Chapter 2
The Alchemists on the hill
"What!"
"We have to hide!"
She got up and started to run I followed straight after her. Passing through another ally we saw two of them coming down the other end.
"Crap…" she whispered then looked around for a way back that wouldn't make any noise. Then she stopped I looked behind me to where she was looking and saw two more of them coming up the back way.
"We see you. So just come with us peacefully and there won't be any trouble." One of the alchemists in front of us said
"Yeah for you." she replied I stepped in front of her and whispered
"Use alchemy and escape. I'll fight them down here."
"No. I'm not leaving you behind."
"Go now before they come closer."
"No I wo…"
"Now."
She obeyed my command and quickly drew a circle on the ground. Then she rose up on a pillar escaping to the roof tops.
"WHAT! The girls an alchemist!"
"To bad for the boy lets take him. He'd do better any ways."
Then they all reached into there pockets and took out rocks and…Red Stones!
Two transmuted the rocks in to guns the other two transmuted them into swords. Then one of the swords men said
"We'll shoot if you don't cooperate. Got it? Now put you're hands up and come over here."
"OK." I said then ran at him then I pulled back my right arm to punch him when smoothing from above wrapped around me and pulled me up.
"STUPID IDEA! He had a sword!"
"I know that…" I mumbled as she was untying me.
"It's a good thing I stayed around. But that used up the very last of my chalk. I wasn't even allowed to have that one! What am I supposed to do now?"
"'Allowed' "
"Yeah the alchemist made a rule that no one can use alchemy except them."
"Jerks. Hey is there any Red Water in this town?"
"Red Water? What's that?"
"Never mind. Let's go back to the inn through my window."
"You sure it's unlocked?"
"I get into a lot of wired situations like this so I tend to do that."
"Then let's go."
We ran across the roof tops making sure not to make much noise. When we made it back to my room I asked if she could keep watch at the door. She reluctantly said OK. I thought out loud as I paced the room after I was sure she was away from the door. "If there still taking people for there mines they must know the true power of the stone and that it lashes back when used to much. They also must know that it's not a philosopher's stone…"
"ED!"
I heard the girl yell. I ran out of the room and down stairs tom where the commotion was. The alchemists are here.
"Come on and pay up!"
One of the alchemists was yelling at the woman who owned the place.
"I don't have it I'm sorry!"
"I don't care if you have it! Pay up!"
"Hey don't yell at her!" I walked calmly down the stairs and faced the man who was yelling. Now that I think about it I never asked anyone there names… anyways back on topic.
"She said she didn't have it." I told him calmly.
"Like I said I don't care if she has it. But if she doesn't pay taxes she loses this Inn."
"How much is it?"
"4,800,000"
"What! Of course she doesn't have it! There's no business out here at all! And you expect that much!"
"So."
"'So' leave her alone."
"Who's going to stop me? A pipsqueak like you?"
"I'M NOT A PIPSQUEAK! I'M AVERGE SIZED FOR 18! AND I WILL!"
I ran up and slugged him in the mouth. He lost teeth and it wouldn't stop bleeding it was almost like when I'd hit someone when my arm was auto-mail.
"Shop shim!"
He sounded really funny with out teeth.
"OK." I replied and punched out a few of his guys. Then a lot more came in.
They drew guns and I clapped my hands and put them on the ground out of habit but then a wall came up like I wanted! I did, I did…
"Alchemy!"
"He didn't have a circle!"
"The rumors must be true!"
But then more came in through windows behind me and grabbed me and took me to a car and then we drove off.
Roy sat there in the shadowy corners of the Inn whispering to him self,
"Congrats Fullmetal you can do alchemy again." Then he thought 'But my hunch was correct, he is making trouble. But right now I have to save him from tough's insane alchemists!'
In ten minutes we were at a huge mansion. They brought me to a back door and down a few hallways and stopped in one that had lots of cells in it, and then they took me to a cell and threw me in.
"So I spook out against you and you throw me in jail? I don't even live here!"
"We know. But we want information on Central!"
"I'm not part of the military anymore."
"We know you've had contact with Corneal Mustang!"
"…"
"We come back later when you've had time to think about you're situation." The other scrawnier guy said then left with his accomplice.
'Some even say you're the Truth.' Hmm… she just gave me an idea.
When the two alchemists came back in I was sitting and smiling like the truth. They both had uncomfortable looks on there faces after they saw me.
"What's the matter?" I asked trying to imitate his voice.
"Who are you?" one asked
Then the other one said "Are you really Edward Elric?"
"Some call me one, or the world, others call me You, or God, or the Truth. But most recently I've been known as The Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric!"
