Hey everyone! I'm back from West Virginia! I got a few war wounds from white water rafting, but it was all worth it! Especially the part where I fell into the hole. Lol, the hole was a class 5 rapid called "surprise." It was great! Riding in the duckies (single person blown up raft) was awesome! It was just a great experience!

It just wanted to tell you all that you better thank both Fullmetal Chibi and Seaki. After I got back from vacation, I was exhausted and being lazy with this chapter. They kept hounding me everyday since I got back, telling me to update, and eventually giving me death threats! Wow!...Now for comments:

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Chapter 5

The trio sat in Roy's living room discussing Ed's chimera problem trying to find some answers.

"You have no idea who did this to you, FullMetal?"

Ed shoke his head. "The last thing I can remember before finding out I was a chimera, was getting into a fight with Al."

Roy sighed. If only Ed could remember what happened, then they would be able to track the person down and possibly find a way to fix Ed. "Is there anyone you can think of that might have done this?"

Ed glared. "You know that I have an unbelievable amount of people out there that want to kill me. Any one of them could have done this."

Al decided to chime in. "Brother, what about the ones that actually know how to make chimeras? The only people I can think of that have made chimeras before were the staff at lab 5, Tucker, and Cornello. Could it possibly be one of them?"

Ed froze. He remembered everything now. It was...Tucker.

Flashback:

Ed had stormed off after the fight and was aimlessly wandering around the city, muttering to himself about how much of a jerk Alphonse was. He had been wandering for hours before even realizing it and had found himself in the deserted part of town. How did I end up here? Ed shivered. This place makes me nervous, I better head back. Ed turned and found himself face to face with a chimera that was part lion and part lizard. It roared in Ed's face, covering him in drool, then lunged, but Ed was able to get out of the way before it was able to bite him. Whew, that was close.

Out of nowhere, more of the same type of chimera came running at Ed from all directions, he was trapped. He got into a fighting stance, ready to defend himself when all of a sudden a whistle was heard and the chimeras stopped. Why did they stop? Is someone commanding them? Ed glanced around and saw something else step out of the shadows and begin to walk towards him. That must be the person commanding them. Ed squinted into the darkness, trying to get a better look at his attacker. What he saw scared him stiff, it was a bear like thing with Tucker's upside-down face on it.

"Hello Edward. It's nice to see you again," Tucker smiled.

"Cut the crap, Tucker. What do you really want with me?"

"Only to do what I had done with the others I had captured. Experiment on you and create a perfect chimera to help me get back into the military. An alchemist such as yourself would probably make an excellent chimera!" With that said he snapped his fingers, and the chimeras all jumped at Ed and knocked him down onto the hard pavement where he banged his head and the world went black.

A few hours later, Ed awoke tied to a table. He struggled, but his bonds were too tight. Great, how the hell am I supposed to get out of here. Think! He glanced around and spotted Tucker sitting in a chair in the corner of the room.

Noticing that Ed wasn't unconcious anymore, he stood up. "Ah, you're awake. Now we can get started." Tucker slowly approached the table and started the array that Ed was laying ontop of. It flashed a brilliant shade of blue, and Ed screamed from the pain. He was once again taken by the darkness.

Tucker grinned.

Back to the present:

Ed came out of his trance and shivered. He glanced up and noticed that Al and Roy were staring at him with worry written on their faces.

"B..brother? Are you okay?"

"Yeah...I'm fine. When you mentioned Tucker, my memories of that night came back. Tucker was the one who made me like this."

Roy looked hopeful, "Are you absolutely sure it was him?"

"I'm positive."

"I'll go call Hughes then and get him and his team right on it. They'll find him for sure. We'll get him, FullMetal!" He walked out of the room and left the Elric brothers to chat amongst themselves.

"It's good that you were able to remember who the attacker was, Ed. Now we will be able to capture him and throw him behind bars where he belongs."

"I hope so." Ed said as he stood up. "Al, I'm going to go outside and get some air, I'll come back in before dinner."

Ed headed for the backyard so he could be alone for a bit. He climbed up a tree and sat on one of the larger branches, staring up into the sky. Too many thoughts were going through his head, this whole ordeal was just too much for him. Being a chimera sucked, and what's worse is that he may never be able to become human again. No one had been able to split apart a chimera before. He was too caught up in the chimera ordeal that he just realized he forgot about his main goal, getting Alphonse back to normal. All the moping around and feeling sorry for himself had shoved the thoughts of the philosopher's stone out of his head. Instead of moping, he should have tried to find a way to fix himself so that he could start his search again. Ed dropped his head into his hands. Al told me to stop moping, but I didn't listen. Maybe if I did, I might have come up with a cure by now and maybe even restored Alphonse. I'm such a jerk. How could I forget my main intentions?

Ed looked up at the sky again, and without even realizing it, he started to sing.

"The flamelike rays of sunset shine upon your back
and my hands grow cold when I cannot reach you

I scoop up and scatter the fragments of sand at my feet
and I can't even recover the smile that used to connect the two of us

Sorrow is eating away at my heart
but my right hand can't even feel the pain
I can't forget your warmth that I lost that day
and into these hands it shows you have surely
left an impression on me

In order to keep this promise to cast aside regret
I will board this train running

If we can gain happiness, then it doesn't matter the suffering
if we face things together, we can attain anything, right?

Like a spiral spinning into infinity, I will walk
down this road, though I can't escape
knowing the truth of my own sins, I tremble
but i'll show you I can change that suffering into strength
no matter where I'm going

Sorrow is eating away at my heart
but my right hand can't even feel the pain
I can't forget your warmth that I lost that day
and into these hands it shows you have surely
left an impression on me."

Ed closed his eyes and leaned back against the tree, not realizing he had an audience. At the base of the tree stood Alphonse with a smile on his face and tears in his eyes. He heard every word of Ed's song, and knew that his brother cared for him a lot. He had never heard Ed sing before, and it made him happy to realize that his brother had a wonderful singing voice.

And that is the end of chapter 5! Again, I would like to thank everyone who has been reading this fanfic, especially my reviewers! Without them, this story wouldn't be here. And...I would just like to inform everyone that soon I will only be able to update this fanfiction on the weekends because of school starting in a week. -Ick- I'm sorry everyone. I'll still be able to update, just not every couple of days. Please don't kill me.

Again, I would like at least 5 reviews before I even think about posting the next chapter! See ya there!

I almost forgot, the lyrics posted above I had gotten from animelyrics .com. I just wanted to give credit where credit is due. For those of you who don't know what song it is, it's called Returnable Memories from the hagaren song file cd! I love that cd! -goes to listen-