Kate: okay, answers. Now. Why the f*** did the transmutation make me go to the original Anime in the last chapter?!
Me: not telling...yet (evil laugh)
Kate: (smirks and transmutes a huge hammer)
Me: (screaming) DO THE DISCLAIMER ROSE!
Rose: okay, the following is a fan made story, fullmetal alchemist and anything else mentioned in this story belongs to their official owners, however Katelyn is owned by BadWolfAlchemist
Chapter 3 city of Heresy
(Katelyn's POV)
WHERE THE FUCK IS CIVILISATION?!" I screamed falling on the ground right next to Ed who had been dying of thirst, we had been walking in this desert for about 4 hours now and we still hadn't seen Leoire anywhere I then realized that Alphonse wasn't anywhere "and where the fuck is Al?" I asked, with that, Ed got on his knees and looked around.
"Hey Al, where'ja go?" Edward yelled "Al?" still no answer "Hey!"
"Down here!" we heard Al's metallic voice from under the sand, I felt something grab my leg and I screamed.
"OH GOD ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!" Ed just sweat dropped at me.
"This is why I hate deserts..." he muttered as he clapped his hands and slammed them on the ground making Al eventually come out of the ground "I don't understand why you keep falling in!" Ed yelled.
"I get full!" Al protested.
"Full of what?!" Ed yelled at his little brother, I quickly turned away to look for any trace of Leoir, and so I didn't see the fact that Al was empty, I did hear sand being poured out of Al and landing on Ed, and I heard Al try to cover up his laughter before Ed burst out of the sand, chasing Al.
"Get back here!".
"What are you going to do if I stop?!".
"Nothing...!".
"Then why are you chasing me?!".
"Stop and you'll find out!".
"I promise I won't get buried again!".
"Not unless it's by ME!".
"Ed!".
"Arg!".
"Leoir! 12:00!" I yelled making them stop running and look at me then saw I was pointing; they followed my finger and saw the city of Leoir.
"Bout time" Ed grumbled as the three of us walked over to leoir.
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After another hour walk we managed to get some food at a bar where the old man there turned on a radio that had on Cornello's voice.
"god's children who live upon this land, pray in faith and he shall be saved, those who had lost their way the sun god Leto..." I lost interest on what he was saying and listened to what the old man who controlled the bar was saying
"So what are you guys, are you like street performers or something?" Ed spewed out his drink while I glared at him with a few stress marks on my face.
"Seriously? Do we look like street performers to you?" Ed asked .
"Yes, what else?" the shopkeeper asked as I grew more stress marks and Ed also grew one as he got off his chair.
"Let's go Al" Ed said as I also got off my chair annoyed that he forgot I was with them, but I saw Al getting up and tried to warn him.
"Al watch out for the-" I was cut off by Al crashing into the roof knocking down the radio "roof...yeah..." well that failed.
"Hey! Easy! I didn't mean anything by it!" the shopkeeper said .
"Don't bust a lung grandpa, we can fix it!" I assured him.
"How's that? It's smashed to hell!"
"Watch and learn gramps!" Ed said as Al finished the transmutation circle.
"When did you finish that so quickly...?" I muttered seeing a bunch of people show up around Al.
"Okay, here it goes...!" he put his hands over the transmutation circle and blue alchemical light shot out, when the dust cleared the radio was fixed.
"How do you like them apples?" I asked in a teasing way.
"Amazing, it's a miracle...you've been touched by the sun god, just like father Cornello!" the old man said as Edward put on a 'WTF' face.
"Touched by who now...?" he muttered.
"It's not a miracle, its alchemy!" Al explained.
"Oh, you three are alchemists, I have heard of them!" a random man said.
"Then maybe you heard of us?" Edward said with golden sparkles, yes they were actually there (Edward stole Armstrong sparkles! for that he must pay!) "We're the Elric brothers!".
"The Elric brothers you say?" Shop dude said with a raised eyebrow.
"Wait, I do know that name..." random guy # 1 said.
"The Fullmetal alchemist, Edward Elric is that right?!" random guy # 2 said.
I heard Edward chuckle hearing all of his fans talk about him but I just face palmed because all of the fans went over to Alphonse.
"um...no, it's not me!" Al finally said as everyone turned to look at Ed.
"wh-what? You mean that little guy over there?" does this guy have a death wish?
