A/N: Final chapter. It's a bittersweet moment.

A. Leaf


Remember Me


"It's my brother."

Alphonse snapped out of his meditative state. Rage bubbled inside him, because that could only be one person. Al growled the name, "Envy."

He transmuted a spear in ten seconds. After that he kicked opened the bedroom door and lunged the spear through the small crow's neck. The crow didn't fall off the window sill. It sat there with the spear hanging from its neck like it was nothing.

Pride started wailing hysterically, "No! Please, don't hurt my brother!"

Al had to multitask. With his mind, he made the armor scoop up Pride and took him to another room. The armor repeated what he already thought, "Brother, don't it's too dangerous."

Red lighting flashed around the spear. The black crow was definitely Envy. "Is that anyway to treat your guest?" Al hated his voice.

Envy mortified to his actual state. When the shifting was complete, he was able to pull the spear out of his neck. Envy sat on the window sill like he belonged there, then he smiled evilly at him, "We're practically family now"

Al growled at that statement. The anger that was accumulating for three days straight was getting harder to control with each passing second he watched Envy. His fists were twitching and he was starting to see red. However, seeing Ed's favorite color only made it worse. Al used the little voice he had, "Give me my brother back."

In his mind, Al can hear Pride's pleading to the armor. He was begging the armor to let him go fight and defend his brother. It shattered his heart to know that Pride wanted fight with Envy.

"Shouldn't I say that? You're the one who kidnapped my baby brother," Envy smirked at him.

That was it. Al clapped and catapulted Envy out of the room. It left a huge hole in the wall, but it didn't matter at the time. This fight was far from over and Al still had a lot of frustration to vent. He grabbed the rope the armor left behind and safely made it to the ground. Envy couldn't be that far away.

"ENVY!"

AL barely recognized his own voice. He was so hurt and it showed through his extremely strained yell. He had to concentrate to look through heavy rainfall. In the dense fog, he saw a figure rise from the ground. Al approached it with his weapon pointing at blurred figure. The next thing he saw was Envy's ridiculous outfit.

"What was that for? I merely stated the obvious."

"What did you do to my brother!?" He yelled through the rain's mist. That was a question that wanted answer for a long time.

Envy held the palm of his hands up, posed as if he was innocent, "I didn't do anything to him. I don't have the power to make more homunculi only Father does."

"You let him turn my brother into a monster?" Al was still using his strained voice. It hurt his throat to talk like that.

Envy huffed, "I can't go against my father. It's such a shame. We had high hopes for him and he turned to be whiny and worthless baby." Envy shook his head at the thought, "He actually fell for the puppet armor trick. How stupid could he be?"

Alphonse waste any time to attack at Envy again. With blind rage, Al repeatedly tried to stab the homunculus. Alphonse was too focused to on eliminating his target. Envy tried to keep up, but rapid jabs were getting harder to dodge and Al didn't follow a pattern, just him.

Envy jumped back to gain distance from the blond. He noticed the vacant stare in Al's eyes and hatched a plan in mere seconds. Envy asked diligently, "What's wrong, little Al? Did Pride steal your tongue?"

"I want my brother," Al kept growling at the homunculus, "GIVE HIM BACK!"

"As you wish," Envy wanted a good look as Alphonse's face as he shifted again.

Alphonse was charging at Envy until he noticed Envy's new form. The spear was inches from the homunculus's face, but it wasn't his face anymore. Al stopped his attack, because he saw the Fullmetal Alchemist again. He saw his red coat, his gold hair, and his gold stare, again.

Al remembered that it was a trick. He continued to try to stab the homunculus's head. Edward flinched back a little surprised, "What are you doing, Brother?" He has the audacity to use his voice, too. Al hated him so much.

Al kept swing at the homunculus, "You can't fool me, Envy. I know it's you."

"What are you talking about, Brother?"

Al was trembling where he stood. He was filled with so much anger that he couldn't channel it properly. Envy imitating Edward was a low blow. That's what Envy does; he will do or say thing to throw off his opponent to defeat him. It will not happen again. He is also responsible for Fullmetal's disappearance in the first place and he needed to remember that to do this.

"My brother was the most selfless person who walked the face of this Earth." Al felt himself crying again.

The heavy rainfall masked his tears for him. He approached the imposter and stared into his gold eyes. He got that part right; his eyes looked genuine. But, there was a crucial part of Fullmetal that he did get wrong.

"You didn't copy Edward correctly, Envy." Al began to raise the spear and plunged it into Envy's right shoulder, "The automail arm was his right arm, not his left."

Envy was howling in pain. How could he feel pain? After everything that he had done to humanity and after how much misery he loves to cause to innocent people. It felt a little good to hear him whimper in agony.

Alphonse jolted the lodged spear and ripped his right arm off. Envy used his left hand to cover up the wound. It was so ironic. Al sighed as he remembered a distant, but very painful memory.

