Ack! It took soooo long to get this started! Our high school is having our Ohio Graduation Tests and the board of education assumes we no longer have a life But after a LLLOOONNNGG wait, I'm finally posting Chapter 6! (throws confetti) REJOICE!

Ed strolled down the empty hallways, while Al and Hughes tiptoed behind him. They were in search of Roy and Riza who had just gone missing. Ed walked with his shoulders back and head up high, confident he'd find them without breaking a sweat. No problem, right? But there was a problem. Ed had no idea where he was going or where to even begin looking for the two! But of coarse he wasn't about to let Al and Hughes know that, he had reputation to uphold! He kept his lips sealed as they approached the end of hallway which went on splitting into two completely separate corridors. Ed stopped in front of them, looking both ways. "Damn, I've got no clue where to go!" he thought to himself, looking back at Al and Hughes and smiling nervously. "But I can't let Al and Hughes know that! I'll just keep guessing hallways for now, besides, I can at least ACT like I know where I'm going!" he thought, motioning in the direction of the hallway on the right."Yeah! That'll work! And they don't look the least bit doubtful either!" Hughes stopped behind Edward, pushing his glasses up. He yawned. "Edward, are you sure you know where you're going?" Ed froze and twitched an eye. "Damn."

Riza squirmed uncomfortably, trying to shove a very unconscious Roy Mustang off of her. She panted for breath, finding it very hard to breathe and the air to be getting thinner. "We ARE underground," she thought. "So I guess the air supply down hear is running a little low." Grabbing a hold of the newly lit, but still very dim, candle, she held it above her. Sure enough, the passage was getting a lot narrower. Thinking fast, she grabbed hold of the dirt wall next to her, and began pulling herself out. Giving one final tug, she managed to free herself. Quickly crawling out from the collapsed Mustang, she sat down, stretching her back. She took a minute to catch her breath and soothe her strained back and limbs that were sore to the bone! Since Mustang had collapsed, he had been limp and heavy to hold up. She gave the unconscious Colonel a sour look, while messaging her shoulder. After wiping the cold sweat from her forehead, she undid her military jacket, and fanned her neck. Looking over at Mustang again, her sour face had turned into a sympathetic frown, as she sighed and undid the rest of her jacket. "It's hard to be mad at him when he looks so pathetic like that." Holding her jacket out in front of her, she shook it to throw the loose pieces of dirt off. Then smiling, she inched toward Mustang and flapped her jacket out over his motionless body, and brushed the clumps of dirt and dust from his face and hair. He seemed so much more innocent and pure as apposed to the slightly perverted and insulting Colonel he usually was. After a second, she shook off her smile and grabbed the candle next to her side. "Looks like I'm on my own now."

Ed, Al and Hughes, walked along a carpeted hallway calling out for their friends. Hughes cupped his hands around his mouth. "Roy ol' buddy! Where you! Riza?" Ed yelled out for them too, even though he was kind of glad Mustang wasn't around to insult him and call him 'chibi'. For once! "Mustang, if this is some plan to scare me, you're dead!" Hughes shot a look at Ed. "Ed, you're gonna give him ideas."

Ed looked back and shrugged.

"And besides," Hughes continued, "If you threaten to kill him, he's just going to stay hidden even longer."

Ed's eyes opened wide with excitement. "Hey Mustang! I'm gonna kill yo-" Hughes covered Ed's mouth shut as Ed squirmed around trying to free himself.

"Ed, cut it out! You can be so hopeless sometimes, you know that?"

Suddenly Al let out a shriek. "No! Don't go!" he yelled. Ed and Hughes turned around to see Al's kitty jump from his grasp. "Eh! Wait!" Al yelled, as his kitty leaped out from his hands. "Come back!" The small kitten darted down the hallway into the darkness ahead of them. Al froze in place and slouched down to sit on the floor. Hughes looked down at him. "Hey, c'mon, we can still catch him!" Al drooped his head. "The kitty's, g-gone." Hughes whispered over to Ed. "Is your brother going to be okay?"

"He's fine, he just has a thing for saving cats."