Then I clapped and touched the ground behind me and I made a gate that almost perfectly resembled the Gate of Truth the only difference was that this one was concrete. Then I asked
"Any one want knowledge? But what will be you're toll? A leg? An arm? You're sight? Or how about you're whole body?"
They were shaking in there boots. The scrawny guy had backed up all the way to the door and kept looking out at the guards.
"Boss, is he telling the truth about being the Truth?" the messily guy asked the scrawny guy.
I replied before he could and said
"But I am the Truth. Why would I lie?"
"Ok bu-boy are yu-you sure th-that's what you're sti-sticking with?" the boss stuttered nervously.
"You all fear me don't you?"
No one answered and I took that for a yes.
"Are you sure you don't want to see what's in my Gate?" I tapped on it with my knuckles they both shook there heads. I frowned disappointedly
"Ok. You're loss." Clapped touched it again and it disintegrated.
"You're coming with me Edward Elric." A new guy said he looked like a guard. The other two left and they looked relived. This new guy put hand cuffs on me (but I could still clap.) then he pushed me out of the cell and started to push me down the hall. He led me down countless hall ways, and six flights of stairs. (Out side the building looked 8 stories high. The 8th floor might be an attic because I didn't see any more stairs in this hallway.) There were five doors on both sides of this hallway. We entered the 3rd door to the left. Inside there wee 14 guards, six on both sides and a guy on a throne with two standing beside him.
"So you're Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist."
"And you are?" I asked, I was still talking and smiling like the Truth.
"Please sit down. And I'm Barthomule Alcrica, the mayor of this city. And you say you're also the Truth not just Mr. Elric?" he asked on the edge of his seat, trying to hide that he was shaking. He looked more terrified then any one. I sat down on the floor like the real Truth again even though a chair was offered. I could read his story off his face. He had opened the gate and threw someone else in. or something like that. So I played along to my role and said still smiling
"What you did was wrong Barthomule. I've come for you. So you can pay you're toll!"
"NOOOOO!" he screamed "GET AWAY! GUARDS! KILL HIM!" he was standing now then…
BOOOOM!
A huge walls of fire surrounded me except for the back I knew who it was so I ran back saying
"Thanks. I owe you one."
I ran towards him then he whispered
"Play along."
Then the smoke cleared and we saw no one was hurt. He stepped forward and said
"Edward Elric is under watch of the Amestrian military. We do not appreciate you trying to kill him."
"But he was going to…" Barthomule started
"He wouldn't have been able to."
"Hey! Don't go interfering in my business Mustang!" I yelled at him playing along.
"I am sorry for any trouble he caused. Good bye."
"Wait. What gives you the right to take him out of my prison? He broke all of our laws!"
"I can take him because he is still under our laws. And I have been given the right by our Fuher to take him out of any jail."
"Oh. Vary well. Good bye sir."
"Good bye."
I pretended to struggle when Mustang pushed me in front of him, until we were out of the mansion.
I whispered "Nice. How did you come up with that lie?"
"It wasn't a lie."
"What I'm under watch!"
"No. that was a lie. But I can take you out of any jail."
"What? Why?"
"Never mind that. I'll explain later. Get in the car Fullmetal."
"Fullmetal." Lt. Hawkeye said she had been sitting in the car waiting for us.
"Lt. Hawkeye."
"Lets go." Mustang said
Once we were far enough away mustang yelled
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING! I TELL YOU NOT TO CAUSE TROUBLE, AND YOU BREAK ALL THERE LAWS! THEN I HAVE TO STOP THEM FROM KILLING YOU!"
"But I found out…"
"I DON'T CARE!"
"There making Red Stones! And there making gold! And there in slaving people to work in there mines! Its 100 people now! I think there making a Philosophers Stone!" I finally yelled.
Everyone was silent the rest of the way. 30 minutes later we pulled up in front of a small house. We were far away from town now.
"We're here." Mustang broke the silence then took out the keys and went inside the small house.
"Do you remember what he was like after Hughes died?"
Lt. Hawkeye asked me
"I was barely there, but yeah."
"If you were to die he'd be like that again. He cares about you even when it doesn't seem like it."
"Yeah. I know."
"So try to stay out of situations like that when you're alone. Please."
"OK. I'll try."
"Thank you. I really don't want to deal with a depressed revenge driven colonel again. It would be bad for him too. Now let's go in."
"OK."
We walked up to the house and entered. It looked like a normal house I had an entry hall, a kitchen, a living room, a dinning room, and a room that I thought was a closet. But when I opened it, it was really a high tech computer room! With screens that displayed all the hallways of the mansion and the hue room! And screens that displayed parts of the town!
"What the?"