The final chapter. It was a good story and I enjoyed writing it, but what I enjoyed most was hearing what all of you readers thought of it. Thank you to everyone who spent time to read this fanfiction.
I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the characters.
"Are you sure about this, Alphonse?" Armstrong asked as he picked up Ed's coffin from the train station.
Alphonse, who was still wearing his and Envys outfit, only with Ed's jacket over it, nodded. "Yeah," he said as he started walking. The longer he hesitated the more it hurt to do this. But it had to be done.
Walking hurt, it turned out that despite Envys healing abilities, his body was finally catching up to all the things he and Envy had done and the soreness had come to him full force.
He started up the hill, pausing at where his old home had stood and glanced over to see Winrys house in the distance. He gave a longing look to the burned down home, and started walking again.
The young Elric could have easily avoided walking past his old home but he didn't want to, he wanted to see what the remains looked like, and they were the same as before.
He forced himself to continue walking, starting to limp slightly, but he refuse Armstrongs offers to carrying him.
When he got to the house, Den stood up and watched him, the dogs head tilted to the side then he barked. After a couple of barks he ran to Alphonse, knocking him over and licking him along with barking.
Al forced a smile as he laughed a little, "Hey there, Den," He said softly as he petted the dog, "Hey boy."
Winry groaned a bit when Den started barking like crazy from outside. She put her wrench down, ready to scold the dog for being so loud when she had to do an all nighter for a rush order.
She walked down the stairs, rubbing her eyes slightly and paused at the door, her hand on the doorknob.
"Hey, boy," She heard Al say from outside.
A soft smile formed her face. The three idiots had done it, they beat Father.
She opened the door, surprised to see only Alphonse on the ground with Den and Armstrong behind, but no Ed or Envy. Then she noticed the outfit that Alphonse was wearing, it was identicle to Envys only he was wearing shorts instead of the skort- something Winry had told Envy to wear instead of the skort several times before.
"Al?" Winry asked and cocked her head to the side, "Or Envy? Also, is Ed still at Central?"
Alphonses smile dropped and his head lowered, "It's me, Al...Envy...Envy's not in here anymore," He said and it pained him to see Winry smile.
"Oh! You guys managed to get him his own body again? Where is he?" She asked glancing around, thinking the sneaky homunculus was hiding somewhere to scare her.
His voice caught in his throat when he spoke, "Winry...Envy...He's...he's dead..." He said softly, tears starting to form again.
Winrys smile dissapeared and pain was in her eyes, "What..what are you talking about Al? Envy's a homunculus, he's immortal!" She argued.
"Winry...Father needed a new Philosophers Stone, so he ripped Envy from my body," He told her and looked up, "He used his shapeshifting powers to make Fathers body so fragile that it would break. Father ripped Envy from him, and without a containor Envy died."
Winry took a step back, "What...what about Ed?" She asked hopefully but deep down she knew by seeing the coffin that it was to much to hope for.
"Ed had a plan, that if there was no other way, he wanted Envy to kill him, so Father wouldn't have all five Sacrifices, Brother had Envy kill him to stop Father," Al said, tears running down his face, "Both Brother and Envy sacrificed themselves to save us all."
Winry fell to her knees, and clutched the ground in her hands, "Their both dead...Envy...Ed, their dead," She whispered, "This, this can't be," She cried.
Dropping to kneel beside her, Alphonse draped Ed's jacket over Winrys back and handed her Envy's headband, "They both loved you," He told her, "They loved you more then anything else."
"There both idiots!" Winry yelled, "How could they die like that? It's not fair!" She said, latching onto Al as they hugged each other, both crying.
14 years later
"Envy! Ed! Slow down!" Winry yelled as she ran after the two.
Envy and Ed slowed down and looked up at the blonde woman, "Alright, Auntie Winry," They said in unison.
Envy and Ed looked a lot like their namesakes, hence why they were named after them.
Envy Elric, eleven years old had black hair that was a little long, held up with a white cloth he used as a headband, causing his hair to spike out a little. He was tall and thin, with dark black eyes like his mother.
Edward Elric, Envy's little brother, Eight years old, looked like a spitting image of the the Fullmetal Alchemist. Same golden hair, same style, and same eyes, the Xerxiesian blood ran stronger through Ed then it did with Envy who inherited more Xing traits from their mom.
The blonde mechanic smile at the sight of the two as they started walking beside Winry, standing on either side of her.
"So, how is it in Xing?" Winry asked.
The two boys and their parents alternated between living in Xing and Amestris, so the two kids could understand their heritage first hand. They had been in Xing for the previous year and had returned with their mom a few weeks ago, their dad was finishing up some buisness in Xing and no one knew when he'd be able to come back yet.
Envy grinned, "It was awesome! Uncle Ling gave me a small Imperial Dagger for my birthday!" He said proudly.
"Then Dad took it away and forbid you from using it until you were older," Ed said with a smirk.
Envy glared at his little brother before smiling brightly at Winry, "Still, it was awesome! The blade was so shiny it could be used as a mirror! It also had all these red designs too! Bet you wished you got a dagger," He said this time to Ed who stuck his tongue out at him.
"Now there, no fighting you two," Winry said, knowing that they would start wrestling soon if this kept up. The two loved each other, hell, Envy was protective of his little brother when it came to bullies, but they fought with each other enough too.
