Ch.6

After her bags were packed, she made sure that she wasn't forgetting anything. She realized that the only thing she was missing was money. Luckily for her, she knew where her foster dad kept all of the money. She grabbed a lantern and started to head down towards their basement.

It was cold and damp inside the basement, and everywhere she looked their seemed to be spiderwebs. She almost felt like going upstairs and just go to sleep.

She mentally told herself 'No Riza. Just keep going, and soon I can be outta this place. He never respected me! He's an asshole!'

She saw the safe box, and set the lantern down on the ground.

"No! He has a combination for the stupid thing!" yelled Riza. She hit her fists against the hard metal,"ow!" she held her hands. She sat down and started to cry.

As she was crying, a large black spider landed on her shoulder. She felt something crawling on her arm, and when she looked down at the spider, she screamed. She knocked the spider of, and saw it climb the wall, and run back to its egg nest. Riza panicked, and grabbed the first thing she could see that could kill them... she grabbed the lantern.

She threw the lantern a the egg nest, and could hear the spiders sream. She covered her ears and ran as fast as she could to the stairs. She ran to her dads room, and saw that he had a black box. She quickly grabbed it, and ran back down. She looked into the basement and could see the fire slowly climbing forward. Her step dad had stored beer in there for special occasions and, once the fire touched the beer, it exploded, and sent Riza flying back.

She got up, grabbed her bags and the black box. She ran as fast as she could to the front door, and ran as fast as she could through the city. She hid in the park, near the 'haunted' pond. She knew that everyone was afraid to walk near there, even in the daytime. She sat down and looked at the black box.

"Why did I grab this? I wonder whats in it..." she said to herself. She slowly opened the box, and inside it was a pistol. It was a shiny black, with polished bullets. She gasped,"A gun?" she sighed,"like I needed this." She began to cry.

After she cried, she was about to put the gun back inside, when she noticed that the box had padding. She set the gun down next to her, and took the padding out. Inside, there was a good $2,000 dollars inside it. She smiled and laughed,"I knew you had money! I knew I could escape from you!" she laughed. She could hear sirens, and police cars. "I guess he called the fire department to save his home...I hope its already burned to the ground!"

She remembered why people had called this place the 'haunted' pond.

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After the town built a park with a pond, people loved to come here. It was so big, colorful, and fresh. A month after the park was built, a man, who had hated himself and humanity came to this pond, and shot himself. The cops said,"This man was a lunatic, and didn't know what he was doing."

The mess had been cleaned up, and the people were allowed to come back to the park. But along with the parks return, murders and suiciders came back as well.

Everyone was afraid to go near the pond.

Four boys had decided to camp out at the park, and began to tell spooky stories. They weren't afraid of ghosts or nothing that the adults told them. As they headed to bed, one of them heard his name being called. He got up and looked outside, but saw nothing. He was about to go back to sleep, when there was a loud scream.

The four friends could hear a woman yelling and screaming. So they ran to where the scream was coming from. They got there, and saw a woman hanging from a tree. She wasn't dead. She looked at them, and smiled, and cut herself down from the tree. She was walking towards them.

The four boys were scared stiff, and couldn't move.

The next morning, the cops were searching the park for the boys, and saw their mangled bodies hanging from the trees. Since that last incident, no one has come near the pond.

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Riza laughed,"What a stupid story. Nothing is haunted here. Probably all they hear here is just a few frogs, and owls."

She layed down on her arms, and dozed off.

She woke up a few hours later to see a large moon over her. She got up and looked around...silence.

Just then she heard footsteps behind her,"Hey. Now whats a cute little girl like yourself doing out this late?"

She gasped and got up.

"Now now. Don't be scared I just wanna talk... hehe, and maybe have a little fun." laughed the man.

Riza grabbed the black box and ran as fast as she could, and she could hear the man close behind her. She ran, and ran, until an uplifted tree root tripped her. She fell, and knocked the wind out of herself.

"Aww. Now I hope you didn't hurt yourself now." joked the man.

Riza still couldn't breathe. She regretted running away from home now. She was ready for the end of her life, but then she remembered the black box. She opened it as fast as she could, and pulled out the gun.

The man backed off,"Hey, hey easy now. I was just joking with ya little girl,"

Riza slowly got off the ground, and said hoarsely,"Get the hell out of here, you sick bastard!" she held the gun into the air, and fired a warning shot.

The man took off running and never looked back. Riza sighed and dropped to the ground. She looked at the gun, and smiled. "Maybe, when i'm older I'll join the military after all. To try and help stop all of the bad stuff going around in the world. And, hopefully, still be able to fall in love and then live life happily."

She got up and grabbed her bags, and walked away. No one but her knows where she went, and what she did for a while.

4 years later

"Now. Miss Hawkeye. Tell me. What is your reason for joining the military?" asked a man with an eyepatch over his left eye.

"Sir. I wish to join because, I want to try and stop people from tearing apart innocent familes." said Riza.

The man smiled,"Welcome to the military young lady. I've already heard about your amazing gun skills, so there is no need for you to go through the preliminaries."

Hawkeye got up and saluted,"Thank you so much Furher."

"You will be working under Colonel Mustang. Dismissed." said th Furher.

Hawkeye walked out,"Mustang. Who knew that i'd be working under you." she smiled and chuckled.

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"Lieutenant. I didn't realize that you had such a rough childhood," said Ed sadly.

She smiled,"Its not as rough as yours Ed."

She got up and began to walk towards her room but stopped,"Ed. Al is very lucky to have an older brother like you to watch over him, and take care of him. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to either of you."

Before Ed could answer, she was in her room. He heard her open the door and say,"Ed. Its late. There is an extra bed in the next room for guests. I'll see you in the morning." and she shut the door.

Ed smiled and looked outside at the large silver moon outside. He decided to stay up a while longer, to let her story sink in. Ed probably will never meet another woman as smart and brave as Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye.

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My name is Riza Hawkeye. I'm a first Lieutenant in the military.

I'm an expert marksman, and was a sniper in the Ishbal uprising.

I never miss a target.

Those who speak behind my back, constantly say that I might have been born with a gun in my hand.

But they're wrong.

But at least someone now knows the true story of my dark secret past.

The End