Edward Elric and the Personality Siblings
Chapter Four – The Merchant's Trail False Merchants
Edward and the others watched with amazement as they saw many foreign merchants selling goods and huddling inside their tents. Edward happy feeling was suddenly beginning to escape him, he honestly felt uneasy. What if he was robbed blind or something was going to come after him.
Wait? Why was he worried for? They were on vacation, things would be ok. He was just stereotyping and it was all in his head.
"Excuse ye Mr. Sir."
Edward turned around and watched the others walk ahead of him, they weren't aware that they were leaving him behind. And nor was he because he was too busy staring at the hooded figure, "Good day to ye Mr. Sir. Would ye like to test ye future with ye fortune tester of luck?"
Edward turned his head at her, "No thank you. I believe that kind of thing. But uh...thanks anyway." He threw up his hand.
"Hold on Mr. Sir! Ye believe that ye are the Fullmetal Alchemist are ye not? With yer limbs made of steel."
Edward stopped dead in his tracks, making sure that no one heard him and after his panic died down he slowly approached the woman.
"Alright, lucky guess old woman! How do you know all this stuff anyway?"
The woman laughed, "Tellma knows all." With that she walked in her purple and black tent and vanished in its darkness, "Come boy, and ye will give ye more answers. Answers about the stone."
Ed gasped and dashed into the tent, unaware that Alphonse and the others were coming back down through the trail to look for him.
"Now where could he have gone?" Al sighed.
"Don't worry about it," said Celeste with a gentle smile "I'm sure he went into one of the booths and will be back soon."
Jellico nodded in agreement, "Now come along. We should go to the Merchant's Treasure Booth and buy him a gift while he isn't with us!"
With the three brushing off Ed's absence they ran further down the trail and into shops to find him gifts that were sure to please him. But back in the tent, Edward was seeing things that no one had probably ever seen before.
"Edward Elric is ye name correct? Well, ye be Tellma the wisest of all merchants of Xing."
"You come from Xing huh?" Ed began looking at her; he could barely see her because she was hiding in a rode. "So, what are you going to do? Tell my future?"
"Yes, just sit down."
Ed looked down; "On the floor?" he asked quickly becoming displeased. But he would do anything to know about the Philosopher's Stone. Maybe she was the key to him and his brother getting his bodies back.
As he sat on the floor, mysteriously candles began to light by themselves all around him, revealing the size of the tent was larger than it looked on the outside.
Ye are a young boy who is trying to erase a sin ye and yer brother committed in the past.
Edward looked up at her and gasped. His eyes and expression turning serious yet fully stunned. There was something wrong with this woman. But even though he was thinking that in his mind he continued to listen to her.
Ye and yer Brother, Alphonse Elric, are trying to find yer bodies that ye lost in the gate but in order to find and recover them ye must use the rule breaking Philosopher's Stone. Right now yer brother believes that ye have been working too hard and that ye need a break from the all this madness yes? Well, ehehehehehe! What if ol' Tellma told ye all that could change?
"What are you getting at lady?"
Tellma grinned, "Take this coin. I'm sure ye have heard its tale yes?"
It was the token that Jellico and Celeste spoke of. But it had a black star on it. "It'll grant ye wish just like that. Ye just tell the fountain, ye wish that ye could find the Philosopher's Stone faster and ta-dah! Ye got yer self the stone!"
Edward took the coin from the table and put it in his pocket, "Is that it?"
"Nope 500 sens please!"
Edward sweat dropped, almost causing him to crash to the ground and pulled the money out of his pocket, "Why can't you tell me about the Philosopher's Stone?!"
Tellma laughed, "Then ye wouldn't find the stone then would ye! Now go to the fountain tonight!" after her words Edward felt a wind push him out of the tent, falling back to the ground.
"Fine! Who needs ye anyway?!" he stopped, "Damn! I'm starting to sound as crazy as her! I'd better get out of here and find Alphonse. But...do I really want to throw this coin into the fountain tonight? Either way, that was one weird lady."
He sighed, trying not to give it any thought and then headed down the trail to find Alphonse, Jellico, and Celeste.
