"Th-that means…"Edward realized something important as his face turned pale. Suddenly he ran to the window, with a panicking motion, he tried to unlatch the lock. But as soon as he undid the lock, a leg kicked him in the face and sent him flying right back in. I looked back at the window to see Miss. Ferocity climbing through yelling at Ed about how she knew his every movement and what he would do next… creepy.
-"T-Teacher what are you doing here?" Ed was bewildered, as was Winry, which like me; didn't know who this lady was. She starred at the lady then back at Edward and paused.
-"You mean she's your teacher?" Her shock was easily seen.
-"Yeah, she's our old alchemy teacher." Miss. Aggressiveness winced at the word old; she glared at Ed real quick and looked around.
-"Where's Al?!" She yelled with spit flying out of her mouth. Yeah, real attractive.
The moment Alphonse heard his name being called out; he straightened and stood up as if he was in the military. She looked at him and her expression softened, but it wasn't as weird as her apologizing to him for following him… us, I correct. The lady kept ignoring me, which in a way was fine but she could've apologized to me too.
-"Do you know where Alphonse is?" Miss. Ferocity asked the metal armor, 'no wonder she was being so polite' I thought as I snickered quietly.
-"Uh, well, you see… I'm Alphonse." Alphonse was now grabbing his head in a nervous manner.
-"Is that so? My, my…. –" The lady paused for a moment and in that split second you could see Al's armor sweating as he slowly backed away. Abruptly teacher lady grabbed Al's metal arm and knocked him to the ground, right by my feet. –"Why were you hiding yourself in that costume?!" She yelled, then stepped back for a moment and put her hands to her hips.
-"I hear stories from you quite often, my moronic students. How you lowered to be military dogs!" She began rambling on and on how much she was disappointed in them. I glanced at Edward who was cowardly hiding behind Winry, his teeth chattering with fear. How bad could this lady be? I mean I can kick Ed too and send him flying. I stood there hearing her pestering, Edward's teeth chattering and Al's creaking armor. My ears had, had enough of this insufferable noise. I raised my hand while I looked at the ground so teacher lady wouldn't see my annoyed face, with my other hand on my hip. After a few moments she noticed my hand.
-"…Yes?" Miss. Teacher still seemed ticked off. I sighed before responding.
-"Lady why are you here?" I asked bluntly.
-"Why does that matter to you?" She sounded rather bitter.
-"Because your waisting my time." I fixed my eyes on teacher to show how I was not scared of her, I heard Ed exhale deeply like I had just signed my death sentence. Teacher stared at me for moment before responding.
-"You seem familiar… "
-"That doesn't respond my question. And as you said I don't matter, so please tell me what you plan to do with the Elric brothers?" I lifted my right eyebrow when she clutched her fists in response, quickly her husband grabbed her hand to calm her down.
-"We are taking them to Dublith–" She glared at the Elric brothers –"Whether they want to or not." And in a blink of an eye the Elric brothers had been tied up in separate ropes having the fat guy carry each one on his shoulders. The boys complained and yelled but miss teacher muffled their mouths and walked out the door. I glanced over at Winry and we both followed without a fuss.
-"Really guys, you had to get kidnapped?" I complained as we rode the train to Dublith, both brothers were sitting quietly in their seats, still tied up, mumbling to themselves.
-"Well you guys could've helped!" Edward shot daggers at me with his eyes.
-"Eh. I don't like to mess with the student-teacher relationship. Plus she's your teacher, she might know something about the philosopher stone." The three of them looked at me like I was a genius. I sighed and saw a train attendant lady pass by, so I called out for her. When she came I asked if they had payphones in the train, she signaled me to the last cart of the train. I took a glimpse at the couple who had kidnapped the Elric brothers before walking to the back. Once I got to the phones I used the last unoccupied payphone, and called Riza's number.
-"Lt. Riza Hawkeye, How may I be of service?" A voice was heard through the phone.
-"Hey Riza! It's Meg; I'm just calling to check in like Roy told me to. We're almost at Dublith."
-"Good thing you called, our office has been moved to Central. My number is going to be the same but next time you call I'm going to have to give you the new office number and the room we are in." Riza explained.
-"Sounds good! Is the whole crew coming?" I asked cheerfully.
-"Of course it is Meg, Roy made sure of that." Riza sounded a bit happy, in her own way. Suddenly I heard someone's footsteps in the background.
