Going Full Cirle

Part 5:Their Reason

Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist

Ok we left of with Ed destroying the mansion and defeating Radford. Ok story start now!

"Hurry up you guys or we'll miss our train!" Kerissa screamed at Ed and Al as she ran off with her bags to the train.

"We're going as fast as we can! I'm injured here!" Ed yelled back making no attempt to speed up. The train's whisle sounded as Kerissa pushed her bags onto the train.

"Wheew!" she said as she sat down with Ed and Al in a small seating compartment, "We barely made it! No thanks to you" Kerissa said giving Ed an angry look.

"Aw, shut it. I got you on the train didn't I?" Ed said closing his eyes and putting his hands behind his head.

"Yeah...You sure did." Kerissa said to low for Ed or Al to hear her properly.

Kerissa tilted her head to the side smiling and looked out the window. As she saw the train station disappearing in the distance, her mind floated back to the events of the previous day. She replayed the memories over and over agian. From when her and Al found Ed in what was left of the mansion, unconsiuos and heavly injured. To her treating his wounds with what she could. To the return to Icara. Once Ed had come to Kerissa and Al, they all made their way to Mr. Green's house and told him what happened...and how they couldn't find Radford's body. Ed called a man in central from then and they all spent the night at Mr. Green's house. But one memory in particular stood out.

Kerissa sat around Mr. Green's house waiting for Ed to wake up. It was early morning and Kerissa was sitting in the kitchen at the table drinking a cup of tea.

'Oh come on Ed. Nobody sleeps THIS long' Kerissa thought.

She knew he had a rough day the day before...but so did she. Kerissa had so many questions she wanted to ask him. She couldn't wait for the train. She figured it would be the perfect time to corner him about Al and his past. Al was sitting in the room watching over his brother.

'They really do care about each other,' Kerissa thought, 'It's cute but kinda sappy.' Though it was sappy, she knew she just loved it.

"Oh, Kerissa. Your up." she heard a voice say from behind you.She turned around to see Mr. green leaning on the wall holding a cup of tea in his hands. (Wow everyone seems to drink tea...I dont know why)

"Um, yeah."she said with a sheepish grin on your face, "I just wasn't very tired".

"Apparently that's not the case with your friend." Mr. Green said staring down the hallway that led to the guestroom where Ed was sleeping.

"Um, yeah." she said queitly going back to her tea. It was hard to talk to him.

Shedidn't really know why. He had done so much for you despite barely knowing you. And what hadthey done? Let his daughter's killer get away , that's whatthey did.

"Mr.Green. I'm sorry that we didn't..."she began to say but he cut you off.

"Kerissa, don't" He said looking off, "You did what you could...and your friend Edward is proof of that. My daughter would have been happy".

You sat queitly until you heard Ed wake up.

"Brother your awake!" Al said.Kerissa got up from the table and went down to his room.

"Man. What time is it?" Ed asked sitting up.

"Way past time for you to be waking up. You lazy no good!"she said standing in the doorway.

"Hey don't be so cruel" said Ed, "I'm going through hell for you"

"Your the one that decided to go up there"she spat back blushing.

"Don't blame it on me!" Ed yelled.

"Ed...Kerissa..." Al droned.

"Who should I blame it on!"she yelled edging in.

"I don't know!" Ed said.

"Whatever...get ready we have train tickets to get and a train to catch!" you yelled before running out of the room and down the hall.

"Man. What's her problem?" Ed asked Al.

"I'm not sure" Al said.

After a while Ed got up and got ready. Kerissa sat impateintly in the kitchen waiting for him to be done.

'12:34 pm ...'she thought. Thenshe heardEd coming down the hall with Al.

"Finally, take long enough, princess?"she shot at Ed.

"Hey, shut up!" said Ed angrily.

Kerissagiggled at his funny reaction.

'He looks so cute when he's angry. Wait. I did not just think that!'she thought to herself (man that's a cliche(sp?) thought eh?). After a few more minutes,they got all packed up and were ready to leave.

