Fullmetal or Elemental: The Sapphire Spark of it all
The Forbidden Element: Far from Home
'A dream isn't' a dream if it comes true. If it's going to become a reality, turn it into a goal.' -ANOMYNOUS
Where we left off…
"Hey Ms. Witch." Ed said. She turned to him. "Where's Evans?"
"Ms. Evans is not here." the witch said.
"Well, yeah. Where is she?" Ed asked. The woman turned to him with open eyes to reveal cat like slits for eyes.
"She Is not here." She repeated.
Ed's smile vanished at the realization. "Where'd she go?" Ed asked standing up.
"I'm afraid you won't be seeing her Mr. Elric." the witch said.
"You didn't answer my question." Ed said. "Where's Erika!"
"Where is she!" Ed growled again grabbing the collar of the old woman's cloak. Her cat like eyes flickered over with hate as they turned into a yellow green color. A gust of wind appeared and blew Ed away from the old woman's space.
"She isn't here." she repeated. "Not in this at least."
"What do you mean?" Ed asked.
"Spiritus Sanctus animae regni accepit eam et in altera parte trans Gate!" the witch said quickly in an ancient language.
"What?" Ed asked.
"I think she said something in a different language." Al said.
"Which language?" Ed asked.
"Latin." Amy said.
"Miserabili. The minima siblings sapunt quam tu." the witch said.
"I-I think she said something like: Pitiful. The youngest of siblings are smarter than you." Amy said.
"Ames, I didn't know you knew Latin." Al said.
"I sort of do. It's just a rough translation. As in the Arts of the Elements, it mostly was in Latin so I'm going to ask Casey later for the real translation." Amy said. "I can't say the actual translation, but I get the just of it."
"Translatio, ut asperis, sed tamen satis accurate." the witch said smiling.
"Aw, thank you!" Amy said smiling.
"What'd she say?" Ed asked.
"She said the translation may be rough, but is still quite accurate." Amy said.
"Can you ask her where Evans is?" Ed asked.
"Sure." Amy said and then turned to the witch. "Scis quo Erika est?"
"The Scriptorium tuilt eam." the old woman said.
"Something about a portal…" Amy said. Ed and Al looked at each other. "Quid est hoc discimus?"
"Verum." the witch said sadly. Amy's eyes widened.
"Wait. What she said before." Amy said.
"What happened?" Al asked.
"She said only one word…" Amy said. "It was 'Truth.'"
"Truth?" Ed asked.
"Amabo, num porters loquat in English?" Amy asked with desperateness lacing her tone. The witch looked at her with her eyes narrowed even more into slits. "Amabo! Est enim sensus aliquis fortis soror."
The witch thought it over and looked at Edward in which concern and worry was burning inside his golden orbs. The witch sighed as she closed her eyes once more and smiled softly. "He certainly does." the witch said.
"What'd you say to her to make her speak English?" Al asked. Amy smiled and cupped her hands around Alphonse's ear as she whispered something into it while giggling. Al laughed as well. "At least it worked." Al said back.
Edward paid no attention to the giggling younger siblings and shifted his golden gaze to the witch with cat like eyes. "What happened to Evans?" Ed asked again.
"She was taken into the Spirit Realm." the witch replied.
Edward's memory flashed to what Amy had told them on the train.
FLASHBACK…
"She said once it pulled her in, it was like a deep dark forest. It was like a swamp except it didn't have any water." Amy said as she gripped her skirt. "She didn't know what to make of it at first; as she began to walk around, it looked like a town. The only thing is, everyone in that town was decayed and dead. Everything around her was dead. No life at all whatsoever."
FLASHBACK END…
"Does this Spirit Realm have no life at all?" Ed asked.
"What are you talking about?" the witch asked as she opened her cat like eyes once again. "The Spirit Realm has nothing, true. But it isn't this world of decay you speak of."
For once, her Latin accent was very pronounced in her words. Before, tints of the Latin language showed in her talk, but now it was as if she just let loose with her language. Ed's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. The world Amy had told him, had nothing at all except death. His chest tightened as he remembered what Erika had saw when she was first there.
"But Erika told me it was a world of decay and death. Is that not true?"
Ed's head shot up as he looked at the small girl startled. It was Amy who had spoken. Amy's eyebrows furrowed as well as she looked towards the ground in confusion.
"That was probably because it was her first time into the Spirit Realm." the witch said. "Whenever someone is forcefully pulled into the Spirit Realm it is a world of death. However when one goes into the Spirit World intentionally, it is a world of white."
"World of white?" Al asked.
"Have you three ever heard of that you humans call 'the Gate'?" the witch asked. She looked at all three alchemists expectantly waiting for the approving nods. They all nodded as the cat eyed witch turned her head up to look at the deep blue sky. "This Gate that some people claim to see is simply the world of white. In some images, it is said to tell the unfortunate people that in which they call the Truth." the witch said.
"When are you getting to the point of where Evans is?" Ed asked. Amy elbowed him in the ribs and Al glared at him.
The witch sighed as she stared among the three teens. Her gaze particularly fell onto the limp body of the youngest Elric. The cat eyes sourly looked into the state of all three children as she turned away back into her hut.
"Hey!" Ed called. "Where do you think you're going!"
"Your younger brother is in a critical state. I would much rather see to it that he is healed before you come here again. Good day Edward Elric." The cat eyed witch said bitterly as she walked into her small house.
Ed growled as his eyes narrowed at the back of the forest shaman. His gaze softened however when he heard a fit of coughing. He turned around quickly hoping to see the sapphire orbs of a certain brunette. When he had turned around, he saw who was causing the fit of coughing: it was his younger brother. Ed bent down to Alphonse and helped him up on his feet.
"First things first. We have to get you to the hospital Al." Edward said as he lead both younger siblings out of the forest.
BN: 0.0 Who is this cat eyed shaman you speak of? you may ask. you may also ask: Where's Erika? or even: Why the hell did you make her speak Latin?
for the last question: I made her speak Latin because it is a beautiful and ancient language. It just seemed right for her to speak in that language somehow.
And for the other questions...you just have to read and find out huh? ;D
Well, until next chap! =:D
