Sorry for taking so long to update, had personal issues to deal with. Sorry for the grammar errors, I am trying to fix them as much as I can. Just enjoy the story!
"Confession at the end of the day"
By: Nyago
Small drops of water rain began to fall, although Al couldn't feel them, he still felt horrible as he helplessly watched his brother and Best friend fall into a huge hole that could even lead to their death. As he and Fletcher lean on the side of the rocky solid ground, Al began to yell "BROTHER! WINRY!" Desperately trying to get some sort of signal or yell back from whatever they felt on only to receive utter silence. "I can't wait here" Al got to his feet and began to settle in the rocks.
"No! You can't go down there, what if you get hurt"
"I can't feel much with this armor" Al defended.
"Even so, you heard your brother, he said to stay back. I am sure he will protect that girl beside we need to get back to the village to tell the others. If this sort of thing is happening, then who knows what will happen to this town."
"You mean the red river is…breaking the ground?" Al gasps in horror.
"It could be a possibility, but that's just a theory, right now we need to get back and tell everyone, come on!" Fletcher ran, as fast as his legs to take him. Before following behind his friend, Al turns to see the hole once again. "Brother…Winry…please be safe!" Turning back around, Al began to run, to catch up to his small friend back to the village.
As water began to drip down the smooth rocks, small peddles slowly began to roll down creating a small noise as they felt into the water. Slowly and steady Winry open her eyes, only to be blinded by her own blurry vision. Rubbing her face with her hand, she began to register what happen before she passed out. 'Where am I?' her mind wonder. Looking around to see she was no longer in the surface but rather very deep underground. 'What the…' she began. Trying to stand up from where she lay, she notice she wasn't in the hard and cold floor, instead she was in the arms of who had saved her, his own body.
"Winry!" Winry-ed yelled trying to shake himself awake.
Grabbing his hand, Ed-winry rubbed his head. "Urgh…" He spoke trying to focus where he was. "Where…" Before realizing that his body was on top of her. "Oh that's right…" He began as he looks up only to find a pinch of darkness all around him.
"What happen?" Winry-ed question looking into his own eyes.
"I am not sure, but I think we felt from up there…" Ed-winry pointed as the drop of water kept falling on their faces. "Now as much as I know you like to feel a pond yourself, I need to get up, these rocks aren't the most comfortable place in the world you know."
"I-I don't like to feel on myself!" Winry-ed defended getting herself off Winry.
"Sure you don't Edward…" Ed-winry mocked, finally able to move around, "Ouch…" He cried as he covers his wound.
"Let me see" She demanded, removing Winry hand out of the way to see a very large but not deepen wound in his right side of his lower chest. "How did you….wait, you shield me."
"Duh..." He wined in pain once again.
Winry-ed could only stare, even if Winry never really felt real pain she still manage to use his body as a shield. But why? "We should try and find way out of here…" Winry-ed suggested.
"No, we should find that friend of yours, for all we know he could be hurt or maybe even…" Ed-winry took a deep breath and sighed out of frustration.
"Fine, but once we find him, is up there you hear?"
"Since when did you become the sensitive one?"
"Winry, you are hurt, even if it is my body, you are still hurt!"
"You forget I have automail arm and leg. I am not that badly injure."
"And then you blame me for wanting to wreak it…" Winry-ed rolls her eyes.
"It did well for your landing!" Ed-winry yelled.
"Oh so now you see HOW I feel?" Before it got into anything else Winry-ed covers her mouth with a loud gasp. How can she said that, out loud and to the person that he…Her cheeks began to glow, bright crimson red.
Ed-winry blinked and stares at himself with amusement "What did you say?" She had to make sure she heard right. Did Ed care for Winry? "You mean you actually care for me?"
Sweat drop, "OF COURSE I CARE! You, Al and Grandma is all I have left! If I lose any of you guys, I don't know if I could live with myself!"
"You sure don't hint it…"
"Winry just because I have a hard time saying I care, doesn't mean I don't care. You are family, the only thing I have left in my life aside from Al. I know when I get Al body back, I won't be around him as much, he has his own life to see, and I can't always be next to him." Winry-ed assures.
"….."
"Anyway…" Winry-ed rubs the back of her head, "Let me at least find something to clean you with" grabbing a small piece of his own red jacket, he torn off a piece of the end, enough to wet it in the small amount of clean water they could find. "Sit" She ordered, pointing at the pile of rocks that was near the entrance which they felt from. Without bothering to argue back, Ed-winry did as told, sitting in the rocks that Ed had command her as Winry-ed began to clean up the few bruise that were bleeding. "Move your arm" she said, cleaning up as much blood as she could.
