Fullmetal Alchemist and the Crimson Stone Chapter 12: The Parting of Ways, a fullmetal alchemist fanfic

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Fullmetal Alchemist

And the

Crimson Stone

A Fan Fiction Fusion

Tattoo Alchemist

Chapter 12: The Parting of Ways

The semester was over, and all of Hogwarts was in gossip over what had happened at Flamel's castle as well as a great event that was going to happen at Hogwarts during the summer, the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Of course, all of this talk and gossip was taking place in the Great Hall and everyone seemed excited about the summer except for Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger.

The Great Hall was in decorations of green banners with silver snakes for Slytherin was going to win the house cup that year. Yet, before the last feast began, Albus Dumbledore rose from his chair and called out to the students.

"I have a few last minute points to award!" He announced, "For quick thinking against chimeras…fifty points!"

Harry, Ed, Al, Ron, and Hermione looked up to Dumbledore in surprise, even more to Ed when he looked to one end of the Great Hall and saw his co-workers standing there. Every one of them, Major Armstrong, Lieutenant Hawkeye, and even Colonel Roy Mustang who gave Edward Elric a smirk and a thumbs up to him. Ed looked back at Dumbledore to hear the rest of the announcement.

"For the use of alchemy in the defense of others…fifty points!" Dumbledore continued, "For showing true friendship and love in the direst of times…fifty points! And for compassion and self-sacrifice…one-hundred points! And now I believe there's a need for a change of decoration!"

Dumbledore clapped his hands and the banners overhead had instatntly changed from the green and silver of Slytherin to the red and gold of Gryffindor.

"Gryffindor wins the House Cup!" Dumbledore called and all around the Gryffindor table, they cheered while those at the Slytherin Table simply sulked in their defeat.

Even though there was reason enough to celebrate, Edward and Alphonse Elric had no reason to celebrate. All of it was too painful, too much had been lost. Ed started to wonder about the principle of Equivalent Exchange, with all that's been lost, what has been gained by it all? Why were they to suffer so much like that? In the end, Ed had to put on his smile so as not to worry his friends who were lost in their celebration of winning the House Cup.

The mood in the cabin on board the Hogwarts Express bound for Kings Cross Station was down right sullen. Even though there was excitement of the Tri-Wizard Tournament as well as the much talked about Quidditch World Cup where Ireland would be the home team they'd be rooting for. With all that, Ed and Al seemed to show no such interest in what was happening. Ed only sat with his face on his open palm as he looked out the window at the passing scenery.

"Come on, Ed," Ron called to him, "Cheer up for once!"

"Leave him alone, Ron," Harry interjected.

"Why?" Ron asked, "I'm only trying to cheer him up."

"He tried to save a girls life, Ron," Hermione explained, "We've saved lives but haven't lost, but Ed…"

"That's enough, Hermione," Al interrupted, "The best thing is to leave him alone."

But Hermione didn't listen.

"Ed," Hermione called, "I wanted to save this until we got to London, but perhaps now is a better time."

Ed turned slowly to face Hermione, his face filled with such sadness as he asked:

"What is it, Hermione?"

Hermione held out a letter that was sealed with red wax and stamped with the letter "L". As she held it out to Ed, she explained:
"It's a letter addressed to you…from Sandra."

The pain in Ed's heart worsened, he felt as if he truly was cursed with how much the past year was nothing more than a repeat of what happened in Heissgart. He felt that there was no way to avoid or escape the curse so he decided to meet the repetition head on.

"Al," Ed called, "Would you read it?"

"Sure, brother," Al agreed as he took the letter, he broke the wax seal, took the letter out and began to read it aloud.

Dear Ed,

I know that my time is short, so I will try to be as brief as possible. You may read this letter after I am gone and I want to tell you why I did what I did. It was ever since the beginning of February that I had learned the truth of my existence from Flamel's Journal, yes, I did sneak into your room and take the journal, Ed, I'm sorry. At first, Flamel sent me to Hogwarts to find it for him, but that was before I found out the truth about me. As soon as I did, I knew that I couldn't let Flamel create another Philosopher's Stone. This was the reason I stole the journal. I truly and sincerely hope you can forgive me for what I've done.

But, with the truth revealed, I really didn't care, because the happiest moments of my artificial life were with you, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and even Al. I was happy being Sandra Locke, Fourth Year Gryffindor, with you I learned Equivalent Exchange, and I hope that principle will apply to what actions I take, that by my sacrifice I can keep the power of the stone out of the wrong hands.

