The Two Connected Worlds
Prologue
There was a lone figure sitting in the moonlight, however, this wasn't any old being. This was a demon with control over time itself.
"Dammit, when can I make the transmutation, Ansem?!" the demon hissed at nothing.
"Be patient, Jikoku. Very soon, you will be able to make Sora and Edward suffer!" a cold and malicious voice said back. Just then, a young man with wild hair and an Oroborostattoo on each leg walked up next to Jikoku.
"Why can't we just kill them NOW, Ansem?!" the man complained. "I'm sick of waiting here, day in and day out, waiting for the perfect opportunity….I just want something interesting to happen!"
"You will also be patient, Envy," Ansem's voice said back sharply. "In the meantime, tell me, where are your comrades?"
"Lust and Gluttony went to The World today along with Sloth and that other demon called Kankaku," Envy replied. "Also, Wrath and Pride are-"
"-Right here," a tall man with an eye patch over his left eye said curtly. A shorter kid with an oddly colored right arm and left leg was with him.
"Ah, Pride and Wrath. Just the two homunculi I wanted to see," Ansem's voice chuckled evilly.
"So, you still haven't gotten your own body back, huh Ansem?" Wrath inquired.
That seemed to alter the flow of darkness in the room as Ansem said, "Huh. Cheeky as ever….yup, that's Wrath for you. Anyway, to answer your question, no, I still have not gotten my body back. Thanks to Sora, his merry little band, and the door to the light, getting my body back is harder than I would have thought."
"Oh, is that so, Ansem?!" A new voice rang out in the darkness. A sudden burst of light filled the room, illuminated the three homunculi and the demon. However, Ansem didn't appear like the half demon had hoped. This new fellow was a tall, young half dragon demon with fierce green eyes, eyes that could probably pierce through anything.
"Who the hell is that?!" Pride roared as he drew his sword and lunged at the half demon.
"The names Haku! Too bad you'll take that to your grave!" Haku shouted back as he drew his own sword, ten times bigger than Prides little cutlass, and shouted "WIND SCAR!!!"
Chapter 1
Sora swore under his breath as the Heartless managed to elude him, AGAIN. He was getting rather tired of this. A young blonde haired boy Sora's age ran up next to him, panting his lungs out.
"It's about time, Roxas!" Sora said, very much annoyed that Roxas couldn't keep up with his pace.
"Huff….It's…..huff…not my….fault….that you run…huff….too fast!" Roxas panted, struggling to get his words through Sora's thick head. "I….huff….ok, I'm fine…..I tripped over something or other on the way up, and I swear, I haven't seen THAT much blood in my life!"
Sora looked. Sure enough, there was a huge cut in Roxas's knee. Sora thought he saw something embedded in there.
"Sigh….OK, we should probably take a break. I'm about to fall on my butt anyway," Sora said ungracefully. Still, Roxas looked really happy to sit on the ground for awhile. He was even happier when he realized Sora DID remember to bring some medical supplies. Usually, he forgot that kind of important stuff. Sora made quick work of the wound, quickly removing the rock that embedded itself in Roxas's poor knee, and wrapping the cut up.
"Ok, stand on your leg and tell me how it feels," Sora ordered. Roxas got up slowly and gingerly put his 'maimed' leg on the ground.
"Feels good!" Roxas said cheerfully, and then all cheeriness melted away when Roxas said hoarsely, "The Stealth Sneak is RIGHT OVER THERE!"
Roxas pointed to an empty space, but then Sora figured out that the shadow gave the Heartless away. Sora obviously was being smart and attacked right away, but the Stealth Sneak's fast tongue caught Sora by surprise. The lizard Heartless's rapid tongue smacked into Sora so hard that he actually felt some bone break.
"SORA!!!" Roxas screamed as his friend hit the ground with a 'whump.' Sora was an unmoving lump and Roxas thought he was dead. Roxas lunged at the invisible foe and was easily tossed aside.
Sora, still alive, muttered, "I wish that thing would fade into darkness!" That's when the gate opened, and a bright golden light blinded Roxas. Next thing he saw was nothing. Sora was gone.
