The Mercury Alchemist

by AveryScarlet

What if there was someone who traveled with the Elric Brother's that never existed before? And that there was actually 8 homunculi? Meet Catherine Cairo, a once normal girl with the love for anime and FMA, wishing for her life to change. What she didn't expect was to be sent to the other side of the gate! Will she find out who she really is and find a way back home? EdxOC AlxOC

19. Chapter 18

'Humans are weak when facing those stronger than them... In both mind and body they know their no match against
those with a greater power...! So tell me... Truth... Why is she still standing...!?'

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Chapter 18 ~ The Man with the Scar

-Normal-

"Brother I think we should start looking for Cat now," Al suggests after hours of them sitting on the rooftop of Central HQ. Ed continues to refuse the idea, "Hell no! After what she did... She knew what was going to happen to Nina, and the worst part is we don't even realize it at all from the start like she had!" "She has her reasons Ed! We've kept things from her too, actually to so many people before her!" though he didn't want to admit it, but Al was right. Even though both boys had no idea what to do next, they knew they'll have to look for their missing friend sooner or later till one of them agrees to start the search, and reluctantly Ed was thinking of giving in to his younger sibling's wishes. 'Alice!' The memory of that day suddenly flashed into Ed's head at the sime exact time when thunder erupted in the sky.

::Memory::

"Alice!" Cat continues to cry after the chimera's body was taken away by police, or atleast whay remains of it. "I'm nothong but a hopeless human being...

Horrified, Ed looks up the sky muttering out loud, "She wanted to protect us..." "What?" asks Al who barely heard what his brother just said. Ed explains to him, "She wanted to protect us from the same thing she went through... We made a mistake Al... that Chimera didn't kill her friend... her friend was the chimera! This whole time we thought that the chimera killed her friend when in reality... it was a human being that died that day."

"So all Cat was trying to do is protect us," Al concludes, happy to hear the truth of Cat's real intentions. Ed stands up on his feet with a new glint of determination in his eyes, "Looks like we have some apologizes to do Al. We can't leave Kitty out there in the pouring cold rain." 'Isn't it you're the one who has to apologize?' even though he can't say it out loud to his brother, Al knew it wasn't entirely his fault about the fight and that it was actually all on Ed, but he had to agree with a sweat drop forming at the back of his head. As cruel as fate is, a dark man wearing sunglasses and an x-mark scar on his face walks up to the boys asking one of them, "Are you Fullmetal Alchemist?"

-Me-

Cat: So about the needle thing...
Me: Don't worry! It's slightly on the shoulder so it didn't exactly go all the way to your neck to go all the way to your throat.
Cat: Ok- Hold on! How long was that thing!?

It just had to rain today! Sure I hate the desert, but what I hate most about this is that the rain is reflecting exactly how depressed I am after my short argument I had with Ed a few hours ago. 'They must be probably worried about me by now... If only I had gotten there sooner maybe-' I was pulled from my thoughts when a small painful sting erupted on my neck. I placed a hands over it and pulled it back to check how much blood is coming out this time; good news it's not really that bad, bad news is I think the needle is stuck inside flesh. I cursed silently as I tried to pull it out of my neck by force while I can still feel it sticking out of my neck, all I can do is pray that it's not those long freakin' bitches that hurt like hell and that the needle hadn't gone through anything important. "Tucker... you sure have a poor aim to break the needle inside my neck like this..." I growl as I successfully pull half of it out of my neck. At the exact moment I got the whole 5 inch needle out of my neck it, an explosion was heard a few feet away in the exact same direction as where Central HQ is located. The one thing came into my head, 'Ed! Al!'

