Chapter 9: Norai Dorai

Just watched the newest FMA episode and I started to crack up at the end where they showed Wrath. He's double-toned! Lol! Okay...here, go read…be merry!

Trisha spoke smoothly, leaving them with no worries, "Human Transmutation is forbidden." She was looking down as she spoke, but Ed and Al were sure to keep a short, mental link with her. Her head slowly lifts up and she meets their gentle eyes. "You look more alike then you realize." Trisha says this quietly so that they were not to hear it. "You attempted such a horrible feat, just to revive me. It cost you your arm Edward." Her voice trails off, full of fervent sorrow.

Al speaks up clearly not wanting to keep anything hidden from their once fallen mother, "It wasn't just his arm mother…" He looks at his mom completely, Al was suddenly afraid to say anymore.

"He lost his body…and I used my leg as an offering to place his body in a suit of armor" Ed says, finishing the sentence Al was eventually going to say. Their mother began to express the look of sadness and shock. They were shaken by their own words, yet Edward continues on, ignoring the painful memories, "After much…. traveling we forged the philosopher's stone. I brought Al his body back, but got consumed by the gates…. the vortex," some words he delicately began placing emphasis on, but others, he spoke plainly, attempting to show how insignificant most of their journey was.

Al cuts in to continue the story, "I eventually rescued Ed from the World War II era, whatever that really was, and brought him back with much difficulty. During the times subsequent to returning, Winry and Auntie Pinako housed us. Finally, Ed decided to bring me to Central City –our currently location- and allow me to try out for a spot in the State Alchemist's brigade. For the duration of that time –after coming here- brother smug-." Ed nudges his elbow into Al's side, "Brother found these papers explaining how to create the Dorai Circle."

At the mention of the Dorai Circle, Ed blinks several times. Something had come to mind but it wasn't quite clear. There was something about the name. There was a word he was slowly recalling. Notama…. Noral… His thought process gradually stops until he finds himself blinking hundreds of times. Norai… What significance did that word actually serve? Was he only remembering it at the moment because he read it from that computer screen? It was clear in his mind how crisp the letters leapt across the screen as the page loaded up. N-O-R-A-I. Each letter had hit the screen earlier with a slight click.

"May I be excused?" he asks sounding extremely serious.

Trisha looks at Edward and nods in reply. Watching him jump to his feet, she couldn't help but become curious about what made Ed leap so quickly.

Ed dashes out the bedroom door and slips down the hall as he runs to the kitchen table. He looks under the chairs and the around the refrigerator. Abruptly, he spins around and runs back to the table. He flips it over and stares wondrously at the underbelly of the table. An excerpt was engraved on it. It was carved by Edward as a reminder of the strange word.

'Dorai Norai- The Cancellation of the activation. Retrieving of the information. Cutting of the received info. In short, this is a chant used to cancel out the barrier covering the outer boundaries of the Dorai Circle. Remember the chant and clapping motions. Whisper the words: Kadokawa Norai Dorai, canclation ti tari Norai. The meaning of these words is: Gateway of the Dorai Circle, release. Cancel the revealed boundary.

The letters were strangely neat for Edward, who was actually in a hurry the day he engraved it. His lips mouthed the words 'Kadokawa Norai Dorai,' even though it wasn't the entire chant. Stumblingly, he walks back down the hallway, approaching his room with swift movements of his legs and feet. He opens the door with practically no large force and enters the room. For some reason his energy was draining from him; dissipating before his mind's eye. He drops limply beside his mother, who, was still contained by the Dorai Barrier.

Al looks at him with a passionate sense of worry. The feeling was the same with Ms. Elric.

Ed weakly presses his hands against the outer rim of the circle that was imprinted upon his bedroom floor. He closes his eyes, concentrating every last ounce of his energy into his entire channeled, alchemic powers. Opening his mouth he mutters, "Ka-do-kawa…" he inhales deeply, catching his breath, "Norai Dorai…cahn-clay-tion ti tari Norai." The words drip out coolly and he falls forward.

A soft hand drops onto his shoulder and shakes him carefully. He finds his eyes flickering open and flopping around the room trying to lock his focus on just one thing. Almost instantly, his right hand whips up and touches the hand on his shoulder. The auto mail fingers wrap around the hand gently as he slowly gazes upward. His mother's hand was touching him. Her arm was crossing over the outer layer of lines on the Dorai circle. Though the barrier wasn't completely gone, she found it easy to keep her arm on the 'outside world'. The only thing she felt from the barrier was quick tingling and soon enough…it stopped.

She pulls her hand out of his and gets up, stepping out of the circle slowly. The moment her foot hit the plain, boarded floor, she drops to her knees and lifts Ed to his own knees to hug him tightly. Then, she glances at Alphonse and smiles. "Come 'ere Alphonse." She calls sweetly.

Upon hearing this, Al drags himself slowly to his revived mother and hugs her, as well as his brother. Disrupting this moment was a sharp knocking sound at the apartment room's front door. Ed, Al, and Trisha abruptly glance in the direction of the hallway, curiously. Who it was, they didn't know, but their new goal came quickly, they were going to have to hide their mother quickly, for many knew that Ed and Al's mother had passed on.

Here is chapter 9. I'm still very sorry about not updating this fanfic over the last month.