The 'END' of the Story's End.
By: Ichi-chan (DaRkNeSs4IcHi)
Disclaimer: I do not own FMA (though I wish I do…), respecting FMA, I will do my best to make this Fic' realistic and acceptable. Hope you guys enjoy it! ^_^
Chapter 7 – A Sudden Turn of Events. (Revised)
"Hey Rose-san, thanks for having me again." Winry told Rose as she boarded the train, "I'm sorry if I acted... A bit, pathetically." She beamed apologetically.
"Don't Winry-san! It wasn't a bother to me!" Rose smiled back at her. "Besides, I was getting a little lonely, no one ever comes to visit me."
"Thank you again!" Winry said while bowing her head for a formal 'Thank you' "Well, I'll be going now!" Winry grinned at Rose one more time about to head for the train's compartment and look for a place to sit, when Rose quickly said, "Ah! Wait Winry!"
"Yes, Rose-san?" Winry turned to face Rose again.
"Hey, when Edward-kun and Alphonse-kun gets back, you guys will visit me won't you?" Rose asked, smiling weakly, despite the advice she gave Winry to not get too caught up with it, she still couldn't stop herself from hoping as well.
Winry smiled widely in response and ran back to give Rose a big hug. "Of course we will!" Winry whispered the words, afraid to that if she voiced them loudly her voice would sound bleak and unsure.
The train whistled again, while the conductor announced the last call for passengers cueing Winry that it was time to go. She slowly pushed away from Rose and re-boarded the train.
"Bye Rose!" Winry called again as she sat down beside the open window while looking at Rose.
"Ah, Winry one more thing!" Rose called loudly as the trained whistled again and began to advance. "Why did you come to me about it, of all people?"
Winry beamed at her question. The train began to pick up the pace, Rose started to jog to keep up. "Because I knew that of all the people I know…" The train sped up more, Rose now running to keep up. "You were the one who would truly understand!!" She yelled the words as the train sped up even more and Rose started to fall behind.
Rose stopped in her tracks, surprised by Winry's response.
"I hope you'll find the 'ONE' that's really meant for you soon!" Winry waved at Rose, wishing with all her might that Rose would find her happiness soon as well.
"Don't worry I promise we'll come to visit when Ed and Al gets home!" She called after Rose.
Rose waved back at Winry, "Take care Winry! Promise you won't forget to visit!" She said as tears came trickling down her smiling face.
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"Brother all the books here are worthless! There is nothing about 'our' Alchemy here!" Alphonse complained as closed the 30th book he was reading that spoke of parallel worlds.
"C'mon Al! Don't give up! We're bound to find something." Edward encouraged his brother, though he really was starting to lose his patience.
Sigh. "Brother we've been here all day, aren't you tired yet? I think it's almost closing time." Alphonse said as he glanced up to check the time on the big grandfather clock.
"Ah, no worries, I've already taken care of that, we can stay here all night, I talked to the receptionist, Heiderich introduced us before, and she was nice enough to trust us to lock up." Edward explained as he opened another book regarding parallel worlds.
"Then how about I get us some grub before we lock ourselves in Brother?" Alphonse said as he stood up smiling, reminded of how they use to stay up all night reading alchemy books back at Resembool. "Be right back." He said as he headed for the door.
"Okay, AL." Edward answered unable to tear his eyes away from the book he's reading, "Oh! And bring some pie for desert okay?" Edward called after his brother, eyes still focused on his work.
"Okay brother!" and with that Alphonse left.
After an hour later.
"AH! DAMN IT!" Edward exclaimed, fed up. "There's nothing about alchemy here!" He yelled again. "No incident that can be considered alchemy, no studies, no NOTHING!" Edward comed his hair with his automail hand, frustrated. "I just don't get it! Surely there should be at least ONE incident!" he then picked up another book, quickly scanning the pages, a few minutes though, he threw it away and picked up another.
"Think Ed, think!" he ordered himself, concentrating on every bit of information he gathered from his accidental-use of alchemy.