At first I was going to run in the direction they would be by now if the Elric's encountered Scar by now, but when I remembered the state I left them both in after my short argument with Ed, I started to slow down and then come to a complete halt. I scoff at the idea of saving them, "Hmph! Ed and Al can save themselves! Mustang or Armstrong can save them, I'll only be a burden since I know Scar isn't suppose to be captured." I make the move to turn around and leave, but then a painful sensation swept all over my body in a matter of seconds before I could even take a single step back, and it got worse when lightening erupted in the air around me. Then everything went dark.

||The Gate||

I gasp for air and hugged myself after that weird sudden episode I had earlier, I don't even know what had caused my body to feel so much pain just like that , and I am pretty sure it wasn't the needle that caused me to go through so much pain. "Yo!" my eyes went wide when I heard that familiar eerie greeting echo through the air. I slowly turn around to see the one and only Truth sitting in place before the gate, staring back at me, or atleast I think it is, with it's invisible white eyes. Truth asks me the most stupidest question in the world, "Had fun during these 3 years?" Pissed off, I answer back at it in pure sarcasm, "Yeah if you like getting stabbed, shot at, sent to the hospital multiple times, and have a homunculi who looks like me trying to kill me every time I see her- then yeah I'm having a blast!" Three years- three fucking years I've been sent away to Amestris from my crappy world, this is what I get in return for all of my damn hard work on hiding my true identity from the military is for truth to ask me if I had fun. Hell no! It's been a living nightmare since day one when I went under Raven's supervision and all of the happiness I felt for being in FMA that I still had in me went away after those various horrible missions I never want to go through again.

"Tell me Truth, why the hell am I here?"
"To give you the information you need in order to continue on without going astray."

"That's not what I meant and you know it! How is it I'm here at the gate? I didn't even commit the taboo or transmute myself here to get to the ga- ...What?" I cover my mouth as I stare down at the ground in confusion at what I was about to say. I didn't know about that. I don't everything about FMA brotherhood, so how did I know about transmuting yourself in order to get to the gate? Truth starts to laugh at my reaction, "Hahahaha! It seems that it's already leaking into that pretty little head of yours for some time now. Tell me, who is Pride?" "Selim Bradley- What the hell...!?" I was shocked more than before, right after the name slipped out of my mouth I fell on my knees and stared out into space. The gate slowly opens itself up behind Truth, and with it the small black arms reaching out towards me as I sat there still registering what's going on with my head. The arms lift me off the ground and pulls in inside the gate, but not before I see another gate facing sideways from my own and infront of it snapped me out of my trance, I fought back the arms this time as I kept my eyes glued on a certain golden haired boy. "Al! Alphonse!" I turn my body around with all my might and tried to reach out to him as far as I could. He looks up at me and smiles. "Al...?" I whisper, lost at how come Al didn't reach out like I thought he would.

Then when the gate fully pulls me inside, the last thing I saw before the gate shuts it's large doors was Jealousy standing infront of the gate with a dark look on her face, and beside her stood a figure of a man, his hood from his cloak prevented my from seeing his face. Everything went dark for a second and then a string of lights burst and come out towards me, wrapping around my body with images of my own past mixed together with images of the past events of Ametris that's suppose to happen without me in them, and soon, information of what's to come in the future came as well. I clutched my head as the images that I was seeing soon start to show themselves in my mind. "Agh! Stop it! Not this again! Stop shoving stuff in my head already!" I scream as the pain got even worse than before the longer I stay in this place. At first I thought it all about alchemy again like 3 years ago, but this time was different than how it should be, images of people I knew and those I don't appear in my head in a flash, fights and deaths in the future that is probably shown in the anime flash inside my head like lightening.

All of it came to three conclusions; one where I never came into FMA and Father is defeated by everyone, second... where Jealousy manages to wipe those who have an important part in the story out of the picture and takes Father's place in obtaining the philosopher. The third never really came to me it just showed myself in my future self as an adult and then that was it, only thing left as a hint was a strange blue stone in my hands. "Waaaaah!" I scream when I felt myself being thrown out of the gate. After all the information came to a halt I found myself thrown out of the gate, face planting on the white floor from the aftermath, and what came out with me was a necklace. I pick the necklace up as I got off from the hard ground. The necklace was a small tiny bottle, with a small parchment rolled up to look like a tiny scroll, tied up to what looks like a titanium chain, which confuses me the more I studied the thing in my hand. "The exchange is complete," I hear Truth say from behind my hack. I turn a heel to ask what he had meant only to see it's figure standing right infront of me, leaving about an inch of space between us.

He holds up my cross in his hand, causing me to look down then back up and tried to take it from it. "We shall see each other again," Truth voice change to my own at the last part of it's goodbye, "Catherine."

