Metallic Hearts -FullMetal Alchemist- Episode 2: Body of the Sanctioned
Cornello: "I see, so that's how it is. I've been wondering why a kid like you had a stern name like 'Full Metal.' Rose, it is forbidden to transmute things to gold in Alchemy. In addition to this, there is one other thing that is forbidden by tacit agreement. Human Transmutation. Foolish children. You experimented with Alchemy without knowing the consequences!"
Al: "No, we...!"
Ed: "Al!" Ed looked down and Al looked down at his feet.
Al: "We... just wanted to see Mom's smile again." Flashbacks of when he was little crossed over his vision.
Cornello: "But you failed!"
Ed: "Yeah, my little brother lost his body and I lost my right arm and left leg. And Lita, she gained those cat features. That is what happened when we tried to ressurect one person with three people. Rose, this is the result of trying to ressurect someone." He lifted up his auto-mail arm.
Ed: "Are you prepared to face the consequences?" Rose just stared at Ed with fear in her eyes when Cornello wrapped his arm around her shoulder's.
Cornello: "Do not worry. I have the Philosopher's Stone that Leto sent to me. And I'm not an amateur like them."
Ed: "Don't kid us. There are things that can't be done, no matter how much you try."
Cornello: "Then why do you seek the Philosopher's Stone? You must think that you can transmute your mother with this."
Ed: "Stop assumng things, baldy. We just want our regular bodies back. Although there is a chance it may not work."
Al: "We'll ask one more time. Please give us the Stone."
Cornello: "You are damned, may the wrath of God fall upon your head."
You: "Stop hiding behind that crap!" You stood up and glared at him.
You: "Come down here and I'll show you some wrath." A red glow came from his back and he wipped out a machine gun.
You: "Oh shit!"
Cornello: "Fools!" He fired it at you 3. When the smoke cleared Cornello was shocked to see a a stone block infront of you.
Ed: "That was close." Ed had a very relived look on his face, but it was soon replaced with a look of pain. You had just punched him in the face.
You: "What the hell did you knock me unconsious for?"
Al: "We don't have time for this now guys." You looked behind you to see Cray and some more church officials.
Cray: "Why you..." Cray pulled out a gun and shot at Al.
Ed: "Al!" He had jumped up and was running to the side.
Ed: "This way."
Cornello: "Fool! There is only one exit." You flipped over Ed and landed infront of him.
You: "Well, you know what I always say. If you can't find a door. Make your own." You used your Alchemy to make a archway in the middle of the wall. You, Ed, and Al ran through it and ran down a corridor.
Cray: "Hey, capture them!"
Rose: "Father?"
Cornello: "Yes?"
Rose: "That ring... Were the miracles just Alchemy?"
Cornello: "Some people perfer to call it Alchemy. But I can do something they can't do. Sorry to keep you waiting." He lead her to a room and opene the door.
: "Ro... se...?" A figure appeared behind the light blue curtains of the bed.
Rose: "Kain!"
Kain: "Ro... se...?" Tears of joy formed in Rose's eyes as she walked towards the bed but she was stopped by Cornello.
Cornello: "Kain's soul has been ressurected thanks to Leto. His body should be complete in a couple of days."
Rose: "So this must be... the miracle of God." She looked over and noticed some bird feathers beside the bed.
Break- - - - - - -
You, Ed and Al stood on a street corner.
Ed: "Damnit, Lita, that punch hurt." You smiled evily.
Al: "If we really wanted the Stone we would have taken it by now." He obviously wasn't listening cause you just said that a second ago. Static filled the air as Cray came on an intercom.
Cray: "Tonight, three heretics tried to kill Father Cornello. Two are short another is in some old armor. Father Cornello does not wish for any harm. Refrain from going outside." Soon enough you were surronded by an angry mob.
Man: "It's these guys, all right. There's the two short outsiders." This pissed you off. It was funny when people called Ed short but when someone called you short death soon followed.
You: "Who are you callin shorter then an ant!"
Man: "I didn't say that! Anyway, you better not resist." Ed scratched his head in confusion.
