The Gates Of Hell Beneath Central
Well, to those of you that have een so supportive of this story, here is your reward. The final chapter of this FMA/ Lucio Fulci crossover. I want reviews from everyone on this one, because this is the grand finale. And don't flame me either. I've gone through hell and back to write this story.
9. The Beyond
Edward and Riza rode in Edward's car down the eerily empty streets of the city for what seemed like hours. The city was enshrouded in fog, and not single light in the entire city was shining. Riza looked out the window at the darkness and fog. "I don't believe this. There isn't a soul in sight." she said mainly to herself. "Where are we going anyway?" she asked curiosuly. If there wasn't a soul anywhere, and after everything that had happened, it wouldn't make sense to go anywhere. Edward kept his eyes on the road as he answered. "We're heading to the hospital. If we're going anywhere, we'll want to be armed, plus, I need to find Dr. Greed. Best we don't travel as just the two of us." he said as he brought the car to a stop. They were now in front of the hospital, the only building that still had any lights. "If we stick together, we might get through this. Let's go." Edward said as they left the car and ran through the front door of the hospital.
In the hospital
The lobby was completely empty, and the only sound was the echo of their footsteps. "Hello? Is there anyody here? Hello?" Edward yelled out, only to be answered by his echo. "Nobody here, either. Well, we should at least get to my office. Then we'll get moving." he said as they walked over to an elevator. As the door closed, it began going up. "Edward, if you read that book, and that book explained everything, why won't you just believe what's going on?" Riza asked in disbelief at his stubbornness. "Ria, all my life, I'bve been educated in the ways of logic and science. As a doctor, I am not willing to accept any illogical answer, until every other possibility is ruled wrong." he said as the elevator doors opened. The hallway they entered was completely empty. "My office is just over there. Come on." he said quietly as they walked through the door. They stopped at the only desk in the small room as Edward took a key out of his pocket and used it to open a drawer. He reached inside and pulled three magazines of ammo and a pistol out. He put two in his pocket as he loaded the other into his gun. As Riza watched, she laid her hands on the desk, but quickly took them away when she looked down. The desk was spotless, but her hands were now covered in blood from nowhere. Edward meanwhile was dialing a number into the phone, but quickly put it ack. "Phones are dead." he muttered. Riza began stuttering, not taking her eyes off her hands. Edward looked at her and raised an eyebrow when he looked at the window she stood in front of. Before Riza knew it, the window behind her shattered, and abloody hand grabbed the back of her hair, pulling her while she was screaming. Edward looked, and several men in patients robes with bloody gashes all over their bodies who made the same horrid growling sounds as the zombies in the base, were shuffling outside the window, all coming toward Riza. Some had their eyes closed, others had them open, but one thign was certain. Now everyone in the hospital was a zombie too. He quickly fired his gun, and the bullet merely grazed Riza's hair, and blew a hole in the grabbing zombies' hand. He fired again and hit the zombie in the arm. The zombie began to bring its head forward toward Riza's head, so Edward fired again and blew a hole in the zombies head, causing it to collapse to the floor. Riza quickly took her head back inside when another zombie crashed into the rest of the glass, shattering it. "LET'S GO!" she yelled as she grabbed Edward's arm and pulled him out the door into the hallway. Only now there were several zombies coming towards them, the horrid growling of them echoing through the halls. Edward quickly raised his gun and shot one zombie in the side. He fired twice and blasted a closer zombie in the stomach, and then in the head, making it fall to the floor. "Riza, the elevator! Get the hell going!" he yelled as he pushed her into the elevator. The door quickly closed and began to move down. Edward quickly ran to a hall to his right. One zombie began to approach him in the hall. Edward blasted the zombie in the heart and stomach, but nothing happened. Edward pulled the trigger again, but there was a click. Edward quickly ran down the other end of the hall and locked the door he ran into, as the zombies began to endlessly ram at the door. Edward quickly backed away until he ran into a curtain as he began to reload his gun.
In the morgue
The double doors to the morgue opened as Riza slowly walked into the room. The only sound in the room was the echo of her footsteps. But she soon heard the sound of faint whimpering. Riza followed the sound, and she soon found Nina huddled in a corner with her head in her legs, crying. Riza smiled as she walked down to the little girl and held her, glad to finally see a human face. "Nina. Thank God you're here. It's alright." she whispered to the little girl. But unbeknownst to Riza, when Nina opened her eyes, her eyes were ghastly white, just like Winry's.