"What about the people here?"Kerissa asked Mr. Green.

"I don't know." he said, "This could either make them better or hate alchemists even more , probably the later."

Kerissa sighed.She was glad none of them had seenthem come into the town. They were all so busy trying to figure out what the hell happened to the mansion. Ed and Al walked out through the back door.Kerissa began to follow them but turned around remembering something.

"Wait, Mr. Green."she said.

"Yes?" he asked.She reached into her bag and pulled out the bookshe had found in Radford's mansion.

"Do you know anything about this?"she asked. He surveyed at the book and then his eyes widened.

"Where...where did you get this?" He asked.

"It was in Radford's Mansion."she said eyeing him strangley.

"That book...it shouldn't be...you shouldn't have it..." He said.

"Why?"she asked.

"Look. When you get to Central, I want you to get rid of that book as fast as you can, got it?" he said holding her shoulders.

"But why? What's so bad about it? It's just a book."she said almost afraid.

"You...you just shouldn't have it." he said.She gave him a weird look.

"Umm, I should be going." she said, "Bye".

Shebroke free and ran after Ed and Al.

'What was that all about?'she thought to herself.

"Kerissa! Kerissa!"she heard Ed saying.

"W-what?"she said coming out of her memory trance, "What is it?"she asked.

"Finally. I've been trying to get a reaction out of you for ten minutes." he said irritated, "It's like talking to a veggitable!"

"Shut it, shorty. What do you want?"she asked.

"Who are you calling 'short', you can't even hear me!" he yelled.

"I didn't say that!"she yelled back , "Now, what do you want?". He stared ather and sat back montoining(sp?) to the door.

"Um, if this is a bad time," said a very freaked out and disgruntled woman who was holding onto a cart. It was a food cart (I asked some people and they said they really had those back then! There's even some nowadays too! No chocolate frogs though...).

"Want anything?" Ed asked. Kerissa surveyed what was on the cart.

There was a few kinds of sandwiches, some different pasteries and bread, and drinks. Mainly alcoholic drinks and milk (not alcoholic milk though. Eww!). The pastries and bread must have been picked up at the last stop because they looked very fresh (back then they made little stops along the way when the passengers would strech their legs and stuff. They restocked the train at these stops so sometimes you would get baked fresh food! Or so says my source).

"Um, I don't know." she said, 'So much alcohol...why can they just have water?'.

"Pick something." Ed said picking out some sanwiches (Yes, sandwiches. If anyone ever noticed that boy has quite an appiteite.) and a cinnamon roll.

Kerissa thought for another few seconds and picked a turkey sandwich and a small peice of bannana nut bread. Last, she picked a glass of milk. (damn I'm really focusing on food...It'll get better I promise! Don't run!).

"Eww! Milk?" said Ed as he paid the food cart lady and she weeled away (wait he's paying? Allshe did was get him out of jail andshewas really freeloading...go girl!).

"Yes, milk. What else was I supposed to drink? Beer?"she asked.

"Milk's gross..." Ed said looking at the bottle in disgust.

"Well, it all makes sense now!"she said standing up.

"What?" Ed asked.

"Why your so short! It's because you don't drink milk! The puzzle is solved!"Kerisssa said smiling.

The entire compartment was practically blown away.Kerissa laughed asshe dodged Ed over and over.

"Ed!Kerissa!" Al yelled trying to calmthe two down. But it was hopless. It took a whole ten mintues for Ed to tire himself out.

"You little..." Ed said sitting back down. He mummbled something under his breath.She couldn't hear all of it butshe did get a few words. 'Braty' and 'freeloading' stuck out.Kerissa gigled and bit into her sandwich. The food was actually pretty good. And considering it was allshe had eatten all day it was very filling.

They all sat in silence for a while. Then Al started talking to Ed about some random time in their past that had to do with cinnamon rolls.

'This is perfect, thanks Al.'she thought to herself. After Al had finished reminising,Kerissa spoke up.