Guy 1: "How dare you try to kill the Prophet."
Woman: "Two cute little children like them? How terrible!"
Ed: "Listen. His "miracles" are just Alchemy. By decomposing and recreating..."
RosE: "It's a lie! A moment ago. My boyfriend, Kain, came back to me."
Man: "Congradulations, Rose. Kain's comeing back?"
Woman: "See? She's not the only one to experience this miracle."
Ed: "Has anyone accually met these ressurected people? Or maybe he said these people left the city."
: "Silence!" Sun God statues marched down the street towards them. They surronded you all in a circle. One of them grabbed Al and threw him to the ground.
Ed and You: "Al!" You felt a hard blow in the back of your head and you fell to the ground.
You: "Not again." And slipped out of consiousnece. When you awoke you were next to Ed in the arms of 2 men. Cornello walked over to you two. He grabbed the pocket watch from your neck and ripped it off as he did with Ed.
Ed: "Give that back!"
Cornello: "So this is the proof that you are a State Alchemist. This is my first time seeing it. The reason you are able to perform Transmutations without a circle... is because this acts as an amplifier, correct?" He laughed evilly. You looked over at Ed. He had his head down but h was smirking.
Break- - - - - - -
One of the Church Officials leaned lazily under the church bell, the rop in his hands.
Official: "I couldn't get any sleep at all..." He pulled down on the rope and almost fell foreward.
Official: "The bell is gone..." A suit of armor walked sneekily behind him, bell in hand.
With You and Ed
You and Ed sat in a dungeon, your wrists tied above your heads. The sound of a door opening got Ed's attention. Rose walked in with a tray of food.
Ed: "Can you feed me, since my arms are like this now..." She set the tray down in front of him. She went to run out.
Ed: "Was he really... your boyfriend?" She stopped for a moment then slammed the door shut. Ed sighed and looked over at your sleeping figure. He etched the tray closer to him with his foot.
Ed: "Lita." He called, pushing your side with his boot. You stirred and looked up.
You: "What?"
Ed: "Hungry?"
You: "No."
Ed: "You okay?"
You: "Yeah." A racket behind Ed was heard and he smirked.
With Cornello
Cornello laid in his bed. The Seal of the Oroborus laid on the floor. It transformed into a red snake. It slithered towards Cornello and hissed at him. Cornello jumped in his bed, panting heavily. A woman with long black hair crimson eyes and a long black dress sat in a chair across from his bed.
: "The Philosopher's Stone was our little secret... Remember?"
With Rose
Rose opened the large pair of dark blue doors that lead to Kain's room. She walked foreward towards the curtain bed.
Rose: "Kain, I'm sorry... But I, um, just wanted to talk with you alittle." The thing behind the curtian sat up.
Kain: "Rose." Tears of joy cam to Rose's eyes as she walked foreward a few steps. She heard the door open behind her and she whipped around. Father Cornello stood at the door smiling at Rose.
Rose: "Father Cornello! Um, I'm sorry to barge in like this..." The Father just stood there his smile widening. A wind rustled through the room, Rose kept her long brown hair from covering her eyes and she looked back towards the bed. She gasped as feathers flew around. A large white bird sat on the bed.
Cornello: "I'm sorry, Rose. Even with the power of the Philosopher's Stone, all I could do was sacrifice the lives of the birds to God, and transfer those to another body. Did you not like the Chimera that talks like Kain?" The Stone flashed red and the bird jumped off the bed and crashed to the floor. It propped itself upward slowly.
Cornello: "Say hello to Kain for me." And he shut the door, locking her in with the bird.
Bird: "Ro... se... Ro... se..." She stepped back as the bird flew at her. Rose clutched the side of her head and screamed. Cornello walked down the dark hall smirking evilly.
Cornello: "Only two others know the secret of the Stone now." Rose held her eyes shut, waiting for impact, but it never came. She opened her eyes slowly and looked up. The bird laid on the floor, dead. Al standing over it.
Al: "There's no need to tell you it's dangerous here. Let's go." He held out his hand for her to take.
Al: "Hurry."