-"Who you talking to Lt. Hawkeye?" A male voice asked, soon I could hear Riza struggling to not have the phone taken away from her hand. Once the noises had stopped I waited to see who had won over the phone.
-"Why hello there Meg! Long time no talk, I bet you miss my melodic voice." Roy flirted.
-"Yeah long time, haven't talked to you since yesterday. Hey Roy, I wanted to talk to Riza and well, uh, she is currently unavailable- sooo I'm… ah, hanging up." I waited a second to hear Mustang's complaints and hung up the phone. When I sat back down in my seat, teacher lady was now ranting on how Edward would not be a good husband. I took a glance at Winry and Ed seeing them both blushing like there was no tomorrow. I giggled and just sat there enjoying the show…. Until teacher had to ruin it with 'Alphonse you wouldn't be a great husband either. Better than Edward... but not the best.' I tried hard not to glare at her since it was getting out of hand in my mind, but it seemed like Al was fine with it. Like he was used to the torture, I guess teasing is a form of love in their student-teacher relationship.
The next few days went like so, when we got to teacher's house we all… they all, chitchatted about life. Then by the end of the evening that Teacher lady whose name now I know is Izumi Curtis, figured out that her students had performed human alchemy. She beat the crap out of them. But few seconds later she hugged them. So it was all ok, until, one morning I woke up and the Elric brothers went missing. They apparently were sent to the island they had trained on when they were little.
Well they lasted a day over there, and when they came back they had this strange kid with long black hair, barely any cloths, blue eyes and a weird, innocent, but creepy look on his face. Also he had a bad case of a farmers tan; legitly he had one leg whiter than the other and one arm also whiter than the other. Izumi instantly pampered the boy, which we all thought was weird but no one complained but Edward Elric. And well since Ed can't leave matters alone and always pulls Al into them, they decided to go eavesdrop on the kid that night. The result was the bed, in some way, fused with the boy. Seconds later Izumi came in yelling and overprotecting the boy from the 'menacing' Elric brothers. Of course it was the kid's fault for trying to become a chimera using badly taught alchemy. I mean I saw how the boy changed himself back, and that alchemy sucked.
The next morning before breakfast the kid was taking a shower, just then I heard him yell that he needed a towel. I transmuted one and handed it over; he didn't know a thing about drying up so I helped him. That's when I noticed the whiter limbs had scars on the edges and after the scars the skin would turn back to its normal, non-pale color. I tried looking closely at his right foot thinking I had seen an ouroboros tattoo. But he squirmed too much. Also the boy sort of looked like Izumi and her husband, Sig, mixed together. That moment I realized that little boy was their deceased son, which this made him a homunculi. Izumi actually succeeded to bring back her son! I knew this because I snooped into Izumi's things and found her diary a few days ago.
I would've kept the secret to myself if the kid wasn't such a creep. When I saw him play in the yard he thought it was funny to torture any animal he saw, and when I told him to stop he went crying to his "mom". Izumi did nothing, but later on I got the punishment of receiving a crappy lunch in return. I don't know why, but I became the child's babysitter. And today the others discussed on something important that evening.
-"Hahaha! The ant now is glued to the sidewalk!" The kid cried.
-"Shh! I can't eavesdrop properly with you screaming." I scowled at the boy, but he kept on torturing the ants and making chimeras out of them. Suddenly I heard the door open and Sig came out, he signaled me to go inside.
-"You don't remember Al? What you saw?" Edward asked. Alphonse looked confused so Ed explained what he had seen while he performed the human transmutation. Something about a gate and truth flowing into him.
-"Truth?" Izumi asked confused, Ed nodded. –"It was more like magic tricks, wasn't it." There was a pause after the comment and I decided to butt in.
-"It's really neither; it's just information we haven't yet discovered ourselves. And if you actually think about it, all that information wasn't really all that alchemy related." I suggested; teacher stared at me for a moment not understanding. Then Ed explained that I too, could transmutate without a circle. Izumi stood up and walked to the door.
-"I need to go check something. In the meantime I want you away from that boy, understood?" She slammed the door, bewildered the brothers left for their room. I instead followed Izumi and confronted her.
-"That's your son isn't it? The homunculi, I mean." The moment I said homunculi she shuddered in pain.
-"And you are to stay out of this house until I come back!" And with that both of us came to our wits end. She pushed me out of the house and warned me that if I decided to go in, Sig would throw me back out. I snickered while I thought of a plan to tell the Elric brothers the truth. Teacher grimaced at me for a moment and then disappeared in the darkness of the night. As soon as she left I made a little figurine out of water and dirt, which became clay afterwards. I touched its chest and he started glowing, life flowed into the tiny figure, I had made a little replica of Russell.
