I thought of another story!
I am not sure if it will be any good but I will try.
Enjoy! (Bows and walks off stage.)
Heavenly Brothers
Ch.1 The Beginning
It was a year and a half after their dad left and the Elric brothers were playing outside while their mom hung the clothes. The eldest brother was six while the younger one was five. Edward and Alphonse were as close as brothers could be. They shared everything, but one thing they shared was unknown to the brothers until today.
Ed had run inside to their room to get a ball him and Al could throw around. He found it under his bed. He turned around and started to run back outside. Once he got to the middle of the room he stopped as pain spread from his back to his whole body. He collapsed letting the ball role away to another part of the room to be forgotten. Ed curled up into a ball as the pain intensified. It came in waves originating at his back. As the pain subsided from his limbs, his back seemed to burn. Soon it was only at his upper back right around his shoulder blades that hurt. He let out a cry, the first one, but for some reason he had been hearing them the whole time but from far away. His first thought once he could bare the pain was it wasn't him who was crying. Al! It was Al outside. Ed tried to get up to go to his little brother to help him but he landed face down. The pain shot back up but stayed in the area in the middle of his back.
Numbness came over him as something seemed to sprout out of his back. Ed let out another cry. Then as quick as it began everything stopped, the pain and the feeling of numbness. But a strange weight on his back had appeared. He turned his head and sucked in a breath when he saw what it was. Wings… angel wings to be exact.
Ed raced through the house back to the yard where his brother and mother were. He burst out of the house but stopped dead. There mother was helping Al up of the ground. Al's face was tearstained but that wasn't what made Ed stop. Two wings identical to the ones on Ed's back were on his brother.
"M-mom?" she looked up at Ed's voice.
"Looks like both of you grew wings." She was smiling but Ed could tell she was worried.
"What's wrong mom? You look worried." Ed said while rushing to Alphonse's side.
She looked down at him in surprise. "Well," she said slowly, "I guess I have to tell with out your father's help."
Ed's face scrunched up into anger, "We don't need him." Then his face lightened up, "We have you mom. You can tell us what you want to with out him."
She smiled at him then looked around to make sure no one had seen them. Then she ushered them inside, she touched both there backs to do so and they yelped in pain. She imminently moved her hands to her side looking afraid. Once they got inside she pulled the curtains so no one could look in. Then she turned to her two boys.
"Ed, Al, I have some things to explain to you." She looked at each of them as she spoke their names.
"Are you going to tell us about why we just grew wings?" Al asked in his adorable voice.
"Yes, Al, now listen up." She gave him a smile then took a deep breath. "I was hoping when this day came you would be a little older and your dad could help me explain." Ed was about to say they didn't need there dad but their mom held up her hand to stop him.
"As I was saying this involves your dad so he would have helped." She let out her breath and continued. "Your father was an angel."
Both brothers stared at their mother not knowing what to say.
"He had come down from heaven to deal with a demon that had been steeling human souls and preventing them from going to heaven. It was just cruel to trap souls on earth and crueler for them to be in the jaws of a demon. He had been tracking it when it attacked me." Ed's and Al's eyes where full of shock and wonderment.
"Your dad saved me but let the demon get away. We fell in love so we bought a house here in Resembool. He was still tracking the demon but he always came back. After a while we had you two, but it was forbidden for an angel to have kids with a human. He didn't care he loved me and he loved you too just as much." Ed looked away and crossed his arms when his mom said their dad had loved them.
"Your dad really loved you Ed." Not missing the gesture. "He left to face the demon. After he defeated it and released the souls, he had to go back. He had to convince the higher up angles not to kill you two." Both of the boys gasped at that.
"W-why would they want to k-kill us?" It was Al who asked the question.
"You heard me say it was forbidden for angels to have kids with a human, well the higher angels had to kill the half breed angels so they won't pose a threat to heaven. You two are half angel so it was mandatory for them to send some one to kill you. Your dad sent a letter telling me that they spared your lives for your dad's wings." Ed looked at his brother at the news that they may have been killed, Al looked back tears brimming in his eyes. Ed leaned over and hugged Al, it was awkward with both their wings.
There mom continued after they let go of each other. " Your dad gave his wings so he could never return to earth. He also explained to me what he was right before he left. He told me everything that concerned you and how your bodies will act like on this day. You will be able to hide your wings in a few weeks of practicing; you will also gain some powers. Your dad didn't know what to expect but healing powers are going to be one you get for sure. You will gain others too but I have no idea what they would be." The two half angels started to feel overwhelmed.
