Ok we left off with you saving Ed from jail and Ed agreeing to take Kerissa to Central to see Shay. (If none of this makes sense go back and read my first story) Ok story starts now!
Going Full Circle
Part 2:Ill-Fated Alchemist
"The full metal alchemist?Never heard of you."Kerissa said flatly to Ed. Ed gets a look of disbelief on his face as Al holds back laughter. "Never?", Ed asks, "You've never heard of me? You know Edward Elric The Full Metal Alchemist? Hero of the people?". He looks at you to see if any of this is ringing a bell. "Nope", she taunt," But I have heard of Roy Mustang the Flame Alchemist". Ed was stunned and annoyed but mostly annoyed. "Come on, Al. Lets go" he said turning around. They began to walk away. "Hey wait I was just kidding!"She yelled after them. She knew exactly who the Full Metal Alchemist was (but she never guessed he would be so short) and that he and the Flame Alchemist were rivals . Kerissa read about it in the paper when they had they're huge duel that nearly demolished the outside arena they were in (remember? From Full metal vs. Flame?). She managed to chase them down. "Ed. That was rude!" she yelled at him. "When did I say you could call me by my first name?" he asked. "What would you rather have me call you?" ,she asked,"Shorty?". "Who are you calling so short you could squash like a bug!"Ed yelled as Al held him back. "Brother she didn't say that" Al said trying to calm him down. Wow that Ed sure has a temper! she thought to herself. "Hey you there!" Screams a police man pointing at the,. "Hault you're under arrest!" He yelled running toward them. "Uh oh" ,Kerissa said," follow me!" . Kerissa grab both Ed and Al's hands and lead them through the cemetery , around a busy park and into a back alley way." I think we lost them" She said panting . "Yeah" Ed replys ,also panting. In fact the only one here who didn't seem tired is Al. Weird. He must not get tired easilyKerissa thought. "What are we going to do now?" asks Al. "Well the train doesn't leave till 9:00 AM tomorrow. So we'll have to find somewhere to hold up in till then"Kerissa said. " What about your house?" Al asked. "Nah." Ed said "They'd be searching all the houses by now". Kerissa knew he must be right. And she felt a little sad that she couldn't spend her last night in her own home town at her own house. But she wasn't going to let that keep her down. " I Know!" she said startling Ed and Al in the queit "I'll go sneak in my house, grab my stuff and then we can go stay in Old Gregory's motel for the night! They won't check there , they never do". She were pleased with her good idea..but Ed found a flaw. "And with what money will we pay that guy to stay there?". Kerissa felt embarassed. "Well I hadn't thought about that" she said queitly, your cheeks turning red. There must be some way! She thoughtDon't I have anything worth anything? . Then, she got it. She pulled her train ticket out of her pocket. She remembered some one telling her once that train tickets for that kind of seat are worth at least 300 maybe even 400. "This it!"she said holding the ticket up "This will be more than enough!...you can still get us on the train if I give this away can't you?" she ask Ed. "Yeah sure I can" Ed said very full of himself , waving his hand reassuringly in the air. "Good then lets go!" Kerissa said going in the direction of her house. Kerissa knew these streets better than almost anyone in town. She used to love to venture around them as a kid and went around them so much she now had them permanently memorized. Once they reached Kerissa's house it was almost night time. The sun had almost dissapeared behind the mountains and her house was cast in dark shadows. Kerissa led Ed and Al around to the side of her house were her window was located 2 stories directly above them. "Ok I need someone to help me" Kerissa said looking at Ed and Al. "Do what? Fly? How are you going to get up there?" Ed asked. Kerissa pulled on the thick vines covering the side of her house to show they could support weight. "Oh" said Ed. " Um I think Ed should come" Kerissa said. "Yeah , Sorry Al but your to big for these vines to support you" Ed said but not rudly like he usually talks to Kerissa. Then again, she did make fun of him...alot. So, Kerissa and Ed climb the vines as Al sits down and said to himself "It's not my fault I'm big!". Once getting in Kerissa's room, she began to pack all things of importance. Clothes, trinkets, supplies, books, alchemy stuff, etc. Ed helped her but not much when he opens her landslide waiting to happen closet and gets burried. "Ahh!" Ed screamed. "Keep it down! My parents are still awake" Kerissa said trying to pull him out. "What the hell is all that doing in there!" He screams. "Shut up . I'm not very good at cleaning ok?" She wisper to him angrily. The last thing she got was her alchemy books and items from under her floorboard. "What are you doing down there?' Ed asks when she went under her bed. "Getting my alchemy stuff!" She said not wanting to tell him everything. As she scramble to pack, Kerissa and Ed hear a cry from below. It was Al "Ed! Kerissa! Get out of there! The police are here!"
