Rush Valley

[Ermine]

The streets were illuminated with hanging lights and lamps, as night had just set in. The streets were bustling as people rushed to get auto-mail tuneups and other necessities. There was no wonder why the place was called "Rush Valley".

Lust placed her hand over her mouth as she yawned, sitting on a bench on the streets of the still busy Rush Valley. Her search for the no-armed girl had lead her here, Amestris' reigning capital of auto-mail. Where else would you find a no-armed girl? She was bound to show up here some time. Lust was sure of it.

She would find a nice hotel, do some shopping, maybe get another 'Gig' or two. Then, in the morning, she would look around the multiple auto-mail shops and investigate. She wasn't really sure of what auto-mail was, or how it worked, but she remembered people saying that it was specifically for 'people who need limbs'.

The homunculus stood up, dusting her long-sleeved dress off, and looked around. Soup sounded nice; Lust decided she would go off in search of a proper restaurant.

[Chastity]

Brayden was strolling down the street a little agitatedly. Why on earth did he come to a place that had so many people wandering about the streets. He sighed. At the time it had seemed like a good idea for some reason he thought that he might find it here.

Obviously that was ridiculous. How could he find it when he didn't even know what it was. His hand ran angrily through his red hair as her tried to calm himself down. There was no reason to be angry at all.

"Stupid light."

[Ermine]

"H-Hey! Hey Mister!" Lust called out, raising a pointed finger in the air, as to call attention to it. The kid that walked by looked a bit interesting. Maybe it was the bright red hair, or the ghastly pale skin, or haunting yellow eyes, because Lust had a feeling that he may have known something.

She tapped his shoulder with a long finger, speaking again, "I gotta ask you something!" She leaned forward slightly, inspecting his face with eager eyes. There was something about him; Lust couldn't quite put her finger on it, but he felt familiar to her somehow.

[Chastity]

He was going to ignore her when she yelled. He was just going to keep on walking so that he could get out of the street and find a good hiding place.

But then she tapped him and next she was up in his face.

"Back off." he practically growled as his eyes narrowed in to a glare. He didn't like it when people got to close to him or talked to him. It didn't matter if she was human or someone like him he just wanted to be left alone.

[Ermine]

The expression on her face changed quickly from childlike curiosity to confused frustration. "Excuse me?" she asked, disbelieving tone to her voice. She flexed her fingers, and her fingertips grew long and sharp. She raised her large hand towards the side of her head, a slightly crazed look in her eye. He had just talked back to her! Her! Honestly, what a rude man. It confused her, she had been so polite at first! Honestly, people these days.

[Chastity]

"I said back off your in my face." He really didn't like it when people were that close. She was being so dense too. His first started to clench and shake in anger.

"Whatever you wanted to ask you can do so while taking a couple of steps back."

[Ermine]

"Well, uh," Lust took his advice and backed up a little bit, straightening her back. This gave her a slight advantage of height over the opposing homunculus, "You didn't have to be so mean about it, so stop getting your panties in a bunch, buddy." she continued. She placed a large hand on her hip, and the nails on the hand near her face grew, the way only Lust's could.

"I was going to ask you if you knew of a good restaurant." the woman's expression grew into a scowl.

[Chastity]

He relaxed a tiny bit as she backed away from him. Being that close to people always put him on edge though it would have been much worse if she had been a man.

"I wouldn't know where a restaurant was I'm not from here." Really he was just passing through. Soon he would be back on his way to central.

[Ermine]

The nails retracted, and she lowered her hand, "Well that does me a lot of good." Lust pouted, crossing her arms. This was just wonderful. She rolled her eyes then looked back at Chastity. Pausing and staring at him for a moment, a confused look made its way onto her face, "Hey, do I know you? I'm sure I know you." the young lady inquired. She looked at him for another hard second, but nodded her head, "I've probably just seen you around some where. I like to travel." she pointed at herself, and smiled smugly. "I'm from Dublith, haven't been there for a while, though. What town are you from?"

[Chastity]

"Central" He answered her last question first. "And no you don't know me." He figured that if he answered her questions she would be more likely to leave him alone faster. And there was his annoying habit of not being able to say no to a woman. Why? That he didn't know. IT had something to do with his search for a light he knew that much. It also had something to do with women being attacked. Those situations always triggered his temper with out fail. The attackers usually ended up dead.

