This is when my promise for longer chapters takes place.. also.. you find out who Al is traveling with
Al's POV
I fought Sira alone for 3 hours... Finally Sira gave up after I pinned her to the wall, tying her up with a rope I found nearby I made sure she was tied up good and tight. After making sure she wasn't going anywhere I went off towards the sound of the joyous shouts I heard coming from near the back of the house.
"AL... AL I'VE FOUND HIM"
Even though it's not Ed, the sight makes me smile. There sitting on the work bench was Fletcher, I huge smile on his face, sitting next to him was his big brother Russell. "That means we only have to find Ed" I say a smile on my face. Actually, I was worried "If Ed is in any place like this... we may be too late" I instantly push the thought away, not wanting to think like that.
The alchemy books took almost every inch of space on the floor, there was a thin walk space for someone small to move around the books and get a certain one, all the books were hand written by Russell. What space on the table wasn't taken up by papers of different spaces,sizes,colors,prints and dates was covered by millions of pens and pencils. I don't see how anyone could live in such a cramped area for so long.
Russell himself looked horrible, there was blood around his ankle, the shackle that bound him to the work bench was cutting into his skin, his hands and cheecks contained some bruises, he was thinner then normal, and there was circle of exhaustion too deep to imagine under his dull eyes. Even though he wasn't writting, his hand was still curled, as if he was holding a pencil. He pulls a smile onto his tired face, "Hello Alsphonse... did you come to get Ed?" his voice was thick with exhaustion and kinda slow. I nod, "well he's down below us in the cellar" Fletcher knelt down and transmuted the shackle so that Russell could get up.
Letting his big brother lean on him for support, least he fall asleep and fall over, Fletcher helped Russell get out into the living room where I had left Sira, what we see when we get there makes me stop dead in my tracks. Quickly turning to Russell, he tells me where the cellar is... I hurry down there and come slowly back up, sinking down into a chair beside the brothers I start crying...
"she... she escaped, somehow she escaped... and she took Ed with her"
"Don't worry, we'll help you find him" Russell growls. "No no... you two should go on home, I'll find Ed myself" but they wouldn't stop until I finally agreed that they could help. "If your that worried, brother can sleep on the trains and in the hotel rooms" Fletcher suggested as they head for the train station. Buying their tickets they board the train and get the last empty compartment all to themselves, they were lucky to have got there in time, not even hardly seconds after they had sat down the train pulled away from the station.
"So where are we going?"
"Dira, Sira's sister lives in a town not far from here... Sira may have ran there"
When Russell said he was finally going to lay down and get some sleep we promised to be quiet as we planned out how we were going to find my brother and take him back from Sira, and more then likely Dira.
A/N: I was trying to keep Russell and Fletcher's part in this story a secret up until now... did I do a good job?
And thank you for the reviews :)
Does it seem any longer?