Beyond the Nightmare of Life

Chapter Four – The Power of Believing

"So, you killed your younger brother and your superior military officer? But yet you don't have the memories of killing them?" Sieza was sitting in a chair across from the older Elric.

"Yes," Ed said softly continuing to stare at his feet "When I woke up I was in a completely different room and when I went into the other room I saw their bodies mangled and crushed. A knife was in my pocket...covered in their blood."

Sieza was silent, that was when her full attention turned to the clock and a phone. "My mom will be coming home soon and as much as I really want to help you I can't."

"I don't deserve help. I murdered...slaughtered my own family. The only family I had left. I had already taken Alphonse's body from him when we tried to bring back our mother. Now I even managed to destroy what little of being alive he had left!"

"Edward, you talk as if you loved them more than anything. With this memory loss there has to be something missing. You were in the other room and they were in another. Secondly, you were unconscious and you're suffering from memory loss."

"What are you getting at?" he snapped; his eyes finally lifted from the ground.

Sieza stood and walked over to her phone, "I can contact someone you can really trust and I'll hide you until they come. I'm sure they can open those eyes of yours. Just tell me who I need to call and I'll help you reach them. After all, my mother is an operator. I've picked up a few of her skills."

Edward hesitated. That was when his heart began pounding against his chest. He stood from his chair, "I need...I need you to call Winry Rockbell. If she's not in Resembool then she's most likely at a Central Hotel."

~ Central Hotel ~

Winry raised her head off a pillow. Her eyes remaining empty. She had seen Riza at their funeral, and she knew where and what she was going to do.

Despite Mustang killing her parents during the Ishbalan War, deep inside she was also grieving for Roy. Hughes tried his hardest to push him to the top and now he's gone too.

"Winry, we best be going back to Resembool." Pinako called in the other room. She didn't respond back. Instead she rolled over on her back and looked up at the ceiling.

That was when the phone rang.

She slowly rose up, letting her droopy eyes fall on the rattling phone. Then she picked it up, and waited for a voice over a phone.

"Your Winry...I presume?" the voice was female.

"Y-yes." That was the first word she had spoken since the dreadful news.

"He is here...in Kalahari. I asked him who he trusts and he says it's you. You should board a train as soon as possible without anyone knowing. You both have to find the truth."

"Are...are you saying that Ed is-!" she was so shocked that she almost dropped the phone. Sweat was pouring down her skin.

"Yes. He's here. Kalahari is about two hours away."

After a brief pause the call ended. Winry shot around making sure that Pinako wasn't around. She slipped on her small skirt along with her white T-shirt and then her long and black shirt. Her hair immediately went up into a ponytail, grabbed her Auto-mail case and bag full of clothes and other things she needed.

After waiting a few minutes she looked into Pinako's room. She was sound asleep. "I'll be back soon Granny." And with those final words, she slipped out into the night and rushed to Kalahari.

~ Kalahari Train Station ~

She heard the screeching wheels of the train come to a halt. It was time...time to start the search.

Riza finished assembling her guns together and putting them in her pocket. They were supposed to head to the Kalahari Police Station and make that their base until Edward was either captured or dead.

Havoc walked beside her and saluted, "All ready, sir! The rest of the team is heading to the Station." He quickly put his hand to his side and stood in a stiff position. As if he were nervous.

"Havoc, you can relax. You don't have to be so stiff and upset. We're not in Central anymore." She sighed. Havoc relaxed, "I'm sorry...I've had my mind on a lot lately. I shouldn't let it interfere with work."

"You're human Havoc. I would be worried about you if you didn't show any emotions now and then. It just wouldn't be you. You've even seemed to calm down on looking for the perfect girl now…now that's what worries me."

"Then what about you Riza?" Havoc asked, his tone still serious. "I haven't seen you shed one tear. I've mainly been worried about you. You've been grieving. Not just about Mustang either! You know that you have to kill Edward Elric. And there's a chance that he didn't kill them...and you know that don't you?"

Riza was silent. Instead of being comforting to him like she was before turned her back on him, "I have cried Havoc. I only remain strong for you and everyone else's sake. No one wants a weak leader. He would say the same thing if he were here."

Hawkeye walked past him, stopped in the doorway, and slightly turned her head looking back at Havoc. "There is no other person that could've murdered him back there. I saw him running away. And I also found this." She reached into her pocket and showed off Edward's State Alchemist Pocket Watch. With one click she opened the small piece of paper. Havoc walked up to her and began reading...

I can't take this any longer! They are both driving me crazy! It's only me or them. When we hunt him down, and right after we finish (the name is cut off from a tear in the paper) going...to kill them both. If I'm lucky, I can use them to get back my limbs. It's all so perfect...(The letter skips due to more of the paper being torn) The military will never catch me. I'll run away before they're even know...That stuck up Colonel is going to die...and so is that empty armor mistake I created.

Havoc's emotions weld up into a ball. Anger and hate. Sadness and Fear. "Edward...wrote this?" Hawkeye didn't answer. "I can understand him not liking Roy but...his own Brother? They were always together and even when they weren't they always thought about each other. All that fighting for their bodies and trying to find the stone? Was that all a lie?"

"That's what...I want to ask him Jean. Now do you think there's a chance that he didn't kill them?" Riza walked off the train, this was Kalahari and that meant that the search for Edward was about to begin.

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