What Lies Beyond the Gate
What really lies beyond the Gate is only known to few alchemist...
!DISCLAIMER! - I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of it's characters, storylines, and whatnot. If I did, I wouldn't be writing a FANFIC, now would I?
The heart is arguably the most vital organ in the body. With out this organ the body could not live. Yes, the mind is important to function properly but it is the heart that keeps the body alive, it is the heart that controls the life that flows through out the body. When something happens to the heart, the entire body will suffer. If something goes wrong with the flow of life then body will begin to wither away.
Perhaps that's way the Gate can be compared to the human heart. Like the heart the Gate posses no emotions, though at times we like to pretend it does. The Gate controls the flow of alchemical power. Even when you get close to it you can feel the pulsating flow of power. A heart? It could very well be.
Of course the Gate is still a gate; it separates one thing from another. A barrier of sorts. Keeping two worlds apart from one another. Could it be that this separation is what is keeping them alive? Could it be that the gate is the heart of these two worlds, beating, pulsating the flow of power between them? Keeping them alive while at times we curse it's very existence? Could it be that the thing we try to get the best of, is actually what is keeping us in existence?
If you work your heart too hard, it begins to shut down. If something goes wrong, it stops working properly. You have to be quick when this happens, you have to know the warning signs and understand what to do if you want to survive. If you don't, then you won't make it. Something is wrong with the Gate, was it something I did or something that we as a human race did? How much time do we have, be these worlds wither away? Can we even save them?
There are two types of people: The Emphasizors and the Complicators.
EMPHASIZORS tend to make things sound much easier than they should. For example, an alchemist, who's never tried to bypass the law of Equivalent Trade, comes up to you and says, "Alchemy is just like magic, it's as simple as one - two - three!" obviously is an Emphasizor.
COMPLICATORS, on the other hand, are those who make things sound harder to achieve or perform. Examples like this: an experienced alchemist comes up to you and you're a beginner alchemist. You look up at him and he looks back at you. You start to ask him, "What is alchemy, really?"
He cocks an eyebrow at you and laughs. You pout to yourself as he regains composure. He straightens himself out and looks at you, while clearing his throat. "Alchemy is a science..." And babbles on for hours on that one topic, naming each and every aspect of it, what you should and should not do, how to perform it, what is needed, this, that, and the other, too.
Your brain cells are dying from his impetitive speach and your ears are throbbing. You have a migrane and you feel like crawling in a hole and dying alone. He never seems to shut up. That, my friend, is an example of a Complicator.
Everyone takes a place in one or the other, or both, categories. If you're like me, then you're a complicator. You complicate things to the max, for you KNOW, and UNDERSTAND it all. You DO know every aspect of alchemy. You DO know the principles and laws for alchemy. You know all this for you have seen the GATE...multiple times. The first time, however, your mind was filled with knowledge of an expert, such as your father, well...my father.
But I'm not one who's really gonna go indepth in that right now. I need to further explain other things first, before I begin with our story.
First off, I'll start with my name. My name is Edward Elric. Until recently, I lived in a completely different world. Now, I live with my brother, Alphonse, and we're traveling in serach of maybe another way to get home. That is, we WERE searching. Now we have one, but it'll cost us dear, for there is a backflow in the Gate now, and it's causing our home world and this world we're currently residing in a hell of a lot of trouble.
The only bad thing is, I need to figure it out and fix it, for I was the one to make it happen.
I only hope, that Al and I can set things straight before all chaos is let loose!
A/N: Well. I think this is going good. Ed's the character talking, but only for this part. The rest shall be said in third person form.
Well, I do have much to explain. In the next chapter, I'm switching POV, just for a while, to Al's. He's going to explain the last few things, then it's going to full blown chapters.
Enjoy. Please, I beg of you, PLEASE Review!