FWD: Hey ppl, I guess the secrets out...and if you haven't heard...I used to be duobakadeathscythe...yes...that was me...sorry to say...but that was long ago...some of you might be asking, "Why did you change your name?" Well I didn't. this is an entirely new account, because that one ceased to exist. I hadn't accessed it for god knows how long, because I had stopped writing. But now I'm back, and MUCH better than before! (And if you still think I suck, then go check out the stories I wrote under duobakadeathscythe!) okay, enough on that...guess what? I FINALLY got some flames! HAH! but you know what? they were ALL, and I mean ALL, about how I killed off Al! I mean, I respect a flame as much as any other guy, but THIS! I mean, COME ON! I clearly told EVERYBODY about how there IS character death, so you all should expect that! So for future reference, READ THE GODDAMN WARNING! and to all of you who DIDN'T flame me for no good reason, sorry for this minor inconvenience.
DSC: I do not own FMA or anything related...period...end of story...
WARNING (SEE, this time, I put stars on it so you wouldn't miss it!) BREAKING NEWS! There IS character death! omigosh! there, now I'm SURE I said it...There is also vulgar language, blood\gore, and OBVIOUSLY graphic scenes of violence. AND CHARACTER DEATH! HAH! I said it again! now you'd better not miss it!
You know the drill...
Ed turned and walked over to the open casket and placed the figurine in his brother's arms. He then leaned over and placed a soft kiss on Al's forehead.
"Don't worry Al..." Edward whispered to his brother, "You won't be alone...You'll finally get to se mom again..." A small tear trickled down Ed's face and dripped off onto his brother's cheek.
"I love you, Al"
Chapter 5 - Ed Takes Action
"Come on kid, cheer up." Penako babied Ed.
"I'm not going to be crappin' rainbows and fartin' sunshine right after my brother's funeral!" Ed snapped as he buried his face into the pillow, "and quit treating me like a baby..."
"Pff, forget it." Penako walked away as Ed drifted off into a troubled sleep.
There was a loud knock at the door that made Ed bolt upright.
"Don't worry, I'll get it..." Penako shuffled over to the door and a blinding light flooded through the windows, followed by the deafening clap of thunder. The pounding knock came again.
"I'm comin'!" Penako turned the knob and pulled. There was another bolt of lightning, pursued by the clap of thunder. As the door swung open, Ed could make out the towering figure of a man.
"Oh my g..." she couldn't finish. A large hand had wrapped itself around her small face.
"Penako!" Ed screamed. He jumped off the sofa and ran for the door. A few feet from the entrance, Ed froze. He could see the arm that the hand had belonged to. "No..." Ed refused to believe his eyes.
"Who's at the do..." Winrey walked from the hallway into the front room, catching herself when she saw the position that her grandma was in.
"Winrey! " Ed yelled, "Get out of here! Now!" She didn't move. Ed could hear her fingers tighten around the wrench in her hand.
"Let her go!" Winrey screamed wildly as she bolted for the man, holding the tool above her head. She hurled the wrench with all her might at the man, hoping to knock him out, or at least force him to let go of the old woman. Ed jumped back as the piece of metal flew past his head, soaring straight at the man's head. Suddenly, another hand appeared and caught the wrench in mid air. A loud hissing sound, that Ed knew all too well, filled the room and a red bolt of lightning surrounded the wrench. It seemed to melt, dripping off the sides of the man's hand. The steel whipped flat, then sharpened into a long sword.
"Grandma!" Winrey screamed as the man lifted the sword and swung it at the dangling form of the old woman. Time seemed to stop. The man released the sword, but it didn't fall to the floor. It was too deeply embedded into the little woman's body.
"Penako!" Winrey screamed, choking on her tears. The man tossed the lifeless body to the side and stomped into the house, looking directly at Winrey.
"Don't' you touch her!" Ed shouted at the man, as he transmuted his automail arm into his signature short sword. The man just laughed at Ed, dismissing him as if he was nothing but a mere mosquito. He returned his attention to the girl and took a few steps toward her. Winrey stepped back and reached for the iron table lamp next to her. Ed jumped at the man, ready to kill him for what he'd done. But Ed's attempts were futile. The man just caught him by arm and swung him around into a choke hold. Ed twisted and writhed, trying as hard as he could to free himself, but to no prevail. The man just snickered evilly, driving Ed insane. He pulled the boy up by the scruff of his neck and hurled him across the room, slamming him into the wall.
