The Black Alchemist

By: C.C.

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Chapter 2:

"So, are you gonna help me or what?" I asked, looking down on the green haired girl that called herself C.C., which is the strangest name that I've ever heard, who was sitting down with her arms crossed, face blank and firm like a statue, while she looked straight forward rather than at me.

She sighed, still not making eye contact as she laid back in the chair. "What is it that you want me to help with?"

Man, has she been listening to me at all while I've been here? I guess that if she doesn't care, I should keep my mouth shut, but she obviously does care or else she wouldn't have asked. Either she doesn't care and she was just being nosy, or she's just that stupid.

"Hm, I don't know. I'm stuck in a foreign place that I don't know next to anything about, I have no idea where my brother is, I somehow mysteriously got my body back, and I have no idea how to get back to Central. What could I possibly need help with?" I said, being smart with her.\

Still not looking my way, she crossed her legs and spoke. "If you need to know how to get back to where you come from, use a map. There's one on the counter. Then again, you might not be able to reach it because of your height."

Alright, that's it!

"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME SHORT YOU STIFF-STATUE LIME HEAD! AT LEAST I KNOW WHEN TO SHUT MY MOUTH! Well, that may not be entirely true, but AT LEAST I CAN USE ALCHEMY WHEN I GET HOME!" I yelled, fists clenched, vein popping out of my head, and face boiling red.

C.C. just sighed, looking down at her feet. "There's no need to yell, unless you wanna wake up a blind and crippled little girl and explain to her where her brother is and why you're here."

God, she's so arrogant! I really just wanted to attack her with my Alchemy, and then she'd regret making me mad, and most of all, calling me short!

"Ed?" said a calm, innocent, familiar voice from behind me.

I swiftly turned my head around and looked to see Al, but not in his suit of armor. He had his body back.

"Ed, why are you yelling? Were you talking on the phone?" he asked, eyes closed.

It was then that I noticed the wheelchair he was sitting in as I looked at him. Stunned, I went over to his side, kneeled down next to him, and looked at his face, his smiling face.

"Al, you got your body back!" I said with a smile, still confused about the wheelchair. "Now, come on. You weren't in a wheelchair before. Come on, stand up, and open your eyes. You should be happy."

Al just looked at me with a weird look, like he had no idea what I was talking about. C.C. looked somewhat confused as well, but she didn't say anything.

"Ed, what are you talking about? You know why I'm in a wheelchair, why I'm blind. Please don't make me think about it," he replied, confused.

What? He...he has a body, but he's blind and crippled? Wait, wasn't that guy, Lelouch I think, wasn't his sister blind and crippled?

"What's going on here?" I asked, turning my head over to C.C. "Why is he blind and crippled?"

C.C. looked over at Al, then at me with a somewhat confused look. "I assume this is your brother."

"Yes, this is my brother, dang it!" I yelled, throwing my fist down on the small table beside me. "He had his ability to walk and see before we lost our bodies, so I wanna know why the Heck He can't walk or see!"

"Hm, this is quite odd indeed," said C.C., standing up. "I have to talk with someone. Do you think that you can stay in here until I get back?"

"Whoa, you're actually doing something to help me?" I asked, still standing next to Al.

"Ed, what's going on? Who else is here?" asked Al, face following the sound of our voices since he couldn't see. Dang it, my brother can't see, or walk for that matter.

"Yes, I am, but if I'm correct, then you're not the only one I'm helping. I'm going to find out exactly what's going on," said C.C., walking towards the door.

"So what, you expect me to just sit here on my butt while you go and find out what the Heck is going on?"

"Please, you said yourself that you wanted help. Now, I just need you to stay here for a while, and I'll be back with some answers," she said, walking out the door.

Ah, great. Now I'm stuck in here, having no idea where I am, and the only one that had a clue about anything around here has left to try and get some answers. Well, I guess that's a good thing, but I still am stuck here, as clueless as a child. Man, I hate being treated like a child.

Nunnally's POV:

"I think she should stay here today while you go over to Tuckers place. Just take it easy, Lelouch," said the Colonel while I sat on the couch.

As the Colonel, with his serious face, started to walk off, Riza followed him out while Lelouch looked at me with a sigh, but I could see that he was trying to force on a smile.

