Chapter eight: Peace

Ed's eyes opened, he saw a sheet of rain in front of him, and he knew immediate were he was...Izumi's barn. And the top of the barn was caved in, and the walls were bowed in from the pressure of the transmutation.

The transmutation…he vaguely remembered what Al had to do….he saw an image of himself for a minute, but then all memories went away, and he didn't remember anything.

All he remembered is that Al was doing a human transmutation. For…who?for him!for Ed himself, yes that was it.

He didn't remember how he had gotten back, all Ed remembered is the Nazi's and their guns, then he remembered that Al had to do a

transmutation to get to him...and he had done it, and succeeded.

Ed rubbed his eyes with his hands, and unlike the cold metal he usually felt, he felt warm soft skin. He looked at his right arm, and it was skin…..

His left leg was too…he wiggled them. It took thirty minutes for Ed to get the feeling back in his both legs, and both arms. Even his head needed some shaking, he had been dead, and the circulation was just coming back.

Though being "dead" didn't feel like being dead, it was hard to explain to himself. He had still been there, but he had been looking from far away...yeah that's it.

Okay so Al had performed the Trans, and it worked...it had worked very strangely but, it had worked nonetheless.

Wait till Al saw him!...where was he? Then Ed realized that he was feet away from the Trans circle, and there was a limp bloody form beside it.

He ran over to Al, Ed gasped not knowing what he was doing. He put his hands over his mouth to stop from screaming, tears sprang to his eyes and threatened to fall.

Al's left arm, and right leg was gone, and now all it was, was a mass of blood, and Al was drowning in his own blood.

"Please God…don't let him be dead…please" Ed said, falling on his knees, and crawling to Al. Ed rolled Al over, Al's face was smeared with blood, and Ed reached in his pocket t, and brought out his hanky, and wiped it off.

Ed listened for Al's breathing, it was very faint, and it would slowly die, and then go again, but it was there. Ed picked Al up, but he wasn't as strong as he thought.

Of course he had been dead, so…he wouldn't be very strong. Ed tried again, and only made it too the back porch. Then the back door busted open, Izumi stood there, in a black poncho.

Ed knew he was in for it, but Izumi looked into his eyes, and she stared at Ed for quiet a long time, searching him over with her eyes. Sig took Al in the house, and left Izumi with Ed.

"No…your deffinatly not a Homunculus...how in hell….did Al manage that. I see he lost something….but, you're not a Homunculus that's amazing" Izumi said, touching Ed's golden head. Ed's legs shook, with just her hand on his head, he knew he needed rest.

"I supposed your weak, like Al was when you brought his body back" Izumi said, and she grabbed Ed's hand and pulled him up. She helped him in the house, placed him on the couch, and gave him some food, and water to drink.

Ed was shaking, half out weakness, but even more out of worry for his little brother. Sig had bandaged his bleeding stump of an arm, and leg, and they wouldn't let Ed see him.

"You know what your brother needs" Izumi said looking down at him.

"Yes. But how in the hell is that possible, unless I disguise myself…or something" Ed said.

Izumi suddenly grabbed his right wrist.

"No longer auto-mail, just as I thought. Al gave you back everything you lost for him, and now he's losing everything you lost for him...for you, except the opposite arms, and legs" Izumi said. Ed punched his fist into the couch.

"How could al be so naïve, he didn't have to do it" Ed said, his voice trembling.

"What if you made him feel like he had too, what if you did it Edward" Izumi said.

"I was...dead, how could I have reached him" Ed said.

"Through dreams" Izumi replied.

"But...I don't remember it' Ed said.

"Amnesia, your body went into shock, and that's why you don't remember. Of course you were dead, how could you possible remember anything in the after life" Izumi said her voice shaking.

Ed didn't say anything but, he drank the rest of his water, and drank a cup of coffee (which he didn't need) and he ate, but not all of it.

The doctor was in the room with Al, and Sig, and Izumi was about to join them, she covered the now sleeping Ed, happy to see that Ed wasn't worrying, and that he could be at peace for a little while.

A/N-Okay….sorry if this is too far out there, and too wild, but I had just got into this book, and it talking about the afterlife, and death...and I guess that's where I got this from…..so anyway bye-bye. No flames please review.

Chapter nine coming soon.