Alright people! It's time for the GRAND FINALE! Get yur popcorn ready cause the fic is about to begin!
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Beast Within
Chapter 4: He's Loose
"Boy, you two never stop studying. It's almost midnight anyway. What alchemy is it that you're learning?" Loretta asked organizing a stack of books.
"Miscellaneous things. You never know until you need to use a good transmutation." Al answered.
Loretta laughed. "That's true!"
"Not only that, this is a library based on alchemy! You may never know until you find a good book!" Ed replied as well writing a couple of notes down.
"That's true also!"
Suddenly, a wolf entered the library limping towards the trio.
Ed and Al stood up from their seat. "Don't worry, we'll protect you!" They said.
The wolf hissed, but was too exhausted to fight. So, it collapsed on the floor.
Ed and Al got out of their fighting poses still glaring at the wolf.
And so, right before their very eyes, the wolf morphed back into Roy (he's not naked. He's still wearing his pants. Phu-ew!). Everyone remained dumbfounded. "MUSTANG?"
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"Erg…" Roy stirred and sat up from his bed rubbing his aching head. "What happened?"
"You went unconscious…" Al explained as he sat on the floor in the small room.
"Al? What are you doing here? What am I doing here?" Roy asked.
"Well, to make a long story short…" Ed explained. ".. you freakishly mutated into a wolf and started killing massacres of innocent live people and ran all the way here to hide."
Damn.. he knows… "Oh, Ed, I didn't see you there. You were a bit too short for me to notice you.." Roy teased.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT?" Ed retorted.
"Calm down brother…" Al said. He then turned Mustang. "Tell me, Colonel, why are you killing all these people?"
Mustang looked down at his covers. "I'm not sure, Al. I just don't know.." he said in a quiet tone.
"I believe I know the answer.."
Everyone turned to Loretta who was standing next to the door holding an open book. "I believe you are suffering from being a Werewolf – separate animal consciousness."
" A werewolf? You mean those things that turn into wolves by a full moon?" Ed suggested.
"Idiot. Do you obviously think you would compare science fiction to the real world?" Loretta asked. Ed sweat dropped.
"Tell me about the werewolf…" Roy asked.
Loretta smiled. "I was afraid you wouldn't ask." She started reading the article in the book. "A werewolf is a human being with another/separate conscious of a wolf that only appear in any phase of moonlight. During this phase, the human's conscious is being dominated by the wolf's conscious – who of course is only focusing on eating. Werewolves can only form by a mutation of some sort…"
The criminal the other day who cut me with that sword probably had something to do with this mutation… Roy thought.
The bookkeeper continued. "Symptoms are drowsiness, dehydration, temptation for meat, hallucinations, dizzy spells, headaches, lack of energy, perspiration—"
"I feel so sorry for all those people, Colonel.." Ed said playing with his gloves. "All those screams…"
"Edward!" Al said.
"SHUT UP!" Roy snapped.
"—and short-temper.." Loretta finished as she shut the book with some dust flying out of it.
"So, tell me, is there a cure for this?" Mustang asked sounding calm again.
"Of course there is. It'll take us a day to search for the ingredients since all of my supplies are 'expired.' " Loretta confirmed. "But from now until we put together the antidote.. I suggest we should put you somewhere publicly isolated so you won't be killing anymore people.."
" ………….."
"W-wait a minuet, Miss Loretta!" Ed said. "Who will search for the ingredients?"
Loretta smiled at the Elrics mischievously.
Ed and Al sweat dropped. "Oh boy…. Look what we've got ourselves into…"
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"I'm sorry, Colonel, but doing this is mandatory. It's taking the Elrics longer than I expect to fetch those ingredients…" Loretta said locking a giant lock securely.
"They'll come back eventually…" Roy sighed being tied with chains against the wall, to restrain his wolf form from coming loose.
It had been the following day, and it was almost sundown. Loretta locked Roy securely in the dark, dismal, prison cell. The only source of light was small windows with bars high up on the wall.
She then walked out of the cell, closing the bar door behind her, locking it securely. "Once again, Colonel, I am very sorry about this…."
"I know. But it's for the greater good.."
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The moon finally peeked its way through the windows. Roy struggled a bit trying to resist the pain of the blood rushing through him. Once again, he was about to change.
Loretta, sitting at a tea table near the prison cell, drank her tea calmly reading the cure for werewolf. "Just a little longer…" she whispered.
Roy struggled his arms and legs grunting from the pain. His eyes grew slits, his teeth grew sharp, and his nails grew long claws. "Aaaaargh!" He yelled still struggling, trying to resist.
"I'm sorry Colonel.. but there's no way to resist the beast.." she said to herself again drinking another sip of her tea.
A loud roar echoed throughout the chamber. Roy finally turned into his werewolf form, struggling even harder and growling even fiercer than before. Loretta only drank her tea softly and kept on reading.
CHING!
The werewolf pulled his chain restraints out of the brick wall.
Loretta stood up alarmed.
Then, the werewolf scooted back and leaped, braking out of the restraining chains for his hind legs and pushing the jail bars on top of Loretta. Finally, escaping from his cage, he fled out of the chamber.
"Rah!" using her alchemy without a transmutation circle, she sent the fallen jail bars flying to the other side of the room and started chasing after Roy.
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Loretta finally ran out of the prison chamber. "There you are!"
The werewolf growled at her. Loretta started sending out binding balls of light at the werewolf but it evaded her attacks. "Damnit! I can't restrain him!"
The werewolf leaped at Loretta using a head butt, but she quickly used a barrier to guard against it. Roy bounced back from the force field and fell on a library bookshelf that fell on another and so forth like a stack of dominos.
