Amestris High

Chapter Five

Amestris High

Chapter Five – Fight Fight Fight

Erin did not understand what was going on. All the tables were empty, when they were usually filled with students, chatting and eating. The whole cafeteria was quiet too. This seemed completely out of place to Erin, along with the fact that all the people inside the cafeteria were all lined up in a single line, holding out their food as if it were an offering. Some were even shivering.

"What the hell is going-" Erin started, but before long she answered her own question. There, standing at the front of the line was Dawn, and her flying cat thing was lying on the table next to her, stuffing its face with other people's lunch.

"Psst!"

Erin looked around.

"Psssst!"

She found Al squatting behind a table, out of Dawn's sight. Erin quickly knelt down beside him.

"What on earth is going on here?!" she asked, outraged she couldn't have her lunch in peace.

"What does it look like?" Al asked her back sarcastically.

"You tell me because I haven't a clue!"

"If you haven't noticed, everyone is scared of Dawn. She takes advantage out of that, and takes everyone's lunch or money, sometimes even both if you're terribly unlucky." Al did his best to explain to his friend exactly just what was going on here. Erin noticed there wasn't a single teacher or dinner lady.

"Where are all the teachers?" she asked looking around hoping to find a teacher such as Hawkeye or Mustang. Unfortunately, there were none.

"They ran out as soon as they saw Dawn." Al told her in a low whisper.

"This is stupid. I'm not letting some low life bully steal other people's food and feed it to her deformed, overweight cat!" Erin hissed and shot up from behind the lunch table and walked over to the end of the line. She grabbed a sandwich off of someone's plate and went further down the line, until she had Dawn in her sight, and a clear zone to chuck the sandwich. She wanted food? Let her have it.

"Hey Dawn!" Erin shouted at the top of her lunges to get the twisted teenager's attention. Dawn didn't have to be yelled at twice. She spun her head round and looked straight at Erin.

"Eat this!" and before thinking it over twice, Erin threw the sandwich as hard as she could across the room, sending it flying in a straight line for Dawn.

"Incoming!" Dawn ducked as the sandwich sailed over her head, missing her by inches, hitting someone else.

"Uh oh." Erin groaned.  She should've listened to Al, and stayed down low.

"You gonna wish you weren't even born!" Greed hissed, wiping mayonnaise off his face. Al slapped a hand over his face. Why didn't anyone ever listen to him? Greed took the whole plate of a person in line, and chucked it in Erin's direction. Erin managed to get out of the way, causing the plate to hit a table behind her. A short silence followed, but before long everyone was grabbing food and throwing it at their neighbours.

"FOOD FIGHT!"

Cakes, sandwiches, mushy peas and burgers flew across the cafeteria, amidst all of the whoops, yells and cries of the pupils. Some were having a great time and enjoying it while they could, some like Dawn just stood motionless in the centre of it all, batting away the food. Others, like Erin and her friends, hid under the tables, devising plans to get out of the cafeteria without getting hit or being spotted by Dawn.

"You're a real help Erin!" Ed said sarcastically, raising his voice to be heard over the hollering school kids.

"How was I supposed to know that throwing one sandwich would cause this?!" Erin argued back.