It Was Either That Or Another Digipad
By Trudyann B.
Rated Kplus for very mild language
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters or settings. I am playing in Konami's sandbox.
Ending E
(This story contains a few references to other endings as well.)
Epilogue
8.2.2002 12:02:03
The room is silent and there is no one in sight. The bed still carries folded clothing that had just recently been abandoned. Two figures appear one after the other out of what seems to be nowhere. The first figure is of short stature. He dissolves into the room from the feet upward in a red glow. When his structure has fully built itself, his eyes open to expose unearthly ruby red irises. This figure seems tired. His eyelids do not fully open.
The second figure that appears is a tall blonde man. He appears laying on the bed on top of both the bedspread and the clothing. His eyes are closed and do not open.
The red-eyed figure stumbles lazily, now fully portraying his exhaustion. He flops down to the floor and rests against the wall, watching the man on the bed with disinterest. Something suddenly flies out of the man's pocket, a golden glow surrounding it. It's a little brown journal and as it comes slowly closer to the red-eyed creature, it tears itself apart.
Time passes. The red-eyed humanoid lays his head back against the wall and starts to close his eyes. Suddenly, the blonde man stirs. The conscious figure looks up at the man on the bed again, this time more alert. His feet start to dissolve in a reddish glow, followed by the rest of his small form. The very moment that the glow ceases and the red eyed being is no more, the man on the bed wakes from his deep slumber.
The man sits up, looking around in a panicked state.
He is in a bedroom. He speaks German. He lives in Lebensbaum. Lebensbaum is in Austria, which is near Germany and Hungary, and Switzerland…
What is he doing? How did he get here? Why are a bunch of folded clothes surrounding him? Is this his bedroom? Is there anyone else around? Who are his friends and enemies? …What is his name?
He slowly rises from the bed and starts searching through his pockets for any clue as to who he is. There's a cell phone, a map of the town in the fifteenth century, and a crumpled piece of paper. He opens the paper to reveal about five different strange arrays. They are all labeled with the names of people who discovered them. He lays the crumpled paper on his bed and continues surveying his surroundings. He looks at the clothing on top of the bed. The only unfolded article of clothing on it is a pair of pants. He picks them up and spies a small black book with a strange design of the cover that had been lying underneath the pants. It matches one of the arrays on the crumpled paper. He reads the writing underneath the array.
Discovered by Dr. Alphons Gadspy as a way to control a Homunculus.
He looks at the pentagram-like design and thinks about the name. Both the pentagram and the name were so familiar to him, but he couldn't put a finger on why. Was that his name? Alphons Gadspy? He looks around the paper for a date as to when the array was discovered, but there is nothing to be found. He reads part of the book that he had found under the crumpled pants. It talks of Alchemy—it's such an interesting concept. This Dr. Wagner it spoke of seemed to be quite a character.
Alphons Gadspy… yes; that must be his name. He must be an alchemist.
2.2.2002 12:00:23
Homunculus once again appears in the room, but this time there is no one there. However, only moments later, an earlier version of the blonde man walks through the door and stops dead at the sight of the creature.
"Hello, Eike. How are things?"
