Oh my god! I was rereading some old chapters and I realized I made a huge mistake!!! It was in the third chapter when Ally spoke a different langue.
It says:
"You spoke a different langue."
"Oh, sometimes I speak English. I mean I always have as a first langue, but since Ed only really spoke German I had to learn it. He always says that inside the house we speak what ever we want, but once out side only American."
"So, they don't talk much do they al?"
"They do, but it's been a long day."
It should say:
"You spoke a different langue."
"Oh, sometimes I speak GERMAN. I mean I always have as a SECOND langue, since Ed only really spoke German I had to learn it. He always says that inside the house we speak what ever we want, but once out side only American."
Really sorry about that. I don't know how I missed it, any way enjoy this chapter.
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Havoc sighed. He was trying to pay attention to his driving, but he was just so curious. Here was Sam Mustang, who Roy told him was evil, and then there was Ally. That girl looked cute and innocent now, resting with her head on Al's shoulder, but when she had first met him she had smiled. It wasn't one of those pleased to meet you smiles, but one of those I'm going to neuter you smiles. Ed used to give him LESS menacing ones.
"I'm bored." Ally groaned.
"So?"
Al did not look up from his book.
"Play a game with me Al."
Al shook his head and continued reading. Ally looked in front of her. Havoc was humming a tune as he smoked a cigarette.
"Havoc?"
"Yes?"
"You shouldn't smoke; it's bad for your lungs. You could get lung cancer, emphysema, lower sperm count, or other nasty things could happen to you."
"That's nice, but I don't ca…lower sperm count?"
"Yah, it's scientifically proven." Ally smiled, knowing it was not.
"Damn."
"You should quit."
Every one in the car started to laugh hysterically. Ally sat there blinking, not under standing the joke.
"Havoc can't quit, he'd have a mental break down." Al chuckled.
"He tried to quit a year ago and after going cold turkey for three days he thought he was a girl scout."
"Really?" Ally asked, hopping to sit in the passenger seat during the short time they had stopped for traffic.
"I wish I could forget it, he put on a skirt." Sam said, gasping for breath.
"I did not!" Havoc yelled, the car swerved.
Ally reached over and grabbed the cigarette out of Havoc's mouth, sticking it into her own.
"Give it back you bitch."
"No, it's taking your concentration off the road."
"Minors aren't aloud to smoke."
"I put it out you retard."
Sure enough there was no smoke and the end of the cigarette was a dull black.
"I feel sorry for your parents, to know they caused your existence." Havoc sighed.
"They're dead."
"Oh, then who raised you?"
"My grandfather, he's the one who taught me alchemy."
"You're grandfather was an alchemist?" Al asked, leaning forward
"Yah, why?"
"But you're from the other side of the gate, alchemy doesn't work there."
"I know, but I was taught the formulas and shit so I could do it if I could."
"No, how did he know how, Brother said people lost their memories when they reached the other side."
"Most do, but he didn't."
"Who was he? Maybe I know him, if he worked in the military."
"Oh you know him; my grandfather is Edward El, oh shit."
The three all stared at her. She had just let the secret out, the one thing that she had to keep safe, for Al's sake.
"How is that possible, Ed is my age." Sam stated
"He's over 90 years old, but looks and acts 70."
"But that means Al is you're…"
"Al is my great uncle."
"How is my Brother?"
Ally's face grew dark. She didn't want to tell Al, it would crush him, but she couldn't not tell him. She could tell a lie, but Al would see through it.
"He's…He's…" Ally took a deep breath "He's bad Al, really bad."
"What's wrong?"
"His hearts failing, other words old age. He doesn't have long until…"
Al fought back tears. He knew what it meant, his brother was going to die, he could already be dead, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. But if it was bad for him, he figured it would be worse for Ally, since was raised by him, but still it made a hole in his heart.
"This is crazy." Sam shouted "there is no thing called the gate, no creatures called homunculus, no place called New York, Ally is just insane."
