Summery: Shembala, Rakuen, Eden; all legends having to do with a paradise. At the end of the world a paradise will be opened, but only wolves will know how to find it. Stuck in WWII, Ed and Al search for Shembala. Winry meanwhile researches Alchemy, but who knew that would bring her to search for Paradise as well. Wolf's Rain/FMA Crossover. EdWin and perhaps AlXoC. Yes there are wolves in this too.
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"Brother," Al said franticly. Ed hushed him with a wave of his hand and crouched down lower into the bushes. Al followed his example.
Sure enough a small squad of soldiers came running past them. Al took a small quick breath and held it, and Ed peaked over the bush. Al dared not look, but he could hear everything just fine.
"Which way did those kids go?" one man yelled. Ed observed a few of them shrink back in fear. Ed knew right away that was the leading officer, "Well, spread out and find them…now!"
"Sir!" they said, and dispatched. Ed crouched down again as a soldier wearing a Swastika walked by them a second time.
When Ed was sure that the man was out of earshot he turned to his cowering brother, "Alphonse," he whispered in a barely audible voice, "On my count, we run for it… one…two…"
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"There they are!" a man shouted, "Kill those bastards! Messengers of death! Kill them!" Gunshots where heard all around, but each one missed their targets.
"No! They're supposed to all be dead!" the same person shouted, "Its been 200 years since the last one was seen…all they bring is death!"
His companions ran after their targets, leaving the screaming man to himself. A yelp of what sounded like a dog was heard as another gunshot sounded.
"Yes, that's right. Kill them," the man said grinning a smile that made him look devilish, "Because if they live, they will bring the end to us all."
"Excuse me mister," a female voice called out. The man turned around, holding out his rifle, but lowered it as he realized it was only a teenager.
"What is it? You should run! Those monsters bring death!"
"But—" she started, but was cut off.
"Wait a second," the man said as he narrowed his eyes. He raised his gun in the girl's direction and she as a response put her hands up to her face, cowering.
"Wait! Don't shoot—"
BLAM!
The shot was fired right passed the girl's ear. A yelp was heard followed by a harsh thud of something hitting the ground.
"See that monster that I just shot girl?" the man said leading her towards the shot-down animal, "That, was a wolf, and from the looks of it, I didn't quite kill it."
"A…wolf?" the girl repeated, "But they've been extinct for over 200 years!"
And with that she took off after the trail of blood. Something possessed her to pursue the creature to see it for herself.
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"Aw, crap!" a voice called out to no one in particular, "That man got me."
A large canine creature with midnight fur and a fluffy pelt struggled to stand as her leg spurted out fresh blood. Her eyes shone blue rather than the normal brownish color of her domesticated relatives, but they were scrunched up in pain.
She was a wolf. Her head was turned around back to where the crazy man had shot her. In the distance she could hear the man curse and yell that the world was ending; that he allowed one of the wolves to survive.
Curiously she looked around hoping to find a way out of this situation. Her friends had probably been shot dead by now.
"Damn," she cursed, "Now what am I going to do?"
The bushes rustled and the wolf snarled, hoping that would keep the hunter away, but she stopped short as the teenage girl from before came before her. As much as she hated humans, she couldn't kill a child.
"Do it quick human," she said, "At least don't have me suffer."
"What are you talking about?" the girl said with wide eyes, "I wasn't going to kill you. Let me help you."
The girl offered the wolf a hand. The wolf looked at her wearily, but accepted the hand with a human hand of her own, her parallel form that made solely for her survival and nothing else. The ability to change to a human at will.
If her life wasn't hanging by a thread right then, her pride would have been shattered for having to resort to this.
As she leaned on the girl for support, they made their way out of the forest.
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Ed was surprised to hear gunshots in the distance. Immediately the soldiers ran to the source, one of them screaming, "They must've gone that way!"
Soon the stomping sound of human feet vanished and the brothers felt that they were able to move now.
"Brother?" Alphonse questioned, "What was that?"
Both Ed and Al had come out of their hiding spot to see what had happened. The Nazis seemed to be restraining another man with a rifle.
"A rifle?" Ed asked aloud, "What good would that do?"
His brother only shrugged in response.
The man was deemed crazy by the soldiers and locked in handcuffs. His screams of the world ending where put to a stop as another guard smacked him with a club; his head hung down as if he had passed out from the impact.
Out of his long coat, a book dropped, but it was rudely kicked away by an armed man. When the brothers where sure that the Nazis were gone, they went over to the book.
Alphonse bent over to pick it up. He brushed the dirt off of it and his eyes widened as he recognized the familiar signs of transmutation circles written all over it.
Ed noticing the same thing quickly grabbed it out of his younger brother's hands and flipped the book around.
"The Lunar Tome," El read aloud. He stared at his brother with wide eyes. Somehow, they felt that this book was going to help them…somehow.
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A/N: Well, here's the prologue. I think I have a good idea for this, but we'll see where it goes.
Review to keep me writing! Even a flame is great (well…maybe not…).
Anyway, the black wolf is not Blue from Wolf's Rain, but her first daughter. There is some pre-established BlueXHige in this. Toboe will also definitely be in this. I'm debating who else to put in because the rest of the wolves would be very aged at this point if Blue's and Hige's children are grown up already.
Perhaps I will and perhaps I won't but you all will never know unless you review!
Also if you wanna know where Winry and the others are, then there's another reason to review!
Come on peps! REVIEW! XD I'll stop asking you now.
