.:. The End .:.
Chapter 2: 1 Year Later
January 11th, 2010: Central
"Fucking hell. These bastards just keep on coming!" Edward moaned, kicking a zombie in the face. Alphonse sighed from inside the armour Edward had made him wear. It was their father's and Al was rather good at fighting in the suit of armour, not to mention zombies couldn't chew through it.
"I officially fucking hate Central."
"Brother, you've said that everyday for the last month."
"Yeah, well, it's true." Ed growled, taking down a few more.
From an old apartment building window, the two were being watching.
"Hey Ranfan, Look out the window, it's more people." Ling said, his eyes widening. "I don't think they'll be able to take down all those zombies themselves."
Ranfan smiled, grabbing a belt of flash bombs, kunais and other weapons. "Let's go save them." She said, knowing Ling wanted to. "It's been a couple of months since we last had non-brain dead company."
Ling grinned grabbing his sword. "Awesome."
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"You know Riza, it's been a year since-"
"A year and three days since the world turned to hell." Riza cut in, walking through the halls of the abandoned hospital. "And we're back where we began."
"Well, we need more supplies. But as I was saying," Roy continued, holding the rather large and aggressive looking flamethrower he had grown accustomed to since the apocalypse began. "I think it's time we started looking ahead and -"
"If the next world out of your mouth is 'repopulate', Roy, then when we next get attacked by zombies in the rain, I'll trip you, rather than save you."
Roy gasped. "Ouch, Riza. Here I am, trying to increase mankind, and you're threatening me."
Riza rolled her eyes, glancing at her gun. "We should hit the military next, I've been wanting a better gun. You know, after you dropped the last one into a pit of living dead."
Roy and Riza had never really been friends, before the zombies came, but when it did happen it showed that they both had their strong points on surviving, and they had decided to stick together.
After about three months of living like this, seeing other humans became rarer and rarer, despite them being in the most populous city in the country. So much that the couple were amazed when they heard a rather loud explosion.
Roy looked straight towards Riza, awe on his face. "Could it be...?"
Riza smiled weakly. "Let's go see the source of this disturbance."
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"Shit." Edward murmured, as he realized his brother and himself were surrounded, with no obvious exits. I'm dead. He thought.
BANG! An explosion sounded and suddenly about half of the mutants were on the ground, wailing in sickening, high pitched voices. In a flash of black and red, another group of them fell to the ground, leaving a path and Edward looked to the side to see who had saved them. A Xingese girl and boy, of about the same age as Ed, were smiling at him and panting slightly.
"Need a hand?" The boy asked, grinning as if they were old friends and not in the middle of a battle.
"Uh...yes?" Edward said. But his shock didn't last for long, as he jumped back into fighting.
At one point, Ed looked towards the Xingese girl, who was elbowing a zombie in the face, and for a moment, he was horrified, thinking she was about to get bitten. But the zombie's face connected with a blade, and he realized she had automail.
He looked back to the fight then, with a grin, thinking about all the weapons he could get Winry to add to his automail.
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"Those kids are tough." Roy commented, watching the battle from the rooftop of a nearby building.
"Do we help them?" Riza asked with a troubled expression, and Roy knew she was thinking about what had happened a couple of months ago. They had jumped in to help these two girls who looked like they were about to get killed, but when they had jumped in to help, it had turned out to be a set up and they girls had turned their guns on Roy and Riza. This ended with two very happy, and dangerously armed girls, and two annoyed and unarmed doctors who swore they'd never trust anyone they didn't know again.
Although such a decision is hard to stick to when you can see a bunch of kids fighting for their lives. Surely this couldn't be a set up.
"The real question is, will your conscience survive if we don't." Roy replied.
Riza sighed, suddenly becoming determined. She cocked her gun. "Let's go then."
The ran down the fire escape of the building and right into the battle, helping the four teens take down the final surrounding zombies.
"Who're you?" A short blond boy asked, scowling suspiciously at the two doctors, now that the zombies had all been defeated.
"Dr. Riza Hawkeye and Dr. Roy Mustang." Riza said, smiling slightly.
Edward nodded. "Doctors." He mumbled, then looked at the Xingese boy and girl. "What about you two?"
The Xingese girl bowed, managing to look graceful and feminine, whilst covered in blood. "I am Ranfan, bodyguard of Xingese Royalty."
The Xingese boy waved casually with a grin. "I'm Ling, the Xingese Royalty. Although, I think it'd be kind of hard to rule over zombies, so scratch that idea."
Edward nodded, but made no move to introduce himself. His brother sighed. "I'm Alphonse and this is my older brother, Edward."
Roy Mustang smirked after a moment and clapped his hands together, as if that'd make everything go faster. "Well then, how about you kids join us in our little 'home' for tonight, and we can enjoy having some human company."
"Wait." Ed said, looking around. "Any of you get bitten?"
They all, thankfully, answered in the negative, and Ranfan shuddered slightly, remembering the pain she had felt when she had been bitten. She looked at the automail that now replaced that arm.
"Excellent." Roy said. "Then let's go."
Hi!!! I'm so sorry it took so long for me to write this chapter, but my siblings decided to have a family get together in which i had to be social, so thus the late chapter. I hope all future chapters will be out earlier though. REVIEW PLEASE, it's the only reason I write.
~ Little-Miss