"Mom… are we freaks now?" Ed voiced a thought.
"No Ed, you're my little angels now." She said in a sweet voice, leaning down and hugging her boys.
"Ok." Ed said in a small voice griping the back of her clothes.
"So dad left to save us?" Al said to the left of Ed. Ed shuddered at the thought, he had hated their father after he thought he had left mom and them.
"Yes Alphonse, he did." Their mom smiled letting them go.
"I knew it." Al's voice was a whisper.
There mom had told them the importance of no one finding out about their blood inheritance. People would come and take them away and put them on show or worst they would stick them in a lab and do tests on them. It was a lot for two young boys to take. They started to have nightmares about people poking them through cages. They started to try retracing their wings; after a week all that was left on there backs were three or four purely white feathers sticking out where each of their wings had been. Soon they were aloud out of the house to play with there friend, after they were reminded that they had to keep their mouths shut about their father and their new found powers.
After a few weeks they had fully mastered growing and retracting their wings so they flew around the house often. Their mother would scold them if they broke something while flying around. They yearned to fly outside but they knew they couldn't someone could see them. But one night their mom told them, actually told them, to go out side and fly. It was a warm moonless night so no one would see them flying. The dark didn't bother them because they found out a few nights after gaining their wings that they could see perfectly in the dark. They didn't even have a nightlight any more.
Flying outside was totally different from flying in the small house. The wind messed the brothers up at first but they soon found ways of using the wind to their advantage. Their mother had warned them to stay close to the ground because they didn't know if their wings would retract while they were flying. It had happened in the house a lot the first few days they were learning how to fly. There mom wouldn't let them try flying till they got their growing and retracting down and when they did, their wings still disappeared sometimes as they flew. They never got seriously hurt except for one time Ed was flying around the living room and his wings suddenly went back into his body. He had tumbled down and hit his head on the coffee table knocking him out for a few minutes.
The brothers raced and did figures in the sky till their mother called them down. This became an activity the boys did constantly. They waited for night's like that one, dark and nice weather, to go back out and fly.
Through out the years they studied alchemy from the books their dad left behind. They had learned from their mother that it was also forbidden for heaven's angels to learn alchemy but their dad had found it so interesting he just had to learn it. They advanced in alchemy fast and their mother was proud. She had found out about their hobby after they had transmuted a doll for Winry's birthday. They thought she was going to be mad but instead she was very happy they wanted to learn alchemy. She had let them into Hoenheim's old study. They got better at it and they showed their mother and Winry every accomplishment they made.
But then the unthinkable happened, Winry's parents died at war. They had found Winry crying in her kitchen with granny Pinako patting her back. Winry had screamed at them and hit Al's new creation of the table. She told them they could never feel the way she did. They knew she was right and rushed home and hugged their mom. Both had imagined losing her at Winry's words and both cried in Trisha's arms.
But soon after their mom had grown gravely ill. The doctors said that it was an illness she seems to have been fighting a long time. It was incurable. In her last minutes she had told her sons to look after each other and never give up.
At the funeral Ed cursed their dad. He was an angel wasn't he, why didn't he save her? Then after everyone left and they were free of those eyes filled with sympathy they didn't want, Ed told his brother that they were going to get her back.
They trained for a year by themselves and read through every book in the study many times. They soon realized that they needed someone else to help them, they needed a teacher.
Their chance arrived one stormy night. The villagers had been trying to put sand bags on the riverside to keep the town from flooding. Ed and Al had been doing alchemy to help but the river was rising too fast. A figure had came out of the crowd and told every one to step aside. Then she used alchemy without circles. The Elrics were so impressed they knew she had to be their teacher. But before they could run up and ask her she threw up blood, the other villagers took her to the only doctor in Resembool. The next morning when every one was thanking her the brothers ran up to her asking for an apprenticeship. She had refused them right away but they latched onto her and kept asking. She gave in once Pinako told her that they had no parents when she asked where they where. She said she would take them for a month to test them to see if they were worth training. If they passed her test then she would train them.
They packed their stuff and headed off to another little town called Dublith. As they left they reassured Winry they wouldn't be back in a month.
If only they knew.
Well how was the first chapter?
Next chapter is their time with their teacher.
They will have to keep their secret.
Well have a nice day! (Falls out of chair due to heart failure.)
Dying Heart Alchemist
