Chapter 15

Mustang's story

I do not own FMA and wow this is starting to get really long… well I hope you enjoy the flame alchemist's adventure part two please enjoy and please R&R

So we all walked to Madam Christmas's bar and it was really awkward for me and Amanda. There was another girl in the bar she sat down beside Mustang smiling saying hi. We stayed close to the door very shy of going in any deeper.

"Hello Madam Christmas," Mustang said, not giving Amanda and me a second glance. Madam Christmas looked over at us and asked,

"Who are they?"

"Just a couple kids I'm helping. They refuse to tell me anything about why but they said they were in danger needed an escort to Dublith I was wondering if I could borrow money to get the three of us train tickets."

"Aw, they seem scared." The younger girl said.

"Vanessa, they are under age at a bar asking for protection they should be scared." Madam Christmas said.

Vanessa looked back at us and said. "It's okay, we won't bite. You can come in." Amanda and I exchanged looks and slowly approached them. I could tell Vanessa was trying to be nice and make us not scared but…it was really awkward. Mustang snickered and asked,

"So what do you say? Can I borrow some money?" Madam Christmas laughed.

"Borrow, right, you never borrow anything. Borrowing means repaying something you don't really do." She said as she slid a wad of bills toward him. Mustang nodded and thanked her. Then the door burst open and someone I didn't recognize ran in right where Amanda and I had been, guess I have to thank Vanessa for motioning us closer earlier. The man raised a gun and said.

"Nobody move, just hand over all the cash and nobody will be harmed." He looked at me and Amanda singling us out as the smallest youngest and weakest. "You two!" he barked. "Collect the money and bring it here." Amanda and I exchanged looks then I glanced at Mustang who was about to slide on his glove. I shook my head to him and he ignored me, he finished putting on his glove but decided to give me a chance and didn't attack. "Hurry up!" the man barked. I motioned Amanda over to the wall. I watched the man carefully the idiot still didn't know I wasn't helping him.

"You picked the wrong place to rob." I stated. He snickered and said

"look the girl's trying to play hero, now why don't you quit playing, shut your yap, and cooperate unless you want a bullet in your head." I looked at him. "Hurry up," he said again pointing the gun right at me. I nodded.

"I'll hurry all right." I dashed off at him he fired, but wasn't ready for the fact I had moved before he pulled the trigger. The shot banged into the wall and the bang echoed in my ears as a foreign sound. I stopped about a foot away from him and kicked up lighting fast kicking the gun from his grasp. He was shocked and taken off guard. But he wasn't completely foreign to fighting. He pulled a dagger from his jacket and slashed at me. I jumped back then Amanda came running in from his side tackling him, kicking him, punching him giving everything she's got. He swung it at her but she ducked and the blade just skimmed her cheek drawing bright red blood to the surface of her gash. She stumbled back and he lunged for her.

"Not likely," I growled and grabbed the arm with the knife, pulling the knife to a stop, only inches away from Amanda. He turned to me and through me off.

"Annoying runt!" he yelled. Madam Christmas and Vanessa were waiting for Mustang to pull a rescue kind of shocked he hadn't attacked already but Mustang studied us evaluating whether we had skill. 'Forget it' I thought. I shoved Amanda out of the way so she wouldn't get caught in the attack and shouted across the room to Mustang.

"Mustang, do it now!" Mustang began to raise his arm but the man was strangely fast and knew more than I thought.

"Mustang," he muttered and grabbed me pulling me in front of him a knife to my throat and my feet off the ground. Mustang lowered his arm seeing his attack would flame me as well. "The flame alchemist, in the flesh. What did you lose your touch so you're going to let a couple kids die for you?" his arm was digging into my windpipe and was strong enough to hold me off the ground one handed. But I managed to choke out,

"Die? Don't make me laugh. What makes you think I would die at the hands of scum like you?" he looked down at me fairly shocked I was still willing to talk back. I kicked him hard, and I mean really hard, in the knee where his leg buckled and his grip loosened, though only for a second, and that was a second I was able to use to slide from his grasp and collapse to the floor, arms over my head, as the guy burst into flames. The blackened man fell to the ground, unrecognizable and most likely dead. The dying flames licked at me, fizzing out just in time. I stood up and shouted,

"That could have flamed me you know!"

"I wish," Mustang muttered as he rolled his eyes.

"Hey!" I yelled at him.

"I didn't have to save you, you know." I glared at him for a second then knowing he was right I went over to Amanda to check if she was alright. The fall had scrapped her leg when I pushed her, but she would be fine.

"Well I see you are no stranger to danger." Madam Christmas said. "I guess you really are in some type of trouble."

"I think it's time to go," Mustang said.

"Be careful." Vanessa said. And the three of us left to the train station.

"Well," I started as the three of us tried to find seats in the same car, we actually only found enough seats in the completely empty back car. I plopped down in the seat next to Amanda and Mustang sat across the aisle, "that was unexpected."

"You're telling me," Amanda said.

"He was from the military." Mustang stated. We both looked at him.

"What you knew that guy?" Mustang nodded and explained.

