Chapter 2

Unveiling the mask

~Alexis POV~

I stood in the middle of a battle field, fire and blood and ruins surrounding me.

I couldn't remember where I was or what had happened but then I saw someone running towards me.

It was a dark-skinned woman with red eyes, carrying her child.

She yelled and reached out to me as I raised my hand.

I wanted to help her, to save her from this place but I had no control of my body as a blue light came from my left ring finger to pierce the woman through the chest.

She fell to the floor and I tried to cry but instead my mouth curved into a smile.

My body moved against my will to the child, crying in his mother's arms.

I pointed my ring finger again and the blue light went through him as well.

Both of them were dead and I heard something.

I couldn't figure out what it was and then it clicked that I was laughing.

Laughing and crying and not knowing which was for what reason.

The laughter echoed through my head as I sprung up in my bed, screaming.

"...a dream..."

Over the next couple of days, Alexis kept watch over the Elric brothers.

They were determined to find out her identity while they looked for hints on the philosophers stone.

Alexis clutched her chest tightly as she watched them pour through book after book of information, only to be left without a lead.

Alexis had perched herself on a rooftop outside the National library, looking through the windows to watch the two boys.

'Why did brother order me to watch them? It's not like there's someone after them or something.

Maybe he's trying to keep me away from danger...stupid brother' she thought, even though a small smile graced her lips.

Out the corner of her eye she spotted a girl. The girl had long blonde hair tied back into a ponytail. But from this distance she couldn't tell much else. She looked slightly older than Ed...But maybe that was just her height.

She talked briefly with a soldier out the front and then the soldier went inside.

I watched as the girl wandered around the truck, seemingly interested in it.

The woman that came over to the truck made Alexis's skin tingle.

'Well that's ominous' she thought, glancing at the goosebumps on her arms before she looked back to the girl and the woman...only they weren't there anymore.

In fact, she only just managed to see the truck speed around a corner.

'Damnit...should i go after the girl or should i keep watch of the boys?' She wondered, torn between the two.

She glanced through the library window to see the boys were no longer there.

'...damnit...' She slapped her palm to her forehead, cursing how she had been too distracted to notice them leave.

'Better go find them then, I'll report to brother what I've seen first' she jumped of the rooftop, doing a summersault as she did and rolling as she hit the ground. Her body was a lot tougher than a normal one.

~Mustang's office~

Mustang sat at his desk, signing form after form ond hoping with all his might that some danger would show up so he could stop.

...It came in the form of a hooded girl swinging through his window.

"Holy- ALEXIS! Don't do that!" He yelled, standing from his chair.

Alexis pulled her hood down with an innocent smile.

"Do what brother?"

He narrowed his eyes at her. "You know what"

"Oh my! Did I scare you?"

"Hell no! It's just dangerous" He said, covering up that he had almost jumped out of his skin only moments before.

A cheeky grin spread on her face as if to say "Suuuuuure"

Then her face changed when she remembered why she was here.

Giving a salute, she explained what she saw outside.

Hughes decided to burst in at that moment.

"Roy! Ed has run off after the serial killer!" he exclaimed.

Alexis cursed, flipping her hood back up before jumping out the window again.

"...Did you tell her how dangerous that is?" Hughes asked.

Mustang let out a long sigh.

~Alexis~

Alexis rushed after where she saw the truck go, assuming that Ed had followed it.

"Damn brats, can't stay put and let me do my damn job" She mumbled.

Soon enough she found the meat truck she had seen outside. With her better-than-human hearing she could make out the sounds of fighting and snuck inside.

Ed was struggling with a man...in a dress.

His automail arm was gone and the cloaked girl stalked around the area, searching for it.

She saw the blonde girl from before, chained by her wrists to the ceiling.

The blonde was startled when she saw Alexis coming towards her, not sure if it was friend or foe.

Alexis reached up to undo the chains and the girl relaxed.

Once the girl was untied and ungagged, she muttered a "thank you".

The blonde's face whipped up quickly "Ed! You have to help Edward!" she cried.

Alexis gave her a nod as she snatched the automail arm from the table and ran towards the sounds of fighting.

Locking her sights onto the man with the cleaver, she stuck her boot into his head, sending him flying into the wall.

Alexis turned to the frightened Elric just in time to dodge the spear he jabbed at her.

"You want your arm back or not?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at him.

He stopped swinging his spear at her and glance at what she had in her hand. He turned a glare to her face.

"I don't want help from a murderer!" He yelled.

"Are you sure about that?" the cleaver man had gotten to his feet and swung his weapon at Alexis.

She dodged but the cleaver caught the hood of her cloak, tearing it away from her face with a gasp.

Both the cleaver man and Ed looked stunned at her.

Her hair was in its usual plait, now hanging down her back and her cloak slipped to the floor, the clasp holding it on ruined.

"Oooh another pretty girl to chop! How splendid!" the cleaver man recovered from his shock first.

He went to slice at Alexis again and she dodged, her eyes glaring at the man.

She led the man away from Edward so he could reattach his arm and recover a little before jumping back in.

This man was weak; he barely got close to her since he cut her cloak. She didn't bother to attack and just wasted time until her brother brought reinforcements.

Not to help take down the man, that was easy, but to help take care of Edward and the blonde girl.

I felt my back hit a wall behind me and my eyes widened.

'Oh shit, I forgot I was fighting someone' She thought, seeing the cleaver come down onto her shoulder.

The blade sliced through the skin and muscles and lodge into her bone.

Alexis winced slightly before kicking the man back, leaving the weapon where it was.

Edward suddenly rushed over to the man and put his spear in his face.

Alexis doubted that he could actually kill the man until she saw him pull the spear back to finish him.

He was stopped by his brother, Al.

Alexis stepped away from the wall, relieved that the reinforcements had arrived.

She looked around and saw her brother at the entrance and walked over to him.

Mustang finally saw her and stared in horror at her wound.

She saluted him with her left hand, seeing as her right was almost cut off.

"Forgive the left-handed salute, brother" She said, laughing slightly.

"Get a doctor!" The older Mustang yelled, scooping his sister up to take her outside.

"Oh calm down, I've had...worse" Alexis tried to tell him, but then she felt her skin going cold and the world around her was blurry. "On the other hand, I'm probably losing a lot of blood..."

~Ed~

Once Ed had calmed down enough to realise that he was safe, he looked around to find the girl that had saved him.

He was almost sick.

The cleaver was sticking out of her shoulder, almost severing her arm from her body and she had gone pale from blood loss.

"Brother? Who is she?" Al asked, not as affected by the blood since he had no stomach to empty.

"I thought she was the one who killed Nina, but her eyes are black, not silver" He answered, watching as a doctor was talking to Mustang.

The black-haired girl's arm moved and tore the offending weapon from her shoulder, her face contorting in pain but no sound escaping.

Mustang rushed over to her and seemed to be scolding her as he started wrapping her arm up, with the doctor's help.

Ed had never seen Mustang act that way around someone before, he looked genuinely worried.

He took a good look at the girl, Black hair and black eyes.

"Is it possible...?" he mumbled.

"Brother?" Al questioned.

Ed's vision went dark from exhaustion and he slumped against his brother before he passed out.

OK! Second Chapter up quicker than I thought but that's because I wanna get to the important parts of my story! 3

You know...where Alexis gets the smoochies on with Ed? XD just kidding, I'm hoping thats how its going to go and i'll do my best to steer towards that.

But every time I write Alexis being over emotional, i end up deleting it because its horrible lol...^_^"

Any way, Tell me what you think ppl!