Chapter 2: Broken Bones
I continued to run, blessed with incredible speed and agility we approached Ed's house in no time. As we reached Resembool we were stopped by a large group of people that were huddled around the train station. We tried to peak around and over to see what was going on but the crowd was too thick. Envy hopped off my back suddenly and headed for Ed's house, still shirtless and still mad. Ignoring the crowd I followed him to the Rockbell residence, but I went no further than the door. Every time I try to enter that house I get these memories, memories that aren't mine.
Envy banged on the door "Hey pipsqueak open up!" he shouted. He waited patiently for about two seconds before opening the door himself and breaking the padlock, leaving him standing in front of a confused Alphonse. "Hey tin man where's your brother?" Envy demanded.
"I'm not tin man anymore, I have skin now!" Al debated to Envy. Though, he may as well be arguing with a rock because the chances that Envy actually heard him were less than fifteen percent. As he opened his mouth to argue further he saw me standing outside and immediately went silent, stepping aside and letting Envy into the residence. "Winry…" he muttered after Envy had left to search for Ed.
"I'm not Winry, Alphonse. My name is Breac and I may resemble your late wife but I share none of her feelings. Not even the ones for you." I said coldly. The one thing I couldn't stand about visiting Resembool was Al's constant obsession with me. I heard a loud crash upstairs, followed by some yelling. All I could make out were the words "ant", "runt", "feet tall" and "pea sized." Though, from this I could surmise that Envy had found Ed.
After about 10 minutes Envy and Ed came through the front door, and led me outside of the house. I explained to Ed about what we saw at the mall and he looked between us, almost confused.
"So… let me get this straight, you just left it there?" He blinked.
"Yeah, why?" I responded, tilting my head some.
"You left a rogue in a heavily populated area… unattended?"
"So?" Envy and I responded in unison.
"You left hundreds of innocents in danger."
"So?" Again, in unison.
"You just left it to wreak havoc on that city."
"So?"
"You homunculi are all the same…" He sighed "You just can never grasp the basic cost of human life…" Ed looked over at me, examining me. His eyes trailed up and down.
I glared at him as I figured out that he was staring "Something you're looking at runt?" I growled.
"No…no nothing like that, Breac… you just remind me so much of Winry" Ed said, defending his actions.
"Yeah and I bet the tight dress isn't a bad touch either!" Envy commented, reffering to the tight fitting, low cut black dress that I usually wore, since those were my original clothing.
I whacked Envy over the head. "This is no time for that, if you can joke about my attire later, right now we have a rogue that needs to be taken care of. If we don't stop it, we'll eventually be sniffed out by it."
Envy rubbed the spot I hit "Yeah since devouring you or I would give it more power than thousands of humans would."
Ed interrupted sharply. "Wait, what!? That thing is following you? What the hell were you guys thinking coming here; we're not that far from multiple densely populated areas, it could kill thousands!"
"So?" Envy and I responded together.
"Gahhhh you two are hopeless!" Ed complained, standing up and throwing his jacket over him, stretching his automail and preparing for battle. "Envy, put a shirt on and get ready to fight… Breac, um… do you mind just changing into something a little less revealing I mean, I…" Ed was interrupted by a sharp whack to the head.
"Dammit is that all you two think about?" I sighed and marched off to go change, just to shut them up.
Little did I know I didn't have time for such comforts, the creature was already close to Resembool, too close, leaving us with too little time…