Chapter 4
A daring escape that didn't work as planned
(April's view) Breeze and I had no choice and we followed them back down the hallway to the same room we had been in,but I noticed one of the rooms we passed had a light on, and I took a mental note. We entered an empty room and as they left I heard the *click* of the lock. As soon as they were gone I slammed my fist into the wall hard with an angry thud. I gritted my teeth and pulled in my hand. Again, I was reckless it scraped up my hand and stung horribly do to my extremely dry skin. Also my side was bruised and sore from my angry outburst fighting Envy. I ignored all the pain though and walked over to Breeze who was staring at me with an expression of pity. 'This is entirely my fault' I thought. 'If it wasn't for me then we wouldn't be in this predicament'. I rubbed my bleeding hand and said,
"How do you suppose we get out?"
She shook her head. "I don't know… I wish we could do alchemy like Ed, so then we could make a hole in the wall and run." She looked down in thought for a second then exchanged shocked excited expressions. We had seen the truth, and in Conquer of Shamballa people from our world who never could have used alchemy were able to use strong alchemy because they passed through the gate. The homunculi wouldn't know that because they never saw the show or the movie, but if they don't want us as sacrifices for the use of alchemy what do they want us for?
"Let's try." I said determined. I walked over to the door and clapped my hands. The sound amplified in our suspense filled silence. I brought my hands down on the door and a bright blue light flooded the room as the door turned into a hole in the wall. But the light filled the hallway and I realized I risked us being found as well as a chance to escape.
"What are you thinking doing it on the wall they can see? The light will tell them we are using alchemy!" Breeze yelled at me.
"I know, and stop screaming, you'll warn them more! Just run for it!" we dashed out into the hallway and raced down the hall, turning random corners and darting down hallways.
"It came from over here!" I heard a voice yell from a few hallways behind us.
"This way." I said to Breeze. It might have seemed like the hallways were random but I was actually leading us to Amanda, I hoped. I turned a corner I was in front of Breeze leading the way. I turned my head to make sure she was still behind me. She had stopped and was sliding back trying to run the other way, but I slammed into something, something big. I fell backwards and landed on my back. I closed my eyes gritting my teeth. I looked up and saw brotherhood envy transformed into his true form. I growled and thought snap. I rushed to my feet and jumped back out of the way as he tried to paw me.
"Going somewhere?" he asked, but I had already broken into a run and was following Breeze when I called back to him.
"Sorry but I can't stand your ugly face it's making me sick." I made a face like I smelled something terrible.
"Brat!" he called after me, and we ran down the hallway with him chasing us. Fortunately he was a bit too big and had to slow down to get around turns and had to squat to get through some places where the ceiling lowered. Breeze ran straight when we hit a turn but I yelled at her.
"Go left you have to," she back pedaled a few steps but trusted me enough to slow her speed and follow me. I made a few more turned guessing how to take a second alternative route to Amanda. Then I finally saw the door. I slid to a stop and flung it open.
"What are you doing?" Breeze asked panicked beginning to slow to a stop for me.
"No keep running," I told her, "I'll be fine!" breeze didn't hesitate and kept running. I darted into the room and saw a shocked Amanda. Her face went happy and she stood to greet me.
"No time." I said quickly and grabbed her by the arm and we ran out into the hallway she stumbled around behind me, unsure of what was happening. Until she saw Envy, she didn't know it was envy, she thought some huge ugly monster had broken lose… actually that's right. The three of us kept running, but the other homunculi had caught up and were beside Envy, and they were slowly closing the space between us. I couldn't help but feel like something was wrong, something small I was missing. Then we saw the door.
"GO, Hurry up!" I yelled to Breeze and Amanda, renewed alarm in my voice. I used my strength to give Amanda a shove, and a good burst of speed, she and Amanda were out the door just as Fuhrer Bradley, pride and Fuhrer Bradley wrath dashed out at super speed from a corner close to the door. I was lucky enough to slam the door shut before they got the chance to go outside. They had been hiding and waiting. Breeze, Amanda and I thought we were running but really the homunculi were herding us toward the trap. I tried to dash down the hallway to my left but Bradley Wrath was too fast and he grabbed me.
"Let go of me you big oaf!" I yelled as I kicked and tried to break free of his grasp.
"You're not going anywhere." Lust said as she lengthened her nails. I growled and kicked, trying to escape his grasp, but I was off the ground and couldn't break free. I heard the door open and some of the homunculi went to go outside. I grabbed at the eye patch the Fuhrer was wearing and yanked it off, angering him at my persistence.
"Settle down runt, or you'll regret It." he shifted his arms and I took the opportunity to break free. I dashed through the unsuspecting homunculi, using my claws to shove them out of my way I made it to the door and slammed it behind me, before any of them had the chance to go looking for my friends. I couldn't see Breeze or Amanda then I saw something black from the corner of my eye and I saw greed #1 and greed #2 fully enclosed in their shield. The Fuhrer ran out right behind me and attacked greed but greed #2 blocked it while I felt greed #1 hit me hard in the back of my head with his shield encased hand to knock me out.