FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: PART IV
I woke up the next morning and immediately looked around. I must have somehow gotten back into our house, since Pinako and Winry were standing over me.
"You took a mighty big injury, kid. What the hell happened!"
I must've somehow gotten out of the portal! But wait…..
"Al…..WHERE'S AL!" I shouted, frantically searching for him.
"I'm over here, brother…."
I looked in the direction where I heard the voice, but I didn't see him!
"Al, Where are you? I can't see you!"
Suddenly, the large metal armor suit sitting on a rug near the door spoke again.
"I'm right here, brother."
All the color drained from my face.
"This…..this can't be….how….when…..WHAT HAPPENED!" I said, and I started to cry. Winry came over and told me to sit on the bed, and Al began to talk again.
"Brother, it all happened so fast, but the way I remember it, it happened like this…"
Al went on explaining how all this came to be. Apparently when I ran through the door, I succeeded in grabbing his soul and escaping the portal. Then, out of pure panic, I used part of my body as a sacrifice to attach his soul to the nearest thing I could find…One of dad's metal armors. Shortly afterwards, when Al came to in his new body, he saw me lying on the ground in a pool of blood, and rushed me over to Winry and Trisha. However, ever since I ran through the door earlier, I had entered a state of sub-consciousness, and didn't realize anything I was doing.
"So that explains why my arm and leg are gone now, and why you're in that metal body…..But…..what about mom?
"You don't want to see what we created, brother…."
"Al, you know better than I do that no matter what you say, I'm going to see one way or another…now please…take me to the shack…"
My brother slowly nodded his metal head and picked me up, carrying me to the shack where we conducted that horrible transmutation.
We were going to see just what all our agony got us in the end.
END OF PART IV