The Girl in the Shadows
A Shriek was heard…
Leila looked to the distance were the squeaky sound had come from. Her head went dizzy and she could see a face in her mind. Not just any face but a familiar one. This face was one that made the shriek it was the same one she had heard 9 years ago. "Step into the light!" Leila demanded. She took a match from her pant pocket and quickly lit it.
The man with the glowing arm turned and took the other figure with him. They ran far from Leila and Havoc. "Are you hurt?" The man as the shadowed person he had helped.
"Only my arm." The other replied gripping her wound placed under her shoulder disk.
"They will pay." He stated solemnly.
Leila looked back at Havoc. "You alright?"
He nodded and got up from the ground. "You're bleeding." He stated looking at her hand with the match. The light had revealed her transmutation circle that was freshly opened.
Leila smiled. "It's fine." She walked over to him holding her wrist in her left palm. "So, was that really Scar?"
Havoc nodded. "The glow of his arm was proof enough." He stated plainly. He took the hem of his wife beater and ripped off a line of cloth. "Give me your wrist."
"No, I'm fine." Leila held her wrist away from him.
"Leila, really, give me your wrist."
Leila glared. "No, Havoc, I'm fine. My wound doesn't need treating." He stepped away from him a bit.
Havoc rolled his eyes and reached from her wrist. She continued to move and wave it away from him.
"Havoc, don't make me use alchemy on you! You know I will." Leila threatened placing some more sand on the wound.
Havoc put his arms in the air innocently, "Fine whatever. I was only trying to help."
Leila cocked an eyebrow and turned away. "Good."
Havoc smirked quickly without her suspecting a thing and he grabbed her wrist. What he hadn't realized was the shape of the wound or what it was used for. Once he suddenly grabbed her wrist a tiny blue glow appeared around the wound and Leila's hand went into gun position. Havoc raised his eyebrow. "Leila seriously I'm just going to wrap some cloth around your wrist. It won't hurt I promise."
"No, Havoc, listen. My wrist doesn't need any treating! If you can't get that threw your head I'll shoot."
Havoc chuckled. "You'll shoot me with your finger?" He laughed harder.
Leila had a cold dead glared on him and raised her hand. She pointed it so it would miss him but only by a centimeter. With the twitch of her thumb a bullet darted from her pointer finger.
Havoc quickly stopped laughing and instead his eyes went wide. "Ok." His eye twitched and he put the cloth away.
"Alchemy - My greatest sin." stated Leila putting down her hand. Leila lightened her glare and almost smiled but didn't. "Let's go catch Scar."
Havoc nodded to her and followed still at shock from before. He lightened up once he realized Leila wasn't going t hurt him. "Who do you think was with him?"
"I don't know but who ever it was I've met them before." Leila and Havoc walked in the direction scar had headed with only the light of a match. Leila picked up a random stick from the ground and lit the tip as a torch.
After a 15 minute period of silence havoc asked, "So how did you shoot a bullet from your hand, exactly?"
Leila kept a monotone that sounded just like Hawkeye's once she stated, "Using alchemy."
Havoc was about to respond when a dark shadow was seen not far from where they were standing. "Is that him?" He asked then looked closer at it. "No, that's the other one.
The dark female like figure was sitting at the edge of the water pool cupping some fresh water into her hands and placing it on her shoulder. She winced in pain as the wound stung her.
Leila stepped closer holding the light behind her palm dimming it. "Excuse me?" Leila asked almost a foot from the shadow that now looked like a young girl in the dimmed light.
"Who are you? You aren't from Ishbal; what could you possibly want?" She asked angrily with tears edging her eyes.
"You sound so familiar." Leila said under her breathe but the girl heard her.
"I could say the same for you." She answered hoarsely. "You know Scar is in that hut and if he finds you he'll kill you." The girl stated sharpening her look upon Leila.
Leila revealed the light enough to see a rough detail of the girl. She had red irises but didn't look much like an Ishballian. She had long blonde almost perfectly straight and her expression was somewhat angry but mostly scared. Leila squinted a bit. "What's your name?"
The girl mumbled, "Why?"
"What's your name?" Leila demanded raising her tone.
The girl was a bit scared and answered immediately, "Hitori."
Leila's eyes went wide. She covered her mouth with her left palm. "Oh, my lord."