A/N: ...It's been a while since I've updated! Sorry! I went out of state for Thanksgiving, then I just got over having major Oral Surgery, and I've been recovering, but now here it is! Chapter 11! WOOHOO! *Twirls finger* I am sorry for those who had to wait for some time, and I also would like to announce the winners for the little quote contest I was sort of having...
Quote #1: "ADVENTURE TIME!" Winner: ImXDragon No...ENJOY THE CHAPTAH! :D
The quote was from "Adventure Time!" a cartoon series found on cartoon network.
Quote #2: "I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish!" Winner: Freyja Elizabeth (haha.)
The quote was from the live action movie "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". The quote was made my the Grinch himself, Jim Carrey.
Sincerely,
~Dolphinz514
Chapter 11:
Dreams Mean Nothing
Riza's heart felt as if it was about to explode as it pounded wildly inside her chest. She was crouched behind a couple of garbage cans in an unknown alley, her pistol in her right hand. She carefully raised her body only a few inches until she was able to see the street at the alley's opening. Surprisingly, it was open, but they were looking for a wanted suspect, so it makes sense that the streets were cleared. Simply a matter of safety.
Riza sat back down with her knees to her chest as she slowly gained her normal breathing speed. She listened intently for any sounds of running, driving, talking...anything that would cause her adrenaline to start pumping its way through her veins. Hearing nothing, she cautiously stood up, her pistol ready to fire in case someone or something was feeling like being extra stealthy today.
She placed her back to one of the alley's walls and she peered around the corner behind her. She then turned her head around, facing the front, to gaze down the other way. There wasn't even a mouse crawling across the street.
It's unusual that the streets are this busy...Riza thought as she began to walk down the sidewalk towards the rendezvous her fellow soldiers had prepared earlier. Even with a wanted criminal who happens to be a serial killer wandering around, there would still be at least two or three cars driving by...
Riza was interrupted from her dream-like state of being deep in thought when she heard an obnoxious shuffling behind her. Quickly turning around, she shocked herself by seeing nothing behind her. Telling herself she simply imagined it, she turned back around and continued strolling down the concrete path. A few minutes later and without warning, a large and nicely-tanned arm with strange tattoos reached and wrapped around her delicate neck as the hand on the opposite arm held up a life-threatening knife.
"Listen to me, and your friends nor you will be hurt," offered the mystery voice. This must be the suspect...Riza speculated. He wouldn't be threatening me if it wasn't...wait a minute...I could use this as an opportunity to catch him...but how would I warn or tell the others?
"Well?" the voice prodded again, the knife edging closer to her throat. Riza simply nodded a response, not wanting to speak just yet. The man yanked her into a different alleyway than the one Riza was hiding in before, and threw her on the ground.
Riza turned to see the face of her perpetrator. Her eyes lit up as she realized it was the suspect that her commanding officer had been searching for for months now. The man donned a large X-shaped scar across his face and had dark, rounded sunglasses that hid his true eye color: red.
Scar...where have you been hiding?
"I'm going to make a deal with you," Scar began, as he knelt down to Riza's eye level. "Will you accept?"
"Depends was the offer actually is, Scar," Riza bluntly replied, not letting her guard nor her dignity down for a second.
"Whoa no...hold on here. I'm not telling you anything until you agree to take my deal! I don't want to take any risky chances...I'm sure you don't want to either."
"Correct, Scar."
"So...what do you say? Will you accept or not?"
"Again, Scar, I need to know what exactly this 'offer' of yours is, but I have an order, and that is to capture you dead or alive and bring you back to Headquarters once and if I do," Riza answered back calmly. She was not going to give in any time soon.
Scar, losing his impatience, fiercely grabbed Riza's collar of her military jacket and pulled her to her feet. Their eyes and noses now lining up, Riza could finally see what color his eyes had been trying to hard to hide. So he is an Ishvallan after all...
Scar shook Riza a bit before slamming her against a wall, causing her to suppress a small grunt of pain. He leaned in until his mouth was against her ear, talking in a hoarse whisper."I'm losing my patience, and I am not taking your crap anymore."
"And I believe that I told you, I am not accepting anything except the orders specifically given to me."
Scar pulled Riza away from the wall again and turned his body harshly, letting go of his hand holding it's grasp on Riza, causing her to fall clumsily into a pile of garbage.
Riza gasped in pain and shock as she hit the hard ground. She returned to gaze back to her enemy, attempting to glare at him and she tried to stand up. Inconveniently, her legs shook and Riza collapsed back to the ground. Scar suddenly donned a lust-filled look in his eyes, as if he had other things in mind then just simply hurting Riza. Realizing this, Riza began to panic, and attempted to stand up before Scar could touch her in any ways not welcome, but was forcefully stopped when he grabbed her wrist and pinned her against the wall. Scar was just about to grab her collar again when embers danced by dangerously close to his face. Scar stood up and turned to see who or what would do such a thing, and recognized the State Alchemist who pedestrians claims to be the "Master of Fire."
"I highly suggest you leave my Lieutenant alone, or pay the consequences," the dark and masculine voice of the young alchemist threatened promisingly. "I kind of need her around," he added with a smirk.
Scar looked at the alchemist's eyes, chose to save his strength to fight him later, and darted off in one direction.
"Sir," Riza managed with a swallow. "He's getting away."
"It's okay, Riza," the alchemist comforted, kneeling next to his lieutenant. "You okay?"
Riza looked up into the eyes of the man who saved her, her chocolate-brown eyes meeting his coal-black. Riza nodded to Roy, who helped her stand up on her still-shaking legs as he put all of her weight on his. "He didn't beat you up too badly, and that's great that you're not fatally injured or anything. I knew it was a bad idea to separate."