Chapter 2
Back in his own world, Edward Elric was facing a similar problem. He was ordered by Colonel Mustang to find and capture the "Ice-Blooded Alchemist," Ryoja Umi.
Mustang said to solve the problem peacefully, in a, diplomatic like manner. Pfft, yeah, right. Mustang, you're paying me extra for this one, Ed thought as he dodged yet another icicle created by Ryoja. Things were looking pretty hopeless for Ryoja; he had a wonderful cut inflicted by Ed's auto-mail sword. However, Ed was worse for wear as well; a lovely cut over his eye, making things harder to see, and a terrific wound to his left shoulder, caused by an icicle that he failed to see.
"You're never gonna take me back to the military!" Ryoja shouted, snapping Ed's attention back to another icicle. Ed easily broke it in half with his auto-mail. Suddenly, Al came running up behind Ed.
"Big Brother! Big Brother! Colonel said to pull out of the mission!" Al shouted. Ed couldn't believe it. The LAST thing he wanted to do was let a nutcase wander around Central. Also, he couldn't understand why the COLONEL of all people wanted to call off an important mission. Again, he had to refocus on Ryoja, who began rapidly firing shards of ice.
"Al!! Get DOWN!!!" Ed screamed, throwing himself over his little brother. Shards of ice pierced through his skin, followed by much blood. Ryoja looked pretty pleased with himself because, obviously, attacking kids was pretty hard core.
"B-Big Brother!" Al sounded so shocked by the fact that his older brother would risk his life to save his little brother. Ed coughed, sending blood down his face.
"Are you hurt, Al?" Ed asked weakly. Al shook his head, still in shock. Ed stood up shakily and turned to Ryoja, but he wasn't there. Ryoja stepped out of the shadows, sort of behind Ed, and let loose a powerful pillar of ice straight towards Ed. He didn't have any time to react to the attack, and was flung by the force of the ice.
"BROTHER!!!" Al shouted furiously and attacked Ryoja head on, but failed miserably when Ryoja sent an icicle sharper than the sharpest knife into Al's leg. Al fell over holding his leg, trying to get it to not bleed as much.
"Dammit….why won't you fade into the darkness where you belong, you piece of-" That's all Ed got to say because the gate opened, the bright gold light shone out of it, and blinded everyone. After the light went away, Al looked around, and couldn't see his brother. Ed had vanished into thin air.
Chapter 3
Sora sat up slowly, cringing when he remembered that the stupid Heartless broke three of his ribs.
"Owwww…….urg…ah, where am I?" Sora asked himself. Realizing he sounded like an idiot because he was talking to himself, he stayed quiet. A few minutes passed…..a few more……and some more. That's when Sora almost worsened his injuries by bursting out, "Well, where the HELL am I?! Am I dead? If this is hell, I'm gonna be SOOOO pissed!!!" He lay down heavily, causing more pain.
"Weeelll……this sucks," he muttered. Then he heard the sound of wind on water.
At least THAT sounds familiar…am I back on the island? No way…there's no way that I'm back there, he thought. He finally got so bored by sitting around, that he decided that it was time to explore this place, wherever it was. Standing up very, very carefully, he managed to get on two feet. He hobbled over to the nearest tree.
"I hope Roxas is alright. Wonder what happened…?" Sora thought out loud. He looked out to the horizon. The sun was just beginning to set causing the sky to be painted with purples, oranges, reds, and yellows.
"Ahhhh…..that's what I've been missing…." Sora sighed with satisfaction. He closed his eyes momentarily, reflecting on his previous adventure, trying to find Riku, defeating Ansem, Xemnas, and the rest of the Organization, and being reunited with Kairi and Roxas.
"Oh yeah, those were the good times," Sora murmured to himself. Opening his eyes again, he saw the sun was nearly set.
"Oh jeez, was I reminiscing that long?" Sora groaned as he started to walk to find humanity. All of a sudden, Sora heard a noise that sounded like a heavy box being dropped. He gimped towards the bush where he heard the sound. He looked at the grass and saw that it was turning red, not because of the sun, but because of blood. Sora checked himself to make sure he wasn't bleeding. He wasn't, so he rounded the bush only to find a horrifying sight.
