"Next week's your birthday." Emilia noted.
"Heh. It took you three years to find that out?" Ed laughed. He took on a serious look. "Have you given up, Emilia?"
"On what?"
"You haven't bothered looking for your past ever since last year when you...met your mother."
She grimaced. "I...She had no answers for me. She wasn't cooperative, and then when I was fed up with her...I stormed out."
"And, what was it she did, if you recall?"
"She...called my name and asked that I come back."
"And you didn't."
She lowered her head. "So what?"
"I thought you'd be just a little happier."
"What? Just because I learned enough of the basic facts about me. Who cares that I know my birthday? She didn't have an answer I really wanted. Like...how I wound up here."
"I guess. I just think you've given up when you really shouldn't."
She scoffs. "I guess you're right. You've always been right."
"And I always will be."
"Yeah, yeah."
On a rare, and cold rainy night that only comes every so many years the two had settled to bed. It was a horrible day anywhere. When lightning struck Emilia's eyes grew wide as she stood with her blade drawn.
"What is it?" Ed asked lazily.
"I'm not sure...I just fell like...something I know is here."
She glances to a shadow on the floor coming from outside. As she moves to face the window a body bursts through sending shards of glass and beads of water about the area. In the dark stands Isamu Azuma, the Quik Blade. Before Emilia can move he lunges forward only for her to jump back. Parrying his attack she pushes him forward. "Who are you?" She bellowed.
"Isamu the Quik Blade. You're just as good as I was told."
"You know me?" She questioned.
"Only by reputation." Isamu pressures forward, but Emilia kicks at the darkness in an attempt to make it bleed daylight. It is at this time that Isamu falls backward and out the window in defeat.
"Ed are you..."
She stops on her turn to find Ed lying beaten on the floor and a man of the shadow with a bush of light brown hair standing above him. A scar apparent on his face near to his eye on his cheek. "Emilia."
"Let him go!" She shouts as the man grabs up Ed. "Your fight seems to be with me. So keep it that way!"
"Aren't you going to ask my name?"
"Wh-What?" She stutters. "What is your name?"
He grins. "Ares." He follows with a maniacal laugh.
"You're just some looney! Let Ed go!" She threatened.
"I can't do that Emilia...You should know that." He pauses realizing something. "Oh, right, you can't remember."
"You...know who I am?" A pounding from within her head brings her to her knees. "My head...I...Can't,"
"How pathetic you've become. What ever happened to you?" He looks to Ed. "It must be this man's fault." He draws a katana and slits Ed's throat in an instance seeming as if his blade was always in his sheathe. The blood fell nevertheless. "Oh dear...it seems he isn't dead just yet. That only makes it worse on herself."
"B-Bastard!" She charges forward blinded in rage and misses Ares who is far ahead of her move. She turns right as he slashes at her upper right arm leaving a deep gash. He kicks her to the floor. He leaves a second mark on the same arm. "Let this remind you of who you really are." He commented as he backed away. Leaving the room out the window. "Ed!" She rolls to her side and find the man she was looking for lying on the floor nearby.
Coughing a bit as the blood goes down and soaks up in his shirt. "Em-Emilia...I'm sorry." His voice lacking any real voice in the first place. Almost like a whisper or a movement of lips without words.
"No...This is all my fault. I did this to you."
"You...didn't."
"I just wish...I knew why this happened."
"T-the...answer...i-is...always...b-be-behind."
"What was that? What do you mean?" She looked to his face. Collapsing to the side of him. "Damn you! You bastard! You just had to die on me."
"Emilia." She snapped away from the moon.
"Oh...Gallows."
"What are you doing up here on the roof?" He wondered as he got onto the top of the sandcraft.
"Thinking...just...always thinking."
"Well...if you ever want to do more than think...yeah," He shrugged. "We're planning on getting to the Ruins of Lunar tomorrow. You should get on down here so we can go."
"Yeah...I'll be down in time."