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Ed slowly opens his eyes to find himself again in the same graveyard where he was before. Elena's teddy bear is still in his small hands. Its arm is now repaired and there is a small smile on Ed's face, not because of the teddy bear but because he got another chance. but Truth's words are still in his mind, "Everything is going to be the same".
"No, nothing is going to be the same, I will save everyone", then he remembers about Elena, she is going to die today. He remembers that the villagers found her body in the river. He runs to the river still holding the teddy bear in his hands.
He reaches near the river and hides behind the bushes just to observe Elena, who is crying on the river bank. She is going to fall into the river soon. So he should draw near her, but what if she again runs away again, since she is very afraid of him and she has a reason to be. Or should he just remain hidden and save her when she will fall?
Elena is lost in her thoughts when she notices some bushes behind her back moving a little bit.
"Who is there?", Elena asks wiping her tears, looking towards the bushes, so Ed comes out of them. The little girl gets scared by the boy who bullies her almost daily and takes a few steps backwards.
"Look behind you", he shouts and she notices that she is very close to the river, nearly ready to fall in it so she cames forward.
"Don't worry, I will not do anything to you", Ed says looking at her. Elena is usually scared of the boy but today she notices the pain in his eyes. After everything that had happened in her life, this is one of the things that she can easily understand - pain.
"What happened?", Elena asks with a concerned face.
"My mom died", Ed replies very slowly. He didn't even look at the girl, but choose to sit silently near the riverbank, at a little distance from her so she doesn't get scared again.
Elena is not scared now, she sits near him.
There is a long silence. Both of them are just sitting there.
"So should you be in your home?", she asks finally breaking the silence.
"I can't", he responds, his gaze fixed on the water.
"I know", she replies.
Then again a silence.
Meanwhile in the White Void
Truth - You can't interfere with fate, she is going to die.
Back to Earth
Ed is thinking of all the possible things that could happen. She is going to fall down in the river, but how?. They both are sitting silently at a safe distance from the river. So what is going to happen?
"Mini?", Elena looks at the teddy bear which is in Ed's lap.
"Yeah, you dropped it in the graveyard", he says and returns it to Elena.
"Thank you. Mini, are you all right? I thought I lost you. Sorry. Will you forgive me?", Elena is trying to talk to Mini, her teddy bear. Ed is confused by her behaviour but then realise that she is just 5. Only he is a 15-year-old in the body of a 5-year-old, whereas she is really a 5-year-old child.
"What... her hand?", she turns to Ed, "her hand was broken".
"Yeah, I fixed it", Ed replies, prideful.
"With alchemy?", she asks curiously and then gives a big smile after receiving a nod from Ed.
"Meow", they hear a sound, then notice a white cat at a certain distance from them. Elena gets up to get the cat and starts petting with its soft body. Ed remains seated in his place. This reminds him of Al, who can also pick up any stray he finds on the road. Maybe that's why Al and Elena are friends, because of cats. Actually, Al is the only one in the school who talks to Elena. Lost in his thoughts, he remembers one thing that when the villagers found Elena's body, there was also a cat with her, a white cat. Ed freezes for a second, then...
"Aaaaaaah", Elena cries out because her leg slipped and she is going to fall in the river with the cat still in her arms.
Ed is distant from her, he can't reach to her in time but he has to do something. He pushes away his depressed thoughts and tries to focus on the solution. He claps his hands with full force and slaps them into the clear water of the river.
Instantly the river freezes completely and Elena falls on top of the ice while holding the cat close to her, and Mini too. She looks shocked and maybe scared too.
"You alright?", Ed ask, giving her his hand to stand up.
She nods a little and stands up using his hand.
I have done it. I have saved the first life. I will save the rest, too.
"It is late, you should go home", I solicit to her.
She nods. "You should go, too", she waits for a second, then continues with a sad face, "for your mother".
his mom's face comes to his mind. Mom. I couldn't save her.
Al. He must be scared. he has to be there.