-"Go and tell Edward and Alphonse the truth, mini Russell." I ordered, the cute figurine nodded and started climbing the brick wall of the right side of the house. Slouching on a nearby tree, I sighed out loud. Giving a doll a small amount of my soul didn't make me as tired as making a whole clone, but it still wearied me out. Without knowing it I passed out for a while, but later on was awakened by the sound of shattering glass. Startled from the noise, I jumped up and observed the little homunculi boy run away. Instinctively I ran after him, and soon afterwards Ed was by my side chasing the little runt. We both ignored our names being called and yelled, trying to concentrate on the pursuit. I then noticed the sun was rising.
-"So how did little Russell convey the news?" I asked.
-"He had to repeat himself since we didn't believe him. Both Al and I went to see the proof ourselves, that's when everything got out of hand." Edward sounded out of breath as he got me up to speed on things.
As we ran, both of us tried to soothe the kid's fears, but nothing worked. As we kept running I caught a whiff of a lizard smelling creature that always kept the same distance from us, no matter how much we ran. The lizard-man-thing was stalking us; nonetheless it didn't feel like it would be a threat so I paid attention to the matters at hand. Suddenly the runt paused at a wall and went through it.
-"He merged with it!" Ed said in complete amazement. He clapped his hands and tried to make a door out of the wall, but nothing happened. I was about to give it a try when we heard someone behind us start to describe Ed, and his obsession with the philosopher stone. Edward turned around and confronted the man in rags that had been talking. They continued discussing until Ed decided to kick his face, which made him stagger backwards and his cloak fall off. Unexpectedly the man-lizard-hybrid looked literally like a salamander with a human face, he wore grey rags and a lizard tail was visibly seen in the sunlight.
-"I'm just proposing to take you somewhere safe! You and your freak of a brother." The chimera offered, suddenly Al out of nowhere picked him up, asking to repeat the last bit about Ed's brother. Instead of being afraid, the chimera lizard knocked Al's head off.
-"Tucker was right! You're hollow inside." He giggled in delight. Both brothers exclaimed at the name Tucker, that's when salamander saw his moment to escape and yelled back at us.
-"Don't get so offended at what people say to you!" In response to the comment Edward made a wall out of alchemy to stop him from scurrying away. Salamander chuckled and looked back.
-"Amazing! That's quite amazing! But-"He started climbing up the wall like a normal lizard would. –"I'm amazing too." He grinned like a little kid.
-"Wait! Who sent you?!" I yelled but it was too late, he had jumped off the ledge. I sighed in disappointment, and glance at Ed who had his jaw open.
-"W-What was that thing?" He mumbled under his breath, as he said that I heard two men running towards us. I shuddered having an idea I wouldn't like one of them.
-"A chimera? Don't tell me he escaped from the 5th laboratory." I heard a man say in a monotone manner. We all turned around to find Armstrong and a pale man with dark hair that was brushed back, blue cold eyes, barely any eyebrows and shoulder length to Major Armstrong standing there.
-"Oh major! It's been a while" Al exclaimed in glee. The major nodded in response and looked at the man next to him.
-"Mhmm, this is Lt. Col. Archer. He is in charge of the court-martial office." Armstrong explained.
-"Hey Ed that means he is in the same office as Hughes! How's the colonel holding up?" Al asked quite excitedly. Both Armstrong and I winced at the question; pain started flowing into my thoughts. I waited for Archer to bear the news but instead he brushed it aside.
-"I would like to ask you about the chimeras, as well as many other things." Archer asked with a smile on his face to look polite. Edward turned around and said he didn't have time for that, he then made a hole through the wall and told us to follow him. The brothers started running but I hesitated and observed the Lt. Colonel. Glaring at him I sprinted to catch up with Ed and Alphonse.
-"This is turning to be quite interesting… A perfect chimera, huh? I want him." I heard Col. Archer devise. I would have to keep an eye on him; he seemed to have too many secrets.
When we passed a metal house I caught the scent of the homunculi runt and told the Elric brothers to follow me up the roof. When we got there, the idiot had started rolling down the roof and would've almost fallen if Ed hadn't caught him just in time.
All the boy could say was "huh?' in his defense.