"Hey Ed."she said.

"Yeah?" he asked not quite as angry as before.

"About your past, I have a few...questions."she said.

Ed went very queit and so did Al (though he's usually pretty quiet).

"What do you want to know?" Ed asked looking at the floor.

"Why...why your like this.",she said, "When I was healing you I saw that your arm and leg are auto mail...and Al , well, he's suit of armor. What happened?". Ed sighed. He looked up at the roof and said something weird. 'Don't forget'. Then he looked back at her.

"Well I guess it all started back in my home town , Resembool (The rest of this story will be told in flashback...because I say so mwahahaha)

Two young boys ran up to a woman who was putting clothes on a clothesline with outstretched hands.

"Mom!" a young boy with brown hair said, "Brother made it. Isn't it awsome? I can still only do this one". They held up their hands. In them were small metalic toys. They blonde one's was bigger and shinier.

"Well I think they're both gorgous." said the young woman. She had long brown hair and a mother's smile, "You really are his sons!" she said. And they laughed. But it didn't last long. Their mother soon became ill. In fact she had been ill for years and just never told anyone. They supposed it may have been because of the loss of her husband, he had left years ago.

They sat with her on her deathbed.

"Ed?" she asked, "Will you transmute something for me? A ring of flowers would be nice..he always..used to make them.." she trailed off. Her hand went limp, her eyes went blank. And she passed on.

It was late at the funeral. Most people had left. Only her two sons remained.

"Ed. I'm hungry and cold. What are we going to do? How are we going to live with out her?" Al asked.

"We're not."said ed, "We're going to bring her back"

And so they started to learn. More than they could have from their father's books. With the money he'd left they took alchemy lessons. For a very long time they trained. Then they returned, back to their house to bring her back. They gathered all the ingriedients to make a human body. But they didn't have a soul.

"Edward, are you sure we should do this?" asked Al. Ed and Al talked for a mintue about what they could use for a soul.

Two drops of blood...that was not enough. In a flash of red light Al was taken, taken to the other side. Same with Ed's leg. Then After a while Al woke up. But he was not in his normal body. He was in, no, part of a suit of armor.

"Al. I'm sorry." said Ed. Ed sat in a corner holding his missing right arm. Both his arm and leg were bleeding heavily.

"Ed! What happened to you? And me...what happened to me?" Al asked.

"I'm sorry I had to do something. I used my arm to attach you to a suit of armor in the corner it was all I had to work with"

"But what about mom?" Al asked.

"Look, it isnt human." said Ed motioning to a mass in the dark.

Smoke cleared around it and Al saw a bleeding mass of flesh and limbs. That..that was what theyhad lost it all for. After that Ed was rushed to the Rockbells (their neighboors, friends and automail machanics)...they saved Ed's life. And had a visit from a man from the military who was replying to a letter the boys had sent out to find their father before their mother died. After that,Ed got them to give him automail limbs. They lived like that for some time. And in response to what that man had said Ed and Al went to Central...to take the state alchemist test. They stayed with a man named Shou Tucker and his daughter Nina. Al wasn't able to become a state alchemist but Ed passed with flying colors. He also discovered that he could do transmutations with out a circle. Despite the recent fortunate events it wasn't good for long. In desperation Mr. Tucker turned his daughter into a chimera, fusing her with his dog. She was discovered by Ed and Al. The military tryed to take her to preform experiemnts. But Ed helped her get away. It didn't help much though someone took her apart. Making her into a blood stain on the wall. And that was the first time a man named Scar showed up. Ed then toldKerissa about Scar, the humunculi and lab 5. Some of it was confusing and some of it even he didn't quite understand, but it was their story.

Kerissa sat, staring at Ed and Al.

"All that...happened...to you?.."she said queitly.

"Yeah" Ed said leaning back in his chair.

"I'm sooo sorry..."she said holding back tears.

"It's ok, Kerissa! You don't have to cry" said Al trying to keepher from crying.

