Oh my god I am SO SORRY GUYS! Here's my excuse for not updating in forever, I just moved out into my apartment and can't even afford cable right now XD So yeah, money doesn't exactly grow out my ass but I came to my parents today for dinner and decided to kidnap the computer. I swear to GOD I will finnish this story even if it kills me!

Onto to the next chapter :-p

It was as if the world had stopped spinning. No birds were singing, the wind stood it's ground, even local lakes lay as motionless as a cemetary. And the entire military base stood in silence and awe as they witnessed Edward Elric, battered, bloody and exhausted, entering from the horizen. Alphonse curled up in his arms, kept his eyes squeezed tight almost faying unconciousness. His hands clung desperatly to Ed's torn shirt, which was blood soaked on the side from his wound.

Ed seemed as though he would pass out at any moment.

The silence was finally broken by Winry, who came pushing through the crowd of spectators. She was followed by Mustang, Hughes and Hawkeye all ready and willing to help in any way they could. Roy took Al from Ed, and Ed fell. Almost as if it was the mere knowledge that he refused to drop his brother that kept him on his feet. He collapsed into Winry's arms, who wept holding tightly to him.

"You did it, you did it Ed. You did it..." she kissed him gingerly on the head, several times. Conciousness creeped back in him, and he smiled weakly. "Yeah..."

It was later, after a full day of rest for the boys, that the touching silence was broken.

"GOD DAMN WINRY THAT HURTS!"

Winry sighed as she let go of Ed's bandages. "Ed, they have to be tight or your wound will open back up and not heal properly!"

"Yeah but do you really have to kick my ass in the process?"

"Appearently so since you're cryin like a little baby! Ya shrimp!"

"What did you call me?"

"Oh I'm sorry, I seemed to have mistaken you for a vienna sausage!"

"Would you two please be quiet?"

The bickering lovers turned to see Hawkeye, quietly closing the door behind her. "Alphonse is sleeping, though most likely by now he's up because of your shouting. Yanno Ed sometimes I forget you a member of the military when I feel I should pop you on the mouth for such language."

Ed sulked, keeping quiet as Winry finnished tending to his wound.

"I feel like a christmas present." he teased, standing up.

"You're welcome." Winry mumbled. She was surprised to recieve a kiss on the cheek. She looked up as Ed smiled. "I'm gonna check on Al, maybe draw a bath for him."

Winry nodded, but spoke a moment later. "Ed... what about those other two? The ones who brainwashed Al?"

Ed didn't turn. "What about them?"

"Well... what if they come looking for him?"

Ed smirked, finaly turning to look her straight in the eyes. "Don't even worry about them."

Poking his head into the room, Ed could see Al had indeed been woken as he was sitting up in bed, staring out the window. Ed tried not to suprise him. "Hey there..."

Al turned slightly, smiling. "Hi brother..."

Ed sat beside him, nudging him slightly with his shoulder. "How ya feelin'?"

"Fine... I had really weird dreams last night..."

"Me too..."

"Hey brother? I just wanted-"

"Hey cut it out, if you apologized anymore I'd start feelin like then I already do and we don't need two depressed Elrics under the same roof. Wouldn't be pretty."

"But brother..."

"Al..." Ed turned to take Al back the shoulders, and forced him to look at him straight in the eyes. "It wasn't your fault, and you're back... that's all the matters... though I must admit. I'm not sure how many times I can survive losing you..."

Hearing this snapped something inside of Al. Lower lip quivering he through himself onto his brother, crying what few tears he had left after this whole ordeal. Ed rested his chin upon his sibling's shoulder, taking in a deep breath of this blessing of temporary peace. He tried to keep this moment as long as he could, knowing that just like in the past, it could dissapear at any moment. Once Al had dried his eyes however, Ed sat back. "How about a bath? I bet you haven't bathed in forever."

Al twisted his lips. "Well when you're convinced you're the evil son of incestuous parents you don't really think about higene."

Ed blinked. "Did you say... incestuous?"

"Yeah, you didn't know? They're brother and sister."

Ed gaged. "That's sick!"

"I'd rather not recapt if it's all the same to you."

"Fine by me... come on, I'll draw you a bath."

"Thanks, brother..."

Ed stayed by Al's side, assisting him in washing his back and places that were sore from the fight. He could have cared less about his own pain, as long as Al was comfortable, that was all the mattered.

To him at least.

Later that day Ed met Al outside the headquarters. Al was petting black hayette, when Ed finaly arrived.

"You needed somethin, Al?"

"We can't pretend like everything's fine now brother..."

