There are major episodes changes for this saga. Mostly because of Elle being apart of the series now and I need to work things around and also I'm turning this into a multichapter saga even though said multi chapter is only going to be three chapters at this point. I have the next chapter written out but it's not typed yet because I have play and I have to type in a 42 minute period 15 to 16 hand written pages and I have extremely small handwriting so in three weeks I'll be back to normal typing rate and that third week is spring break so I'll be all set and typing a lot during spring break. Know that if you review stories I still read them and review them when I get the chance and I am also betaing so if you need a beta let me know at my email addresses luna_eclipse verizon . net (take out the spaces) or lunaeclipse 16 yahoo . com (also take out the spaces) Also I would like to point out that military ranks might be different in here due to State Alchemist are more important to the military than normal soldiers. Which is why Elle and Ed are majors to start off with instead of privates? I'm also aware that this story has a tendency to be Mary-sue. I'm trying to figure out how to fix that so if anyone knows how to fix that and would like to help me do that per chapter kinda like a beta, please let me know and I'll send you some information. Thanks
Chapter 13: Serial Killers on the Loose
A week later had Ed and me working in the office and we were doing paperwork each and every day. One day, a soldier came into Roy's office which only had Ed and myself in it at the time because the others were on their lunch breaks. Ed and I have different, earlier breaks because we're teenagers and we need a certain amount of food, and we have different time clocks as the other soldiers because we were going through puberty or restarting puberty (I had to get medicine to make me start puberty over again due to my age)
A knock on the door alerted us to the soldier and although Ed and I didn't know who it was at the time.
"Enter." Edward and I said looking at each other and I shrugged as the soldier entered.
"Um. Colonel Elric?" The soldier asked.
"Which one of us Private?" I asked.
"Oh man! I forgot there are two majors. Um…do you guys know a girl with long blonde hair and carries a tool kit?"
"That's Winry!" Ed said happily but confused. "What's she doing here?"
"Who's Winry?"
"My automail mechanic."
"Are you okay?" I asked eyeing his automail arm.
"I'm fine. She's also my best friend from Risenbool." Ed said. "Come on El, let's go and say hi. I want to make sure that you're safe."
Alright I'll explain that one. At that time there were two serial killers on the loose and the military wanted me and Ed with each other or another member of Roy's battalion just incase one of them attacked us since we were both targets of the serial killers.
One of the serial killers killed women between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five plus or minus a year or two. He hacks and slashes them to shreds and leaves them on the street or in an ally for someone to find them.
The other serial killer was more dangerous in everyone's eyes. He killed military personnel, more particularly state alchemists, aka Ed and me.
"Okay." I said and we got up as Roy's phone rang and if Roy, Riza, or Havoc weren't around I had to answer the phone. "Hold on." I said heading over to the phone and picked it up.
"Colonel Roy Mustang's Desk. This is Major Elric, can I help you?" I asked.
"I need Colonel Mustang, his crew, and Lieutenant Colonel Hughes!" A man shouted. "We got a code 271."
"The colonel and his crew are at lunch right now. I'll have to find them so we'll be there ASAP." I said hanging up the phone. "We have to put Winry on hold Brother. We need to find Roy and the others. They need help for a code 271. Whatever that is."
"271? I think that's a murder." The soldier said.
"Aw man!" I moaned. "I can't call back either. I don't know how."
"Don't worry Elle. Can you please tell Winry to wait please?"
"Where do I put her?"
"In the visitor's room. Duh."
"Do we even have a visitor's room?"
"Um…I don't know. Sorry. Go and find Roy. You-" I said going over to the soldier. "Please follow procedure for visitors. We'll get to her as soon as we can."
"Yes sir." The soldier sand and he ran out of the office and we ran towards the cafeteria where everyone was sitting and laughing.
"Roy!" Ed shouted and we ran over to the group.
"What's wrong kids?" Hughes asked.
"There was a call. We all have to attend a 271." Ed said.
"I made a stupid mistake. I didn't ask where it was since I didn't know what it was. I'm sorry."
"Don't worry Elle. It'll be easy to find." Roy smiled.
"How? Central is so huge."
"The code was 271 right?" Roy asked and we nodded.
"Murder is always high up on our list. Number one to be exact."
"District 27. Murder." Ed figured out.
"Good job. We can easily find the area the murder is at because the districts aren't that large." Riza said. "Let's go."
We all rushed towards the military issued cars and we pilled into three cars and like Riza said we easily found the murder scene.
The moment we got out of the car we heard a child crying in the alley.
