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Chapter 26
Black Out
The young girl grinned widely as she watched the scene in front of her; Edward sat on a chair, eating whatever he got to dinner, with Darius and Heinkel standing right behind him, asking question after question about why he acted toward his father the way he did.
She was really happy it wasn't her that had them down her neck.
The whole show ended with Edward losing his temper, screaming that a lot had happened.
"A lot of what?" Greed-Ling asked; he hadn't paid attention during the conversation.
"He is just being stubborn again," Darius said, sounding all bored and uninterested. The short blonde glared angry at him for some moments, before his eyes caught something. He then ran off to a shop right behind him, almost scaring the old lady working there.
"Fabric store! Lady, give me that red cloth back there!" he yelled, pointing at something out of Angel's vision.
The lady didn't even hesitate to give it to the boy; no matter how scared she had been just some minutes ago.
"What are you buying?" Greed-Ling asked, staring at the cloth.
"Hehe, this is more like it," the blonde said as he clapped his hands together and touched the cloth.
Angel's eyes shined while she watched him turn the cloth into a new coat just like his old one. The girl had just witnessed the creation of one of Edward's famous red coats.
The boy grinned happily as he held the coat up, looking it over.
"Not that gaudy red coat again!" Heinkel said as Darius sighed. It was obvious that the two of them didn't like it.
"What's with you and red?" the homunculus asked.
"It's a badass tough-guy colour! Gets the blood boiling!" Edward stopped for a short time, before he continued: "This next battle against them could be my last. I need to stay motivated."
The two chimeras looked almost sad, Angel noticed once she looked at them. Maybe because they already had saved the boy's life once. Some said that when you saved someone, you got responsible for their life. That could explain why the two of them had stayed with Edward since the whole thing.
Then, the girl remembered something else.
"Oh! I think I forgot to intrude myself. I'm Angel Elkora," the girl said, smiling friendly toward the two chimeras and the homunculus.
"I'm Darius, this is Heinkel," the gorilla-looking chimera said, both of them nodding to her.
"I am Greed," Greed-Ling said, grinning.
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Angel smiled to herself while they started to walk down one of the streets in the little village. They had all asked her to come with them, implying that it was unsafe for a girl to walk around at night all alone.
She didn't want to leave this world, leave all of her new friends. The girl had made so many of them over the months she had spent there, even two extremely close once.
But she knew she would have to go home once she got the chance. She still had her family and friends in her own world, and a promise that kept her from doing anything. A promise she had made many years before.
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"Friends forever!" the three girls grinned to each other. Nothing would be able to separate them!
"We should make a promise too!" one of them said, Blanca.
"Yeah. . . Hey! We could make a promise to always stay together!" a second girl told the others, Suzie.
"Why not! That would be useful!" a young Angel continued.
"From here on, we promise to always stay together, and if we are not allowed to leave the others behind without first saying 'Goodbye'," the three girls said at the same time, and with that, the promised to keep together, until one of them said 'Goodbye'.
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'Goodbye', the forbidden word within their group.
Angel got almost sad while she thought it over. She didn't want to leave her old friends behind, but she didn't want to leave the ones in this world either. To leave Christian and Alexander behind. . . She knew she had to, but she didn't like it.
"Hey guys, you don't really have any reason to come with us, right? I was thinking you would be better off if we split up here," Edward's voice said, dragging Angel out of her thoughts. He was talking to the two chimeras, she knew that much, but she still felt that his words hit her too, just like Scar's had earlier when they said goodbye to Mei.
"Excuse me, all of you, except from Miss Elkora, works for me. I am the decider here," Greed-Ling answered with, not giving the chimeras a chance to answer for themselves.
"Do you wanna get your old bodies back like those other chimeras?" the boy continued to ask questions, ignoring the homunculus' comment.
"Not sure, really. Being a chimera comes in handy," Heinkel said, not really thinking it over.
"Yeah, we don't really care," Darius continued.
"That's the spirit!" Greed-Ling cheered.
"We have got nowhere to go."
"Maybe it's like an animal instinct. I think we will be better off in the long run if we stick with you guys."
