Chapter 14: The Alchemist Named Necro

EDWARD ELRIC

We were almost to teacher's house when Winry asked, "Hey Ed, why are you so scared of your Teacher?"

I sighed and said, "You'll see."

Seto and I had our hoods pulled up as the rained poured down.

Winry carried an umbrella along with her tools.

We approached the butcher shop with Sid sweeping out on front porch.

He waved and said, "Hey Ed! Your finally here!"

Teacher ran out of the shop and towards me and Seto.

She immedatily brought us to the ground and yelled, "WHAT TOOK YOU IDIOTS SO LONG TO GET HERE?!"

I yelled, "We're sorry Teacher, but we didn't expect to be attacked by a serical killer. We were the hostpital for nearly a month."

She got up and said, "Lucky, Necro is still here and healed up, his hands are pretty trashed though."

Winry stepped up and said, "Would you please take me to him?"

Teacher asked, "Who is this?"

I replied, "Winry Rockbell meet me and Al's teacher, Izumi Curtis. Teacher meet, me and Seto automail mechanic, Winry Rockbell."

Teacher nodded and said, "Right, please follow me."

We began walking into the shop.

"So anything particual about this kid we should know about, besides the obvious?" Seto asked.

Teacher replied, "He won't take the wrags of his face with people around, he really doesn't talk much, and he's appearntly homeless."

We walked in the room to see a the young boy looking at a book, happily reading away.

Teacher laughed and said, "Also when it comes to books, he acts like you and Ed. Like he's in another world."

Teacher walked up and said, "Necro, we have an automail mechanic here to fix your hands."

He looked at her and asked in a srcathy voice, "Do they know about..."

I replied, "Yeah, we know Necro but Teacher didn't tell us."

He looked up and asked, "Then how did..." Seto and I pulled off our gloves showing our own automail.

Seto replied, "We've both seen Truth as well."

He looked up and said, "You two did it too. You tried to bring someone back."

I replied, "Actually me and my brother tried it together. My friend here did it on his own."

Winry sighed and said, "Necro, let's get to work on your hands. Can you please take off your jacket?"

He looked up and asked, "Can you please help me, Ms. Izumi?"

She smiled and said, "Sure thing young one."

She peeled of the dirty shirt revealing his two automail hands, and long series of scars running up his arms.

Winry looked at him and asked, "What happened? Did the people who are after you do this?"

He shook his head and replied, "My step father was very abusive to me and my older brother. He would lash at us with a metal belt when we did something wrong."

I asked, "How the hell did he even get you guys?"

Necro replied as Winry began working on his hands, "We only had him as a step father because, he was our uncle and our parents died in a house fire. It was later revealed that our uncle started the fire to gain our parents money, but he didn't know they left the money to my brother."

Seto sighed and said, "Sounds a lot like my father."

Necro continued, "Once our Uncle was arested, my brother took over his book shop in Liore called, 'Silver Dragon Book Shop and Alchemic Emporium'."

"We spent all day reading, playing, and running the store. He taught me alchemy in our spare time."

I looked at him and asked, "Why did you leave?"

He looked down and said, "One day my brother was walking with me to the park, when a man with hair in long spikes and black eyes step up to him. He wanted my brother to give him our money."

"Brother always kept a knife in his boot just in case, but when he went to pull it out..."

The wrags on his face began to dampen with tears. He cried out, "The man pulled out a gun and shot him in the head..."

"And walked away..."

"I was sitting there with my brother's blood spalter on my face..."

Izumi whispered out, "My god..."

He looked up and said, "I was alone and the shop closed down. I wanted my brother back so bad. So when I was 8, I began studying human transmutation and after 2 years, I attempted it. I tried to bring back my big brother."

He looked at his hands and said, "The worst part was the thing I made..."

"Wasn't even human...It looked nothing like Seto..."

Seto? His brother's name is Seto...

I looked at Seto who looked completely shocked.

He mumbled out, "Would your last name happened to be Kaiba?"

He looked up and asked, "How do you know that? I burned me and my brother's birth certificates. One of the reasons the military is after me."

Seto pulled down his hood.

Necro eyes widen and said, "No..."

"It's not possible..."

"It failed..."

"It can't be..."

I looked at Seto who eyes were just as wide.

Seto replied, "Is this...even possible..."

"Is that really you...Mokubia..."

Mokubia?!

Seto's dead brother from a different world...

How the hell is here, let alone alive?!

Necro looked at Winry and asked, "Can you take this cloth off my face please?"

Winry took the flithy rag and revealed Necro's face.

He had long black hair, pulled back in a low ponytail, bright violet eyes, and a long scar running down his cheek.

Seto eyes began to water and he smiled and said, "Mokubia...It is you!"

Necro cried, "Seto..."

I yelled, "HOW THE HELL IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!"