"Mommy! Mommy wake up!" A boy shouted.
"Well, we know which serial killer it is." Hughes said.
"The body's over here sirs." A soldier said leading us to where a boy was lying on top of a cloth. We knew that under the cloth was the child's mother.
"Riza, can you take the boy? We need to take photos for the records." Roy said.
"Of course." Riza said walking over to the boy. "Come on, let's get you someplace warm." She said in a motherly tone.
"No!" The body shouted and when Riza picked him up he gripped the cloth and pulled it off, revealing the body.
The body made me physically sick to my stomach just as the bones of my father did. But unlike my father you could see the expression of the woman's face. Thousands of slash and stab wounds loaded the body that laid in a pool of blood that stained the winter dress she wore. A face that clearly held a great deal of pain looked up at us. Us meaning Ed and me as if someone stood there and watched the poor woman die. Her brown eyes were faded and the previously blonde hair absorbed the blood that was pooled around her head.
"The poor soul." I thought and although I didn't believe in God I prayed for the woman and hoped that despite what the wounds showed, her death was quicker and after she was killed he then continued to inflict the wounds.
I was brought out of my thoughts and prayers when I heard a body and metal collapse onto the cold brick ground and I turned around to see Ed lying on the ground unconscious with a pained expression.
"Brother!" I shouted and I knelt next to him. "What happened to him?" I asked laying his head on my lap.
"Probably something he saw in his past." Roy said gently. "Pick him up." He ordered.
"Yes sir." A man named Armstrong said.
He was extremely weird and creepy but he always knew what to say and I always took his words to heart. Well, until he flexes his muscles and rips his shirt off and bragging about "the Armstrong line that was passed down through the generations" then I tuned him out.
Anyways, Armstrong came over and picked Ed up and brought him to a car and laid him in the back seat.
"Should I have the driver take us back to the dorms?" I asked Roy.
"You go back to the doors and get Alphonse." Roy said. "Ed will go to Hughes' house okay. Armstrong will make sure he gets there okay."
"Yes sir. I suppose I should tell Ed's visitor to come see him tomorrow."
"Set them up at a hotel then won't you Elle?"
"Okay." I added getting into another military car.
"Where too sir?" He asked.
"The base please." I said putting on my seatbelt and we drove off. It didn't take that long to get to the base and I saw the same soldier that told us about Winry in the hall. "Excuse me. Where's Mr. Elric's visitor?"
"This way Major." The soldier said leading me to the visitor's room.
I saw a girl who was a little bit taller than me with long blonde hair and blue eyes sitting on the couch reading an automail textbook.
"Excuse me. Do you know an Edward Elric?"
"Yeah. Can I see him yet?"
"Umm…I'm afraid you can't see him today. We had to attend a murder scene and he passed out after seeing the body."
"Is he okay?"
"I'll know later. Oh, where are my manners? My name is Elle Elric. Nice to meet you."
"Elle? You're Ed and Al's sister?"
"Yeah. It turned out that Ed took the same state alchemy exam I did and we both passed."
"I bet Ed loves having you again. My grandma and mom kept telling Ed and Al how inseparable you two were and how when Hohenhime left and took you, you left kicking and screaming." She said. "Oh yeah, I'm Winry by the way."
"Like I said earlier nice to meet you." I said and then smirked. "So, I went kicking and screaming huh? I though I went peacefully. Maybe that's why I felt like something was missing."
"We wanted to find you but no one could find Hohenhime."
"It wouldn't have mattered if you found him anyways. He ditched me off in Xenotime shortly after he took me. Luckily I was adopted by my mother and father."
"Do you know where Al is? We should tell him about Edward."
"I have an idea as to where we can find him. We can usually find him in the library researching for ways to get Ed his arms and legs."
"More than likely he's there then." Winry agreed. "Let's go get him."
"Alright. Follow me; I learned the way there rather quickly." I added laughing as I lead Winry to the library and she had to stay outside so I went inside to get Al and I found him in the back of the library.
"Al, put your books away. We got company and we have to go to Hughes house. Ed passed out.
"What!?" Al shouted. "Is he alright."
"Shh." I said. "Calm down he's fine. He just went into shock. We had to go to a murder scene. I guess that the body we saw too much for him." I said and then I slapped myself in the face. "God I'm retarded!"
"What?"
"I'll tell you someplace safer to talk about…that night." I said.
"Alright." Al said putting his books away and we headed outside. "Oh by the way, Winry's here. She came for a surprise visit."
"Really? I missed her."