You won't remember a single thing after this anyway.

||Central||

I gasp for air as I fell down on my knees, like as if I hadn't been breathing for 3 straight hours without oxygen. I felt something in my hand, so I sat on my knees and held my hand up close to my face so I could see what I had been holding onto for so long. It was a necklace that has a small glass bottle as a pendant. A cold shiver ran through my spine, "Ed! Al!" I broke out into a run the moment I felt that something was off about all of this, there's no way in hell everything would go so smoothly now, during my 3 year stay here I know nothing will go right no matter what. 'I don't know why,' I extend my hand outwards and began using my alchemy to make a straight path heading towards HQ, 'but there's something telling me I should go get Mustang. None of this seems right to me at all!"

++Later++

As I slide my way in the direction of the almost destroyed HQ in sights every minute I got closer, my balance was off but I was so focused on getting to Mustang I didn't even care if I hit anyone in the process- and ignored every single human being that came across my back throwing complaints at me in every direction. When I got there my heart almost dropped when I saw all of the military soldiers still at HQ, not where Ed and Al are like how they should be. 'There's no way the homunculi would risk the death of a precious sacrifice- Woah! Where did that come from!? C'mon focus Cat! Ed and Al's life are on the line here!' I turn my full attention on keeping up with what's going on. As my hand continues to glow it's familiar white light, a pain struck my left side even more as the rain poured down to the earth even harder than last time, and thanks to the fact I'm using water alchemy, my left arm starts to shake wildly in response of the rain. If I want to save them I have to make do with all this water and try my best to keep this up until I reach my destination. Only one man, god I wish it wasn't, is the only hope for them if I want them both to come back alive, Roy Fucking Jack-Ass Mustang.

I jump off the icy path, close enough to where the soldiers where standing around. I caught sight of him and started to march up to the colonel, demanding, "Mustang! Why are you all still here!?" Mustang see's me, "Not unless you want to go against the orders of your superior." "Superior? You can't mean Fur-" I was interrupted when a voice barks at us behind my back, "Mustang! Who said you can get out of your position? We're not here to chit-chat while your subordinates are getting inspected!" Inspected...? Inspectected!? The hell is going on here!? I twirl around to sass whoever is in charge of this little suare(?) until I ended up staring into a sea of dark blue abyss, the only pair of eyes that could make me shut up would be the only being ever to have the same, yet dark, appearance similar to me. "Jealousy..." I gasp under my breath, loud enough for only me to hear. She smiles at me asking, "What's wrong Mercury? You act like as if you've seen a ghost?" Her hair was tied up in the same manner as mine now, uniform too modern to be from this century but still blends in with the other, her general hat almost covering her dark blue eyes, I found it weird for a homunculus to have a different eye color than their previous one.

There is two reason why; first it's either envy in disguise, or two Jealousy did the most complex and painful thing known to an alchemist who's familiar with the human anatomy, transmuting the cornea and shape it's using the water inside the body to form the ideal vision of the eyes structure. "Yes! Forgive me, General of the Army Juliet Douglas!" Mustang apologizes and salutes her immediately, hesitation in his voice as he tries not to look at the girl directly in the eye. I look back at Mustang in shock then turn my attention back at Jealousy to glare at her with all my might, earning a small smirk of amusement from the homunculus doppelganger that nearly sent me over the edge if I didn't remember the reason why I was here.

"General of the Army, huh? Never heard of such a rank the military till now."
"It's a new rank that the big man decided years ago when he saw some potential in my leadership skills. Let's just say it's a seat only for me as a second head of the military as a way to run things incase his Majesty isn't around to run things.
"I take my authority very seriously, my men have been handpicked by the Furher himself to work under me in order to keep me busy for a while till its my time to shine for my beloved country."
"I see it's been working out for you so swimmingly GA. Although last time I checked, another certain country has that rank for a different purpose- and I think our dear Furher seems to have copied that idea thanks to a certain someone in the military."