"Miss Loretta!" Al and Ed bursted in the room with the ingredients.
The werewolf, realizing that he would be overpowered, fled and jumped out the stain-glass window, heading towards Central – which was 1 mile away. Loretta looked down from the broken window. "Blast it! He's heading towards Central!"
"Come on! We gotta go!" Ed said about to run out.
"NOT SO FAST!" Loretta said halting him. "If you plan on chasing your superior, we'd might as well make the antidote while we're at it!"
Moments later, the Elrics dumped the ingredients they collected all on top of the reading table.
"A pinch of salt, a couple of herbs…" Loretta hastily started making the antidote. "Blast it! This is worse than I thought!"
"What?"
"We have to give this to Mustang ASAP before, not only that he'll murder several people, he'll be hunt down by the military as well.." Loretta said with stress piling on her back.
"Miss Loretta… I'm sorry.." Al sulked. "We should've have collected the ingredients much faster…"
"That's ok, Alphonse.." Loretta said mixing up the ingredients. "But right now, we can't afford the luxury of the doubt right now, especially when so many lives are at stake!"
She finally got the formula tightly sealed in a small test-tube. "Done! Let's move!"
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Hawkeye and her men were on patrol, searching through the empty and deserted streets of Central. That animal bastard will pay for what he has done to Roy… She clenched her fist.
"1st Lieutenant Hawkeye.. Witnesses spotted the murderer heading downtown.." one of her soldiers informed.
"Good. I want you to surround the downtown perimeters and make sure it doesn't escape.." Hawkeye demanded.
"YES SIR!" They said in unison and went off to their post.
"…. And I'll make sure it won't get away…" Riza muttered.
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The Elrics and Loretta ran hastily through the empty streets of Central.
"Why is it so empty?" Al asked looking around.
"They probably evacuated everyone for safety procedures. We must be getting close." Loretta answered.
"Hey, Loretta, what happened to the 'do things slowly' monologue?" Ed asked sarcastically.
"I said that because you didn't have any time to waist.. now.. ITS ABOUT THE MATTER OF TIME!" Loretta wheezed.
They soon came across a road block with several soldiers guarding it. "HAULT!" He bellowed.
Ed dug into his pocket, "Don't worry! We're State Alchemist—"
But before Ed could take out his pocket watch, Loretta used her alchemy to force the soldiers to move out of the way. "Let's go!" And she ran through the roadblock.
Ed and Al sweat dropped. "She sure has a lot in her…"
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Hawkeye and several bodyguards obediently following her, continued to look for the murderer. "Where are you, dog?" she mumbled.
Awwoooooooooooooooooooooo!
The howling alarmed the soldiers. "UP AHEAD!" Hawkeye commanded as she and her soldiers started going towards the howling.
Moments later, they stopped; yards and yards ahead of them was the wolf itself. The werewolf stopped howling and looked at Hawkeye.
"At ease.." she said to her men who were about to take their guns out.
"But – 1st Lieutenant!"
"I'll handle this…" Hawkeye said loading her pistol. She was going to enjoy killing it.
The werewolf began to trot towards Hawkeye, with its claws scratching on the paved streets.
Bam!
She shot a bullet right next to its paw startling the beast. The ricochet echoed throughout the town.
After a long pause, the werewolf attempted to walk towards Hawkeye again.
Bam!
She shot it right through the abdomen. Blood dripped down from the black werewolf's chest. It yowled in pain.
"WAIT! Stop! Don't shoot!"
The soldiers turned around to see The Elrics and Loretta running towards them, panting and wheezing.
"STOP!" The soldiers restrained the three from getting any closer to Hawkeye.
Edward tried to jerk his arm from the soldier's grasp. "1st lieutenant! Release us! We have something—"
"You don't have anything to cure my pain, Edward…" Hawkeye said coldly.
"But.. WAIT!" The soldier knocked Ed out by hitting him with the end of his gun. Edward collapsed on the ground unconscious.
"EDWARD!" Al jerked out of the soldiers' grasp and went to tend Edward. Leaving Loretta to persuade things.
"1st Lieutenant Hawkeye, please don't shoot. You do not understand what's going on…" Loretta calmly pleaded.
Hawkeye, loading another bullet in her pistol and aiming towards the animal's head, ignored Loretta. "This is for your own good…"
Loretta started struggling. "STOP IT! You don't understand! IT'S ROY! That wolf you're going to kill is actually ROY! YOUR SUPERIOUR, DUMB ASS!"
"Shut up! That's impossible! Do expect me to believe crap like that?" Hawkeye shouted. "ROY IS DEAD!"
"What? What makes you think that?" Loretta said. "Fine, if you don't believe me, look into its eyes. Tell me what you see!"
Riza coldly stared at the creature's eyes as it's blood oozed on the ground. It whined in pain, staring at Hawkeye to help it. Then, a sudden thought came to her mind. Somehow, she could feel Mustang's presence from the wolf. Could it be?
"So, tell me what you see…"
Hawkeye collapsed on her knees. "It can't be… merely impossible…" She shook her head. "He wouldn't do that to those people. He wouldn't…" She began to cry.
Loretta got out of the soldier's grasp, standing next to Hawkeye. "I think… he's been cursed longer than we may have thought……" she said.
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Heheh… waay… stupid. This was the stupidest story I have ever made in my history! XD Don't worry people, I'm expecting low story ratings.
O ya… since the story came out real crappy, I'm makin an epilogue for a final touch. So, please rate my story! PLLEEEZZ! RNR
