That same day night on the other side…
He tossed in his sleep. "NO NO!" He screamed. Below downstairs someone woke up and began to climb the stairs. "Stop! Stop!" he called out again. The young man rolled of his bed. He was about 5'10, blonde hair, brown eyes, and his hair was pulled back into a ponytail.
"Brother!! No! Mustang! What are you doing! Brother!!" This time his own cries woke him. He lay there for a moment, before Winrey opened the door and stepped in.
"Al? Al are you alright?" she asked tentatively.
"Just a bad dream. It was so real though." Al relied.
"About Ed? Your connection is so strong, I sometimes wonder if you still see each other by your side. You know one time you said to me 'wow this auto mail is great, and motioned to your leg, then realized what you had said, and turned away. Like Ed was sending a message. I like to think he is still here with us." Winrey said.
"If that is so, then I hope dreams don't count." Al hinted grimly.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing. Thanks for getting up to check on me Winrey. Go back to sleep." Al said.
Al laid awake for quite sometime, thinking about the dream he had just had of Ed being shot on the other side, by Mustang. He didn't go back to sleep that night.
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It loomed up before him, huge and massive, foreboding and dark as it had always been. Ed laughed as the doors opened for him. So this was finally it. He was going to find out what was inside the gate, not just on the other side. The gate opened. Just inside of it stood two figures. As he walked forward, he recognized both of them. One was his mother. The other was Wrath. So Wrath had finally been killed. Good riddance.
He walked up to his mother and hugged her. "Mother it has been such a long time. Can you ever forgive me, for what we tried to do?" Ed asked.
"Oh Ed, there isn't anything to forgive. You were trying to do the right thing. Come with me now. Rest, finally." Ed's mother began to lead him away before something grabbed his arm. It was Wrath.
"There is another choice." Wrath said.
"Don't listen to him darling." She said.
Ed looked at them both, before turning to Wrath. "What do you mean?"
"I can take you through the gate. To the other side. To your brother." He said quietly.
"And what would you want in return?" Ed asked
"Just to be forgiven. I just want to go into the gate. Without being forgiven, I can't rest. I can't stay in the gate. I just want to rest." Wrath said pleadingly.
"Is this true mother? Can I go see Al?" Ed looked at her.
"Yes. You can. You would be given another life. It is up to you." She replied.
Ed stood there for minutes, caught between the two decisions. Another chance to live! And with his brother. He had to do it. But what about his mother? What about her. He looked at her.
"Mother, I'm going back. I want to live. But someday, I will be back. I will miss you though." She nodded, then seemed to dissolve.
"Lets go." Wrath grabbed his hand, and pulled him hard into the gate. In a flash, Ed saw Many people, ones he knew and ones he didn't, that were in the gate, then they were standing on the other side of it.
"Walk until you can't see the gate anymore, then use your alchemy to make a door. Go thorough it, and you will be back where you were before you came through the gate to the other side." Wrath said.
"Thank you Wrath. I for…"
"Wait. There is one more thing. You gave you leg to have your mother back. Well you did, and then she was taken again. It seems only fitting you should have it back." Ed looked down, and gasped. Both legs here flesh, human flesh.
"You still have your brother, so can't have your arm." Wrath added.
" Thank you Wrath. I don't deserve your kindness and help. I forgive you, for everything that happened, and I am sorry." Wrath smiled, then dissolved like Ed's mother. Ed stayed there for a moment, before walking straight away from the gate. When he could no longer see it he clapped his hands together. The usual burst of energy leaped into his hands, and he put them on the floor. A door popped up, and Ed opened it. He was back.
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