None of the men that were nearby understood what we were talking about, most just ignored out little pep talk thinking we're siblings having a small argument with one another, I wouldn't blame them for thinking that since both of use almost look exactly alike. "Actually it's been a little boring when it's just me and my men out there working," a total shocker coming out of her mouth. Jealousy? Working with humans? She can barely keep her grubby little hands away from my neck every time our paths cross with one another, or was it just me in this world? I look over her shoulder to see her so-called men, and each one of them looked exactly like the kind of people you see in a circus, except for that woman over there talking to Havoc. She seemed perfectly normal compared to her co-officers. I could tell they all belong to Jealousy by how different their uniforms are compared to everyone else in those long blue garments. Instead, they wore a more light clothed version of the uniform with some of their body parts exposed in the air and the color was black instead of the usual dark blue I see everyday. Seeing as how she's acting like your average normal stoic General, I took this chance to take a few steps forward seeing as how she's not trying to kill me again.

"Listen here," I grab onto her shirt with every nerve I had inside of me to get so close to her, "my partner and his little brother are out there facing against an alchemist criminal! They have no chance against him what-so-ever!" Jealousy glares at me as she brushes my hand off, "We're busy inspecting the cause of the explosion as you can see we need to check if there is any man buried under the debris inside HQ." "What's more important at hand is saving Ed and Al! We have no time to just stand around here and do nothing!" I snap after hearing her excuse. I saw her smirk one last time before asking me, "Then how come you're here? And not there?" That question struck me hard in the heart. I stare down at my feet pondering on her words, 'How can I explain myself about that...? I can't just say 'Oh it's because we had a fight and I can't stand being near him after what happened'. I promised to protect them... but at the rate I'm going there might be nothing to save!' "Stand down soldier or I will be forced to make your current superior take your watch back," she orders as she snaps her fingers for Mustang to come up by her side.

He reluctantly complies to this gesture. I lift my head back up to glare at Jealousy, "Be thou for the people... that's the law I've always followed... I have served Raven for 3 years, followed and disobeyed his orders. Many lives were lost because of that no matter what I did to try and prevent it, but I will not stand here to the lives of the people I care about die because of me and some stupid meaningless orders!" I took my watch out of my pocket, shoved it into Mustang's hand then gaze at Jealousy one last time before marching in the direction I knew they would be in, cherishing that angered look I earned at the disobedience I displayed in front of every one and her own men. 'I don't care if I'm not in the military anymore... They have to live on... Together as brothers!'

-Al-

"Brother don't do it! I beg of you!" I cry helplessly as I watch our attacker extend his hand to do what he wanted to Ed. I extend my hand as I cried out, "Brother!" A blast of hot smoke suddenly bursts all around us from behind Scar's back, blinding the three of us from out surroundings. I saw a flash of light spark in the air along with the flying colors of blue flames emitting through the clouds of smoke, and as I search for what's happened I hear a clank of metal echo in the air along with a loud battle cry. "Get away from him Scar!" I hear, causing me to perk up at the familiar voice. The smokescreen finally cleared thanks to the pouring rain, revealing a very exhausted Cat standing before Ed in a protective stance, her sword drawn and her automail arm shaking madly with frost slowly crawling up her arm. I gasp as I then remember that time back at the hospital before leaving together for Liore as a trio again.

::Memory::

"Cat! Don't forget to keep your arm in check! The more you use your alchemy on it, it'll freeze up and rust all at once! Remember your arm doesn't have the resistors for rust yet!" all of us hear Winry scream from the other end of her line. Cat drew back from the phone with a pained look on her face before going back to the conversation at hand, "You can't blame me for using water alchemy so much Winry, that is the reason why I was titled Mercury Alchemist." I know it was wrong to listen in on Cat's conversation with Winry around the corner at the hospital, but I didn't want Ed to get in trouble if he was found spying on Cat, and it's not unavoidable not to hear our childhood friend when she's mad when it comes to automail. I've had my share after seeing her fury against my brother. "Just hold back on using a large amount of water or any freezable liquid on your arm! Thanks to all that freezing and heating up you've been doing there's a good chance the resistance of your arm won't stand these conditions any longer! At the rate your going it'll be a matter of days before those old resistors I put in will break!" Winry shouts, her voice filled with worry. Cat reassures her, "Don't worry so much Winry! Unlike Ed, I sure know how to take proper care of my own mechanical body parts."

