A/N: AND NOW, THE CHAPTER YOU ALL HAVE(Probably not) BEEN WAITING FOR!

CHAPTER TWENTY!

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Chapter Twenty

"What happened earlier?"

I sighed and looked at Mustang. "I'm sorry about that. It's just…" I puffed out my cheeks and blew out air. "I really hate Tucker. He-You saw Nina, right? He turns her into a chimera."

Mustang grimaced and rubbed his forehead. "God. You must be kidding."

I gave a grim smile. "Nope. I'm hoping to stop him, but…Well. You know, it's started. We're at the first-no, second-book right now." I was overwhelmed by a feeling of panic. "Roy...I don't think I can do this. I mean, it's one thing to read these things. It's quite another to actually experience it. What if I mess up?"

He looked at me, his dark look softening. "Hey. You're only human. It's okay if you mess up. Things happen. You can't be expected to fix the whole world."

I gave him a sharp look. "But I have to do what I can. And with Nina…" I grimaced. "She's just a child! She doesn't deserve to be turned into a monster! I have to do something to save her..."

Mustang stood up. "We'll do what we can when the time comes. For now, just get some sleep. You look exhausted."

I felt my resolve dissolve, the mask I tried to keep up constantly crumble. "Roy...I don't want her to haunt me, too."

He looked at me for a long time, then gave me a small, sad smile. "I know. I understand. Get some sleep. We'll do what we can tomorrow."

I left his office, mind still racing. She wouldn't be changed tomorrow...but I still felt apprehensive.

Was I missing something?

You're in an empty hall. You look around, trying to figure out where you are and desperately searching for signs of life. There aren't any.

There's a door ahead of you. As you walk toward it, the floor begins rumbling. You take look behind you and see shadows rapidly engulfing the hall. The darkness is racing towards you.

Panic shoots through you and you begin running to the door. Behind you, the darkness tears into the hall, making way to emptiness. You reach the doorknob and fling open the door just as the shadows touch your right leg.

Agony. You scream out loud, but manage to get into the room and close the door as the black tendrils wrap around your leg. All at once, the pain disappears.

You take deep breaths, trying to regain your breath, then look around. You're inside a bare white room. The door that you entered through has disappeared.

"Uh...hello?" You call out, looking around uncertainly.

"Behind you."

You twirl around, hands prepped to clap, when you see her. Standing there and smiling, an angelic portrait, marred by the bleeding wound on her head.

Rika.

"Hi, Angie." She says, smiling as if you're just having a friendly conversation, like she's not...like you didn't…

"What do you want?" You whisper in a hoarse voice.

She laughs. "Nothing. But…" Her face darkens. "I was here to tell you something. I've forgotten what it was." Suddenly, she jerks. "Oh, yes." She smiles, and the corners of her mouth are suddenly stained with blood. "Nina says hello."

You stumble backward as a figure appears behind Rika. It's a dog-like animal. It opens its mouth, and an unearthly voice comes from it. "Big Sister…? Big Sister…?"

No. No, no, no, no, no…

"No, no, you're still okay...it's not my fault...No..."

Screams start to come from Nina, and suddenly they're everywhere, tortured shrieks, hysterical laughs.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME? WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE US?"

No!

The birds were chirping when I jerked awake, covered in sweat. Instinctively, I grasped the charms on my necklace. Oh, god…

I fell out of bed and shakily stumbled to the living room. Ed was there, having breakfast. A huge stack of waffles was in the center of the table. He looked up as I entered. "You okay? You looked like you were having a pretty bad nightmare."

I shook my head and forced a smile. "Nah. I'm fine." In reality, it was one of the worse nightmares I had had since Rika's death. I didn't tell Ed that, though. I'd actually never told him when I had a nightmare(which, frankly, was a lot of the time). I figured that he didn't need to worry about me. He had enough to worry about already.

He gave me a skeptical look, but dropped it.

I sat down and grabbed a waffle. "So, what are we doing today?"

"I want to look at Tucker's research again. He had a lot of good information, but I didn't get everything I needed, since someone sicced a dog on me."

I shrugged and bit into my waffle. "Well, who laughed when said dog jumped on me?"

"Well, who laughed at me when the dog jumped on me first?"

I nodded in submission and continued eating, still living the nightmare I had woken up from. If we were going back to that hellhole that was the Tucker house, I needed to come up with a plan.

I couldn't let Nina haunt me. I couldn't let her die.

I had to find a way to get her out.

A/N: Man. I just love making my character miserable, don't I? Sorry this chapter wasn't that interesting.

Anyways! *starts dancing* Tomorrow I turn 14! Yeah, I said that I'd post on my birthday. Sorry for lying. The problem is I got into some, ah...trouble with my folks. I decided to post today just to make sure that I would post at all.

Another thing is...when I got in trouble, one of the things my folks did is forbid me to write for two weeks. Yeah, it sucks. This means that Chapter Twenty-One may take a while to finish. However, I may change the covers soon. I got some friends to draw covers for me, and I just need to scan them.

As I said before, thank you, everyone, even if all you did was look at this! I love you all! Muah! :3

Ciao, bella!