"This feels strange…" Ed-winry blushed.
"Well it shouldn't…" getting up from her position, Winry-ed left to a small pond they found the newly fresh clean water, draining the blood out of the cloth, she dumped the cloth into the water, trying to get fresh clean water. "Spread your leg a bit, so I can lean my leg into the rock so I can wash your face" Winry-ed said, as she walked back to Winry.
"I can wash my face in the water you know…"
"And risking you to begin bleed again after cleaning you? No way!" She said flatly. "Now stay still, I only need to clean your face a bit" Moving her body, she put one leg on the rock as her other one, stood still to hold her balance. "Move your arm…" She demanded.
"Ok, Ok…" Ed-winry said in defeat. Moving his arm, he stood perfectly still as Ed continue to clean her face. "Is strange…" Winry-ed began.
"Hmm?"
"To look at myself, without it been in front of a mirror and been able to take care of myself right I am doing right now." She smiled. Ed-winry blushed as his eye began to find the floor very interesting looking. "Anyway, I think I am done." Grabbing other small pieces of cloth from his jacket, she began to use them as small bandages to seal the cuts that could begin to bleed again. "There…" she stated. "Now we can go look for Russell" Another smile.
Getting up from his position, Ed-winry began to adjust himself and began to walk not too far before he began to feel himself falling to the floor once again. Thankfully to have Ed to catch her. "Sorry…" Ed-winry began "I think it may be the automail…" He pointed at the leg. "I didn't think it would be this much of a problem…."
"Is fine, I will hold you if you need to walk" And so they did, Winry-ed arms around Ed-winry waist while Ed-winry arms around Winry-ed shoulder, they began to walk side by side through out the tunnel. Neither said anything, as they continue to hear the water running further down the rode that they were walking.
Without showing his face, his expression show concern and worry. "Sorry…." Ed-winry said breaking the silence.
"What?" Winry-ed questioned, looking up to see Winry face.
"I didn't know my automail was this much of a burden to you…I always though you had it easy because it was made of metal so you couldn't feel much on it…Now I see why. I am sorry for hitting you."
Winry-ed blinked, before she could begin to register the words in her brain. "Winry your automail is the best, why are you suddenly saying this?"
"I am sorry…" Ed-winry continues to hide his face in shame.
"Don't worry….Now I can see what you go through when I leave and come back all beaten up, guess we both learned something about each other…" Winry-ed began to laugh only to notice Winry wasn't following the joke. Quietly she stares down the floor before proceeding to talk. "Our main concern is getting out of here; we can talk about this issue later."
"Ok…" Ed-winry nodded. As they both continue to walk, the sound of water running began to be much heaver by the minute. "We must be getting close to a source of the water…" Winry-ed said, still holding onto his own body waist.
Walking a few steps, the two gasped as they ended up onto the end of the sewer tunnel, only to see that their road continue down and not forward. "Great..." Winry-ed sweat drop, "A dead end..."
"Maybe we can climb down from the sides? It looks stable enough." Ed-winry pointed.
"No, is too wet to walk on, we might fall and get more injure. If only…" Before Winry-ed got to say anything more, a small but familiar voice yelled.
"OHY! ED!" It yelled.
The two began to look around only to find Russel at the bottom of the sewer where the water ran. "What are you two doing here? Or rather, how could you bring a girl in here Ed?" He looked angry.
"Small issues don't worry about it!" Ed-winry spoke for Ed behalf. "And where were you! We had been looking for you! Your little brother been worrying sick!" He yelled, raising his arm in the air and stomping his feet.
"Heh, Lots has happen since you left, if you guys turn around you should find a small tunnel near there, from there you can climb down." Russell said.
"Thanks!" Winry-ed waived back. Walking back where they came from, they saw a small tunnel that looked like it would lead to the lower floors. Slowly and easy, Winry and Ed began to walk that path only to find Russell at the end of the tunnel. "Took you long" he stated.
"What the heck is going on?' Ed-winry began to speak.
"As you can see this "So call" Red water, isn't much of a red water as the one I use to make…Notice how I am not wearing a mask and not coughing." It was true, in the past the red water lead to dangerous health problems that can could result even to death. But how come it was strong enough to destroy the ground and yet not harm a human body? "Explain" Winry-ed questioned.
"Oh and who may you be?" Russell said as he eyed Winry. "My name is Russell Tringham, an old friend of Ed sort of speak. You?" He asked taking Winry hand only to be smacked out again "Her name is Winry and you better keep your hands off before I hurt you." Ed-winry sweat drop, was that something right to say? She wasn't sure what Ed treated her like in front of others, but she at least hoped she did it right.
