Chapter 16: Seven Colors Mirrored

Haruki and Toshi arrive in the town of Rizenbul just a day and a half after Amaya's departure. They make their way down the swiveling path and turn, crossing the large patches of grassy areas. It was just a little later in the day, and the sky was darkening much quicker then normal. "No doubt Amaya is doing this… for some reason…I have the feeling upon me that she doesn't want us to get their any time soon…" Master Haruki says softly as he walks just a few steps a head of Toshi.

He looks at his highly respected leader and sighs, "Amaya wouldn't do something like that, Master…" Toshi says shyly, speaking as soft as he could to not draw any type of attention to himself

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Meanwhile, Amaya stood in the bathroom upstairs, her hand pressed against the window. The sky began to grow darker and darker the more she kept rubbing her wrist. "Master Haruki…. you are coming aren't you…" she whispers so that if anyone was eaves dropping, they wouldn't hear her spoken words. As her hand began to sting, she looks at the darkening sky once more then removes her hand from the windowpane and shoves it in her pants pocket. "So soon… you... you aren't planning on using Toshi for something are you? Or the both of us…" Amaya says softly, rubbing her forehead with her other hand and sighs, falling backward intentionally to sit on the toilet bowl.

A knock at her door echoes throughout the bathroom and she stumbles to her feet impulsively, praying that whoever was outside the door wasn't going to become angry and tear the door down or something. "Um… whose there?" Amaya calls, advancing toward the door at a vigilant pace.

Another voice calls back, "It's me, Ed. Are you okay? You've been in there a long time! People have to use the bathroom!" Ed's tone slowly became full of annoyance and his fist hits the door once more with a forceful knock. He sighs and after hearing that, Amaya slowly opens the door to see him standing in front of her, his hands jammed in his pockets, his attention on the ground.

"What're you doing?"

Ed looks at Amaya quickly and waves his hands around, "Nothing! Nothing! Just… um… thinking." He looks out the bathroom window by peering past her and sees the dark sky, almost jet-black. "It got dark really early today. It's as dark as it usually is in the morning. Weird…" his voice trails off and he sighs a little, turning his back on Amaya and walking toward the staircase slowly. He suddenly stops, and turns his head halfway to glance at Amaya from the corner of his eye, "You should put long sleeved clothes on, the quicker it gets dark, the colder, right?" he managed to say this with a gentle smile on his face. And as quick as he had spoke his piece, he was downstairs, exiting the house entirely.

She looks out the window for a moment, and sees Ed, then hurries downstairs just to run into Al and Winry who give her a curious, yet extremely accusing stare. "Where are you going at this time of night?" Winry inquires, closing in on Amaya as she staggers around, thinking the whole time.

"Yeah, and why the rush?" Al interrogates, advancing in on Amaya at the same speed as Winry, both of them eyeing her suspiciously, hoping that she'll crack the way they want her too. "Spill it, Amaya. Why are you here? What's your plan!" Alphonse was practically shouting now on his brother's defense since his older brother wasn't present at the moment.

Amaya stares at them and stumbles back into a desk, knocking a glass to the ground only to hear it shatter loudly into a million pieces. "I have nothing to spill! You are both falsely accusing me because I came out of know where!" She says quickly, allowing her sleeves to cover her hands. Within seconds, she came up with the perfect lie, "I have no plan because I have nothing against any of you. I hardly know anything about all of you. I'm here because of mere coincidence. I fell beside you and I was offered shelter. Look, I'm here for one reason: I'm not fit enough at the moment to really do anything actively. I should be doing my walking… but you guys cornered me like I was some evil demon…" her voice drops to try and express innocence and solemn feelings.

In a matter of seconds, a loud, ear piercing scream from a boy is heard, followed by Ed wiping through a wall in Aunt Pinako's house. Trisha quickly runs to her first child and kneels by his side, her hand gripping his in worry. The last thing she wanted was to see her son hurt in any way. Either of them. They both tried so hard to bring her back to life.

"Someone… attacked me…" he groans, pulling himself to a sitting position followed by staggering to his feet, leaving his mother on her knees. Instantly, Al and Winry give Amaya an evil stare that could have killed her if Ed wasn't present.

Slowly, through the large hole in the wall, two men stepped over and past the rubble, and eyed Amaya comfortingly. "We've been searching for you for quite some time. It wasn't nice of you to turn the lights out on his, Amaya-kun…" Haruki says softly, moving on closer to Amaya, completely ignoring the fact that Alphonse and Winry were originally in his way. He lifts his hand and runs the back of it against her cheek and down a little, stopping as his hand wraps around her neck. "You shouldn't have done that…" he whispers to her angrily. Finally, he looks at Toshi and says, "Show them your power, Toshi. Amaya-kun and I will make for some sort of hideout. I think she'll be…" he tightens his grip around her neck, "glad to help…" after saying this, he drags her out of the house, Toshi stopping Ed or any one else from attacking Haruki.

Ed runs at Toshi and throws his fist at his face.

Toshi claps his hands together and lifts his right hand up, dragging it down through the air as if he were rubbing a wall in one quick swipe in only two seconds. Ed slams his auto mail fist into the spot Toshi waved his hand past and feels many joints in the metal jam up and then he felt his arm becoming weak and soon enough, his right arm was falling apart piece by piece until there were a variety of screws on the ground and small sheets of metal.

"What the hell!" Ed shouts, staring at his own right arm.

"SEVEN COLORS MIRRORED!" Toshi exclaims, the spot where Ed punched began to glow radiantly in seven different colors. "Let's dance…" he says smugly, the lights flying around the room like blasts from a cannon that fires lasers.

Here is chapter 16! Though not many people read or review this fanfic.

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