A/N: I am here once again
I must say, I just found out, even in my other fanfiction, Riza is damn hard character to write. Who can agree on that? ^^ Just per say, I am sorry if I ever make her OOC, it would be unwillingly.
I want to thank you guys, at least for reading my fic, I wanted to make something extraordinary, so I hope at least some of you like it ^^.
Also, I decided to change tags a bit, since I wanna make this story a bit larger. I will try to keep updating on Mondays or Sundays, since on these days I travel by train for like 4-5 hours and I am able to write ^^.
Well, here comes the third chapter, hf.
PS: Gotta fix those grammar mistakes, in case you find some, let me know.
PS2: Elric brothers are still in Resembool in this time.
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"Brother!" Edward Elric, reading the book in the living room, looked up to meet his brother's eyes.
"What's wrong Al?" questioned the older one. Al was walking towards him, holding a folded letter in his hands.
"This came from Central right now, it is from Colonel." Ed furrowed his brows and got the letter. "What does that Colonel want now?" Ed asked while unfolding the letter and reading it through.
Alphonse Elric watched his brother read the letter and then his eyes widened. He grabbed it and ran to his room. Al followed him just to see him get some books from the library, placing them on the table and opening them up.
"Is it in code, brother?"
"Yeah, this will take some time."
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"Aaaargh" Ed was now sitting on the floor, hands in the air, opposite was Al, same as his brother, sitting on the floor, wide-eyed.
"Fine, we have to go to Central. Here I wanted to go we- "
"Are you going to the Central again?"
Both brothers turned around to look at Winry, standing near the door, looking at them with worry written all over her face.
"Yeah, gotta wipe that smirk off the Colonel's face once more." Said Ed, now with eyes closed, standing up, he made his way to the wardrobe to pack some things up. "You coming too, Al?" He looked to his brother sitting still on the floor.
"Yes."
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"Chief, are you sure it was a good idea to let Boss know?" Blond-haired Second Lieutenant Havoc asked, sitting behind his desk, unlit cigarette in his mouth.
Colonel Roy Mustang was standing near the window, looking outside, watching the military personnel walk around, armed. He knew why Havoc asked that, Edward Elric couldn't use his alchemy anymore and his brother is a normal citizen. He won't ever say it out loud, but Roy needs one more good head for thinking, they need to know what is happening, how the hell is it happening and how to solve it.
He sighed and turned around, to face all the eyes in the room. "Fullmetal studied most of the Biological alchemy for … " eh, not really good choice of the words. Roy cleared his throat. Hawkeye looked up from her paperwork for a second, but remained silent. "We will need both of them to help us with this case. Fullmetal is still a State alchemist, he would be called to Central sooner or later."
No one noticed Fuery's eyes widening and how his face lost its colour, while he listened to the radio for good 5 minutes now.
Breda was the first one to notice since he was sitting right opposite of him. "What's wrong Fuery? You look like someone died."
Everyone looked at him and he started. "There …. " he looked up to meet everyone's eyes "There is a riot … in the Southern part of the Central."
"What do you mean riot? This is Central, not a prison." Said Roy, now walking towards all of his subordinates, standing and sitting near Fuery, to know more of what is actually happening."
"Colonel, you said, you have seen people eat other people, right? Do you know if those people were trying to bite or scratch others?" Fuery asked looking him right into the eyes.
"Yes sergeant, I said so, what about it?"
"This riot is still ongoing sir and it is spreading fast. On the radio they say, in this riot, people are biting one anothe-"
Fuery was cut short by the door slamming open. Everyone looked to it, looking at the sole soldier standing there, breathing like he ran a marathon.
He calmed down, saluted and started. "Colonel Roy Mustang, sir, you were called by the Führer. You are to go to his office" he stopped and looked at them waiting for some response, after that, he added "immediately."
"I understand." Said Roy. After that he turned to the others. "Fuery, get me more information about the situation, Havoc, Breda, Falman, try to get the information about Elrics, about when will they arrive, Lieutenant come with me." All five of them saluted, Hawkeye following Colonel close behind, leaving the room and other four got to work.
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They arrived at the Führer's office, Roy signalizing Riza with his eyes to stay outside, she understood and stationed herself just near the door. He knocked three times on the door, just to hear "come inside" from the other side of it. He opened the door and entered the room, closing the it behind him, his boots clicked, as he saluted to the now standing Führer before him.
"You called sir?"
"Yes Colonel" he looked up to meet his eyes. "Have you heard about the recent, still ongoing riot in the Southern part of the central city?" asked Grumman.
"Yes sir, just a few moments ago." At this Grumman made his way to the map, pinned to the wall. It was a map of the central, with marked points on it. Roy followed his gaze to the bottom part of the map.
"As you can see, I pinpointed few parts of the city. Other generals are already on their way there. I want you to defend the city Colonel Mustang as well. You will have prepared everything in 10 minutes on the main Southern square." Now he turned around, once again watching him.
"I have heard you and my granddaughter got caught in the combat with those, 'people'. Even though you have stated it in your report, there are still some problems with dividing them from normal people."
"Yes sir, as you already know, we saw them eat other people, plus they are growling, not speaking any words. Their style of walk is recognizable too."
"Yes, that is known to us" He took a deep breath and continued. "Go defend that square."
"Yes sir!" Roy saluted and turned to leave.
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After he left the Führer's office, he turned right, not eyeing anyone, lost deep in thoughts. Riza following just behind him, both of them sped through the corridors of the Central HQ.