Sora saw a boy shorter than he was covered in blood. He had a braid in his golden hair, and Sora thought that the braid made the kid look like a girl. But that wasn't important right now. This guy was dying! Sora checked his right pocket to find that he still had some medical supplies. Sora quickly bent over, causing a spasm in his own body over his ribs. He gritted his teeth and began to treat the kid. A good half an hour later, the boy woke up. Sora got a good look at his beautiful gold eyes and heard a raspy voice come out of the kid.
"Who are you?"
Chapter 4
The first thing Ed saw was spiky brown hair and curious blue eyes looming over him. He somehow thought of Al trying to get him out of bed, so he swatted at 'Al.'
"Nnnnh…..go away Al," Ed mumbled, lifting his left hand and lightly smacking 'Al.'
"Who's Al? And that's not my name….my name's Sora," Sora said, clearly offended because some runt he just saved smacked him in the face.
"Sora……" Ed said softly. "Ha, this is really weird. I'm in some random world or dimension, I'm really badly hurt, and some kid with gravity defying hair saves my life. Not something I'd like to wake up to." This really pissed Sora off.
"Oh, well, you're welcome for saving your life, although now I wish you would burn. Have fun mocking me in hell! My hair doesn't defy gravity, it's natural….." Sora muttered out the last words.
"Alright, alright. I'm sorry. Jeez. I am really grateful that you saved me," Ed said. He looked around at the surroundings. "Hunh, well I'm not in Central anymore…I guess."
Sora, who had gotten over everything by now, asked energetically, "Central?! Where's that? Is it where you're from? Who's the Colonel? Who's Al?" Ed was overwhelmed by the amount of questions that Sora had kept bottled inside him.
"Erm….Central's the place where I work….uh….I guess it's in my world….I'm not from Central, I'm from Resembool….the Colonel is my boss and Al's my little brother," Ed explained slowly so Sora could catch every detail. Then it hit him.
"My BROTHER!!" Ed shouted loudly, sitting up too quickly and opening too many wounds. Sora was surprised beyond imagination. Actually, Ed really startled Sora.
"Owwww……ouch….the damned Colonel better be taking care of my little brother while I'm gone!" Ed hissed. Then, Sora realized that he hadn't found Roxas anywhere.
"Well, maybe Al's in another part of the forest! Roxas could be with him!" Sora told Ed. That seemed to spark some interest in finding Al and this Rucksack person. Without waiting for a yes or no, Sora lifted Ed to his feet and started to half carry, half drag Ed to the coast.
"We should probably wait awhile to rest up, and this the perfect place to do just that!" Sora exclaimed. Ed silently agreed with him as he lay down in the soft silky sand.
Chapter 5
Roxas, meanwhile, couldn't understand what just happened. One minute Sora was lying right there in front of him and the next he wasn't there at all. Roxas had a jolly good time trying to kill the Stealth Sneak, which by the way ended up as a failure.
"Where…where did Sora go?" he asked himself. He heard something in his head, and it wasn't intuition.
Who are you?
"That's my question!" Roxas said to himself. "Who are YOU?"
I'm Al. I told you my name, so could you tell me yours?
"I'm Roxas. How long have you inhabited my brains?" Roxas said softly.
Oh, awhile now. Hey, I can tell by your memories someone important to you disappeared, right?
"That's creepy, but yeah. Someone really important to me just vanished into thin air!" Roxas said to Al's voice.
That's what happened here! My big brother was fighting a crazed alchemist and he randomly disappeared! Do you think that your friend and my brother's disappearances are connected?
Roxas had no idea what an alchemist was, but still he said, "I'm not sure."
Did they disappear for a reason?
"I'm not sure"
Silence ensued. Roxas finally asked, "Al? Where'd you go?"
Hmm? Oh, sorry. I'm thinking too much. If I think a lot then I seem to drown out voices.
"Obviously. Anyway, how do you think the gate or door or whatever opened?"
I don't know. We have to figure out how to open the gate so I can get my brother and you can get you're friend!
Chapter 6
"So, Roxas, I had this theory. But try to stick with me on it, ok? Ok, so what if something my brother and your friend said opened the gate and they were pulled into some other dimension, or something," Al explained
That makes no sense at all.
