Chapter 2 – Boroná Tor Boroná und Daran Tor Daran
(Midnight is Midnight and Day is Day)
I sat on the roof of the woman's dorms that night, pondering over what would happen the next day; and night. I was staring at the all-most full moon. Memories of my past was brought up, memories I have tried so hard and long to forget. That idiot is going to make me murder him… I thought, punching the roof, lightly, so that I didn't break the roof with my heightened strength and abilities. I'll talk to Hawkeye about it tomorrow before the battle. Maybe she can talk to Mustang about getting me out of this battle.
I decided I would do that, and closed my eyes for meditation. I took deep breathes, concentrating my power to the center of me, and then out in the air I breathe. It was a way to keep the power inside me equally balanced, or otherwise known in the art of alchemy, The Law of Equivalent Exchange.
Alchemy, I sighed, is what had gotten me in this mess with the colonel and the Fuhrer. It was Alchemy that cost me my wings. It was Alchemy that killed Iralla and Neia, I yelled in my thoughts. I clenched my fists as I remembered my two sisters being killed right before my very eyes by an Alchemist. I had always had a thing against them. And it was an Alchemist that had abandoned Envy when he was being brought back through the gate. Hohenheim Elric I believe he told me. Envy… It had been at least 3 years since I had seen the Homunculus, and I missed him. He was different than other Homunculi. I liked him, because he was just like me.
I sighed, stood up, and jumped down so I could run into the center of the fighting ring which was about 300 feet away. I managed to get there in a matter of seconds. I smiled surprisingly, and soaked up the loneliness in the air. I enjoyed that feeling, because I had suffered it for over 200 years, and I had gotten used to it.
I let my fire go. I let it come out of the tips of my hair, my finger tips, my feet, anyplace where my aura was strong on. I felt the heat course through me, and I let the warmth overcome me. In a matter of minutes of being alone, I could hear someone coming from the direction of the female dorms. I quickly put away my flames and sat down, just in case if it was someone who doesn't know about who I was, was coming. But I didn't need to. It was Hughes, the one man who I was close with here in the military.
"What are doing out this late?" he asked. I smiled and lit a small fire in front of us, because he sat down in front of me.
"Taking in the fresh air," I said. He looked at me with smug look. He could see right through me. I know something is up, he thought. I smiled at what he thought and spoke up. "I have a battle tomorrow, thanks to Mustang."
"Against whom?" he asked.
"Does it matter? Tomorrow is the night of a Full Moon, Hughes!" He looked knocked back by the amount of power that filled my voice. He knew what the dangers were of fighting when it was the night of the Full Moon.
"It is also depends who it is," he said in a soothing tone, trying to simmer the fire within me down. That is why he and I were so close. It was always Hughes I went to when I needed to talk or when I needed someone to help me calm down. "He or she could be strong enough."
"Edward Elric," I said my voice quite a bit quieter. "But still, he may be a State Alchemist, but if I faced someone, even the Fuhrer, I would kill them. I could kill any Alchemist after what happened so many years ago." I began to tear as I thought of myself tearing that small blond-haired shrimp to pieces…being soaked in his blood.
"He is a strong fighter, and I will be there. I will cheer you on, and help you if anything goes wrong. I promise," he said. He scooted over and gave me a tight hug, and I felt safe in his big bear hug. "You Ok now?" I nodded. "Well, you better be getting some sleep there, Crimson, for your battle tomorrow." I stood up and walked, slowly for me, towards my dorm room. "You'll be fine," I heard him whisper as he put out the fire and walked away towards his room.