Finally! Chapter three is here! I'm so relieved now, and i know that i kinda took a while to post this chapter, but i hope everyone keeps reading! Pretty please comment and review as much as possible, okay! ~enjoy!~

Warning: extreme awesomeness (and some violence)

Disclaimer: i don't own Hetalia or FMA... only if i were filthy rich

~Chapter 3~
Tomatoes, wolves, and secret missions

~Alicia's POV~

I sat on the bricks of the Italian church tower, looking down at the growing crowd. I sighed. "I don't see how we are going to catch our target here," I mumbled to myself. We had a mission to complete, but it wasn't going too well. I just feel like this is a waste of my time…

I looked out at the vast forest to my left. It was amazing. The tall sequoia trees and evergreens stood tall and proud, in the bitter fall cold. I admired it for its parent-like protection. I lay back, staring up at the dark sky, littered with gray clouds, threatening to rain on us at any moment. It was around the end of September, and the rainy season was starting already.

I yawned lazily as I sat back up. 'I must be working too late into the night, because I only got two hours of sleep last night…'I thought to myself. I checked my watch. It was only nine o clock in the morning. "Hmm, I guess it's pretty early in the day…" I said to myself as I twirled my brown locks in between my fingers. It was a very bad habit of mine, but I guess I didn't really care.

I looked up at the frowning sky once more, and decided that I didn't want to get soaked in the rain today, so I stood and made my way down the tower. Not by stairs, though. I don't like to take the stairs, so I carefully made my way down the various bricks and shapes of the bell tower. Once I finally made it to the ground, I got some stares from a few people. I wouldn't blame them though, seeing me jump down from the side of a building, who wouldn't?

I didn't really pay much attention to them, as I dusted myself off. I really wasn't that odd-looking, actually. At least I hoped I wasn't. I was wearing a forest-green military suit, which fit me rather loosely, and my favorite combat boots. My dark brown hair was let down in large curls, and stretched to my mid-back. I was wearing my most valuable treasures; my silver dagger, hanging at my waist, and around my neck, bound to the platinum chain, was a large wolf fang.

I guess it wasn't much, but I'm not the kind of person to carry too many things around with me. When they sent me off to live with; well, I guess I could call them my second family. Apparently, when they had their second child, I couldn't be around the newborn, I was too much to handle. I remembered I used to have something that meant the world to me, the fiery red necklace that used to hang around my neck, and I had lost it. I can't remember how, but I have strange memories about it. My past that frightened me and sent shivers down my spine. I turned pale as I thought about it more deeply.

I was brought back to my senses when I felt a huge tomato made contact with the side of my head, and knocked me to the ground.

"Ow!" I grumbled as I sat up from the floor, looking for the culprit who had now left the word 'tomato' ringing in my head.

Then I found him.

Well, both of them, actually. I felt my patience slowly slipping away as Antonio and Lovino approached me.

Apparently it was national tomato-throwing day, because Antonio was carrying a whole crate full of tomatoes, and was flinging them at random people, with a smile on his face. How creepy is that? You could see red stains against his crisp-white button-up shirt, obviously from previous tomato hits. Lovino was trying to avoid as many as he possibly could, but there was still a few stains on his face and sky blue shirt.

"Why you little-" before I could finish my growling, Antonio gave me the 'I wanna go hug you after I attacked you with a tomato' look, as he dropped the tomato crate, and came running towards me. His chest soon muffled my cursing, as he attacked me with a huge bear hug, and he was crushing my body. " Hey, Alicia! How are you doing?' I felt a hand move to my head, as he wiped the mushy tomato from my hair. I heard him say something else, but I could vaguely hear him now, as he was cutting off my breathing,and I was about to pass out. He loosened the hug a little, and as my breathing regulated, I noticed Antonio's hand resting on my butt. What the hell?! How did that get there?! I pushed myself away from him, as he was frowning. "What?" I asked.

"Well, it's just that…" he stammered over his words. "What is it?" I was curious. "Well… well, your butt is so small, and it's not pleasurable at all!" he suddenly bursted out, his expression was sad, and even slightly teary. "There's nothing there!" I sighed. He is such a drama queen…he is always so passionate about everything, but it's obvious, I mean, he is a Spaniard.

