DIL:...
ED:...
Al:...
Roy:...
Ling:...
Midnight:...
Riza: how could you all let that happen?
DIL: my little cuz was begging me to hurry up and play with her i can never turn down her cute ass face! T_T
ED: I was off in the desert... -_-
Roy: I was with havoc! -._-.
Ling: I was helping Midnight around the hotel... she refused to stop moving... the place was a mess and i ended up helping Winry clean up all her fumbles and things toppled and everything!
Midnight: I was limping i couldn't go out side to go get her... and then i went with you guys
Riza: Yet you wandered around the hotel? and went with us when you could have stopped this from happening?
Midnight: There not the same... she's hard to get to work...
Riza: Fine. Alphonse?
Al:...
Ed: Al?
Al: Well...
Roy: you didn't...
DIL: *laughs quietly in background*
Al: You see...
Ling: he did, didn't he...
Midnight: yep he was...
Al: I was out side playing with them until i went with you as well! T_T
Riza: *aims guns*
DIL: calm your trigger happy tits and let me say sorry to the three readers!
Riza: *points gun at head* go on...
DIL: I'm sorry I let this happen... i uploaded a chapter of another story to this one!
Ed: good news now...
DIL: I fixies! here chu go!
Lust looked angry and then she quickly changed her mood and the subject as well. "Number 66, why were you working with the colonel?"
"Because it seemed like it would be fun. Besides…" Berry paused and held out his blade at her "I want to chop you up more than anything!"
"Such a troublesome man." She said plainly then changed once again. "And what about you armor boy? What brings you someplace like this?" she asks, then, seemed to grumble aloud "This is taking a heavy toll." She wined. "To think that I'll have to kill two sacrifice candidates in one night!" she almost yelled making sure they heard her.
"Sacrifice? Two?" Riza asked being the sharp person she is, caught it, but to her it had no meaning, no value, no concept she never heard what she was talking about before.
"Yes. You and one other." Lust Answered.
"Enough with all the mumbo-jumbo, Miss Lust!" Berry ran, and jumped at lust, and she used her claws to rip him apart midair.
"I hate annoying men." Lust said calmly.
"How could you!" everyone turned to look at midnight because of an outburst Ed would have said. "He was still human!"
"No. he was a killer," Lust started. "Just like you….. You know all that you did" she teased. "Stop lying to yourself. When we got to the 5th laboratory you were done…." She toyed. "Done with them….." she was pushing the thresh hold, "you did it not us." Lust pushed past like a knife to butter.
"What is she talking about?" Riza asked.
"What do you mean?" Al asked as well.
"When we got there, she had already killed them….." Lust was going to turn them on her. "All of them…." She sighed. "We fought to keep Berry and The Slicer alive… we gave it our all… when we finally caught her, and we locked her up." Lust replied acting like a good person.
"Midnight?" Al asked her name, hoping for an explanation.
"It's not true!" Midnight yelled clutching her head. The hold on her fairly happy mask. Slipped far out of reach. "I would never-" she sobbed. "I couldn't have done it." She sank to the floor. "I'm blind," she tried to reason but knew that reason we already answered; she could still see without her eyes. "And always have been, so I couldn't have done it." She tried the excuse anyway. Midnight stayed still and no longer said anything.
Alphonse looked back at lust. She had a grin on her face but wiped it away when he looked but he caught it. "Midnight, she's lying, she's toying with you!" Al found Lust's drift and Midnight's wound witch he tried to patch.
"How would you know the difference?" Lust started trying to fix her drift from Alphonse's iron grip. "The only ones who know the truth are her, and me. Only one of us knows the real truth." Lust said and once again changed the subject. "Now then, Miss Lieutenant, I'll be sending you after your superior, right away." She said and began to walk to Riza and Al.
"Wait. You said two sacrifices in one night, right?" Riza asked. "You don't mean… You don't mean…" she started to bubble.
Lust smiled a big grin, caught by the hawk's eye.
"W-Why, you…" anger fumed "Bitch!" Riza screamed anger and fear in her eyes. She shot Lust until her gun ran out of bullets and she pulled out another one. Lust still wasn't dyeing and she pulled out another gun. Tears could be seen, splattering Hawkeye's face with each blast of the gun that almost set her of balance.
"Finished?" lust asked mockingly. Riza was still calming down from her anger and now the information was setting in. Riza put her head down, and then looked back up at lust, and the teas fell faster as she saw that lust was not even failed. She lowered her gun and let her body fall to the ground, no energy left to stand. "You truly are foolish and weak. You poor creature." Lust continued, and Alphonse walked in front of them both.
"Lieutenant, Midnight," He addressed. "Get up, and run away."
