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Chapter 5
Instinct is a powerful thing, it drives people to protect themselves, to procreate. With no real
rhyme or reason, a person feels driven to do so. A Radam's instincts are still instinct, albeit
stronger. Fighting techniques, attack patterns, and such are passed through the host in this
manner….but there is a shared need, self preservation. The need is so great it is able to push Ed's
body to its limits, allowing Ed to utilize the armor to its fullest. Said instinct is frightening as it is
activated once again to full capacity. For "something" has passed over Ed's senses, triggering it,
synapses firing bringing his brain to full attention, but instinct quickly takes over. Ed's
consciousness floats among this, idly wondering just "what" that was….the reason source of his
brain quickly failing, while his log source was still not active. Ed could "feel" a guttural growl
emanating from "below", it sounded dangerous to his ears, almost ravenous. With logic and reason
out of commission Instinct had full control, pushing Ed's body to stand.
Ed quickly sat up, his body quickly reacting to what had tripped his senses, crawling slowly out
of bed on his hands and knees he did not even notice the token resistance given by a iv line in his left
arm, ripping said iv line out and pulling the iv machine to a crashing start. But Ed was already at the
door, still on his hands and knees, his face to the bottom of the door, he knew he must be quick for
his pray may already have been alerted as he could hear the vibrations of running steps getting closer
to him, but he would not be denied his prey. Spring forth while swinging his right arm, Ed destroys
the door he bounded down the hall, towards the approaching Aunt Pinako, Winry, and Eddy. His
prey was close….soooo close….Ed's mouth began to salivate….the "growl" becoming stronger…
as he got close he pounced like a wild animal at Winry! Winry screams (so did Eddy but lets just
say you couldn't tell the difference between his and Winry's screams, hint hint LMAO), Eddy jumps
into Aunt Pinako's lap, Aunt Pinako vainly tries to throw Eddy off and throw a wrench at the
oncoming Ed, Ed jumps over Winry…..
Landing behind Winry, Ed makes his true move, jumping at the close to fully loaded dining table
filled with an assortment of dishes, each more mouth watering than the next. Ed began to devour
everything within sight….such carnage. As Kim walked in with the fully cooked turkey, it
disappeared into the maelstrom that was Ed (Ed actually took the turkey away from her by biting
into it and pulling it into the "fray", if you know Ranma ½ , think of how Ranma eats errr
inhales….watever). Eddy quickly rushed to the scene, while Winry and Aunt Pinako sat stunned at
the current turn of events. Eddy quickly rushed into the fight to save his dinner….
"wow you could lose a hand in there" Aunt Pinako said to no one in particular, carelessly
dodging an errant bone or plate. "Literally" She continued as she noticed Eddy running around
screaming "OH GOD HE BIT MY HAND I CAN'T BELIEVE HE BIT MY HAND OH GOD OH
GOD OH GOD" he continued as he ran around the room. Yes, truly instinct is a frightening thing.
Suddenly there was silence, even the "growling" from Ed's stomach had ceased. Ed sat at the
table with a truly content smile on his face. Winry was transfixed on his smile, while Eddy…..Eddy
continued to run around the room screaming that he couldn't find his fingers although he was not
missing any. Within Eddy's addled mind he worried about losing a finger to Ed, had remembered
that one was SUPPOSED to have 10 fingers, unfortunately that's as far as Eddy's logic had gotten.
For he quickly counted the fingers on his hand and only found 5.…And began screaming that Ed
had bitten off 5 of his fingers, completely forgetting he only HAS 5 fingers PER hand. (A/N hey
he's my character I can use him any way I want! ) Aunt Pinako grabbed Eddy as he was passing by
with one hand at his collar pulling his face close to hers, quite a feet since she was still in her
wheelchair. Eddy stunned by the action stood stock still. "You're supposed to only have 5 fingers
per hand" Aunt Pinako calmly stated. Eddy quickly looked at both hands counted slowly,
rechecked, remembered what number came after 2, counted again and THEN sighed in relief. THEN
Aunt Pinako pulled out the Mother of ALL wrenches(tm) which actually had the kitchen sink on the
end of it and slammed it into the head of Eddy. If he is to be my grandson-in-law I refuse for him to
be such an idiot even if I have to beat common sense into him Aunt Pinako grimly thought. If
only…Aunt Pinako began her thought as she looked from Eddy to Ed, and then to Winry. Aunt
Pinako could only sigh and hope that "those two" would come to their senses.