I quickly snapped myself out of this admiring state for him, and immediately objected." My butt is not that small! And it's not my fault I wasn't born with it! She was!" I exclaimed. We all froze, stunned from my volume for a second. I really felt like I had said something that I really shouldn't have…

"Alicia, what do you mean by 'she was born with it?" Lovino asked, clearly interested in the subject. My face was flushed from all its color, as he continued. " Is there something you haven't told us, Alicia?" I tried to concoct some sort of lie, but none came to mind. Damn, I messed up. They were both staring at me intently, expecting an answer. I couldn't possibly imagine telling them what I meant. It would ruin everything. I'm already being eaten alive of guilt from all that has been going on lately. " Well, uh, um…" I stammered, trying to stall. After a very long, awkward moment of silence, I had to change the subject. "So, Antonio, why are you here in the first place?"

It seemed to distract them enough. Lovino just ignored it afterward, and scooted away a few yards from Antonio and I didn't just ask him this question to change the subject, I was also curious, since he was supposed to be in his host country, Spain. A troublesome smile formed on his face, as he replied with a smirk. "Hmm, I'm glad you asked!" he said excitedly. "I was beginning to miss Lovino, and I knew that the short-tempered maid would love to see me again, so… here I am!" I glanced at Lovino, who was trying to listen into our conversation, and then argued, " I'm not your stupid maid!" I had to let out a small giggle, as he continued," and you know the real reason you're here…" Now this got me interested.

"What? What's the real reason your here?" I asked, staring at Antonio, with my huge curious eyes. "Were having a world conference, and its being held here in Italy," he said.
I really wasn't that surprised. "Oh, okay. So it's just another meeting where you countries are just going to talk about your boring history, and lame battle plans, and eat scones all day…"

" Hey! We do not eat scones!" Antonio and Lovino both said in unison. " Jeez, calm down, I was just messing with you," I said, smiling. " Yes, but it's not just any conference," Antonio said, trying to pull me in with the suspense.

I just gave him a blank stare in return. "Oh, you mean you're going to add a book club this time?" I smirked, pretending to act amazed. "What?! There is no way in hell that I would go to one of those things! They're stupid and boring!" yelled Lovino, obviously pissed now. Antonio gave me a stupid look. "No, it's not that. We will all be assigned a top-secret mission, in which we can't tell anyone!" He said triumphantly. Confused, I asked him, "But didn't you just tell me now?"

Lovino also noticed this, and started yelling even more.I could hear him in the background yelling out things like: "You stupid bastard! We weren't supposed to tell anyone! Now look what you've done! I'm going to kill you!

Antonio grew a look of guilt on his face, and all he could manage to mutter was a tiny "Ooops"

I sighed heavily, but with a smile on my face. "A secret mission, huh?" I gave them an extremely serious look, as they both stopped in what they were doing. "I want in!"

~Ed's POV~

Soon enough, with the fact that Winry and I were winded and sweaty enough, I knew that it was time to stop running. I looked up, and Al was about thirty feet ahead of us. "Wait! Al! Hold on!" I called out to him.

He turned, and waved. "Oh, sorry brother," He apologized as he ran back towards us.

"Winry" I panted,"Winry and I need a little rest," I managed to mutter. I couldn't believe that we were still running away from Yuki, I hadn't even recognized where we stopped. I turned, and Winry had slipped away. Damn her! Always leaving me by myself! Well, with Al, anyway. "Hey Al, do you know where Winry went- Huh?" I was talking to emptiness, because he was gone too."Al! Where did you go! Alphonse! Alphonse!" I called out to him, panicking of what could have happened to him. How is this even possible? How could I lose a girl and a suit of armor that big?

"Brother, over here!" I heard his voice echo from beyond my view. I sprinted towards the sound of his voice, to find him standing, waving to me. I relaxed as I saw Al and Winry, on the grassy hill, looking at the clouds. "Isn't the view amazing?" he asked. Until then, I hadn't noticed the scenery. I thought we were in some sort of huge park, with a vast landscape. There were small rolling green hills, with the occasional tree, and further ahead, was a large forest. "Wow. What is this place?" I asked, enchanted by the view.

Winry answered my question. " If I remember, we should about half a mile from Mr. Jones' house, this is part of his property…" What! We're still in that idiot's property!" I exclaimed in rage, knowing that the crack-head is probably laughing his ass off now… I kept yelling out words that probably aren't very proper to say, but as soon as I felt Winry's hand smack my face, it brought me back to reality.

