Chapter 2: The Gate
"What's that?" Cosmo asked.
I looked up and said, "From what I got, it basically a doorway of sorts. As a result a person will be brought here..."
"Like Mom or Dad...Anyone who I'm thinking of really... But they have to be human..."
Wanda looked questionable at me and said, "It sounds powerful, I'm surprised I've never heard of it."
"Are you sure you want to try to do this Sport?"
I nodded and said, "What I saw, was incredible...I want to see more..."
"It really is amazing...Alchemy that is..."
Wanda looked at me and said, "Alright Timmy. What will you need?"
I looked up and said, "I got a list of ingredients from what I learned from my wish. I can wish for it all items and the rest I can do my self."
She nodded and said, "Then let's get started."
I looked at my messy room and said, "I wish my floor was completely clean and the surface was smooth."
The floor cleaned up almost immediately, leaving it spotless.
I nodded and said, "I wish for a large tub, like a bathtub but made of metal, like steel."
Wanda nodded and at the flick of her wrist the tub appeared in the center of my clean room.
I smiled and said, "Thank you, now here's the big part."
I closed my eyes and said from memory, "I wish for water: 35 Liters, carbon: 20 kilograms, ammonia: 4 Liters, lime: 1.5 kilograms, phosphorus: 800 grams, salt: 250 grams, saltpeter: 100 grams, and 15 various other trace elements to be inside the tub."
Wanda nodded and just as I asked the ingredients appeared in the tub, all mixed up.
Cosmo looked at me and said, "I can't believe you remembered that..."
I nodded and said, "Now for the genetic base..."
I picked up a sharp pen and said, "The genetic base is fairly simple..."
I pricked my finger and let two drops of blood fall in the mixture. "When it's my genetics..."
I grabbed a piece of chalk and said, "Now for the matrix..."
Cosmo and Wanda watched as I drew out the complicated drawing on the floor.
I had lines and shapes that overlapped in many different ways, was quite beautiful.
The human transmutation circle was now complete.
Wanda looked at it and asked, "What with the drawing and the weird mixture?"
I replied, "It's called a transmutation circle, all alchemy requires a matrix, unless you reach a higher level, where your body act's as the matrix."
"As for the ingredients they act as equivalent exchange for the gate."
Cosmo asked, "Equivi-what now?"
I looked up and said, "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange."
Wanda looked at me and said, "You learned a lot so far just from the wish..."
I replied, "It's only the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot..."
I heard Vicky yelled from down stairs, "Twerp dinner's ready! Come down before it get's cold!"
I looked at my circle and said, "I can wait till I'm finished eating, before I try it. "
Cosmo looked at me and said, "We better stick close to you, no telling what Vicky will do."
I sat down a the kitchen table and Cosmo and Wanda disguised themselves as salt and pepper shakers.
Vicky tossed a paper plate on the table with a slice of burnt pizza on it.
She said, "It burnt in the oven, I'm not make another one."
I picked up the slice of burnt pizza and said, "Well, food is food."
I began eating it. For burnt pizza, it really not that bad.
Vicky sat down and said, "So how goes the homework Twerp?"
I replied, "It's different to say the least... Alchemy is the science of understanding, deconstructing and reconstructing matter."
"However, it is not an all powerful art. It is impossible to create something out of nothing."
"If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be given. This is the law of equivalent exchange. The basis of all alchemy."
Vicky looked at me and said, "You learned that in 3 hours?!"
I replied with a smirk, "It was on the first page of the book."
She smirked and said, "It must be really boring..."
I shook my head and said, "Not at all. Watch."
I picked up a pen and drew a transmutation circle on my empty paper plate.
I smiled and said, "Here goes..."
I pressed my hands on the circle and it lit up in sparks.
The paper plate deconstructed and the reformed as a paper flower.
She stared in awe and asked, "That's magic?!"
I shook my head and said, "Alchemy. I deconstructed it and reconstructed in a different shape by using the circle I drew. It's a science, not magic."
She picked up the paper flower and said, "This is incredible..."
The phone rang, Vicky sat my flower down, picked up the receiver, and said, "Turner Residence. May I help you?"
Her eyes widen as she said, "Oh dear god..."
She looked down and said, " I'll make sure he gets the news, Mrs. Turner..."
News?
What news?
What did Mom have to say?
She hung up the phone and said, "Timmy..."
Something must be really wrong for Vicky to call me Timmy.
She looked at me and said, "Timmy, there was a car accident involving, your parents vehicle..."
My eyes widen and I asked, "Are they hurt?!"
She said, "Your mom has a broken arm, but your dad..."
I said, "What's wrong with my Dad? Is he in the hospital? Is he in intensive care? Is he..."
A small stream of tears rolled down her cheek as she said, "He's dead Timmy..."
She gasped from the tears and said, "He died on impact..."
My heart dropped in pain and sorrow.