In Edward's shelter
The zombies continued to relentlessly ram their bodies against the door. Edward had his gun at the ready if they broke through the door. Suddenly, a tearing noise broke out. Edward turned to his right to find a shiny blade slicing through the curtain, and heading for his head. Edward quickly ducked and the curtain fell. Edward turned to find a horrified Greed standing there with the blade in his hand. Edward stood up and knocked the blade out of his hand. "Greed, what the hell is going on here?" he asked angrily. Greed stuttered in fear. "I-I don't know. I t-think I'm going crazy! HERE THEY COME!" he yelled as the door shattered. Edward quickly turned and fired, blowing a hole in a zombies head, sending it to the floor. He fired twice, both shots blowing two zombies through the ears. Edward fired once more as he and Greed began to back away, blowing another zombie's head open. But suddenly, the only clear glass window in the room shattered out of nowhere, just as some invisible pull pinned Greed to the wall. A brief scream was all that came out of Gred when two huge shards of glass stabbed him in the face, blood streaming down his face. Edward groaned when the glass stopped flying as he opened the only other window and crawled through the opening. Luckily this hallway was empty. He ran for the elevator, but the door opened before he even reached it. Edward slowly and cautiously entered the elevator, relieved to find Riza and Nina in the corner. "Edward, please, let's just go." Riza panted desperately. Edward closed the doors at the elvator began to go down.
In the morgue
Edward, Riza and Nina ran into the hall that led to the morgue, but this time, there were zombies on both sides of them. Edward reloaded the last clip into his gun as he fired two shots into the heads of two zombies. "let's go!" he yelled as they ran into the doors to the morgue. Edward quickly locked the doors, but while they staye at the doorway, a body in a body bag pushed its finger through the fabric of the bag and began to rip the hole bigger as the body began to rise. "I know the exit to the street. Follow me." Edward whispered as they began to walk toward a door in the corner. Suddenly, a body on an operating table rose up growling and roaring as it grabbed Riza by her shoulders. She screamed in horror, causing Edward to quickly turn and blow a hole in the zombies head. They all three now ran for the door, and when Edward kicked it open, Riza screamed in terror and Edward backed away. There was Heiderich's body standing in the doorway, and this time, he made the growling noise of the zombies. He began to shuffle toward them into the light. Edward raised his gun and blew a hole in the bodies heart. Nothing. He fired again at Heiderich's kidneys. Still nothing. He fired twice in the bodies stomach. Nothing again. While Riza watched this ancient corpse keep coming towards them, she suddenly saw Nina's pale eyes. Just as the little girl clutched ono Riza's face, her own kind of unholy growling coming out of her. Edward instantly turned and fired. Within a split second, a quarter of Nina's head exploded in a shower of skull, hair, brain and blood. She lost her grip on Riza's face as her body fell lifeless to the floor. Riza quickly ran to Edward as he turned to face Heiderich again. Edward fired again, this time at Heiderich's head. NOTHING! Heiderich continued to approach them. They quickly backed away as the zombie in the body bag rose up. Edward turned and fired the last shot into the zombies head, sending it flying to the floor. Edward turned to shoot at Heiderich again, but his gun clicked empty. He threw the gun to the floor as they sprinted for the door. They ran down the stairwell, but when they suddenly reached the bottom, they both went wide-eyed. "W-we're back at the basement!" she said, confused and scared. "It can't be. T-that's impossible." Edward whispered to himself.
In the basement
A faint eerie glow began to shine out of the tunnel as a thick fog began to pour into the basement, followed by the chorus of moans and otherworldly noises. "Come on." Edward muttered a she took Riza's hand and they slowly walked inot the fog and glow. They walked through the mist for what seemed like hours, but when they could finally see clearly, they came to a stop and looked. The noises were now literally all around them as they had a tunnel behind them...and an endless, grey, fog filled wasteland with thick cloudy skies in front of them.
Wasteland
Riza and Edward slowly wlaked into this horrid looking and sounding place. It was practically, logically impossible for this palce to be here, but at this point, anything to them was possible. They began to see several small piles and rows of filthy mummified bodies strewn all around the ground around them. Riza clutched onto Edward's arm as she began to weep in hysterics. Edward put his hand over hers as they turned around to get out. Now they were completely pale with what they saw. The tunnel was gone, and replaced with the same wasteland. They both began to look on the edge of collapsing mentally when they turned around to face the same wasteland. Edward grabbed onto Riza's hand. They began to run through this wasteland, but as soon as they had started, they had stopped. They both grew horrified faces when they suddenly saw they couldn't see anymore. Their eyes had now gone completely white. They stood where they were looking ahead of them, yet seeing nothing. They could then hear a voice sound through the air. "And you will face the sea of darkness, and all therein that may be explored." And before they had known what happened, Riza and Edward both faded until they vanished into thin air, vanishing from the face of existence. Vanishing...into oblivion.
THE END
There you have it. The grand finale of my FMA/ Lucio Fulci's The Beyond crossover. I want your reviews for this. And I hope you all enjoyed it. Who knows, if you ask, I might do another anime/ Fulci crossover. Different movie though, and different anime. So ask nicely. Thank you all for your support.
