Chapter 7: Riza being attacked

"Wind is already dead?" Roy said with a surprise while he looked at Falman.

"by the looks of it" Falman said with a nervous tone.

"Reporting in Sir. We haven't found too much up here but bedrooms and paintings of people who used to live here." Fuery said

"What about you? Found anything?" Armstrong replied

"Yeah, it turns out our dear hostess died 21 years ago." Roy replied.

"What? 21 years ago. But we say her going to look into it further." Falman replied back.

"Alright over and out" Falman, Fuery and Armstrong all said.

"Where did you find these?" Roy said with a strong voice

"In here Sir" Falman lead Roy to the place where the pictures were.

Falman lead Roy inside a room, which was 5 rooms down from where Roy was looking around, room 25. Roy took a few steps into the room and noticed that there were many pictures of wind in the room. The floor and walls were bare with alchemy circles and books.

"Excuse me gentleman, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave this room. This is Mr. Andrews privet room and he doesn't like anyone snooping around" a voice came from the hallway.

Roy and Falman obeyed her commands and left the room. To be greeted by an elderly woman who seemed to be in her late 50's early 60's

"Excuse me for a moment, where is Mrs. Wind? I haven't see her today" Falman asked

"Mrs. Wind you ask? Why she is dead Sir. Her tombstone is out in the garden. Mr. Andrew was so lonely because of his lose. Him and Wind were to be married. Rumor was that she died on that swing outside. But if I may ask what are you doing here?" the old woman said.

"Were here for a report. Apparently there is a ghost here and it has peaked the military's interest. Because so many soldiers came back I decided to see what the big problem is instead." Roy explained

"Ahh yes the ghost report. Thank god you have come then, there is a ghost here some have seen her. She looks like Miss. Wind but in terrible condition" the woman said and started to take her leave.

"Mrs. if you know any information tell me now" Roy called out.

"I don't know much but many girls have been killed lately and the ghost has been appearing around here more. She only comes at night so I suggest you watch that female officer of yours" the elderly woman said while walking away.

After the woman was out of sight Roy and Falman continued into Andrews room disobeying the elderly woman's orders. Out of the blue a loud scream was herd in the room.

"That sounded like a woman scream" Falman said sheepishly.

"It wouldn't be…" Falman looked over at Roy.

"I wouldn't know, I never herd her scream before" Roy got a worried look and grabbed his Comstat and looked a little more paler then usual. He pressed and talked into his Comstat with nervousness and called for Riza.

"Riza Hawkeye do you copy?" Roy waited and after a short time he looked at Falman.

"Fuery, did you receive confirmation on Breda and Hawkeye?" Roy said while looking as his watch and waiting for a reply.

"No sir, nothing. If one of them did come on the air I'm sure you would have heard it too…" Fuery replied back.

(It's not like Riza not to report in even if she is the one with Andrew.) Roy thought to him self.

"Maybe they are on a different channel Sir? Who knows Breda could have slipped up and changed the stations." Falman said trying to calm his commanding officer down.

"That could be a possibility for Havoc and Breda. But I don't think all three of them are on the wrong Channel. We set everyone up with the same channel before this plan started" Roy replied back.

Roy decided to check the other 5 channels on the Comstat. But he got nothing when he got to channel 6 all he could hear is a high-pitched screaming. Roy immediately looked at Falman and nodded his head.

"Sir. What are you planning on doing? That might not be her," Falman asked

"Armstrong and Fuery anything up there?" Roy called back into his Comstat and ignored Falman's remark.

"There are so many rooms Colonel, but we basically went through 2/4 of them" Armstrong replied.

"Good, I'm going to check up on those 3 down stairs. Something is wrong. Its not like Hawkeye to not report in. everyone get back to work and report if you find anything" Roy spoke with a forceful voice to insure that he was still in command and knew what he was doing.

"Sir that's not the First Lieutenant!" Falman said trying to convince Roy to stay.

"Even if it's not her, I still need to check up on them. We cant get a hold of them and their safety happens to be my responsibility" Roy said and continued walking.

"I want you to keep digging in Andrews room. If you find any other pictures or evidence that looks weird, save it" Roy said still walking down the hall.

"Sir, Yes Sir" Falman stood at attention.

(Time 12: 58)

As Roy approached the room where Andrew usually was he stopped and was going to take in consideration that he should go down stairs first. But he was pretty close to going to Andrew and he had to ask him about the channel. Roy walked at a regular pace and found the room. He opened the door and the first thing he saw was Breda sleeping on a chair with his mouth open and his arms hanging over the chair.

"Breda wake up!" Roy said while kicking Breda's ankle.

"Hu? Wha.. Oh my head…" Breda said holding his head.

Roy rolled his eyes and grabbed his Comstat and checked channel 6. He got the same screaming and quickly changed the channel.

"Breda! Did Andrew go with Riza and Havoc?" Roy said looking around the room and getting more forceful by the minuet.

"No sir, he was with me the whole time till just a moment ago…" Breda said in a drowsy look.

Suddenly Roy and Breda herd a scream from underneath then. It was a woman's voice but it wasn't the same as channel 6.

"Ah, Mr. Mustang" Andrew said while walking into the room.

"Mr. Andrew. I need to ask you about channel 6?" Roy said when he was just about to run for the stairs.

"Channel six?" Andrew said in confusion

"Don't play coy, I'm not in the mood" Roy said with a very angered voice.

They herd another scream coming from downstairs.

"Oh my I wonder what their doing down stairs" Andrew said with a calm voice.

"Breda follow me, now!" Roy got impatient and headed for the stairs.

Roy and Breda made their way down the stairs and what they saw was something that they never expect. Everything was dark but a blue light. Havoc was pined to the wall with what likes like nails that pierced through his clothes. As Roy turned his head to his right, Riza was a meter above the floor and pined to a corner he could tell that Riza was being strangled but did not see a figure there.