"Ed, no!" Winrey cried, fearful of losing another loved one. Ed thought his valiant effort was useless, and the man would just forget about him and go after Winrey. But he was proved wrong. He had succeeded in capturing the man's attention, distracting him from the innocent girl.
"Get the hell away from him!" Winrey shouted at the top of her lungs, "I'll kill you if you do!" The man turned towards her, aggravated from all the distractions. He stretched out his immense arm and wrapped his monstrous hand around Winre's fragile neck. She tried to scream, but his palm was crushing her windpipe. He lifted her up to eye level and stared at her, watching tears trickled down her face.
"Let me end your misery, girl..." The man said as he placed his other hand atop he blonde head.
"STOP IT, PLEASE!" Ed screamed as and ill sounding crack echoed through the house, followed by the dull thud of another corpse hitting the hardwood floor.
"NOOOOO!" Ed cried as tears poured from his eyes, "What do you want from me! To make my life worse than a living HELL!" Ed's cries were ignored and just went un-answered by the man. He just walked over to the sobbing boy, picked him up by the shoulders and looked him square in the eye.
"I'll kill you, just like I killed your brother!"
"WHY?" Ed choked from behind his tears, "Why kill two innocent people just to get to me! What the fuck do you want!"
"Edward Elric..." The man said, "All I want from you, is for you to...wake up..."
"WHAT? Get your hands off me you son of a bitch!" Ed shrieked.
"ED!" The man's voice got softer, "Wake up!"
"What the fuck are you talking about!"
"EDWARD! Wake up right goddamn now!" Ed felt a sharp slap across his face.
Ed sat up with a terrified shout as he placed a hand on the red mark on his cheek.
"Jeez, I thought you'd be out forever!" A familiar voice said, "Penako thought you went into a coma on her sofa!" She laughed.
"What? Penako?" Ed realized his terrifying experience was nothing but a bad dream. A really, really bad dream.
"Are you okay?" Winrey asked as she sat on the edge of the couch, "You were...screaming, and...crying"
"I'm sorry Winrey," Ed buried his face in his hands, "It's just...that dream again..."
"Was it the same as last time?"
"No...this time...it was worse...much worse..." tears began slowly rolling down Ed's cheeks, "He killed Penako...and you too..." Ed fell forward and buried his face into Winrey's shoulder. There, he began to cry like a little child, tears steadily dripping off his chin, creating little dark spots on Winrey's shirt.
"Oh Ed..." Winrey ran her fingers through Ed's golden hair, "Don't cry...it's okay now...it was just a dream..." As much as she didn't want to, Winrey stood up and took Ed's hand. "Follow me..." Ed dried his eyes and stood to follow the girl. Winrey led him down the hall and into the basement workshop.
"I've made a few detachable parts for your arm." She said, lifting a sheet off her worktable, revealing a stunning assortment of weapons built especially for Ed.
"Holy shit..." Ed said, picking up a part clearly marked as 'Flame Thrower', "you did all this today?"
"Fuck no!" Winrey exclaimed, "I've been working ona few of them for quite a while, but I finished the rest while you were asleep."
"Seriously? How long was I out?" Ed turned and looked at the girl.
"Oh, I'd say bout two and a half days, three tops."
"THREE DAYS!" Ed was obviously surprised, "I've gotta go!" Ed clamored up the stairs and pulled his coat off the rack as he reached for the doorknob.
"Wait Ed!" Winrey grabbed his arm, "Why do you have to leave right now?"
"I have to..." Ed trailed off, "I have to find scar..."
"Oh..." Winrey said, releasing his sleeve, "Well...at least take a few of the parts I made...At least as a precaution!" Ed though about it for a moment, then nodded. A wide smile spread across Winrey's pale face as she whipped around and headed for the basement.
"Wait!" Ed just thought of something, "How am I supposed to carry them?"
"Oh...You'll see..." She left the room with a smirk plastered on her face. A few short minutes passed by and Winrey rentered with something behind her back.
"Ta-Da!" She said as she held out her invention. It was a long, black belt with what seemed to be bullets all around it.
"Uh...Winrey...How am I supposed to use bullets, if I don't have a gun?" Ed inquired.
"They're not bullets, silly!" Winrey said as she removed one of the cylinders, "Hold out your arm."
"Oh...well...okay?" Ed wondered what she was up to, but he lifted his automail arm anyways. Winrey grabbed his wrist and placed her other hand with the bullet type object on his shoulder. Ed observed as she slid back a hidden plate, and inserted the object into a small hole.
