Metalic Hearts -FullMetal Alchemist- Episode 3: Mother Part A
You, Ed and Al skimmed over a library boolkshelf.
Ed: "I guess there aren't any more books containing information on the Philosopher's Stone."
You: "That priest's stone was a fake, so we've lost another clue."
Ed: "Maybe we should go back to Central City now."
Al: "Brother! Look." Al held up a brown book with the words Alchemy written in black big lettering. 'An Introduction to Alchemy' book.
Al: "Doesn't that bring back memories?"
Ed: "What? Really?" Ed picked up the book and opened it. Flashbacks of their first Transmutation flashed through their minds.
Flashback- - - - - - - - - -
Edward: Age 6 Alphonse and Lita: Age 5
You were all at Winry's house. Winry and you were standing near the wall. Den, Winry's puppy, in your hands.
Winry: "Hey! This is boring!"
Al: "Wait, let's do a bit more."
Ed: "Okay, I'm done. Watch this, Winry. Lita!"
Winry: "You said that you would give me a present."
Ed: "We're making the present now." They each had two hands full of sand and they let it glide through their fingers and onto the floor. They each walked to a different side of the circle and set their hands on the floor. It glew a gold color. The four of you stood (sat) there and watched. The sand began to move around and it took the face of a ghost. It squecked and Den jumped out of your arms and barked at it. You and Winry fell to the floor. Winry was crying and you were shaking terribley. Ed and Al ran over to you 2 and gathered you in their arms rocking you both in a 4 way hug. 'That was our first Transmutation.'
Mother - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ed and Al sat outside, next to each other with their arms crossed and sad looks on there faces.
Winry's Dad: "It's Winry and Lita's fault. Those two went through the trouble to..."
Winry's Mom: "That's right. Ed and Al did it for you 2."
Winry: "I'm really sorry." The door opened and Pinako walked in.
Pinako: "No matter how much a person learns, most people will just give up. Those 2 are excellent alchemists, now." Trisha looked down in thought.
Trisha: "But they shouldn't know anything about alchemy."
Pinako: "Maybe it's because they're his children." Trisha walked out and stood next to the 2 boys.
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The Elric brother's laughed as they're mom read from the Alchemy book.
Trisha: "When did you learn Alchemy from yout father?"
Ed: "How are we suppossed to learn from someone who's not here?"
Al: "It was written in the book."
Trisha: "Do you understand this difficult book?"
Both: "Somewhat."
Ed: "Was it a bad thing?" Ed asked looking up at his mom.
Trisha: "No, it's an impressive thing. I'm going to brag about you to everyone. " The 2 gasped and smiled at eachother. When they got home Trisha told them to put the book back where they had found it.
Both: "Okay."
Trisha: "When your Dad gets back, be sure to thank him."
Both: "Okay."
Trisha: "Also, don't open that door." They looked around the room excitedly.
Both: "Okay! This is it!" The two ran to the bookshelf only to tip it over. You ran in at the comotion to see ed and Al buried under a pile of books.
'Mom began to get a distant look in her eyes after Dad left on some journey without telling us his destination. But after we started learning alchemy, she started to smile more. Mom complimented us. We competed and devoted ourselves to alchemy.
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Edward: Age 8 Alphose and Lita: Age 7 Ed: "Mom!" The 2 boys ran up to Trisha. Both: "Look! Look!" Ed help up a silver cow/dog type sculpture.
Al: "Brother made it. Isn't it awesome. I can still only do this one." Al held up a more gray sculpture.
Trisha: "There incredible, you 2! You two really are his children."
Al: "Will Dad compliment us, too?" Ed and Trisha were taken a back abit.
Trisha: "Yes. He will surely do that when he comes back." Ed grabbed his sculpture and began to run away.
Ed: "I'm going to go find Lita."
Al: "Brother!" He ran after his older brother.
The 2 sat on a grassy hill.
Al: "Brother, do you hate Dad?"
Ed: "No, not hate exactley, but..." He wrapped his arms around his knee's and looked down.
Ed: "I just don't remember him. When we talk about him. Mom makes a weird face. I don't like that."
Al: "Sorry..." Ed reached over and rubbed his brother's head and stood up.
Ed: "Come on let's go find Lita." When they got there you had your arms around Winry, who was crying.
Both: "What do you mean?"
Winry: "Like I said, Mom and Dad died."
Ed: "But your parents are doctors."
Winry: "Yes. That's why they had to leave for that wr in Ishbal... They died there."
Al: "Winry, that's like what happened to us and our dad, so..." He set his figurine on the table.
Winry: "It's not the same!" She slapped the cow and it crashed to the floor.
Winry: "They're dead. That means they're never coming back!"
Ed: "That's not true." Ed reached down and picked up the figurine.
Ed: "I read in this book about this thing called a Homunculus. It's a human doll with no heart. but with alchemy, maybe we can..."
Pinako: "Don't! That is forbiddon. Alchemy isn't perfect." Den walked up to you and Winry as she kept crying on your shoulder.
Pinako: "That's why we auto-mail engineers exist."
