Hello everybody! I am SO SO sorry. I have been gone for far too long, and I really missed working on this story. I got to a certain point in this chapter and I began having some serious writer's block, so I took a break (a long one, I know). But I'm back now, and I'm ready to deliver another chapter! :D I hope you enjoy this one. Also, I have changed my username to "exospier'.

Disclaimer: NO I do NOT own Fullmetal Alchemist. The series belongs to the wonderful Hiromu Arakawa.

His eyes stared up at the completely white ceiling, unblinking, unmoving. Sighing, he slowly got out of the white bed, feeling his head for the gash. Nothing. He walked to the other side of the room, the same pure white as the bed and the ceiling. Dammit, where am I? This doesn't look like the hospital…

He heard a familiar voice call his name. "Edward," it said. He ignored it and continued to stare at the blank white wall. "Edward," it said again, this time in a menacing tone, voice deep and threatening. Edward slightly flinched at this, but he still did not respond. "Look, Edward," the voice said threateningly. "Look at the wall." Edward turned to face the wall behind him. In large, bright red letters it read CHAOS IS COMING. On top of those three words read three more words, still in the same bright color, only larger. EREBUS AWAITS YOU.

Edward woke with a start. He jerked so hard that his head instantly began to ache. He grabbed it and moaned in pain.

"Brother!" He heard a small, recognizable voice yell.

Edward only responded with another pained moan.

"Fullmetal, are you alright?" The Colonel worriedly asked his subordinate.

Edward only gave a small response, too dazed to form words. "Mmm…" He then moved so his back was touching the wall, struggling, and gently laid his head against it, closing his eyes.

"Edward, hey! Can you hear me? You can't go to sleep right now. We need you," the Colonel spoke in a rushed and worried tone.

Barely moving, Edward cracked one eye open and glared over at the Colonel. He then shut his eye and asked, "W-what do you...need me for?"

"Well for one you're the only one not strapped to a wall, so maybe you could assist us with getting free. Secondly-".

"Colonel!" Alphonse cut him off. "He can't do anything in the condition he's in. Look at him!"

Roy knew Alphonse was right, but they HAD to do something, otherwise they'd never get out of there. They would have to wait until Lieutenant Hawkeye or someone else found them, but he knew that would take way too long. Sighing, the Colonel calmly said, "Alphonse, I know, but we don't have much of choice right now. If we can get him to stand up then he could try to help unstrap us from the wall."

Edward, still leaning against the wall with his eyes shut, softly said "Fine, I'll do it." Alphonse gasped in response. Opening his eyes, Edward slowly got up, placing his hand on the wall for support. After steadying himself, he slowly walked over to the Colonel and examined the chain. After looking it over for a minute, Edward said, "It doesn't appear to be a very complex restraint. It's almost as if," he took a deep breath, "they wanted us to undo it."

"Well, regardless, we should get it off so we have a chance at fighting them!" Roy yelled.

Edward winced, the yelling hurting his already pained and injured head. "I know, I'll do it." Inhaling, he clapped his hands together, a blue light beginning to form around the chain. He removed his hands, and the chain was broken. Roy fell down to the floor, rubbing his wrists.

"Thanks, Fullmetal." Edward walked over to Alphonse and repeated the same steps, breaking the chain. Edward didn't say a word to his brother and instead walked over to the opposite side of the room to sit down, leaning against the wall again, closing his eyes. Roy and Alphonse rushed over to his side, and Roy put a hand on Edward's forehead.

"He's burning," Roy announced.

Alphonse gasped. "W-what are we supposed to do? We can't do nothing, he could die!" Roy could tell that Alphonse was shaking.

Roy sighed. He really had no idea what to do. He didn't see a medical kit in the room, and they couldn't escape and bring him to a hospital. Roy looked around the room anxiously, hoping he would get an idea. "I can't do anything about the fever, but your armor is cool, right? If you place your hand on his head, it might help keep it a little under control. As for the wound on his head," Roy began tearing off a piece of his jacket that wasn't tattered, "I'll wrap this around the gash. It'll have to be good enough…" He trailed off, looking at Edward, cursing himself under his breath. How come him and Alphonse weren't that harmed? Not that it's easy to harm a suit of armor. Even so, who was that man that dragged Edward into the room? What did he mean Erebus would like to see them? Roy was worried. Very worried. Both him and Edward were state alchemists, and there's always someone out there trying to target state alchemist for being "dogs of the military". Except most of the time, the criminals seemed to target Edward more than the other state alchemists, and Erebus was not exception.

"Colonel. Colonel!" Roy was snapped out of his thoughts by Alphonse's urgent voice.

"What?"

'He's waking up," Alphonse looked down at Edward, who was resting on his brother's cool metal lap.

Once Edward (almost) fully regained his senses, Roy moved closer to him. "Edward, are you alright?"

"Wow, Colonel, you almost sound worried about me," Edward retorted.

"Of course I'm worried about you!" Roy turned away. "Little brat," he murmured under his breath.

Edward bolt upright. "What did you call me?!"

He's back, Roy thought. Edward grabbed his head and winced in pain. Well, almost.

"Well, as long as you're feeling better brother, we should talk about…"

"The guy, I know. I remember him." Edward finished.

"What do you mean you remember him?"

"You don't? This is the same guy with the black suit and the red eyes that put people to sleep. I think he works for...Erebus."

Roy gasped. Chaos is coming. Erebus awaits you. "You mean, the guy in the black suit with the red eyes isn't even our biggest threat?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. But I remember the man in the black suit staring at me with his red eyes before I fell unconscious in the street, and then I woke up in a dark room, and the eyes were still there. Except they weren't alone." Both Roy and Alphonse gasped. "I think...I think that 'Chaos is coming' is the first guy with the red eyes, and how he came after us. 'Erebus awaits you' must be Chaos' master, or something."

"But brother, who attacked you then?"

"I don't know. He didn't have red eyes though. He was...different. More powerful. It's like he wasn't even there, but I could still feel his presence. He was like...a shadow."

"Erebus?" Alphonse asked.

Just then, a tall man in a black suit entered the room, grabbing Edward, Alphonse, and Roy, and phasing directly through the door into a pitch black room, completely empty except for the four of them, and the glowing red eyes, lurking at the opposite end of the void.