"I must look like a whimp...crying just from hearing that..you experienced it"she said.

"It's ok!" Al said again.

Kerissa looked at the floor for a while and then looked up.

"Ed? Al? I want to help!"she said.

"What?" asked Ed.

"I want to help you get your bodies back!"she said.

"Kerissa, no! You don't have to do that." Al said.

"No. I want to!" Kerissa said, "And there's nothing you can do to stop me!"

"Fine." said Ed.

"Brother! We cant just let her..!" but Ed cut Al off

"If she wants to risk her life...she can."

"Thank you, Ed!" she said happily, "How are you trying to do this anyway?"

"We're trying to find the Philosifer's stone." said Al.

Something in Kerissa's mind clicked.

'That book! It talked about that...should I tell them?'she thought.

Asshe debated it with herself,she was cut off by Ed saying:

"Ok. You can help but you have to do something for me first".

"But I'm already helping you..."she said, "Oh! What do you want?"

"Well, we spilled our guts out," said Ed smirking, "Your turn!".Kerissa stared at them in surprise.

"M-Me?"she asked poitning to herself.

"Yeah. Whats your story?" asked Ed.

"Oh nothing special. I just grew up with my mom and dad, all normal, nothing weird or different."she lied. Ed looked at you in dissapointment.

"Hmm. Somtimes I forget most people have normal lives" he said looking at the ceiling.

A whisle sounded. Kerissa stuck her head out the window.

"Yeah! We're almost there!"Kerissa squealed happily.

The platform was so close,they could see the people waiting on it. But some body caughtKerissa's eye. In fact two people did. One really tall mostly bald blonde and a shorter black haired one.

"Hey, Ed. Do you know those guys?" Kerissa asked.

"Why should I know anybody?" Ed asked not bothering to look outside.

"Because they have a sign saying 'Elric Brothers' on it."she said flatly asshe pointed out the window.

"What!" Ed said looking out the window.

"Hey!"she yelled as he pushedher down.

"Gah!" Ed moaned as he fell back into his seat.

"Whats up with you?"she asked sticking her head out again as the train neared the station, "They're just military guys.."

In the deep bowls of Icara, the cobblestone road was quiet. Not a sound to be heard. But if you were to turn down the right alleyway covered in shadows, you might hear someone...or something.

"Please" begged Radford, "Just a little more time! I can find it. I promise!"

"Excuses is all you seem to give me, lover." said a woman. Her voice was deep, rich and suductive. But it had an unpleasant air to it...something you just couldn't trust.

"I had it! I really did...then those brats..." he said trailing off at that last bit.

"You don't have the book, you don't have the stone, you didn't even beat that Fullmetal pib-squeak...why should I give you another chance?" she asked her eyes looming out of the dark like crimson embers.

"Please...I can get the book back! I've been searching the ruins...and with the protective seal I put on it, it's got to be there!" said Radford.

"Tell me where did those boys and that girl go?" asked the woman resting her face on her right hand.

"To-to central...but why?" asked Radford.

"Thats all I needed" she said. She turned her head to her left.

"Gluttony...dispose of him." she said smiling.

"What! No! I said...I promised!" yelled Radford going into a panic. A large creature with milky white eyes and a huge drooling mouth rounded on Radford. It seemed to almost seep out a gluttonuos stench as it moved towords him , mouth agape.

"Please...call him off! Ahhh!" screamed Radford as his right arm was chewed off by the creature. The woman simply sat smiling watching Radford be consumed. And he was. All until Gluttony was simply licking his blood off the ground. She began to walk off and then turned to her compainion saying:

"Come, Gluttony...Lets go get Envy..We're going to central."

"Yes, Lust." said Gluttony following her.

"And wipe your mouth." said lust as the strode off into the night.

Hey. I'm sssooo sorry that I haven't posted this chappie in a LONG time! I've been busy doing homework & chores! Damn grandma! Again, I'm SSSOO sorry!