Ed: "Old hag." Ed, Al and you were chased out of the house by thrown objects.
You 3 walked back home.
Al: "I feel sorry for Winry." Ed looked up and gasped as he watched his mom. She stopped and waved at them. Ed thought about how he would feel if he lost his mom. He closed his eyes and ran to his mom quickley, you and Al on his heels. He hugged her tightley as did you. Trisha looked at the 2 confused. Al also hugged her.
Trisha: "What's wrong with you 3?"
You could feel Ed's shoulder's shake beside yours.
Trisha: "What's wrong, Edward? You're a big boy now. You're to old for this."
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Ed: Age 10 Alphonse and Lita: Age 9 You and Ed ran side by side, Al alittle ways behind you. Baskets of fruits and vegetables were in each of your hands. You all ran along a grassy sloupe a train right beside you.
Ed: "Al, your to slow!"
Al: "Wait!" You all giggled and laughed as you ran all the way home.
Ed: "Sorry we're late, Mom...!" You all gasped as you saw Trisha on the floor. You, Ed and Al dropped your baskets.
Ed: "Mom..." You all ran over to her.
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Doctor: "This isn't an illness that she caught recentley." You and the Elric Brothers sat next to Trisha's bed.
Doctor: "She must have indured the pain for many years now."
Trisha: "Dear..." She said weakly.
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Ed slammed his hand onto a desk covered in letters.
Ed: "We have letters that were addressed to him, here. If we write letters to eveyone here..."
Al: "Someone may know where Dad us, and maybe tell him to come home?"
Ed: "I don't want him to come back! But it can't be helped. Damn it."
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Trisha: "There is some money that your Dad left for us. I haven't used any of it. Use that, and cooperate and live together."
Ed: "What are you talking about, Mom?"
Trisha: "Can you transmute something for me, Edward? Yes, a flower decoration would be nice."
Ed: "What?"
Trisha: "He... alway's... made them for me." She closed her eyes and her hand gentley released the grip from your 3's small hands.
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'Mom was happy to see alchemy... because it reminded her of Dad. That's when we finally realized.'
Al: "Brother. I'm hungry. I'm cold, too. Let's go home."
Ed: "Al, Lita. Let's revive Mom."
Break - - - - -
Edward: Age 11 Alphonse and Lita: Age 10
Ed: "Look, this equation. I don't understand the details, but there's stuff about Human Transmutation written here. If we can decipher this..."
You: "But it says here that Human Transmutation is forbidden."
Ed: "Anyone would be glad to see a dead person come back to life! Everyone who tried it has failed, so the adults banned it out of spite. If you, Mom, Al and I can live a happy life again, I'm sure Mom would love it, too."
Al: "Maybe we should ask dad first." Ed looked up angrily.
Ed: "Mom died becuse of him. Mom has been waiting for him, but he didn't even come to the funeral. If it's something he couldn't do, then i'll do it. I'll do it."
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'We found a teacher and relearned alchemy. Then on that day...'
Ed:
"Water, 35 liters.
Carbon, 20 kg.
Ammonia, 4 liters.
Lime, 1.5 kg.
Phosphorus, 800 g.
Salt, 250 g.
Niter,
100 g.
Flourine, 7.5 g.
Iron, 5 g.
Silicon, 3 g.
'These are the elements that make up one adult human body. And this is the construction equation.'
Ed: "We will call back Mom's spirit, and bind the soul to the body."
You: "Ed, will this work?"
Ed: "It's to late for that, Lia." You: "But Alchemy is done by Equavilent Exchange, right? We have the materials for the body... But what are we going to use to transmute into Trisha's spirit?"
Ed: "Stick out your finger." He took out a pocket knife and made a small caught on the each of you guys' index fingers. You each held out your finger.
Ed: "This is the soul's... information." Three drops of blood rested on the ingrediants.
Ed: "This should be it. Let's do this." You each set your hands on the circle. Something didn't seem right as the color in the air drastically changed.
Al: "Brother, something's wrong!" Al screamed in pain as his wrist began to glow white.
Ed: "Al!" Black vine like things touched his leg and it also began to glow white. The same tentacles touched the top of your head and your lower back.
Al: "Brother... !" The whips wrapped around Al and seemed to suck him into the light. A gate appeared and it seemed to suck him in.
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'The last thing I remember seeing was my brothers left leg being decomposed and disappearing. And...' A suit of armor sat up and looked at its hand.
Armor: "This is...?" It looked up to see you unconsious next to Ed who was missing his right arm.
Ed: "Sorry, Al..."
Al: "Brother!" He ran over to Ed.
Al: "Brother, what happened to me? And... your arm..."
Ed: "With only my arm... The only thing I could do was fix your soul to some armor that was lying around here."
Al: "Brother. And... what happened to Mom?"
Ed: "She wasn't human."
Al: "Oh, no. But why? Your theory should have been perfect."
Ed: "My theory wasn't wrong. We were the one's that were wrong."
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Al: "Auntie! Please... help my brother and Lita!" The 2 laid in his metal arms unconsious.
Winry: "Al? Is that you?"
Pinako: "What?"