-"Huh doesn't even begin to cover it." Edward mocked. After that, we all sat on the edge of the roof, just collecting our thoughts and enjoying the breeze. The little homunculi decided to ask why his arms were different from ours after a while of inspecting them himself.
-"Because this arm and leg aren't really existent." Ed explained as he pointed to his artificial limbs.
-"Where are they, Ed?" he asked innocently, somehow when he did that, my heart would soften for him.
-"I lost them…" Ed looked at Alphonse and both of them separated from the group to discuss about the child's limbs. I scooted over and played patty cake with him.
-"Sorry if I was mean." I mumbled, apologizing for being a tyrant to the boy. He wiggled his nose and smiled at me sweetly saying that he didn't care, because I was fun, also I was kind of like sister. "Ouch! Even though I was such a witch he is really fond of me. Hah! I guess I have that effect on kids' I thought feeling somewhat worse but cocky at the same time. I caught the scent of Lt. Col. Archer nearby and scooted even closer to the boy as I tried to look for his hiding place.
-"Say, have I done something wrong?"The homunculi boy asked inoffensively, looking back at the Elric brothers. They both paused for a moment not knowing what to say.
-"Brother!" Al exclaimed abruptly as he ducked. The tower beside the roof shattered and its concrete pieces fell on Ed and Al. I swiftly hugged the boy in case we fell, as more pieces exploded around us; I closed my eyes tightly waiting for all of this to pass.
-"Major what you are doing?!" Edward shouted over the explosion noises. 'Armstrong? Is he the one attacking us?' I assumed, trying not to let go of the child. Then an explosion vibrated too close to us and we stumbled over the edge, I grabbed on to one of the metal tiles and used my alchemy to surround my hand with the metal tile. But the homunculi boy wasn't that lucky, he tried to grab onto me but the explosion was too powerful for him to act fast.
-"Brother no!" I heard Al yell in the heat of the moment. I looked down hoping not to see the child dead, to my relief Major Armstrong had caught him; however that relief didn't last very long as I soon realized that he had binded him with his alchemist watch. Enraged I tried to jump down but remembered my hand was part tile at the moment. Fortunately Ed had already made some stairs out of concrete from the wall of the house and was jumping down.
-"Major that boy has no memory! We already filed a report!" Edward was explaining as he tried to get to ground-level.
-"He's an important witness to the destructive activity that occurred in Central. We'll question him at the Southern Command center." Archer intervened, but he wasn't making any sense. That boy hadn't appeared until Ed and Al went to the island.
-"What are you talking about?!" Edward asked as he raised his voice. 'Tell him Ed!' I thought as I watched the whole scene from above.
-"You've seen this crest before too, haven't you?" Archer questioned as he glanced at the child's foot and raised it to show us too. The Elric brothers gasped at the sight of the crest that rested on the homunculi's right side of his foot.
-"The boy is associated with the homunculi?" Al couldn't grip the thought. My nose started twitching as the scent of salamander-man approached us. I decided not to rat him out because they would take the poor chimera into hostage too.
-"He's connected to the people who destroyed the fifth laboratory." Archer responded; I snickered knowing that had been actually our fault. Lt. Col. Archer started walking away after stating his response with the kid on his shoulders.
-"Hey! Hey! Hey-Hey! WAIT!" I shouted on the top of my lungs, if he was kept in custody of the military who knew what could happen to the boy. I quickly searched my pockets to find my golden watch. All eyes were on me, some glared others just beheld. I cleared my throat and tried to look more dignified, well as dignified as a person that was dangling from a house with a half tile-half hand could be.
-"That boy is in my custody, you cannot take him away unless you have permission from someone in a higher rank… for example the führer himself." I stated showing my golden watch with pride, I saw Archer's eyes widened and slight rage overcame. But in a split second he scoffed.
-"I do believe watches are now silver, not gold." He continued walking.
-"Don't play dumb with me! You know I'm the only alchemist with this watch, and that's because I'm a special division alchemist!" I yelled in return, Archer's back tensed up but he kept walking as if he didn't know what I was talking about.
-"Don't worry your stories will be taken into account." The Major tried to comfort me.
-"ARGH!" I was struggling to get loose from the tile. –"Wait! Wasn't this investigation banned by the Führer?!" But Armstrong did the same thing as Archer, walked away.
-"That boy might have my arm and legs, if you look closely those aren't his…. That scar on his right arm- well, I got that scar from a fox bite." Edward blurted out.
-"All we want is to investigate. We've been searching for years for this!" Al chimed in. The major looked back and paused.