Winry had meanwhile gone to comfort Kim. "It's ok Kim, thank you again for helping to make
dinner for us..err Ed-kun" Winry said to Kim with a look of sorrow on her face. She felt truly bad
that her friend had helped her out with cooking for everyone and was repaid by Ed ruining it. Just
you wait ED! You have a wrench with your name on it later! Winry angrily thought but quickly
turned those thoughts away as she brought her thoughts back to Kim and the recent events.
After Ed had fallen Winry had gotten Eddy to drag Ed to the hospital, but was quickly refused by
the hospital there, claiming not to help monsters. They had no choice but to bring Ed back to the
house. Aunt Pinako was very familiar with the human body as was expected from an automail
mechanic. She may not be able to diagnose everything a doctor could, or know which medications
where best, but she was very close to one. She quickly figured out from Ed's symptoms that he was
suffering from severe dehydration, fatigue, and starvation. She was able to start an IV consisting of a
normal saline solution to help re-establish his fluid and electrolyte levels and hopefully coax him to
wake up from his malnutrition coma so that he may be able to eat….which by the way seemed to
have worked too well. Kim had come to try and help as much as she could when she saw the
distraught look on her face. It was Kim that had volunteered to help by cooking. During the trek
home, it was also noted that all the other villagers had avoided the group. It soon became clear that
although Ed had saved the village, twice even, that the villagers had started to see him has a monster.
Winry was shaken from her thoughts by Kim. "Don't worry Winry, I'm ok I was just a little
startled that's all. I know he's not a monster it was just too much to handle all at once." Kim said as
she smiled at Winry. Winry couldn't help but smile back at her friend. Both of their attention turned
to Aunt Pinako as she cleared her through. Ed also stopped picking his teeth with a tooth pick, and
gave the obachan (old lady) his full attention. A wrench firmly planted itself on his face. "Who's an
old lady?" Aunt Pinako smiled, how she missed Ed, he was like a son to her. "But I didn't say that
you were an old lady!" Ed quickly retorted rubbing at his face. ANOTHER wrench quickly found its
way to Ed's face "That's for admitting you were thinking at and saying it again" Aunt Pinako said as
she smiled sweetly. Winry and Kim laughed to themselves at the antics presented to them, as Eddy
umm "slept" soundly. "Now, Ed" Aunt Pinako began, gaining Ed's full attention, quickly followed
by Winry and Kim. "You've been gone a long time. Things have changed since you've been gone.
A new evil has come into power. No one is sure of who that person is, but he's referred to as the
neo "Furor". We don't know his true name or intentions" Aunt Pinako shook her head continuing
"What we do know he is he's brought alchemy to new heights through use of a steady supply of
false philosopher stones. He's created armies of new breeds of chimeras, and generals through an
amalgamation of alchemy and automail. Plus by bonding the fake philosopher stones to these
generals, gives them great power to destroy the land." Aunt Pinako looked grimly at Ed. Ed shook
his head from his stupor at the new information "But the fake philosopher stone has a limited usage
before destroying the user, why would any one willingly volunteer to have it bonded to themselves?
That's suicide!" Ed quickly countered. "Yes it is, but if they "distinguish" themselves, they are
promoted to colonel, bonding a black philosopher stone to them" Ed's eye's widened as she
continued "This stone enables them to, as far as we can tell, use the fake philosopher limitlessly" Ed
opened his mouth to interrupt but Aunt Pinako continued "BUT we do know that the black
philosopher stone is not THE philosopher stone and thus has a limit. But we have yet to see that
limit. To answer your question why people have joined ranks is that with such tempting power
people believe that they can achieve the great power of colonel, and if they have to risk their lives to
attain said power…." She left her sentence open, but the interpretation was obvious.
Aunt Pinako looked at the stunned Ed, and the solemn Winry and Kim. She could feel that time
was running out for some reason so she continued. "Ed-kun, I don't know how you got your
powers but I believe you are the only one with the power to oppose the Neo Furor. But we can only
help you so much Ed-kun. I'm sorry but the road ahead will be a hard one, for the village sees you
as a monster." She quickly raised her hand to silence Ed "WE know your not a monster Ed-kun,
you'll always Edward and Alphonse to us" she smiled at Ed. "But others will be scared of your
powers, your other form, partially from the generals popping up, and partly at your sheer power. I
want you to go to your sensei, with her you will find your brother Alphonse, he's missed you so.
The other reason is that your sensei is a major part in the force against the neo furor. I wish I could
give you the time to train here, but after 2 attacks the neo furor will send something stronger. You
must go find your brother and sensei and train, become strong enough to defeat the neo furor." Aunt
Pinako finished letting it set in. Eddy groggily began to get up from the floor.