I yelled in sorrow, "NO! NOT HIM! NOT DAD!"
Cosmo and Wanda stared at me as I screamed out in agony and the tears rolled down my face, "HE CAN'T BE DEAD! HE CAN'T BE..."
Vicky looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "I am so sorry..."
No he can be gone...
Not now...
My circle! It can bring anyone here...
Even Dad?
I came to a realization.
The ingredients are for a human body...
It doesn't bring people from places...
It brings back the dead...
I can bring him back!
I ran upstairs as fast I could and locked my door behind me.
Vicky yelled, "Timmy come back! Don't go!"
Cosmo and Wanda 'poofed' with a sad looks on their faces.
Wanda looked at me as I sat a the foot of the circle and said, "Timmy, I know it hard for you but..."
I yelled, "He not gone! Not for long anyways..."
Cosmo looked at me and said, "We can't bring people back Timmy..."
I looked up down and said, "But I can..."
The looked at me in shock as I whispered, "Human transmutation..."
"I understand now what it really is..."
"It's not a teleporter..."
"It's a way to bring someone back!"
I placed my hands on the circle and it lit up an eerie blue and black mist filled the room.
I said, "Something feels off..."
"Why isn't the ingredients deconstructing..."
An eye opened in the center and arms began to come out.
They grabbed a hold of me and began to drag me into the circle.
I felt my body beginning to deconstruct as the arms pulled me in further.
I yelled, "SOME ONE HELP ME!"
Wanda and Cosmo tried to get to me but was stopped by invisible wall.
They yelled, "TIMMY!"
I screamed in pain and the world went dark.
I opened my eyes to see that I stood in a room made up of white space and stood in front of a large door, with alchemic symbols carved into it along with the names of my parents and myself.
"Welcome young alchemists, I have been expecting you two."
I turned around to see another door with a boy my age with blonde hair and golden eyes.
In between us sat a white figure cloaked in a black mist.
The boy asked, "Who are you and who is he?"
The figure smiled and said, "I'm so glad you asked! I am the called by many names I am the world, I am the universe, I am god, I am truth, I am all, I am one, and I am you."
He turned to me and said, "As for who he is, he broke the taboo just as you did, but at the same moment, so you two appeared here at the same time."
The boy looked at me and said, "You tried it too?!"
I nodded and said, "I didn't know it's a taboo..."
He looked at Truth and asked, "Where's Al? Where's my brother?!"
Truth yelled, " Quiet, child. This is what you wanted, isn't it? I will show you two... the Truth!"
The door behind him opened and the eye reappeared the arms began to drag him in.
I saw black arms drag me in as well.
I found my self being pulled through a source of infinite alchemic knowledge, it looked like memories swirling all around me at once.
I felt the information enter my mind as the arms began to deconstructed me as I flew through.
The pain was unreal.
I yelled, "MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!PLEASE I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE!"
Then I saw it...
The secret of human transmutation...
I almost held it in my hands when, I once again found myself back with Truth and the mysterious boy.
Truth smiled and asked, "So, how was it?"
The boy said, "My circle was wrong..."
"I can fix it..."
"I still can bring her back..."
I nodded and said, "We need back in! We need to see more!"
Truth shook his head and said, "I can't do that, for you two have already paid the toll..."
I asked, "What toll?" Truth stood up and said, "Surely you two knew..."
Two legs constructed on Truth as well as a left arm.
I saw my right leg was gone and my left arm as well, the boy was now missing his left leg.
Truth laughed and said, "This is the law of equivalent exchange, your law, foolish alchemists!"
He looked at me and said, "I took your leg as payment for the gate and your arm as payment for..."
"Well you'll find out..."
I fell to the floor as he said, "Goodbye alchemist..."
"They're gone! They're really gone! God, what have I done! AHHHHHH!" I yelled as I stared at my bleeding stubs.
Wanda looked at me and said, "Timmy! My god, what happened?!"
I looked at the circle and said, "D-Dad help me..."
I looked in the center of the circle and saw a creature that looked nothing like my father...
It took one breath and coughed up blood.
It now laid still, and motionless, it was dead...
I cried out, "God...What have I done...What have I done!"
Cosmo looked at me and said, "Your bleeding! We need to get you to a hospital..."
I said, "N-no, I wish that...my circle and...it's product was gone..."
"And... I looked like...I been hit by... a car..."
Wanda looked in at me horror and said in a whisper, "Done..."
The room was now rid of my sin, and my body looked horrible.
I looked at them and said, "I wish I was out in the street... and there a huge pile up..."
They nodded and then I was laying on the cold street...
I yelled out in a painful shriek, not just to get someone's attention, it was also because I was in genuine pain.
Vicky ran out of the house and saw the me lying under car and the blood seeping from my stubs.
She said, "No..."
She picked up her cell phone and said, "Hello, I need an ambulance, immediately!"
"A boy is bleeding in the street... He's missing his arm and leg..."