Al was annoyed slightly. "Oh, come on. Throw me a friggin bone here. I thought so hard my brains feel like they're burning."
Ok, ok. But you have to admit that your theory is pretty far fetched.
"Yeah, but think about it! What did your friend last say before he was sucked into the gate?" Al asked.
Errrr……um……oh yeah! He said 'I wish that thing would fade into da-'
"No! No, no, no! Don't actually say it! Otherwise you'd be pulled into the gate too!" Al said loudly. Second lieutenant Ross looked inside Al's room quizzically. "Oh, erm, hi!" Al said to throw off Ross's questioning look. She turned back around.
What was that?
"That was me about to get sent to a mental institute!" Al hissed.
Oh. Ha ha ha! Sorry, just kidding. But anyway, what did your brother say before he vanished?
"He said something similar to what your friend did," Al confirmed quietly.
Ok, so if we both say it, at the same time, we'll appear in the other world along with Sora and your brother.
"Sora? Oh, your friends name. Ok, let me get to an open space and then we'll both say it." Al snuck out of his room, limped out to a park in Central, and called, "Roxas! Are you still there?
Yup. Are you ready, Al? Hopefully, we'll appear close to each other so we won't have to look everywhere.
"Ok, here we go," Al whispered
"I wish I would fade into darkness!"
I wish I would fade into darkness!
Chapter 7
Sora saw a huge flash North of where he and Ed where resting. Ed was still asleep.
"Ed, Ed get up. I saw a big flash of light," Sora said urgently. Ed rolled over.
"You're dreaming. Go back to sleep."
"I'm not dreaming! I'm fully awake!"
"Then you're hallucinating."
"Aaaagh!! I'm not dreaming and I'm not hallucinating! It could be Roxas and your brother!"
That got Ed to immediately sit up. "It could be my brother?! Why didn't you say so in the first place?!"
"You wouldn't listen."
Ed scowled and got up, stretching and yawning. "Ok, lets go wherever you saw the light." He actually got up on his own and started to gimp over to Sora, who had got up faster than Ed. They began to sort of walk to the North.
"Hey, Ed? How old are you?"
"Sixteen."
"Ok, and how tall are you?"
"Erk….my total height is….five foot seven……I think…."
"Oh come on, your little antenna and shoes don't count."
"Well, what about you, huh?! How old are you and how tall are you?!"
"I'm fifteen and I'm five foot five."
That caught Ed by surprise. He didn't say anything after that.
"Hey, look Ed!" Sora exclaimed after awhile. Ed looked and saw a blonde with spiky hair and blue eyes like Sora and a shorter kid with gray gold eyes stood next to him. It was Al.
Chapter 8
"Big Brother!!!" Al shouted as he ran towards Ed.
"Sora! You're alive!" Roxas cried happily.
"Well, what'd you expect, Roxas? I'm not the type to die easily!" Sora said back equally happy as Roxas because he was reunited with his friend.
"Ow! Al, watch were you hug…..that hurt." Al had been so happy to see his brother that he tackle-glomped Ed causing more wounds to reopen.
"Oh! Sorry, big brother." Al apologized.
"Now that we're reunited, I think introductions are in order," Sora said, "Because I haven't met you yet, little guy."
"My name's not 'little guy,' its Al!" Al said sharply, "And I guess you're Sora."
"Ha. Ha ha ha ha!! You're absolutely right!" Sora said all in good humor.
"I suppose you're Al's older brother. I'm Roxas," Roxas said, putting his hand out.
Ed accepted the handshake and said, "You're right. I'm Edward Elric, state alchemist known as the 'Fullmetal Alchemist.'"
Al started laughing. "What's with the formal introduction, big brother?"
Sora was laughing hysterically on the ground. Roxas tried to hold back his laughter.
"Why are you guys laughing at me?! Isn't that considered picking on people?!"
Al stopped laughing, but with a small hint of a chuckle, he said, "No, brother. It's not you we're laughing at; it's just how official you sounded! It sounded like you were trying to present to the Fuehrer or something!"
Ed sighed. He looked around again.
