A/N: hello :D
Sorry for the absence! I have a lot of fun writing this fic, but I thought people don't like it xD.
Thanks for proving me wrong: Theiving Alchemist, Chanify, Pokemonfreak90, Kitsune Blue, TkHale, CandyCayne, colonelduckie, ookami and Alchemystic!
You are awesome ^.^
Here is the next chapter:
The troops were marching down the fields.
"We've been marching off to battle for a long time" a soldier complained.
"My aching feet aren't easy to ignore" another mumbled and kept walking.
"Hey" Falman smirked to Havoc and Fuery, "Thing instead of a girl worth fighting for!"
Riza chocked. What?
"Huh?" she couldn't help but ask.
"That's what I said" Falman said grabbing Riza and keeping her close to the three of them. "A girl worth fighting for!"
He took a centerfold out of his bag, with a woman on it. Riza tried really hard not to roll her eyes at their idiocy. Of course they would have pictures. They were MEN.
"I want her paler than the moon, with eyes that shine like stars!" Falman said dreamily.
He seemed like a simple, plain guy most of the time. Apparently he was a romantic.
"My girl" Havoc said, "will marvel at my strength and adore my battle scars!…Forget that, all I want is a cute, cheerful girl with a good personality!"
Riza watched as he lighted a cigar. So he was a softie after all. She knew that all along. He liked to play though, but he wanted a sweet girl. As she thought of it, Riza realized he wouldn't actually be happy with some sweet girl that would admire him all day long.
No, Havoc needed a girl that would keep him entertained and interested. A girl like her best friend.
The young woman sighed as she thought of her best friend. Her name was Rebecca and she would have come with her in battle if Riza asked her to. She was a tough girl, with a strong fist, and really pretty.
She was pretty avaricious though. Still, a wonderful girl. Yes, she and Havoc would make a fine pair.
But Riza kept her thoughts for herself. She couldn't tell Havoc she had a best girl friend. He would think she is 'gay'. Damn this acting. She wished she could tell them to stop being misogynistic jerks.
But she couldn't.
"For me it doesn't really matter how she looks like. But it would be nice if she knew how to cook. I for one can't" the nicest of them, Fuery, said. Riza smiled. He was too cute.
As they were crossing a river Havoc smirked at Riza.
"I bet the local girls thought you were quite a charmer"
"And I bet the ladies LOVE a man in armor!" Falman smiled.
If she thought about it, Riza realized they actually looked really good in armors. Well, Falman was really skinny, and Fuery really small, and Havoc just wasn't her taste.
But Roy looked…
She stopped herself before she could end that thought. No, man in armor weren't hot. They were bulling and…aggressive and they smelled bad! She knew from experience.
Yes, that's a good answer.
"You can guess what we have missed the most since we went to war" a soldier said.
"A girl worth fighting for!" Replied another and they started laughing.
Riza grimaced. Great. She was caught between many horny men.
"My girl will think I have no faults!" Havoc grinned.
'No shit' Riza thought.
"…that I'm a major find!" Falman added.
They all looked at her expecting her to speak. She sighed.
"Umm…how about a girl who's got a brain? Who always speaks her mind?"
None of them seemed too impressed or appreciative with her features. Because that was her. Always speaking her mind. That's why she got in trouble in the first place.
Because she refused to be a plain conquest for some stinky man that would ask her to cook and be fucked whenever he wanted. She was more than that. She was her own self. She was a person.
She inwardly admonished herself. This was no time for feminist thoughts. There was no such thing as 'girl power' in her country.
Still…she wanted to get married out of love. Not of obligation.
She came back to reality when the men re-started their rambling about the ideal woman.
"My manly ways and turns of phrase are sure to thrill her" Falman said looking at the sky.
"Are you a poet now?" a soldier asked him and he shook his soldiers. He sure was a romantic.
"He thinks he's such a lady killer" Havoc rolled his eyes and Riza giggled.
"I've got a girl back home who's unlike any other" Yoki entered the discussion from his horse.
"The only girl who'd love him is his mother" Havoc half whispered, but loud enough for everyone to hear, including Yoki. Riza laughed once again. She just loved spending time with Havoc.
She grew more and more certain with every second that he would be a perfect pair for Rebecca.
"But when we come home in victory they'll line up at the door!" a soldier spoke.
The young woman sighed again. Of course they would be so cocky.
"I wish I had a girl worth fighting for" Falman said in a somehow sad tone.
He was a nice guy too. Riza knew a girl in her home town, Sheska. She would be perfect for Falman. Or maybe for Fuery. She was a smart girl.
But WHY on earth was she mentally pairing her new friends with her old friends? It was pointless. They wouldn't meet anyway.
"Hey boss" Havoc smirked. "Do you have a girl back home?"
Roy looked at him with the corner of his eye.
He didn't answer. Of course he didn't answer. He probably had thousands of girls waiting for him, and he wasn't sure which one to pick.
"Come on, join the fun!" Falman told him.
Roy sighed.
"No."
"No you won't join the fun?" Havoc asked.
"No, I don't have a girl waiting."
Riza's heart was ten feet above the ground. Why did she feel this good just by hearing that?
"Oh. Than what's you girl going to be like?" he continued.
"How am I supposed to know?" Roy almost snapped. He seemed pretty irritated with the questions.
