended up sitting with Ed in the front seat, since he is small enough to allow more then one person to sit their, and Al squishes Mustang in the back, 'Ha, couldn't punish you better'.
"On second thought lets get out", Mustang says being squished between Al and the other door. Then the Lieutenant drives us to an ally and we all get out their.
"Dc, Marcoh is missing"? Ed asks, after Mustang explained a few things.
"Looks like it, they probably toke him captive", Mustang answers. Ed just growls and Mustang adds in, "And theirs something else we need to talk about, I'm sure you've heard that Scar is back. So whats with the show boating, do you want him to find you"?
"Yeah that's exactly what I want, I need to fight him and you can't talk me out of it", Ed says.
"Have you lost your mind, did you forget the way he tore you apart in East City"? Mustang snaps.
"OO, sounds like the Coronal is scared of big bad Scar, not surprised considering how useless you where against him, hah aha", Ed says in a really funny voice.
"That wasn't my fault it was raining that day"! Mustang snaps back.
"Was it raining when you got beat up and sent to the hospital, oh ha, your still useless", Edward says wiggling around like a little worm to make fun of Mustang. I'm holding back a laugh.
"Shut your mouth Fullmetal"! Mustang snaps. Everything goes silent when the Coronal's right hand pulls out her gun and aims it down the ally behind us.
"I guess he got your invite", Mustang stats.
"You ok, you'd think its raining the way your forehead is dripping"? Ed asks sarcasticly. Then the woman was about to shoot him, but Ed gets in the way saying, "Hold it, don't shoot Lieutenant".
"What you can't be serious", she says back.
"I'm trying out the Coronal's sport, I think I might be able to catch a few fish", Ed says as the man known as Scar does some weird thing with his arm, and touches the ground and it comes our way, in the form of the earth.
"Oh my god", I gawk at him. Then Ed rushes out, and Al, goes in front of all three of us, then puts up a wall, to protect us.
"We are using Brother as bait to lure out the Homuculi, he's too important to them, they can't afford to just let him die", Al says.
"That's crazy", Mustang had to through out their.
"We're not going to let any one else get hurt. Using ourselves as bait was our only option", Al adds.
"What are you going to do if Scar happens to get shoot? The EMPS might get here before the Homuculi", Mustang asks.
"But you can stop that from happening, can't you Coronal"? Al asks.
"So now I take orders from you is that it, you've got a lot of nerve, you had better be planing on sharing what you catch", Mustang says. Then Al moves to aid his brother. I get up also and Mustang just watches me suspiciously as I go to help them, the three of us run side by side, and prior to this, I put the transmutation circle on both my hands, to do the same as Ed and Al, clapping them together to create some obstacles for Scar.
I watch my work with pride, its better then the construction that I usually do, so I'm happy with this. Scar just dodges them all by jumping into the air. Ed jumps out of the way as Scar is after him, and makes a catapult type thing to allow Al to use his attack, but Scar protects himself with his odd arm.
"Hey get out of the way, we need a clear shoot", a man says, catching Al's and mine attention.
"Don't shoot you'll hit my brother/Edward", Al and I both say, though I say Ed's name instead of brother. Now that would of been comical. Then I watch in astonishment at how fast Scar really is, Ed can hardly dodge him. The fight had been so intense that I freaked out when the two touched arm to auto mail, only for Al to get shocked by the out come.
"Oh my god", I say as I look at the arm with a tattoo.
"Could he be the one that.."? I ask myself in a whisper.
"Bastard, you where the one", Ed says staring at him. Scar takes off his sun glasses to get a better look at Ed. The fighting then continues, the use of alchemy has been used more often this round, and all I can really do is just stand back and watch, I haven't actually been in a life or death fight before, I know the spares with Lust, Gluttony and Envy could become intense, but I know they would never have hurt me to the point of death, at least that's what I believe.
I was about to go in to aid Ed, by using my lightning, but Al beat me to the bunch and helped his brother with the forming alchemy. I just stand their being useless, is this why they never brought me with them to the places that Father had asked them to go? I don't know, and I can't be sure.