"See you in school". After saying that he runs away without getting a reply.
White Void
Truth - This is not over yet.
Earth
There is nothing new in his home for Ed. He has seen this already. There are lots of people here, Granny Pinako is talking to someone. He goes inside to see that his mom is still in her room on the bed, but she is not moving, not even breathing. She is silent, completely silent.
"Ed?", cames Winry's voice.
Ed turns towards the source of the voice.
In the corner of the room, Al is sitting with tears almost completely covering his face and Winry is sitting near him with one hand holding his and the other on his back.
"Where were you?",Winry asks but Ed isn't listening.
"Bro... the... er, mom is... not ... not talking... to me", The 4-year-old says with his sobbing voice.
Ed goes near him and brings his little brother's head near his chest to hug him. Al returns a tight hug. Winry also wraps her hands around them to hug. All three of them stay like this for some time. All of them are scared and hurt. All of them are broken.
Some people enter the room carrying a coffin. They lift Trisha's body to put into the coffin. At that moment Al stands up and tries to go towards his mom but Ed holds his hand to stop him.
"Brother, what are they doing to mom?"
Ed remembers this. The same happened last time. At that time both of them held their mother and didn't let anyone touch her. Granny had to spend a lot of time to convince them to let their mom go.
Ed pulls his brother's arm towards himself to hug him again. Al can't see anything because his head is on his brother's chest. But Ed is watching everything very carefully. Everyone start praying for their mother. Ed is also praying in his mind. Last time, he wasn't able to do anything for his mother, but he this time he can.
Granny Pinako was near Trisha when she hears Al's voice. She realises that her friend left two small children behind and now she has to take care of them for Trisha. These children are too young to understand anything. But Ed is able to comfort Al for now and how Ed is looking at Trisha scares Pinako. Ed is whispering something, maybe praying. Ed isn't looking like a 5-year-old innocent child but a mature person who can clearly understand what is going on. Someone who has seen many people die in his life.
Time has come to take the coffin to the graveyard. Few people carry the coffin, but Ed also is there, and Al following him.
"Ed, Al, you can stay behind", Pinako says to the young children. They are too young to be part of this.
"But I want to", Ed's voice is filled with confidence. It is good that he wants to do something for his mother, but he is too young to really understand all this. But maybe his eyes are exactly opposite of his small body. Pinako can't fight with those eyes.
The graveyard which already had so many graves gets one more, the grave of Trisha Elric. For a while everybody stays there but then they start to go home. In the end, only two boys are left in front of Trisha's grave. Her sons remain sitting there waiting for nothing because nothing is going to happen. Their mother is already gone. She is not going to return.
"Brother, I am hungry and it is cold", Al's innocent voice finally breaks the silence.
Ed remembers it, he has heard this line before. Last time, when Al said this, Ed replied with the idea of bringing mom back, but this is not going to happen this time. This time everything will be good. Al will stay alive and in his human body.
"Let's go home!", Ed suggests, standing to his feet. Al also comes to his feet without any reply. Al is still looking at her mother's grave, but as soon as Ed starts walking, he doesn't waste a second to follow him.
Ed notices small Winry coming towards them.
"Ed, Al, come on, Granny is calling you", Ed already knows that she is calling for food and that she has made stew, which is Ed's favourite.
Ed simply nods and all three children start going together to their destination.
This is a new life for Ed, another beginning, another chance to get everything he wants, to save everyone he loves. From now on, he will write his own life, his own way. He has already started it by saving Elena's life. Now he will save more lives.
Truth - This is not a new beginning. This is just a repeat of the previous one. You are not allowed to change anything and if you try then there will be consequences for it. Are you ready to bear them?
That's it. This is the end of the second chapter. I want to tell something that Truth is talking to himself. Ed can't listen to anything that he is saying but Truth can see everything that Ed is doing, he even knows what Ed is thinking. Now, tell me what you think about this chapter. I really want your opinion. Please please please give some reviews.