"Well, Fuery will have a girl that can cook. Mine will be a cute, cheerful girl with a good personality. Falman will have a girl paler than the moon. That would be a vampire."
Falman kicked him.
"So how would your ideal girl be?"
"I don't know" he replied stern and stopped the horse.
He had been so caught in their idiocy, he didn't notice the burning village in front of him.
Damn.
"Search for survivors" he said immediately and the soldiers started moving.
Riza was shocked. People lived there. And now they were al dead. Thanks to the Huns, or Homunculi, or how the heck they were called. Those horrible things that destroyed lives just because they could.
She saw a small doll on the ground and took it. It once belonged to a little girl. A little girl that was dead too.
She growled in anger.
How dare they!
They had to pay. All of them! She would make sure of it.
She was scared. So scared. What if the Huns were still there? But at the same time, she somehow wish there were a few left, just so she could kick their asses.
"I don't understand." Roy said from behind her. "My father should have been here."
"Captain!" Yoki called from the top of the hill. He pointed down in the valley were the village was.
Riza and the soldiers starred in shock at the massacre. All the soldiers and villagers were hatched and thrown on the red ground. And it was red because it was filled with blood.
"What happened here?" Riza whispered.
"They had a philosopher's stone" mumbled Roy in shock. "That's impossible."
"Are you sure?" Havoc asked , not wanting to believe the enemy had such a strong weapon.
"Afraid so." replied the colonel stern.
"Colonel" Fuery said brining a helmet. "The general…"
Roy starred in shock. There was no need for more words. The beautiful helmet with many decorations was Fu's. Roy's father. Killed by the homunculi.
Riza felt like jumping and hugging him, when she saw that pained, horrified look in his now empty eyes.
He took the helmet and put it a bit further from the village. He took his sword out and placed it respectfully near the helmet.
'Why? Why him? Why not me?'
He was torn apart. His father. He hadn't been the most loving and caring father, but he sure cared. And Roy always loved and respected him. And now he was gone. He sighed.
'It's time to be a man' he thought. 'I'll make you proud, father'
"I'm sorry" a soft voice said from behind him and he turned around. Al. His big brown eyes were TOO big for a man. And they were hazel, and beautiful. Roy sighed again. Damn those thoughts. He wasn't gay, for God's sake! He was a damn straight man, who had just lost his father.
No time for weird thoughts.
He walked by and patted Riza's shoulder. She wished she could have helped him.
"The Homunculi are moving quickly" Roy said as he got on the horse. "We'll make better time to the Imperial Central City through the Tung Shao Pass. We're the only hope for the emperor now. Move out!" he ordered and went ahead on his horse.
Riza placed the doll she had found near Fu's helmet. Than she followed Mustang's lead, to war.
…
They were walking through the pass. Silence. None of them were singing now. All the soldiers were too tired for fooling around. No one was laughing, joking or making fun of each other.
They were cold, they were tired and they were sad. Nothing could…
Riza heard a lout ZBANDG and turned around. A canon. From the cart. In which was Edward. She approached on her horse. He grinned like an angel. Riza growled.
"What happened?" Roy asked angrily.
Great.
"Uhh—" she replied stumbling. 'My little red dragon probably sneezed and blew a canon' didn't seem like the right answer.
"You just gave away our position!" Mustang continued, really pissed. "Now we're…"
An arrow hit his shoulder as he spoke and he fell. Riza gasped.
"Get out of range!" the colonel shouted as he pulled the arrow out of his shoulder, and plenty more started falling.
The Huns were close. So close.
Riza and the others ran to hide. Some fire arrows hit the cart.
"Save the cart!" ordered Roy. The canons would explode if the fire reached them.
Riza went and took canons as fast as she could, and gave them to the next soldier and so on. Edward was helping sending canons from inside. The woman freed her horse and ran away from the cart, just when it exploded. She fell, but got up quickly.
Damn. Adrenaline started pumping through her veins. Things were getting hot.
"Oh, sure, save the horse" Edward mumbled moving through the snow. She didn't try to help him get away from the cart. She knew he would manage on his own.
"You are too small, the Homunculi can't see you" she replied ironically and grabbed him and started running towards the others. She was busy taking her sword out with her other hand, so she didn't hear Edward shout 'WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT HE COULD BE A SPY FOR THE ARMY BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD NOTICE HIM?'.
Mustang ordered his men to set up canons.
"Fire!" he shouted and the fireworks flew. They hit the mountain, and nothing could be seen anymore. No more Huns, no more arrows. Just snow.
"Hold the last canon" he told Havoc, just in any case.
'You never know with those bitches' he thought.
After a few seconds of complete silence, the disaster happened.
Bradley appeared on his black horse, at the top of the mountain. And behind him the Huns.
The not too many soldiers, under the command of Roy Mustang, saw a huge mass of beings approaching.
They were enough to make a huge front line, covering the whole side of the mountain. And behind the front line was the second line, and so on. They seemed to never end.
Up, from the mountain, an enormous army was coming. Huns. Homunculi. Whatever they were, they were leaded by Bradley, also known as Wrath.
"The ultimate eye." Havoc whispered. "We're so dead."
Suspeeense xD
So, I continued. Review? Please? ^.^
I'll update soon!
Note: I couldn't help myself at the 'A girl worth fighting for part' :D. I mean all Havoc wants is a 'cute, cheerful girl with a good personality'. And yes, I'm a Havoc~Rebecca fan xD.