Chapter 4: Getting to Her

"Damn it! This isn't it!" Roy cursed. He tore off to the next place. He had said it was on the outskirts, but what if it had been one that had been close? Doubt was setting in fast as he ran. What if he couldn't get to her in time? He found the next place his car wasn't there. He growled knowing if he did find her as fast as he could he would never save her. The sky was getting dark with clouds and he could tell that it was going to rain soon. It was a good thing that he brought his lighter.

Ed walked to the front door when everyone had left the party and said good by to the Hugheses and to Havoc.

"We'll try helping the colonel out." Al said as they said their good byes.

"Yeah, and Hughes we think you should probably stay here." Ed said.

"Good idea boys." Hughes said.

"Just be careful boys." Gracia said.

Roy stopped running to catch his breath, he ran all around the out skirts of city and couldn't find her.

"Where can she be?" Roy Asked out loud as it started to rain. They were probably closer then he thought. He was close to being done he only had two more to check and they are the two closest places to Hughes's place. He ran as fast as he could. It was hard to see in the rain as is pounded down hard.

Hughes and Gracia started to pickup the house as the feeling of fear was thick in the air. Elisa was already in bed fast asleep so they didn't have to worry about it. Havoc decided to stay there with them. He told Hughes that he had something to tell him. He didn't really care what Havoc had to say, but Jean said it was very important so he had to make sure to listen to what he had to say, after he was done cleaning. The cake hadn't been touched, since they hadn't sang happy birthday to Tabi. He hoped that they could still do so. Gracia came up to him with tears in her eyes as she hugged him. He hugged her back as he looked down at her.

"She's going to be okay." He said not believing himself, "Why don't you go sit down and I'll finish cleaning up okay?"

"Okay." They kissed and she left for their room and Havoc walked up to him.

"Meas, I'll help you clean up."

"Thanks, that would mean a lot to me."

"Yep."

Ed and Al ran though the out skirts of Central City also looking for Tabi. Ed was soaked through to the bone form the rain. They stopped again as Ed caught his breath.

"Where could she be brother?" Al asked.

"I don't know." Ed replied. "The rain really isn't helping."

"When she got kidnapped the last time it was raining." Al pointed out.

"That is Ironic isn't it?"Ed said as they started off again.

One more place left. Roy knew that is was it. He could feel it, but he still had about a mile or two to go before he actually got there. He had to save her, she was his life. The ring in his pocket was counting on him. Their future children counted on it. He had to stop to catch his breath. He leaned on his knees. the sound of the rain hitting the ground sounded like a clock ticking down the seconds to Tabi's death.

"I will find you Tabi." He promised her as he glared down at his reflection in the puddle at his feet. "If it's the last thing I do, I will find you." He started off again.

Hughes and Havoc had finished cleaning up the house and sat down on the couch.

"What is it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Hughes asked.

"Are you familiar with Time Alchemy?" Havoc asked.

"No." Hughes replied, "I'm not."

"Okay, so their was a Professor who was interested in time alchemy, She ended up disappearing shortly after she started on her research. She had left behind a whole book of her research, Roy owns it."

"Are you talking about the disappearance of Professor Sarah Weltal?" Hughes asked, "Her case is now in our could case files. We looked into that two years."

"Well, like I said Roy has her research."

"What does this have anything to do with this?" Hughes asked.

"Okay so, Tabi is kidnapped, right now right?" Hughes nodded.

Scar had escaped from the fight with Alex Armstrong The Strong-Arm Alchemist and was on the move to find Tabi. Tabi Hughes was in trouble and Scar couldn't, no wouldn't let anything bad happen to her. He didn't know her very well, but she was the only person that knew his real name. He was soaked from head to toe from the rain as he ran limping through Central city. He didn't know these Homunculi very well either so he couldn't go by that. Then it came to him. His brother's arm knew when it was around the philosopher's stone which meant that he could find her a little easier.

