HA! I AM CONTINUING WITH THIS FANFIC! I bet you all thought I wouldn't, didn't you:P
So… here we go… trying to write this again…
Ed was about to transmute something big again when he saw something startling. The orcs were bringing a bomb. Ed thought for what seemed like an eternity, trying to predict what the contents of the bomb would be. After a moment, he clapped his hands and placed them on the ground, sending a wave of earth toward the bomb and knocking it over. He looked back up at the wall. Luckily, Ed's transmutation hadn't affected anything.
He breathed a sigh of relief just as an orc came running up with a torch. Then there was a big boom and Ed was sent flying. When he landed, Ed looked up at the wall. Instead of blowing a hole in it, the bomb had caused the wall to collapse, which helped the orcs very little. Ed struggled to his feet and ran forward. His chest was burning, but he ignored it. He wasn't bleeding, and that was the most important thing to him.
He could hear someone calling out his name. Ed looked to see Aragorn running toward him. The older man gestured to the wall. "What happened?"
"They had a bomb or something. I managed to prevent it from doing too much damage, but…"
"As long as they can't come in without ladders, we'll manage. Are you all right?"
Ed nodded. His chest still ached from hitting the ground, but it was getting better.
"Good. Can you do something about the wall?"
"Yeah, probably." Ed ran forward and climbed up the mess of stone with surprising ease. Once at the top, he brought his hands together and placed them on the stone. The wall began to reform underneath him. It was almost complete when Ed was struck by an arrow, just next to where his automail connected to his body. He fell back, more in surprise than anything else, and the transmutation ceased. Aragorn went to help him, but before he could get near the alchemist, Ed brought his hands together once again and finished what he had started.
Once he had finished, Ed fell to the ground, unconscious and muttering something about daisies. Aragorn ran up to him and carried him away from the wall. He handed the small alchemist over to a waiting soldier. "Don't question his limbs," he said to the man before running back to the fight.
Dramatic fight stuffs……
Ed was in a daze. He looked around, trying to understand what was going on. Someone placed a hand on his shoulder, which drew Ed's attention to the arrow sticking out of his body. Ed tried to bring his left hand over to it, but someone gently pushed it down.
"Don't worry. You'll be all right. You were lucky, Fullmetal."
Ed blinked at the use of his second name. He looked back over at the arrow. A pair of hands gripped it tightly. Ed knew what was coming. He braced himself as the hands pulled, ripping the arrow from his body. Ed managed not to scream, but his shoulder was in intense pain. He drifted in and out of consciousness as someone began bandaging the wound. He could hear them talking about him.
"A golden eyed boy with a metal arm. I never thought I'd see something so strange as this."
"I wonder if it pains him."
"If he stuck it over a fire for a while, then he could burn people with a single touch."
"That would be a good way to scare an enemy off."
"I wonder if he really is a human."
"That's what everyone says, but I doubt it's true."
Ed finally lost consciousness as the men came up with wild theories of what Ed really was. The worst one was when they called him a strange dwarf…
Blah blah blah Gandalf comes to save the day…
"So he managed to fix the wall," Gandalf said as he looked down at the unconscious alchemist.
"Yes. It gave us an advantage for a while, too. Fixing the wall caught them off guard, which gave us time to get rid of their ladders."
"How long has he been unconscious?"
"Since sometime after they got the arrow out. It's strange. They said he didn't make a sound all through that ordeal."
"You shouldn't be so surprised. That boy has always been strong. Although, there's something about him that puzzles me."
"How so?"
"His brother. We found him on our way here, and… Well, you'll understand once you meet him."
Aragorn looked back down at the child. Indeed, there had been something unusual about him from the beginning. Well, other than the fact that he just magically appeared in the middle of a field and just happened to be there when they passed by, but since that was an essential part of the fanfic's plot, he didn't think too hard about that.
When Aragorn met the armor-clad brother of the Fullmetal Alchemist, he didn't quite know what to say. Alphonse was taller than he was, when Edward was much shorter. Yet Ed claimed to be the eldest. He knew that Ed was honest, but to see such different brothers was startling.
He was all like WTF when it was revealed that Al had no body. And then he was like OMGLOL so that's why you're taller than Ed, or something like that.
And then Al was like lol yeah, bro's not much for the milk.
Then Aragorn was like I like pie.
And Al was like WTF that's a random thing to say.
Then Aragorn was like don't blame me blame the writer.
And then I died.
ahem getting back to the story…
When Ed woke up, he was in a medium sized room that he presumed was part of that one place on that hill with the dudes and the king and all that… He looked around, not quite ready to move. When he looked to his right, he saw something interesting.
Al was sitting next to his brother, and he had gotten a random brush out and was gently combing Ed's hair.
"Um, Al?"
"What?"
"What's with the hairbrush?"
"Um… Your hair was a mess."
"Okay…"
"How's your shoulder?"
Ed moved his arm a bit. His shoulder erupted in pain, and he stopped moving. "Not so great. Hey wait, where did you come from?"
"Florida."
"What?"
"I came with that wizard guy. Don't know how I ended up here in the first place, though."
"Neither do I."
"Magic, maybe?"
"Sure, whatever. I don't really care."
"Brother!"
"I'm kidding! I'm too tired to think right now."
"Then go to sleep."
Ed nodded. "Yeah, good idea."
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The next time Ed woke up, it was to Merry and Pippin staring at him. Once they saw that he was awake, the two stepped back, giving Ed a chance to sit up.
awkward silence
"So… we're going to go somewhere else now," Merry said.
"That's nice," Ed replied, not really paying attention to the fact that his arm was somehow being used as a toaster. When he did notice, some random kid took the toast and ran off, and Ed's arm returned to normal.
"I think you're staying here with us," Merry continued. "Pippin's going to Gondor."
Ed wondered vaguely why there was a palm tree at the other end of the room, but he nodded. "Okay."
"Um… how's your shoulder?"
"Fine."
"Is it true you were raised by dinosaurs?" Pippin asked.
Ed stared at him. "Um… what?"
"Oh, sorry. Bad timing, eh?"
"Wait, what?" Ed asked.
"You did what with whose mom?" Merry asked.
"Why aren't you paying any attention to me?" Envy shouted from across the room.
Ed threw a pancake and hit Envy in the face. Envy disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Okay, so think you can get up and go see everyone else now?" Merry asked.
Ed stood up. "Yeah."
MOAR DRAMATIC STUFFS…
"Ed, why don't you have a sword?"
Ed looked over and transmuted a blade from his arm to answer Aragorn's question. Aragorn looked at it for a moment before speaking again. "Is that what you always use?"
"Usually."
"But what if you can't use alchemy?"
Ed sighed. "That would only happen if my arm were missing, and if my arm were missing then I would have more problems than just not being to use alchemy."
"Oh…" Aragorn paused. "How often does that happen?"
"Brother breaks his arm a lot," Al quipped from where he was sitting.
"Really?"
Al nodded. "One time it was completely destroyed and he had to get a new one made from scratch."
"That wasn't my fault," Ed snapped.
"Yeah, I guess that's true…" Al muttered.
"Wait, how did you manage to completely destroy it?" Aragorn asked.
Ed looked at the ground for a moment. "Someone was trying to kill me."
Awkward silence
"You really aren't like anyone else I've met," Aragorn remarked as he got up and went off to do other stuff.