-"Give it up." He said bluntly. –"What if they are yours? Are you just going to pluck them off? You're better off not finding out if they're actually yours." Armstrong recommended. The three of us were momentarily crushed, not knowing what to do.
I sighed and whistled at Ed.
-"Let's just go back to Izumi's place." They both nodded and started walking forgetting that I was still stuck. It was fine with me because I could have some moments alone with salamander man.
-"Hey! What are you going to tell your boss, hmm?" I exclaimed as I tilted my head backwards. He paused and scurried over.
-"How'd you know I was here?" He asked bewildered.
-"I'm half dog, ya know, a chimera?" I joked, but his eyes widened and filled with only delight.
-"Y-y-you're telling the truth?"
-"Pfft, no. I used to be blind so I just developed further my hearing and scent abilities. But now that I think about it… You could say I turned part dog." I chuckled; he didn't think it was that funny. I apologized since I was insulting a part of his race of chimeras. He paused for a moment and then helped me up.
-"Greed will be pleased with this information, do you want to come with me? You're that girl that follows the Elric brothers' right? Greed said something about you and how you'd be a good addition to the group since your quite powerful… He said Envy, Lust, and Gluttony think you're important." Salamander man started talking to himself. I took that time to undo my binding to the metal, roof tile.
-"If my memory is right-"He continued –"Your name is Megan, is it not?" The chimera stared at me intently waiting for an answer.
-"Just call me Meg, ok?"
-"You can call me Bido!" Bido exclaimed with enchantment, I guess he thought we were now close friends. But I couldn't resist smiling back at Bido; he seemed to be more loyal than a dog.
-"Well it's been a pleasure chitchatting with you, but I must get back to my own business." I said as I jumped down, nonetheless paused for a minute. –"Since we're chums and all, why not the next time we meet you return me a favor?" He looked surprised for an instant and then realized that I had saved his lizard meat from those military dogs. Bido beamed and scurried away from my sight.
When I got back to Izumi's house, I fully understood what out of hand meant. The room where everybody had gathered in had two huge holes, one in the ceiling and another next to the bed on the far right side, of what used to be, the homunculi's room. The moment I got back, there was already tension in the room; so much that I was practically invisible. Also the instant I arrived, Al had started to describe our past encounters with other homunculi.
-"A mouth that can eat through metal, fingernails that can penetrate anything, the ability to transform their body at will. That boy is a monster… just like the rest of them." Izumi looked at Al and went over to give him a slight push. She asked him if he knew how homunculi were born, however before she could keep talking she coughed up blood. Sig without hesitation carried her rapidly to the car and drive to the hospital.
-"You mean she's always had this sickness?" Winry asked.
-"She's so strong we always forget." Alphonse said regrettably, both Edward and I were just standing in a corner of the waiting room collecting our thoughts.
-"Why not take her to a hospital in Central?" Winry asked again.
-"Because it would be of no use." A doctor cut in.
-"Not to be rude or anything, but a hospital in Central would be more helpful than a rural one." She commented; the doctor just looked at the ground in shame. Winry gasped silently and soon realized. –"The sickness is incurable."
We followed the doctor into an analytical room for him to show us what was wrong with Izumi's body. He pulled out a mannequin that showed the internal organs of a human body and proceeded to point at the organs below the stomach.
-"Somehow Mrs. Curtis is missing all these internal organs, as if they just simply disappeared. And now the remaining have bonded together extensively so she can still keep on living." He explained.
-"As if they just disappeared…" Ed mumbled. Suddenly a nurse came bursting in yelling at the doctor that Mrs. Izumi Curtis has escaped. 'Great if chasing homunculi isn't enough, now we gotta chase terminally ill ladies.' I thought as we all ran out the hospital.
-"South Headquarters! She went to go get her the child!" I yelled as the four of us sprinted through the streets. When we arrived Ed and Al went in, while Winry and I stayed outside to question Sig. But he didn't feel like talking, not that he was the talkative type of person, so I decided to go inside too. Until I heard Winry getting frustrated about her not knowing anything and how no one wanted to tell her anything. Gosh she can be naïve sometimes, so I turned around and when I did, Sig told his story.
-"She told me she was sorry. I was the one who kept her from giving birth, in order to save her own life. And yet, Izumi told me she was sorry she wasn't able to give birth, over and over again." My head started to reason all of this more and more. I decided to push myself with the rock underneath me to Izumi's position. I had to look for a good spot to land on, since teacher had made South Headquarters a building with random bumps, thus I went slowly.