"WHO'S LITTLE?! COME HERE AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE! I DARE YA!" oh dear...
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"so, what's with this guy on the radio?' Edward asked acting like nothing happened.
"t-that's our leader, father Cornello...!" the shopkeeper said, still in shock.
Me, Ed and Al paused in thought while we listened to what the people had to say "we were lost until he came to town and began teaching us all the ways of the sun god leto!" "He grants eternal life to the souls of the faithful!" "He can even resurrect the dead, his miracles are proof of what he says is true!".
"So this guy is clamming he can bring the dead back to life? Now that's something I gotta see..." Edward muttered.
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We saw Cornello eventually and people threw him flowers, even from afar I didn't fail to see the blood red stone on his ring, I saw the fake priest grab a flower and use the stone, which I'm guessing is the crimson stone, to change the small flower into a huge glass sculpture.
"Come ON people can't really fall for this stuff can they?" I asked and the crowd continued cheering "great...a stupid crowed who fail to see what is in plain sight and a simpleton for a leader...I weep for humanity..." I muttered.
"So that's it huh?" Edward muttered in a almost agreeing way of what I had just said "what do you think?" I looked over to him, we where both standing on his suet case so we could get a view over the crowd.
"There's nothing TO think, that's alchemy, no doubt about it!" Al exclaimed.
"But somehow he's ignoring the law of equivalent exchange, he should of only been able to transmute that flower into a object of equal mass" Ed added.
"And he's changing organic matter into inorganic matter; he shouldn't be able to do that! Unless..." Alphonse continued.
"Yeah...there's just one way..." the three of us looked at his ring "bingo".
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The three of us came to the church and I heard Ed whisper something to Al. probably about the philosophers stone and how to get there body's back or something else they didn't want me to hear. I looked at the church and just frowned at it "so, this is a church huh?" I asked as they looked at me "it's not that impressive, why do people even bother with praying to gods anyway? If this so-called god really does exist, then the thing I learned about him as that he really doesn't care..." I looked to the ground, then at them who looked at me oddly and I had that flash in realization come to me "sorry, habit" I told them as we walked inside.
"merciful god...please hear me, hear my prayer I beg of you...please bring him back" we heard a girl pray, I heard Ed sigh loudly.
"so this is the all mighty Leto huh?" he asked as the girl (who I just remembered to be Rose) got up off the floor.
"W-welcome! Are you interested in Letoisum?" is Letoisum even a word...?
"Nope, can't say I am, not really the religious type" Edward told her as I raised my arms in defeat.
"Sorry, I'm a atheist" I said after him.
"Well I'm sorry to hear that" Rose said with her eyes shut "to know god is...to know hope! If we believe in divine grace, and through him all things are possible...if you two believe..." Ed gasped and I automatically tried to calm down on where this was going, "I sure god would bless you two and make you grow taller!" Rose said with sparkles around her.
"what's that suppose to mean?!" Ed growled.
"I'd like to see you call me small when transmute you into a midget!" I also growled as Al had to hold us back.
"Easy, she's just trying to help! and Katelyn you can't go around transmuting others into midgets!" Al pointed out as Ed eventually calmed down and sat down on a bench, when I calmed down I thanked al by patting his head like he was still a little boy, and I swear it looked like he blushed through his armour.
Ed sighed "what about bringing the dead back to life, do you believe that's possible too?" he asked.
"...yes" Rose said with a smile.
Edward sighed again as he pulled out a small book, "wat-" I cut Ed off.
"water 35 litres, carbon 20 KG, ammonia 4 litters, lime 1.5 KG, phosphorus 800 G, salt 250 G, salt peter 100 G, sulphur 80 grams, fluorine 7.5 grams, iron 5 grams, silicon 3 grams and traces of 15 other elements" I said at light-speed as I looked over to Rose who as words spinning around her and saw the brothers looking at me astonished.
"...huh...?" she muttered as Ed closed his book and looked to the ground.
"that list represents the complete chemical make-up of the human body for the average adult, it's been calculated to the last micro-gram but still, there's never been one reported case of successfully creating a human life" Ed's blank face turned into almost a snarl when he looked up "and your telling me something that modern science cant do you can do with prayer?!" he glared at Rose.
"Life thy voice to god, and the prayers of the faithful will be answered!" Rose countered back at him.