"RIZA!" Roy called out.

Riza couldn't reply because she already wasted so much breath trying to get his attention since havoc was knocked out cold. As Riza weakly opened her Red eyes at Roy and had a few tears roll down her cheek. Roy's eyes went small. He grabbed onto the railing and swung himself over them, landing on his feat from the middle of the staircase.

"Breda get Havoc down!" Roy called over his shoulder.

Roy didn't know what to do to help Riza. But as he looked carefully he saw that there were someone's hands around Riza's neck. He could also tell by how Riza was holding on to something in front of her neck. But what really caught his eye was the necklace she was wearing. The crystal on the end was floating up around Riza's face and shinning a blue colour. Roy had one thought on how to save Riza. He grabbed one of his gloves and pulled it on.

"Breda"

"Sir?"

Breda looked up and saw Roy had his right hand up. On his hand was his glove and Breda knew exactly what he was going to do. Roy turned back and pressed his thumb and middle finger together and pressed them away. The sound of the snap and the explosion that was herd raddled the whole house.

The after-mass blew everyone off their feet. Breda was now also pained to the wall with Havoc and Roy was a few meters away form Riza. The whole Room wasn't as bad that Roy could make it but still scorched a few things and making other things black form the explosion. There were still flames burning and lots of smoke filled the room. So thick you couldn't see across the room or to the next wall. But at least Riza was safe, that's all Roy cared about. Roy crawled over to Riza who was still in the corner where she was being strangled. His face was covered with ashes and so was hers. As Roy got close enough to Riza he put his back to the wall beside her (I over did that one, I didn't realize how close that thing really was) Roy thought to him self. He looked over at Riza and saw that she didn't show her face. He could see her hands rub her eyes.

"Riza…?" Roy said looking at Riza.

"I'm sorry Sir, I didn't… I couldn't... Just I…" Riza was stuttering

Roy turned to Riza with his left foot on the ground and his right knee shoulder length apart. He put his hands on her shoulders and tried to look at her face.

"Riza what happened? Why couldn't I reach you on the Comstat?" Roy said in an angry voice.

"Riza!" Roy forcefully said being impatient.

Riza griped her hands and in a whisper she said, "I apologize in advance Sir" Roy looked confused but just before he realized what she meant by what she said Riza placed her hands on Roy's chest and her head in-between her arms.

"I was so scared, after havoc tried to help me and she threw him back, I was afraid that she would do it to you if I called for help. But I was selfish and screamed anyways" Riza said starting to cry while gripping on to Roy's shirt.

Roy didn't look down but he was still shocked for Riza to have done that. He felt her tears sink into his shirt and at that moment he could feel her pain.

"Its not selfish Riza. Why would you think that?" Roy demanded again.

With out a reply, Roy, not knowing what to do, wrapped his right arm around her waist and his left arm wrapped around her shoulder his hand was on the side of her head pulling her into him. Roy looked down and saw that Riza's clothes were ripped and her neck was terribly red.

After a moment Riza hesitated and pulled away.

"I'm sorry Colonel, I'm so sorry I shouldn't be acting like this, I honestly thought she was going to kill me. After she destroyed my guns and took out havoc she grabbed me while I was trying to attend him, and trying to request back-up." Riza said releasing her self from Roy's arms.

She let go of his chest and looked back up at Roy. Roy was already staring at her. Roy pulled Riza back into his arms, this time Roy haled her tighter to him. With his hand holding her head he drew it closer to his mouth so he could whisper to her.

"It doesn't mean you're weak or selfish for being scared to lose your life. I will protect you. I promise you that."

"I don't need protection from you Sir, if there is one thing about me, it's I don't need a man to save me every time I'm in a jam. I'm the one who is protecting you after all. I wonder where you would have been if I didn't stop you in the fight with scar you had in the rain." Riza chuckled.

"Common Riza I'm trying to be serious here. And you have to go joke around." Roy backed away from the whisper and looked at Riza in the eye.

"Who said I was joking?" Riza looked back with a grin on her face.

Roy grinned back while wiping her eyes clean.

"That's not fair" Roy let out softly.

To Riza it seemed like when Roy lets his Guard down he becomes a complete different person. The past few moments he was softer and gentle compared to when he first found her. And when he is around other people.

"Your Right Sir, Sorry" Riza nuzzled her head and moved her hands from his chest under his arms and on to his shoulder blades and cuddled herself into Roy. Placing her head on his collarbone, Roy felt her breath on his skin. He placed his hands back into position and realizing just how small of a waist she was. Gently he turned his head away for a moment.

"Breda? You still alive over there?" Roy called out waiting for a reply.

"Yeah Sir, wow I didn't think you'd go all out." Breda replied after a short while.

"Report on Havoc" Roy asked again.

"Well he is off the wall if that's what you really wanted to know, is the First lieutenant alright?" Breda said while looking at Havoc that was off the wall and still passed out.

"Yeah she will be alright. Breda, call Falman, Fuery and Armstrong. Tell them to get down here," Roy said then paying attention back to Riza.

Roy waited a minuet until he herd Breda calling the others before he loosened his grip on Riza. Then put his head to hers.

"Are you…" Roy asked trying to seem like nothing had happened.

Riza smiled and quietly said "Yes Sir,"

Roy got up and took Riza's hand and helped her up. Once they were both off the ground he looked back at Riza.

"Your sure?"

"I am." Riza said with a smile while still holding onto Roy's hand.

As everyone ells gathered and helped each other out of the mess that Roy made, they all went to the living room and decided to take a break on what happened. Just as Roy and Riza finished their little scene, they were instantly back to being distant from each other. But this time it seemed different.