Waves fans around Annnnn….UPDATE! Throws confetti and my computer….ISSSSSSSSS…still broken. I learned how to transfer files onto a floppy disk and upload them on another computer. This chapter is short but it helps close things up a bit in the story.
Anywho don't own. Never did. Never will.
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"Brother? Are you in here? Ed?" Alphonse said walking around the kitchen, "Where'd he go?" He asked himself. Sighing he looked out the door to see it was wide open.
"What?" He closed the door and thought for a moment. Missing Ed. Open door, "Don't tell me he…" Alphonse took off in a frantic search around the house in search of his older brother. It lead him right back to the kitchen with out any sign of the older alchemist, "Edward." He groaned. Then he rushed off in search of the other officials.
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I can't find him anywhere!" Al panicked, "What if he was kidnapped! He's in no condition to be moving around to much."
"Don't worry Alphonse. We'll find your brother." Roy grunted. That boy was causing to many problems for him already now he goes missing before they leave.
"Why are we always searching for the runt?" Havoc muttered lighting another cigarette, "What's that?" he said picking up a paper from the kitchen floor. He looked at it, "Kira-Kira must have dropped one of Emily's pictures." He thought stuffing it into his pocket, "I'll give it to her later."
"Come on. He couldn't have gotten far." Hughes said, "I mean he is practically half crippled right now."
And Edwards didn't get far.
Some 30 minutes later they found Edward in an Empty concrete lot in an abandoned part of town.
"Brother!" Alphonse cried. Mint jumped from his shoulder and snuggled against Edward's leg before returning.
"Oh. Hi there," Edward said nonchalantly.
"Edward where have you been?" Hughes demanded.
"Solving my problems!" Edward said grinning as he stood up from where he was. He dusted his hands of any stray chalk particles and placed them at his hips, "Finally done."
Roy looked at over at what Edward was working on. It was a large Alchemic circle at least ten feet in diameter. Inside of the circle was a hexagon with a tree like figure inside. The tree had nine branches. At the end of each branch was a small circle with different symbols inside of them.
"What is that?"
"It should dispel the impurities in the stone helping it alleviate itself. After that it should get out of my hand."
"Fullmetal, you need the exact chemical…"
"I know, Roy!" Edward yelled. "I have it all here." Ed said flipping out a paper
"Now your sure?" asked Riza as she stared uneasily at the sigil.
"Well, It's all I have to go on at the moment, and the formulas on this paper seem pretty sound."
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It was his fault. All his fault. And for it many lives were lost.
Gate twirled a knife in his hand as he sat on the buildings roof. He coughed violently into his arm. He lifted it to see blood on his sleeve. He knew Ishballa would soon claim him for judgment, but not before he made things right.
It was his fault Faar was gone. It was his fault the girl named Emily got hold of the stone and had to die. It was his fault another life had to be sacrificed before this was over.
He remembered what happened.
He had been seriously injured by a saber wound inflicted by a soldier of the state and was left to die. He had taken it well. He and the stone would disappear from existence taking the ability of destruction with them.
But.
He just had to be saved. That man with the name Gianni. That man, an alchemist, had taken him to safety and healed his wounds when he was on the verge of death. The fool. He didn't know what he was saving. He didn't know he sealed his and his child's fate.
The stone still sensed Gate's weakness and ailments and thought he was about to die. So, like a parasite in search of a new host to live off of, it attached itself to the man Gianni.
The man should have left gate to die but he didn't, and in result the stone had killed him. A side affect of the strange form of alchemy the Surrion Ancalime used caused an error in his blood cells some would see as a form of cancer.
Gate owed the man his life. So he did the one thing he could think of. Free his daughter from the curse of the stone her father gave to her rather than let her suffer the affects of it. Save her from the guilt of the lives the stone would take as it slowly destroyed her. Give mercy to the child by sending her to Ishballa while she was still pure and innocent before the stone could taint her.
He never expected the stone would leach itself into someone else before it died though.
That stone was a perfect example that alchemy was evil. It was true he himself new alchemy but it was just because of blind hope. Blind hope to bring his own daughter back to life only to fail miserably.
He never expected the stone to get so widespread dragging in another child. He'd end this once and for all saving them all from the evil alchemic stone he had hope for in the past.
The man stood up with his last strength and turned to the scene below, watching the blond haired boy make the finishing touches on the alchemic sigil he made. He knew they both would die soon. In His final minute Gate new he had to release this boy from the stones grasp.
And with out second thought he threw the knife. Soon the other side of the Gate would claim the tainted stone and through it into hell. Just as the other side of the gate had claimed his sanity when he tried bringing his daughter back.
Gate never saw the knife land or the affects it would have on the situation. He coughed violently before ceasing to make any noise at all. Gate Trafalga had died with the thought in his mind that he had set things right, and now that his work was done would be reunited with his daughter Julia once again.
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"Everything is pretty much done. All I need to do is activate it!" Ed said in giddy delight.
"Well hurry up so we can back to central," Havoc muttered.
"Got it!" Ed bent down and touched the alchemic sigil. A light purple light lifted from circle. Some of the non-alchemists in the group watched in wonder. Kira-Kira shuddered at the sensation of warmth lifting from the sigil.
A flash of silver flew by Edwards face and the alchemic light turned green before coming to an abrupt halt. Ed just stood there.
"Well, Fullmetal? Did it work?" Roy asked suppressing his anticipation.
Ed shakily turned around. Across his left cheek was a thin line of red where blood streamed in a steady line down his cheek and dripped on to his hand. A knife was stuck firmly in the ground some good 9 feet away from him.
"This is not good," he said wide eyed.
"Brother?" Al questioned. Mint folded her ears back and hissed violently in the direction of the sigil.
"Ed. What happened?" Hughes felt his heart drop at Ed's tone.
"The blood…it interfered with the alchemic reaction," Edward then turned to look at his hand, "NYNG!" Edward squeaked. He had a strange expression on his face. An expression that looked quite funny but meant Edward noticed something less then desirable. Roy's eyebrow twitched.
"Edward. What happened," the dark haired man said looking at the blond youth.
"That. Can't be good," Edward said staring at his hand.
"What."
Edward shakily turned his palm to face Roy. Roy suddenly got the same strange expression Edward had.
"I think…" Edward started, "…it absorbed into my hand." The only sign of the gem was a sliver of quickly fading blue. Soon it disappeared all together into Edward's hand. There was a brief calm before the storm. Suddenly Edwards once golden eyes turned into a solid pupiless blue and all hell broke loose.
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I am proud to say all I have left is one more chapter and an epilogue! Finally after months of work Armageddon Alchemist is coming to a close. This and the previous chapter had given me some trouble but I plowed through them! Now the last chapter and the epilogue should be pretty easy.
Review please! Last minute ideas are still welcome.
Flames shall be used to roast marshmallows.
See ya