"sheesh, what's next? You're going to tell us that we evolved from clams?" I snapped at her.
"Of course not! Everyone knows that we were created from the mud in the ground by Leto's loving hand!" Rose yelled at me. me, Ed, and Al just slowly looked at each other in union and slowly back at Rose before the three of us burst out laughing.
"C-created from mud?" I said between laughs.
"This Mr. Leto sounds kinda like an alchemist to me, wouldn't you say brother?" Alphonse said after he calmed his laughter.
"heh, you got a point there Al" Ed said trying to breath.
I chuckled a little bit longer before my laughter was calmed down but a huge smile replaced it "you know, all of those ingredients I mentioned earlier... a kid by those with the spare change in their pocket" I added with a smirk as Ed put his hands behind his head.
"yup, it turns out that humans are pretty cheap" Edward said looking at the ceiling with a smile on his face.
"No...That's just blaslmy! People, we are all children of god, Created in his image!" Rose exclaimed and Ed lowered his head and darkly chuckled with his famous smirk-smile on.
"You have to understand, alchemists are scientists, we don't believe in improvable concepts like 'creators' or 'gods', we observe the physical laws that govern this world, to try to learn the truth it's ironic really, that through the occupations of science, we have in many ways been able to," he chuckled "play gods ourselves".
"So you're putting yourself on the same line as god?! That's just...sheer arrogance!".
"Actually it's stubbornness, but whatever helps you sleep at night!" I cheered happily as Ed glared at me.
"you know there's an old myth, about a hero who flew on wings made of wax, he thought he could touch the sun but when he got to close, his wings melted and he came crashing back down to earth, right Al?" he said, looking at his brother who looked back at him sadly.
"Brother..." Al muttered as Ed jumped off the bench he was sitting on.
"I'm sorry miss, this is difficult for me to ask, but do you think your Father Cornello could even save an arrogant scientist like me?" Edward asked very politely, which I have a feeling was killing him. but only to make it fair:
"pleeeaaassseee?" I said in my 'cute' voice and felt my pride be destroyed by 79 %
"Of course! If anyone can lead you to the creators light, he can!" Rose said as she ran over to the door "let me get brother Cray so he can lead you to the Father!" Rose said as she dashed out the door and me and Ed silently agreed to never talk about our 'cute' behavior again.
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(Ed's POV)
"this way please" brother Cray said as he brought us to the room where Cornello is suppose to be in, I kept on glancing at Al and Katelyn, I was a bit worried that she might find out about Al with every step we took, the guards opened the door to the next room "father Cornello is a busy man as you can imagine, but you're in luck, he had decided to spare a moment for you".
"Yeah thanks! We understand, we won't take too much of his time!" I exclaimed, but I saw Katelyn tense up, like she was expecting something.
"Good then its agreed, we'll make this quick..." I heard the doors close behind us and I turned to look to see three of the guards at the door closing it, next thing I saw was a gun pointed at Alphonse, a sword at Katelyn's throat and spears across my waist.
"I knew it" Katelyn muttered, knew what? arg, you know what? Everything about her is a big unanswered question, I just wanna know why that is! Why the hell did the bastard of a colonel make ME body guard her anyway?! and is it possible that she also preformed human transmutation?
"Cray what is this? What do you think you're doing?!" Rose demanded.
"Rose, these heathens have come to ensnare and discredit the Father, there evil! This is god's will!" Cray said, not taking his gun off Al.
"Rude" Katelyn muttered and if I didn't have a spear at my stomach I would probably say the same thing.
"Brother Cray..." Rose said sadly.
"Well like you said, let's make this quick!" I yelled as I pushed the guard on my left away and pulled the one on my right over my head and slamming him on the ground.
Al punched Cray in the face and his gun rolled over to Rose, who looked surprised .
I saw Katelyn grab the guard who had the sword on him and flipped him over on his back, then held her hands together in a dead lock hitting him on the back of his head.
I saw another guard who was trying to run away but I kicked up one of the spears and threw it at him making him trip and get hit on the head, "ah yeah! Strike!".
"what's this commotion?" we heard a voice come out, I'm guessing it was Cornello, all of us turned to the sound of the voice to see a man come out of the shadows, I was right, it is the priest "ah the Fullmetal Alchemist, welcome to the home of our sacred order".
