FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: PART V
My brother carefully carried me to the shack where our transmutation had taken place, so I could finally see what we had created.
As he opened the shack doors, I heard a voice faintly calling inside...
"Ed...ward...Ed...ward...come...to...moth...er..."
"Mom?...Mom, is that you?"
But as the moonlight shone in through the open door, my eyes quickly saw something that was NOT my mother...
Flesh...open flesh and bones crisscrossing every which way in that pan, like a carcass that never died, a tangled mix of body parts that seemed as if they wish they could have died right then and there, a life form truly undeserving of life, and in the middle was what looked like a demented version of what used to be mother. The thing then squealed again.
"Ed...ward...I...love...you..."
"No...you're not my mother...you can't be...No...NO...NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Al carried me back to the house, my whole body shaking almost uncontrollably. What I saw there was nerve-wracking to the bone, and I hoped I would never had to see it again...
As Al set me on the bed, Pinako came over to me.
"So, I take it what you made wasn't pretty? SHOWS YOU! You tried to do the impossible! How many times have I tried to warn you about this! And you went and did it anyway..."
Before she could finish, the door to the house flung open, and in the doorway stood a man with white gloves on and a heavy overcoat.
"Excuse me, is this the Elric Household?"
"Yes and no, but who may I ask are YOU now?"
The man displayed a symbol on his right glove and proudly stated...
"The name is Mustang. Colonel Roy Mustang, also known as the Flame Alchemist, and I have a few questions to ask your two boys here..."
Before he could get any farther, Pinako came over and stood in front of me, standing between me Mr. Mustang.
"Oh, another one of you state alchemists, I see. What business do you have coming here? Can't you see these boys are traumatized?"
"Actually, Miss, normally I would be arresting you and your family for the attempt at human transmutation that I witnessed, but you are lucky that I was more fascinated by the fact that they survived through it, even after such a violent reaction..."
Before he could finish, Pinako had decided she had enough of the State for today and politely shoved him out the door.
"Fine, fine, but just remember kid, if you have any questions, come on down to central sometime, and look for Colonel Roy Mustang."
As soon as Pinako got him outside the door, she closed it and breathed a heavy sigh.
"At least I hope you didn't hear too much of that, ed, it's bad for your health."
"I did hear it...and I've made a decision..."
"Huh? And what would that be?"
"I...I want to be a State Alchemist!"
END OF PART V