From Dirt to the Sky in One Jump
Ivan collapsed in a dirty house, letting the girl fall down his side and collapse onto a cardboard box. His breathing was ragged as he closed his eyes. After a few seconds he regained his breath, looking down at the girl. He checker her pulse, feeling the soft pulse of a heartbeat at her neck.
"Well..you faired better then I did on this cross town trip" Ivan said, rubbing the sweat off his brow. He had been running down alleyways, over bridges, and over roof tops, finally finding this abandoned mansion on the other side of town. It was murky and dusty, and had the stench of death, but it was habitable. He stood up, looking around. He was in a very dusty bedroom, cobwebs lined the walls and the bed. Quickly dusting the large king bed off, he set the girl down on its worn and dirty sheets.
"Sorry for such horrible accommodations princess..." Ivan sneered, making an exaggerate bow to the sleeping girl.
"Its...okay..." She muttered, rolling over onto her side to get away from the pain of the wound.
Ivan fell backwards onto the rough floor, his face a dark red.
"Well...then your not dead, that's good news." Ivan said, getting up and brushing himself off, "don't know any good ways of getting rid of a dead body besides eating it."
"Thank you..I feel much safer now that if I get sick you will eat me." She murmured, her voice a little dry, but still had a faint silky quality.
"Hey, is that any way to treat the guy who just saved you?"
"And who just offered to bury me in his stomach, can not forget that part."
"Jees...say one cannibalistic remark and your labeled for life."
"Basically..its hard to forget things like that cannibal-kun."
"Please..just call me Ivan...Ivan the Great, the sex god Ivan, Ivan Oh Lord Of All..all of those are good in my book."
"How bout just Ivan..."
"Fine...fine, I liked the second one though..."
"Okay..so...putting it politely, who the fuck are you and why the hell where you killing soldiers, not like I am against that, but I am hoping for a reason above 'doing it for shits and giggles.'"
"You're a very polite person," the girl said, giving as much sarcasm as her state would allow, "They tried to kill me, so I killed them before they could kill me."
"Good reason...so, what is your name?"
"Lilium..."
"Sounds tasty..." At that moment, the sound of blood curdling man screams and bashing sounds reverberated all through the quiet city.
On the other side of town, the Elrics where still hot on the trail of the mystery man.
"He came through here only a little while ago al.." Ed said, looking at the ground through a magnifying glass.
"You look positively tall to the ants with that brother." al said, laughing. Three minutes later Ed was minus one magnifying glass and Al had a fancy new hat on his head spike.
"Back to what I was saying..he can not be to fa..AHH!" Ed screamed, as a car screeched to a stop, knocking him down onto the pavement. When Ed finally opened his eyes, he was staring up at Winry, who was bathed in a glorious light.
"I love you ed..please.., lets be together forever.." she whispered to him.
"Winry.." Ed said, before coming up and kissing her.
If Al had a human body, he would have fainted. He watched in horror as his brother was knocked down, and as the truck driver came out and leaned over him to help him. That was when Ed kissed him. At that time, yells and bloody swearing mingled with the girlish screams and the bashing sounds above the peaceful city of Central City. Things where gonna get very interesting...very fast.