We heard Rose gasp "father Cornello!".
"I must apologize for my candidates decibels behaviour, it would seem they have been misguided" riiight like you weren't behind it.
"Okay, let's say I believe that you weren't the one guiding them, what next?" I asked the priest.
"Have you come to learn the ways of Leto?" Cornello asked as I mentally snorted.
"well there are a few things I'm curious about, like how you've been using second rate alchemy to deceive your followers" I stated calmly as Rose looked over, confused.
"my dear boy, I don't know what you mean, what your doubting I see is alchemy are the miracles of the sun god Leto" he put his hand over the hand with the ring and made a sculpture out of nothing, if I didn't see the stone I probably would be surprised "look again, could mere alchemy create something from nothing in this way?" he asked as Rose looked on in amazement but I saw Katelyn look on disgusted.
"Yeah that's what I didn't get at first..." I scratched my head "how can you perform transmutations that avoid the law of equivalent exchange?".
"Because as I said, it isn't alchemy!".
"But then I started thinking about it, if you managed to acquire a certain object to amplify your alchemy, to one that is said to make the impossible possible, that would explain everything" I said darkly and stopped scratching my head.
"What?".
"I'm talking about the philosophers stone, your ring, that's it isn't it?!". There was a few seconds of silence before I finally broke the silence "I've been looking for that!" I growled as I took a few steps forward.
"The ring is just a ring, I am gods humble servant from he alone I derive my power!".
"Still trying to sell out that line huh?" I said with a wicked smile across my face as I walked over to him "if that's how you want to play it then I guess I have to come up there and beat some truth out of ya!".
"My, your really are quite the incorrigible heathen aren't you? Rose dear," Cornello looked over to the said girl.
"Y-yes father?".
"That gun there beside you pick it up" oh, using a pawn to kill us, how cute.
"Uh...o-okay" Rose said as she slowly picked up the gun.
"Now child, I want you to shoot the Fullmetal Alchemist" Katelyn, Al and I quickly looked at her.
"No I...father I can't do that...!" Rose said with horror written on her face.
"I am the sun god's chosen emissary, my word is the word of Leto its self" he opened his left eye "shoot him Rose, it is god's will" Cornello said as Rose brought the gun up to her chest "why hesitate? When you lost your fiancé in that tragic accident last year? Who was it that saved you from the very depths of despair? Have you forgotten?" he asked.
"I-it was you, father..." Rose whispered.
"That's right, it was I who took your hand and led you into gods light, and you recall what it was that I promised you then?" the fake priest asked.
"You said that if I had faith that you would bring him back to life!" Rose shouted as she pointed to Alphonse, I grew a stress mark, why does EVERYONE think that Al is the Fullmetal Alchemist?!
"No wait! It's not me honest!" Al exclaimed as Rose slowly turned to me.
"DAMMIT I'M THE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! IT'S NOT HIM IT'S ME!" I yelled making Katelyn send out a few laughs making me glare at her and she imminently shut up still smiling.
"It's the short one?! You're kidding!" Cornello stated in shock as Rose corrected her aim, I gave her a blank look.
"I'm sorry but I…I have to do this...! I don't have any choose...!" Rose said, in an almost pleading way.
"He's been lying to you rose!" I tried to reason.
"You're wrong! I've seen his miracles, father Cornello will bring him back to life, I have faith!" Rose shouted.
"then shoot" I said calmly, anyone might think I have a death with but really, she's a helpless pawn and she probably had no experience with shooting people in her life, she held the gun up to her chest again and pulled the trigger, hitting Alphonse making his head come off and the rest of him fall to the floor.
"Al!" me and Katelyn yelled as Rose screamed, dropping the gun.
"good, god Leto is pleased thank you my child, now shoot the other two as well" Cornello said calmly as I felt like growling with him only the fact that Al couldn't die was keeping me from doing so.
"haven't you made her do enough already?" I heard Al's voice ring out as I looked at his 'dead' form to see him sit up.
"But your head...I...I...thought you were...!" Rose said in shock as Al got up.
"Don't worry about it, he's pretty solid" I said handing Al back his helmet and hitting his armoured chest.
"Yeah, see?" Al leaned forward to show he was empty "no harm done" Al he assured.