Seto looked at me and said, "This world, must be like a mirror only things reverse here. Instead of Mokubia dying like back in my home, I died here or should I say an alternate version of me. It all sounds like scince fiction but it's the only answer I have."

Necro looked up at him and said, "So your from a different world? That means you traveled through..."

Seto replied, "The Gate, yeah..."

Necro looked up and said, "The other me...you tried to bring him back..."

Seto nodded and said, "I couldn't live without you, I wasn't eating, sleeping, or doing anything. My whole world turned gray, until I found an book about alchemy and..."

"Well the you know the results..."

Seto sat down next to Necro and gave him a hug.

Necro said with tears brimming his eyes, "I missed you Seto..."

Seto smiled as the tears rolled down his face and said, "I'll never leave you alone again...little brother..."

Izumi smiled and said, "This maybe the strangest thing that has ever happened, but I'm kind of glad it did."

I nodded and said, "They been living in a hell for a long time, and now a little bit of it has faded away."

After a while, Necro and Seto learned about their alternate counterparts and their failed attempts to bring them back.

Necro looked at Seto and said, "So you and your friend are alchemist."

I corrected him, "We're state alchemist to be precise."

Necro look up and said, "Your dogs of the military? The other you, hated the miltary, especailly during the whole Ishval conflict."

Seto smirked and said, "Like I said eariler, I'm from a different world. I didn't join to fight, I joined in hopes of finding my way home, and help Ed and Al get their bodies back."

He looked at Seto and asked, "Who Ed and Al?"

Winry attached the nerves in his hands.

He cringed a bit but didn't yell in pain.

I smirked and said, "Your one tuff kid. I always yelled when I get that dam nerve attached."

He yelled, "I'M NOT A DAM KID! I'M 15 YEARS OLD!"

I smiled and said, "Yeah, I get that a lot too. By the way I'm Edward Elric, my younger brother is Alphosne. Seto has been helping us to find a way to get our bodies back, from that bastard, Truth."

Necro looked at me and said, "Your The Fullmetal Alchemist, the youngest state alchemist in history!"

I smiled and said, "Yup, and Seto here is, The Silver Sword Alchemist."

Necro smiled and said, "Wow that's amazing..."

He looked at Seto and said, "That means you have to go back to Central right?"

Seto nodded and said, "I do."

Necro began to tear up as he said, "Seto, I can't go with you..."

Seto looked at him and asked, "Why Mokuba? Why can't you?"

He lifted up his shirt showing a large bandage covering his ribs.

He sighed and said, "These homonuclii, like Greed, they want me for some reason. They sent a chimera after me and it nearly killed me."

"Luckly, Ms. Izumi saved me. Those guys think I'm dead, it's probably best, that it stays like that."

Seto looked at him and said, "I hate to admit it but, your right. But I promise as soon as I deal with those bastards, It will be me and you."

Necro smiled and said, "Yeah, Seto."

I looked at Teacher and said, "You know, he could be your student until we deal with these guys Teacher."

She smirked and said, "Not a bad idea my idiot student."

She stepped forward and said, "What do you say Mokuba? Do you want to learn my style of alchemy?"

He nodded and said, "Yes Ms. Izumi, but no one but Seto really calls me Mokuba. Everyone just calls me Necro. It's my middle name and it kind of stuck to me more than Mokubia did."

She nodded and said, "Alright, but from now on it's not, Ms. Izumi. It's Teacher and as soon as your brother leaves you will begin your training."

Seto smiled and said, "We're here for another 4 days, then we have to head back to Central."

Necro looked at me and asked, "So what kind of reseach do you guys do?"

I stopped for a moment and said, "We did do reseach on the Philospher's Stone, but we stopped after we found out what..."

Winry tossed a wrench at my head and yelled, "Why did you idiots stop reseaching it?! It maybe the only way you can get you bodies back you idiots!"

I yelled back, "It's made of human lives! It's a dam stone soaked in the blood of hundreds and even thousands of innocent people..."

Winry sat back in horror said, "My god..."

I whispered, "We're going to get our bodies back, but I'm not using it..."

Necro curled closer to Seto and said, "If anyone can figure it out, it be you Seto and The Elrics."

Seto smiled and said, "Thanks Mokie."

Teacher smiled and said, "I'm going to make dinner."

Winry jumped up and said, "Please allow me to help. I could make desert."

Seto and I looked at each other and smiled.

Necro looked up and asked, "What is making you two smile like idiots?"

I repied, "When you have Winry's apple pie, you'll see why."

Necro smiled and said, "I haven't had pie in a long time."

Seto smiled and said, "Well looks like today is your lucky day."

I looked up on the shelf and saw a camera. I

picked it up and said, "How about a photo?"

Necro smiled and said, "That sounds nice. Take two so both me and Seto have a copy."

They sat together and Necro held up a piece sign.

I took the took photos and they printed out.

I shook them both until they developed and gave a copy to both of them.

Seto smiled and said, "They are going to freak when they see this."