"Lieutenant, let the others now, we are to leave in 10 minutes, we will meet up at the southern entrance, tell them to prepare for fight." Ordered her Roy after a good few seconds.
"Yes sir!"
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Before the southern entrance
When they met outside, there was a car parked just before the entrance. Breda, Havoc and Hawkeye stood near it, saluting their superior officer. Fuery and Falman were already in one of Fuery's houses, ready on the radio.
Roy emerged from the gates, holding a map in one hand and his gloves in the other. Placing the map on the hood he started.
"Second Lieutenant Havoc, you will cover this part to the left with the men stationed there." Said Roy, pointing to one of the marks on the map.
From Havoc, his eyes went to Breda. "Second Lieutenant Breda you are to investigate events in the northern part of the square. Every intel you gain, you will relieve it to Fuery and Falman and also to me. Secondly, you are to watch the citizens. If someone emerges bitten or scratched, but he will not try to make a dinner out of you, you are to send them to the hospital tents." After finishing up he looked to Riza.
"First Lieutenant Hawkeye, you are to move with me on the main square, we will divide into two groups to cover the whole square. There will be a communication specialist in each group. If something happens, let me know immediately."
Now Roy straightened up and watched them. "Everything clear?"
Havoc, Breda and Hawkeye saluted. "Yes, sir!"
"Dismissed".
All four of them entered the car. Riza was behind the wheel, Roy was on the front passenger seat, Havoc and Breda were seated behind them.
Breda was the first one to break the long silence in the car.
"Sir, about the Elrics, they will be arriving tomorrow." Roy turned around to look at him. "Tomorrow? That is pretty late considering when they received the letter".
"They said something about the letter being a bit complicated … " at this Roy smirked " … and also that there are some problems with trains, they were able to only get a ticket on the late night train."
Roy turned around, smirk slowly disappearing from his face. He caught the sight of Riza looking at him for a bit. He knew what she was thinking about. Problems with trains, attacks, all those events were difficult to contain.
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It took them good 20 minutes to arrive at the square. Havoc got dropped off to his designed point of action, meeting up with a good 200 men.
Riza parked around the corner, not far away from Havoc's part of the army. She turned off the engine and exited the car, along with Roy and Breda.
Breda saluting to his two superior officers, went to his own designed point, to fulfil his orders.
Roy turned around and walked to his own part of the army, he could see around 500 men, armed and hiding behind the barricades. Riza was following just right behind him, hands folded behind her back, just above her holsters.
Few soldiers saw them arriving and saluted, this gained the attention of the remaining soldiers, who also saluted to the both of them.
Roy after acknowledging them started. "Soldiers to the left, you are to partake in this action on the wider part of this square, with First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye as a commanding officer. This is because of the movements of the enemy and also to save as many citizens as you can."
"The enemies that I speak of have somewhat special marks to them. You can differ them from the normal citizens by those marks."
This earned him gasps and whispering of sentences like 'Are we to kill citizens?', 'What does he mean with those marks?'
Riza looked at the confused faces of the soldiers and then looked at Roy, knowing what he is going through.
"Silence and listen!" All of them looked at him and tensed.
"Those marks that I speak of are. …" he stopped for a bit, to give them some time to understand and after few moments, continued. "Firstly, they do not speak, remember this, they only growl. Secondly, their eyes are blank and yellowish, also their sclera is covered in trails of blood. Thirdly, they walk like the drunk men. You will know when you see them, shoot only when you are certain those are enemies, not the innocent citizens."
He looked past them and looked at the end of the street, where he already could see one of them.
"Also, one more thing" He looked at Riza and motioned for her to move forward. She understood, looking at the square before her and grabbing her sniper rifle, stationed on her back.
Eyes of nearly all soldiers who could practically see her, watched her get her sniper rifle from behind her back and pointing it to the end of the square.
Roy moved to her, like presenting something to the soldiers before him.
"Shooting to the heart will not kill them" at this she shot at the person in her field of range. She could see in telescope, that it was one of those people, by its marks.
The soldiers watched the shot person stagger back a bit, but she, or he did not fall down, it continued walking like nothing happened. Its arms were stretched out and it was moving its hands and fingers, as if it tried to crawl on something.
Most of the soldiers gasped, they did not understand, Roy knew, he did not understand in the begging either. He did not understand why those things wanted to attack Lieutenant, also him, why did they eat this woman, why did it not get killed by the bullet residing in its heart. That is precisely why he wanted to have Fullmetal here today, to examine them.
Another bullet left Hawkeye's rifle, it landed just right in the middle of its face. Soldiers watched it stagger back and later fall down. "As you can see, only the bullet to the head kills them."
Riza stood up from her rifle and looked at the soldiers before them.
"Now, any questions?" Roy looked around for few seconds, then after deciding to himself, they understood everything, he continued. "Okay, you are to form two groups now, in 2 minutes we will continue. Dismissed."
All of them saluted, they were ready to do what needs to be done, that little presentation helped them to mentally prepare themselves.
Roy turned around to prepare himself for the upcoming fight.
On his way he stole a glance at Riza, who was standing just behind him and lowering his voice he spoke up.
"Good job there."
"Thank you, sir."
Roy started to make his way away when she spoke up too.
"Sir, just do not do anything stupid when you have no one to defend your back."
He smiled to himself at that remark.
"No worries Lieutenant"
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A/N: Uff, I did not know if I would be able to stop this chapter somewhere, it was fun writing this down. Also, this one is the longest one yet.
Well, hope you liked it, fav and review please. 😊
