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Chapter 6: They're Coming

January 14th, 2010: Lior (Evening)

"Don't worry Edward. Cornello will cure them all soon." Rose said, a faint smiled playing upon her face as she led him deeper into the prison. Cell after cell, each filled with zombies, who pushed themselves at the bars, reaching out, in hopes to grab some flesh.

Edward shuddered. He had told Al to stay behind with Winry. No need to traumatize either of them any further. Although, he was beginning to regret not staying with them. This place reeked of blood. Rose stopped suddenly at one of the cells and smiled affectionately at the... creature inside. It reached out at her, furiously growling.

She smiled at it. "It's okay Kain. I've brought you some food." Rose reached into her bag and threw some hunks of meat at him, which it grabbed and started to devour instantly.

"It's animal meat." Rose said, noticing Edward's disgusted look.

"You people are all fucked."He said, shaking his head, as he backed away. "We're getting the hell out of here."

Edward stormed out of the cell, dodging the grasping hands that came towards him.

"Edward!" Rose called after him, and he could hear her running for him.

"We're finding Mustang and the others and we are leaving." Edward growled, pushing open the doors of the building and leading Winry and Al with him.

"Edward, wait." Rose called after him. "I have to take you to Cornello."

"Bull shit, am I going to your fanactical little fucking preach fest." Growled Ed, not bothering to look back at the girl.

"Edward!" She squealed.

A man walking by, with a cloak over his head, turned and looked towards the direction of Edward. "Excuse but are you Edward Elric, older brother of Alphonse Elric and son of Hohenheim and Trisha- both deceased?" The man asked.

Edward stopped short and looked at the man, who pulled down the hood to his cloak and smiled, pushing up his glasses.

"How do you know that and who the HELL are you?" Edward asked, ferociously.

The man grinned. "Before I tell you that... I have something to show you." The man began reaching into his cloak, but looked up at Rose as he pulled out a big book.

Rose looked completely terrified of whatever the man had in his hands.

"You can go now Rose, I'll make sure Edward gets... taken care of."

_-_-_-_

Rattle...rattle...rattle...rattle...clink.

"Damn it."

"Roy..."

Clink.

"Roy."

Rattle.

"Please stop it Roy. No matter how much you shake the cuffs, nothing is going to happen. We're dead." Riza said, sighing.

She looked up at everyone in order of which pole they were at. First, there was Ling, who had managed to pull on the chain, so that he was right next to Ranfan, who was second, his arm around her as she stared void into the desert. She had wrapped some cloth torn from her pants around her leg wound, and there was a fair bit of blood where the two were sitting, but they didn't move because it was the only place where they could reach each other. And next to Ranfan, was Roy, who was sitting on the ground, tugging halfheartedly on the chain he knew would never come loose.

Riza was at the fourth pole, the only one who still had the effort to stand. Riza had decided long ago that when she died - she'd die on her feet.

Rattle. Clink... Clink. Clink. Rattle...

Roy finally dropped the chain and scowled. "Fuck this."

"Don't be sick Roy, it's an inanimate object." Riza joked, weakly.

Roy paused for a moment, before looking over at Ling and Ranfan, she was now practically in his lap and they were looking into each others eyes silently. The kind of romantic crap that Roy has always avoided.

"Riza...?" Roy began, turning back to the blond, who was standing as tall and proud as ever.

"Yes, Roy?"

Roy smiled at her, in what he assumed was sweetly. "Wanna be my last kiss?"

_-_-_-_

The cloaked man grinned as Rose left and opened the book to a random page. The book was... a photo album.

"This is my daughter Elicia. Isn't she the cutest?" The man asked.

"Aww.." Winry murmured, with a smile.

"Who the hell are you?" Edward demanded.

"I'm Maes Hughes. And you are traveling with Roy Mustang. Care to tell me where he is?"

Edward paused for a moment, as everything clicked. "You're that... guy, that's been calling. The one who sent us to this insanely fanatical town!"

"Ah, yes. Well, knowing Roy would be here, I decided to come here myself, to meet you all and lend you a hand." Hughes said, brushing his short, black hair back with his fingers.

Edward nodded. "But what about your family?"

"Bomb shelter, with plenty of food, water and other resources. I'm doing this so they can live safely." He replied seriously.

"So, what happens now?" Winry asked.

"We find Roy." Hughes replied. "He's a better leader than I am. I used to think that he'd become Fuhrer one day."

Edward snorted.

"I think they said they were going to check out the church first off." Alphonse commented.

"Yes, well let's go." Winry said.

They began to walk towards the church, but paused when they heard an earsplitting screech.

"What's that noise?" Winry asked, feeling truly freaked out.

"Zombies." Maes answered gravely. "They come back every night, in hopes to get a feeding."

"Is it safe, inside the city?" Alphonse asked.

Maes smiled, slightly. "Yeah, soldiers patrol the city at night time heavier than they do during the day."

_-_-_-_

She was dehydrated. Yeah, that was it. And hallucinating, people hallucinate in deserts all the time, right? Not to mention she was probably going to be dead soon. That had to be why, right this moment, Dr Riza Hawkeye was making out with the (ex) womanizer of Central.

Not out of attraction or anything. And she Definitely wasn't enjoying it.

Well, maybe a little, but she was hallucinating, remember?

"Rarreggggggggh." Growling off to the distance. The zombies were coming.

"Oh Fuck." Riza murmured in despair. They would all be dead soon. But that only encouraged her to pull Roy closer, not letting him back away.

"I should have gotten you in a near death situation sooner." Roy murmured, smiling weakly.

Riza laughed. She was almost hysterical. In a way, kissing Roy was the only thing keeping her sane at the moment. Distracting her from her impending death.

"Graaaampppphhh." They were getting closer. So much closer. They'd be there very soon.

Ling looked to Ranfan, who was calmly resting her head on his shoulder. She was secretly screaming inside, terrified of what was to come - but had had years of training to teach her how to keep her cool during certain death.

"Go out fighting?" Ling asked, stroking her hair softly.

"I always knew i'd die fighting." She murmured. "Life is just one big battle where there are no survivors. Some just have a longer battle then others."

Ling chuckled slightly, kissing her forehead. "I love you."

"I love you too. More than life itself."

"More than life." He agreed.

They both stood, holding hands while they looked in the distance. They could now make out the distinct outlines of the rabid creatures.

"Shouldn't we stop so we can at least try to fight?" Roy asked, an arm still around Riza's waist.

" I don't want to see them coming." She said bringing her lips back to his.

"About 30 seconds." Ling murmured.

"29." She continued, squeezing his hand softly.

"28."

_-_-_-_

"Shit."

"What is it, Hughes?" Edward asked, as the older man finally came outside of the church, where the other three were waiting.

Hughes looked up at Edward, a look of horror on his face. "I... I think we're too late."

Oh no! D: . Now you all have to decide whether i'm the type of author(ess) who likes to kill off main characters. Mwahahahaha! REVIEW and I may consider letting them all survive! ~ Little Miss.