Finally back in town! And I am sooo sorry for leaving the last chapter the way I did! It was really not planed out, it just happened! I hope you can forgive me.
The poll I sat up is done, and the winner is. . . Happy Ending! It is still far, far into the future, I just like to have it thought out^^
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Deddosora-: I am so sorry for that! But it is good that it makes you keep reading^^ Hope the waiting wasn't too long:) And that it was worth it^^
AnimexoverCartoons: I'm glad you liked it^^ And I hope the waiting wasn't too long:) And I had a funny time away^^
I'm sorry if the grammar is horrible and if the characters are very OOC.
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Chapter 21
Alphonse panicked when he found out that his brother had run after the car. Why did his brother always have to disappear? And most likely get into trouble later for it?
They couldn't even get someone to help them, since all the ones that could, already was in trouble with something else.
"Winry!" Alphonse said, trying hard to keep his cool. The girl turned her head toward him, and looked at him with scared eyes.
"Go back to the Colonel's house and wait there; I will come later with Brother."
"Just come back safe, both of you." The boy smiled. He knew she loved his brother, knew she was afraid that she would never get to say the things she wanted to him. And he wanted his brother to have the chance to say the same to her.
"Of course, we always do, don't we?" he laughed, before he ran off after his brother. Ling grinned, said goodbye to Winry, and ran toward the place he knew Ran Fan waited for him.
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Not long after he had run off, Alphonse caught up with the car that had been speeding past them. This time it was parked right outside of an old building, with his brother nowhere to be seen. Maybe he had run the wrong way inside one of the streets. After all, there was no way a three year old could catch up with a running car.
The panic started to fill him again. What if he couldn't find his brother? What if Edward had got caught up in some of the fighting in this part of the town?
Alphonse was about to run back the way he had come and choose another road, when he heard voices coming closer from the building. It sounded almost like shouting, like someone was yelling at another person for something. And the voice that was yelling belonged to nobody else than Riza.
Alphonse didn't need to guess two times to get the guess right about who she was yelling at. Roy.
Very soon the two of them were coming out of the building in front of him, and it was in fact Riza shouting at Roy. Like always.
Both of them stopped once they saw the teenager.
"Alphonse? Shouldn't you be somewhere watching Edward?" Riza asked. She didn't know that Ling had gone to find him.
"That's the problem, Riza. He disappeared again! He saw the Colonel driving past, and ran after the car. At the moment it happened, Winry and I was talking to Ling, and in the next minute, we saw him disappeared around a corner. Since that, I haven't seen him at all!"
"That damn child! Can't he just stay at one place for at least a little time?!" Roy let out an irritated sigh as he opened the door to the car parked outside the building.
"Now we have to find him and fight off the ones who attacked our groups!" the man continued.
"For some reason I have a feeling that if we find one of them, we find the other," Riza said while climbing into the car.
"Yeah, Edward usual shows up where the danger is. According to the others, the enemy is heading toward laboratory 3." Roy sat down on the driver side, and waved for Alphonse to climb into the backseats. The boy did as they wanted him to, and not a minute later, the three of them were heading toward laboratory 3.
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Shortly after they had teamed up with Jean, who had followed Barry and Barry's body all the way over there, and gotten all the workers at laboratory 3 away, the group got to an underground where they split up once again to look over a bigger area. Jean and Roy headed one way, while Riza and Alphonse took another one.
The main point was to find Edward, Barry and the enemy.
Not long after they had walked away from Jean and Roy, Alphonse and Riza reached an open space in front of a huge door. With Barry and his up-sliced body standing right in front of the door. Riza lifted her hand up and covered her mouth. It was disgusting to see the sliced body.
A sound behind them got them to turn around. A woman with black hair stood in the opening to the room. It was her tattoo that got Alphonse to stare at her. It was the same as the one Greed had had. The Ouroboros. A serpent biting its own tail.
"So you decided to betray us, Number 66?" The woman asked, looking at Barry. The armor was about to answer, when they got their eyes on the small body the woman held in her left hand. The golden hair was way too familiar. Edward.
"Let the boy go!" Riza shouted once she got over the shock of seeing the little boy in that place. The woman grinned.
"I'm sorry, Miss. We need the boy for our plan. But we don't need you!" on the last comment, the woman's nails shot out and pierced Barry's armor, cutting him up to tiny pieces.
The woman's grin showed up again.
"Now, who of you two will be the first ones to follow that Colonel of yours and the other companion you had with you to the path of the dead?" Riza could feel all her feelings flaming up. Roy. Dead? Not possible! He couldn't! She wouldn't allow it! Tears started to run down her face as she pulled out her gun. She knew she couldn't shoot; after all, Edward was in the hands of the evil woman. But how much she wanted to! The woman said she had killed Roy! And Jean too!
While the truth behind the woman's words sunk into her, Riza's will to keep living faded away. She lived to keep her Colonel out of danger. And know she had failed that one thing. That one reason she hadn't given up yet.
The black-haired woman dropped the child in her hands on the floor, and took more steps closer to Alphonse and Riza.
The boy was too much in a state of shock and fear to even notice the woman's actions. Riza too blinded by her own tears.
Then, Alphonse noticed a shadow behind the woman. He recognized it, and clapped his hands, making a wall of stone appear in front of himself and Riza.
A loud boom rang through the room, and flames surrounded the woman, making her disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Don't think it is that easy to kill me!" she screamed, and recovered just like the man Riza had shot some hours earlier.
Roy sent her an evil look, and made the lighter he held in his hand sending out flames once again. The man's bloody appearing scared Riza more than she wanted to think of. A burning mark on his stomach showed the place the woman once had pierced her nails through him.
Once again the woman just recovered from the attack, and once again Roy made flames from the lighter. And finally the woman stopped rising from the dead. All that she once was, disappeared in ash and smoke, making only the body of Barry, Riza, Roy, Alphonse and Edward remain inside the room. Roy collapsed as a result from the wound he had gotten, and Riza stayed by his side while Alphonse ran over to his brother. The little three-year old was knocked out, most likely by the woman. There also seemed to be something else wrong with him, but Alphonse couldn't make it out.
The most important at the moment was to get Roy, Jean, who they guessed was in one of the other rooms down there, and Edward out and to a hospital.
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Winry was almost crazy from waiting when the phone Roy had in his house rang. The girl ran over to it faster than anyone could ever have thought anyone would be able to, and picked up the line.
"Hello," she said fast and worried. Her friends should have been back for a long while ago, after all.
"Hey, Winry. Do you have time to drop by the hospital?" Alphonse didn't need to say more than that.
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A/N: Hope you liked it^^ And again, sorry for leaving the last chapter the way I did!
Reviews makes me keep writing^^