"Do you want to die first?" Lust asked and Alphonse pulled out a staff made of cement, no transmutation circle needed. "I see," she stated somewhat shocked. "You opened the doorway." The poor alchemy was visible, and Lust cut right through it. And she stabbed Al threw his chin, arm, and shoulder. "It's too bad." She wined. "You'd definitely be a sacrifice." She said and sent her claws after Midnight, but Al caught them with his forearm.
"Alphonse, leave me here and run!" Riza yelled.
"No!" Al yelled back at her.
"Please, save yourself!" She cried harder.
"NO!" AL defied.
"but-" Riza started.
"I SAID NO!" Al repeated. "I'm sick of people dying before my eyes! I've had enough! I won't let anyone get killed anymore! Not when I can protect them!" Lust used her both arms, tipped with four claws, and sliced upward and cut off his shoulder piece and chin piece.
"Well said," al looked in the voices direction, Lust did too. "Alphonse Elric." Riza and Midnight recognized the voice, and looked in its direction but a large wall blocked their way. There was a large explosion and flames could be seen around the edges. Al grabbed them both midnight was still paralyzed and Riza struggled to get to him, to get to-
"I've finally got you on your knees, huh?" the voice said again.
"ROY!" she yelled.
"You used the flint as a starter, and a transmutation drawn in your own blood?" lust said. "But how did you get here with your wound?!"
"I burned it closed. I nearly passed out two or three times, too." Another, explosion. "you said you still weren't dead, didn't you? Then I'll just have to kill you until you are dead." Another explosion.
"Colonel!" Riza screamed continuously. "Colonel!"
Midnight snapped out of it and called out. "DAD!" it resonated louder than the flames consuming the burnt body.
Roy stopped for a second, but continued with even stronger determination. He struck again and again, until Lust ran at him claws ready to strike, but she stopped seconds before she hit him, her body alight from his flames. Then she started to break down. "I'm beaten." She said. "I hate to admit it, but being killed by a family man like you isn't so bad. A strong father, those eyes, looking straight ahead, unwavering" she praised. "…I can't wait. The day, when those eyes will be twisted in agony,… is not far off…" she said all the while continuing to disappear, and finally the stone too. Once she was gone Roy let himself fall to the ground.
"Colonel!" Riza called, running over to him the second Al let go.
"Are you all right?" Roy asked.
"Never mind me, please, worry about yourself, sir!" Riza said trying to maintain her position formalities.
"Alphonse, thank you, for protecting the love in my life." Roy continued.
"Never mind thank-yous we have to get you some help!" Al said.
"Dad…" midnight quietly from beside the wall. "I can help… I only know some… but I know I can help…"
"Midnight? You know alchemy?" Al asked.
"Just one circle…"
"Will it help him?!" Riza asked panicked and loud.
Midnight flinched and hid behind the wall a bit. "I don't know… I don't know…. I lost it anyway… I lost it…." she said as she slowly came back out.
"What do you mean you lost it?" Riza yelled.
She jumped completely behind the wall, voice timidly and frightened. "I'm sorry; I knew you would be mad at me." They could hear the sound of her clothes scrape the messy wall. "It's ok to be. A lot of people are…" she gulped. "Mommy…." She said, using the words she only just, now dared to call them.
"WHY,YOU!-" Riza started. It's been recorded that she will try to kill people who hold things, just out of her reach.
"Hawkeye!" Roy demanded her attention. "your scaring my little girl…" he said calling Midnight a term that Riza used for her a lot but Riza, personally, had never heard Roy call her by that.
"Midnight. It's ok just tell me how to help him I can do it." Al comforted but rushed it.
"I'm sorry." Midnight said.
"Why?" Al asked.
"Because I suck." she responded.
"No you don't, I have confidence this will work." Al said.
"Not alone, it won't." Midnight said.
"Like I said, I can help." Al said holding out his hand for her.
She slowly walked over to Roy and kneeled beside him and drew a circle between them. "ok." She said. Al clapped his hands and set them on the transmutation circle. Roy's wound and burn healed with no problem, no evidence of what happened. During the transmutation, midnight laid her ankle on the circle. Slowly a curly burn began to grow up her ankle and shin.
"Can... you… do the same for havoc…. He got stabbed in the back…." Roy asked concerned for his third LT.'s health.
"I don't know… I'm not good with things close to the spinal cord…" Midnight eyes started to water up.
"Then we need to get him some help." Riza said a tiny bit more calm as Roy began to stand up.
Barry's soul survives, but his blood seal is scratched out by his human body, which kills both of them. Edward returns to Resembool and heads toward the Rockbell residence. However, he spots his father Van Hohenheim at the grave of his mother Trisha Elric. An unhappy Edward overhears a conversation Hohenheim has with Pinako about whether or not the corpse that the Elric brothers had attempted to transmute was actually his mother. Hohenheim leaves the next day, warning Pinako that something horrible will happen in this country.
