Hello again! Chapter Three I'm excited with all the feedback I'm getting so far! So, to all you delight I will keep writing until I run out of ideas or until this is finished!!!!(Hopefully the second! XD) so enjoy chapter 3!
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Chapter 3
Alphonse and I arrived in Resembool around noon. I stopped and at the border of the town, an icy pinch flew threw me, past events that has take place in this small town crashed back into my mind like a bad dream.
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XFlashbackX
This was the place where I first met her, met my soul mate. Here her name was Winry Marie Rockbell, age seventeen. I being a young vampire at the time just saw her as food, or something to toy around with at first, but as I watched her in the town and with the people I became intrigued by her, by this girl, this women, this…human. She was kind, gentle, and as fiery and as a women could be in the 1500's and she didn't let the men hold her back from her opinion's either. I suddenly found myself in love with her and she doing the same for me. But I had the hardest time telling her what I was, being a shamed of it, a true Beauty and the Beast. But when I told her she was ecstatic, telling me that it would be very exciting to live with a 'prince of the night' as she called me. As I did not share her enthusiasm, I was finding that she was changing the way I looked and felt on the human world in which I hated for casting out my brother and me for being born what we were. Then it all ended. I was at a shop in town using a neighbor's horse and cart to get some supplies, when I heard screaming. People running toward me a smell of blood on the wind made my teeth ache….the smell of blood? I ran through the people, hearing their thoughts in my head. As I got to the end of the road, the fear in my chest came out in a scream as I saw the house we had started our lives together in being burnt to the ground. A body lay sprawled out in the grass and I ran to it. Falling to my knees I carefully lifted Winry Marie into my arms, as blood flowed from her mouth and a wound in her stomach,
"Oh Edward…
"Don't talk; we need to get you to the doctor."
She put her blood-soaked hand on my face, tears falling from her eyes,
"Edward I-I love yo…"
But she didn't finish saying the thing I loved to her say the most, her body gave a final ragged gasp and she died in my arms. A scream of hatred flared out into the night as the flames crackled, a monsters rage unleashed onto an immortal murder.
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Alphonse and I stopped at the hotel in the town and paid for several days. Being what we are we don't sleep in the night. That evening we headed out into the sleepily little ville, people gone from their houses and the stores closed because of it being a Sunday. On the edge of town Al and I stopped at the town graveyard and looked for her headstone, but to no avail. It didn't surprise me in the least, humans dug up old graveyards to make more room for the new 'dearly departed'. Alphonse walked around reading names and dates while I scanned the horizon. Suddenly something caught my eye. A red farm house sat on the top of the eastern hill, its door painted a mahogany color. If I would have had a heart it would stopped beating,
"My…Our house..."
Now I was at the front door of the house, I could hear Alphonse calling my name in the graveyard, him knowing that I had left. Appearing and disappearing, that is one of the traits of being a monster that I had come to appreciate. I walked along the porch, running my hands across the wooden railing, memoires of beautiful mornings, days of pure happiness, and pleasure filled nights rushed back to me as I sat on the porch swing and rocked back and forth. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alphonse rushing up the path, face full of worry. Suddenly the front door came open and I almost jumped out of the swing. A mother her child walked out of the house the little girl laughing as she held tight to her doll. A small gasp came from my mouth as I looked at the child left arm, it was auto-mail. Someone had followed them out waving goodbye. It was an old woman probably in her sixties, maybe seventies, and an old pipe hanging from her mouth. Once she was finished waving she put one hand behind her back and then another to the pipe taking a drag then blowing the smoke in the breeze. I got up from the porch swing, the sound of my boots on the wooden floors making her turn in my direction. A small smile came on her face and she put the pipe to her lips again,
"May I help you?"
"If I may ask, help me with what?"
She chuckled a little, taking another drag of the pipe and as she laughed the smoke trailed out of her mouth,
"My dear boy this is a auto-mail shop, my granddaughter and I fix any type of auto-mail you can think of."
"Brother!"
I turned away from the old women to see Alphonse coming up the stairs, his ponytail whipping behind his head like a small kite tail. He came to the top step and glared at me his arms on his hips like a mother scolding a child,
"Brother must you run off like that! You had me worried sick! What if something had happened and people had seen yo.." Al stopped in mid-sentence when he saw the old women standing there puffing on her pipe, a smile on her face as she watched our little show,
"Oh, excuse me, I didn't mean to shout."
He bowed lowed,
"Come on in boys, it's getting dark, and I never turn people away after dark."
"But we need t...Ouch!"
My elbow met with Al's ribs and I gave him a sideways look. This would probably be the only chance I would get to see if this was exactly like my…our house, the outside was a perfect replica. We followed the old women inside and I heard her say something about calling her 'Auntie Panako' and apologize for the messy house but as I close the door behind me, the pain in my gut sank in deep. Besides there being auto-mail parts on the floor it was exactly like our house. There was a loud noise that came from my left that brought me out of my daze. I know it was rude but Al was talking to 'Auntie' so I went to find it. Al's voice came into my head telling me that snooping was rude and I shot back that I wasn't going to steal or break anything! I soon came upon a open room were someone stood working, their back was turned to me. But I could tell they were female by the clothes that they wore. A black halter top, and a periwinkle work jumper that had the top tied around her waist. I walked into the room, and it hit me, a familiar smell lingered in the air. Vanilla over powered the grease from the auto-mail parts, and as I took a deep breath I looked around for Winry Marie or Winry Elizabeth but they were nowhere to be found. Only the person tinkering away on the auto-mail seemed to be responsible for the smell. I cleared my throat to get her attention. She lifted her head from her work, straightened her back, and looking over her shoulder, with eyes if blue crystal, said like an angel,
"Hi."
I never thought it would ever be possible, but a vampire fainted. Not from shock, not from disbelief, but from pure joy. My angel was sent back to earth and her scent filled my nose and her sweet voice graced my ears. Now in the blackness I just lay there remembering her voice, until I felt something cold splash against my face, and Alphonse's voice calling me,
"Brother, please get up, Brother, Brother!!"
My eyes refused to come open as his cries because her voice playing in my head over and over was holding me prisoner,
"Is he going to be ok, Auntie?"
My eyes snapped open at the sound of her voice, and I sat up looking straight at her. She was just as beautiful as I remembered. Blue crystal eyes, yellow blonde hair. Her clothes were new with the times and so were the earrings in her ears, but I could care less. I wanted to jump off the couch, take her into my arms and make her mine like she use to be, but something stopped me from doing so, my logic. This was not the Winry I've loved for decades upon decades, hell I didn't even know if fate kept her name Winry.
"I'm fine…did I scare you miss?"
"Brother, don't go scaring ME like that, were lucky Miss. Winry was here."
Winry…..
"After I said hi you kind of fainted, I guess you were dizzy or something?"
She was so right, I was dizzy, and her sweet voice caused my head to swim with an ecstasy that I hadn't felt in over four hundred years. I closed my eyes and laid back down, this assignment was going to be harder then I thought. My mind cursed in silent screams, that all-knowing grin smiling back at me,
"Damn you Mustang!"
Cause of course that grinning bastard knew.
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there you go guys!!! winry's back!!!! ill have the next chapter up soon! finals are killing me!!
