I DO NOT OWN FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD, NOR DO I OWN VOCALOID, NOR DO I OWN THE SONG TWILIGHT NIGHT.
"Are you sure about this, Rin?" Len looks on as his sister swaps two envelopes, both of them saying 'Dear Ms. Miku'. The twins stood in the back room of the stage. While the other Vocaloids were getting ready, they went back here since they came early.
"Don't worry, Len." His sister stated with a smirk, turning to him for a moment before returning her gaze to Miku's dress. "It's just a harmless prank. Not like it'll actually work. I mean come on."
Len sighed. "But what if it does work? What then? We'd be screwed!"
Rin sighed in aggravation, finishing her task then turning to Len with her hands to her hips. "Look, we've been playing these pranks for years and you never had a problem with it. Why are you all of a sudden such a wuss?"
"I just have a bad feeling, Rin…" Len sighed in defeat, looking down. Rin frowned and put a hand on her brother's shoulder, giving him an encouraging grin.
"We'll be fine. Nothing to worry about. It's just a half circle on a piece of paper."
"That a shady guy gave to us." Len pointed out, getting a glare from the sister to shut up.
"Now, come on. The play's about to start." Len nodded, then the twins ran out of the back room and out to the stage, where the curtains were still out. Miku turned toward the two and waved, smiling. Rin scoffed.
"Rin, be nice."
"Tch…" Rin sighed then fixed her white bow and black dress. Kaito turned toward then and smiled.
"We were thinking you weren't going to make it in time. Where were you?" Kaito asked, an eyebrow raised.
"No where!" Both twins replied quickly with grins.
"You two better keep to the script. It's perfect and we've gone over it a thousand times." Meiko growled. Rin and Len nodded quickly, both going into show-biz mode. They talked to each other quietly for a bit before hearing someone in front of the curtain talking. "Alright. Let's go everyone." Meiko exclaimed with a big smirk and a fist raised, prompting the others to do the same.
"Now, presenting the Vocaloid 8! Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, Kaito, Meiko, Gakupo, and Gumi, in… Twilight Night! " The man exclaimed.
The curtains rose, showing a large clock on a projector, and Miku voicing over.
"Oh, how am I going to return home? Until the applause ceases, it will never end…"
The projection then changed to the words "Twilight Night" as the instrumental continues. The projection stops and the lights shine on Miku in the middle of the stage, surrounded by trees.
"A girl's alone in the eerie woods. She appears to be lost…" Miku wanders through the forest, until she comes across the doors to a mansion. "Someone…! Is anyone out here?"
The doors opens, showing Gakupo and Gumi in a butler and maid suit.
"Are you on your own? So late at night?" Gakupo jesters her into the house.
"Well, come right in, we'll serve you some tea!" Gumi pours a cup of tea and hands it to her.
Rin and Len ran into the room holding up one hand in the air and smiling mischievously. "Welcome! Let's SinG! And, have a Crazy Join uS!" Rin and Len exclaimed as the doors closed behind Miku.
"It's too dark out…" Meiko frowns, looking out the window at the black night.
"It's very dangerous!" Luka explains, setting Miku down at the table.
"Indeed… So until morning comes-"
"Let us welcome you with song and dance!" They all sing together, surrounding Miku at the table.
"Now, we must be quick…" Gakupo sneaks up behind Miku, laying a hand on her chair and smiling.
"To make preparations..!" Gumi twirls, setting the tea on the table.
Rin and Len jump up in celebration. "OK! Tonight's a SHORT rehearsal - We'll party FREELY!" They all scatter, pointing at things as they sing as one.
From the set, to the costumes, to the makeup, Every little detail is according to the script! Pour the Wine, give a Toast-"
"AND LET US BEGIN!"
The setting changes to Miku in a room full of coffins, while holding two sharp clock hands. She runs around pretending to stab the other characters and smiling as she does so.
"Tonight a single wink, a single sigh, a single footstep is not made in error! With such perfection, the crazed show goes on! And…"
"Fantastic!" Rin jumps up excitedly.
"More!" Len exclaims.
"I can't get enough!" Rin grins up at the sky.
"…MORE!" Len yells.
"I'm floored! More Praise, give me more!" They both yell.
There's a bright flash of light for a few seconds, then the stage is seen again. Miku sits down, staring at a tiny stage with her in the middle holding the two knives. Miku looks around the room, scared that anyone has seen what she had done. Quickly, she gets up and rushes out of the room. There's a much lighter flash of light, and a low rumble, before people can hear rain.
"When the feast ends, and day breaks…" Meiko calmly sings.