It took a moment before Ed caught on, he slid on his poker face. "I know... we just need time to think about how to go about it, yanno?"

"Actualy." Al turned to face him. "I think I may... kinda have a plan."

Ed quirked an eyebrow. "What are you thinkin?"

"Listen Ed..."

Oh shit... Ed? not brother? It's a small sign like that, that you know this shit is gonna hit the fan.

"I have to go back."

"What? Al you're shittin me, I'm not sending you back there!"

"Listen to me! Look, I have to go back and pretend I'm still under their spell."

"But why Al? I mean good god we just got you back, and now you're just gonna go there again?"

"Just listen Ed... they want you dead. Angelous and Maya will be back in two days and expect me, with your corpse. If I'm not there they're gonna catch a hint and come kill you themselves."

"So what exactly are you suggesting?"

"It's a risk, but you're gonna have to work with me on this one. And we're gonna have to work fast."

"Go on..."

"My new 'parents' made a mistake in releasing so much information to me. These two aren't you're regular people."

"We figured that out... what are there?"

Before Al could answer Roy, Riza and Winry fell through the door after it gave way thanks to Al's alchemy. He smirked. "You guys don't have to hide... you all probably need to hear this."

Winry smiled embarresdly when Ed turned and groaned at the eevesdroppers on the ground behind him. Roy stood. "So you know what they are then, Al?"

He nodded. "They're neither Human nor Humunculi nor Chimera."

Ed blinked. "How is that possible? What the hell are they then?"

"Let me explain, it's a bit long winded. Angelous and Maya, not only are they a different creature all their own... but they aren't two different people either."

"What?" was the unison response from the others. Al nodded. "Angelous and Maya, they are one in the same. A terifying project gone horribly wrong. You see, there once was a man who lost his only son. So, as many people do he tried a human transmutation. But of course, he was only succesful in bringing into this world a humunculi, and losing some vital organs just like Sensei since he had the actual body there for the transmutation. So, he tried again, only this time he used his own flesh."

"What the fuck... how is that even possible?" Ed inquired.

"He gathered all the elements like we did, of a human body and attempted the transmution one more time on that same creature that he had made. This time, another arose. Made of the same fibers, the same blood type as the other one. Of course somehow equivalent exchange took not only from him, but from the first humunculi. So then, he had two. That's when he decided, that if his child, or now children were going to be mutants, he might as well work on them. He had gone insaine, he decided that if his only son was doomed beyond repair, that he was gonna expiriment further on them. That's when they both became Chimeras... he fused their somewhat human dna with that of a crow."

"Wait a sec, so he pretty much did a chimera surgery on two fucked up humunculi?"

"That's not even they end of it. He fed them bits and pieces of the red stone to stableize them. So now... safe to say they're kinda invinsable, except for one small detail."

Roy narrowed his gaze. "What's that?"

"In being the same person, yet not, that takes away from their energy source. After a certain amount of fighting they have to go back to their creator and he, I guess fixes them somehow. Plus, say one of them dies? The other will die instantly then as well. I think that's why they wanted me, not only to kill Ed but to make them officialy seperate and able to live without each other."

"But what do they even want with Ed in the first place? Not to mention how did they find out you were the stone?" Riza asked.

"That I'm not too totaly sure, but... I think they're father so to speak knows my brother."

Ed looked to the side deep in thought. "But I don't..."

Roy inturupted. "So what are you thinking we should do now?"

Al sighed. "I have to go back. I'm the Philosopher's Stone, and they won't suspect I'm normal again until it's too late... all I have to do is just kill one of them, and they'll both die I'm positive."

Ed glared. "You are not going by yourself! You can distract them sure, but I'm helping. I'm not useless."

"I never said that brother..."

"You may have more power then me, but there is no way you're going there alone. In two days, we'll both go up to that castle and kick their asses."

Al stood in a thought, but finaly smiled. "There's no way I can change your mind."

Ed smirked. "Hell no."

"Don't we need to find out about their creator as well?" Winry asked. Ed thought a moment. "Somethin tells me we'll figure that out soon enough."

"I agree." Al looked off into the horizen. "Whoever they are... they know exactly what they're doing too. They have a strange method of Alchemy I had never heard of."

Ed walked up to Al, laying his hand on his shoulder. "But we have the Philosopher's stone. And that's something they'll never touch."

Fin-

Ok sorry it's so short and kinda sucky, but I gotta head home XD I'll update again as soon as I get a chance, but hey the way I estimate it in my head, I've only got like 2 or 3 chapters left to go... :-p SORRY ABOUT BAD SPELLING!