Tuesday, January 31, 2006

more chapters!! Woot!! good luck reading them all!
I pulled up a chair by the window when everyone left the room. I pushed the window up to the ceiling. I let the warm breeze hit my face. I looked out into the open-air white clouds spotted the sky. A knock on the door caught my attention, “Come in” I still looked outside a smile on my face.
“Your new uniform.” My ears perked at his voice by now it was all too familiar.
“I don’t need a new uniform. I’m sure I can get out the blood. Some how.” I turned to look at the all too familiar face of Roy.
He smiled the way he always does, “Well that might be, but your pants are still ripped to shreds.”
I looked at my pants again. “Oh yay I forgot about that.”
“Well any way once we replace your bandages and you change your uniform you’ll be able to leave.” He looked at me as he began to walk out the door.
“Thanks.” I looked out the window one more time, “for what you did yesterday.”
“Your welcome.” I wasn’t sure what he did after that I was caught in a daze of wind.
The door shut and I turned around to look at my new uniform. I slowly got up and walked over to were it lay. I picked up the bottom half. I sighed in relief it wasn’t a mini skirt. I closed the window and began to change into my new uniform.
My bandages were replaced and I was free to go. I slowly walked out the door. I kept close to the outside wall I stopped to look at the falling blossoms. It was already late spring, “Hey Aki!” I looked down the hall Ed stood there with a smile.
“Hey short stuff!” I knew he was going to kill me but I didn’t care it was funny to watch!
“WHO YOU CALLING SMALLER THEN A SPECK OF DUST ON AN ANT???” Ed raced toward me I hit him on the head with my hand. He was out of arms reach now.
“Ed your short get over it, face the facts, blah blah blah.” I looked down at Ed.
Ed stopped trying to hit me and looked at me. “I’m I really that short?”
I looked at Ed again, “Well no I’ve seen shorter.” I’m SO lying!
“Really?” Ed looked at me in a weird manner.
“Well ya” I looked out a window.
I dropped my hand to my side and began to walk. I felt depressed I don’t know why but I did. I felt out of place like my heart is trying to tell me something but the message won’t go through. I continued to walk. I felt like I was about to cry.
I remembered that this was the time of year when my parents were killed. Mental pictures of the blooded bodies filled my head. The image of the falling bodies made my mouth dry. I remember so clearly how it looked when they were shot. My mother’s long black hair flying in front of her face, and my father’s eyes filled with shock and terror. I stopped.
I was almost crying if I did I would feel embarrassed. I find crying in front of others shameful to myself thinking others will think I’m to weak. I looked out the window I walked faster this time in case I do start to cry no one will see or hear me.
I started to cry warm tears crept down my cheek.
Don’t cry you stupid idiot! I kept thinking to myself trying to make the tears stop. I continued to look down at the ground for a long time until I heard Havoc shout my name. I stopped in the hallway Havoc walked up to me from behind, “Hey you passed right by me with out a word are you okay?” Havoc sounded happy I refused to move my head.
“I’m” I paused trying to breath, “okay. Why?”
“Well you usually say ‘Hi’ or something when you pass me.” I looked up at Havoc.
Tears were flowing down my cheeks like rivers. I wanted to say something but I couldn’t I felt too sad. “What’s wrong?” Havoc was concerned I could tell by the sound of his voice.
“It’s just that,” I paused, “this is the time of year when my parents were killed.”
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Havoc looked at me sympathetic, “I,” he looked almost stumped, “I’m sorry! I didn’t know!!”
“It’s okay. I’ve never told anyone. You’re the first.” I looked at the ground so he couldn’t see my eyes.
“I’m sorry I need to leave now.” I began to walk forward.
I continued to cry as I walked down the halls. I wiped the tears from my eyes. I looked up ahead I was so close to the door. I ran outside to cry some more. I ran to the bakery down town that’s where I lived.
I finally got to the bakery when I got inside I cried more then ever. “What’s wrong?” Michael, one of my customers, asked.
“It’s nothing.” I looked at him with a smile.
I headed towards the stairs behind the counter. I looked up into the darkness and headed up the stairs. I turned on the light in the corner of my room. I sat on my bed and cried.
“Hey Aki!! Some totally hot guy wants to see you!” Chelsea, one of the girls in my bakery, told me.
I changed out of my uniform into more casual clothing. I headed down stairs into the bakery, “AKI!!!” some guy in a white work shirt said gladly.
He leaped over the counter and picked me up by the waist and spun me around in a circle. He hugged me and looked at me gladly, “You look just like you did two years ago!!” he looked at me again smiling again.
“Who are you?” I was yelled panicked.
“You don’t remember?” He looked down at the ground.
“Wait. Your,” I paused realizing who he was, “Justin!”
“Oh my god Justin is that you?” I said happily.
I hugged him and he hugged back, “I can’t believe it’s you!” we both said at the exact same time.