-"Your son? ... Is that so?" Winry asked as another bump appeared on the building.
-"But I didn't know- didn't know her sorrow. Or how hard she was taking it; I never thought she would perform human alchemy on her own." Sig choked on a tear.
-"She tried to bring the baby back to life?" Winry was puzzled.
-"She did everything by herself. I don't know what she saw or did there, but when she came back she was missing her bottom organs and she couldn't have any more babies. Again she said sorry." Finally I had found a safe spot to 'park', nonetheless before entering I looked back and gave my condolences to Sig with the wave of my hand. As soon as I stepped inside the building an explosion ringed throughout the halls and pieces of ceiling crumbled down. I ran through some hallways until I found Ed confronting teacher.
-"Teacher, I am still a dog of the military. So please put that boy down." Edward advised, however I did not agree on his opinion. So I stepped next to Izumi and put my hand on her shoulder showing that I was on her side. Then the steps of three men were heard close by, we all looked to the right and saw Lt. Col. Archer, Major Armstrong… and the Führer? No that wasn't right. My eyes told me it was him but the scent he was emitting told me otherwise.
-"Why would the Führer be here?" Edward muttered under his breath, my thoughts exactly. Waisting no time I showed teacher an alternative route, and without a thought both of us ran back the hallway she had come from. Edward ran after us; however that was cut short by another explosion. From the ruble emerged Bido and Uncle Kimblee; uncle was wearing a black shirt under a red suit with his hair pulled back in a messy ponytail. "Oh gosh no! Flipping son of a tortoise! He just had to show up.' I thought with panic rising through my veins.
-"Lizard mongrel!" Edward yelled at the sight of Bido, I wonder what insult he would throw at Kimblee…
-"So sorry to intrude, hehehe. We just want the kid." Bido said as the military caught up to us.
-"Teacher and Meg, the military, not to mention these scoundrels. Dang! Seems like a four way fight." Edward examined but the 'Führer' just chuckled.
-"Well I guess I make five." He said maliciously, it seemed like no one else heard him but it now made a little bit more sense to me. That Führer wasn't the real Führer and I had a good idea who it could be.
-"Solf J. Kimblee?! Y-You're supposed to be dead." Armstrong exclaimed in horror, I wouldn't blame him.
-"Kimblee?" Archer raised his right eyebrow up.-"The Crimson Alchemist?" He continued with his monotone voice. I glanced at uncle seeing him enjoy the attention; he caught me looking and smirked even more.
-"A state alchemist?" Edward was also in shock, this was getting real tense, real fast.
-"You were supposed to be executed a long time ago, charged for disobeying the military's direct orders at Ishbal." Archer was now outraged, in his own monotone voice way. Kimblee put his hands in his pockets and looked down pleased.
-"Well that's one way to put it; another might be that I made woman and children go boom!" Uncle mocked. –"And when my superior officers tried to stop me –
-"BOOM!" Bido yelled in response, Kimblee smirked and shrugged his shoulders. I got goosebumps thinking of all those innocent lives being destroyed just because the bloodlust, of my own uncle.
-"I was really looking forward to my execution but for some strange reason the powers in me decided to keep me alive." He looked proud absorbing all the attention he was getting.
-"But why?" Armstrong inquired with a bit of rage in his eyes.
-"I'm not sure why… Hmm why don't you try asking that gentlemen, ...the one behind you." Uncle pointed at the Führer, giving me more suspicions. And for a split second I thought I heard the Führer's voice change saying 'How should I know?'
-"Are you going to allow this chaos to go on?" The Fuhrer asked indignantly, back in his normal tone.
-"Don't you stand there! Arrest every one of them." Lt. Col. Archer ordered; both teacher and I tensed up; thinking of a way to get out of this mess. Edward was about to approach teacher but she kicked him in the stomach.
-"There's no point in stopping me!" She cried while she ran away with the boy, of course I followed not looking back at uncle or Bido. But Al had to ruin our escape.
-"Please wait Teacher." He said.
-"Way to go Al!" Edward was proud of him; he dashed to where the four of us were. Shortly the Führer appeared out of nowhere and grasped the child from Izumi. Everybody in the room gasped.
-"Amazing…" That was Bido's favorite saying when he saw something impressive.
-"He's a homunculus alright, now if you excuse me…" King Bradley quickly skimmed his foot and ran off with the child.-"He's coming with me."