"I knew him back before Ishbal. He was a major in the military a state alchemist, actually. But he signed up for the job not expecting to kill. The idea of taking life had struck him as barbaric and never expected to be caught in a war. Towards the end of Ishbal, when all the state alchemist's were called in he was one of us. He decided no matter what he had to fight for his country but death was too much for him to handle. He specialized in lighting alchemy and one of his attacks could kill as many people as he wanted. And after he took so many lives it got to him and he went insane. After the war he swore never again to lose alchemy, he retired from the military and no one heard of him again. I guess he was behind the recent robberies in that neighborhood. His name was Robert Mason." Amanda and I stared at him unable to believe our ears.

"Wow…I guess that explains why he knew how to fight. And how he knew who you where." I said. There was a moment of depressed silence and to break it I said. "I guess that the report on this is going to be added to your long list of paper work back in central hum?" Mustang glared at me and Amanda giggled.

"I am regretting not flaming you while he had you at knife point." I stuck my tongue out at him and turned back to Amanda. then I felt something in my pocket. I pulled out the broken necklace I had tried to fix it when Breeze was good back in Risembool but for some reason it wouldn't work I tried again pushing the clasp together and hooking the spare chain into place and it popped into place as if it was never broken. I looked at it a bit confused but shrugged it off and went back to looking out the window. The rest of the ride was boring…until Mustang got up to go to the dining car and tripped. I laughed and said.

"What's wrong Mustang? Hero of Ishbal can't keep his balance." Okay, that was lame, but it got the job done. He became angry and snapped his gloved hand and a small spark dashed right beside my ear. "Hey watch it that could hit me!"

"You mean I missed?" he said with mock disappointment.

"Flame obsessed jerk!"

"Helpless valley girl!"

"Shove it sparky, I wasn't useless when I told you your queen lives."

"Stop bringing that up, you shouldn't know about that! Mind your own business!"

"Be happy Hawkeye didn't shoot you for the tiny miniskirts comment."

"You know about that, do you?" he asked embarrassed.

"I know more than you ever will." I responded. Amanda looked at the two of us and asked,

"What tiny miniskirt comment?" I smiled and replied,

"We should have Envy follow you around to pose every time you say it Mustang." Amanda chuckled and I gave an evil smile. It went on for the next half an hour until we got to Dublith and had to disembark. We got to Izumi's butcher shop only to find it empty and Ed nowhere to be seen. Then I remembered Izumi was off in Briggs and Ed was off hiding out with Greed. "Wow, Hawkeye was wrong," I stated. Mustang and Amanda looked at me and I said, "You're not only useless in rain, you're useless dry as well." Mustang said.

"Do you want me to BBQ you?" I never got around to responding I had glanced to my right and saw Breeze and Envy standing about 20 yards away. Mustang had his gloves on and Breeze yelled over to me,

"Nowhere to run, now fight me."

"Are you going to fight her?" Mustang asked I shook my head no. He raised his glove. "I'll be happy to do it for you."

"Fine I'll do it," I growled, "just please take Amanda somewhere safe. I don't want her to see this."

"That's my choice, not yours, to make." Amanda spoke angrily.

"Please Amanda, just go three blocks away, I don't want you to see this and I don't want you to see Breeze VS me. Do it for me." she sighed and replied,

"Fine, Mustang, you better come and get me when it's over." And she took off down the block. I took a final glance at Mustang. His onyx eyes piercing mine ordering me without words to fight. I turned back to Breeze. 'This is going to get ugly.' I thought.

(Please listen to this while you read. /watch?v=75fACTlEUWY)

"I'm sorry Breeze," I muttered to myself as I dashed at her. Just as Mustang snapped his fingers, Envy bursting into flames, only a few feet to my left...leaving Breeze and I in an awesome looking stance with an explosion in the back ground.

"It's about time." She said harshly.

"Only because Mustang is here." I replied, "I really didn't want it to come this." She charged at me and I rushed forward to meet her. I blocked her with my arm. I slid out of reach and behind her as she took a swing with her other fist at my face. Fat chance! I wasn't about to get a black eye…but I wasn't about to try hard to hurt her either. She jumped away from me and spun to face me only to see me running at her and landed a punch right on her cheek. She stared at me for a second in shock but was already reacting and she punched me in the side hard. I took a few steps back and asked her,

"You really want to fight?" she growled her best threatening growl (It sounds like Perry the Platypus...not very threatening.)

"Stop holding back!" she dived at me and I sighed and landed a kick on her shin and slid to her left, dodging a punch she threw at me. She spun at me without missing a beat with a high kick and I instantly dropped as low as I could on my stomach avoiding it, while I was there I grabbed her ankle and yanked sending her off balance and falling to the floor. Then I quickly scrambled to my feet.

"YOU KILLED HUGHES!" we heard Mustang Angrily shout at Envy. Breeze's head twirled to me and she asked.

"You told him? You might have just messed up the entire story line when he is supposed to fight Envy!"

"Like you're one to talk I, know you told the homunculi about the show. I had to balance the board." She glared at me then we heard Envy say,

"Wait…you killed Lust!" Envy turned and ran faster than I could yell coward. Breeze jumped up at me but I dodged it and rammed into her pinning her to the ground. I saw Mustang yelling and ran after Envy. I watched as Mustang disappeared from sight. Then before I could do anything about it, two hands grabbed me and pulled me up of the ground and off, Breeze and I couldn't break free. It was an ambush. I tried to yell after Mustang but one of the hands let go and clamped around my mouth.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Anime Envy asked mockingly.