When they had reached Ishval, they almost immediately felt like they were being watched. A man walked past them, like they weren't even there. Zira saw him, and gritted her teeth with anger. "You..," she muttered under her breath.
He smirked, before turning towards them. Zira was glaring at him. The others didn't understand, except for Al.
It then clicked in his head: That must be who gave Zira those scars...
Toza looked at Zira. "Long time no see..." "Tch." "Be nice Zira," he said mockingly. "I outta--" Al grabbed her arm so she wouldn't attack him. When she turned back to him, he was shaking his head, a worried expression on his face.*
Toza raised an eyebrow in question, and the became angered. It didn't take him long to realize that she must've told Al about her scars, and that he had seen them. "You brat," he said.
Zira looked at him.
Toza rolled his eyes. "I guess it doesn't really matter now anyways." Everyone was extremely confused, except for Zira. When she saw the smirk appear on Toza's face again, her eyes widened.
"We're surrounded!" Zira yelled. The others looked around, and, suddenly, men came out of seemingly nowhere. Zira looked around, terrified. The men began attacking, and the fight began.
During everything that was happening, everyone was separated. Either they were alone, or they were with another person. Zira and Riza ended up with each other, far from everyone else. Riza had her guns in hands, Zira prepared to use her alchemy.
Toza suddenly attacked them both, Riza shooting at him. He had one bullet left in his gun, and wasn't going to use it quite yet. Zira got him pushed back a few feet from herself and Riza.
"Well well Zira... You're a bit stronger than I thought you'd be..." "Shut up Toza." "How's the automail coming, hm?"
"Automail?" Riza quizzed. "Oh, so you didn't tell them about your automail?" Toza said, looking at Zira.
"Well, she decided not to listen to us, so, as her punishment, we took something away from her, and to keep her from dying of blood loss, we gave her something back..." "Yeah and it sucks, now shut up!" Zira snapped. Riza looked shocked, looking from Zira to Toza.
Toza sighed. "But, I'm afraid that's telling you a little too much blondy," he said, raising his gun. Zira immediately tackled Riza to the ground, causing Riza to drop one of her guns, as a gunshot rang out.
Zira moved off of Riza, and used alchemy to put a barrier of thick ice around Riza. She knew Riza could get out of it, but it wouldn't be as simple as punching through it. She'd have to shoot through it.
Zira picked up Riza's gun that she dropped, shooting at Toza to keep him away. The gun soon ran out of ammo, and she had to attack Toza.
Riza was furiously trying to get out of the barrier to help Zira.
Toza tackled Zira to the ground. She was on her stomach, looking back at him. He grabbed her right arm, the one that was automail, bringing it back. He began pulling, knowing it would cause her pain if he simply tried ripping it off of her.
Her eyes widened, as the screws keeping the automail in place began tearing at her flesh. She didn't yell out at first, but after a minute or so of him pulling, she cried out. He eventually got the automail off of her, letting her up as he threw the automail to the ground.
Zira began pushing herself up with her left arm, the one arm she had. A man came up behind her, grabbing her left arm and pulling her up. She tried getting out of his grip, but she couldn't.
He covered her mouth, dragging her away with Toza. All of the men retreated, Zira with them...
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Riza shot at the ice, worried by how quiet it became. She was able to get out of the barrier, looking around. She cupped her hands around her mouth. "Zira!" She yelled. She saw the automail, lying on the ground, and the blood on the screws, knowing that it must've been the automail that Zira and Toza were talking about.
"Oh no..."
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* Okay so I probably should've clarified, but I didn't so: This is after Al got his body back, so yeah if you were confused there for a minute then I'm sorry that was my fault.
