SCAR
She'd attacked. Still smiling, still crying.
"Yuuki..." he whispered.
"Mister Scar?"
He turned slightly to look at May.
"Who exactly was Yuuki?"
"She was a young girl my brother and I met. Her family and ours were friends. But Yuuki wasn't exactly a good girl. She eventually lost the approval of many people. But we found ourselves attracted to her rebellious streak. We became her only friends. Yuuki is ten years younger than myself. When she vanished, everyone searched, but no one ever found her. We gave her up for dead." he said simply.
"Then that woman with the weapons was your old friend?"
"Those weren't weapons."
"What? What were they then?" May cried in confusion.
"Those... Those were her bones. Yuuki is now a Chimera. And she's apparently shed her Ishvalan hatred of Alchemy."
SCARLETT
"That explains why I though something was missing from them." she said.
They were all looking at the small puff-ball Al held in his hands.
"First stray cats and now this! Al, go put it back!" Ed yelled. "Wait, you saw them and could've chased them?"
"Nit-wit!"
Edward toppled away from her, clutching his nose.
"Yes, I clearly saw them! But I could hardly move with all of the coal-dust in the air! Remember? Super-vision? Hello, earth to ninny!" she yelled angrily.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry... Damn, that hurt!"
"Titanium fist, nit-wit?"
"Sorry!"
At the building they were to see Winry at, the Fuhrer was talking to Winry. She froze in the door, for even longer than Ed or Al.
She didn't want to see that man!
Her heart screamed at her to run. She wanted to obey, but her legs were frozen!
Run! Run! Run!
Now her legs obeyed. Sweat-shirt over her shoulder, she turned and ran. She ran, not knowing why.
Run... Run... Don't let him catch you... run...
Run... Run... Don't let him catch you... run...
Run... Run... Don't let him catch you... run...
Run... Run... Don't let him catch you... run...
She obeyed her mind, running almost mindlessly. As she burst outside, she barely put her glasses on. She could hear people gawking and commenting about her tattoos. But she used Mustang's talent of ignoring snide comments to her advantage there and kept on running. She ran all the way to where Lan Fan, Ling, Mustang and Hawkeye were. Upon entering, she slammed the door and leaned heavily against it.
"What's wrong?"
Her head whipped up, her tattoos flaring. Mustang took a giant step back.
"S-sorry... Nothing... The Fuhrer..." she apologized, hanging her head.
"King Bradley? What about him?" the colonel asked.
"I don't want... to be... near him... He scares me..." she panted. "I know... that seems... childish... but..."
"No. It doesn't. Not to me." Ling growled from down the hallway.
"Elaborate?" she asked when Mustang left.
"He's a Homunculus. You must be too scared to look at him properly, otherwise you'd see his eye." the prince said.
"I can believe that. I really can. I've always been terrified whenever that man was near. Before I hid it, but now... He seems to be growing in size, almost. I'm too terrified to look right at him, instead focusing elsewhere." she nodded.
EDWARD
Scarlett had fled the room. He didn't know why.
He still thought about it when they were at the hide-out where they were keeping Gluttony.
Scarlett and Ling were curled up outside the room where Lan Fan was being operated on. Ling seemed almost ready to cry, and Scarlett had one fist clenched and the other shoved in her mouth, tears running down her face. "I knew as leader, I'd have to be ready to accept sacrifices. but I wasn't prepared to lose so much." Ling said softly.
The operation done, they all went to look at Gluttony, bound tightly in the next room.
Scarlett was gazing intently at him watching carefully. What he saw but didn't register, wrapped up in his argument with Ling and Mustang was her eyes widening. "Shut up!" she suddenly yelled, louder than all of them.
"Now what?" he asked, rubbing his ear.
"He heard something that made him a little pissed off..." Scarlett said.
They all peered in. Gluttony was growling and suddenly...
His bonds broke. A... tear broke down his stomach and an eye opened up in the middle.
"Look out!" Scarlett threw herself on them all, out of the way.
SCARLETT
"Run!" she yelled.
They didn't listen. Mustang pulled on a glove and snapped... And the flame was swallowed.
"Run, earth to dumb-asses, run!" she screamed.
Finally, they listened.
"Well, that worked out well, colonel!" Ed yelled.
"If you have a better idea, be my guest!" the soldier yelled back.
"We could just leave you behind, colonel! You are the one he wants!" Al told the man.
"And I could ditch you all! Shut up and split at the trees!" she ordered.
They did as ordered, but something... Why was she feeling...?
She stopped.
'Heart' says find others and regroup. Get colonel out of here... Find new threat and fight...
She must listen to 'Heart.'