Part Four
Nervously, she left her position to find out what had happened. From behind the wall she blasted through she saw the scarred man standing there, bleeding out from his stump of an arm. A suit of armour stood there with him.
Well, that's strange. She thought. A suit of ar-
She lost her train of thought when she realised that one man was laying on the ground. She ran out from behind the wall yelling, "Kimbley!"
As she rushed over to him the two men moved out of her way. She knelt beside him and rolled him over, looking into his eyes. "You idiot! Why do you always end up doing something stupid?!"
He reached into his pocket and held out her ring. "Take it. It's yours. I was able to grab it right after I dropped it."
She took the ring but as she pulled her hand away Kimbley grabbed her wrist. "If I'm going down I'm taking you with me, Teaghan!"
She screamed and tried to pull away from him but his grip was strong for a dying man. There was a flash of light and her arm was no longer snow white but a charcoal black. "What did you do?!"
"Like I said, I'm taking you with me!" He laughed maniacally as tears rolled down Teaghan's face.
"Why?! Why would you do this?! I have boys that need me to come home!"
The slowly diminishing light in his eyes changed from icy cold to something warmer and more gentle. He took her arm again and reverted it back to its original state. "Get out of here while you still can. Before the military finds you. Take Ezra somewhere safe. If they find either of you I hate to think what they'd do to you."
She looked scared as she cradled her arm. "Why...why are you doing this? What changed your mind?"
"It doesn't matter now. I just want you to leave Amestris. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you and I'm sorry I won't be again." He grabs her hand slipping his ring onto her finger. "Take care of him. Don't let him be like me." His body shuddered in her arms as his eyes close for the final time. Lieutenant Colonel Zolf J. Kimblee was dead.
Teaghan held his body close to her for a minute then stood up. Her tears fell on the lifeless figure lying on the ground. "I'll kill that bastard if it's the last thing I do." She stepped over his body and looked out to where the Amestrian military was camped out. Growling through her teeth she said, "Archer will pay."