"You got pissed and used alchemy to fix the jar without even thinking twice, then it worked." He then laid down his book and intertwined his fingers together as he leaned his head on his cupped-together hands, forcing himself to concentrate harder. "Is there some detail I'm missing?"
Meanwhile.
"Thank you ma'am!" Alphonse thanked the good shop keeper of the bakery located a few blocks away from the public library.
"Come again!" The old lady waved, bidding Alphonse good day.
"Now, did I get everything? Let me see" Alphonse peeked at his groceries. "Got the milk, and water for brother…" Sigh. "Bread, apples, and the only thing left is the pie." Alphonse looked up, scanning the now darkened streets for a pastry shop.
"Where can I find pie here," he wondered out loud, still scanning the streets. Sigh. "If I don't hurry up Brother will get impatient again." He thought, walking up the streets.
"Uhm, excuse me mis~WOAH!" Al stepped back as the lady he was just about to ask turned to face him. "1st Lt. HAWKEYE?!" he stared in disbelief.
"Huh?" Was the lady's only reply.
"Oh, I'm sorry miss!" Alphonse bowed his head in quick apology, remembering that people from Amestris has someone they look a lot like here on Earth. "I thought you were someone I know" He apologized again.
"Oh, it's okay." The woman assured him, smiling gently at Alphonse.
"Elizabeth?" A man came running down the street, "Elizabeth what are you still doing he~oh? Am I interrupting something?" The mans voice turned from gentle to ice-cold as he took in Alphonse's figure.
"Oh, not at all Roy." Elizabeth assured the man, while Alphonse looked up at him.
"Colonel MUSTANG?" Alphonse asked at the same time Roy said, "Mr. Heiderich?!"
"Huh?" they both said in unison.
"Oh, sorry my mistake!" Alphonse apologized again.
"Are you not Mr. Alfons Heiderich?" Roy asked Al as Elizabeth looked at Al as well.
"Oh no, Sir, I'm Alphonse Elric." He smiled.
"Oh, my apologies, you look exactly like him." Roy smiled warily, oblivious to the similarities of Alphonse Elric and Alfons Heiderich's features.
"No, problem Sir." Alphonse answered cheerfully while he thought, "Wait till Brother hears about this." He nodded at the couples direction, then left.
"Now, where can I find a pastry shop?" He wondered again, getting back at the matter at hand. He then continued to walk down the street, and after a few minutes of wondering aimlessly across the street Alphonse stopped to ask a passing man, "Sir," he began, "is there any pastry shop near the area?" He asked politely.
"Oh, there's one shop near Apollo St. just a block away from the church." The man answered quickly.
"Thank you Sir!" Alphonse replied gratefully before dashing off. "Apollo St., that's located just behind the Library, better take a short cut to make up for the time." Al thought, turning left at the next alley.
Alphonse walked silently down the dark alley, holding the bag of food safely against his chest.
Then… BAM!!
Alphonse steered, looking for the source of the sound, only to find that the way he came from was now blocked by two men, apparently, one of which had kicked a trash can towards the alley wall. Alarmed Alphonse turned to run up the alley, but found that the exit was also blocked by two other men.
"What's the hurry?" The tall man from behind asked, while pulling out a knife.
"What do you guys want?" Alphonse asked taking a defensive post, his back against the alley wall.
"We're just here to collect the passage fee punk." The shorter one snickered.
"Passage fee?" Alphonse repeated, pressing himself harder against the alley wall.
"Yeah, to pass this alley you 'gotta pay the toll fee kid!" The tall man answered while the other man snickered again.
"I'm warning you guys, I'll report you to the police if you don't leave!"
"Ahahahaha!" They all laughed, not threatened by Al's words.
"Those guys? Hah! They wouldn't even dare cross us!" one of the men that blocked his exit called, as the other men laughed again.
"I'm warning you guys, if you don't back down now I'm going to have to hurt you." He warned, as the four men started to advance towards him.
"Crap! I got myself in such a mess again!" Al thought as he analyzed his situation, looking for a way to escape.
"Who do you think you are punk?!" The tall man asked, sounding annoyed that Al was belittling him.