"Don't you write her?"
"No, we don't want to risk her incase we get enemies."
"I see your point. That way they don't have an advantage on you." I said and Winry came into view.
"Winry!" Al shouted and he ran over to Winry and almost killed her in a bone crushing hug.
"Al, human strength." Winry gasped and then we headed to a near by hotel so Winry could have a warm place to sleep and we locked her windows with alchemy to help protect her from the women serial killer and she understood when Al wanted to seal her windows.
Then we headed over to Hughes house where I headed up to my room where Ed was resting. Hughes told me that they took off Ed's shirt and undid his braid in order to make him a little more comfortable. Sweat collected on his body and I didn't want his automail to get infected so I got a basin and filled it with cool water and I would gently wipe the sweat off around his automail and forehead and I tried to sing the lullaby my mom sang to me and Al came in mid song and waited until I finished singing to speak.
"You have a pretty voice Elle."
"Tanks. I love to sing. I wonder if I got that trait from Mom or Hohenhime."
"Mom loved to sing and was quiet good so I guess you got the singing gene from Mom. I got Dad's genes I can't sing a note." Al laughed.
"My sorry. I used to sing my little brother lullabies because Mom can't sing either. Have you ever heard Ed sing before?"
"Nonsense words. There's a song that he had stuck in his head called Numa Numa I think." Al said sitting down. "Why were you whipping Brother's body down? Does he have a fever?"
"No, Dad's automail ports would get infected at times because of how much he sweat and couldn't clean out his ports. I don't want Ed's to get infected."
"What about the one on his leg?"
"There are such things as personal bubbles Al." I laughed.
"I suppose so. That and you're a girl too. Even if you and Ed are twins."
"Do you think Ed will be okay?"
"He will be. He's strong."
"But he seems troubled or haunted."
"Ed blames himself for me being in this armor although I tell him time and time again it's not his fault. The horrors of that day are too much to stand. Even for someone as strong as Ed. If I had a human body and could sleep I'm sure I'd have nightmares too."
"I guess so. I still have nightmares of my father despite what I do. I feel like I'm responsible for his death even though he was already dead."
"No. you just couldn't have a casket funeral."
"Mom got him cremated. You can't bury people in Xenotime. Everyone gets cremated because of the ground. We already killed the land by planting crops. We can barely manage to get crops as it is because the ground is so dry and hard."
"Even so, I can honestly say that you are not responsible for your Dad's death. I promise."
"Thanks Al."
"Mom…Al…Elle…come back…I'm sorry." Ed moaned in his unconscious state.
"Brother, we're right here." Al said placing his giant hand on Ed's forehead and I grabbed his human hand.
"We're not going anywhere." I added. "I promise."
"Me too." Al said. "I'll always be close by."
"I took the rag and whipped the sweat off his chest by the automail and I put his tiger under his flesh arm and curled it around him to make him clutch the fluffy tiger."
Ed slept for three more hours before his eyes snapped opened and he was so scared he accidentally pushed me off the chair and I landed on Al successfully knocking him over and his head went flying.
"Ed! Are you alright?" I asked getting up off Al and I helped him up and he went to get his head and I walked over to Ed's bedside.
"Elle?" Ed asked and sighed." Sorry about that."
"Um…Ed? Did that woman remind you of the human transmutation?"
"Yeah, but Mom was way worse." Ed said. "Why am I soaked in cold water?"
"Dad's automail would get infected from sweat. I didn't want yours to get infected so I whipped it down every so often." I said.
"Uh…thanks." Ed said blushing.
"Aw, I made my older brother blush." I laughed. "You okay?"
"What do you mean?"
"Just in general. They said you went into shock. Major Armstrong had to carry you around."
"I'm a little dizzy but fine otherwise. How about you? You saw the body too."
"If you didn't pass out I probably would've thrown up. I was really worried about you."
"What about Winry?"
"Don't worry. I talked to her about everything and she understands just fine. I told her you'd meet up with her tomorrow."
"Thanks Elle."
"Why don't you go take a shower and get something to eat Ed. It's getting kinda late."
"Alright. Thanks Elle thanks Al." Ed said.
"Sure." We said.
"I'm going to bed okay. Love you Ed." I said wanting to make it clear that Ed would always have me around or in his life now that I knew him.
"Me too El. Sweet Dreams." He added leaving the room.
"Night Al. Love you too." I replied climbing into the air mattress bed.
"Night Sis." Al said and he started to draw a picture while humming and despite what Al said he could hold a tune. If only for a while.