Part Four

Chapter Four

They couldn't understand how people could just disappear like that. Of course it didn't help Roy or Maes much when the power cut on them, leaving them in an errie darkness. Something almost fimilar. "The only place we haven't check yet is the basement." Maes said as he walked towards the front door of the house/manson. Roy nodded, keeping his eyes opened for anything. "heh, hey buddy, doesn't this seem almost like deja vu? or something like that?" Roy looked at his friend infront of him.

"Yeah, like we've been here before, just like this..." Roy agreed as the sound of thunder roared outside. A flash of lighting hit as Maes was turning around.

"Hey, is something wrong?" Maes asked. Roy nodded his head and blinked several times. W-was that real? He swallowed hard and looked at his best friend. "N-no nothing..." Roy looked up at the ceiling, seeing nothing, but darkness. Roy opened the door, easily. "Wasn't this locked?"

Maes walked outside and turned to look at the house. "yeah, everything was locked, windows, doors, yet everything is open. weird...Maybe it's telling us to leave..." Maes laughed at himself as his friend joined his side. Roy shook his head as his friend continued to follow him around the house. "Seriously Maes, This house is fucked up, and your still laughing at yourself."

"Hey! being serious all the time gives you pre-mature wrinkles." Roy gave him a disgusted look as he tried to open the basement doors. Only to have them not even budge as he pulled on them. Only give a slight creak at every pull. "Well this is expected, the house is not only fucked, but likes to fuck with us..." So much for a calm and collected Roy Mustang. He smirked and found an axe not so far from the basement doors. "Let's see how you like this." Maes backed away from his friend as he busted open the doors. Thunder roared once more before it started to pour rain.

"Well you coming?" Roy turned and asked his friend.

"Nah, I like being out of that house, I told you somethings not right with it..." And made a face as Roy gave him the 'No you didn't' look. "I'll wait here, with ...the axe!" he said cheerfully, and picked it up from where Roy threw it. "Who knows, maybe it'll come in handy?" Roy smiled at his friend.

"Fine, you wuss." Roy walked down the darkstair case, finding it went down quite a ways from the surface. He felt around and found a torch. Yeah...like this isn't put here for a purpose... Roy thought and took out his lighter. He might have hated smokers, but he was a pyromaniac. And Pyros needed lighters.

"Edward...?"

Edward opened his eyes to candlelight. He breifly wondered where he was as he looked at the bloodstained walls. He looked over to see a set of bones, broken and deformed. "Shit!" He said aloud as he moved away, he winced at the movement, noting how his right leg hurt slightly. He looked at the ground to notice he was under a huge alchemy circle. One that wasn't ment to be messed with, let alone aloud, but that didn't really mater in this time and age. Alchemy didn't work anymore.

Well, only in techology. He crawled over to the wall and used it as a brace to get up. Need to get out of here...NOW. He thought as he walked away from the candlelight into pure darkness. Not noticing the shadow of a man following him slowly.

"Edward..?"

He heard Roy's voice, it was a very sexy voice if he had anything to say at the moment. "Roy!" He yelled back, slightly horsed. Did he scearm lately? maybe on the fall. "Edward! where are you?" He then realized there was a door between him and Roy. He pulled it opened and was greeted with light and very dark eyes, as well as a warm hug. "Are you alright?" Roy asked almost right away, pulling from a rather breif hug. "Yeah, I'm fine." He wasn't really liying, his leg didn't really bother him. Probably only a sprain. Roy smiled, then a horrified look cross his face as he looked up.

Edward blinked and looked behind him to see a man, who looked almost like Roy. Only slightly different. A name flashed in his head..Simon. He felt Roy pull him further away from the ghastly man. "Nice to see you again Edo, It's a shame Aru isn't here. " The man spoke almost kindly to him in a far away voice. "So many deaths, just to see you, my dearest. Yet, you still bring that bastard here!" The voice flared with anger and the ground shoke under them.

"Edo?" Roy whispered to him, "who is he talking about, your Edward..."

"He doesn't think so.." Ed whispered back, very scared of the man infront of him for some unknown reason. "what is he talking about?" He watched Roy shake his head. "no clue." They watched as the deadly ghost started ranting infront of them. Talking of a past that wasn't very important to them. A time where his lover had lived, a lover that was apparently Edward. Not that Edward understood this. Roy looked to the side of the basement to see a gas bottle, probably one to fuel the generater in the house. One they brought. He smirked and kicked it, knocking it over and spilling the contents.

"what are you doing?"

"You'll see." Roy pulled out his lighter and lit it.

At a roar of thunder and a crack of lightning.

The lighter dropped, slowly setting the basement floor on fire.

See look! wasn't that fast, but short once again! maybe it's because this is very confusing to everyone. I've had several complaints that it's confusing, I know, I know, but if you read back, and read inbetween the lines you'll understand! Really!

I'll see you all at the end of the line! The final chapter of Forgive me, Forgive me not!