"Do you still doubt it Rose?! This unholy thing is an abomination! Evil of this kind must be purged!" Cornello yelled pulling a nearby lever "and I believe my chimera should be up to the task".
"a chimera..." Katelyn said in horrified amazement, I saw a chimera walk closer to me.
"so this is the sort of thing you do with the philosophers stone, now that's just twisted" I growled looking at the animal "anyway," I turned away from the beast and clapped my hands "it looks like I'll need a weapon" I slammed my hands on the grown making a alchemical light shoot out of the floor as I transmuted my spear, I saw Katelyn look on in amazement making my pride increase.
"No transmutation circle?! So the state alchemist title isn't just for show! You truly are gifted!" Cornello exclaimed.
"Rings and watches have nothing to do with it, you third rate fraud" Katelyn smirked stepping forward getting ready to fight the chimera.
"However," I heard the priest say as I saw the chimera claw at my spear destroying it, followed by my pants, arg, I'm getting annoyed by people shredding my clothes! I'm getting sick of having to fix them all the time! "Your spears are no match for chimera claws that cut through iron!".
I gave a breathy laugh then smirked "you shredded my pants!" I said as the chimera's claws broke off and Katelyn kicked it in the face in its distraction "but I guess those claws don't do so well against steel!".
"Bite them you stupid beast!" Cornello yelled at the chimera as it started running up to me but I moved my right arm over to block the attack so it was chewing on my auto-mail arm.
"You like that kitty? Go on, get a good taste!" I yelled kicking the chimera off my arm and onto the ground unconscious.
Cornello gasped "your arm, a brother trapped in armour...I see, it's all becoming clear now, you did it, didn't you?" Cornello asked as I ripped my coat off showing my auto-mail arm, making Rose gasp in shock, Katelyn had a sad look on her face but I ignored it "the one thing even the most novice alchemist knows is strictly forbidden!" Cornello shouted as I glared at him.
"Why don't you come down here and try me, I'll show you really quick who the novice is!"I growled at the priest of Leoir.
There was a few seconds of silence before I heard Cornello break the silence .
"Rose, this is the price of their sins, these fools attempted human transmutation, there greatest taboo for any alchemist, in their arrogance, they tried to bring someone dead back to life!" Cornello said as Rose's eyes widened.
"Oh no..." she mumbled.
"This is what it happens when you try to play 'god' or whatever you want to call it, take a good look Rose, is this what you want?" I asked her darkly.
I heard Cornello give a breathy laugh "so this is the great Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric, not even half a man, hell not even half a boy!" I saw Katelyn grow a stress mark.
"And what the hell are you?! You're just a phony that can't do anything without a philosophers stone!" Katelyn snapped as my eyes shot over to her, in the little time I've met her she has never snapped like this. what's her problem?
"Father, we just want you to hand over the stone before you get hurt!" Alphonse said.
"Yeah, from us" Katelyn muttered loud enough for me and Al to hear.
"Don't be absurd! Why? So you can use it for yourself? Please," he put his cane in his hand with the philosopher's stone "if you fools are really so eager to play god then why don't I just send you to meet his instead?!" he said.
"arg, why can't we just act like civilized people here?!" Katelyn exclaimed "rock paper scissors sound good?" I face palmed when I heard Cornello laughing.
"Not a bad idea young child...rock, paper...machine gun!" He yelled as he transmuted his cane into a machine gun.
I transmuted a wall out of the rock in the ground "ha! I chose Rock!".
"Bless for me, machine gun beats everything" and with that, he started firing at us, but we were all unharmed 'huh, I guess rock does beat machine gun' he thought.
I saw Al pick Rose up and Cornello start shooting at him, not caring Rose was in his arms but it gave me and Katelyn time to get over to a wall where I could make a exit.
"This way!" I yelled as I clapped my hands together and slammed them on the wall making a door to get out of here, I barged through the new doors and started running away from all the guards, followed by Al who had Rose in his Arms and Katelyn who was smirking evilly.
"that's far enough" "what are you going to do boy? Your unarmed and outnumbered" "look just come quietly, we don't want to have to rough you up" some of the guards said who were standing in our way, well not for long.
I laughed evilly as I clapped my hands and made a blade out of my auto-mail, only very evil looking, I put on my best evil grin as the people coward as I beat them away.