"Nice one brother, appreciate it", Ed says his thump is up.
"We need to get out of here now", Al stats. I look over as I hear those two people with guns talking, then Al jumps into their view, and seeing what is coming next I clap my hands together and put them to the ground to form a wall to protect the men, as what appears to be Lightning, comes toward them, but knocks them unconscious as the force of that attack knocks over my week wall.
"Scar, you believe that alchemists have defied god. Isn't that hypocritical, you use alchemy just like we do", Al says.
"I explained it when we met in east city, its balance, where there are creators their must be a destroyer", Scar says. My mouth drops open to his voice, I mean to me he is rather good looking and his voice being added it just makes him droll worthy. 'Ach, what are you thinking, stop it', I say in my head but can still hear what Al had said.
"That's a lie, your using the name of your god to justify murder, revenge is all you care about, when you killed Shou Tocker and Nina, I suppose you where doing gods work then too", Al says. I know nothing of this Shou person and Nina, I'm at a complete blank here.
"Interesting, you too saw that abomination as well did you? Alchemy created that tragic creature, so that's the science you would spend your lives following"? Scar asks, I look at both Ed and Al, and they look shocked, or is it horrified, I'm not so sure.
"That chimaera was made because that man thought he could create, when creation is the Provence of God alone.
"Maybe your right, but why did you have to kill her? You stole what little life she had left"! Ed snaps at him.
"Foolish as you really are, you must still have known that chimaera could never of returned to her human stat, it would of lived out its life as a laboratory specimen, treated as a test subject, but never again as a human being", Scar says. I watch Ed and Al, and see that they are both shaking and I believe its out of sadness. I don't know what it is that they are talking about, but for some reason I'm angered by what Scar says.
"Its true, stat alchemists have made some serious mistakes, but despite what you think that doesn't make what your doing right. We can't let you continue", Ed says, Scar lets out what seemed to be a low growling sound and narrows his eyes.
"Your so self righteous, but do you remember two Amestrian doctors named Rockbell? The order came down to end the uprising and to exterminate Ishbal, but that didn't stop them, they kept right on helping your people", Ed says. I look over just as Al did and he says, "Wait brother".
"Don't you remember them, those doctors saved your life, and you killed them", Ed finishes.
"Brother", Al says and points toward Winry who had showed up. Ed looks over and appears shocked as she is their.
"What are you talking about Ed"? Winry asks.
"Winry, I a...", Ed says not sure what to say.
"You mean hes the man who killed them"? She asks. I ball my hands into tight fists and look to the ground, I don't know what I would do if I came face to face with my loved ones killers, at least I didn't. Every time I see Mustang I want to beat him till an inch of his life, let him recover and do it all over again, because killing isn't going to solve anything, but I would feel really great if I could just beat the crap right out of the man.
"My parents? He killed them"? Winry asks and stats at the same time, "Whats worse they helped save you, and you killed them". Then Winry falls to the ground.
"Why did you? They where my mom and dad, what did they ever do to you? They where doctors, they helped people, they didn't deserve to die", she says then puts her hands on her head and starts shaking, "Give them back, give me back my mom and dad you monster". As she says those words tears come to her eyes once more.
Then she reaches for the gun that is sitting right beside her, "Winry hold on", Ed says.
"You can't, don't do this", Ed adds.
"Winry", Al says. I keep quiet, because I would want to do the same thing at one point in my life.
"Don't do it"! Ed snaps trying to talk her out of it. Her hand hovers on the gun, then she touches it. She then lifts it off the ground and points it to Scar, tears flowing out of her eyes, shaking up a storm.
"This girl is the doctors daughter, you have the right, shooting me would be justified", Scar says as he clutches his fist tighter.
"Go on shoot", Scar says.
"Don't do it Winry, please put down the gun", Ed pleads.
"We know you don't want to do this, Winry", Al adds. I stand their frozen to the spot unable to say anything.