"Sigh... Look the last upgrade you got might not be as helpful like the first model I made for you, this is just a brand new part I made for you in order to make your arm lighter. Remember when you first used that blue flame on yours? Well this time I'm not there when it completely freezes over your arm." "I know that, but I have complete trust in you. If Ed has lived this long then that doesn't mean I won't too. As long as I don't use too much alchemy all at once in the same area then I'll be fine, besides I have those two knuckleheads who I know always have my back."

::End of Memory::

I know where this is going. "Cat get out of here! This man is an alchemist killer! He's not like the people you and Ed have faced before!" I scream with a new found adrenaline building up inside me. All Cat has is an unlimited supply of water coming down the sky to keep her going, the thing that scares me is if she can keep up with his attacks. She looks over my shoulder with a look in her eyes telling me 'It's going to be fine' and turn her full out attention back to the man, ready any moment to make her move incase either one of them takes the first step. 'No... Cat won't be able to face him off! Her arm isn't built for this kind of situation!'

-Back to Me-

'So this is how it feels like to come face to face with Scar... Gotta hand it to Hirokawa-san... She sure made a hell of a character,' I thought as pant hot air coming out of my mouth, trying my best to keep my shaking body together and hold my sword up steadily in the air. The temperature dropped much more drastically compared to the previous fights I had when I used my blue flame, except this time I'm standing in the pouring rain and the water around us is starting to feel like water coming out of a cold shower. "The Mercury Alchemist," Scar backs away with an unimpressed look in his expression, "the savior of many lives. Killer of others." It panged my heart at the reminder of my past failures. "Just because I was forced to kill... Doesn't mean I didn't save any!" I amplified the flames to grow as a reflection of my inner rage that was starting to build up inside of me.

"Two state alchemists' in one day... God must be on my side today."
"Actually bucko, I gave my certification away earlier just so I can save these two idiots from getting their brains blown up."

"...Cat...?" I look over my shoulders to see an awestruck shorty on his knees staring back up at me with a shocked look, speechless at the sight of me standing between him and Scar, but he spots my nearly frozen arm was what made him finally speak up. "What do you think your doing here idiot!? You'll get yourself killed if you try to take this man down! yells Ed as he grabs onto the bottom of my coat. I turn my gaze away so he wouldn't see the pained look I had in my eyes, I didn't want him to realize just yet what I had in mind and the very thought of it gave me goose bumps all over. "I'm not here to fight you Scar," I outstretch my hands to the side and drop my sword to the ground, "all I want is to make a deal with you. It won't be much since I am no longer in the military and the exchange won't be truly equal to what I'm about to offer." Scar lowers his hand to his side replying, "Go on. What do you have in mind that will spar this boy. He already offered me his life if I leave his little brother alone." I slam my right hand at my chest without hesitation, glaring daggers at Scat with all my might and yell out, "My life for Ed's and my body for Al's!" What seemed like an echo to the world, I felt all eyes on me at my sudden preposition with not a single hint of hesitation in my voice nor my eyes as I stood firmly in place, waiting for Scar's answer on this.

He didn't seem pleased at all. "You're offer isn't fair alchemist. Your laws-" I interrupt him as I scream my lungs off, "It's fair enough if they aren't going to lose each other!" I lower my head to let my bangs cover my eyes as I continued, "They only have each other left in this world! Me... I have nothing to lose! Compared to them, not a single person has been there for me! No family at all to begin with! These two only have each other... You had a brother too... So can't you see the scar you'll leave behind if you separate them from each others lives!? The pain of losing your brother is like killing your entire family!" Silence pregnated the air, it killed me on the inside at every second that went by, scared if whether Scar will agree to my terms after I revealed reluctantly that I knew about his own brother or kill me in place then kill Ed. I felt a sudden blast on my left side. I smiled. Scar had destroyed my automail arm incase I was secretly planning to kill the man behind his back, but I couldn't object to this. My arm was already useless by the time I had stuck it in the air and left it hanging there. Even though I could've just easily transmuted a spear of ice to pierce through his flesh without even moving an inch, I still obeyed by the laws of equivalency no matter if I am not from this world.

