Hey ppls this chapter might seem a bit morbid but DON"T WORRY they won't all be this way! Stay tuned for the next episode where Edward gets a surprise visit!

Disclaimer- I don't own FMA… but I want to own Alphonse. lol

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What is the cure for Nightmares?

Where am I? Thought Edward Elric as he awaked in a damp, and pitch-black passageway. Where's Al? the last thing I remember is- Al and I coming home last night, after working on our research on the stone and going to bed…where am I?

Edward stood up and began to walk down the seemingly endless tunnel, skimming his hand along the side of the wall as a guide.

"Al!" he whispered franticly.

No answer came and so he continued down the passage. After a time he called again.

"AL!" he almost shouted. Where is he!

Once again the only answer was the ever-present echo of dripping water.

Drip… Drip… DRIP…

Ed began to run down the tunnel in a panic.

"ALPHONSE! Where are you little brother?!" Edward was running in a mad dash down the tunnel.

Drip… Drip… DRIP…

Suddenly Edward slipped in something slick on the floor and went hurtling to the floor.

CRASH!

Ed scraped his knees into a bloody mess and had landed on his arm wrong and broken it.

Drip… Drip… DRIP…

He clutched at his head and knees in pain with the arm that wasn't broken. Where is that dripping sound coming from!? It's driving me insane!

"No…!" a grief-stricken voice whispered from across the tunnel.

At the sound of his brother's voice Ed froze. Staggering to his feet Ed stumbled toward the doorway he hadn't noticed before and braced himself against its frame. He stood there for a moment to let his eyes adjust to the room.

The first thing he saw was a lifeless dark shape sprawled out in front of him. He heard sobbing and then realized it was coming from a dark shadow that was leaning over the thing that was slumped on the ground in a heap.

"No… No… No! No! NO!" Alphonse Elric cried in distress.

Finally Edward's eye's fully adjusted to the room and what he saw sickened him. Alphonse was hunched over the unmoving figure on the floor and was clinging to their hand with a wretched look on his face and tears flowing freely.

The shape that lay on the floor in front of him was a girl. A girl that was as old as 17yr-old Alphonse, maybe even younger… she was dead. Baby-blue-streaked blonde hair was flared out around her like a bloody halo. Her eyes were closed and her face was pale from death. The lifeless girl had an abundant amount of cuts, scratches, bruises, and what seemed to be stab wounds, all over her body.

Ed felt something warm and slimy touch his skin. Looking down the alchemist found that the pool of blood surrounding her had spread to his feet.

A shout of rage and despair broke the eerie silence that had descended upon the room. Alphonse had slammed his fists against the floor in heartache and was trembling from an emotion Edward could not yet name.

"I will get revenge! … I WILL!" He wept in anger.

A cruel laugh burst forth from across the large room. Simultaneously Ed and Al's head's shot up and turned toward the malicious cackle. Across the room stood Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, and Lust.

To Edward, seeing them was like being struck by lightening. Impossible! This can't be happening! They're Dead!

"How do you plan to get revenge for your 'little princess's' life when you couldn't even save her from death in the first place? And should I even mention how miserably you failed in saving your loving brother, Edward? " He crowed in contempt at Ed's little brother.

Wrath held in his hand a lamp that he had just lit; while in the other he clasped a bloody knife. Envy stood at his left with her arms crossed against her chest and was smiling spitefully. On Wrath's right stood plump and greedy Gluttony. The overweight homunculus was hopping up and down with joy at the smell of blood; the only thing restraining the monster was Lust's gentle hand on his shoulder.

"Oh! Oh! Can I eat her? Can I? Can I?" He pleaded with glee while clapping his hands like an overjoyed schoolgirl.

Lust looked at Wrath and when he nodded she released his shoulder.

"Try not to make a mess of it." She said in a motherly voice.

Alphonse jumped into action fast than Edward thought he was capable of. Before Gluttony could take more than two steps a loud clap resounded through out the room and electricity sparked as giant walls of stone, steel, adamant, and diamond exploded out of the ground to separate the homunculi from the humans.

Without a second to waste Al tenderly picked up the motionless girl's body in his arms and sprinted to the door where Ed was standing. At the speed Al was running Ed was sure that they were going to collide, but something odd happened at that very moment. Edward clenched his eyes closed; preparing for impacted, but it never came. Alphonse had passed right through Ed like he was a ghost.

Stunned, Edward hobbled after his brother, but didn't have to go far before he saw them cornered like dogs by Envy.

Al was shaking like mad and his eyes were wide with confusion and terror. Envy was shifting bodies again and again; each one was someone important and loved by Alphonse.

"Al." their mother's voice said sweetly.

"Little brother!" Ed's own voice said lovingly

Voices from the past echoed down the hall each one saying his name. Winry, Mustang, Hawkeye, their father and mother, Hughes, Armstrong, Rose, Edward, and finally envy stopped changing and chose one final voice to torture him with.

