Alright this is where stuff gets awesome!

Chapter 2

The five had finally left the station and Molly was still on Al's shoulders, laughing. Ed walked behind the rest mumbling angrily, not liking taking orders from a girl and was still struggling with the bags. "You think you could maybe empty these stupid bags out a little bit?" Ed asked stopping to catch his breath. The others stopped and turned to him.

"You're not tired already, are you?" Kairi asked looking angry and crossing her arms.

"No...it's just...these bags are really heavy..."

"Well if you're going to complain about it, maybe someone else can carry them if you're not strong enough sigh I'm sure someone as short as you could probably use a break or two anyway. I'm not even sure why Colonel Mustang keeps you around, he must like having an errand boy."

"WHAT! I AM NOT SHORT AND I AM NOT HIS ERRAND BOY!"

"Uh..." Al tried to say something but he knew that nothing he could say could stop his brother when he's angry and she just pulled the plug.

"You should be thankful that me and Al aren't just leaving you out here by yourselves! We don't have to drag you all the way to Avalon and carry your stupid bags that weigh almost as much as Al does!"

"Oh yeah! Well I didn't ask for you guys to follow us there!" Kairi yelled.

"Well neither did I!" Al, Maria and Molly watched the two fight.

"It's nice to see that Ed finally has a friend to have so much in common with." Al laughed.

"Does he do that often?" Maria asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah, all the time..." Al and Maria laughed.

"WHY THE HECK DO I HAVE TO CARRY YOUR STUPID BAGS, ANYWAY!" Ed screamed.

"Because I thought you could handle it, but obviously not...Don't worry, I'm sure that once you grow up you chould be able to carry more..."

"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!"

"I THINK YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS!" Kairi shouted. Just then they heard something behind them.

"Am I the only one who heard that?" Ed asked.

"I wonder what it was..." Al said looking around. Al picked Molly off his shoulders and handed her to Maria. Ed and Al looked all around, but their seemed to be nothing there.

"Must have been nothing...probably a dog..." Ed said turning back around.

"Oh yes Edward, because dog's always travel around during a snow storm." Kairi said sarcastically. Ed brushed by her and continued to walk towards the direction they were headed in before. "Aren't you going to check it out?"

"Why do I have to?"

"BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING US!" Kairi yelled.

"Don't worry, I'll go look around, you guys stay here..." Al said walking away from them.

"At least someone does as their told, the errand boy can't handle that kind of work. Walking around is way too much for him..."

"Kairi..." Maria started.

"It is not, I just don't see why me and Al have to rick our necks for some snooty girl..." Ed told her. Kairi was getting steamed.

"Well, I don't see anything..." Al said walking back up to them.

"Come on, the sooner we get to this Avalon place, the sooner we can dump them off." Ed said.

"Ed..." Al started.

"SO WHAT NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF US?" Kairi yelled.

"It's pointless..." Maria said as Molly climbed back up on Al's shoulders.

"Yep..." Al said as the two sighed and followed their diluted older siblings.

"I didn't even want to come pick you up!" Ed yelled back.

"Well I..." Kairi started just as two shady men jumped down in front of them. "What the..." Al handed Molly back to Maria and Ed and Al stood in front of the three sisters.

"What do you want?" Ed asked.

"Listen shorty, hand over the girls and no one will get hurt." One of the guys said.

"So I'm short huh...?" Ed stood silently for a minute trying to keep himself calm.

"Just hand them over." The other man said.

"I don't think so..." Ed clapped his hands together and hit the ground. The ground glowed and a huge rock came out of the ground in front of him and Ed threw it at the men making them fall back. "Come on!" Ed grabbed Kairi's wrist and pulled her the other way. Al did the same to Maria and pulled Molly into his arms and Molly buried her face into Al's armor. The two men stood up and looked at each other.

"They're alchemists!" One guy said.

"Get 'em!" The other said. The two ran after them and the five kept running.

"You do realize...we're going the wrong way..." Kairi said angrily.

"Not now..." Ed told her.

"We can't out run them forever, brother." Al said a little worried.

"You're right, Kairi, stay behind me no matter what happens."

"I'm really more comfortable with fighting than hiding." Kairi said gasping for breath.

"JUST DO IT!" Ed yelled as he stopped and pushed Kairi behind him. "This could get messy..." Ed clapped his hands again and ran his left hand over his right arm causing the sword to appear above his auto mail arm. Ed jumped towards one of the guys.

"Now did he want me to jump with him..." Kairi thought looking at all. "Oh well..." She shrugged.

"Can't you do something?" Maria asked looking at Al. Al thought for a minute and then set Molly on the ground. He crouched down and with a nearby twig he drew a transmutation circle in the snow. He set the twig in the middle of the circle. Al touched the circle and it glowed. The twig glowed bright and Molly watched in amazement as she watched the small twig turn into a large staff. The oher man was heading towards them and Al grabbed the staff. Out of the man's jacket, the man pulled a large knife. The man pulled back his arm and he got closer and threw the knife down at Al who was able to block it from getting to the girls with the staff.

"I've got to do something..." Kairi said looking back and forth between Ed and Al. Ed was able to fling the man to the ground and hold his sword up to his throat.

"Any last words?" Ed asked smiling.

"Yeah..." Just then the man kicked Ed in the stomach and kicked him away. Ed fell with a groan to the ground. "Game over." The man stood up laughing as he turned to Kairi, she gasped.

