Chapter 25 Seismic Activity
Roy and Riza walked arm in arm down the hallway with debris falling and walls falling apart. Roy continually snapped his fingers sending flames destroying all the debris that was falling in front of them. The ceiling was finally collapsing little by little and finally gave way. Roy glanced back up quickly as he saw giant chunks of the ceiling coming down on them,
"Hawkeye get down!"
Riza heard him and tumbled down to the ground on her stomach and Roy suspended himself above her with his arms shielding her from the debris falling. Roy scrunched his face in pain with about more than 40 pounds piled only on his back while his arms trembled trying to keep him suspended above her trying to not come crashing down on her with his weight plus another 40 plus.
"Hawkeye move I can't suspend myself above you any…longer!"
Riza moved quickly from beneath him and Roy went crashing down with the weight of part of a ceiling on him feeling the powerful tremors. Riza removed the debris pile off his back and offered her hand to him and pulled him up to his feet. Roy brushed off all the dust and dirt from his uniform, face and hair.
"We have to run for it now come on!"
Riza saluted quickly and ran behind Roy as they sprinted down the hallways and stairs falling apart and finally reached Major Armstrong seeing him help some trapped soldiers removing rocks and debris away.
"Major! What in the damn hell is happening this is way to abrupt for an earthquake!"
Major Armstrong turned around to see Roy and Riza standing supporting each other.
"There is something happening in Warehouse 6 I'm not sure but that is where Major Kain Damcyan was last spotted with Lieutenant Colonel Archer."
Roy growled silently at the sound of Archer's name,
"You mean that bastard Archer and the new Alchemist Kain is behind this giant tremor? What in the damn hell are they doing!"
Major Armstrong finally lifted all the debris from and freed the trapped soldiers and continued talking,
"I heard Tucker was behind this fiasco too Colonel Mustang. To take control of the Twilight Alchemy for a certain purpose unbeknownst to me."
Roy cursed under his breath. 'They are not taking Riza under no circumstance!'
"Lieutenant Hawkeye! Lets go to Warehouse 6 now! We have to stop whatever is happening there before it brings down all of Central!"
Riza saluted and followed him outside sprinting until their legs threatened to buckle. After about 1 minute tops they made their way to the Warehouse grounds and saw a pack of dog like Chimeras the same ones that attacked Central a week ago they must have been released from the tremors.
"Shit."
Roy cursed under his breath and turned to look back at Riza.
"Lets get this over with quick and try not to loose your footing."
Riza nodded pulling out her trusty silver colored magnum clicking the safety off and charged into the pack of Chimeras in sync with Roy. Roy snapped his fingers setting ablaze 2 Chimeras at a time and watching them sizzle and their last wines and yelps. Riza stood her ground and shot all Chimeras in her perimeter with accurate precision in an instant killing them. After a few bites later that Roy got and Riza they were standing in front of a field of dead Chimera bodies with the ground still shaking. Roy glanced back at Riza who was putting her magnum back in its holster,
"Riza lets go we have to move quick we've wasted so much damn time already fighting these things."
Riza nodded and spoke,
"Si-Roy in Warehouse 6 I feel something very familiar and dangerous don't you?"
Roy scratched the top of his head and nodded in agreement,
"I was thinking the same thing Riza it feels very familiar to me but I don't have clue what it could be or what could it do but anyway we have to go before it's to late and Central Headquarters turns into a pile of rubble."
Riza nodded again agreement and sprinted along with him to Warehouse 6. Roy kicked open the front door and sprinted in with Riza behind his back looking around the warehouse,
"It's coming from downstairs. The weird thing is why is there the scent of melting flesh and blood? Damn something is going on and it's probably what I think it is…a taboo."
His face stayed stern as he turned to Riza and put his gloved hands on her shoulders making her jump a briefly as she turned to face his ebony eyes,
"I want you to stay here and wait for me. They are looking for you and I can't afford to loose someone like you."
Riza softened her face and eyes,
"I promised I would protect you and I don't break promises."
Roy leaned into her ear to whisper,
"It's okay to break that promise for now."
He whispered tenderly into her ear,
"I'm going and that's final I don't want to loose you because will be protecting you. Don't do this because my heart can't take this anymore."
Roy pulled away from her ear gradually and cupped her face in his hands,
"You win alright? Just promise me you'll be careful?"
Roy said pulling his hands from her chin in a half whisper tone,
"Of course I will."
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Tell you the truth why this took so long to get updated is, I had this story posted also on anime spiral but the problem was I lost the original file for this on my computer so I had to look for the floppy that it was originally on. There is only one more chapter left after this. This only part one of two stories. This story is part one and part two I still need to think of. (It'll be way better then this for sure since my writing is way better than this now ;) Sage of Death