Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or the songs used in some parts here made by Amy Lee and Terry Balsamo of Evanescence...:)

Spoiler: Ed doesn't go through the Gate. He finds the Philosopher's Stone near the Gate instead.
"What?" Winry couldn't believe her ears. For just one moment, Edward had revealed he loved her. And now, he wants her to go away!

"But, Ed - why? I love you!!" Winry stared with disbelief into Ed's impassive and unforgiving eyes. Ed took hold of Winry's shaking shoulders, trying to calm her down.

"I have to, Winry!!Please understand that I can't have another distraction now!!Al is more important!!" Ed coldly said. Although Winry was proud that Ed loved his brother, she was hurt all the same.
Winry understood what Ed meant. She had been used as hostage once just so that Ed would work as a dog of the military.

"Ed, please..be reasonable...if you love me, why can't I go with you?!" That was it. Winry felt a huge impact on her right cheek. Through the corner of her eyes, she saw Ed shaking with anger.
His eyes steel cold and lethally merciless. Just the mere thought made Winry cry.

"Why can't you understand?!You STUPID GIRL!!" Ed screamed. He then left Winry sprawled on the ground, crying hysterically. Winry stare at his retreating figure through obscure clouded eyes.

"ED!!!EDWARD!!! ED!!!!"

Winry's wailing voice echoed through the dense forest Ed was walking on. And then he realized, he had hitted Winry. On the face. Anger seething unto his eyes.
His insides cringed at the mental image of Winry on the ground, clutching her face and sobbing. But still, despite his aching heart, Al was first.

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" We did it Al!!! We got our bodies back!!" Ed shouted at the top of his voice. Al was with him in jumping, too. Together they stared at the Philosopher's Stone slowly sinking into the ground. Ed smiled,
they finally found the Philospoher's Stone and even though the battle was harsh, they were able to regain their bodies. Not much has changed though. It seems that their bodies had aged in cryostosis(Frozen in a block of ice or a capsule,
thus no wrinkling or decomposing.

Now the Elric brothers were on a train returning to Resembool. Edward and Alphonse were excited to return home, to Winry, Pinako an Den. But at the thought of Winry, Ed's once cold exterior melted.
He thought it first priority to apologize to Winry when he gets home and at least, start a relationship more than friends.

It was almost dusk and Ed wished the train would run a bit faster. Ed was so enthusiastic he was literally shaking from impatience. By 6, the train had stopped at the Resembool Train Station and Ed and Al were walking towards the exit. Alphonse was staring at his rather thrilled brother. Ever since their mother died, he had never seen Ed be so raptured. He knew it was mainly about Winry, his brother had that look in the eye when he was talking to Winry or looking at her when he thought no one was looking.

As the brothers walked, they surveyed Resembool. It had changed. The once sleepy rural village became a city. There were buildings and malls but not like industrialized Central.
It still had that natural feeling only found in a forest. They made their way to the Rockbell's house. What lay ahead shocked them.

The once warm and lovely Rockbell house was now a ghost of a former residence, heck even a ghost looks appealing than the house. The once apricot colored walls were now of burnt umber.
The royal blue doors that matched the military's outfit was now the temporary residence of termites. Indeed, the warm home of the Rockbells became a sinister parody.

"What the hell happened here?" Ed ran to the door and was met by pitch black darkness. Al followed closely behind.

"Winry!!!!Pinako!!!Den!!!MR. WRENCH!!!!" Ed and Al shouted to nobody. Fortunately, a familiar figure happened to pass the house. A man walked to the entrance of the lot, watching the two brothers shout.

"Wow, insanity had finally caught up with the Elrics.." The man said, his head bowing down. Both brothers turned around to see a man with black hair in a military uniform.

"Roy! What happened here? Where's Winry and Pinako? What are you doing here? Why am I asking so many questions?(no pun intended)"

" Easy Ed, first the Rockbells moved. Second, I don't know where they are and third I am on a mission. Do I need to answer the fourth?" Roy asked rather satirely. Ed grumbled something about 'alchemy' and 'sticks'. Al, however moved in to question Roy. The look on Roy's face made Al a little uncomfortable. He knew it was shock, good 'ol plain shock.

" My God, Al is that you?" Roy asked in disbelief.

"Umm...Who else? Envy?" Al smiled cheesily. Ed still wanted to know what happened and where the Rockbells are.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Ed asked heatedly.

"I don't know where they are. But if there's one thing I know, rumors spread that Winry is the very famous Sonya Scarlet. That's it." Roy walked away then.

"Sonya Scarlet? Who the heck is she?" Al questioned Ed. Ed just shrugged.

"Something's going on." Ed muttered.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The name Sonya Scarlet is the name of the vocalist of the Italian vampiric metal band known as Theatres des Vampires.
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