"Well, we're all here now. So we should try to find-"
"I don't suppose you can have room for one more, would you?" a strange new voice asked. A tall half demon walked up. He was covered in aged blood, but his eyes still shone strongly. "My name is Haku."
Chapter 9
"Haku?" Roxas asked, "What the hell happened to you and how did you get here?"
"I guess I should explain everything," Haku said to himself.
"Damn right you should!" Ed used alchemy to create his auto-mail sword.
"B-brother! Hold it! Don't be so impulsive! Haku doesn't look like he can really defend himself at the moment," Al said forcibly to Ed. Ed used alchemy again to put his arm back to normal.
"Alright, thank you, Al." Al was shocked to know that Haku knew his name. "Oh, and I know all of your names because, even though I don't look it, but I'm God of the Dragons." Everyone stared, dumbfounded, at the half demon. He looked like the furthest thing from a god. "Anyway, I'll begin my tale."
"You see, there are these two demons called Jikoku and Kankaku. They control time and space. They were the ones who created this alternate world. They are following orders from Ansem. Yeah, I said Ansem. Ansem doesn't have his body thanks to you, Sora. But there's a problem. His darkness is so overwhelming that my own light couldn't penetrate the dark. Ansem has more followers than I thought. Apparently he has resurrected Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Pride, and Sloth. He could have more subordinates, but I don't know of them. Anyway, what happened to me, you ask. Well, I went to where Ansem is plotting and Pride attacked. I blew him apart with my trusty sword, Shohiko. But he wouldn't die because, as I figured out painfully, he was a homunculus. And, well you can gather this; I lost the fight against Pride, only because Envy and Wrath teamed up and took me out. As punishment for defiling the 'precious land of Ansem,' Ansem sent me here to live out the rest of my life, but that's gonna take a long time because I don't age very quickly. That's everything that's happened up…..no, wait the most recent thing was me meeting you guys."
"Are you sure we should really trust this guy?" Ed whispered to Al, Sora, and Roxas.
"You got a better idea, Ed? He knows where Ansem is!" Sora hissed back.
"Yeah, and he knows that the homunculi are back!" Al whispered furiously. Roxas didn't have a comment for this part.
"Alright, we should let him join us so he can lead us to this Ansem guy and the homunculi." Everyone agreed, so Sora said, "Good news, Haku! You can come with us if you'd like!"
"I would like that," Haku said with a small smile on his battered face.
Chapter 10
It had been three days since Haku joined Sora and company. The five of them had been traveling along the coast headed west towards Ansem's land.
Ed finally burst out, "Haku, do you have ANY idea where you're going? Is Ansem's land even in this godforsaken world?"
"Well, the REAL Ansem's land is in the real world, but I have a feeling that something's gotta be down there."
"Aaarg…..you've gotta be kidding me…" Ed groaned. Al came up behind him and slapped his left shoulder.
"Stop being so pessimistic, brother. I have a feeling Haku's right. If the Ansem's land we're heading to is a copy of the real thing, then maybe there's someway to get to the real thing!" Al said optimistically.
"I agree with Al! Haku's right about the way we're going!" Sora said enthusiastically.
"Why do you say that, Sora?" Roxas asked. Sora pointed to a cave on the coast. Roxas felt a dark energy coming from the cave.
"FINALLY!! Let's go!" Ed yelled as he ran to the cave.
"Wait! Stop!" Haku shouted after Ed. Ed looked back without stopping. Suddenly, he ran headlong into a dark barrier that threw Ed back into the sand.
"Ow…..wh-what the hell was that?" Ed asked himself, stunned by the impact of the barrier.
Sora and friends came running up behind Ed. Haku studied the barrier.
"Hmm…this is a stunningly strong barrier…this wasn't here the last I was…" Haku muttered. Rubbing his head, Ed came up next to Haku and said, "Well, guess we can't get in."
"Oh, the hell we can't!" Haku drew his glowing red sword. He slashed very hard at the barrier, splitting the shield in half.
"Mua ha ha ha ha ha…..come on in, Haku….bring your little friends….we're going to have the festivities in a blood bath! MUA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!" The evil voice of Ansem rang out into the air.