36: My dream

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I come back to something scratching my face. I look and I'm being dragged across the floor by Fletcher, he has his back towards me meaning he hasn't caught on yet. I twist myself making him to let go, I get back on my feet and reach into my pocket. I throw out sais (it's a trident shaped knife) at his joints making him not able to move. He tries moving so I use that moment to run off.

"You want me to take him out?" Leo asks throw my ear piece

"No. It'll blow your cover, thanks though." I reply as I sprint down the hallways trying to find where Roy went. Even though he has a Swapping Seal so I can switch places with the knife I gave him earlier, he has to activate it as long as we're not together. distance is the greatest enemy here besides the Fuehrer and Fletcher. I'm confronted by a pair of guards, I throw a smoke bomb and escape because I'm going to need all of the energy I can get to survive this hellish birthday party.

I reach down into the basement hallways, I hear voices then it hits me. I feel the Swapping Seal activate so I let it happen.

I appear from the knife as it's in mid-flight sailing past the Fuehrer. He's about to tell Roy something when I land a kick across his face. Bradley staggers away, I land next to Roy with my guard up with my katana at hand.

"I should have figured that you'd both be in this," Bradley comments as he shakes his head, I see his katana at hand too so I raise mine to my face and stand in front of Roy.

"Back me up on this," I mumble because I can't even think about him getting in the way of the katana's way; one right slice and you're dead.

"How cute, but Fang you're forgetting something," he extends his hand out towards me and draws it together. I'm flung towards him and he catches me by my face, I scrim trying to break free when he continues "Illusion Alchemists can be handicapped," he punches me in the guy and I feel the Alchemy Device snap and crack into pieces. I muffle my screams as he lets go of me and I fall to the floor. He kicks me stomach up and pushes his foot against the device digging his heel into it. I scream out and start crying from the pain, "Keep screaming, maybe that'll show you why you shouldn't have messed with me. If you and Mustang hadn't snooped your noses where it shouldn't have belonged then you wouldn't be here! Dying! Underneath my feet!" He yells into my face, the pressure builds up and it feels like I'm going to explode any second. My eyes dart around trying to find anything when I find a glass wine bottle. I chunk it towards his face and it rips up the side of his face. He howls so in that spilt second where his foot's off, Roy swoops down, picks me up and sets me behind him.

"Hang in there Laura, I'll get us out soon." He throws his eyes back towards the Fuehrer, "I'll make you regret this Bradley." He smirks and draws up his sword

"Let the fun begin Mustang, take your best shot." They go at each other and Roy's losing so badly. I place my hand over my device's area and try to subdue the throbbing and pain that's building up. It gets really hot in here which isn't helping me in my situation either; I set my hand against the wall and barely manage to see the fight still. The Fuehrer suddenly stops his attack as his son comes in.

"Daddy! I brought you the thing that's your life! I thought that the fire would burn it and-" he chokes as he drops a bag while his own father's choking him.

"I can't believe that even my own son would he such an idiot." The boy falls to the ground making Roy and I to let out startled cries. That's it, I use the little bit of adrenaline I have left, grab my katana, and lunge out. I slam myself into the Fuehrer, he tries throwing me off when the katana slices up the whole length of his arm. He howls out, clamps both of his hands around the blade, I do the same as we fight for control over the blade. (Even though he's being cut up, I'm not because I'm grabbing it from the side that's not rigid; [it's a single-edged blade and I'm not grabbing it from the sharp side]) he raises the sword above my head trying to get me to let go of the thing; I hold on if my life depended on it, he lifts me off of the floor and pins me against the table trying to dig the blade into my neck. I fight and kick trying to get free when he demands

"Why Fang?! Why risk your life for this?! You had no reason why to do this! All for what?! For Mustang's stupid dream?!" He yells into my face, I glare back at him

"Because he's my dream! I'll follow him until the bitter end!" I manage to throw him off of me, that's when Roy takes over. I start panting as I'm still flat on my back against the table. I try to get myself under control but lose it when Roy's in his last stand, he grabs the skull from the bag and blows it up. The Fuehrer instantly catches on fire as everything burns along with the room. Once when he's reduced to a hemp of burned human (well Homunculi) corpse, Roy pulls me up back to my feet, grabs the boy and we stagger out. We wrap an arm around each other and with the other we hold up the boy as we're exhausted. We limo to the entrance where we're supposed to meet up with Riza and Leo, we see Riza and we're about to make our way over to her but then in a turn of events, we don't. Bullets enter our bodies by Fletcher's guns, Riza and Leo kill Fletcher off but not in time. I crash against the ground along with Roy, we crush the boy underneath our bodies, my eyes feel so heavy, everything wobbles as I see Leo and Riza running towards us. Leo gets down on his knees in front of me,

"Laura! Hang on!" He runs off so I bring myself to look over at Roy, Riza's crying screaming out his name as his eyes are closed. I bring a shaky hand over to his face and wipe his sweat off of his cheek, my blood's painted on it;

"We did it..." I give a weak smile and look away. Riza and Leo are about to say something towards me, my eyes slowly drop and I don't know what happens next as I'm in a sea of black.