"I am not! I have a picture of Ed right here!"
She pulled her wallet out over her pocket. Opening it she began to rummage. From between a five and a single she pulled out a small photo that was folded in half. She unfolded it and handed it to Al.
I the picture was a younger ally, close to ten years old, sitting on the floor reading a book and leaning against a pair of legs. The legs belonged to Ed. He looked almost the same, his hair back in a braid, but it was a duller color, practically grey, his golden eyes shown and a familiar smirk played on his lips. He was missing an arm, it was clearly visible that it wasn't there, but he had a leg at least. His face did have some lines of age, but he didn't look too old.
"He got taller." Al mused.
"Yah, he's average height for his age, but all the kids he teaches call him short just to piss him off."
"He's a teacher?"
"Yep, he teaches science, calculus, and German. He only does all three cuz our school is poor and can't afford enough teachers."
"That's funny." Al tried to smile but with his best attempted all he got was a sad smirk. He felt arms reach around his neck, and a head press against his chest.
"I'm sorry Al; that this is happening, and that I didn't tell you sooner, and that you must feel so hurt."
Al at first didn't know what to do, but Ally just wanted his forgiveness. But she had done nothing, hell she was as hurt as he was. He reached around her waist and pulled her closer.
"If you two really are related than what you are doing right now is incest." Sam muttered.
"Hugging isn't incest."
"It is when the people are five seconds away from kissing each other passionately."
Al and Ally blushed and pulled away from each other.
The car was silent for a while; Sam broke the silence though, with a childish sentence.
"Are we there yet Havoc?"
"No."
"Are we NEARLY there?"
"Yes, about 15 minutes."
"How much longer?"
"I just said 15 minutes."
"Will we be there soon?"
"Yes."
"How soon?"
"15 minutes."
"You said that 15 minutes ago."
"No I said that ONE minute ago."
Ally and Al began snickering.
"So?"
"So what?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Will you shut up if I say yes?"
"Yes."
"Then yes, we're here."
"No were not."
"How do you know?"
"Because then you would have stopped the car."
Ally and Al were fighting not to laugh. It was a loosing battle.
"Havoc?"
"What is it Sam?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Say that one more time and…Oh shit!"
Havoc slammed on the breaks and the car skidded to a halt.
"Are we here?" Sam asked.
"Yes, we're here. This is the second library. You guys wait in there until someone shows to pick you guys up."
Havoc practically pushed the teens out of the car as it zoomed away. Sam brushed the invisible dust off and gave the fleeing car the finger. Ally just stood there, in awe of the library.
"It's huge."
"Yah, come on, we need to go in."
Ally was pushed into the building. On the inside all she could see were rows and rows of books. Al went to talk to a girl in glasses at the front desk, Sam followed.
"Hello Sheska."
"Hello AL, nice to see you again."
"Like wise, any way…where did Ally go?"
Sam shrugged. Al waved good bye to Sheska and went to look for Ally. They found her after ten minutes; she was standing at a shelf, reading the book in her hands.
"Ally, you shouldn't run off like that." Sam scolded.
"I found it."
"What?"
"The information on the fire stone, the elemental homunculi, and the elemental stone I was looking for."
"The what, what, and what?"
"The fire stone is one of the eight elemental stones. The other seven are Water, wind, plant, rock, lightning, ice, and metal. They used to be joined as one in a stone called the stone of the elements. The elemental homunculi used to be the protectors of the stone, one for each, but hundreds of years ago they tried to use the stone to wipe out humans. The gate broke it into its original eight pieces and hid them, ever since the homunculi have been hunting for them. It is prophesied that when they find the first they will start to hunt for them more desperately and if not stopped they could gather them in a year."
"So you were telling the truth."
"Yah, the fact that Ember attacked me like that means that they have already found one."
"That's terrible!"
"Yah, we have to warn people, we have to stop them!"
