Ohayou gozaimasu!

I've finally planned out the pairings as well as the character deaths. I hope I won't upset too many fangirls & fanboys. And of course I'm selfish so my number #1 favorite character won't die.

As usual, English is not my native language, so sorry for possible mistakes.

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA because if I did Maes wouldn't have died. :( I own the OC's though.

Chapter 7: Never say die

What was I running from? From the two homunculi behind me that chased after me in order to end my life? From the words I didn't want to hear, but knew they were true? From my past? Myself? Or maybe something else? What did I run for? Why didn't I just stop running? Why didn't I let them kill me?

It wouldn't make anyone sad after all. Not my parents in my world. Not my siblings, not my classmates or anyone else who knew me. I was nothing in my world, and nothing in this world. I was a failure, worthless, useless. I didn't deserve to be alive if I couldn't even protect myself.

Say, Truth, was this what you wanted? Because I'm pretty damn sure this wasn't what I wanted. I opened my mouth to scream for my life, for help, for anything, anyone, but not I didn't make a sound.

But.. was this the end? My end?

Hell, I didn't even meet my favorite characters yet. I couldn't die without seeing them once. Wow, now that was a pathetic reason to stay alive. But it was something, something I could hold on to.

I clapped my hands together, turned around and slammed them to the ground, forcing huge icicles through Gluttony's body, stabbing him. He screamed in agony. I knew he wouldn't die from this. I knew what he was.

I turned around once again, to run off in the opposite direction, only to find Envy right in front of me.

"You're not going anywhere, bitch." He sounded pissed.

Guess I made him angry. Chasing after me wasn't his job after all.

I clapped my hands once again and touched the ground, focusing on what I wanted the ice to do. The ice began to form under my fest, and then suddenly I was 5 feet above Envy. His eyes widened in anger. The ice began to form a huge pillar under my touch, breaking through the ceiling of the shaft. I would probably end up piercing a road but I didn't really care, I had to survive.

"We're going to split up." Roy announced, suddenly businesslike.

"But why split up?" Ed was confused. "I thought only one shaft collapsed, she shouldn't be that hard to find, should she?"

"The shaft has two entrances and we don't know where exactly she is, if she is the one causing the ice." Riza Hawkeye explained.

Ed opened his mouth to complain, but Al touched his shoulder. "She's right, Nii-san. We should split up."

"Fine." Roy said. "Hawkeye and I are going to the east entrance, you guys are going to the west entrance."

"Aye sir!" Al & Ed saluted and ran off.

When Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye arrived at the east entrance, they immediately knew something was wrong. They heard the scream of a girl, and Roy recognized it as the voice of the girl, Ciela. And when they turned around the corner, they saw it. The girl was standing on an enormous pillar, made of ice.

"What in the world.." began Riza, but Roy lifted his hand to silence her.

What he saw was not only Ciela on her ice pillar, there were two figures fighting her. One looking like a child, and one being huge and dangerous looking.

"Cover my back, Hawkeye." Roy ordered, Riza nodded.

Making sure he didn't endanger Ciela, the Flame Alchemist snapped his fingers, causing an explosion close to the two figures that were fighting the young girl. It was merely a warning. The smaller figure lifted his head to look at Roy, then jumping to attack him.

Riza Hawkeye shot the small figure though, the boy screamed.

"Watch out!" Ciela suddenly screamed. "They don't die that easy! They're not human!"

"Not human?" Riza whispered in confusion. She kept shooting the young boy anyway to keep him at distance. Roy on the other hand got closer to Ciela to help her with the bigger figure. Once he got closer he could confirm that said figure didn't look quite human. He couldn't put his finger on it though.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

I looked at Roy-boy in confusion. How in the world did they get here? How did they know I was here? Ed and Al crossed my mind, but only for a second. Why would they? Ed himself said I was a failure.

I opened my mouth to tell him I was as fine as I could be, but Gluttony reached out for us, trying to catch either of us to eat us.

