Armstrong replied. "You can't be serious? Not now, I'm on duty watching the homunculus." Riza nodded a response, they couldn't move.
"If you don't come and help the hospital will be in grave danger, the injured, the ill and medical staff will be put in mortal danger. Bring the damn thing with you!" The Soldier ran outside the room, most likely back to the fight insuing outside.
Both Riza and Alex looked at each other than Gluttony. "We can't bring him with us... he'd just get in the way-" "CAN FIGHT!" Gluttony interupted Riza. Riza looked at him. "You... aren't suppose to do anything except rest. You aren't a soldier-" "Soldier! Be Soldier then!" Gluttony interupted once again. The situation was too severe to argue.
Alex decided to respond, "Then you must take a pledge..." Alex thought of one. "Do you pledge to protect and serve the military through thick and thin, through any predicament, as long as you live? To protect the people of Amestrie from harm, that includes not eating them, as long as you live"
Gluttony paused and put his index finger in his mouth "Pledge that will be good, help people, be not unless"
Riza and Alex wondered why he mention not being unless but there wasn't time for this. First Alex left, Riza help Gluttony down from his bed. "Are you certain that you want to fight in your state"
Gluttony looked at her "Certain." Gluttony use his powerful arms to hold up his weight and walk. He couldn't move at nearly the speed he usually could but he was still able to keep up with Riza and follow her to the exit. The medical staff and patients looked on, wondering why the homunculus was even allowed outside let alone was following the officer in charge of his protection.
Once outside the severity of the situation was very noticable. Gluttony gasped at what he saw. A massive feline creature, dark grey, with disturbing glowing green eyes was being shot at; it wasn't even being phase by the bullets. Riza began to shoot at the beast, as with the others it was unaffective.
Roy ran to the side of his former lover. "It's just not working, I think I'll have to use my alchemy if things don't shape up"
Armstrong threw a barage of achemy attacks at the beast and it just dodge them. It was fast. Gluttony sniff the air, the same scent he had got from around the gate this beast was emitting. It wasn't a chimera, it wasn't a wild animal either, it was some kind of gate demon. Gluttony remembered something about it but he couldn't remember what it was exactly, all he knew was this wasn't a human so he could eat it... and it would certainly fill his belly for some time.
He didn't have to go after it, the creature came to him. "You... you're from the gate." The beast spoke, it's dark eerie voice echoed. "Hmmm... you smell of blood, you're even more pathetic than the humans that surround you. Help me kill them and we can team up"
Gluttony was surprised, not only could it talk but it wanted his help to kill everyone. Gluttony shook his head. "Killing human is bad. I'm good"
"So be it." The creature replied. The creature rushed at Gluttony. The homunculus keen predatory instinct knew that the gate beast wasn't being smart. It's head was low enough for him to get around. So before the beast could get his jaws around Gluttony, Gluttony snap its head down and mauled the beast's neck. The force of his jaws was so powerful the creature couldn't toss him off. He bit down harder and harder, his mouth filling the the beast's blood until his neck was snapped. the creature body shook a bit then remained still.Riza eyes grew in fear as the creature charge at Gluttony. But to her amazement Gluttony was the one that got the upper hand. He had the creature laying dead within so little time she didn't even have a chance to reacte. She went over to congratulate him but Gluttony suddenly didn't look well.Gluttony was happy, he finally got himself a meal. But as he let go of the beast's now dead body, his stomach felt icky. He began to gag, this was followed by him vomiting violently. This was a very rare occurance, Gluttony could eat almost anything and it wouldn't come up. This was just fresh blood, and it was making him so very sick.
Riza ran over. "GET A DOCTOR NOW!" she shouted to the surrounding officers. Riza kept some distance as she saw the contents of his stomach steaming and melting into the concrete underfoot.
After a few times, Gluttony fell down and sat on the ground, looking down. His stomach wasn't designed to work backwards. This was not only energy consuming but very painful. Gluttony watch as a few doctors and nurses arrived with a stretcher. One of them asked "Can you move onto this?" Gluttony nodded and slowly pull himself on to the stretcher. They rushed him into the hospital.
Riza stood outside, not able to do really anything about this. Roy walked over to her. "Colonel Hawkeye, though I'm sure this is out of my rank could I be informed of why the homunculus was allowed to come outside?.. Not that he didn't solve our little delema"
Riza looked at him and sighed. "We just let him join the military..."