"I'll give you a moment to pray to God," he offers. I chuckle at this offer, "God, huh...? Too bad long ago I stopped believing in him to do such a thing..." I heard the screams of the two behind my back like 'Cat don't do it!', 'Get away from him!', or 'I'm not worth saving!'. What came next- well we all know who finally came to save the day. Talk about a late entrance. My legs finally gave out at the exact same moment when a gun shot was heard, nearly hitting my head if I hadn't decided to let myself go to the ground in preparation of my death. I stare out into space as everything played out in my eyes once again like it had always done every time I see crucial events, my mind almost felt like it was flying at every moment I lay my eyes on. Mustang getting tripped by Hawkeye who saves him since he's completely useless in the rain, only to sulk about it even more when Havoc notices this as well, soldiers lined up in their positions incase Scar makes his move to escape, Armstrong appearing out of no where and transmutes his art alchemy at Scar, etc. The one thing I heard that made me snap was when I heard Havoc tell us this, "He's the one who killed both Shou Tucker and the chimera that was with him." All I saw was red in my vision, the sudden reminder of her death sent a huge charge all around me throughout my entire body.

I got up slowly as I mutter, "You really are the worst... Lowest of the low..." I took a step in his direction, ignoring the attacks Armstrong was sending and my alchemy automatically blocking it with a sheet of ice, fully unaware of the blurry screams of warnings aimed only at me. Armstrong finally stopped when he noticed my on the battle field. The only thing echoing in my head was, 'Kill... Kill... Kill... Kill...' There was nothing that could stop me, and when Scar finally notices me, I saw something in his eyes I've never seen before when he was just a fictional character to me, fear. He sent his hand at me and like magic his entire arm was encased in ice after one small spark lit on my hand. 'Kill the scarred man... you were born to kill! Kill!' the voice was getting stronger by the minute the longer I stood before Scar. Then another voice emerged in my thoughts, 'Stop it! This isn't you! You swore to protect lives! Not end them!'

'Killing is what you were born to do...!'
'Saving lives is what you swore to do...!'
'Where there is pain... there is death...! You must kill!'
'They wouldn't want this to happen to you again...!'
'They...?'
'They're all dead to me...! Friends... family... are just things that can easily backstab you...!'
'No...! Every single life is important...! Humans are... Humans are...!'

I never got the chance to hear what that inner voice was going to say, but the moment I heard a gun shot echo my mind immediately snaps back to reality and that's when I realize my hand was already wrapped around Scar's throat. Time seemed to slow down for me. I turn my head to the direction of where the gunshot came from and saw Hawkeye poised with her gun up in the air smoking then I look down to the ground beside me to see a pair of black sunglasses on the ground. The final thing I did was stare directly at the revealed red irises of the ishvalan, his blood trickling down to the side of his face from the graze he got after dodging the bullet. I pull away muttering in confusion, "What was I...?" "Catherine get out of the way!" the moment I heard that, my body was pulled away in time as bullets were shot as Scar from behind his back. Me and the stranger fell down to the ground on our backs as gun shots continue to echo in the air. I look over my shoulder and see Hughes. "Hughes...?" He gets up and orders me, "Stay here with these two!" Not having anticipated so many foes and unexpected turns, Scar cuts his losses and deconstructs the street beneath him, escaping into the sewer system. I watch as Hughes runs off back to Mustang and the rest, leaving me by myself on the ground frozen stiff.

I heard footsteps run by my side as I mutter this out loud, "I thought I was finally going to die... All these years... and this is the state I'm left in..." "You idiots!" the next thing I knew I was hit on the back of my head by a giant- no wait two metal fists at the back of my head!

I clutch my poor head in pain as I twist my body around to yell at the two, "What was that for!?" Ed was already by my side and Al directly behind my back, must've crawled his way over here when both of them saw me on the ground. "And you!"" Next came Ed to get a pounding of his own by his own little brother, and I can say he did deserve it after he was about to get himself too infront of Al, except I had to admit it, I also deserved a huge bonker to the head after my stupid stunt earlier. "You idiots! Why would you do that? Why would you just give up!?" Al yells in frustration. Ed is insulted at his brothers words, "Don't call you're older brother an idiot!" "That's what you are! And you-" Al jabs his finger at my face, "don't ever talk like that again! That was a stupid thing for you to do, and you're even more mature than Ed here!" His arm falls off not long after. Angered at the state his own body is in, Al starts to thrash around yelling, "That's just great! Now my arm is useless! I'm useless!" Ed and I couldn't help but laugh at what's going on. "We're all falling apart..." I hear Ed mutter. Al perks up, "But we have each other." I giggle for the first time infront of them, "Hehehehe...! You two are the weirdest bunch I've ever seen!"