Hughes gave Ed a blank stare. "Now c'mon Al," Ed chimed, helping his brother up, "let's go after your cat!" Al lit up with excitement as Ed sprinted after the kitty, followed by Hughes. Without any delay, Al jumped up and ran after the two.

Once Al caught up, he saw Ed and Hughes standing at the side of the hallway. "What is it?" Al asked, getting curious. Al peeked over Hughes and Ed to get a better view at what they were staring at. "What? What is it?" Hughes and Ed turned around with Al's kitty in Ed's hands as it let out a high pitched meow. Al blushed, taking the kitten off of E d's hands. "Thank you Nii-san! You saved the kitty!" Ed scratched the back of his head. "Calm down would you, Al. It wasn't that big a deal. And your cat-"

"I'm so happy my kitty is safe!"

"That's nice, Al, but your cat found-"

"I'm going to name him after you!"

"Al listen! Your cat! It found a-"

"Yes! I'll name him NekoEdo-Chan!"

Ed's eye twitched. "Al, you're getting kind of carried away. And for the last time, your cat found something!" Ed motioned to the opened secret passage way that Mustang and Riza had gone through earlier. Al looked at the passage and hugged his cat and started praising it. "That's a good job NekoEdo-Chan!" he cooed, stroking its head. "You're so smart and so clever, just like Nii-san!"

Riza held onto her dim candlelight, holding her hand around it to keep it lit. As the air got thinner around them, the light started to dim more and more. But while she stared at the light, watching it die down, she heard a grunt come from next to her. "Is Roy waking up?" she thought to herself. She moved over by his head and directed the candlelight to his face. His dark eyes shut tightly and blinked. "What.. .what happened?" he moaned. Riza looked at his eyes as they shut again. Desperate to wake him up, she set the candle down used both hands to open his eye back up. "Hey, Roy, are you awake?" she asked, as his eyes rolled to the back of his head. "Roy! Wake up!" Riza demanded, raising her voice. "Hey! Wake up!" She patted the side of his face, and tried opening his eye again. He sat up slightly and started coughing. "What's going on?" he asked, dazed. Riza bit her lip and stammered. "Um, well a rock kind of, hit you. On the head. Sort of where, I hit you. Then you blacked out! And it's getting harder to breathe in this pass-" She stopped and look down to notice his head lying in her lap. "Sorry," he muttered. "The grounds pretty hard, and my head hurts." Riza opened her mouth about to accuse him of doing something pervy, but instead, sighed an layed a hand on his head. "Where did you get hit?" she asked, menuvering her fingers along his scalp.

"Near the top," he answered. "Well, sorta near the top, a little to right above my- OW!"

He winced as Riza's hand met the bulbous lump that had swelled atop his ripped the end of her pants leg off to make a bandage. "Here," she said lifting his head up. "I'll wrap your head for you." While straightening out the cloth she had just ripped from her pants, she looked along Mustang's head for the place he'd been hit. Then taking his head, she gently wrapped the cloth around the bump where he'd been hit, looping it around being careful not to pull his hair. As the cloth reached it's final loop, she connected it to the front to tie it. "Could move your head up a bit?" she asked. "I need to tie the knot tighter." Mustang moved his head up, rubbing his eyes, tiredly.

"How long was I out?" he asked.

"You were only out for a few minutes," Riza answered, struggling with the knot. Roy jerked up. "A few minutes! It felt like hours!"

"It felt like years for me," Riza mumbled under her breath.

"What was that?"

"Um, What time is it?" Riza asked, trying to cover up her sarcastic remark.

"Not sure. But we met up about ten til Midnight, so my guess is that it's probably close to Midnight."

Riza nodded in agreement, and tugged on the cloth wrapping Mustang's head. "Guess it's not as late as it feels," she added, folding the ends together to form a knot. "Now turn your head towards me," she demanded. "I need make this tight, so it won't fall off."

"Just make it quick," he said, moving his head up to Riza's. "I thought I heard something from the other end of the tunnel." Riza rolled her eyes and tried pulling the knot, but failed miserably because her fingers kept slipping. Frustrated, she grabbed the top his head and bit the end of the knot. "Gosh, Riza, a little resentful now aren't we?"

"Bite me Mustang!"