"Shoot girl, but know the moment you pull the trigger, theirs no turning back, you will be my enemy", Scar says.
"Scar"! Al yells.
"You think I'll let you hurt one hair on her head"! Ed yells.
"Will you kill me? That will be fine with me, until one of us dies boy this chain of hatred will continue. But don't ever forget, don't ever forget it, that it was the Amestians that first pulled the trigger during the civil war, it was your people"! Scar yells turning toward Ed.
"Winry don't shoot", Ed says, as he can hear her struggling.
"Just put the gun down and get out of here", Al pleads.
"Y-your wrong", I say not being able to handle this anymore, I know who it was that started that war, I know the very person that started all this.
"None of this was Amestian's fault"! I scream.
"What do you know girl"? Scar asks, looking at me.
"More then you know", I shakily reply.
"Lisa, what are you talking about"? Ed asks. After that I stay silent as silent tears leave my eyes. We all stand their in silence, then Scar turns toward Winry.
"If you can't shoot, then do as the boy told you. Your in my way"! Scar says then puts his hand to the ground to attack Ed. Ed jumps up and uses Scar to get around him and lands on his ass in front of Winry, his arms out. Scar stops his hand before it hits Ed. Scar looks surprised, and at conflict with himself. Then Al takes this to his advantage and attacks Scar with his kicks and arm swings, bunches. Every hit, Scar dodges, then Al claps his hands together and uses the earth, but Scar jumps up onto one of the items forming and jumps away.
Then he makes a hole in the wall.
"Ed you idiot, what are you doing"? Al asks as he looks over at Ed, "Both of you will get killed, hurry and get Winry some where safe". At that Al makes a run for Scar.
"I'm following him", I reply and rush after the large armoured man. The moment we catch up to him, Al makes the first move, which he dodges rather quickly, but Scar's eyes are set on me, me, why? I freak out, and the only thing I end up doing is tripping and falling on my back, just as his hand would of grabbed my face.
Scar looks down at me with annoyance on his face, and goes to grab my face again, and seeing my legs in the right, spot, I bring one up, then kick him as hard as I can, just missing the place where the sun don't shine, but I manage to get him away from me.
"I don't care anymore, you tried to kill me, then so be it"! I yell, as I clap my hands together and then an electrical substance comes from my arm.
"Lisa, don't"! I hear Al yell, but I'm too furious to care. Seeing his death coming, Scar brings his arm up and both his and mine collide, shockingly he did the same stunt that Ed did to him to me. I then jump back a few feet and get my lightning ready for more.
"That was close, your dangerous girl", Scar says as he gets up and looks around, only to jump out of the way, and Al, now attacking him.
"You stand back, let me handle this, we don't want him dead", Al says. Then I watch as Al dishes out all the moves, but Scar just dodges each and every one with ease. Now the two of them are on a water tower, I'm too far away to hear what they are saying, but I know they are talking because I can see Scar's lips moving. Before Scar could finish Al claps his hands and puts his hand to the water and tries to get Scar wet, but he jumps away just in time.
I rush over to where they both landed and keep my distance, I don't want to piss off Al.
"... I don't need pity from any one, least of all you. My brother used alchemy to save my life, to reject the form I have now would mean not only rejecting alchemy, but also turning my back on him. I believe in my brother and I believe in alchemy, I will not lose faith, I want to believe", Al says.
"Oh do you"? Scar asks then puts his hand into the flowing water to make a fog surround the area, I hear foot steps, Al about to get hit, but then I hear Ed.
"Brother wheres Winry"? Al asks. I then rush to Al's other side and get into a fighting stance.
"She's safe", Ed says then whips away some blood, "No thanks to me though I made her cry again".
"You really should be more careful brother, she doesn't like to see you fight like that", Al says.
"Yeah but she's gone now. Lets end this", Ed says, and we all get into better fighting stances.
"I found you", Gluttony jumps on down. My eyes widen and I grin like a mad man, but then quickly toss it aside.
"You again"? Scar asks.
"Look at his tattoo", Al points out.