"I'll be fine, Colonel," Riza reassured, putting her weak left hand up to help support her convincing Roy.
"I know you will, Lieutenant," Roy answered back with a small smile."It just kills me to see you hurt in anyway."
Riza gasped and widened her eyes as she suddenly sat straight up in her bed. Looking around her, she took in her surroundings, and remembered she was back in the hotel. Was that all just a dream? She asked herself as she got out of her bed and walked towards the bathroom. That was a weird dream...it felt so real.
She turned on the light in the bathroom and closed the door quietly. Looking at the clock to see it was almost two in the morning, Riza let out a quiet sigh and turned on the cold water in the bathroom sink. Placing her hands together to make a cup shape, she put her hands under the water and rubbed it against her face to help clear her thoughts. She picked up the wool towel after turning off the water and dried her face. When she was about to hang up the towel, a knock was heard through the other side of the door, which Riza opened to find Roy standing sleepily on the other side.
Roy scratched his head before speaking. "Everything okay?" Roy asked finally fitting an obnoxious yawn somewhere in between. "You were talking in your sleep, which woke me up, and I saw you walk to the bathroom."
"Oh, I'm sorry I woke you...I hadn't meant to..." Riza answered, her last words trailing off. "I just had an odd dream, that's all."
"What kind of dream was it?"
"Well," Riza started, fumbling her fingertips back and forth between each other. "It's been more than just one dream...but they've all been different."
"What do you mean?"Roy questioned as he entered the bathroom and closed the door to prevent any light from leaking out into the main room where Maes was still sound asleep. Riza sat up on the counter before continuing the conversation.
"They're dreams where I'm a higher-ranked soldier in the military," Riza began cautiously, not sure of how Roy would react to her questionable dreams. "You're in it too, and sometimes Maes...and some random people also show up, but they're there often. I remember almost exactly what they look like."
"What do they look like?" Roy asked curiously.
"There are three total: one being a murderer. He has tanned skin and always wears sunglasses, so I don't know what his eye color is, but I think it may be red. He has half charcoal gray, half white hair and a large X-shaped scar on his face. Everyone in my dream keeps calling him "Scar" because no one knows his real name."
"Interesting...who are the other two?" Roy questioned, partially to himself.
"The remaining two are the most interesting of the three. One is a young man who has long blonde hair which is usually worn in a braid. He has topaz eyes and he isn't very tall, unlike the person that I see traveling with him. This person is actually a suit of armor. I've never seen inside the armor, however...so I don't even know what his actually human body looks like..." Riza trailed off once more as her gaze traveled to the linoleum floor.
"That is weird...and you say that I am also in these dreams?" Roy interrogated, bringing his gaze up to Riza.
Riza turned to meet Roy's tired eyes looking at her with misunderstanding and curiosity. "Yes, you are. You usually are telling me what to do, and you call yourself my commanding officer in my dreams...in fact...in this last dream, you called me 'Lieutenant.'"
"Really? What do you think these dreams mean, Riza?" Roy pondered, staring towards the wall in front of him.
"I honestly don't know, but I've realized that in all of my dreams that have happened, we are all at least twenty years old...that is what really interests me." Riza replied, yawning shortly after. She was beginning to feel tired, especially after being in the bathroom for a while.
"Hmm...well, I personally don't think these dreams mean anything, Riza. I wouldn't worry about it."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course. Now, how about we get back to bed? We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow," Roy suggested as he opened the door once more and walked towards his bed, rubbing one of his eyes.
Riza turned the lights off in the bathroom and traveled across the floor before she crawled into her bed. She was suddenly feeling exhausted, and just wanted to fall asleep once again.
Roy laid on his back on his side of the bed, gazing at the ceiling, lost in thought. Might as well ask her now before she falls asleep...
"Hey, Riza?" Roy began, shaking a little. Will she think it's weird that I'm asking this?
"Hmm?" Riza mumbled as she kept her eyes closed with her face buried in her pillow.
"About the kiss last night...did anyone...or anything come over you...?"
Riza lifted her head and led her gaze towards where Roy's face would be. She couldn't see any of his features, due to the utter darkness of the room, which she was also thankful to for hiding her heavy blush across her silk cheeks. "What exactly do you mean?"
"Well," Roy muttered, fumbling his thumbs together. How am I supposed to ask this without being so blunt? "Like...any feelings like...uh...lack of control?"
There was a moment of awkward silence as Roy impatiently awaited Riza's reluctant answer.
Finally taking a breath, Riza filled her desperate lungs with well-needed air. "Um...kinda..."
"Really?"
"Yeah," Riza confirmed, almost stating it as a question. "Why?"
It was Roy's turn to be thankful for the darkness as his own face turned to a deep shade of crimson red. "Well...I was just wondering because...I...felt it too. And I wanted to say that I didn't mean to make the kiss...lusty."
'Lusty'? Riza repeated in her head. He also felt the lust seeping through his veins? The same dreadful lust that tried to let all of my unknown emotions flow towards my best friend? I don't even like him that way! "I didn't feel that it was, Roy, so it's okay."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure."
"...Okay. That was my only question," Roy finished, pulling the covers back over his shoulders and turning over onto his right side. "Good night, Riza."
"Night, Roy."
Riza stared in the direction where the ceiling would normally be seen as she contemplated upon what Roy had said to her today and what her dreams were all about.
Why am I a soldier of higher rankings? Am I just dreaming what I want to happen, or will these "dreams"predict moments and events of the future? And why is Roy always in them? Are we more involved with each other in the future? Or...or am I secretly desiring to be more than his friend...?
Riza closed her exhausted eyes as she remembered how early in the morning it actually was, not losing her place in her pondering thoughts. ...No. That's not it. I don't view Roy that way, and I never will. Those dreams mean nothing...nothing at all.
...Right?
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