"When I first woke up in the metal armor, Edward was hunched over in that position trying to keep the blood from gushing out of his shoulder. I didn't have time to react to the new body, because I had to make sure that he didn't bleed to death. I remember that like it was yesterday, but it was forever ago." He couldn't believe that he was telling Envy this.

Well, no one bothered to hear his side of this story, because it's a story that people only wanted to hear once and never mention again. The Elric Brothers couldn't go a day without being reminded of their worst mistake they ever made and tried to play God. That experience was changed both of their lie forever and started a long domino effect to Edward's demise.

"This is a nice trip down memory lane." Ed's fake voice was so irritating to hear.

Al growled again. Edward wouldn't talk about that night in carefree tone. That night was his motivation that got him through the military and restored Al's body. Envy needs to change out of Fullmetal's shape. No one could imitate Edward Elric.

Al grinned at the hurt homunculus. He did love talking about his brother. Al used the spear again to pierce the Envy's leg and began another explanation, "Before Ed have to give a limb to save my life, his left leg was taken from him for his arrogance for trying to bring our mother back from the dead."

"Stop it!" This is wonderful and perfect timing.

Alphonse was talking about Fullmetal so much that he forgot about Pride. Al removed the spear from the homunculus's leg. Envy finally shifted back to his actual state, but with his right arm missing. It was already starting to heal. He wasn't human. Losing a limb meant nothing to him.

Al faced the blonde distraught homunculus. He could see the hatred in dead amber eyes. The man who tried to kill him has turned on his own brother. Al watched Pride summon his large scythe, but Al's is not going give him a chance to use it. With a quick clap, Al bounded the homunculus's legs with stone and abruptly ended the inevitable fight.

Al didn't want to give Pride another reason to hate him, but his disgust towards Envy, his fake brother, is something that he'll never understand. The alchemist watched the homunculus flopped to the ground, utterly helpless. Al dodged the scythe that Pride dropped by accident.

There was nothing that the alchemist could say to Pride. He's already restrained and not able to fight with his brother. The blonde homunculus moved around as much as he could with the huge stone ball that bonded his feet. Pride bowed his head to the muddy ground and he began to plead for his brother's safety, "Please don't hurt him anymore. Please, he's my brother."

Pride's begging only made Alphonse angrier at Envy. If only Pride could understand his frustration. Al's voice was still very hoarse when he replied to the plea, "He took my brother from me and broke him. There's nothing you could do to change what he did."

Pride had very little pride, because he was kneeling in mud and rain. There's no telling what Envy or the other homunculi did to get Ed to that point. Al had to command the armor to scrap Pride off the ground while he takes care of Envy.

The old armor came rushing out of the dense fog and immediately pulled Pride off the ground. Pride struggled to get out of the armor's arms and tried to explain, "But brother, I can't leave him behind."

"Brother?" Envy was limbs were finally healed and he was able to stand up again.

He swiftly dodged the jabs that came from Al's spear. "That thing is not your brother. It's a puppet that's being controlled by someone. Can't you figure that out you imbecile?"

Shut up, shut up, Alphonse was trying to cut off Envy's mouth at that point.

Fortunately for him, he found Pride's discarded scythe and was able to block off the spear. He stared straight at Pride and the armor and said, "I'll show you."

At that very moment, Alphonse started to panic, because he had an idea what Envy was planning. He wasn't focused enough to make two different bodies react at the same time. The armor turned around tried to flee the scene when the scythe impaled his chest and sliced off the left side of his body. The soul transfer wore off after all of that damage. Al and Pride watched in shock at the massive armor fell in pieces.

Pride's eyes where wide like saucers and was visibly trembling. Envy stood over him as he desperately tried to wake his armor brother with a shaken voice. This was a new low for both of the homunculi. Envy growled again and raised the scythe to strike, "You're pathetic."

Alphonse snapped out of his shock. It took two seconds to send a huge stone fist to knock Envy twenty feet away from Pride. Al approached Envy with Pride's eyes watching him. He gestured the spear towards the armor and said, "You're going to pay for that."

Alphonse had a new reason to stab Envy in the throat and he wanted to really badly. Envy, on the other hand, was exhausted and still in a lot of pain. The homunculi's recovery time slows down when their hit multiple times. He huffed and said, "Maybe next time, little Al. Keep the crybaby."

Al twitched. There's not going to be a next time. He lunged at Envy again, but he shifted into a crow and flew away. Since he no other option, he used the spear to plop the crow out of the sky. It was a direct hit and Envy didn't get very far. A few feet away, Alphonse found the spear abandoned and Envy nowhere in sight. Either he faded in thin air or shifted to a smaller animal to escape. Al really wished it was the first thing.

That's one problem solved. Alphonse could finally calm down and hear the sound of the rain again. Al could also hear the soft sobbing from a distance. He had another thing to do. He approached Pride and his mutilated brother and said, "The damage is not that bad. The armor's been through worse."

Pride looked up at Al as he approached him. His eyes were red; worn down from crying. The rain hid the tears on his face. Alphonse held his hands up and cautiously step forward, "Do you remember? It was raining that day too and a guy named Scar completely immobilized him with one touch, but he restored with another one."