"What about you, Greed? Why are you going with us? Weren't you running away from the other homunculi?" the boy continued his questioning-round, this time looking at the homunculus.
"You asking why I'm going back to Central?" he said, his back facing the others. Then, he turned his face, grinning evilly.
"That's a secret."
The girl shook her head. She knew why he was going back to Central, but she also knew it would be stupid to say anything about it.
"Angel, why are you tagging along?" Edward asked, turning toward her after the disappointing answer from Greed-Ling. The girl just shrugged her shoulders.
"I dislike Father and the other homunculi just as much as you, and if I hang around you guys, I might get a chance to get something I need," she said, smiling softly. Edward sent her a big grin before he turned his face toward the road again. At least she had given him a real answer.
Her shoulder-bag started to make loud sounds once she was done talking, signaling that Sol was done sleeping. The little kitty had taken a liking to sleeping in her bag together with the rest of her stuff, except from the things she left behind at Briggs.
The girl stopped walking once she noticed that the rest of them had as well.
"What's wrong?" Edward asked, rubbing his nose from where he had walked into Heinkel.
Angel stared in front of them; looking right at one of those she could call her friend.
Alphonse.
The armored boy was blocking the road in front of them, standing right outside of a huge shadow.
Angel bit her underlip as the blond boy shouted his brother's name, almost laughing of happiness.
This wasn't Alphonse. This was something far more dangerous.
Sol made a sound again from the inside of her bag, a sound telling that she too had notice that something where wrong.
The girl looked at the group around her. Greed-Ling looked like he was struggling with inner emotions. Just like the cat, he too had noticed that something where wrong.
Angel could only helplessly watch as Edward started to follow his brother closer to the shadows, closer to him.
"ED!" the girl was surprised to hear not only her own voice, but Greed-Ling's as well, both of them yelling after their friend.
"Get away from him! He is. . . It is. . ." the homunculus wasn't able to get any longer with his sentence before shadows flew out of behind the suit of armor, aiming for Edward and the group behind him.
Angel could feel her breath getting stuck inside her throat. The fear she had felt down in the tunnels way back in Briggs came back in full force.
"So you are with them now, Greed? And you are still waltzing around in a human form," Pride's voice said, his shadows lifting Alphonse head/helmet from his shoulders.
"A-Al? What is this? Are you turning on us?!" Edward sounded afraid, and Angel couldn't really blame him for that. If it had been one of her cousins, she would have been the same way.
"It's Pride. How did you know where we were?" the friendly homunculus said, the first thing to his companions, the other to his 'older brother'.
"There is no limit to your betrayals, Greed. You are now just another obstacle to us," Pride said, still using Alphonse's body.
Think, Angel, think, think. What can you use against this homunculus? I doubt your knives will do much damage. The girl told herself.
The others talked to each other, all of them seemed to have forgotten about the girl standing behind them. Even Pride seemed to have forgotten about her, luckily enough.
But then, the enemy's voice dragged her out of her thoughts.
"I'm here to eliminate Greed. And you two, Fullmetal Alchemist, Angelita Elkora. . . You will come with me."
The girl didn't even get to think of something to say before she felt someone dragging her away from the enemy. She was about to scream once she noticed that it was Darius and Heinkel that had grabbed her, dragged her into safety behind a tree.
"Guys, hurry and get awa- Hey! That was a little too fast!" Edward yelled, just now noticing that they had moved.
"Our animal instincts are telling us 'Don't fight that thing!'. You gonna be okay, kid?" Darius said, looking a little worried.
"Yeah, they need me and Al, they won't kill us. You may not be allowed to go all out, but I sure as hell am. You are going down," he said ice-cold, only the first sentence aimed at his friends.
"I see. No, I won't kill you, but I may have to rip off two or three of your limbs." With that, Pride's shadows attacked again, trying as hard as it could to hit the running boy.
Angel looked through her bag, searching hard for something that could help them in the battle. Why had she left most of her useful things back at Briggs?
Outside of her thoughts had Greed-Ling joined the fight against Pride as well, only to be trapped in the first attack.
Then, all the lights in the village went out, making them stand in complete darkness.
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