"Oh Crap!" Ed yelled "We gotta move quick!". Kerissa grabbed her two bags (one for clothes on for other junk) and her handbag quickly, thrown on her jacket and headed towards the window. "We have no time to clime down!" Ed said. He claped his hands together and transmutes the vines into a leafy slide. Alchemy with out a transmutaion circle! He must be the real thing! Kerissa thought to herself. She grabbed her bags tightly and slide down the makeshift slide. It's not as fun as she thought it would be. The leaves and sticks poked at her at every turn but before she know it, it was over. She landed gracefully on her feet and turned to see Ed crash to the ground beside her. "Ow" He wines. Kerissa saw lights turn on in her room and heared the cops coming to investigate the bright blue light Ed's transmutation had set off. "Run!" Ed yelled as the three of them bolted off away from her house. Forever.
With Kerissa's guidence, they manage to get the Elric brothers and herself to the motel. Trading in her train ticket for money, she payed for a room and was given a key. The three of them fought for a while (ok more like Ed and Kerissa fought)over who was going to sleep on the floor. In the end, Al decides to do but Ed protests (despite the fact that if any of them have seen the show, Kerissa knew that Al doesn't really sleep anyway)and sleeps on the floor. Kerissa fetl a bit bad but shake it off. In the morning, Kerissa woke up and the two of them were still sleeping (or as asleep as Al can be). Kerissa went off to take a shower, did her hair and make up , and get dressed in some cute ,cool clothes. They were still asleep when she got out of the bathroom..at least Kerissa thought Al was. She couldn't tell. He doesn't snore like Ed does (ahh Ed with all his cute little imperfections )As Kerissa looked then over, her eyes also go over the nearby clock. 8:36 am she thought Wait. 8:36 am! The train leaves in less than a half an hour!. "Get up! " Kerissa yelled to Ed and Al, " Get up!". "What time is it?" Ed asks groggily."It's 8:36!"she yelled hurrying to get everything together. "What!"Ed yelled springing up from his bed on the floor. He hurries and gets ready. Kerissa nervously got all her bags ready . She hates being late! (though she usually are --;) They all rushed out the door and litterally threw the key at the person behind the desk as they dashed out of the motel. It's 8:56 but the time they got to the train station by hitchhiking (ah the evil of breasts...what? oh she used her sexy shirt knot trick again to get a ride. Hee hee). "What are we gonna do about tickets?" Kerissa asked Ed. "Don't worry I have everything under control" He said "Follow me". He leaded Kerissa and Al into a train car and told both of them to be quiet. It's dark so they couldn't see anything around them. Kerissa seemed to bump into furry pillows the entire time through."Sit down."Ed said to Kerissa. She obied and found the surface of what ever she sitting on or in rough and musty. "Brother, where are we?" asked Al who from the sound of it was having trouble sitting down."Well..." Ed trailed off but there was something Kerissa didn't like about his tone of voice. She heard the train's whistle go off and felt the train move. All of them nearly fell over when it did. Kerissa sat in complete disgruntaled darkness for at least ten minutes before the lights began to flicker on. She could have sworn she just heard Ed say 'uh oh' under his breath. And now she knew why. The lights flickered on and Kerissa saw that Ed, Al and herself were surrounded by sheep. They were in a cargo car...with sheep!
"You put us in cargo!" Kerissa yelled at Ed standing up (as much as she could anyway). Even Al seems slightly offended (Being Cargo once is bad but twice? What? Watch the show people!). "I had no money for tickets anyway!" Ed retorted "It's not that bad!" . "Not that bad!What is your damage little man!" she yelled (again) at Ed. "Don't call me little!", He snaps,"besides you're the one who just had to go to Central today". "I saved your ass! (yay! we finally got some swearing going on!)You owe me!" Kerissa said sitting down angrily. "Whatever" Ed says. They both didn't look at each other and Al seemed confused over what to do. They all sat in silence (with the occasional 'bahh' from of the sheep) for a long time until Kerissa heard a strange noise. The train was coming to a hault. Bam! It stopped sending Kerissa, Ed and Al toppling out of their wooden box (yes you were sitting in a wooden box). Ed fell on top of Kerissa and Al fell on his side with a dull clunk. "What the hell was that?" Ed asked. "The train must have stopped for some reason" said Al pointing out the obvious. They all heard people walking around outside and a strange metalic clicking. "We couldn't already be in central? Could We? " Ed asked. " I don't think so brother " Said Al. "Shhhh" Kerissa said as a man opened the steal door to the train car. "Stay down" Ed wispered. The man looked around with a flashlight for a second and then turned and said "Ok Frank this one too" to somebody (presumably Frank). They couldn't see. Then another metalic click and he closed the door leaving them in almost pure darkness (the light goes out when the train stops). Kerissa laid there for a few seconds before she relize Ed was laying on top of her. He looks down at her a few inches away from her face. "Get off me, pervert!" she said to him kicking him off her."Like I wanted to be on you!" He retorted (he did ). "Good because I didn't want you on me either!" She said irritated ."You didn't have to kick me" He said rubbing his stomach. "Whatever.." ,she said looking around, "Uh where's Al?" Kerissa asked. "Huh?" Ed said looking around. "Agh! Where'd he go! Al!Al!" Ed yelled. They both begin sifting through sheep until Kerissa heard Al's meek vioce "Um I'm here". They both turned to see his armored hand sticking up through the pile of sheep. "Al!" they both sais at the same time. They both sift through the sheep and picked Al up. "Are you ok?" Kerissa asked him. "Yes thank you, Kerissa" he said. She blushed a little (oohh, looks like somebody has a crush! What? Don't worry I don't even think Al can do anything...can he?). Ed goes over to the door and opens it a little. "See anybody?" Kerissa wisper. "No the coasts clear." He says. They all hop out of the train car one by one. Then they all notice something. The rest of the train isn't there.