Winry woke up from a bad dream as she sat up quickly. She got up and looked out her window up at the stars. The dream wasn't all that bad, but she didn't like it. She went over to her dresser and picked up the gadget Tabi had given her. Tabi told her that it was an MP3 player. She said it played music. Winry begged her if she could take it apart.

"I don't know." Tabi always said, then for her birthday last year, Tabi gave her a replica of the one she owned.

"It took me a week to make one that looked like mine and then I realized that I had to make it work too. So it took me another two weeks to make it work too. Then I put my music on it from my computer. Its all yours, take it apart and put together as meany times as you want." Tabi gleamed at her.

"Thanks this is Awesome!" Winry said happily as she rubbed the device on her cheek.

"It was nothing." Tabi giggled, "Oh I almost forgot! Here are some head phones. I have three more of the same pair in my dresser. They're all made the same way and they are for you when I'm away."

Winry came back to reality and looked at the clock and saw it was around nine; only an hour after she had gone to bed. She sat back down on her bed turned on the device and listened to the music it held. Tabi had great taste in her opinion as she listened to her favorite song.

"I wonder what She is up to."Winry said to herself as she laid down.

Roy stood in the road to catch his breath as the rain kept coming down. He bent down and put his hands on his knees. The night air was frigid and turned his breath into fog as it came out of him. He had a feeling that he was close now.

He stood outside an old abandoned mansion that was almost big enough to be a castle. It had to be it, his car was parked in front. He ran up to the front door and it was locked. He took his lighter out of his pocket and then flicking it as he thrust his arm which made the door explode.

He walked into the mansion and was greeted with a very long hall and about twenty-five doors on each side. He took a deep intake of air and ran in. Why hadn't he told himself what room she was in? If he doesn't save her this time he will make sure to tell himself which room they were in.

Havoc leaned on the wall next to the small hill of Tabi's gifts as he watched Hughes walk around in his living room.

"Do you want something to drink?" Hughes asked for the third time.

"I' m fine." Havoc replied.

"Right, okay." Hughes replied, "Thank you for staying."

"I figured you needed some one, you should go check on Gracia." Havoc replied.

"Good idea." Hughes said and left the room.

Roy kicked in another door to see nothing. Then all of a sudden he heard and explosion coming from the dubble doors at the end of the hall.

"There you are." Roy said as he ran down the hall.

When he reached the doors he found that they too were locked so he stepped back and took out his lighter. He made the doors explode open and he ran inside to see as Tabi flew past him then flipped and jumped off the wall she was going to crash into and pounce onto Envy with a punch to the face as they landed. She proceeded to repeatedly punch Envy in the face. Then He caught her hand and flipped them over so that Tabi was now on the bottom and she kicked him off. She jumped up to her feet as Envy did the same while they ignored the explosion that Roy had just made.

"That is it! No more playing around with you girl!" Envy said glaring at Tabi.

"Bring it." Tabi said as she signaled for him to go to her with her hand. Roy ran in front of Tabi as Envy went to punch her in the face and Envy's hit landed in Roys chest.

"Oh I see." Envy said, "Two against one now? That seams hardly fair."

"Sounds fair enough to me." Roy said as he punched the small green haird Homunculus in the face making him slide back and hit the wall. He flicked the lighter at Envy making him explode. He regrouped frowning.

"Do you have any idea how annoying that is?" Envy asked.

"Why would I care?" Roy asked flicking the lighter again and making him explode once more. The same process happened.

"Roy." Tabi said hugging him. He put his hand on Tabi's arm then felt a slap across the face.

"Don't ignore me when we are fighting."Envy yelled as he caught Roy with an upper cut to the chin making both of them fly back and Roy's lighter fly out of his hand.

"Shit." Roy whispered.

"Sorry, I was just so happy to see you." Tabi explained and they both dodged blows made by Envy.

"You look good." Roy said as he kicked Envy in the stomach.

"Thanks. You look really wet." Tabi said Tripping Envy. He back flipped back to his lighter as Envy landed a kick into Tabi's stomach making her fly back and hit the wall. Roy took that opportunity flicked his lighter at Envy again causing him to explode. He ran over to Tabi and helped her up.