With You and Ed and Cornello
Ed: "Your fraud will go public soon."
Cornello: "The believers cannot tell the difference between Alchemy and Miracles. No, Alchemy and Miracles are the same to them, and it make them happy."
Ed: "Yeah, and how does this benefit you?" Cornello just chuckled.
With Al and Rose (I'm sorry we switch points of view so much)
Al: "The basic tenet of Alchemy is the Princaple of Equavilent Exchange." He twisted two wires together as he said this.
Al: "To gain something, you must pay something of equal value. My brother and Lita, their called 'Genius' both of them, but they earned it with hard work. That is how they got to what they are now."
Rose: "But they paid the price, right? An arm, a leg, a body... But you are trying to regain them now. What happened to your mother?" At the sound of mother Al stood up and ignored the question.
Al: "I think it's about to begin."
Rose: "What?" Al flipped a button. Ed's voice came from the projector Al had made out of the bell.
Ed: "So you were after the money after all."
Rose: "Ed?"
Cornello: "I can get as much money as I want through donations from my followers. What I want are believers who are willing to sacrifice their lives for me. They believe that I can resurrect people, so they do not fear death. Those followers will eventually become the ultimate army. Just watch! I will begin subjugating this country in a few years!" Ed sighed and undid the arm holds.
Ed: "I don't care about that." Cornello turned around to look at you.
Cornello: "What!"
You: "You can't revive anyone, right?"
Cornello: "Of course! Even if you try to perform Human Transmutation using the Philosopher's Stone, the outcome would be unpredictable. Why should I make that sacrifice for a believer?" Ed just took a bite out of the bread on the tray infront of him. The Father looked at him quizically. Ed smiled and moved aside to reveal a hole in the wall, his broadcasting equitment sat there. Projecting the whole village outside.
Cornello: "What! How... how long has that microphone been on!"
You: "Long enough for the ultimate army subjigating this country comment I think."
Cornello: "How did you get my broadcasting equitment!"
Ed: "My little brother did it. Oh, the one you guys caught was just some metal I whipped up to look like him."
Cornello: "No... their all lies! Do not believe him!" Cornello pulled out his machine gun and destoryed the microphone. Ed ran up to him and sliced the machine gun in half with his arm he had transmuted into a sword.
Ed: "Didn't I tell you, you were inferior to us?" The light reflected down his auto-mail arm as he stood there and smirked. Cornello dropped the machine gun and ran out the door. He ran outside only to stop infront of a very angry mob of villagers. The Church Officials were trying to hold them back.
Cray: "Father? Was that broadcast true?" The Father looked paniked but soon smirked.
Cornello: "My children a non-believer has used his Alchemy to impersinate me. But it is all a conspiracy. To prove it, I will illiminate the heretics with the Power of God. Behold the Power of God!" He lifted up his hand the Red Stone started to glow. All the Leto statues around the crowd were effected by his Alchemic reaction. The crowd began to gasp as the statues stepped off their peddistales and begand to walk towards Cornello. Cornello gasped as he realized Ed stood a couple of feet behind him.
Ed: "I'm warning you, give it up."
Cornello: "You can't fool me with that little display back there." Cornello took Ed's State issued Watch out of his pocket and dangled it in the air.
Cornello: "Without this the only Alchemy you can perform is on your own metal arm."
Ed: "You know what? You're not the only one who can stand doubters, Preech." Ed clapped his hands and set them on the ground.
Ed: "Here's the real hammer of God." Blue lightning shot from the ground where his hand laid and transfored to a large statue of Lito inside of the palace. The roof of the temple exploded as the huge statue walked towards Cornello, you sitting comfortable on it's shoulder.
Cornello: "I don't believe it. Not even the Philosopher's Stone can move something as big as that." He stared in awe at the white stone figure, as did the crowd.
Al: "Rings and watched have nothing to do with it. My brothers the FullMetal Alchemist." The staue lifted up it's right arm and smashed his fist right in front of Cornello who fell back on his fat ass.
You: "Next time, he won't miss." You slid down it's stone arm and landed next to Ed. Cornello grabbed his hand as he stared into Ed's golden eyes.
