A/N:: I do not own Full Metal Alchemist or any music artists listed, I do own my characters though. Please read and review!
Chapter Three: The Mystery
Ed groaned as he pushed the pillow over his face. Why did Will have to wake him up? It was hard enough getting to sleep without actually having to worry about staying asleep. His room was a mess. Clothes, clean and dirty, were strewn all across his floor. Ed's things from the move had yet to be put away. Some of the stuff was overflowing from the boxes in a futile attempt to unpack. The only thing that was in its place was a picture of the entire family. It sat on the shelf that was connected to his bed.
Ed hadn't wanted to move but after his mom, Trisha, had died, he was forced to "start over". Great deal that helped me... He thought, groping blindly for his i-Pod. Now Al is in a Coma and it's all my fault...
Feeling the cold metal on his skin, he seized his music player. Lately all he had been listening to was L'arc~en~ciel, Asian Kung Fu Generation and Brothers by Vic Mignona. He felt that that particular song really fit his whole life. (A/N:: if you don't already know these people, you should look them up. The first two are groups the last one is the song to this chapter.)
"Ed?"
Ed froze, his hand automatically hitting the pause button on the iPod. That couldn't have been...
"Ed, its me Al, wake up!"
What the...? Pushing himself up form the bed, Ed glared around the room. At the foot of the bed was Alphonse, bruised, beat up, and smiling sadly.
Christy rolled around on her bed. Her mom had told her to go to sleep about two hours ago, but she just couldn't shut her eyes. She kept thinking about Edward, and not that Twilight Pansy either. Listening for her parents, she picked up her cell phone and dialed a few numbers. Getting out of bed she went to her laptop and turned it on. While it hummed awake, Christy put the phone to her ear.
On the other line there was a yawn then a curt, "Hello?"
"Tonia, listen, I know that you were sleeping but I need to think out loud and I know that you are the only one that will listen to my crazy banter," Christy said clicking the internet.
"God! Christy, its almost midnight, can't it wait til tomorrow?"
"Technically, it will be tomorrow in like two minutes, so will you listen to me?"
"Yeah, whatever... What do you got?"
"You know that Anime, Full Metal Alchemist?" Christy asked leaning the phone against her shoulder and ear.
"That's the show where the main character looks like Ed? Right?"
"Yeah! He even has his name!"
There was silence on the other side, then, "...and you are going where with this?"
"That's just it!" Christy exclaimed, clicking her first choice.
"... Okay? You just lost me Chris."
Christy sighed then hit the print button and went back to click another topic on the web search.
"What are you even doing Christy? Why are you obsessed with this kid?" Tonia asked a little sadly.
"Don't you think that it's strange that the new kid has this fictional, sexy body, and he knows someone named Al? I think that that he is his brother honestly..."
"Chris-"
"No listen, why do you think that there are those disclosure claims at the beginning of books? You know! The ones that say that the places, characters and story are fictional and that any likeness is purely coincidental? What if Hiromu Arakawa saw another world and wrote it down! Or maybe she saw into a parallel universe or the future!"
"What, like Inkheart?"
"What?"
"Uh... in that book, Characters live in one world and are brought out of it into our world... They inhabited a world that the author seemed to have mysteriously seen into..." Tonia explained.
Christy bit her bottom lip, "Do you think that's what happened?"
"No, but is that what you meant?"
Click Click "Maybe..."
Tonia sighed on the other end, "So what are you going to do?"
"Probably ask Edward about it."
"Right well, I am going back to bed now, talk to you in the morning," Tonia said hanging up.
"Right." Christy closed her phone and hit print a second time. Out came two photos and a page of words.