"A homunculus", Ed adds. Gluttony then charges at Scar his mouth wide open ready to take a chunk out of the man, but then Scar moves out of the way, and makes Gluttony fall to the ground. Scar uses his arm and places it on his back then uses his alchemy. I just look away saddened by this, I didn't want to watch. I hear the sound of him tossing something up, but I didn't want to see what.
After a while I look up just to see him smile at Scar, and then head butt him into the metal wall, then Gluttony tackles him and makes an even bigger indent in the metal work. Then out of no where, Ling shows up.
"Its Ling", Ed points out. He came from the sewers then he jumps onto Gluttony and shoves a grenade down his throat.
"Go, get away", Ling says then jumps off of my fat friend. I stair wide eyed at Gluttony as he stands their confused, and then I see his body move in an odd way, and then boom, he is nothing but legs. I let out a startled scream, as the tongue lands in front of Ed on the ground then turns into ash and disappears into the air.
'Poor Gluttony', I say. Then we watch Gluttony regenerate.
"Get me some strong cable", Ling says.
"Right, on it", Ed replies then quickly gets up and runs to the rail road, and uses the iron to make a cable from there. Ed then hands the cable over to Ling, and he wraps it around Gluttony as he reforms his body, but looking bigger.
"Your own regenerative abilities working against you. Erg, your flesh won't stop expanding, it'll keep you tided up nice and tight, your mine now, homunculus", Ling says as he tightens the knot even more. We all look at his handy work, but I can't help but feel sorry for my friend, I mean he don't deserve this, not one bit.
Then a woman with blond hair comes speeding into the area, shoots Scar's leg, and says, "Put him in, we're getting out of here. Ed and Al freak out about something and I just star at the woman. She looks like the Lieutenant, now I know why those two are freaking out, because now I'm freaking out.
"Hold on a sec, Lieutenant", Ed stops when the girl puts her finger to her lips shushing him.
"Wait whats going on"? Al asks.
"Al, the EMPS are watching, just pretend we don't know her", Ed stats. I turn around and gawk, lots of men with guns, I would so hate to be Scar right now.
"Their getting away, after them", a man calls from the group of men.
"The coronal maybe a creep and a jerk, but at least we can trust him, we have something to do", Ed says then rushes over to Scar.
'I will never trust Mustang', I think. Ed punches Scar, and Scar tries to attack back but I can tell that he is in too much pain to really focus. Then he ups his game, tries to attack Ed, but he jumps away. when Scar uses his hand and Ed dodges the ground attack.
"We have to get him Al", Ed says.
"You killed the Rockbell's and Nina, among many others", Ed says as he claps his hands.
"Your going to answer for your many crimes", just as Al had said the last word a young kid jump kicks him, knocking him over, then does the same to Ed, and was about to do the same to me, but I dodge her instead. Then she lands by Scar.
"Are these three giving you trouble servant"? The kid asks. I look at her oddly and tilt my head at the little panda looking creature mimicking her.
"This is the servant of the man who saved my life, you better leave him alone, you puny little boy", The girl says, and I can't help but watch the little panda mimicking her, its just too cute.
"Wait a sec, who are you calling puny"? Ed asks enraged.
"Where did that kid come from"? One of the many soldiers ask as they surround the two of them.
"Get away girl, its dangerous", another man says.
"They've got us out numbered", she says as she and Scar look around.
"Its time for us to retreat", she says as she pulls out many kunai then tosses them to the trains, and draws a circle with a star in the centre of it, puts five more down, then puts her hand on it. Then the two trains explode, creating a cloud of smoke blinding us.
"What kind of alchemy was that"? Ed asks after coughing.
"She did it that far away", Al stats.
"I can't see", Ed complains.
"SCAR"! He then yells. I shake my head at him, and sit down, waiting for it to clear up.
"Look what I found Ed", Al says as he holds that panda in his hands. Ed looks at it as though its an alien.
"We're a little busy right now Al, to be adopting panda bears Al"! Ed snaps.
