鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)

Chapter 4 Out and Away.

"That's them". Ed said.

"Ok… This won't be a problem, right? We're mainly powerful alchemists in here". Izumi said, sighing.

Some spears smashed the window, and ended piercing the wall, nearly killing Al.

"Well, not so much. They attack at sight of movement". Hohenheim said.

"I'll do it". Wrath said.

He jumped out of the window, while Izumi shouted at him.

He laid his hands on the ground, and they merged with it.

All of the soldiers started receiving punches of the floor.

Izumi ran out through the butcher shop, and everyone followed her.

"Where are we going?". Armstrong asked.

"Rush Valley. There's someone there who can help us". Ed said.

o0o

"Well, this is our main problem. Start pushing". Envy said.

At least a hundred soldiers started movinga giant wagon, which held captive a monster of which no one speaked.

Envy walked by it's side, watching every single detail.

It was going to take at least ten days to carry him through the desert.

o0o

The train had just started moving. They were spread in the wagon, talking or sleeping.

Ed and Al fell asleep soon. Hohenheim looked silently through the window. Izumi talked with Hope, while Sieg took care of Wrath. Mei and Xiao were playing around. Ran and Winry talked about Rush Valley. Armstrong was reading a book that he got out of no where.

Lust was still silent.

The hours passed by, and Rush Valley seemed to have grown out of dust.

They all walked down of the train, and started looking around.

Both Ed and Wrath were bothered and persecuted by every single salesman that caught a glance to their limbs.

Winry looked around very enthusiastically, checking out the new models of auto mail.

Izumi stayed behind, looking at a necklace, and then she went running past the whole group, in a rush.

"What's wrong?". Ed shouted at her.

"Someone stole my wallet!". She shouted.

Al started running behind her, and soon reached her.

"You won't catch her this way". Al said, smiling.

"How do you know it's a She?".

"First of all, I'd recognize those pants and that haircut anywhere. Second, she's got auto mail legs".

Al clapped his hands, and a gigantic wall grew from the floor, trapping the thief.

She turned around, and smiled at Al.

"I should've known!". Paninya said, tossing the wallet at Izumi.

o0o

One of the soldiers shouted. Envy ran up to him, and asked him what happened.

"A giant face! A giant face showed up from under the cage!". He said.

"He's awake…". Envy whispered to himself.

He crawled up the cage, and went in.

"Keep pushing". He said.

A big mass of flesh, that barely had space to move, turned it's dark red eyes at Envy.

Envy jumped at his face, and grabbed his nose.

"I'll bring some soldiers for you to eat, but remain calm. Once whe arrive, you can eat as much as you want".

Envy jumped down, and made the guard come in.

He looked at Gluttony, terrified.

One of his three heads appeared from behind, and ate him, crushing him in a bloodbath.

Envy went down, and told the other soldiers that he was standing guard to the monster.

o0o

"Why are you stealing again?". Al asked. He was the one that went along better with Paninya.

"I'm still paying my debt to Dominique, and I've already repaired all the roofs. Sometimes, I steal tourists. Never someone of the city".

"If sensei caught you, you'd be dead. Be thankful that I stopped you".

"Thanks, Al!". She said, looking at him.

Thay both blushed.

Ed and Winry started whispering.

Lust smiled slightly.

o0o

"What?". Dominique shouted at Ed.

"A war against Xing. And you could be of help". He said.

"Are you crazy? I can't do a thing!".

"Paninya can at least fight and throw some missiles. Some other auto mail users will help, and Winry alone can't repair them all!".

Dominique fell on his chair, and shook his head.

"Never". He said.

"Rush Valley will be the first city to dissappear, together with the Youswell mines". Al said. "You can't let them all die".

"…Damn, I'll do it". He said.

"Alright, pick up whatever you need to travel quickly, and your tools. We're going". Ed said.

Everyone stormed out of the house, and walked through the main street.

Ed stopped, clapped his hands, and grew a platform.

Every walker turned, and a crowd was soon formed around them.

Armstrong stepped to the front, and called everyone's attention.

"I'm a state alchemist, and I'm here to ask your understanding. A war is about to start, and the country of Xing will attack this city sooner than any other. The state will recruit as many soldiers as possible. Users of auto mail will be of much help".

The crowd started coming and going in commentaries.

A spear flew over all of them, and reached Ed's right arm.

o0o

The assasins moved through the crowd, and aimed their spears at Ed and Al.

Ed tranmsuted the spear into a bomb, and tossed it to the soldiers.

Izumi started fighting woth them, pulling their spears off, and hitting them back.

Armstrong started tossing rocks with his fists. Al tranmsuted part of his sould to the floor, and thousands of fists came out of it, grabbing and using the soldiers as toys.

Wrath jumped around, with his arms turned into hammers, hitting eery soldier within reach.

Paninya jumped on top of their heads, and finnally shot them her missile.

After the dust was blown away, most of the soldiers had ran away.

Ed, breathing heavily, looked at the crowd, who didn't know wether to start clapping or panicking.

"With the help of auto mail users, a battle thousands of times worse than this can be stopped".

Everyone started considering the proposal, and one man moved ahead.

He was massive, almost as tall as Armstrong. His auto mail arms were almost scary.

"I'm in".

He was the man that had been cheating with alchemy to win fist fights.

Ed smiled at this, and then looked at the crowd again.

Many hands started rising, and shined with the midday sun.

"All of you who are willing to do this, take a train to central right away". Al shouted.

"You go with them". Ed told Dominique. "They trust you".

Dominique sighed, and walked away with all the others.

o0o

The train moved away, and another one arrived.

Paninya, Lust, Ran, Mei, Xiao, Ed, Al, Hope, Hohenheim, Izumi, Wrath, Seig, Armstrong and Winry spread into the wagon, and waited for the train to take them to Youswell.

"What after Youswell?". Al asked Ed.

"Ishbal".

o0o

Envy saw the sun sinking in the horizon of the desert, with a red tone, and looked at the wagon.

He walked near some soldiers, and started talkin to them.

"Go in, and check to see of your friend is alright".

They climbed up, and Envy heard the sound of bones crushing, and dripping blood.

A string of bloof fell by the side of the wagon, drawing a line next to Envy.

He grinned.