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Unexpected Encounters

"Wow this place is a little quieter than the last time we came…"Edward laughed uneasily as he saw the empty streets, a drop of sweat slowly rolled down the back of his head as Alphonse watched a dust ball roll by. Amy looked just around the town and noted that all the windows were bolted; the doors had wooden blocks nailed onto them as if to keep something out. What could have frightened an entire town so much that everyone had bolted and boarded their doors? No answer came to Amy as she thought; all she knew was that it had to be a terrible, what ever it was.

Some how it all troubled her greatly, she couldn't shake off the feeling of dread as she continued to walked along side of Edward and Alphonse. Alphonse gave her a worried glanced as he watched the young officer's black coal eyes shift back and forth from one house to another, her hand slowly inching towards her back holster. He could not understand what made her so uneasy, even his ignorant brother could tell something was keeping her on the edge. Finally the girl relaxed her arms at her sides and sighed. Nothing life threatening had happened yet. All seemed well until suddenly a child, with blonde hair and green overalls, crashed into Amy from the rear. Not expecting the boy to fall against, Amy tipped forward and would have rebalanced herself however the child's weight made her fall on her stomach not too gracefully.

"Ugh…" was all that came out of the young girl's mouth as she fell onto the dirt road. At once the little boy jumped onto his feet and apologized for practically tackling her. Amy smiled gently as she picked up herself and brushed off her clothes. Alphonse at once recognized the boy and happily called out as Edward scowled.

"Fletcher!" Alphonse happily greeted as the boy hugged Alphonse around the waist, with a big smile on his face.

"Nice to see you again Al and Ed!" the little boy greeted and then he sheepishly smiled at Amy who was dusting herself off. Seeing the boy's expression she smiled kindly and extended her hand, "Nice to meet you, I'm Amy. Don't worry about before." She said kindly as they boy shook her hand while blushing in embarrassment.

"Fletcher, where's Russell and everyone else?" Edward asked as he looked around the once city of gold and the now ghost town. At once the little boy's expression changed from embarrassment to fear as he turned a bit pale.

"I can't tell you…They'll get mad at me." Fletcher said as he started to back away but then Alphonse caught his small arm. Amy looked at him, kneeling down to his level and put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"You can tell us, at least tell us what they look like?" Edward said as he looked at the young boy who looked at him and the female teenager in front of him. Then with a look of determination he grabbed her hand and started to drag Amy away, leaving Alphonse, who let go of his arm in surprise, and Edward to chase after the two. Amy let herself be dragged for a while for she did not know the roads of that town and thought it would be very dangerous indeed is she had gone on her own without Alphonse or Edward. Who knew what kind of trouble Edward would cause in her absence but it would be even worse it she got lost and never find them again. Sighing Amy just followed Fletcher, weaving through the tight gaps of the buildings.

The thought of Alphonse trying to squeeze through the buildings made her almost laugh. That would be a funny sight to see one day, Amy mused as she ran. Soon the two had reached a small house in the outskirts of the town that had an apple orchid that was in full bloom. The young blonde haired boy was breathing heavily, but still he didn't stop until he reached the house and threw the wooden door wide open.

"Brother!" he called out as the door knob slammed into the wooden wall.

"Fletcher, is that you, where have you been?" a voice asked from the shadows of the house, making the boy stop in mid-step. Amy felt a chilling presence and protectively pushed the young blonde haired boy behind her. Narrowing her eyes she scanned the room, while reaching for her gun in her back holster.

"What's wrong Fletcher?" the voice sneered as a young boy with the same blonde hair and blue eyes walked out from the shadows. He wore a white shirt and dark green pants, with a sinister grin on his face. Fletcher shook from behind Amy as she bent low and loaded her gun, as her attention was occupied with her gun, the blonde boy attacked her. Dodging the boy's foot and pushed the smaller child outside, Amy at once prepared herself for battle. Leveling her gun she fired two shots at the boy's foot only meaning to disable him. However as soon as the bullet hit his foot the wound in the flesh, it started to heal.

"Homunculi!" the black eyed girl gasped as she dodged more attacks. She watched the boy carefully as he suddenly changed into a taller man with very long black hair and black attire.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the little girl I met years before." The man sneered as he causally walked towards her. Amy looked around the room, through the front door she could see Edward and Alphonse finally caught up to them and were occupied with keeping Fletcher safe from a fat man and a woman.

"What do you want with these people? Where are they?" Amy asked as she looked back to the man, firing a shot at the floor once he got too close to her. The man jumped back but smiled evilly to the young officer as he started to circle around her.

"I don't think you should be the one asking the questions here. Not that I would give you any answers anyway." The man grinned as he changed his appearance into a familiar little black haired and eyed girl. Amy's face had lost its color, black eyes grew wide, and her body shook as she watched the transformation. She feared the image and he knew it, but what he didn't expect was that fear made her a little desperate.

Though her hands were slightly shaking and her body had lost its warmth, Amy fired her gun one round after another. She shot the image of the little girl over and over again. She feared the past far more than the future or present, knowing this fear would endanger people; Amy tried to clear her mind. She closed her coal black eyes and steady the gun in her hand, after a spilt second she opened them then fired another shot.

"I know you, Envy. I won't be afraid anymore…There is no more room for fear." Amy glowered darkly as she continued to fire rounds. However as she was reloading her gun, Envy took the chance to send a powerful kick into her stomach, sending the dark haired girl flying out the door way. As soon as she was out of the door frame Amy hit the base of a tree creating a huge explosion of dust only to leave her groaning as she laid face down on the dirt floor. Her left hand was under her body as her right hand, which reached for the gun, which happened to land just a ways further than her head. The young officer could hear someone calling her name but Envy's voice drowned it out of her head. All the she could hear was his cold,cruel laughter.

