Okay, forth and last chapter! Finally! Instead of making up Xingish language, I used Japanese. I spend a lot of time on that language, I might as well use it! I'm not gonna provide translations. See what you know. Bwaaahahahahahaaa!


"Hey!"

"Whu?"

"Wake up! We're in Ruemos!"

"Oh... Okay."


Ruemos. Known for its odd export of eastern goods. Though Ruemos is still, technically, part of Amestris, it is so close to Xing that more Xingish people, it is said, live in the small city than Amestrians.

It is a famous city for more reasons than it's kinship with Xing. Ruemos is also known for its sizeable Bronze statue in the very middle of the city. The statue commemorates Lin Sang, a brave Xingish woman who had run an orphanage. Although the actual story of Lin Sang is much longer, it is boring and no body really cares about telling all of it all that much.

All the locals know is that there is a big stature of her, somewhere in the city.


"I'm hungry." Al looked to his older brother.

"Good. It builds character." Edward did not make eye contact. He was afraid Ling and Ran Fan where suddenly going to pop out of nowhere.

"It can also cause you to starve." Al starred pointedly.

"Okay."

"...STARVE."

"good." Ed nodded.

"Xingish noodles." Al knew where his brother's weak points lay.

"Alright!" Ed yelled, spotting a noodle cart, "Fine!"


"Excuse me!" Al said, being the one to finish his noodles first, he could talk to the noodle vendor.

"Mnn?" The vendor, a Xingish girl around Ed's age, looked over to Al.

"Could you point us" Al gestured point, "to the statue of Lin Sang?"

The girl looked angry.

Ed smiled, "Ha, ha! You forgot the first rule of Xingish custom." Ed nodded, "Ohayo Gozaimasu."

"Ohayo Gozaimasu." Said the girl.

"O-Namae wa?" Edward was charming when he wanted to be.

"Watashi no Namae wa Rao Fongu desu. Hajime mashite." She bowed.

"She says her name is Rao Fong." Edward told his brother.

Alphonse looked embarrassed. Why had he never picked up Xingish?

"Boku no Namae wa Edowado Eruriku desu."Edward told her his name, "Hajime Mashite"

The two continued to blabber in Xingish while Alphonse staired at the cloud formations. That one looked like a bunny, that one was a horse, and that one was the deadly sin Lust...

"Hey, let's go." Edward poked his brother in the shoulder.

"Whu? She told you where the statue is?"

"Yup. And she told me where The Restaurant at The End of The Universe is, but I find that kind of information" Edward paused for effect, "Trivial."

"...Okay"


The statue was, as the brochure said, bronze.

It showed Lin Sang, a girl who looked oddly like Ran Fan, Holding an infant. She had another child clinging to her leg.

She was standing in a typical 'Brave' pose, with her one free hand reaching for the sun.

"...Is she... Crying?" Alphonse looked to his brother.

"No, that's bird crap." Ed nodded.

"Oh."

"Well, Is that why we came here? For bird crap?" Ed seemed slightly annoyed.

"huh? No! There is an insignia on the bottom. I couldn't remember what it said." Alphonse pointed to said insignia.

"What does it say?"

"I don't know." Alphonse shrugged, "That's why I brought you. Translate."

"Oh." Ed nodded, and then looked down to the monotype writing, "It says... no one is truly...alone if...their heart is with...another."

"Heh. That's sweet." Alphonse wrote it down.

"Okay... now what?"

"We go home."

"Finally!" Ed smiled.

"So... Did I tell you mustang is thinking of naming his first born after you?" Al asked.

"What?"

"Seriously, and if it's a girl..."

And the brothers walked off to the train station. Their journey had ended.


No really. That's the end. Now go home! Go home!

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