Ed held his brightly lit candle in front of him as he crawled along the dirt tunnel. "It's awfully muggy down here," Hughes commented, looking around. "And dirty, too!" Al added, trying to shake a spider web off of his steal armor.

"But look at the ground!" said Ed, shining his light on the dirt pathway. "There's hand prints all over the place! And they look fresh, so Roy and Riza must've come this way!"

"Makes you wonder if maybe they want to be alone," Hughes teased. Ed gave him a disturbed look and rolled his eyes. "Grow up, Hughes."

Al looked at them confused. "Huh? I don't get it!" They both looked back at Al as Hughes started giggling. "What? What did you mean!" Al asked, looking embarrassed.

Hughes laughed again. "You're kidding me, right?"

Al shook his head. "What? Tell me!"

As Hughes continued to laugh at poor Al, Ed looked down and sighed. "I'll tell you when you're older, Al."

Riza had finally completed the knot, pulling one end with her teeth and the other with her finger. She gave a sigh of relief, now that she had finally finished tying that annoying bandage! But as she tried pulling her head back, but stopped. "Ow!" she yelled. "What is it?" Roy asked, wanting to get it over with.

"The thread is stuck on my tooth!" she yelled, trying to pull herself free.

Roy looked up at her, trying not to burst our laughing. But he didn't try hard enough. He exploded into laughter, as he looked up at the strict Lt. Hawkeye with a piece of string attached to her face. "Man, thought I'd never live to something this funny!" he choked out between laughs. Riza's eyes narrowed. "Just help me loose already!"

"Alright! Alright!" Roy answered, wiping a tear from his eye and calming down. "Tokay, I'll pull my head back. That should rip it out." He lurched his head forward, preparing to jerk it back. "On the count of three. One, Two, Three!" On three, his head flew back, and his plan seemed to be working out well. Until, Riza flew back with him. After a split-second, Roy lay on his back, with Riza face to face on top of him. "Hey! I'm free!" Riza chimed.

"WWAH!"

They heard a scream come from behind them. They turned their heads around slowly to see, who else, but Ed, Hughes, and Al a few feet away form them, pale and speechless. Ed dropped his candle, his jaw gaped. Hughes' jaw the same, until it grew to a perverted smile.

"I told you guys they wanted to be alone!"

Ed's eye twitched, as he fell over, still in shock. Al cocked his head, still not knowing what was going on, and Hughes started singing 'I told you so'. Riza pushed off of Mustang, completely red, a mix of embarassment and anger. "This is NOT what it looks like!" she yelled in defense. "He hit his head, and then the knot wouldn't tie! And I got mad and used my teeth! And then-"

"Right, like I'm gonna believe that." Hughes remarked, with a doubtful expression on his face.

Ed sat up, stunned, as he stammered still trying to take in what he just saw. "I-I can't get-I mean YOU! YOU AND HIM!" Ed made a gesture, pushing his fingers into the other. "TOGETHER!"

Hughes went on to gloat about the whole situation. "I can't believe it! HA! I was right! MAN this whole time! Roy, buddy, you sly dog!"

Roy smiled smugly. But Riza turned to Roy completely inflamed. "ROY! BACK ME UP! Tell them what REALLY happened!"

Hughes backed up. "Woah now, I don't wanna know all the details!"

Riza pulled on her hair. "That's not what I meant! Nothing happened!"

"Wow, so are you guys together now! Oh, what about a wedding! Weddings are so fun and-" he cut off. "What are you gonna do when the Brigadier General finds put!"

They were silent. Even if nothing did happen, if rumors spread and the Brigadier General found out, there's no telling what would happen to them back at the military.

Then, loud slam echoed down the passage. "Did the passage door just shut!" Ed yelled.

They all crawled back down the tunnel. They had to get out of that passage, and FAST!

End of Chapter 6! Sorry that took so long! I have my Graduation Tests this week AND my temporary drivers license test this week! ARG! MY WEEKS SO CRAMMED! Hopefully Chapter 7 will be on time! Thanks for your patience!

NekoEdo-Chan: Meow! Meow! (Translation: Stick around for Chapter 7! I'll be in it!)