Cornello: "No! I won't let you take the Stone." As he got up to run the Stone began to glow a bright red. Cornello yelled out in pain and dropped to his knee's, clutching his right arm. He lifted up his arm. Machine parts had corsed through it like vines and it began to pulsate.
Ed: "What? It's recoiling." You and Ed ran over to the Priest and Ed grabbed onto his right wrist so he could see the Stone. The stone stopped glowing for a second then exploded into peices.
You: "An imitation?"
Ed: "After all this. All the trouble you put me through. Even the Stone's a fake. Stop jerking mE AROUND!" Ed yelled into the sky. You growled and kicked Cornello right under the chin. Sending him flying backwards.
Later - - - - -
You, Ed and Al sat by a water fountain. You sat between Ed's legs as he attached your State Alchemy Watch back around your neck.
Ed: "Just another wild goose chase. And here I thought we could finally put you back in the flesh again, Al. And you back to normal."
You: "No, Ed. You'd be the first that we fix. That Auto-Mail is so tough on you."
Ed: "Nothin to do but start the search again." The three of you stood up, ready to depart from Lior.
: "You should never have come here." Ed, Al and yourself looked over to see Rose standing there with her head turned to the ground.
Rose: "Father Cornello gave us hope what right did you have to take that away. " You rolled your silver eyes.
You: 'When is this girl gonna get a clue?' You asked yourself in your mind.
Rose: "With him here we believed we could do anything even bring back the dead. We're a desert village we had nothing before that."
Ed: "So you're saying we should have let everything go on as it was?"
Rose: "Well why not? What do I have to live for now that I know Kane won't come back? You tell me that Ed?" Ed turned his back to her.
Ed: "You'll have to decide that for yourself. Walk on your own. Move foreward. You have a good strong pair of legs Rose you should get up and use them." Without saying another word Ed walked away. Rose dropped to her knees with a lost look on her face. Al wlaked infront of her and kneeled down beside her.
Al: "Brother was trying to help you. He just doesn't alway's handle things well." Rose turned her head away from the suit of armor.
Rose: "Just go away, would you."
Al: "You can still believe and hope, Rose. I still do"
With Father Cornello - - - -
Cornello clutched his hand as he stood in front of a tall woman in a long black drees with long black hair and light red eyes and a short fat ugly man.
Cornello: "That damned boy was right, that ring you gave me was a fake." The woman leaned her head back a bit.
Woman: "Of course not. You were just juicy bait. As rumors spread, real Alchemists who have spent their whole lifes searching for the Stone will come to me. And then..."
Cornello: "Cursed Souls. Who are you really? And what are you searching for?"
Man: "Come on, Lust. Isn't it time you let me eat the old Preecher?" Cornello's eyes began to twitch as the small man lept towards him and ate him alive.
With the Crowd - - - -
Man: "Where is the fake."
Man 2: "Damnit, I can't believe we were jipped." A man gasped as he stared at the bodies of a few dead canaries.
Man 3: "What do you think that's about?"
Man 4: "I dont know. Something messed up's been goin on around here. A man gasped as he turned around to see Father Cornello in a traveling outfit.
Man 3: "Father Cornello?" Cornello lifted up a dead bird and threw it into the air. It flew away along with all the other dead brids that laid on the ground.
Man 2: "Woah it's a miracle."
Man: "How do you know it's not just another trick?"
Man 2: "You don't trick things to life."
Cornello: "It seems the Devil has worked his wickedness while I was away. But I am glad that you are all safe and unharmed."
Woman: "I knew it Cornello. I knew someone who gave us so many joys couldn't be bad." The crowd began to cheer and chant.
Crowd: "Long live Cornello! Long live Cornello." The birds that were flying into the sunset seemed to explode into peices. Lust watched from the room, staring out the window.
Lust: "I'm sorry, Envy. But it seems you're going to have to keep that form for a while." Rose stood on the outskirts of the crowd and smiled. "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 Equavilent Exchange. In those days we really believed that to be the Worlds one and only truth."