~ Fountain of Fortunes (Sunset) ~
After a long day Edward and the group decided to stop at the fountain. Early when Ed had finally caught up with them Alphonse surprised him by giving him a Dream Catcher.
Edward thought nothing of it, matter of fact he really denied it before receiving it saying he "Hadn't been having any bad dreams!"
Alphonse also thought nothing of his brother's response but kept the dream catcher just in case.
At the Fountain of Fortunes, the sun was slowly setting, and with the night approaching, Jellico was getting nervous. The Elric Brothers knew exactly why. But Celeste didn't, and it was causing her to be very worried.
"So did any of you receive a coin today?" Celeste asked, mainly at Ed because he was looking down at the water.
"Nope, I wish I had..." Alphonse sighed.
Jellico shook his head and Ed was too busy staring at his reflection he just answered with a simple "No."
Celeste sighed, "Well that's too bad. Looks like we can't make a wish then. Usually you're able to find coins everywhere but it just seemed like they were hard to find this year.
And it wasn't long after sitting that a small string assemble made of Violins, Violas, and a Cello began setting up by the fountain and began playing romantic and happy music. That was no doubt a gift from Jellico's father to Jellico. It would fit the mood for when he proposed...if he could.
"Hey!" Alphonse leaned over to Jellico so that Celeste couldn't hear, "Aren't you going to propose soon?! It would be more romantic if there was a sunset involved!" he said.
Jellico nodded and watched as he took Celeste by the hand and guided her to the center of the plaza. Edward still looked at the water, and while this was going on he secretly took the coin at this pocket and examined it.
"(Maybe what Tellma said was true. If I make a wish...I can find the stone. But how can I do that? I'm just one person.)" he was so worried about the coin he didn't realize that something romantic was happening in front of him.
"Celeste. Remember when we met here? And we started dating?" he asked holding her hand. A confused Celeste nodded. Jellico looked back over at Alphonse and watched the huge suit of armor nod and give a show of his thumb.
"Well, I want to be with you Celeste. Forever. And I've been acting nervous all day because..." that was when he pulled the ring case out of his pocket and got down on one knee. Celeste gasped, tears filling her eyes and her face turning red she shook her head. This wasn't real to her but to Jellico, it was.
"I want...I want to be with you forever, will you marry me Celeste?"
He cried and flew into Jellico's arms, "Yes! Yes~! I love you Jellico! I will!"
Alphonse was happy for the two, so happy in fact he threw his arms out. But when he did, he bumped into Edward's arm, causing him to drop the coin into the water. He gasped, trying to grab it but it was too late. The water swirled around and mixed it with the other coins that had gold stars.
When he turned around he noticed that Alphonse was by the two congratulating them.
"Damn it! I-I didn't get to make my stupid wish! Oh well, I be all that junk Tellma was going on about was all fake! No sense in worrying about it. (Yawn)"
Just as he had said those words he felt himself getting extremely tired.
Edward strolled over to the engaged pair and congratulated after hearing the news. And slowly his eyes became heavier with every step he took.
"Well, I'm going back to...the hotel. I'm really tired all of a sudden." Ed yawned as he stretched into the air once more.
"But Brother why so early?" Al asked.
"I...I don't know..." It was that exact moment that after Edward rubbed his eyes he fell against Alphonse. Alarmed he caught his Brother before he fell.
"Hey! Ed! Wake up!" Al said shaking him but it was no used. Ed was snoring away.
"Did...he just fall asleep?!" Celeste shouted in a state of shock.
"I don't know, I don't think there's anything wrong. I-I'll just take him back to the hotel and get in him bed." Alphonse said as he put Ed on his back.
Edward really was out, out like a light. And sadly the others didn't know that Tellma's magic was beginning to grant Edward's wish.
Hello guys sorry it took so long. I made this chapter longer so that you all could enjoy it. Now if you're wondering why Ed fell asleep I could give you a hint. Tellma said that Ed's wish would come true the very next day. But in order or it to be the next day, Edward would have to go to sleep! ;D
I'm glad everyone enjoyed Jellico and Celeste's story but it's time to focus on Ed's situation. Now next chapter, the real story begins! Thanks again everyone for being so supportive.
Oh and HeartBound is away for a while! :)
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To Be Continued...
