"What do you mean, knows more about us? Is she okay?" Al asked, walking in from the other room. Eternity shook her head. These people were crazy. They had to be cosplayers, just taking it a little too far. You didn't want to be your character, just look like them. These two people pulled it off beautifully, but it was scaring her a little.
"Listen, you're taking this a little too far. Cosplayers just dress up like their characters. They don't act like them too! By the way, those costumes are well made. But still!" She said seriously. "That's enough. Just point me in the way of Times Square so I can go home with Aria." Ed blinked.
"Cosplayers? What would we be cosplaying? We're not cosplayers." He said, obviously confused. Eternity looked between the two of them, a look of disbelief on her face.
"So you're the actual people. You" She pointed to Ed--"Are the actual person who lost his leg trying to ressurect his mother, and gave up an arm so Al could be bound to a suit of armor. You're the one that stood up for Nina and Alexander. You were the one that helped that mining town by buying the rights to the town. You're the one." Ed looked at her, not quite comprehending all that she knew about him. "You're the one that defied Scar when he wanted to kill all state alchemists. You're the one that everyone fights over your couplings. You're the one who hates being called short, and hates it when people call your brother the fullmetal alchemist." She stopped, trying to think of more things she knew him as.
"How do you know all this?" Al asked, his voice filled with distress. But before Eternity could answer, Aria began to stir.
"Eternity? I had a dream where we both saw Ed, and then fainted..." She looked over and her jaw dropped.
"You might not believe it, but I'm pretty sure they're real." Eternity told her friend quietly.
"Pretty sure!" Ed replied, indignant. Eternity ignored him.
"If they aren't, they're the best cosplayers I've ever seen. No one's ever got Ed's and Al's personality down that perfectly. And cosplayers may be eccentric, but they're not crazy. They would've said that they were cosplayers by now." Aria looked at her friend, disbelief written all over her face. Finally, after seeing something in the girls eyes, she turned to the boys.
"There's only one way to find out if they're real or not..." Aria told Eternity, her eyes fixed on Al. "Al...take off your head." Eternity muffled a giggle. That just sounded so...wierd! Al complied, slowly. "Let me see inside." He leaned over, and the two girls looked intently inside the armor's steel body.
There was nothing inside.
Aria pointed at the rune etched onto the neck of the armor, and Eternity knew it also. They were real. This wasn't a fake joke. This wasn't two utterly crazy cosplayers.
They had been talking to Edward and Alphonse Elric.