"I couldn't leave her alone in the middle of all that mess back their", Al says.
"First stray cats and now this, just how many animals can you stuff in that armour huh? Get rid of it"! Ed snaps some more.
"What a heartless thing to say", Al says as he pulls his arms over to get the panda away from his brother, "Look how sweet and gentle she is", then the animal bites his finger.
"Its all right, your safe now", Al says to it. The thing seems to be freaking out about something.
"This way, follow me", a man says as we are walking through the halls of the Central building.
"Thanks", Ed stats.
"You can stay in here ok", Al says as he drops the panda into his armour. The man opens the door for us and we walk in, Winry looks up slowly then smiles.
"Hey Winry..", Ed stops himself as we enter and look over. Wrath is sitting at the table, sipping a coffee.
"Oh, hello there Fullmetal Alchemist", Wrath says casually.
"Fuhrer Bradly, this is a surprise", Ed stats.
"What brings you here"? Al asks. I just keep my mouth shut and try to hid behind Al, hoping that he don't know that I had almost given something away.
"I heard that a childhood friend of yours was under our protection here at the command centre. As a friend of such an important alchemist she deserves our every courtesy", Wrath says, "I should be on my way now", he finishes as he gets up and grabs his sword.
"If you please excuse me miss", Wrath says, as he bows some.
"Oh of course sir", Winry replies also getting up and gives a short bow in return. Then Wrath walks toward the door, out it, then stops.
"That's a nice honest friend you've got their, make sure you both take good care of her", he says. Then walks down the hall, Ed and Al walk out and watch him leave. I watch Winry walk over to them, then she says, "Ed", she waits till they look at her, "You promised, tell me everything about my parents, what happened to them"?
Then the story for what happened to them is told, Winry takes it in stride by the look of it, but I know deep down she wants to cry again. She had asked if it was selfish for her to wish they had come back alive, but to me, its not. I know what she feels like. The entire time they had talked, I stayed leaning against the wall, playing with the stone in my pocket.
Then we all get a drive back to the hotel, we walk in, and the guy behind the counter says, "Ah, perfect timing, Ms, Rockbell, there's a telephone call for you".
"For me"? She asks then runs over to get the phone. After that we then take her to the train station and say our goodbyes and what not. I stayed back while Ed and Al talked to her at the window of her seat. Then the two of them start walking. So I push off the wall, and walk over to them, looking back as Winry yells, "Come back Edward, what where you saying"?
"The next time I make you cry, I hope they will be tears of joy, and Al and I will be back in our normal bodies. And I'll make you cry out of sheer happiness, that's the promise"! Ed answers while pointing at her. She waves and laughs but looks happy, and being happy is a good thing. We make our way outside the station.
"Edward, you and Winry", I tease, and Al laughs.
"Oh knock it off, its not like that"! He snaps, but smiles afterwards anyway. I just watch him and Al talk, I think the whole time he was saying that to Winry I felt jealous, not to the fact that he likes her, but to the fact that I want some one to do the same for me. We walk out of the station to be met up with Mustang, pulling up, telling us to get into the car. We stopped to pick some one up.
Now at an abandoned shack out in the middle of no where. The doctor is working on Lon Fon, while we all sit out here listening to it. After a long few hours of waiting, we where able to go into the room, and she had said that she needs a replacement for an arm, all this all that.
After a while I just left the room and sat out where Ling is, and glared daggers at Mustang when he showed himself once more in my presence. Then talking about Gluttony being a homunculus, and then about the military. Then they all learn from Ling that their leader may be one as well. I grin cause out of all their arguing the doc had mentioned Roy's name and it got Gluttony all ready to attack him. I walk over and watch as Gluttony gets bigger, and stands up, screaming the destruction of Mustang type thing, and I gasp as I see his stomach open up and an eye shows up.
Then the whole corner of that house just disappears in a strong gust of wind...
Well that's where I'm leaving it, sorry for the Cliffy, but this is the 7th page and I don't like to go any father then that... Guess who comes into the next chapter :D.