Pride had the armor's head hugged tightly against his chest. Seeing his devotion to the armor gave Al hope that Fullmetal could still be recovered. Alphonse glanced at the armor. There was a huge diagonal cut that sliced off its shoulder. Inside the red transmutation circle was still intact.

Al moved the dismembered metal arm towards the rest of the body. Pride was observing every move he made as he clapped and used alchemy to repair the armor.

Pride studied the brand new armor and stealthy asked, "How did you do that?"

Al thought he would never ask, "I used alchemy to repair him."

Al noted the confused look on Pride's face. He offered, "I could teach it to you; if you want to learn it."

Pride kept his eyes on the armor. There's no telling what was going through his head at that moment. Al is relieved that he is not asking what happened to Envy. Alphonse kneeled next to him. It was the first time that Al was this close to Pride and he wasn't struggling to get away from him.

"Thank you," Pride's small acknowledgement meant everything to Alphonse.


The blond homunculus picked at his new clothes. He was so use to Envy's hand-me-downs to consider anything else. Also, other articles of clothing weren't an option for him. He looked down at the plain white long sleeve shirt and black long pants and thought about how covered up he was. It felt a little more comfortable then his last outfit.

He still needs a little validation, "What do you think, Brother?"

The colossal armor that was took up more than half of his small bed. The armor nodded and said, "I like the new clothes. It looks very nice on you, Brother."

Pride knew he wasn't going to say to that. The armor doesn't remember being torn apart earlier that day, but he's been in a very cheerful mood since the fight with Envy. Also, so does the blonde guy and Winry. They seem to be a little more relaxed. Maybe they're relieved that he didn't go his other brother. Technically his brother left him behind.

There's not much that Pride could do. He doesn't know how to get home from there. He still doesn't know the name of the town he's in. Envy told him the bare minimum and never included him in decision-making. He's a little relieved that he doesn't have to go back to that dark dungeon.

"How about you ask Winry if she likes the outfit too?" the armor suggested.

"Okay," his armor brother is so considerate.

Pride went to the bedroom door to find Winry in the hallway. She was standing patiently next to the doorway. Before Pride could ask how Winry felt about the outfit, she collapsed. Pride reached out his arms and stopped her from falling to the ground. Confused and disorientated, Pride scooped her up in his arms and carried her to his brother. He'll know what to do.

"Brother, there's something wrong with her." Pride carefully showed the dizzy girl to his brother.

Al saw Winry's flushed face and said, "She'll be fine. I think that she really likes your oufit."

Pride heard the amusement in his voice. It's probably another human reaction he doesn't recognize. It was kind of funny to see Winry so bemused over a simple outfit. She started to wiggle in his grasp; she's waking up. The blonde girl quickly realized that she was in Pride's arms again.

"P-Pride, you can put me down now. I'm fine." She usually stutters in this situation.

"Really Winry? You look very flushed." The armor asked amusingly.

"I-I swear I'm fine. Please put me down." She was starting to call

Pride took a few steps to the bed and carefully put her on the bed. He realized that she was holding on to something very tightly; it appeared to be a small bottle. Winry looked down at the small bottle and fiddled with it. "Pride, I want you to try this, too. I have no idea if you'll like it or not, but you should give it a shot."

Pride was a little curious at that point. He looked at small bottle and wondered what could be inside it. The liquid inside was a pale white and opaque. Winry twisted the cap off and shoved it in Pride's hand. He did what he was told and tasted a small mouthful of the strange liquid. The moment the liquid hit his tongue he immediately spit it out.

To Winry and the armor watched the homunculus drastically change the tone of his voice, "Winry, what were you thinking? You know I don't like milk!"

Winry didn't respond. She rose from seat and hugged the blonde. He stared at the armor startled. When Alphonse barged into the room, the homunculus glanced back and forth at him and the armor baffled. Al inhaled deeply and asked, "Really, Edward, a bottle of milk?"

His voice was still shaky, because the homunculus was still very confused, "Al, what happened?"

"I'll tell you later."

That could honestly wait. Al rushed over to hug his older brother. It's been forever since he had the chance to.


A/N: Well, that is it. I am done with this story. I don't have to extend it any further. Everything worked out in the end, sort of. I might do a sequel or an OVA story, later. I haven't thought that far ahead yet.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I didn't expect this story to get so popular. I hope you like it. I hope you didn't cry that much. I can admit that I cried when I wrote this story, especially this final chapter. This was not an easy story. I usually like light-hearted stories, not this. Geez, this was hard.

Special thanks to Shiloh Moon, Monica Moss, Kas3y, and Rumicwarrior22 for reviewing almost every chapter I posted. You helped me through my writer's block and part of my motivation to continue on. Also, I thank every single person who followed or favorite this story. That was awesome to see the list growing every week.

That's it. Hoped you enjoyed it.

A. Leaf