-"Not a chance!" Izumi yelled as she used her alchemy to produce a huge hand that aimed a punch at the Führer.
-"The alchemy's amazing too!" Bido once again exclaimed. However Armstrong blocked the punch and with his alchemy made it into small flying spikes. Quickly I touched the wall and with the metal wires inside, I made each one of the concrete spikes stay in place.
-"Anyone who tries to hurt the Führer will be defeated in the most graceful and beautiful way!" Armstrong exclaimed showing off his muscles. Teacher just scoffed and continued battling the Major, but as the battle continued, the building kept crumbling down.
-"Brother, if we don't stop this fast the whole building will collapse!" Alphonse shouted in the mist of the fight.
-"If we don't stop them, the whole city will collapse." Edward stated, so he started carefully walking towards teacher. Nonetheless Bido had to interfere with his tail knocking Ed out of the way. Bido chuckled as he wouldn't let go of Edward's leg while he struggled to get out, I ran over to help as well as Al but Alphonse paused for a moment.
-"My, my you have an interesting body." Kimblee smirked widely at Alphonse. I pushed Al out of the way before Kimblee could hurt him and neutralized the particles in the air near him. Course Uncle pouted at me for removing his prey.
-"You made an explosion out of thin air!" Al bellowed in shock. Edward proceeded to explain how Kimblee could compress particles and make explosions out of people. I sensed Lt. Col. Archer was eavesdropping.
-"Why are you here?" Edward asked still in Bido's grip.
-"For the boy of course, our boss has an interest in him." Bido explained with a chuckle.
-"He wants to talk to you boys too, seems there some business to discuss." Kimblee chimed in; he then looked at me and smirked. –"Don't worry we won't harm them." He started ruffling my hair.
-"Yeah right! Like you weren't about to now!" I shooed his hand away angrily.
-"Oh, is that so?" Edward mocked as he started hurting Bido's tail. Bido wailed in pain so he let go of Edward, the instant he did, Alphonse clutched his tail and sent him flying next to Kimblee. I had to duck which made Bido hit the concrete wall. In response Uncle just clapped his hands and grabbed Bido's tail.
-"You're not going to make me into one of your bombs, are you?!" He cried in total horror.
-"Yeah, sure." Kimblee said casually, I frowned and kicked Uncle's shin. Also Edward charged where the three of us were with his metal arm made into a dagger. Luckily Kimblee let go of Bido's tail and threw him unto Ed's face, nonetheless Ed and Bido started wrestling like dogs while the rest us just observed. I glanced at Uncle and slapped the back of his right arm.
-"Next time you feel like exploding someone ask if I care." I said sternly, he looked at me with amusement.
-"You didn't say that when we were at the fifth lab." He mocked; I shushed him and frowned again.
-"Yeah well, ask ok? These two?" I pointed at the Elric brothers –"Yeah news flash, they're my companions and new family. So better not make bombs out of them." I ordered as I grabbed Uncle's shirt so we could be eye level. He chuckled some more and looked me straight in the eye.
-"That's why you're my favorite niece, in matter of fact you're the only family member that I like! The only one with guts to confront me, heh. If you need anything, you're favorite uncle is here for you." Uncle Kimblee winked right before another explosion occurred. I yelled at Bido and Uncle but couldn't see them, I told the Elric brothers to find Teacher while I went to look for the 'Führer'. But in reality I still wanted to ask uncle some questions. I followed the cloud of ruble until I saw a patch of light.
-"We need Greed to handle this! We need Greed! We can't handle this ourselves- GREEEED!" Bido shouted as he ran out the building leaving uncle behind.
-"The hell with it, it'd be easier if I blew up the entire building… I'm sure Meg would make out alive." Kimblee looked annoyed. From a distance the click of a semi-automatic, hand gun was heard.
-"Nice to meet you, I'm Lt. Col. Frank Archer. It's a pleasure to meet the famous Crimson Lotus Alchemist." Archer introduced.
-"Yeah you too…" Uncle stated.
-"By who's authority where you kept alive?" Archer asked.
-"Don't know."
-"Do you plan to come back into the service of the military?" Kimble chuckled at Archer's question.-"I could make it happen." The crimson alchemist stopped chuckling and looked at Frank Archer; I sensed the Lt. Col. was smirking. 'This doesn't seem like a good time to intervene, he'll probably just make Archer go- Boom! …Which I wouldn't mind.' I thought as I hurried back to the Elric brothers.
