R4994W: Ok I give in. I have only two reviews but my best friend that I haven't seen for a long time since she goes to a different school sent me a review and that made me want to put out another chapter for her. Thank you moonoflove

Disclaimer: I don't own full metal, but I really do own the respect of my friend. Sorry that was really cheesy. But I do respect moonoflove.

Chapter 9 My Hero

I awoke with a splitting headache. It felt as bad as when Matt hit me. I just sat there, rubbing my head with my hands. Hey, wait a minute. My hands are tied. And so are my feet!

"Ahh! Let me out now! Let me out you bastards." I yelled as I found out I was in a tiny shack. I wriggled and threw myself around until the whole shack shook.

A tall figure came with an eye patch came in and grabbed my by the throat. He then slammed my up against the wall. "Don't ever do that again. Your lucky I don't kill you where you stand. Now shut up!" he said with his low, creepy voice. He squeezed my throat hard and it was cutting off circulation and my breathing.

"I… ca… can't… breath!" I said through gasps that didn't allow any air to come through my throat. I struggled around and reached up with my tied hands and pressed the pressure point between his knuckles.

The man yelled and drew his hand back. He was holding his hand as pain temporarily surged through his hand.

I took a long deep breath, letting my lungs expand with air. "I'm wondering…" I took in another long breath after letting the first one out. "I'm wondering why you haven't already killed me."

As the pain left his hand, he replaced against my throat, again smashing my head against the wall. "It's not decision when you die."

"Let… g… g…"

"Let go? Fine." He threw me down and exited the hut. He lamed the door shut so that the shack, hut whatever you want to call it shook again.

I was on the ground gasping for air. If I was going to get out of this place, I had to be quiet.

I remembered Matt's necklace. I struggled around a bit and got the necklace in between my hands. "I hope Matt gets this." I pressed the button on the necklace and nothing happened.

Oh yeah! My pocketknife! I always carry a pocketknife. If wiggled my hand in my pocket and pulled out my knife.

I flicked it open and started to saw away the roped at my ankles. The knife was dull, but I kept sawing away until finally I had cut through the thick bound ropes. I really felt confident now that I had just sawed away ropes with a dull knife. Then all that confidence went away once I realized I still had to cut the really hard to reach ropes around my wrists.

I slowly twisted the ropes around on my wrists and squeezed the blade of the knife in between my palms. A couple of time the rope gave me a burn, but I didn't mind. At least the job was getting done. As I slowly cut the rope, I heard maniacal laughing coming from outside. It sounded like three men, three women, and a kid. What where they planning on doing to me? I sure didn't know and I wasn't going to find out.

Yes! Now all the ropes were gone. I slowly opened the door. Suddenly it slammed shut on me.

"Hey! Let me out!" I kicked down the door and ran strait for the timber. It would be harder to catch me in the timber since I had grown up in one and spent most of my time in them.

I felt someone tackle me. He or she rolled me over and over. I was now on my back and Joey was pinning me down.

"Joey! Get off of me!" I struggled around and yelled but he was a lot stronger than I remembered him to be.

"I told you my name's Greed now! So stop calling me Joey!"

"No! I know you're still Joey! Somewhere! I'm going to find a way to turn you back! And if there isn't a way then I'm sorry! At least I'm going to try!"

He looked sort of shocked. This was my chance. I rolled him off of me. I got up and ran closer to the timber.

Another person tackled me. Again we rolled about three or four times before I was on top of… her! It was the green haired lady that scared Goldie.

I started to punch her over and over. "That's for scaring Goldie! That's for capturing me. And that for tackling me!" I kept punching her until my fists were grabbed.

I looked over my shoulder to see the man with the eye patch standing with my fist in his hand. With my free hand I tries to scratch him on the face so he would let go. My hand made contact with his face, but it caught a hold of his eye patch strap.

Underneath it was an all white eye with the same mark that was on Joey, or Greed's palm and on the lady's shoulder.

"What the-" I stood there, frozen like I was hypnotized by his eye.

"That's right, I'm a homunculus. Now why do you have to put up such a fight?" he gripped my wrist tighter.

"Ouch! Do you know what I like about guys? I kneed him right in his "happy place". " They are so easy to hurt."

I waited for him to let go, but he just winced a little and chuckled a bit. I looked into his eyes and didn't see any hurt, just annoyance.

He threw my down and stood over me. "Do you think that is going to stop me? I don't really have feelings, unlike you." He reared up his hand.

Oh no! This is the-. From nowhere a huge fire blast hurled at the homunculus and he fell back. About another twenty or thirty blast of fire and yells and screams and blood went by. That's all I saw when I was huddled in a on the ground thinking I was still going to get the crap beaten out of me, or worse, by the man.

Once everything settled down I stood up and looked around. Matt was nearby, his clothes torn and deep gashes around his face, arms, and legs. I ran over to him and wrapped my arms around him. I was sobbing hard into his shoulder. I felt his arms wrap around me and I sort of loosened up a little. Did he really come to save me or did he come to find the homunculus?

As he held me I heard him say, "It's okay you're safe now."

R4994W: Just because I put out another chapter doesn't mean you guys shouldn't review. I really want reviews. I work really hard, well not really hard since it comes naturally to me, but I work hard at these chapters and this story and I update my chapters often enough for you guys to read it and I think I deserve at least two or three reviews a chap. I only have two reviews! Two! Out of nine chapters! I'm really disappointed.

Tiger: I think for once she is actually serious.

R4994W: What are you talking about? I'm always serious! But yes I am serious about reviews.

Tiger: Where did Rose and Matt go?

R4994W: Good question. (looks around) I really don't know where they are. Anyway please review. All you have to say is, "Good story."

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