“Where have you been? It’s been forever!” I was so happy to see my old friend again.
“Well traveling you know.” He looked at me with one eye.
“Hey let’s go to diner and catch up!” I suggested happily.
“Sure!”
“Lets go!”
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I woke up the next day to my own room. I looked up at the clock “It’s 9:47,” I rolled over in my bed, “Oh crap. I’m going to be late.” I closed my eyes, “OH CRAP!!”
I jumped out of bed and threw on my uniform. I grabbed my brush and combed my hair vigorously I ran down stairs into the bakery, “Mercy!!!” I yelled for one of my friends in the bakery, “why didn’t any one walk me up?” I was losing my patience.
“Well you were out so late last night we all decided to let you sleep.” Mercy looked down at me I was still shorter then her.
“I have a meeting with the colonel today!”
“You never told us that.”
“Sorry! I need to go!!” I headed to the door.
“Don’t-“ I feel as soon as I got out the door, “trip.” Mercy looked at me.
“Who the hell put a box by the door?” I looked at the small box by the door I’ll worry about it later!
I got up and started to run, I’m going to be late!! I almost fell again “Crap! Crap! CRAP!!! I’m so going to be late!” I continued to run.
My stomach growled I hadn’t eaten anything yet, “Oh shut up!” I whispered to myself.
I finally got to central. I ran inside and up to Roy’s office. I swung open the door.
“Your late.” Roy looked at me.
“Bite me!” I continued to walk forward.
“Why did you want to talk to me?” Roy looked at the stack of papers on his desk.
“I need to take a vacation.” I looked at the ground I don’t know why but I did.
“A vacation?” Roy sat up strait in his chair.
“I need pay my respects.”
“Well okay. How long do you think you’ll be gone?”
“A month.”
“That long?”
“I haven’t been there in five years.”
“Okay see you in a month.”
“Thanks.”
I walked out the door into the hall. I started to run. I never stopped I kept running to the bakery. I ran up stairs and packed my stuff. “Hey everyone! I’m going to my old town!”
“Your what?”
“I said ‘I’m visiting my old town!”
“Okay.”
I walked out the door. With a bag in my hand I continued to walk to the train station. “Hey wait!” I looked behind me.
I was attacked by Justin he hugged me. I stood there doing nothing. “What are you doing?”
“Hugging you.”
“Well I know that but why?”
“Well your leaving aren’t you?”
“Yes but.”
“What?”
“Never mind!” I pushed him off and picked up my bag.
I kept walking to the station. I looked around all the buildings looked so tall like the were bigger then the world it’s self. “You can’t go,” Justin said from behind me.
“Why?”
“You’ll see if you go.”
“I’m going okay.”
“If you do then I’m going to.”
“Why do want to go?”
“It’s dangerous.”
“What? Why?”
“The people who killed your parents are looking for you.”
I didn’t speak I didn’t want to die I had to live to keep my family line. “You better have some people from the military come with you.”
I began to walk in the other direction “I will don’t worry.”
I got to central and walked inside. I ran up to Roy’s office again. I opened the door to his office, “Roy I need some one to come with me to my home town.” I looked at Roy.
“Wait I thought you left.” He looked at me dumbfounded “I’ll grant you what you want but I’ll need to know why.”
“The people who” I paused trying not to cry, “who killed my parents are trying to kill me.”
Roy looked at me, “Of course I’ll get Ed he’ll make sure you don’t die.”
“Wow that helps.”
“Glad to help!”
“Riza can you get Fullmetal for me?”
Riza nodded and left the room. “So that’s why you’re going to pay your respects”
“Yes. Half my family was killed. That’s why I need someone there.”
“We should probably have a few other people go with you to be on the safe side.” Roy looked behind me, “hey Havoc how ‘bout you?”
I looked behind me Havoc, Cain and two people who’s names I could never remember sat or stood looking at me, “Sure why not.”
“Thanks Havoc.” I smiled at him.
“What did you want me for colonel?” Ed walked threw the door.
“Well Frost here needs a body guard to make sure some guys don’t kill her.”
I almost forgot my assigned name I rarely ever hear some one say ‘Hey frost Alchemist!’
“Fine I’ll go with her.” Ed sighed.
“Thank you Ed.”
“I need to get going Colonel.”
I walked out the door into the hall. “Hey Aki,”
I turned around to look at Ed, “Why do I have to protect you from some guys. Your strong and you have a gun. Why can’t you protect yourself?”
“Because Ed they’ve killed all my family.” I almost cried but I couldn’t.
Ed said nothing I walked out of central. I didn’t go home but to a park instead, “Hey I thought I’d find you here!”
I looked up it was Justin, “God are you stalking me?”
“No I just remember when ever you were upset you went to a park.”
Justin sat down next to me, “So now you know.”
“What do I know?”
“That I,” he paused and looked at me, “like you.”
I looked at him. “You do?”
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“Well I got to go!” I got up and began to walk away.
