A/N: Yeah, the leg thing was kinda cliche. Oh, well.
Oh, yeah...if anyone could beta for me, I'd appreciate it.
Disclaimer: I lied to you all...I actually AM Hiromi Arakawa!
No...I'm not.
I was back, and I was in agony. Again.
My right leg (or should I say, the stump that was my right leg) bled like crazy. For some reason, though, it didn't hurt as much as it did when my arm was taken.
Al was gone. In his place were his empty clothes.
"No!" Ed's cry filled the room. I saw him stumble off of the wheelchair that he was on and crawl out of the circle to where Al had been.
Mustang looked like he was in shock. He looked at me and the empty space that Al had been in with horror.
Instinct took over. I crawled over to Ed, who had reached Al's spot, and quickly hugged him. He stiffened, then relaxed and began crying. I felt tears fill my eyes.
A suit of armor crashed to the ground.
The sound snapped me out of it. Armor. I pulled Ed away from me and slapped him as hard as I could. He stared at me in surprise.
"Snap out of it!" I yelled. "We can still bring him back!"
Comprehension crossed his face. "The armor…" he whispered. His eyes regained a bit of their fire.
As one, we made our way to the fallen armor. His leg began bleeding again, but we ignored it. When we reached the suit, we both pulled off the helmet. The neck of the armor was exposed.
Using our blood, we created a rune-the exact same rune in the original series. As we put our hands together, I thought, Give him back! There is no way that I'm going to let you win! Give-Him-Back!
And for the third time in two days, I was back at the Portal.
This is getting tiring.
"Again?" Truth sounded pained.
"Hey, I don't want to do this, either."
"Fine, I'll make this simple." Truth waved a hand-my hand. "I'll take your leg and the Fullmetal shrimp's arm. Sound good?"
"All right." I turned to leave, then stopped. "But...why are you being so nice?"
It snorted. "I'm not being nice, I'm being fair. I do have a soft spot for your kind, though. You never cease to amaze me."
"My type?"
It opened its mouth to answer, but before it could, the doors pulled me back, leaving me puzzling over its odd words.