"Uh-oh! When did she…?" Gumi exclaims, a hand covering her mouth as she searches for Miku.
"That GIRL…" Len starts. "Isn't ANYWHERE!" Rin finishes.
"She's gone…! Gone?! Gone, GONE!" They all exclaim, searching frantically. Rin and Len look at each other for a brief moment, a smirk playing on both their lips.
"Say, do you hear that?" Luka stops looking and looks around suspiciously. She glances at Rin and Len and fixes a curious glare, as she saw the smirks on their faces.
"An odd, thumping sound?" Kaito asks, looking very confused.
"But… where could i be coming from?" Gakupo asks.
Both Rin and Len knock over multiple bookshelves to search for the girl. "Wake uP! Let's thinK! And to the nineS Join uS!"
"Oh my! What's happened here?" Gumi gasps when she stares at their script in utter shock.
"The next pagE…" Gakupo starts.
"Isn't THERE!" The twins exclaim.
"Well, who could have stolen it?" Meiko asks, frowning.
"Not Good?! NOT GOOD! AhAhAhAhAhAhAhA!" The twins laugh creepily, holding their stomachs. Kaito glares at them from the corner of his eyes.
"Without the Libretto…" He warns.
"We can't go on!" Meiko finishes, shooting the twins a glare. Their cackling wasn't in the script… so why?
The twins got the message, and clasped their hands together, gesturing out to the crowd. "OK! Every, EVERYone! Search for the PagE!"
"But who could have…? To what end…? Who stole the page telling the future? All of everyone… everyone of all!"
"ALL SO SUSPICIOUS!"
Everyone runs around frantically, Miku still missing.
~BACK STAGE~
Miku runs around frantically, looking for the page. "W-where is it?! It wasn't in my pocket where it should have been! WHY?"
~STAGE~
"Tonight, as time advances, so does the play, but the "hands of the clock" are left behind. Not passing time, but tools of slaughter; where is the real "you"…? And…?"
"The next Page, the True EnD, there must be "something" they lack… If we can't figure out what that is, then we'll sit and let the gears spin!"
Meiko, Kaito, Luka, Gakupo, Gumi, Rin, and Len, all gather together in front of the clock, fake-panting from the searching.
"Ahhh… The stolen page…" Gakupo puts a hand to his chin and thinks, a frown forming on his face. The others look around. Miku was supposed to be here. They had to improvise.
~BACK STAGE~
"Where is it?!" Miku opens the door to a basement.
~STAGE~
"Where can it be found?" Gumi puts a finger on her lower lip, looking concerned.
~BACK STAGE~
The lights above the stairs illuminate one by one down the way.
~STAGE~
"Hurry, HurrY!" Len sings, looking at everyone as they try to figure out a way to continue.
~BACK STAGE~
Miku runs down the stairs, feeling as though this is where it is. Please! She thought, Please let it be down here!
~STAGE~
"That way? This way?" Kaito asked, criss-crossing his arms and pointing in either direction. The others looked around frantically. Rin and Len exchanged another glance, this one going unnoticed by the others. She slipped something out of her dress sleeve.
~BACK STAGE~
"This was where the sounds were coming from before… Maybe someone hid it down here?"
~STAGE~
"Hey, on the GROUND…" Rin bent down slightly, pointing to an envelope that says 'Dear Ms. Miku'.
~BACK STAGE~
Miku stood in front of a large coffin prop. "Inside the coffin?"
~STAGE~
"It's a very shady LETTER!" Both Rin and Len sung together, picking the note up and showing it to everyone. The others let out a silent sigh of relief, completely forgetting Miku was missing.
~BACK STAGE~
Miku slowly opened the coffin, her eyes widening as the light hit inside.
~STAGE~
"The girl was carrying that!" Luka gasped, looking at the letter closely.
"What's inside the letter?" Meiko asked, holding her hand out to it.
"OPEN it SLOWly…" The twins explained, run putting her overly-long sleeve in front of her to contain her mischievous smirk.
Kaito grasped the letter, unfolding the opening. Everyone leaned in to look.
~BACK STAGE~
"Is my answer… in here…?"
~STAGE~
Kaito took out the paper, showing a half-circle.
"A white sheet of perfect SizE!" Everyone exclaimed. Len quickly turned the page to whereat was missing. The page next to it had the other half of that circle.
~BACK STAGE~
"…I found it!" Miku exclaims before running quickly through the place to get to the stage.
~STAGE~
"Time marches on, the play proceeds, and the crazed hour seems amended. With such outrageous perfection, the crazed EnD goes on. And…!" Everyone gathers around the table with the script. The book starts to faintly glow as the parts of the circle draw nearer.