"Hey that was actually the first girlish thing-" I interrupt Ed immediately and transmute a giant ice fist to punch him at the side of his face. Al laughs at this and corrects what his brother meant, "What he means to say Cat is that you look better when you laugh." I pretend to get stabbed in my heart by this, dramatically saying, "Ouch! That hurts me Al! I can't believe you actually took your brother's side! After all I've down for you!" It's like we've forgotten the near death experience earlier, all three of us acted the exact same a group of highschool students would act back in my home, it all just felt so normal around these two. I watch as Hawkeye steps up behind Ed's back and places her military jacket over Ed's shoulders, catching the boy off guard as the two look up at the group of adults that surrounded us. 'Funny,' I thought to myself, 'the rain seems to finally stop. What a weird way to put the mood in.'

-Scar-

I walk through the sewers alone, pondering on the words that girl spoke moments before the military intervened.

"You had a brother too... So can't you see the scar you'll leave behind if you separate them from each others lives!?"

"That girl... what is she?" I wonder out loud. I still remembered the look in her eyes when she suddenly began to choke me, here eyes were black the entire time she stood infront of me. The way the girl acted as inhuman, even her strength was abnormal.

||Central Hospital||

-Normal-

"No! Not this again!" Cat squeals from her bed, nearly jumping up ten feet high when the needle suddenly came to into view. Nurses tried to hold her down as she regular doctor prepares to stick the needle into her flesh cautiously, silently praying that she won't freeze his ass (literally) off like she's done for about millions of times every time Cat ends up in this hospital and get the cursed needle to make things worse. Ed and Al sat in the room beside hers, quietly listening to the loud crashes heard on the other side. 'So this is the side of Cat when in the hospital,' they both thought simultaneously as the screams got louder and louder by the minute. "Get that thing away from me!" with one last scream, a huge explosion shook the entire floor. Inside, Cat had covered the entire room with snow and the staff shivering to death from the sudden freezing cold. Ed sighs, "This might take a while till we can leave..."

To Be Continued

And that's a wrap! Now I read some of the reviews the other day and someone mentioned about the handler when I said he was gay. I'm here to apologize for that since you see... he was kinda the main reason why my dog got attacked and till this day I'm pissed at him for running away without even trying to help. I did not mean anything bad about him being gay! TT^TT I am so sorry! I didn't mean any harm, that last part I wrote was out of blind fury! Any who I thank you all for taking your time on reading my fanfic, patiently waiting for the next chapter to come up. This one is shorter than usual, but I was in a rush to finish this since college is coming up in about 2 weeks. O_O

Me: Today I shall be talking to an unusual character here today, and I am fixing the previous chapter a little after my co-writer made a small screw up on certain character... -_-* Give it up for Camilla!
Fans: Kyaaaaaaaaaaa~!
Cam: My my~ I never knew there were so many nice people out there.
Me: How did you like your sudden reappearance Camilla on the last chapter?
Cam: I was actually surprised to appear on such an important occasion actually, besides that childbirth moment.
Cat: *in a fair distance away* Don't remind me of that...!
Me: Um anyway... Have anything to say to everyone out there?
Cam: Ah yes I think I wrote it right here... There you are! Don't forget bring a spare knife whenever your going out on the streets by yourself! :) Make sure it's a swiss army knife to scare the robber or rapist.
Me:...
Fans:...
Cam: Eh? Why is everyone so quiet?
Me: You just read out loud of the lines for one of the chapters...
Cam: Ah! I'm so sorry!
Me: *sigh* I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist except my OC's; Cat, Alice, Camilla, and other character's to come. All rights belong to Hiromu Arakawa! Please R&R, tell your friends about this, and also please visit my new account on photobucket to see exactly how my OC's properly look like since I completely forgot you can't put up like on your stories.
Cat: Please visit her photobucket account! Her username is Avery-Scarlet! Now you can clearly see how we look like and future characters under planning!