Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Don't own it!
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TRANSMUTATION
"Niisan, I think something's going wrong --"
A scream. "ED!" A flash of sinister purple light. His brother groping in front of him. He reached, stretched for the quickly-disintegrating hand. It was too late, and the Gate slammed shut.
"I'm you."
He stared blearily around the dim room. Was that... Mama? Yeah... Mama. She'd hug him, tell him it was all all right now, and she'd smile at him, and he'd look back at her with tears in his eyes, cling to her waist happily. Their transmutation had been a success. But where was... Aru? To share the fruits of their labour --
And then Edward Elric opened his eyes, and fell back into a sea of blood, in the presence of a horror that he himself had created.
Aru was gone. And he was alone.