"Fantastic!" Rin jumps up excitedly.
"More!" Gumi exclaims.
"I can't get enough!" Luka grins.
"…MORE!" Gakupo yells.
"I'm floored!" Kaito sings.
"Make my night come true!" They all yell.
Rin and Len take the paper and hold it as it starts to glow. "Rin…?" Len whispers to his sister next to him.
"No! Hold on…! Look carefully, will you? Time isn't advancing "properly"!" Miku screamed/sang as she ran onto the stage.
Len stares at the paper in awe and fear. Rin stares at it as well, shocked that it's doing this. She could only open her mouth, since no words would come out. The rest had shocked faces, and Luka was staring at Rin and Len, knowing this was another prank, gone horribly, horribly wrong. Rin and Len stared at the paper, as words appeared around the circle…
'The long awaited EnD is before you! Is your heart ready?'
The page floats high into the air before twirling and connecting the the other half of the circle.
"The next page is unfound… because the letter is the EndinG!"
The book floats into the air, completely flipping out and reopening as pages shoot out uncontrollably. Everyone looks to the circle as letters appear around it.
'At last, time advances, as does the play, and a step away from the EndroLL. The cast, the play, are all left behind; the white sheet is dyed BaD. After all… A blank sheet will receive no applause… Now we are out of time… So here is where we end. Till another NighT.'
Miku stops running, stopping next to Kaito, and grips his arm. Everyone steps close to each other as the pages fly around them in a large circle-like shape. Gumi hears a loud sound and looks down, then quickly covers her mouth to stifle a scream. She stares fearfully into a large purple eye as it opens under them.
"GAH!" Everyone turns to see Kaito as his leg is deconstructed when thin black hands touch him. Miku screams and holds him close.
"KAITO!"
"KYAAH!"
"LUKA, NO!"
"WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
More black hands surround them as they are each deconstructed. Everyone screams in fear, except for the twins.
"Rin! I thought you said this wouldn't work!"
"I-I didn't think it would!" Rin stared down as she steps away from a black hand. Len grabs her hand as he screams. "L-Len!" Rin hugs him tightly as the hands wrap around them tightly, deconstructing them and torturing them.
Everyone else reaches out for one another, before a bright light suddenly erupts, finishing the deconstruction and enveloping them in a bright white light.
~AMESTRIS~
"Sir!" An Amestrian soldier burst through Colonel Roy Mustang's door, interrupting his talk with the pipsqueak and his brother. Mustang looked up at the man, raising an eyebrow.
"What's wrong, soldier? Did you see Scar?" Edward tensed slightly but looked at the soldier as well. He seemed out of breath, and his eyes were wide in shock. Ed's eyes narrowed. "Well?"
The soldier caught his breath then stood at attention. "Sir, there's a large transmutation circle above Central Command. We can't tell what the transmutation circle looks like, but a few moments ago a large eye appeared from it."
Edward and Alphonse shot up in their seats. "What did you say?!"
"Fullmetal?" Mustang looked at Edward, confused and shocked.
"There's only one kind of transmutation circle I know of that would have a giant eye coming out of it…" Edward spoke softly, looking downward, before turning to the soldier as he once again spoke up.
"There were also sightings of the same transmutation circle all around Amestris, sir. So far, there has been one here in Central, one in the North, one in Lior, one in the southeast, and one in Dublith."
Edward blinked a couple times. "Southeast…?" His eyes widened. "Do you know where exactly it is?!"
Mustang looked at Edward, but said nothing as the soldier continued. "N-no… We've only been able to pinpoint Lior and Dublith, the others are just general areas."
"Alright then. Make sure you send me your findings. I want to know where these portals are being opened immediately. Meanwhile, Fullmetal…"
"Hm?" Ed turned to his superior.
Mustand slowly stood as the soldier left. "Tell me about this transmutation circle." Edward winced, frowning, and looked down. Alphonse decided to speak up instead.
"…It's the transmutation circle… for human transmutation, Colonel."
Mustang's eyes went wide, and everyone in the office turned to them. Hawkeye stared at the boys in shock, though failing at keeping it hidden. "…Human transmutation…? But who would do it?" He frowned and put a hand up to his chin in thought. "And why would there be six simultaneous transmutations of the same thing…?"
"And one other thing…"
"Hm?" Roy and Al turned to Ed, whose head was still down. His fists shaking and tight while speaking. "Why the hell is it in the sky above us?"
Please tell me what you think! ^^ I had to get this on here because it was bugging the hell out of me. XD I haven't forgotten the others which I am in the process of writing another chapter for. :3