"Watch out!" I screamed, yet again. I clapped my hands and slammed them to the ground, building a solid wall of ice between the hungry homunculus and us.

Roy's eyes widened as he saw the Envy approaching Riza. I clapped my hands, ready to use alchemy again, but Roy snapped his finger, burning the tiny homunculus. Envy screamed in agony. As soon as the flames disappeared he got up again.

That was when I noticed her. A young girl, a girl I had never seen before jumped out of the shaft.

"Gluttony, Envy!" she exclaimed. We're leaving.

Envy turned around. He obviously knew her. But who was she? She wasn't part of the Fullmetal Alchemist cast for sure.

"Eve?" It wasn't really a question, but it seemed like he was surprised to see her.

"But I'm still hungry!" Gluttony complained.

The girl called Eve sighed. "We're leaving now." She bowed, silently greeting us, and then the three disappeared.

I let myself fall to my knees and sighed. "Wow that was exhausting. My first fight."

Roy held his hand out to help me up. I hesitated but then grabbed it. My knees were like noodles.

"Are you hurt?" he asked yet again. I shook my head no. I didn't know what to say.

"Who were those people?" he then asked. This question sounded more like an order. Riza got close as well.

I decided to tell them the truth. Hey, everyone always made a secret in these kind of stories. A change would be nice.

"They're homunculi. I don't know the girl that appeared though." They looked at me like a gay puppy seeing a straight cat for the first time. "Basically they're creatures created through the philosopher's stone." I explained. I realized that I sounded suspicious. "I met them when I got here for the first time. They weren't happy that I saw them so they chased after me."

Roy nodded, still confused, but too tired to keep asking.

"Ciela!" I heard someone scream my name. "Ciela, are you okay?" A moment later a huge armor hugged me, squeezing me tightly.

"Al.. can't.. breathe.."

"Ah, gomenasai! Nii-san, she's here!" he then shouted. A moment later teeny tiny Edo-chan appeared.

"So that's where you were." he said, as if he understood the entire situation in a second.

"I'm leaving her in your charge." Roy said, getting ready to leave. "I'd like to see you in my office tomorrow morning, Ciela. You've got some explaining to do." With that he and Riza left.

I shook my head. "He's unbelievable. If he wasn't so attractive I'd kick his annoying ass."

Ed almost choked, but then laughed. And so did Al.

I looked at him. "And what are the two of you doing here?"

"Didn't you hear? It's our job to take care of you." Ed said, blushing.

"I'm too much of a failure to be taken care of. I'm nothing but a walking freezer."

"You call this nothing but a freezer?" Ed pointed at the ice wall and the ice pillar I've made, slowly melting.

I shrugged. "I guess what I did was cool but still.. I don't see a reason to stay."

Al was the one who understood what I meant. "Don't say that. Don't you want to get your warmth back?"

I lifted my head to look into his non-existant eyes. "Get my warmth back?"

Ed nodded. "Yeah. You could join us. We want to get our bodies back and you need your warmth."

"If I get my warmth back I'm nothing but an ordinary girl!" Then I'd be even more useless than I already was. But I didn't say that out loud.

"You don't need ice alchemy if you have friends." Al said, and if he had a mouth he would smile.

I laughed. "Friends, yeah right." I shook my head. Friends? Me? Never. "Lets go you two. I'm hungry. Fighting is exhausting."

"You're either sleeping or eating, you're like a baby!" Ed complained. "We're taking care of a freaking baby!"

I hit his head. "Urusai, pipsqueak."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALLER THAN A SNOWFLAKE?!"

A new OC appeared! She's called Eve!

Now a little secret: I have a split personality and lets say Eve and Ciela are two parts of my personality. They're completely different from each other but they have something in common too.

AAAANYWAY. Please review? Reviews motivate me to write faster. I'm almost done with my finals too so soon I'll be able to write more.

Much love!