"You guys will be sorry If you don't turn around now." Alphonse warned, getting himself ready for the attack as well as throwing his opponents concentration down by provoking them.
"Now SHUDDAP kid!" The tall man yelled, suddenly rushing for Al, "TAKE THIS!!" he extended his knife about to stab Al, Al dodged it by ducking down then with a swift movement, shot his left hand up, palm face forward and collided it with the man's chin, the collision sent the guy a few feet off of the ground as Al gave him a powerful kick across his chest, the knife fell from his hands as he hit the opposite wall, hard. The impact made him ricochet forward and landed, face first against the alley's cold stone floor. The three other men shouted. "Boss" at the same time, then two of them charged for Alphonse as well.
One of the men that was blocking Alphonse's exit earlier held up his bat and charged Al at the same time the short guy pulled up a knife and advanced at Al as well.
Furious the man swung his bat towards Alphonse while the short guy rushed to stab Alphonse's back. Only having a few seconds to react, Al dropped the groceries and launched himself upward, performing a back flip as the man's bat missed and the knife stabbing nothing.
Both men looked up and followed Alphonse's movement in sudden shock.
Al gracefully landed on the balls of his feet, his knees bending to absorb the impact and launched himself forward in a sudden rush to take the offense. The man who still stood at the exit in front shouted, "WATCH OUT!"
The short man was barely able to turn and defend himself when al gave him a quick and powerful kick from the side, launching him for the wall, his head hitting the wall so hard it knocked him out, while the tall guy forced his body to sit up but was unsuccessful, he cursed under his breath, trying to make the blood stop flowing from his bloody mouth.
In a split second Al did a 360° turn and launched his second attack at the guy with the bat before the guy even realized he was next. Al's fist collided with the man's face and sent him hurtling backward, just then Al spotted the tall man reach for the knife just behind him.
He ran back and kicked the knife out of the way and plunged himself towards the ground, launching his elbow against the tall mans back. "BOSS!" the guy at the exit cried out in horror as his boss's head threw back and coughed out blood before losing consciousness.
"One more to go." Al thought as he immediately leaned his body weight at his right arm, his elbow bending a little, preparing his body to spring and shoot towards his last opponent, but when he was about to launch himself forward he saw his opponent drew a gun. Too late to stop himself from springing towards the man, Al shot himself forward at the same time the man pulled the trigger of the gun.
Al slid left trying to avoid the bullet, his hands shooting up, instinctively covering every bit of his upper body he can in an attempt to protect himself from getting a fatal shot.
Al froze in alarm, his face and arms splattered with his own blood. Luckily the bullet only grazed him.
The man stared at him with horrified eyes, trembling from head to toe.
"Oh, CRAP!" Alphonse thought, "I'M GONNA GET SHOT!" he panicked, knowing that there's nowhere to hide in this alley way, and even if he ran back towards the way he came from he'll still get shot.
"GO DIE BASTARD!!" The man yelled as he pulled the trigger again and again, showering Alphonse with bullets. In the same heart beat Alphonse clapped his hands together and lunged himself towards the ground, instinctively using alchemy in a desperate attempt to save himself.
"SHHHHRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"
There was a flash of bright light, and the floor rose up, creating a wall between Al and the man. Al stared stupefied, his mind in shock.
The man on the other side of the side fell back as the wall rose, horror-struck, he staggered backward. "WHA~WHAT THE HELL??"
The wall stopped rising, Alphonse fell back as well, looking up at the wall, his mind still boggled by the sudden turn of events.
"MO~MONSTER!" The man shouted as he scrambled to get up on his feet and ran away in horror leaving his companions behind.
Alphonse stared at his creation, still not able to move he said, "Wha… What did I just do?' Alphonse asked himself as police sirens rang from a distance.
End of Chapter 7 – A Sudden Turn of Events.
Ichi wrote: Yay! I'm done with chapi 7! Nyu! =3 thanks you for reading my fic! ^_^ I hope you enjoyed it! Please tell me what you think of it! Please send me your reviews~! Domo arigatou minna-san! Nyu! =3
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