His Soul (A FullMetal Alchemist Fanfiction)

Ch. 8~7/4/12 (about 3:46 A.M.)

I had gotten a hold of myself after a few minutes and began to clean Ed's cuts.

"How do you know so much about Âme, Cyle?" I asked while I was cleaning Ed's forehead.

"I don't know, it just seems to come to me naturally,” Cyle said. He had migrated from the window to the middle of the bedroom floor.

"So, Ed's book character. That explains the metal arm,” Cyle muttered. Neither one of us said anything for a while until a female scream pierced the morning air. All three of us jumped. Cyle leaped to his feet and looked out the window. He looked to the right than the left.

"That house is on fire!" he shouted as he pulled his head back into my room. I looked out the window and saw that he was right. After pulling my head back in, I slipped my sandals on and ran for outside.

The cool night air bit my legs as the three of us ran down the street to reach the burning house. I watched as the red-orange flames torched the morning sky. In the scramble of people, cars, officers, and medical transportation, I found Hoshi in the crowd.

"Do you know what happened?" I asked. She shook her head.

"All I know is that one minute I was dreaming of 'My Little Pony' and the next I wake up to the sound of a girl's scream" Hoshi explained. I looked from her blue eyes to the orange flames that licked the sky. Soon, water splashed from a fire hose, putting out the fire. The crowd quickly began to dissolve, leaving Hoshi, Cyle, Ed, and I. We watched as the paramedic wheeled out four roasted bodies, all dead. The youngest body looked to be younger than ten. Hoshi turned her head as they placed the bodies into the ambulance.

"We're going to have to ask you four to leave the site" a police officer probably in his late thirties said as he walked up to us. I nodded and lead Hoshi back down to our homes. The four of us walked in silence. The only sounds were our shoes crushing the rocks on the gravel road and Hoshi's crying.

When we reached my house, I told the boys to head for the house to wait for me at the front door.

"Do you want me to walk you home?" I asked when the guys were out of earshot. She just shook her head.

"I can go alone" she said with a yawn.

"Are you sure?" she shook her head again.

"Okay, just be careful" I warned as she turned towards her house. I turn towards my house and began to walk up the long driveway.

Suddenly, my cell phone rang loudly.

I was just a couple feet from my house when I pulled it out of my sweatshirt and looked at the caller ID. It read 'World Of Books'. Why was Corny calling me at four in the morning? I hit the answer button and held the speaker to my right ear.

"H-Hello?" I asked into the microphone.

"Hello, Fayth" a voice that I didn't expect to hear spoke from the speaker. I nearly dropped my phone.

"W-Who is this?" I stuttered.

"I was told you know a lot about me. Like how I was created and my death" the voice hissed.

"Who is this?” I said through clenched teeth.

"Envy the Jealous"

(A/N: haha cliffhanger!!... April Fools!!)

At the name, I almost fell off my feet but Cyle caught me. I didn't see when Ed or he had come over. He steadied me and I continued to speck.

"What do you want?" my voice trembled.

"We want a trade. The FullMetal Pip-squeak for her" the line went silent for a moment. Then a small voice cried through the speaker.

"Fayth, help me!" it was the voice of Hoshi! I knew I should've walked her home! Her voice dyed out and was replaced by Envy's.

"You have till noon the Pip-squeak here or the girl dies" and than the line went dead. I slipped my phone back into my pocket, crouched down and wrapped my arms around my legs and buried my face in them. I soon began to cry.

"What's wrong, Fayth?" Cyle asked.

"He kidnapped her,” I whispered through the tears.

"Who kidnapped who?" Ed asked.

"THAT DAMN HOMUNCULUS!" I shouted.

"Homuncu-what?" Cyle said.

"A Homunculus is an artificial human but they don't exist"

"Oh, they're very real, Edward" I said, still not looking up, "one named Envy just kidnapped Hoshi and won't give her back unless we hand you over to him"

"My twelve year old neighbor. That little girl that was with us a little bit ago" I said.

"Did this person tell you why they want Edward?" Cyle asked.

"No, he just said we have till noon to bring him to them"

"Where?" Ed asked.

"World of Books"

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I AM NINJA!!!!

*Hides in a cave with Nomura*

(Side note: I am almost done with this :( but there will be good news...at the end of this!!)