-"OOOW! The pain! As I suspected, the teacher of the great Elric boys was too strong!" Armstrong wailed while clutching the left side of his abdomen. I had walked in right in the moment Edward and Al had found the Major.
-"Heh. Thought this much would happen, thanks Major." Edward said with a sincere tone in his voice. I noticed the injury was, in reality, on his right side.
-"Haha, uum Major? Your hand should be on your right side." I told him giggling; he looked at me with a smile and told us to go look for teacher. As we searched the whole building Ed whined about the scratch Bido had given him. It did look deep and it was right on his left cheek… wonder if that would be his new battle scar. After a while we all got restless of looking and decided to go back to Izumi's place to see if she had gone back there. But before leaving I had a hunch that I needed to still explore the building.
-"Ed… I, um I think I dropped my alchemist's watch, go on ahead I'll catch up with you guys once I found it." I lied, Edward looked at me, knowing I was lying but nodded and left with Al. I looked vigorously throughout the hallways until I found a semi-opened door leading to a boilers room, I peeped and saw a couple of philosopher stones scattered on the floor. I quickly ran inside and closed the door behind me, I inspected strongly for the explanation of the stones being cracked and what seemed, half eaten. I almost took some of them with me to show the brothers but decided to destroy them all but one. Just in case I ran into the 'Führer' and confront him. I walked out and headed to the entrance trying not to catch any attention to myself, but that never works.
-"Stop! Miss Kimblee, Lt. Col. Archer is looking for you!" A military dog yelled at me. 'Time to run!' I thought but slipped with some rubble that had been lying underneath my feet. I moaned out loud, while I was helped to my feet and escorted to Archer's office. When Lt. Col. Archer saw me walk in he sneered and ordered the military dog to leave us alone. 'Keep it cool, keep it cool.' I kept thinking to stay calm.
-"Today's performance was quite unacceptable; you and your subordinates might get punished by the Führer severally for what happened." Archer started –"Both you and the Elric boy might even lose their State alchemy certification." He smiled at me cunningly.
-"Screw you!" I then covered my mouth before any more harm could be done, yeah great, calm start. Archer chuckled when I apologized for my language.
-"No, no it's quite alright. I've heard many stories of your sharp tongue and cunning ways." He rose from his desk and walked around it while his right hand slid across the desk.
-"Why am I here?" I asked bluntly.
-"Because I want to make a deal, I want you to-
RING, RING, RING. The phone had interrupted Archer's speech; he looked dumb folded as if the ringing had ruined his momentum. I glanced at the phone, which was to my right, and casually walked over to the phone.
-"Hello?" I said.
-"Lt. Col. Frank Archer, I… Meg?" A deep voice had started talking. I paused and let out a big sigh.
-"Yes, Mustang?"
-"Did I get the number wrong, cause this is Archer's office number… LT. HAWKEYE! HEY, I THINK-" His voice trailed off as he yelled at Riza asking if the number was right. I waited until he came back.
-"What are you doing in Archer's office?" Roy inquired.
-"Hmm? Oh nothing… well just on a date." I teased. –"Just kidding! I am being pestered for Ed's and my actions for today, but it seems like the nice Col. was going to let drop." I glanced at Archer while shooting daggers with my eyes. He looked annoyed and nodded.
-"Well tell me more about that later, good thing I got hold of right you now. In a day we will reach Dublith to pick up some more soldiers. We have an assignment at Kishua, and you're coming too." Mustang ordered, I was about to protest but complied to the orders since I didn't need more trouble.
-"I'll tell Archer too, if that's what you called for."
-"Yeah thanks… You sure you guys aren't on a date?"
-"Are you for real?! No! Who do you think I am anyways?! Good bye Roy!" I slammed the phone back and glared back at Archer.
-"Roy's coming tomorrow for some troops, and now if you excuse me I have some packing to do." Archer didn't dare to say anything after seeing me slam the telephone. So I stormed out and headed towards Izumi's house.
-"Where did she go, Sig?" The brothers demanded, but Sig wouldn't respond. The instant I walked in the air in the house was already tense. It seemed that Izumi didn't appear here either.
-"She must've gone to a place only she knows and feels safe." Winry stated as she walked in next to me. I thought for a moment before answering, where could she have gone…
-"That island you guys trained in." I responded.
Guys! i would like to take the time to apologize! i took this chapter real slow and didnt realize i had taken almost three months... I'm really sorry! but,um, please review! i want to see if i improved or not :)