"Look don't go easy on him just because he's a kid!" I heard a guard say around the corner before Al kicked them and we went back to running again
"Thank you for your hospitality!" Katelyn yelled over her shoulder making me snort quietly, and I think Al giggled a bit as we raced out.
We passed by a door that Katelyn noticed "other way idiots!" she called out to me as I slowly changed my direction but ramped into Al
"Katelyn...what are you doing...?!" I asked her through my teeth holding my head.
"Rose, what is this room for?" Katelyn asked completely serious, ignoring my pain.
"th-this is the broadcasting room..." she told Katelyn as she suddenly had a demon-like grin, I quickly soon figured out where this was going and smirked evilly to myself.
"I think I know where this is going" I stated, as I realized Al was probably thinking.
'Oh no he has that look again...'
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After a while we heard running coming close to the door and we looked to see Cornello running into the room.
"There you are you infernal brats!" Cornello yelled at us.
"Look can we just cut the crap and talk here? All I want are some strait answers about the stone, tell me what I need to know and I'll be on my way, or we could get the military involved" I said calmly with Katelyn rolling her eyes.
I looked at the priest who closed the door "ask your questions" he said as I saw Katelyn flipped the switch for the broadcast on in the corner of my eye.
"You could do anything with the philosophers stone right? So why waste all that power performing phony miracles?" I asked smirking.
"because with each miracle I can attract new believers to the order, believers who would lie down there life's for my sake, I'm slowly building an army, a league of holy warriors unafraid to die, in a few more years I'll be ready to unleash this mindless hoard upon the world! And I'll use the philosophers stone to tear this country apart, who knows? I might even carve out a slice for you!" Cornello burst out laughing, me and Katelyn following but for different reasons "huh? Wait, what are you laughing about?".
"I knew it; you really are a novice aren't you?" I stated as I held up the switch for the broadcast.
Realization flew across Cornello's face "YOU DON'T MEAN...?!" he yelled and I swear I could hear crows flying away in the background "how long? How long as that thing been on?!" he asked us.
"Oh, from the very beginning~ you just exposed your entire plan~" Katelyn said in a sing song voice.
"How could you?!" he grabbed onto his cane about to transmute it "you'll pay dearly for this!".
"Sorry not today!" I yelled transmuting my signature blade from my arm making a part of the gun that Cornello had just transmuted come crashing on the ground "just face it, you're out classed here".
"People of Leoir, we are having technical difficulties, just ignore the stuff you hear in the background" Katelyn said as she flipped the switch off and got off the desk we had been sitting on earlier.
"I am without rival!" Cornello shouted trying to transmute the gun again, I flipped backwards to get away from the man landing on my knees, when the red light vanished, I saw the gun had merged with his hand.
"It's a rebound...?" I muttered, why would something like this happen? Why did the philosophers stone fail?
"n-no...I won't be disgraced by this...!" he said as he used the philosophers stone again "now children, behold" I could see him slowly getting bigger by the second "the chosen emissary of the sun god Leto!" he kept on growing until he was about the size of a mouton.
"This...might not end well..." Katelyn muttered as we were both blasted out of the room into the entrance of the church, I did a back flip to get away while Katelyn just ran over to me. however. the huge Cornello tried to squash us using the gun hand but the two of us jumped out of the way only to be hit by the other hand. thank alchemy for auto-mail because I was able to hold Cornello off with my metal limb.
"My word is the word of god it's self, my fist is the almighty fist of judgement!" he said in a creepy deep voice.
"Fist of god my foot!" Katelyn muttered as she fell to her knee's for a moment before both of us ran the wall.
"fist of god huh? If that's what you want then you can have it!" I clapped my hands on the stone making a fist come out of it and right on Cornello's face.
"And he means literally!" she loves ruining the moment doesn't she?
We waited for the dust to settle for a moment before we saw the fake priest lying on the ground groaning in pain when I grabbed the sides of his head and pulled the man forward hitting my head against his as tears exploded from his eyes like Armstrong's "shut up! JUST GIVE ME THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE!" I yelled as Cornello grabbed his face as I saw the stone lose its color and smash to the ground. Whoa, hold on...the philosophers stone is a pure substance...how could it just break? "w-what the hell...?" I asked myself out loud, anger momentarily forgotten "the stone...it's suppose to be perfect material...how did it just break like that?!" I asked the father.