"What do you think you're saying!? After all Mr. Jones helped us with, you decide to just insult him like that!" she yelled. I was slightly surprised by her anger, but then yelled back; "Well it's not like he's listening to us right now-" We were all astonished by what happened next. Al finally broke us up and yelled out, "You guys!" We both turned to see Al pointing to where we had arrived in the park. Winry and I slowly turned to where Al was pointing, and we saw Alfred looking at us from under a large oak tree, about ten yards away from us.

I could fell the heat rising to my face, as I knew he had obviously been watching us. Winry was the first to speak. "Mr. Jones, uh, what are you doing here?" She had a nervous tone in her voice. Alfred relaxed a bit as he took a few steps towards us. "I hope I wasn't interrupting anything," he said, looking at Winry and I.
I blushed as I noticed how close she was to me, and realized what he was saying. Winry was blushing as well. "Uh, well…" I stammered. We both stepped away from each other immediately. "Well I came looking for you after Yuki told me what had happened..." he said. "Ahh!" We all jumped in fear to the sound of her name. "Wow, calm down," he said. "Its okay, I have a plan, if she has figured out that we lied to her, she's not going to stop until she knows what's up…" he said.

He suddenly stopped talking, as something caught his eye, and he was looking out into the dense forest. "What is it?" Winry asked. We were all looking out at the forest now, scanning for whatever Alfred was staring at. Then, there it was. There were two huge, gray eyes, staring at us from behind the trees. "Ed," Al said. "Wh-what is that?"

"I don't know…" Could it be a chimera? No, it seems different… Alfred stepped in front of us. " We should go back to the house, trust me, you wouldn't want to pick a fight with one of these things," he looked at me. "Lets go."

Al and I were looking back at the trees as we were walking back to Alfred's house. We were following the stone path that led down the hill, and we heard a terrifying low growl. It was loud and fierce, and sounded like an angry animal. We all turned to see a huge creature coming out of its hiding place from behind the trees. It looked like a huge wolf, four or five times bigger than a normal-sized wolf. It had its big gray eyes, and bared teeth that looked like they could smash through bricks without any effort at all. Winry let out a gasp. Alfred stepped in front of her and said, "Get back! Winry, go to the house and get some help!"

I watched her speed down the hill, as the three of us got ready to fight the wolf. Alfred was the first to approach it, and with his strength he lifted it into the air, and flung it away, and it landed in a pile of green grass. Al and I both ran to Alfred, as we were left to fight the thing.

~Al's POV~

There we were, Ed, Alfred and I, standing before the huge wolf creature, or whatever it was, ready to fight. Its big gray eyes glared down at me with anger, and for a strange reason, I recognized those eyes, they suddenly seemed familiar to me. I noticed Al and Alfred yelling at me, telling me to get out of the way. I looked around, and saw the wolf running at me. I jumped out of its way right in the nick of time, before it crashed into the huge sequoia tree behind me, causing hundreds of leaves and branches to fall to the ground.

It didn't seem to do any effect towards it at all. I ran to Ed and Alfred's side. "That crash didn't seem to hurt it!" I exclaimed. "Well then, were going to have to fight it until it is!" said Alfred. Ed and I both nodded in agreement, as he transmuted his arm into a small-sword. Ed was the first one to act, and ran to the wolf, which was already charging at us, and began to hit it with his sword and transmutation elements. I followed his example and helped him with as many transmutation techniques I knew of. Soon the three of us were lashing out at the six-foot tall creature, and trying to dodge all of its lashing claws.

It seemed to be taking turns with its attention on us, one at a time. By the time its attention was on me, I was barely able to avoid its attacks. I was trying to focus on it, but I was distracted by something standing on one of the many rolling hills, or it was just my imagination. That was my mistake. When I looked twice, there was obviously an opening, where the wolf's claws could tear me to shreds. I turned to back up, almost too late when I received a few scratches to my armor. I was about to back up some more, but I wasn't able to, because of a steep cliff, behind me. I was cornered. I heard Ed yelling, "Al!" I glanced at him, his face was sweaty, and his chest was moving up and down drastically because of his heavy breathing.