Determined to find the true answer, Edward and Pinako dig up the corpse of the failed transmutation during a downpour, though Edward keeps retching because of the weather and the thought of it being true. When the body has been unearthed, he realizes it was not their mother that they transmuted. Edward then calls Izumi about the legitimacy of her human transmutation, but she does not answer. Edward starts to return to Central to reunite with Alphonse and Winry.
"You can keep going, without ever eating or sleeping?" Ling asked.
"Mm-hmm, as long as this seal is unharmed." Al replied. They had just returned to the motel and Al was wrapped up by Winry so no other parts fall off him.
"Amazing! You truly are immortal aren't you?"
"No, he's not." Midnight said. She was laid, on the couch between Ling, and Lan-Fan, who had found him sitting in the roof. Her head was in Ling's lap and one leg sat in Lan-fan's lap, while Lan-Fan wrapped the other one in some Xingies cloth.
"Yes, this body is like a time bomb." Alphonse said sadly.
"Berry mentioned it after finding, trapping, and ripping up his own body." Midnight said plainly, tugging lightly at new bandages around her leg, pulling her knee to her chest, Lan-Fan slapped her hand away lightly; she left it alone and laid it back on the young lady's lap. "A body is inherently incompatible with someone else's soul." She continued. "If you force one into it, it will undergo rejection."
"Yah, whether that will happen tomorrow, or ten years from now, I don't know." Al said sadly.
"Oh, no. then you need to get back to normal as soon as you can." Winry said leaning in.
"Yeah but still… if your body has some sort of problem, Can't you transfer your soul into something else, and go on living?" Ling asked hopping that his theory would work.
"No! Stupid! Every time a soul moves bodies it leaves a piece of it behind and soon there will be nothing left to transfer." Midnight said siting up from ling's lap, but her legs still remained in place.
"Ok, ok." Ling gave in "but in the meantime, that is one nice body."
"There's nothing 'Nice' about it!" Winry yelled, standing." You don't know anything!" everyone became quiet and watch as she stormed off. "sorry." She said quietly.
"Winry!" Al called after her as she walked to her room and closed the door. Al waited a while then got up and knocked on her door. "Winry, I'm coming in." he did, and midnight n' Ling could no longer here their conversation.
Things became quiet. "How did you get that burn on your leg anyway?" Lan-Fan asked.
"My dad got burnt…" she replied a bit envious.
"Wha- that has nothing to do with your burn." Ling said.
"It was transmuted…"
"I don't follow…" Lan-Fan said.
Sky sighed. "Roy was hurt. He had a bad cut and he burnt it closed. Then I made the burn smaller on his body by putting it on myself." She said.
"And you used alchemy to do that?" Ling asked.
"No it was Alphonse, but how else was I supposed to help him." She asked, and both replied with 'there's a lot of ways…'
After two days, Edward finally came back to the hotel: "What the hell?!" he yelled.
"I'm sorry, brother." Al wined.
"No, you're not…" Midnight said lightly limping by them, but Ed hardly noticed, he was too distracted by Alphonse's condition. He practically ran in circles around his brother looking at all the damage.
"Well, I guess I'm not am I?" al said haply as he watched her recovering speed and she walked away to do something, that little did he know, would make Ed mad.
"Nope, not when you helped save two lives." Winry said trying to get the older brother to be proud of the younger one.
"How are you this beat up…!" he exclaimed ignoring them. "And what's worse…" he pointed at Lan-Fan, who sat by the table on her knees, and Ling, who sat on the couch feeding midnight. Like a very injured person, that Midnight wasn't really, reluctantly ate the food given to her. "What are you two doing here?! Midnight how dare you let that mooch hand feed you!"
"We're just eating." Ling said with his mouth full of unknown food, and a chicken leg in his hand was in Midnight's mouth.
Before they knew what hit them, the two were out the door because of a foot. And the two made a 'weeee' sound of emotionless joy. Midnight limped out with an annoyed face, not looking at the ground. She was almost pulled back in but she tripped on Land-Fan, and landed on top of the pile, and her foot closed the door. Then the three of them got up and listened in on the conversation. "Brother, Midnight knows more than she's letting us know."
"What do you mean Al?" Winry asked.
"She did something I never thought of and no matter what I did to try and redo it, or get others to redo it, it wouldn't work." Al contemplated.
"What did she do, Al?" Ed asked intrigued.
"She had a transmutation circle that removed the injury on the colonel and placed it on herself." Al replied.
"What, why would she do that instead of healing it or something?" Winry asked.
"I don't think she can, Winry." Ed said sadly. "After all Al is the one who did the alchemy. Right?"
"Yeah, it was strange, but not gate strange. It was different."
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