I looked back over at him, and he came over and sat next to me with his head down low. "You know, Nina's probably gonna miss you today," he said, not making eye contact.

I looked over at him, but didn't say anything.

"Hmph, I doubt you even remember who Nina is with this crap going on," he said without me making a reply.

Then, he looked up at me with a defeated look, one that was determined at the same time. "What's happened, Nunnally? Don't you remember anything?"

"I...I know you, Lelouch, but I don't know them, and I don't know why it is that you're acting so strange. You aren't like this most of the time."

There was a moment of silence as he became preoccupied in his thoughts.

Lelouch was the first one to speak. "You just need to rest today. Maybe you'll be back to normal again when I come back," he said, getting up and not looking back.

"Lelouch," I said as he turned his head around, "I want nothing but to wake up from this crazy drream and be with you again, back at the Ashford Academy. I doubt that everything from the School Festival is cleaned up yet, and you probably need to help Milly and the others."

He looked at me, slowly turning around as he did so with a stunned look in his eyes. "You...you think this is a-"

"Don't even try to tell me otherwise, Lelouch! I know this is a dream, because there's no way that any of this is possible in reality, and I remember what I heard, the things I felt while I was still blind in a wheelchair. Just please, Lelouch, you've gotta believe me!" I pleaded.

With my statement, he walked closer to the door, then turned around and looked down at the ground. "Hmph, it's like you've lived a different life and you just jumped into a suit of armor in place of my real sister."

Then, he was gone, shutting the door behind him.

That really stung, hearing that from my brother. I know that this was a dream, but I can't even believe that I would dream that. It felt awful.

I really wished that I would just go ahead and wake up already!

"Hello, Nunnally," said an unfamiliar voice from behind me.

I turned my head to see a kid with long, blond hair that reached the ground, and nice clothes that looked fairly big on him. His face was blank as were the expression in his eyes.

"Do I know you?" I asked, standing up.

He shook his head as he spoke. "No, but I know you. I'm sorry, allow me to introduce myself. My name is V.V."

V.V.? That sounded kinda like C.C. Man, I've never had a dream quite like this before.

"You must be wondering where you are and what's going on."

"It's like you read my mind! You're the only one that can see that, though. What's wrong with Lelouch, and who were those other guys, Riza and the Colonel?" I asked, glad to finally have someone who knows that I'm not crazy.

"Lelouch had a different mindset at the moment. I've been contacted by a friend that I think you know. Her name is C.C.," he replied, expression as blank as ever.

"Wait, what do you mean he has a different mindset?" I asked, confused.

"I'll explain later, but right now, you need to come with me."

"Hu? Why? Am I going home?"

"Not really," he replied, facing the window, "but we all need your help, yours and Edwards. If you don't help, this whole thing could result in the destruction of humanity and the universe as we all know it."

I looked at him as he went over to the window and stuck one leg out. "You came in through the window?"

"Where else was I gonna come in through? The door's being guarded, and I wish not to attract attention at the moment. Any other time, I would have just killed them right then and there to come in and get you, but that would be interfering with this world, seeing that they're probably not switched the way that you, Lelouch, Edward, and Alphonse are."

"Would I fit through there?" I asked, looking at me, and then back at the window.

"Hm," he replied, "I guess not. I'll cause a distraction for you, but you need to listen for the right thing. When you know that the guards are gone, run out, and I'll meet you."

With those words, he was out and gone.

I shook my head, reminding myself that this was only a dream, and did as he said. As I walked over to the door, I could hear the two guards talking.

"Your wife slept with who?" one said.

"You heard me," the other replied. "But I heard that Kepler slept with yours."

I could just imagine the expression on the other guys face as they paused in a moment of silence. "Don't make jokes like that."

Then, I could faintly hear yelling from far off, and then the two guards running off. Were they really gone? It was confirmed as I poked my head out the door and saw no one, so I ran.

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I eventually met up with V.V. on the run.

"How did you get them to leave me?" I asked, as we stopped to take a breath.

"Easy," replied V.V., "I just ran into Lelouch on the way out and said that he looked like a girl. He freaked, the guards had to come and calm him down, and that's when I ran for it, which also gave you your chance to run."

"You said that he looked like what?" I asked, shocked.

"I said that he looked like a girl. One thing that Ed and Lelouch have in common is that they have something they hate being said about themselves when they know that it's true."

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