I know that sounds self-rightous, but I believe any of you would do the same had our positions been switched. So now, I end this letter with this…

Good-bye my dear friends, Alphonse Elric, Harry Potter – Scar Alchemist, Ron Weasley – Luck Alchemist, Hermione Granger – Paper Alchemist, and Edward Elric – Fullmetal Alchemist, my greatest teacher.

- Sandra

The cabin was silent as Al finished reading the letter and putting it back into its envelope. As he did, Ed reached over and stuffed the letter into his pocket as if it were a secret that he didn't want to share with anyone.

"Had she lived," Hermione spoke up, "She would have become a great witch and alchemist."

"Please, everyone," Al asked, "The best thing to do is to leave him alone for now."

The long train ride was very quiet as everyone simply fell asleep as if they had the longest days of their lives. Ed slept against the window, with Al sitting across from him. Harry and Hermione slept against each other, with their hands interlocked with one another as if they never wanted to let go. Ron slept opposite of them, his sweets half eaten, and resting in his lap.

The scarlet red Hogwarts Express pulled into Kings Cross station with the parents of the students waiting for them on the platform. While in the cabin, Ed, Al, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were as quiet as ever while they gathered their trunks and headed out onto the platform. As they came out to the platform, they met some very familiar faces.

First, Edward Elric met the faces of the state Alchemists Major Alex Louis Armstrong, Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, Colonel Roy Mustang, and Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Blackadder. Each of them dressed in rather casual clothes, possible to remain inconspicuous in both the wizard and muggle worlds.

Next to the state alchemists were the smiling and familiar faces of Mister and Misses Wasley who were waiting for Ron and his brothers and sisters. Seeing them made Harry, Ron, and Hermione smile, but upon seeing them Misses Weasley called out:

"Oh Ron!" She called as she came over and hugged him turning his face beet red, "I heard about what happened at school and we want to thank you Harry for your help."

"Thank you, Misses Weasley," Harry slightly smiled, "But the credit should go to Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother Alphonse Elric."

Harry presented the Elric brothers, but Misses Weasley was looking toward the towering and armored Alphonse Elric who stood over Misses Weasley like Hagrid.

"My goodness!" Misses Weasley exhaled as she looked up at Alphonse, "you certainly do live up to the name Fullmetal Alchemist."

Instantly Ed's blood boiled as he bounced out from behind Al and shouted, "NO! For the hundred time, that name belongs to me! I'm the Fullmetal Alchemist!"

Misses Weasley looked at Ed for a moment rather shocked but before Ed knew it, he was in the arms of a very grateful mother.

"Thank you for protecting Ron, Edward Elric!" Misses Weasley thanked Ed.

Standing close to the greatful mother, Colonel Roy Mustang had to comment, "Looks like Fullmetal is back to his old self."

As Misses Weasley continued to thank Ed, Harry walked up to Edmund Blackadder who was standing beside several suitcases. He had to ask him a very important question about his position.

"Are you leaving Hogwarts, Professor?" Harry asked.

"As much as it pains me to do so, I must leave," Blackadder answered rather sullenly, "I did enjoy teaching, but I am a state alchemist and my duty is back in my homeland."

Even though Harry hadn't thought that much of Blackadder, after all, he wasn't a great as Professor Lupin, but he wasn't as bad as Professor Lockheart either. Then again, that position at Hogwarts seemed cursed with how many teachers have come and gone within that position. Still, there were bigger things on Harry's mind, such as the Quidditch World Cup as well as the Tri-Wizard tournament that would be coming up during the summer. That was when he wondered if he should go back with the Dursley's, but as if she had read his mind, Hermione offered her solution.

"Harry," She spoke up, "Why not stay at my place during the summer, at least until the World Cup and the Tournament. My parents have wanted to meet you."

Looking at Hermione with new eyes, Harry couldn't turn down such an offer.

"Sure," Harry smiled gladly, "I'll come."

Hermione threw her arms around Harry's neck and kissed his cheek, "Oh, it'll be so good to have you around Harry!"

As Hermione hugest Harry, Misses Weasley had let go of Edward who was starting to feel the blood coming back into his face after she had squeezed so much out of it.

"Fullmetal!" Roy Mustang called.

Ed looked to his superior.

"It's time to leave," Mustang reported

Ed looked at his friends and he never wanted to leave such a place in his whole life. He wanted to stay in the wizard world with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but he then remembered his brother and the promise he made. Even with that, he had to make one final goodbye, but when he turned to face his wizard friends, they were already waiting to make their final farewell to the Fullmetal Alchemist. The first was Hermione who walked over and hugged Edward.

"Good bye, Ed," she smiled with a little tear in her eye, "Here's a good-bye gift from me."

She handed a small stack of books, all of them having the world Alchemy in the title. Ed was surprised at the books especially since he had never come across such books anywhere in the library at central headquarters.