[Ermine]

"Central?" her eyes widened a bit, "That's quite a big town. So that would make you a Centralian? A Centralite? Centralese maybe?" a girlish little giggle escaped her lips, she enjoyed making herself laugh, even though it may have not been amusing to others. She paused a little, "Well, you looked a bit familiar; although I know I've seen you somewhere! Ha, must have been 'deja vu'! My bad, my memory's not that great, you know? I get mixed up a lot." she scratched her head and laughed lightly, as she dismissed her earlier inquiries for new ones; "So where are you headed? I'm going to stay here for a week or so, I'm look--"

The woman was cut of quite rudely by a burly man who had tapped her shoulder. He was large and built, with quite a manly, gritty features. His head was shaved, but a close-cut beard and scars adorned his face, "Excuse, me. We had something-" he looked at the pale boy for a second, "-planned for the night, didn't we?" the man's voice was unexpectedly had a soothing tenor sound to it; although his words were just slightly slurred.

Lust turned and looked at him, "Do you have the money? I require payment upfront." nonchalantly, she smirked. The quizzical angle in her eyebrows seemed to reinforce her statement, 'Well, do you?' they seemed to say.

"Well, about that, I don't exactly--" his voice was strained and apologetic.

"Ah ah ah!" she cut him off, putting her hand over his mouth. "That's just too bad. Maybe--" she slowly removed her hand, only to be cut off yet again.

"Hey! You listen to me, missy. I was promised something tonight, and I am going to get it!" he grabbed her shoulder roughly, and shook her a bit. It didn't faze her, though.

"Excuse me?" she retorted, an angered look on her face. His grip tightened,"Get your filthy hands off of me!" she yelled. The man just shook harder, yelling and babbling slurred slander.

[Chastity]

His plan hadn't worked. She only started to ask more questions. He didn't want to answer questions at all.

Was it some kind of curse or something? Everywhere he went he was confronted with disgusting human men like this. What was it about them. They were constantly assaulting women n matter where he went he always seemed to them, those disgusting men.

Before he even thought of whether or not to help his hand was on the mans wrist, twisting it painfully. If he twisted just right he could shatter it so easily. Humans were fragile.

"Keep your hands to your self." Brayden growled his eyes flashed menacingly.

[Ermine]

The large man laughed to himself, and stuck a stubby finger to the pale boy's face, "Oh yeah? What're you gonna do about it?" his soothing tenor voice had quickly become harsh and even more slurred.

"Hey, hey, buddy!" Ermine called out, she hadn't expected a kid she just met to be standing up to a man like him, "Just take it easy, he's just a kid." she put her large hands out in front of her, as to get the man to back up.

He didn't comply, "You think you can just come in 'ere and just do whatever you want, eh?" the man's hand formed a fist as he got ready for a punch, "Darn brat!" he released, only to be stopped by Lust's fist. It was in his face, you see. The man recoiled and fell to the ground.

"You!" she turned to face Chastity, "Do you know how bad he could've messed you up?" she had a disbelieving tone to her voice.

[Chastity]

Brayden laughed when she yelled at him about how the man could have messed him up. He was still shaking with barely suppressed rage though.

"I would have been fine." He told her, more to get her off of his back than to reassure her. He then looked at the man on the ground. Yeah there was no doubt that if she had not punched him, the man would have literally been ripped to shreds by now. He wasn't one to show mercy to those that awakened his rage.

(ooc: Sorry it took me so long to post I got a little busy)

[Ermine]

"You?" Lust chuckled, "No offense, kid, but I don't think that you're exactly up to his level yet." Looking down at the man she had just punched, her good mood quickly vanished, "Oh dear, that's a doozy. How about we just forget about him and go get some soup, yeah?"

He wasn't getting rid of her that easily. It was just Lust's nature. She'd stick to you like glue, suck you dry, then leave when you had nothing left to offer. "Come on, my treat. It's the least I can do for getting you mixed up in all this." giving him a reassuring smile, she waited for a response.