Winry: "You three came back from your training? So what happened?" ,p Pinako: "Don't tell me you tried to recreate your mother."
: "I see. That was the light of a Human Transmutation. I've never seen such a strong transmutation response before. Excuse me." He pulled out a watch.
Winry: "A State Alchemist?"
Pinako: "And what does a soldier want? As you can see these 2 critically wounded."
Alchemist: "I recieved this letter."
Al: "That's the one tht Ed wrote to all of dad's aquintances."
Alchemist: "We have also been searching for your father, Hohenhiem." (Ho-en-hyme)
Pinako: "Their father is still missing. We have 2 injured people here. Please leave."
Alchemist: "If they still live, even after preforming a Human Transmutation... I have more intrest in them then his father. They might be able to become great State Alchemists."
Pinako: "They have done nothing. Go home. We're busy."
Alchemist: "I am State alchemist, Lieutenant Colonel (Kernel) Roy Mustang."
Next Morning - - - - - - - -
Winry walked in and put 2 wet clothes on your and Ed's foreheads. Winry looked over at Al. She waved her hand infront of his face. She sat on his lap.
Al: "Uh. Good Morning, Winry." She jumped up.
Winry: "Al! You're awake? I'm sorry, I...!
Ed: "Auntie. There's a good amount of money at our house." Pinako: "Stupid, don't worry about money." Ed looked over at you. You were still unconsious but there was something wrong with you. But he couldn't see it because you were covered up.
Ed: "That's not what I meant. Equip me with auto-mail with that money. I'm going to see that Roy person, and become a State Alchemist. I need a moveable arm and leg to do that, right?"
Pinako: "You were listening to that?"
Ed: "I heard from my teacher that if I become a State Alchemist, I can read the rare documents that the state is incharge of, and i'll be given funds to conduct research on whatever I want. Also, I heard that watch can amplify the power of an Alchemist."
Pinako: "Didn't your teacher also say this? 'Once a war starts you will be pressed into service. And if an order is given, you must use Alchemy, which was intended for the good of the public, to kill people'. I have also heard that it was a State Alchemist involved in a war who look the lives of my son."
Ed: "I don't care if I must become a dog of the military. I have something I must do."
Pinako: "Ed... Are you still...?"
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Winry: "Just bear with us, Ed. This is the best peice of equitment we've made." Al opened the door.
Winry: "We're fine so don't come in. "
Pinako: "I'm suprised. Even an adult will scream out from the pain of connecting each individual nerve strand."
Ed: "This pains nothing... compared to hers."
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Ed walked over to your bed.
Ed: "Lita. You okay?" You hadn't gotten out of bed in a week. He slipped off your cover and gasped. 2 cat ears made of steel laid on your head as you jerked and looked up into Ed's gold eyes. You ripped the covers back over your head. He pulled them back down gently and crawled into your bed. He wrapped his arms around you.
Ed: "It's okay." You just cried on his shoulder as he ran his fingers through your long red hair.
Couple Days Later - - - - - - - - -
You were near the river practicing your martial arts.
Ed: "Let's do that thing we used to do, Lita." You looked over and saw Ed walk towards you.
Ed: "To train your spirit, you have to train your body. Our teacher said that, didn't she? But Lita, can you do it with your new body." You smirked.
You: "I'm not gonna lose to an auto-mailer." He slipped his hand out of his pocket and ran at you swiftly. You caught his punch and went to kick him in the stomach. He jumped out of the way. You kicked him in the side.
You: "Ed. Are you serious about becoming a State Alchemist."
Ed: "I don't know if I want to be one or not, but i'm going to see this Mustang person."
You: "Don't."
Ed: "I've already decided."
You: "Then I'll become one."
Ed: "You can't."
You: "Ed, are you still planning on transmuting Mom? You said that we were wrong. So why? I will become a State Alchemist. And I will find a way to return you to your arm and your leg."
Ed: "You don't have to worry about that." You: "But..." Ed walked over to you and kicked you in the side sending you into the river.
Ed: "And what about you? I will find a way to get your body back to normal. With the ears the tail and the whiskers." He walked into the river and swam around you.
You: "Have you givin up on Mom?"
Ed: "There is probably nothin in this world that is equavilent in value to mom's life. Also... I don't want to lose you, too" He reached over and brought you closer to him. You could feel your heart racing as Ed leaned closer and brushed his lips against yours. Capturing you in a light sweet kiss. You smiled and rested your head on his shoulder.
You: "Then I'll go with you."
Ed: "Why?"
You: "Cause no one seperates us, and besides." You leaned back so you could see him and smirked.
You: "You always slack off when I'm not with you."
Ed: "Well if that's what you think of me."
You: "I never... want to be seperated from you." He smiled and pulled you into a wet hug. (cause your still in the water).
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Fire shot through the house as Ed through the tourch down.
'Even if we are tryin to regain our original bodies... We are still searching for forbidden Human Transmutation. If we fail, we might disappear from the world for good. We are not sure if we will be punished with something even more severe than that... But we can't go back. So on the day we left, we burned our house and moved foreward.
Dont forget 7 oct 10 - - - - - - - -