'Ed get up...' Kairi thought as she saw Ed knocked out on the ground. The man got closer and closer to her and she began to shake. Kairi froze in fear and didn't know what to do. She tried to move her arm so she could draw a transmutation circle, but they wouldn't move, she was scared out of her mind as the man walking closer took out his knife.

"One down..." The man said laughing. There was nothing she could do...Her eyes were fixed straight on his face. She thought of the last thing she could do and without thinking she did it.

"ED!" Kairi screamed and Ed's eyes bursted open.

"Too bad your mommy's not around to save you..." The man said smiling. He finally got up to her and he threw back his arm ready to plunge the knife into her stomach. Kairi closed her eyes tight. Just as he was about to strike, Ed jabbed his sword through his back. Blood spurted from his back and out the other side as the man started gasping for breath. Finally, the man fell to the ground, dead. Kairi opened one eye and saw the guy on the floor. She opened the other and smiled at Ed.

"Ed...you're ok?" For a second everything seemed ok, Ed smiled his goofy smile and gave her a thumbs up. After a second...Ed fainted. "Ed!" Kairi threw herself down beside him and position his head up on her lap. Al and the other man were still struggling with each other. Behind him, Maria crouched down on the ground and drew her own transmutation circle. She touched it and a huge rock bursted out of the ground and around Al. The man screamed as he saw the rock come straight for him. The rock pushed him down into the ground hard, killing him.

"Wow..." Al said turning to her. "Thanks..." Maria shrugged and smiled. "Hey brother...brother?" Al saw his brother in Kairi's arms.

"He's hurt." Kairi told him.

"Brother!" Al ran immediately to him and crouched down beside him. Kairi stroked his hair out of his face and smiled.

"He saved me..."

--a few hours later--

Ed's eyes blinked open slowly. He looked around; he was in a room and in a bed. The place was dirty and rusty, as if no one had lived there or cleaned it up in ages. "What the..." Al, Maria and Molly were in the same room he was in, all asleep. There were 3 beds in the room and Maria was in one of them and Al was sleeping next to Maria's bed propped up on the wall with Molly sleeping, resting her head on his cold metal leg. Ed looked down and saw his red coat was off and his left arm bandaged up. A cold light seemed to come from the window a few feet above Maria's bed and it shown directly on him. He looked out the window to get some idea of what time it was. It was dark and snow was falling gently from the sky. It was night time...but Ed was more concerned on where Kairi was. Ed slowly stood up and rubbed his face. He walked out of the room and down the creaky hall. Just as he walked passed a doorway he heard a voice.

"Oh, you're up." Kairi said. Ed looked into the living room where she was sitting on the couch covered in a blanket. In front of her was a fire, supposedly made by her. He looked around the room; it was just as dusty and worn out as the bed room he was in. The walls had no paint on them, it was just wood and the furniture looked all beaten up.

"Where are we?" Ed asked as he sat on the couch in front of her. There was a silence for a while as Kairi looked around.

"Not really sure. This place was just out here; I guess it's been abandoned. It looks like nobody's been here in a while." The two sat quietly for a while. Ed gazed into the fire and seemed mezmorized by it. Kairi looked at Ed, he was shivering. "Here." Kairi took the blanket off her and literally threw it at him. "Thanks...for what you did back there..." Kairi blushed as she looked into the fire. "No one's...ever done something like that for me..." Ed smiled as he looked back and forth from the blanket to Kairi.

"No problem...but we can share this thing ya know, no need for one of us to freeze to death."

"What?" Ed walked over to the couch she was sitting on and sat next to her. He threw the blanket over both of them and they smiled and blushed.

"Thanks..." Kairi said again.

--the next day--

'Why were they after them...' Al thought to himself looking at little Molly who was still resting on his leg. He began to stroke her head. 'I mean I know they were enemies of their parents...but what did they do? It wasn't their fault that their parents were leaders of that thing. They're just kids...I don't understand it...If what Colonel Mustang said was true, then their father was some big part of the military...But...if they were enemies of their father and didn't like the military...why are they only after their family? Why aren't they going after all the military? Colonel Mustang said these girls have some big significance...but what is it? Are they some part of the military too? Maybe brother has figured it out...' Al gently picked Molly up and set her down beside Maria. He walked out of the room and into the living room. the fire had gone out not too long ago, the smoke was still flying up. He looked over at the couch and he saw something that made him hold back everything to keep from bursting out in laughter. Ed and Kairi were still on the couch and they must have fallen asleep. Ed was asleep laying on his back with his right arm around Kairi, who must have fallen asleep on Ed's stomach. The two were snuggled up into the blanket. Al must've accidentally woke up Maria because she walked up behind him and looked at Ed and Kairi.

"Aw, what a cute picture...and I didn't even bring my camera..." Maria said laughing causing Al to laugh. Ed and Kairi's eyes slowly blinked open and they looked at each other still a little tired. When they finally realized that they were next to each other, they screamed, which made Al and Maria laugh harder.

"Ewwwww, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off!" Kairi said pushing Ed off the couch.

"Hey...what was that for..."

"For making me sleep next to you..." Kairi shuddered. "Now I think I'm gonna shrink, you gave me your short germs...do I look any shorter to you, Maria?"

"WHAT!" Ed was getting angry again.

"You heard me..."

"Not this again..." Maria said throwing her hand to her face.

"I give up..." Al said.

Well that was a very eventful chapter...haha...if you liked this chapter you'll love the rest! Get ready for more action and romance in later chapters and don't forget to review!