The Winged Alchemist
Chapter 3: Changed
"Brother?" Edward looked up to see his younger brother staring at him with his big glowing eyes. He sat up carefully and looked at him. Roy, Riza, Havoc, and Hughes were all starting at him with an astonished look on their faces. He stared at them. "What's with all the stares?" Al stood up with the rest of them. Roy then cleared his throat.
"Pretty tough run in there, Fullmetal." He smirked his normal way and continued to stare. "What happened?" Hughes then stepped forward and looked him in his eyes. Why are they all looking at me? STOP LOOKING AT ME! They make me feel like an ant. NO! Don't think that, you idiot! He sighed. Riza looked at everyone. "I suppose I have to tell him." Nobody said a word. She turned back to Ed and sighed. "When we brought you here a couple days ago, you had a split torso, five broken ribs, a punctured lung, and minor bruising. We were not expecting you to live through that, but you're completely healed, its like nothing happened to you." "We know that you're a fast healer, but not that fast!" Havoc looked at him.
Ed stared at them as if confused. He then remembered the pain he felt as everything went back to the way it was before he went back to sleep. "Explain Full metal." Roy stared into his eyes, making him look away. What was he supposed to tell them, a lady came and gave him a strange power, curse? Hell, he didn't even know. "Edward?" Everyone looked up to see a girl in the doorway. Ed felt something inside himself lift his spirits. "Winry?" Winry smiled and ran to the side of his bed, pushing everybody out of her way.
Winry then threw her arms around Ed and gave him a tight hug, not letting go for several seconds. "We'll leave you two lovebirds alone." Roy smirked again and the two blondes turned to stare at him, red in the face. Neither said anything while everyone filed out of the room, laughing about the teens. Alphonse gave Winry a hug and waited outside with the rest. She turned back to Ed. "Alphonse called me and told me what happened. What did you do? How did you get yourself into this mess? Why didn't you call me!" Her voice was hysterical and tears were welling up in her eyes. Ed just stared at her feminine beauty.
He stared into her blue sapphire eyes and felt himself getting lost in them. He had always felt something; always had a piece of his heart saved just for her, but could never admit his feelings. Winry looked into his golden eyes and turned a light shade of pink. "Ed, Ed, are you still with me?" "Uh…" Was all he could manage. "What happened in that alley Edward?" She now showed deep concern in her voice and a tear fell down her cheek.
Snapping back out of her eyes, Ed looked up. "I honestly can't remember much. All I can think of is lying in the alley and seeing this woman (he left out beautiful for a reason) and then she said something in a different language. Then I blacked out." Winry kept her eyes on him as he said this and had an understanding look about her. There was also a bit of confusion. "You know, I was gonna bring my wrench, but I figured you didn't need another injury."
Edward laughed. He was very thankful for her not bringing that wretched thing. It would just mean a bump on the head and god knows he doesn't need that. He sighed. "Winry?" "Yes Ed" "Something's different. I feel fine, yet when I woke up when we just came here, I felt so much pain. I shouldn't be able to heal in two days from all the injuries I sustained. I should have been dead." All Winry could do was stare at him, thinking what this could possibly mean.
A couple hours went by and Winry sat back in the chair by Ed's bed and watched as the teen slept. She looked him over and blushed to herself. Ed, why do you have to keep going on these deadly missions? I worry about you. I just wish you could come home and stay with me. I want so bad to tell you that I love you with all of my heart, but you're never there.
She sighed with sadness weighing her down. All she could think about was automail and Ed, Ed and automail. "What a life I have." She laughed and looked back over to the sleeping alchemist. He was mumbling something but she couldn't understand what he was saying. She listened carefully and looked at him with a strange look. "He's speaking a different language!" Ed suddenly jumped up in the bed and looked at her, eyes wide with fear. He was breathing heavily and sweat lined his brow.
Winry looked at him worriedly. "Edward, are you alright?" He lay back down onto the pillow and started taking deep breaths to calm himself down. "It was nothing." He then turned away from her, and nodded back off into slumber.
"Where am I?" Ed looked around at his dark surroundings and saw nothing but darkness. He looked around, and started to run, hoping to find a break through the threatening silence. His footsteps echoed and he came to a halt when he felt a wall by him.
Suddenly, like someone switching on a light, everything around him could be seen. It was the alley and there in it was the woman that had saved his life. "Is this real?" He walked slowly to the woman, whose hair was fluttering about her in a peaceful way. She looked his way and smiled. She stood and walked to him. He looked at her and gasped. There was something coming from her back.
She started to speak the language he thought he couldn't understand. As she started to speak, he looked at her in amazement, wondering how he could know what she was saying." Do not be afraid child." She stepped back from him and looked up.
Ed then saw what it was coming from her back. Wings. "How is that--?" He was interrupted as the woman took flight before his eyes and disappeared in the dimming light, leaving him alone in the darkness once more…
After an argument with Roy, Ed was finally able to leave the dorms and walk around Central. He walked through the parks and watched as children played in the warm sunlight, laughing the day away. He then walked to a line of shops, only to be met by an alley. Ed stood there along time, just looking down it, thinking he might see something, but it was empty.
Ed then felt his feet taking him down the alley. He found himself at the end and leaned against the wall. "That language, I never heard it before, yet I could perfectly understand what she was saying to me." He then thought back to the day he first saw her, she said something in the same tongue, but he couldn't tell what she was saying. Until now was he able to know.
Soar away like an eagle,
Fly with the wind in the sky,
Glide into the dreams of heart,
And spread your wings and fly.
As Edward thought these words, he found himself saying them aloud to the wall of the darkening alley. As soon as he spoke the words, he felt something growing from his mid-back. He stepped away from the wall and looked to see something he thought was only in your dreams… wings.
So, whaddya think? I decided to make a longer chapter. I became bored so I updated for you all! YAY! I am so proud. Anyway, the words of the poem I added, I got the idea from the song Born to Fly by Sara Evans. I changed quite a few words to my own. Well, I hope you like this chapter, and I will try to update as soon as I can. Please review and tell me what you think! Thanks!
P.S- I am planning to add a demon, but I can't think of what kind. Any ideas floatin' around? Hmmmmm…