Anger managed to step out of the way just in time. Ed looked up.

"Kirina?"

The heart-shaped pendant was an intense blue color.

The pendant caused the piezoelectric effect! But that's impossible! The ions in twinned quartz are all negatives, so how could it produce an electric bolt?

Kirina took a step toward Anger.

"Don't hurt him," she said in a low voice. "I won't permit you to hurt him."

Kirina bit her finger and drew a transmutation circle on the pendant. Again, a bolt of electricity came out, this one larger and more potent than the last one.

Blood transmutation circles? What's going on?

Ed stood up and grabbed Kirina. "Let's get out of here."

Kirina blinked as if suddenly awakened from a dream. "Right. What the hell was I thinking?"

Both ran quickly out of the cemetery. At the gate, a huge block of wood blocked their path. Ed and Kirina looked up. Anger was sitting on the top.

"You didn't really think I'd let you go. We need you, Kimiya."

Ed clasped his hands and sharpened his arm. "I told you she's not Kimiya!"

Ed charged at Anger, who disappeared before his eyes. All Ed did was smack into a wooden wall.

"Ed, that's illusory alchemy!" Kirina said.

Ed turned to her, rubbing his nose. "Yeah? Well it sure felt real."

The trees and graves began vanishing. After a few minutes, the sun disappeared, too.

"What's going on?" Ed asked, his voice echoing in the vast emptiness.

"It's illusory alchemy," Kirina responded, walking toward him.

"What?"

"A type of alchemy similar to witchcraft and forbidden. It creates an illusion in people's minds and anything that happens in that illusion is tangible, unless it is broken."

"I've never heard of that. How do you know it? And how is it alchemy?"

"Something must be given to create the illusion. And I know it exists because Khumeia knew it."

Ed scanned the emptiness. There seemed to be no light source, but he could see things in it. He could see Kirina's face and has hand before his face, but that was about it. And the homunculus was no where to be seen.

"Where'd she go?" Ed asked.

A hand grabbed Ed's arm. "Right behind you."

Ed turned around and Anger twisted his arm.

"OW! Hey, don't do that. Winry will kill me if I break my arm."

"So tell her a homunculus did it."

"She'll never fall for that."

Ed noticed Kirina's pendent glowing.

"Duck, Ed!" she shouted.

Ed ducked, but Anger wouldn't let go of his arm. Kirina's electricity broke off Ed's hand.

"You idiot!" Ed shouted. "Winry's gonna kill me!"

Kirina smiled sheepishly. "Uh, oops?"

"Good job, Kimiya. Now he can't transmute quickly."

"I'm not Kimiya!"

Anger vanished and appeared quickly before Kirina. Ed stood up and started running toward her.

"Hey, leave her alone!"

Anger ripped the necklace off Kirina's neck and smashed it with her fingers. Kirina gasped.

"Oops," Anger said, letting the crushed fragments fall onto the ground. "It broke. Now you can't transmute quickly either."

Kirina stared at the broken fragments. She got on her knees and started picking them up.

Anger turned to Ed. "Now that she's busy, I can finish you."

Ed's eyes widened. "What?"

Anger grabbed him and hurled him to the ground. Her right arm transformed into a spear.

"Die," she mumbled and thrust the spear toward Ed's chest.

Kirina looked up. "ED!"

Ed closed his eyes and braced himself for the end. He barely felt someone grab him and faintly heard a scream of pain. Ten seconds paced. Then thirty. Then a minute.

I thought death was quicker.

Ed opened one eye and saw Kirina kneeling in front of him. Her arms were wrapped protectively around him. Blood spewed from her back.

"Ed," she whispered. "I'm sorry."

Ed heard these bizarre wheezing sounds coming from inside him.

"Ki-Kirina," he gasped.

Anger held the spear up as if inspecting a shish kebab.

"Oh, look," she said, frowning. "Idiot on a stick."

Anger hurled Kirina on the ground. Shuddering, Kirina fell on Ed. She looked up at Ed and apologized once more. Then her eyes closed completely.

"Oh, God," Ed whispered. "Kirina? Hey, wake up. If this is a joke . . . if this is a joke---"

"It's no joke, short stack." Anger's arm returned to its original shape and the illusion started vanishing. "Well, later."

Anger left. Ed was still trying to get Kirina to wake up. He shook her desperately.

"Come on. Wake up! Wake up, Kirina!"

Two tears fell on the pale face. Angrily, Ed rubbed his eyes.

"I need to get her home," he mumbled.

As he strode away with Kirina in his arms, Ed noticed the fragments of her necklace. Carefully, he picked them all up, hoping he hadn't missed a shard, and shoved them in his pocket.

"I'll fix it later," he said to Kirina. "It's the least I can do."