Ed peered up ahead, "I think I see it!" He said excitedly, pointing out in front of them.
It was true, they were nearing their destination.
"Envy, Ed, here you go," Winry said, giving Ed and Envy each a few boquets of flowers and led them through the cemetery.
When they reached their destination, they saw that May was already there, kneeled in front of a grave praying, while Xiao-Mei was perched on her shoulder.
"Mom!" Envy and Ed greeted, thankfully quietly. They had enough sense to know that a cemetery was a place of respect and they couldn't be loud and wild like at home.
May looked up and smiled at them, "There are my two favorite boys," She said as the two small kids walked up and stood beside her in front of the graves.
There were three graves, One for Trisha Elric, the next had Van Hohenheim, the third was Edward Elric. The two put a boquet of flowers on each of them and Ed pouted.
"Why didn't we ever get to meet Uncle Edward, or Grandpa and Grandma?" He asked with the innocence of an eight year old.
Envy rolled his eyes, "They died before we were born, moron," He scoffed but it wasn't snippy but instead a gentle tone.
"They would have been proud of you two," May said, poking Ed's belly causing him to laugh, and patting Envys head making him smile.
The four knelt there, showing their respects to the three people who were buried there for a few minutes before Envy stood up and started walking off.
"Where are you going?" May asked.
Envy smiled, "I'm going to go to Uncle Envys grave!" He said.
"Wait for me!" Ed said, scrambling to his feet and picking up the last batch of flowers he had with him and ran after his brother.
Though the homunculus Envy didn't have a body to be buried, Al and Winry and a few others did make a grave for him. Though his grave wasn't with the Elric's, it wasn't far. They buried him under a willow tree a little bit ahead of the other graves but still well with in the sight of it.
They made a coffin, and carved the Ouroboros on it, then buried it. On the gravestone had the name Envy, no last name because he never had one.
Envy and Ed stopped to stand at the grave before placing their flowers on it. Just as they had heard countless stories from their Dad about his adventures with Uncle Edward, they had heard just as fascinating tales about Dad's time with Envy.
A light blue light caught Envys attention and he looked up to see flowers floating down on them. He lightly elbowed Ed in the stomach and Ed looked up, smiling widley at the sight.
"Like it?" Al asked as he walked out from behind the tree.
"Dad!" The two said running up and tackling him and smiling.
Alphonse smiled down at his two sons. He was wearing his brothers red coat with the same symbol at the back but with an Ouroboros circling it as well as wearing a black sleeveless shirt that showed off his midriff and black pants. A combination of both Ed and Envy.
"Hey, Al," Winry greeted as she and May ran up.
"Hi, Winry, long time," Al said smiling and his smile grew at what he saw she was wearing, "Still wearing the headband?"
Winry returned his grin, "Hey, if Envy could wear it for a hundred years and still look cool in it, I'm sure I can still look better then him in it after a fourteen years," She retorted and smiled at the grave of the homunculus they were talking about.
Al nodded, "Good point," He said.
"So, how is your research going?" Winry asked curiously. Al had been researching a way to reverse the creation of a Chimera. So far there was no way to undo being turned into a Chimera, but he was getting closer to being able to seperate the beings that make up a chimera.
"Pretty well, with the combination of Amestris and Cretan alchemy and Xings Alkahestery, I'm doing better then I thought," He said with slight pride, "Then I got me two adorable assistants here," He said picking up Envy and Ed.
"Daaaaaaaad!" Ed laughed as he leaned away from Al.
Winry nodded and when Al put his two sons down, telling them they can go play, May following after her two sons to keep them out of trouble, Winry's gaze softened, "Hard to believe it's been fourteen years," She said.
Alphonse gazed at Envys grave, "Yeah...Fourteen years ago, the three best people I knew, my brother, my dad, and my best friend, they died," he agreed and then sat down next to the grave, looking over to Ed's grave up ahead. "But, I think they'd be happy if they saw us now," He said.
"It's never going to stop hurting," Winry pointed out, "But we can deal with the pain knowing they would hate us for whimping out on them."
Al nodded again as he looked at the graves, then at his family running around, laughing and smiling. He himself smiled.
Envy and Edward Elric are the children of May and Al, I figured that if Envy (jr) inherited more Xing characteristics he'd have black hair and then black eyes but then he'd look like the Homunculus Envy. Then if Edward inherited Xerxesian traits he'd look like Al and Ed so they look a lot like their namesakes.
But also since it was never said;
A month after the Promised Day, Al decided to travel the world and learn other countries versions of Alchemy. He started with Xing and after a few years married May and they gave birth to Envy, later they had their second son, Edward.
Winry started wearing Envy's headband whenever she could so when Envy (elric) and Ed were really little, they stayed with Winry for a month or two while May and Al had to do some traveling and didn't want to risk them getting hurt. Envy saw Winry wearing Envy's (Homunclus) headband a lot and he thought it was cool so he started wearing makeshift headbands usually of white cloth.
Alphonse also wears Ed's red coat, he also wears a version of his and Envys old outfit with a few changes since it's been fouteen years. But to honor both Ed and Envy, he has a large Ouroborus circling a Flamel tattooed on his back, like the one on his coat.
Ling is the kind of uncle who spoils Envy and Ed rotten, as well as maks sure they are preprared for assassination attemps despite them not eligble to inherit the throne.
But it's the end.
Or is it?
Probaby.