Edward had never heard the woman's voice before, but knew it had to be the girl that Alphonse held in his arms because of her baby-blue-streaked blonde hair.

"Al? What's wrong? It's just me. Don't you recognize your own girlfriend?" she took a step toward Ed's brother with her arms out-stretched as if to hug him.

"Stay Back!" he cried as he backed up against the wall and clutched the body closer to his chest; as if to protect it from harm. "Your not her! You changed into me and killed her and Edward yourself! I saw you do it! Stay away from me you monster!" Alphonse pressed himself as close to the wall as he could get and sank down to the floor.

The girl suddenly let out a hideous laugh and spoke with envy's voice.

"Your smarter than I thought you were, kid. I think I'm going to enjoy killing you as much as I did when I killed your precious brother and girlfriend. And I'm going to kill you with the hands of someone you loved, and cherished all you life."

Envy's form shifted into the shape of the one and only Edward Elric. Al screamed and sobbed and tried to fight envy off but he couldn't bring himself to hurt his beloved brother.

Soon Al's struggles ceased and his last breath escaped his lips as his soul left this world.

Edward woke from his dream in a cold sweat and screaming bloody murder. He rested his head I his hands and heaved large breaths in and out. What the hell was that!

Throwing his sheets aside Ed rose from his bed wearing nothing but his boxers and went into his bathroom. Cold water spewed out of the bathroom-sink facet and he splashed it on his face.

He placed both hands on ether sides of the sink and took a deep breath while closing his eyes. It was just a dream…just… a dream. Nothing more-- Al is still alive and that girl (who ever she was) doesn't exist. Al doesn't have a girlfriend.

Edward's eye's snapped open when someone knocked on the door and a familiar gentle voice called through the door.

"Big Brother? I heard you scream, are you ok? Do you feel sick?"

Relief flowed through Ed at the sound of his brother's voice. Al was alive and completely fine, there was no reason to worry, it was just a dream. After shutting off the sink and drying off his face Edward opened the bathroom door and tried to smile at his brother.

"I'm fine Al. It was just a nightmare."

Al looked at his big brother with sorrow in his eyes and watched as his he walked back to his bed and sat down with his head in his hands. Alphonse remembered the nightmares that had plagued him for weeks after he finally got his body back. They had been of black monsters trying to eat his soul and of giant doors and the end of halls that he could never reach before he was devoured.

"Do you want to talk about it or-…should I go back to bed and let you deal with it on your own?" Al asked unable to stop from yawning in mid-sentence.

Ed looked up at his younger brother. He was 15 now only a year younger then himself. His hair fell to his shoulders and some of it constantly fell in his face, even during the day when he had it pulled back in a ponytail. Sadly Al was just as tall as his OLDER brother, and just as solidly muscled, but Ed didn't mind as long as he could see his brother's caring/happy eyes and hear his voice come from his actual mouth and not from just a suit of armor.

"Go to bed, Al." he said with a faint smile. "You've got to be exhausted from all the training and researching you've been doing lately."

Al scratched the back of his head and smiled. " Yeah. I am pretty tired from sparing and I almost passed out reading about the history of Amestries, last night."

Simultaneously the two brothers stretched their arms in the air in an enormous yawn, and then scratched their muscular stomachs contently before biding each other good night.

Edward pushed the nightmare to the back of his mind until it was nothing but a foggy memory. I think I'm gonna call Winry tomorrow and see what she's doing…maybe my automail will suddenly break again…He thought evilly.

And with thoughts of Winry on his mind he passed out in his bed, while Al walked down stairs and picked up the phone. He dialed their old friend's number and after a few moments a sleepy Winry answered him.

"H-Hello…?" she answered drowsily.

" Hey Winry, this is Alphonse. Are you gonna be busy for the next few weeks?"

"Oh, Hey Al! Ummmm… I don't think so why?" her voice suddenly became irritated. "Did Edward break his automail again?! I swear to god if he did I'm gonna—"

"No, no, no! His arm is fine, Winry!" he assured her. " It's just that, lately he's been kinda… different. He keeps having nightmares. Tonight he woke up screaming! …And I know he misses you a lot, even though he's to stubborn to admit it."

Winry was silent of a long moment.

"I miss him too…" she whispered then she continued in a more confident voice. "If I'm busy, I'll make time to come up and see you guys. I'll even go pack my bags right now so I can surprise him in the morning! Don't worry Al. I'll make sure he gets better!"

Click! Dial tone…

Al sighed with a smile and hung up the phone. One thing those two have in common is- when they decide to do something they get it done as fast as possible.

With that Al climbed up the stairs and went to his room that was down the hall from his brother's. He flopped down on his bed and stared at his ceiling, thinking about random things, until he fell asleep.

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