Upon looking at his watch he bolted uprite to the surprise of everyone just as an explosion rocked
the foundation knocking everyone to the ground. "Another attack!?!?!" Aunt Pinako stated. A claw
stabbed through the wall, accompanied by a shrill roar from the beast. Ed gather Aunt Pinako into
his arms and jump through the opposite window, Winry and Kim jumping after him. Eddy quickly
followed.
The group quickly headed to the surrounding forest along the river. Ed putting down Aunt
Pinako, clapped his hands together and placed them on the ground, quickly creating a stone statue
of his tekknoform. Placing his right hand on the back of the statue, his right arm split open revealing
the blue crystal. He did not know how he knew he could do this, he just did. The crystal began to
glow, and then the statue began to glow blue as it began to be imbued with the tekk energy.
Suddenly the statue shot off like a rocket flying towards the west. Just as Ed thought the chimera
began to follow the errant "Tekknoman". Once again silence spread through out the village. Winry
quickly ran back to the house, Eddy following after her. Ed could do nothing but stare at them, a
weird emptiness filling his chest. "I'll be going" was all he could say as he started his journey to his
sensei's house. Aunt Pinako could do nothing but shake her head as the tank top clad youth walked
away from them. Kim could be hear muttering about how dense men were and the valid good points
on beating the truth into their thick skulls.
Ed was stopped by someone calling his name "ED!" he could hear Winry yell. He suddenly
something draped around his shoulders. It was his red trench coat, he looked at Winry. "I'm
coming with you" She stated as a fact, not a question. "The last time you left me behind and all I
could do was worry, this time I'm going to go with you to make sure you come home." She stated
both to Ed and herself so that they may both believe the answer to why she was accompanying Ed.
"What about Eddy?" Ed asked tentatively looking at her from the corner of his eyes. "I told him, he
understands that your family" she said stressing family, although she felt funny saying it "and that
family needs to take care of one another" she said to Ed, she looked back waving at Eddy, then
looking back at Ed with a smile. Ed looked behind Winry and saw Eddy's smile disappear from his
face to be replaced with an angry frown, and then he stomped away. Ed wanted to tell Winry to stay
to be safe, but for some reason he wanted her along, he wanted her to be safe. He felt that for some
reason she would not be safe here. So Ed began to walk away Winry following right at his heels.
With Ed no argument meant he has accepted it, and Winry knew this. It didn't occur to Winry why
she wanted to go with Ed so badly to keep him safe, that she didn't even give Eddy a second
thought. It did occur to Winry that Ed had stopped and she had walked into Ed's muscular strong
back…and that she was currently drooling from her lips . Ed walked back to Aunt Pinako, clapped
his hands and placed them on the ground next to her, a glowing array surrounded Aunt Pinako.
Quickly a stone wheelchair formed underneath her. "Don't worry I made the stone hollow so it
won't be too heavy, but it's not permanent. You should get her into her real wheel chair" Ed said to
Kim. And he walked away on his new journey, his new journey with Winry was beginning.
Aunt Pinako and Kim just smiled as the two left, knowing that this was Ed's way of saying thank
you to both of them, and to take care of Aunt Pinako.
Meanwhile Eddy was talking to a dark figure at the outskirts of the other side of the village with a
dark figure…riding a chimera that looked to be a giant praying mantis with the head of a snake….
To be continued.
NEXT TIME! "Don't mind her, it's that time of the month" Ed said pointing his thumb back at Winry. A wrench slammed into the back of Ed's head smashing him his face into the glass into the glass in front of him. Ed blinked a couple of times, noticed a bit of blood drip down the glass "I thought you were the one supposed to bleed Winry?
All men within a 10 mile radius reflexively cradled their crotch, most unaware why but was sure that their "weak spot" was in danger.
A/N Just wrote this chapter as it came to mind. I have a feeling I have a few run on sentences in this chapter. But I had to get the plot more formed than the vague outline I've had so far. Oh and if about Aunt Pinako and her medical expertise, I figured she must be pretty knowledgeable since she attaches automail to muscle tissue arteries and nerves. With that much medical information she would be able to identify something such as over exhaustion. The IV made sense since it would most likely be needed for the operation of installing automail, thus it was not such a stretch to believe she could place an IV into Ed. Lol I could have probably gotten the name of the iv solution that would most likely be used but I doubt that was really relevant. I hope you all still liked this chapter, I know not much action, but I need to start pulling things together before I can bring in the big bad guys . As always read and review! THANX for reading, and a special thank you to everyone that has reviewed my story so far, its really appreciated and usually gets me going on writing the next chapter lol. Oh and if there's any errors let me know and I'll change them k? thanx!