Coming to my rescue, Alfred sprinted in the general direction of the wolf, and tackled it to the ground, giving me time to escape the cornered area that I was in. Alfred stood up, he was panting as well. This was not good, Ed and Alfred were already getting tired, and the beast didn't seem fatigued at all.

I could do nothing but watch as said animal charged at Ed and smacked him with its claws and pinned him to the ground.

~Ed's POV~

I felt helpless under the weight of the giant wolf's paw, its gray eyes piercing my skin, as well as its claws. I looked up at it, seeing double; I heard Al and Alfred calling out to me. I felt more pressure coming from its paw, and I felt a couple of ribs crack under it. I was seeing flashes of black and white everywhere, my breathing was slow and heavy, and was feeling the entire right side of my face swell up. I thought, 'this is probably on of the worst situations I've been in…' Being crushed by an overgrown wolf pup—how amusing.

Apparently, I wasn't going to be crushed just yet. As soon as I saw the animal's ears go up, it started to look around; I knew it had heard something. I tried to listen for what it was being distracted by, but I couldn't hear anything. But then, there was something. It was very vague, but it was definitely there. It grew louder and turned into a whistle, unlike any other whistle I have heard. It was ghostly, and it was creeping me out the louder it got. The animal whined, looking back and forth from the woods, where the whistle came from, and Al, Alfred and I, as if deciding to follow the sound or to finish killing us. We heard the whistle again, and it looked down at me as it set me free from its claws, and growled at us. Then it turned around and ran towards the forest, and as soon as it appeared, it was gone.

~Yuki's POV~

Arthur and I sat in the bedroom beside the roaring fire. I looked out the window. The sun was beginning to make its way behind the green mountains, and the full moon slowly made its appearance in the starless sky. I began to think back to the events that have happened recently, trying to figure out Ed and Al's motive for lying to me like they did. I tried not to think it over too much, as I shifted uneasily in my seat and sipped my tea, attempting to look as calm as possible.

It was soon clear that Arthur saw right through my act. "Are you okay, Yuki?" he asked with a worried look on his face. "You seem…tense."

"Oh, I'm fine, I was just thinking of all the paperwork that I have to complete," I chuckled nervously. I shuddered as the lie reminded me that I really do have loads of work to finish. 'Why must Alfred be so cruel?' I thought to myself, frowning into my cup of tea.

"Well, you shouldn't stress yourself too much with that broken ankle," said Arthur. I lifted my head to find him rising from his seat, and gathering his things. "But for now, it seems I must be on my way, it's getting rather late,"

"But, its only—" I checked my watch. "Oh, nine forty-five…" I realized. I glanced at him as he slowly picked up the red-and white chess pieces, one by one. I stood as well, ready to say my good-byes to Arthur, when he said, "Yuki, has Alfred told you what you'll be doing tomorrow and the day after?"

I was puzzled by his question. "N-no, I don't recall him mentioning anything about it, why do you ask?'

Arthur hesitated to speak for a moment, as if not knowing whether he was allowed to tell me or not. Then he sighed heavily." Nothing, its just that there's going to be a world conference meeting tomorrow, and Alfred should be there."

"Oh, well Alfred usually goes to those meetings…"

"Yes, I know. However, we are changing things up a bit this time."

"Well, what changes will you be making?"

He spoke to me as he was walking out the door. "I've said too much already, but I'm sure you'll find out what's going on soon enough" He stopped at the door. "Yuki, just make sure you'll promise me one thing," I stared at him intently. "Stay alive, okay?"

I stood there, stunned. I stared at the spot where he was previously standing, as he walked down the stairs and around the corners of the big house, until I couldn't hear his heavy footsteps anymore.

After what I would guess two minutes, my brain finally caught up with most of the events that have taken place in my life for the past three days. It was nearing ten o'clock now, not my usual late, but my eyelids felt like five-pound weights. I hopped over to my crutches on one foot, and crutched over to my bed. I slipped under the covers, and dozed off into an uneasy sleep.

Well, that's chapter 3 for you! The usual, people jumping off buildings, getting ribs cracked, and trying to desperately solve a mystery with a fracture...your everyday life, right? And if you gits care for me at all, just review!

Next chapter: there will be some conflicts, people attempting to kill each other, and some humorous arguments that just might make you feel awkward about some things...

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