"I-I don't know...I don't know anything about it...spare me! Please! I-I was wrong, spare me please I beg you!" Cornello shouted at me as I got off my knees and on my feet as Katelyn sweat-dropped mumbling.
"So you mean you put us through all this, only to find-".
"It's a fake?" I finished with my soul coming out of my mouth and the area turned blue
"so...um...what about me...?" Cornello asked and my rage quickly came back to me.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO, JUST GET OUT OF HERE!" I snapped making the phony priest quickly crawl away in fear.
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Standing outside with Al, I had just told him what happened as Katelyn quickly came out of the church fixing the whole place, well...mostly removing the hand I made.
"But what about the stone?" Alphonse asked me.
"A phony, just like him" I spat bitterly as Katelyn rushed up to us.
"me zero, big bad world one" she sang so quietly I almost didn't hear it, I will say that that does kind of fit with the situation. All of us heard the clicking of a gun "Al is there a gun pointed at my back...?" she asked.
"Yes Katelyn..." Al said as she turned to see Rose holding the gun "yes there is...".
"Give me the philosophers stone!" Rose shouted.
"Rose..." Katelyn started but I cut her off.
"Like I was saying, it was a fake, it wasn't real" I stated plainly "besides, it's shattered now".
"Liar!" Rose shouted, hurt written all over her face "you want to keep it for yourself don't you?! So you can use it on your body's...that's right! And so you can try to bring your mother back again!" I paled before horror was written on my face but I quickly replaced it with anger and hurt.
"YOU SHUT UP!" Rose flinched as her eyes widened at realization of what she said "people don't come back from the dead Rose...not ever...not. Ever." I struggled to finish that sentence as Rose fell on her knees.
"but he promised me...he said if I prayed that would happen...a miracle...!" her head shot up as she looked forward, the three of us passed her "that hope was all I had to believe in, what am I suppose to believe in now?!" we found ourselves on the steps when Rose said this and I found myself stopping "tell me what to do...please!" she sobbed.
"I can't tell you that, you have to figure it out..." I continued walking "stand up and walk, keep moving forward...you got two good legs, so use em' your strong enough to make your own path" we continued walking and it was only when we got out of Rose's hearing range that Katelyn pointed out I needed to fix my coat and shirt, and a few other things that got destroyed. You see this is why I hate it when someone destroys my clothing!
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"you know the truth now...both me and Al did Human Transmutation" I stated darkly once we where well away from Liore. "I wouldn't blame you if you took use for fools..." I didn't mean for that to slip out, it just did.
I think I heard a book close, well Katelyn did take a book from the library in Liore while I was fixing my coat "Maxwell..." I turned to face her with a confused expression before..." CHOP!" a blast of pain came from my head as I grabbed the spot where the book hit me in pain. Right now I cant tell if I was hit with a book or a wrench!
"ugh...what the hell Katelyn?!" I shouted at her
she glared at me before her expression softened by a little bit "You idiot...you tried to bring someone back because you wanted them to be alive alive again" my eyes widened when I realised that she was saying the exact thing that both me and my little brother always wanted.
"That's exactly what we wanted..." Al voiced my thought out loud before finding an interesting piece of sand on the ground "but the transmutation failed and now we're stuck in these bodies"
"well you couldn't have known what would happen if you did it could you? no matter what the consequences were you just wanted to return to a time where everything wasn't as lonely and hurtful"
"heh, We were naive back then" I spat bitterly looking at the ground.
she sighed in annoyance "sheesh don't you get it? that's the reason I don't take you two as fools!" she looked straight at me harshly and I felt myself looked away from her a bit "look, you two may have lost your original bodies because of the transmutation, but that haven't stopped you for trying to get them back. You're always having that feeling of the world upon your shoulders when it would crush anyone else, they would break under that kind of pressure! okay, so you made a mistake, but who the hell doesn't? Everyone makes mistakes, hell I even make mistakes, so who am I to judge so harshly because of yours?!".
My eyes widened as I took a step back from her as I replayed what she just said to me like a broken record. Was this all I ever wanted to hear? Someone that could accept us, and not blame us for the mistakes we made? I don't know how she did it but...
Katelyn- I mean…Kate had just found the words I had always yearned for.
yeah hi...I just realised that I still have a chapter that I have completed but didn't post so here it is. ^_^' Please review?