Which assuming, she did, Ed inside was grinning in joy. Is like Winry read his mind at that moment Russell touch her hand only to receive a small but threading remark from him. "Oh I see, so that's your girlfriend Ed?" He mocked Ed.
"No!" Ed-winry yelled, as Winry said steam with anger. "She is my childhood friend, that's all" He stated.
"Oh, so you don't mind me asking her out later do you?" He smirked.
"As a matter of fact…" Ed-winry began only to be cut short.
"Alright, I am not some toy for you boys, now let's get moving before Ed begins to bleed again!" She yelled.
"How the hell did you get hurt?" They began to walk.
"You ever try falling down from a hole and ended up miles down? Yeah that tend to happen" Winry-ed sarcasms replied. "Anyway, can you tell us what's going on?"
"Well from what I can gather, the red water is not enough to hurt humans however mother nature been suffering because of it. This under ground tunnels are too unstable and could easily break apart anytime soon. You saw it happen back when we first meant." Winry-ed began to recall, of course, that idiot fat guy that was completely obsessed with making the red stone back then. Of course, all the experiments were done under ground but why would anyone start it again?
"So this wall can break anytime soon? Does that mean the town could become in danger?" Ed-winry interrupted Ed thoughts.
"If it continues to flow under ground like this, then yes… Although I am still trying to find the source of the earthquakes." He answered.
"You mean its something else?" Winry-ed looks up only to see Russell nod at her. "Great…" She said sarcasm.
"So, what now?"
"We need to find the source, destroy and stop the red water from flowing, that isn't too hard for a state alchemist is it?" Russell smirked again only to have Ed-winry sweat drop.
"No one is doing anything" Came a voice from the shadows. As the group look up to see a strange old man standing in front of them. He looked no more than his 80's and he had long white bear and Cain to hold him.
"And who are you suppose to be? Santa Claus?" Winry-ed mocked.
The old man smirked, "Say what you want, no one is getting out of here…" He face them "Alive." Before Ed, Winry and Russell had time to react, strange creature's grad their arms and pushed them hard onto the rocky floor. "Damn it!" Winry-ed cursed.
"Should had sense them some how…" Russell spoke.
"Hahaha, Say what you want young lad, there is no escape even if you did fight them." He smiled.
"…damn" Ed-winry whisper to himself, closing his eyes only to have them open again as he hears a scream from behind; the creature that was holding on to him was melting?
"What the…"
No time to react or any thoughts Winry-ed yelled "Winry use Alchemy!" With only seconds to waste, Ed-winry clap her hands together and though of something to hold them. "Got you!" He said, as Winry and Russell were free once again.
"Nice!" Winry-ed thumps up.
"Thanks" He smiled.
"Huh?" Russell was now confused, did Winry just called Ed, herself? "Why did you call Ed, Winry?" He said, as he looked at the two.
"Err….watch out!" Winry-ed changed the subject fast as the creatures began to move in full speed towards them.
"KILL THEM IF YOU MUST!" The old man yelled, commanding the creatures towards them.
"Think fast!" Winry-ed grads Ed arm as they began to run back to where they came from.
"Err….rope? Chain? What!" He started to panic.
"Anything you think might help!" They began to run.
"Err… GOT IT!" He yelled, clapping his hands once again, creating large spears from all of them "Grad them!" He yelled again. Without second thoughts Winry-ed grad a hold of one and stab the creature in its stomach. Hearing it scream in pain as it began to melt.
"Wait a minute, those two are made by red stone water, look!" Russell pointed as the once so call creature turn into water again. "So if we keep this up, we might get rid of this monster in no time at all!"
As the group continues to run, they came face to face with a dead end. "Crap!" Winry-ed kicked the floor. "Winry you think you might be able to picture a door so we can get out!"
"I think so!" He nods.
"I am so confused!" Russell stated.
"No time! THINK!" Winry-ed yelled.
Clapping his hands together, Ed-winry touched the wall and began to create large amount of light enough to light the room while trying to create a door. "Just a bit more!" Ed-winry spoke, creating one large door that now stood in front of them.
"Open the door! Before those things began to think we are lunch!" Russell replies, as he pushed the creature back with the spear.
"Wait a minute…!" Winry-ed turns around and looks closely, "Those things aren't monsters… They are…CHIMERAS!"
-To be Continue-
Sorry for taking so long to update, I been rather depress mood and well it affect me sometimes when I want to write. I hope this chapter brings out that "Aww" side to all of you. Promise next chapter to be funny or serious…Which ever your pick. :3 Also remember this fanfic isn't very long, I might make it maybe 8-10 chapters long. I am already working on a new one! XD (Dances) don't forget to leave a pretty review!
Nyago