"AMY! Where are you going? We haven't finished talking yet; do stay a while so I can have the honor of killing you!" Envy laughed as he dashed out the wooden doorway, heading toward the fallen officer. Out of the corner of his eye Edward noticed Envy heading towards the fallen girl, he quickly transmuted his right arm into a sharp blade and started to charge at Envy. However as the blonde boy ran toward the homunculus, the woman, he was fighting just moments ago, extended her weapon, so that it stopped right in front of him.

"You're not going anywhere Elric." The woman spoke in a bored voice until a gun fire caught her attention. Looking down she saw that her arm had been shot and healing. Turning her head slightly she saw Amy's right hand aimed at her arm, the girl's body twisted so she could aim better.

"Amy!" Alphonse called out as he ran toward the immobile female and picked her up quickly, tossing her over his right shoulder roughly. Just as he was about to grab Fletcher to run away, the fat man opened his mouth wide as he lunged for the two. But in the nick of time Amy managed another shot, from Alphonse's shoulder, landing it right in between the fat man's eyes.

"Ow, Lust it hurts!" The man whined as he pressed against the wound and started to jump around. The woman tired to refrain from rolling her eyes as she retracted her weapon, which was her razor sharp nail. Before she could retort anything, Envy's voice growled at them in anger. She knew at that point he had forgotten the entire reason that they were in the small town in the first place and sighed.

"Gluttony, stop fooling around and get them! Eat them! Kill them, Lust!" Envy roared as he started to transform into a large lion. Yet Amy saw the chance to escape and at once shouted on the top of her lungs in order to get Edward's attention.

"Get out of here! Quick!" Amy shouted to Edward and Fletcher from Alphonse's shoulder. Edward saw Amy quickly rubbing her hands together and threw a ball of light toward the three homunculi. Taking chance of the diversion, Edward grabbed Fletcher by the collar and ran through the streets and toward the train station. He did not bother to look back to check for his brother for he knew that the other two would be safe.

Edward decided that it was about time that he needed to know what was happening in the town. So as soon as the two males reached the train station and hide behind the ticket master's booth, Edward turned to the frightened blonde haired boy.

"Fletcher, are you ok? Where is everybody? What happened to this town…?" The blonde boy asked in concern as the little one started to cry. It seems that Fletcher had tried to say something through his tears but not a single, understandable, word came out of his mouth. So he abandoned the thought and continued sob silently, making the atmosphere more awkward, for Edward, than it had been before. Not knowing what to do, Edward pat him on the head carefully, but still the child cried. Meanwhile Amy was still being carried by Alphonse after they had reached the other side of the train station.

"Alphonse, you can put me down now. I can walk you know." Amy spoke in a bored voice as the younger of the Elrics was looking for his elder brother. However Alphonse continued to carry her on his shoulder as if he had never heard her in the first place. Amy muttered something inaudible; she knew that the younger one would not let her down until they were in a completely safe area.

"Amy…where do you think brother went?" Alphonse asked quickly in a quiet voice, hoping not to get caught by any of the homunculi. Amy pointed to the blonde head poking out of the ticket master booth just behind them, then turned Alphonse's head so he could see. Alphonse sighed inwardly as he saw his brother get his foot caught on the counter and fall over the side not to gracefully.

"Don't think you have won…we are letting you live. Do not forget that." Lust announced as she extended one of her razor sharp nails so that they hit the booth just below Edwards's foot. With that the three of them left, still leaving Edward with his right foot in the air and Amy on the dirt floor once again, for Alphonse had dropped her in panic that his brother was going to lose his other leg. For sure now Amy understood the wonderful joys of traveling with the Elric brothers, having to live every day as if it was her last. All Amy hope for, in her current state, was that she did not severally break anything before the reached Central again, or else she would have a painstaking time looking after the life threatening danger prone, namely Edward Elric. Fletcher watched the three converse with each other, Amy shouting at Edward for being so clumsy and unaware, as Edward yelled at her for being so weak. Alphonse trying to smother the two teenagers' tempers, while helping Amy to stand up right.

"I'll show you weak Elric!" Amy roared as she quickly grabbed Alphonse's head, the closest thing to her at the moment, and threw it with all her might into Edward's face. The blonde teenager receiving his brother's head at full force then slowly falling backward in agony.

"Amy!" Alphonse whined as his body waved its arms around in the air in protest. However the young officer ignored him for she was too busy gloating in her victory. Somehow it is kind of hard to see these three to be the ones to greatly change the future. Perhaps if they went one baby step at a time...

"Ha! In your face! That is what you get for calling me weak! I can beat your sorry but any day!" Amy proclaimed as she punched a fist into the air.

"Not on your life! I'll get you for this, just you wait!" Edward snapped as he held his face and threw back his brother's head at the two on the road just ahead of him. Amy causally side stepped out of the way and caught the head with her good arm, after giving it back to Alphonse she stuck out her tongue in mockery.

"Brother, how you can you throw my head around like that!?" Alphonse demanded as he shook a finger at his elder who was fuming at the top of the stairs to the station.

"I'll get you Mustang!" Edward shouted as he speed down the stairs and started to chase after Amy who ran in the opposite direction.

"Catch me if you can...You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man! Hahahahaha!" Amy started to laugh, finally loosening up a bit and making Alphonse smile. And so Amy let herself free, for the time being, from her duties as Edward slowly broadened his horizons on the power of girls. Hopefully things could only get better from her on out...hopefully.

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