I didn’t look back I kept walking. I liked him and all but that scared me a little. My heart was beating a mile a minute. I stopped I felt almost happy. I looked back to see if he was there still. He was gone I continued to walk. I looked at all the stores my raven black hair kept getting in my face. I finally got home and fell asleep.
I woke up, got dressed and walked down stairs. I swung my bag of clothes over my shoulder, “Where are you going?” Mercy looked at me in anger.
I opened a pair of sunglasses and pushed it on my nose in one swift motion, “Home.”
I continued to walk my hair whipped in the wind. I reached the train station I saw Ed and the others. I walked up to them slowly. I looked at them, “Let’s go.”
“Something wrong?” Havoc asked politely.
“Someone will die. I don’t know who or when. But they will.”
“How are you so sure?” Ed looked at me angry.
“I have this feeling.”
No one talked we all walked onto the train. Ed and I took the window seats. Justin sat next to me. I looked out the window; “So any one of us could die at any time,” I said.
I looked at them all, “I’m sorry for everything you guys.”
“No need to be sorry.” Justin laughed.
We got to my old hometown of Daner, “Well this is my home town!” I faced them and laughed.
I looked at the open plains and laughed. Havoc looked at me in a “what the hell?” look “I can’t believe I came back home again!”
“What do you mean?” Havoc looked at me confused.
“I swore I’d never come back here again. It brings back to many memories.”
I began to run in the direction of my old house. I looked around remembering all the times I ran in this direction. I could hear my mothers voice playing in my head. I slowed down seeing my old house. I heard the gunshots as my mother screamed the images and sounds played in my head once again. Fell to my knees and began to cry.
My trench coat glinted with small tears. Ed finally caught up and stopped when he saw me on the ground, “What’s your problem.”
“Ed, I can still hear everything.”
“What?”
“I can still hear the gunshots, my mothers screams everything.”
Ed said nothing, “I still see can see it too.”
“Hey what did we stop for?” Havoc caught his breath.
I got up again and wiped the tears from my eyes. I began to walk to my house, “This is it.” I opened the door.
I looked at the bloodstain on the floor I never bothered to clean. I sighed and walked inside, “Here’s the death trap!” I turned to look at them all.
Justin examined the bloodstain, “That was my mother, and that over there was my father.” I pointed to a bloodstain by Havoc.
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Later that night I sat by my parent’s grave. I began to cry. Someone suddenly grabbed me “Help me!” I screamed in horror.
“Aki!” I heard someone yell.
“Help!” I was hoisted over the man’s shoulder.
I heard a gunshot. I was dropped on the ground. I was trembling with fear, “Are you okay?” Havoc ran over to me with a gun in his hand.
“Havoc,” I began to cry, “thank you.” I was speaking in a small whisper.
I cried for the longest time and I couldn’t stop. We heard a gun shot from inside. I ran in to see what it was, Ed was tied and bound in a corner and Justin was held from behind my some guy in a mask. A man grabbed me from behind he had a smirk on his face I looked at Havoc he was in the same position. A gun pointed at Ed I tare away from the man and run in front of Ed, “No!”
I got shot the bullet went across my check, “We’re not going to kill you yet. We want to make you suffer through the pain of your friends being killed.”
He pointed the gun at Havoc I ran to him too. This time he moved the gun down and shot me in the side. I winced and moaned. “Aki!” Havoc looked at me in concern.
“I’m fine don’t die on me guys.”
I was punched in the stomach and the cheek. This time the man holding my arms was strong he held my hands so tight they hurt. He pointed the gun at Justin his eyes widened the gun fired, “Justin!” my voice cracked with desperation.
His body fell to the floor, the man holding me let go. I ran to the body lying on the floor. I cried so hard and pulled my gloves from my pocket. I clapped my hands and raced to the man with the gun. I push my hands on his chest he froze. I ran to the others the shot at me but missed I hit every one of them.
I fell to the ground next to Justin I cried for what seemed forever Ed came over and rested his hand on my shoulder. I stood up and walked to the phone, I called Roy, “Hello” Roy said sleepily
“Roy? It’s me Aki. I caught some fugitives.”
“Working over time now aren’t you?”
“I guess you can say that.”
“Any way I need some people to come over to pick them up in Daner”
I hung up the phone. I sat next to the body again. I was still crying. Havoc and Ed left the room 2 hours later Roy came into the room glove on ready for anything, “Aki where are they?” Roy looked around for some guys sitting around doing nothing.
I pointed to a one of the frozen men, “You did this?”
I nodded my head still crying, “I’m impressed.” Roy looked at the statues.
He noticed the body lying on the ground. I sat there doing nothing “I see you took a few for the team.”
I looked at my bloody side and wiped the blood from my cheek, “That’s not all I got punched a few times too,” I touched my cheek.
Roy stood next to me, “I’m sorry.”
I looked at him morning the death of Justin, “It’s not your fault.”

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