"These are the only books on alchemy in the wizard world," Hermione explained, "I hope you enjoy them."

Ed smiled, "thanks Hermione,"

"And a little something from Honeydukes, Zonkos, and my brothers," Ron added as he handed Ed a small bag, "Some candy to have fun with on the trip back home, but be careful about the ones from Fred and George."

"Knowing those two, I definitely will," Ed heeded Ron's warning.

"And this is from me," Harry said as he gave Ed a thick red leather bound book. It had no title or author on the front of it, which had made Ed curious about it. He opened it up and found photographs in it, wizard photographs of people moving in it. The first photograph was of Ed, Hermione, and Ron at his first Quidditch game.

"It's a little something that I had Collin Creevy put together," Harry explained.

Ed remembered Collin, a funny little boy running around with his wizard's camera taking pictures of everything. Even when it had involved Harry Potter and his friends and that included Edward Elric. As well as how Collin helped into the capture of the "Shrieking Shot" which was in the album as well. Still, even though when Ed and Al burnt their house to the ground to erase all that was familiar, that photo album that Ed held in his hands was one set of memories that he wanted to leave traces. He placed his gifts into his trunk and he turned to his friends, he hugged Hermione, shook Harry and Ron's hands.

"Good-bye my friends," Ed said with regret that he was leaving, "I'll stay in touch that much I can promise you."

"Let's get going chibi," Roy called, "We don't want to miss the boat."

"WHO YOU CALLIN' A SUPER-HYPER-SMALL-CHIBI SO SMALL THAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS!" Ed bellowed.

"He really has returned to normal," Al commented before he turned to the young wizards, "Good-bye my friends, I hope to see all of you again soon."

"Try to keep Ed out of trouble," Hermione said as she waved to the departing alchemists.

"I usually do, Hermione," Al waved back as he, Ed, and the others crossed the barrier from Platform 9 ¾ to the rest of King's Cross Station.

From there as the wizards and alchemists parted ways, their futures in front of them were uncertain, filled with dangers, and wonders. Neither of them knew what they would encounter along their chosen paths, but they knew how it would begin; with a journey. Where they would go from there would be up to them.

The End

Author's Notes – Tattoo Alchemist

The story began a while back when I had first started to watch "Fullmetal Alchemist", I kept thinking that it would be nice if there was a story where Ed would meet Harry Potter and his friends.

Unfortunately, to my own dismay, I found out that several people had done a fan fiction of this kind at Fan One in particular was written by an author named "Telepika" who had started the story as if Ed was going to be accepted into Hogwarts already. Upon reading it, there were several parts where I was thinking to myself, "I'd do it more like…" or "I think it'd be better if it went more like this…". So, after a few chat sessions with Telepika and Classic Cowboy, I decided that I should start on it since I had so many good ideas for it, but I had to do things differently, not only so it would fit into the story lines of Harry Potter and Fullmetal Alchemist but also have it so that it would be my own kind of fic.

The first issue I changed was to have Edward come back to Central (Which is where I took off from the Fullmetal Alchemist game – "Broken Angel") and from there I felt that it would make more sense that Ed would go to Hogwarts undercover to search for the Philosopher's stone. That already had me involve another Harry Potter character, Nicholas Flamel, even though he's never formally introduced to the readers, only mentioned, which left room to take some fan fiction license.

After that I had made it my greatest effort to try to stay in character. Of course, there would be some who would come after me (even make death threats like Evangelion fans) by making this a Harry/Hermione pairing but I will admit that I'm a bigger fan of Harry/Hermione than the Hermione/Ron pairing, despite how some would say that I'm delusional about it.

Though with the reviews I've received so far, a lot of people had a big problem with Sandra Locke with her being a "Mary Sue" or whatever they call it. Then again, I think that they should try to see it from my point of view since I couldn't use anyone from either FUllmetal Alchemist or Harry Potter to fill that kind of slot, so therefore I had to create a character out of thin air purely to fill this slot. Of course, I'm sure that my most vocal naysayer "Miroku-has-darkness" will have a lot to say about that. Especially since he caught on that I had used the game "Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel", then again, understand once again that it was the best place that I could put in this adventure for Edward Elric.

In the end I wanted to write this fic to see how it would turn out with my hand and mind at the pen. Looking at it now, I think it turned out wonderfully, and it is my fondest hope that the readers would enjoy it as much (hopefully more) than the other Harry Potter/Fullmetal Alchemist stories out there.

Supplies used:

1x 120 page college ruled notebook

1x 180 page college ruled notebook

5x pilot Vball grip pens

5x months work.

Tattoo Alchemist

Thursday, September 15, 2005