"The-the train it's...gone?" Ed asked looking around. "Where are we?" AL asked. Kerissa look at Ed angrily " THIS ISN'T CENTRAL!" she yelled at him . "Sorry! I didn't know this was gonna happen! How was I supposed to know that this cargo car was going to get dropped off?" He asked. Kerissa pointed at a small sign on the side of the car that he should have noticed but she didn't until they got out. It said 'Property of Icara Town shipping port (to be returned upon delivery)'. "See?",she said," we're here in 'Icara Town' wherever that is" she said rolling her eyes , "And where stuck here!". "Brother what are we going to do? This town isn't even on the map" said Al looking up from a very crumpled map that they had no idea where it came from. "Uh, Hey, don't worry!", said Ed, " We'll just go into Icara and wait out there till the next train comes". "So what?" Kerissa asked "So this can happen again?" . "No."Ed said "I'm sure I can get the military to wire me some money". "Why didn't you do that in the first place?" she asked towering over him with an angry evil stare. "Uh well it's cause they wouldn't have had time to send us anything! After all you wanted to leave so soon" he said slightly cowering. "Uh I guess your right" she admitted. "This isn't much of a train station is it?" Ed asked looking around. The port was a tiny wooden platform with a billboard that had only a few scraps of paper and the glass missing from it. No one was around. A small map indicated which way Icara was. "Well we should get going." Said Ed "It looks like it's gonna rain.". Kerissa picked up her bags and shuffled off with Ed and Al. Kerissa wished it wouldn't rain she really didn't want to get wet. After a while of navigating, misleading signs and dirt roads they managed to find Icara Town. When they said Town they weren't kidding. The place was small, most of the buildings were broken down , no one was walking the streets, it seemed empty and there was a creepy dark air over the town. "I don't like it here" Kerissa said. "Aww. Are you scared?" Ed teased. "No!" Kerissa lied. None of the lights were on in any of the houses. "They must go to bed really early here." Al said. "Hey! Look!",Ed said pointing, "There's still a house with it's lights on!". Kerissa and Al looked to where he was pointing and he was right. "Let's go see if anyone can maybe give us a place to stay" Kerissa said. So, they all went towards the dimly lit house. As they walked Kerissa could have sworn she felt eyes watching them. Once she looked up and knew that someone was looking through a window at her. Once they reached the house Ed knocked on the door. "Hello? Anybody home?" Ed asked. The door opened a crack and a woman's worried voice said "What do you want?". "Uh just a place to stay for the night until we can get on a train to Central... we'll pay you." said Ed. The door closed. They heard people talking for a minute and then it opened again. "Ok you can stay but only for tonight" she said letting them all in. "Thank you " Al said. The house on the inside was dark and damp. Half the lights didn't work and the stairs in the main hall looked as if they would collapse. "John get in here!" the woman called. A large scruffy man in overalls (who was much taller than Ed. Hee Hee. I likes Ed's shortness )came through a wooden doorway. "What Marie? " he asked. "We have guests." She said motioning towards them. "Oh hi" he said reaching out his hand towards Ed "My name's John Harris and this is my wife Marie Harris". "How do you do?" she asked. "Fine" ,Kerissa said ,"my names's Kerissa Summerfield and this is Edward and Alphonse Elric". "Oh so your just traveling together?" asked Mrs. Harris. "Yep" she said. "Mommy!".A little girl with pigtails and a red dress ran into the room crying. She was holding a doll with it's head ripped off. "Mommy! Dallon wipped my dowwie!" she cryed. "Did not! She did it on her own! " said a teenage boy with black hair, blue eyes and a pitchfork in his hand coming into the room. "I went to the barn to twell him dinner was weady and he bwoke her!" she said through sobs. "Hey now don't cry." ,Ed said,"Here.". He took her doll held it in his hands then he transmuted its head back on. "Here." he gave it to her. She smiled but the rest of the family looked in horror at him. Quickly, Mr. Harris grabbed Dallon's pitchfork and held Ed at it's point. "Open the door and leave my house!" he said a look of fear and hate in his eyes. "Ok! Ok! We'll Leave!" Ed yelled nervously. He opened the door and Al and Kerissa stepped out followed by Ed (who was still at the point of the pitchfork). "You'd do well to leave this town", Mr. Harris said furiously,"We don't like your kind here! All you alchemists are murderers!"
Holy Cow!That's the longest story I've every typed!