"Okay, now do that clappy thing you do..." She said as she slid the cover back and took a few steps away.
"Where in the hell did that come from!" Ed exclaimed, ultimately surprised by the unknown upgrade to his arm.
"I did it while you were asleep...now just do it!"
"Um...are you sure this is safe?" Ed cocked an eyebrow.
"JUST DO IT!" Winrey snapped. Ed just grumbled to himself as he lifted his hands to his chest. As Ed brought them together, a pulse of extra weight shot through his arm, almost knocking him over.
"What the fuck is that!" Ed said, regaining his composure and staring down at the long black barrel that had replaced his arm.
"What does it LOOK like, stupid..." Winrey had a smartass grin spread across her face. Ed examined the long, black, metallic extension that had grown out of his shoulder, "It looks like...kinda like a.."
"Cannon?" Winrey interrupted.
"Is it?" Ed looked up at the beaming girl in front of him.
"Well, in it's own way, yes." She said, "It's not as big or as heavy as a regular sized cannon, but the explosive shells are at least twice as powerful!"
"Wow..." Ed couldn't believe it.
"Oh, and watch this!" Winrey reached over, slid the cover back, and pulled the capsule from Ed's arm. Ed stood amazed as the cannon just dissolved back into his arm, disappearing without a trace.
"Holy crap!" Ed's chin nearly hit the floor.
"And then you just put a new one in!" Winrey said as she handed him the belt, "and just in case, here's a new arm and leg." She added as she tossed a bag to Ed.
"Uhh, thanks..." Ed said, "Winrey, I'm sorry, but I should get going now.." Ed slid the belt into the bag.
"You're leaving?" Penako asked as she entered the front room, "Where?"
"I've gotta go back to H.Q., Lieutenant Armstron and Colonel Hughes were supposed to be gathering information on Scar's current location."
"Well, then I hope only the best of luck for you." Penako bit down on the mouthpiece of her pipe.
Ed packed up his things and walked out the front door and into the bright sunshine.
"Take care, kid!" Penako called as Ed reached the end of the walk, and the beginning of the path to the train station.
"Ed, Wait!" Winrey ran to Ed's side.
"What's wrong?" Ed asked as he noticed the tears forming in the corners of her eyes.
"It's just..." Winrey leaned forward and planted a weak kiss on the corner of Ed's mouth.
"Wi...Winrey..." Ed said as he dropped the bag and wrapped his arms around the crying girl, "It's okay...I'll come back soon..." Winrey lightly pushed him away and stared into his soft golden eyes. Ed picked up the sack swung it over his shoulder, and started walking away.
"Be careful, Ed..." Winrey said as Ed started down the path to the station.
"Don't worry about me..." Ed said, "You should be worrying about what the Fuhrer is gonna do to Roy when he brings Scar back in a matchbox!" Ed darted down the path, a pack slung over his shoulder full of 'new parts' that Winrey made especially for his Automail arm. Ed slowed his pace as he neared the old station and realized he had forgotten something that he would have regretted later.
Ed approached the black, rusty gate. He walked down the path, looking left and right at all the grey and white stones with the names of a few familiar people on some of them. He finally reached the spot he had set out for. It was the neighboring graves of his mother and his best friend, his one-and-only brother.
"Hey mom..." Ed said as he knelt down next to the white stone, "did you find Al yet? I hope you did...I don't want him to be alone..." A small tear fell from Ed's eye onto the white tulips that were placed there a few days before. Ed shifted to the left so that he was facing the grey stone marked 'Alphonse Elric:Son, Friend, and Brother. We miss him so.'
"Al...I...I'm sorry..." Ed's eyes welled up with more tears, "I'm sorry for not being there when you needed me...I mean...I know I was there, but...I couldn't save you...I couldn't help the one person I had left that acctually understood me..." Ed's tears were coming on strong now, each one dripping off his chin and onto the bouquet of blue roses Ed had bought only moments earlier.
"It'll never be the same without you...brother..." Ed collapsed in a fit of sadness and despair, burying his face into his hands and crying his heart out. After a while, Ed stood and turned away from his family gravestones and said, "I miss you both, more than you could imagine..." Ed dried his eyes on his blood red coat, setting off down the grief sodden path back to the station.
OWARI
Whew... I am SOOO sorry that I didn't finish this one on time...I just couldn't put my thoughts onto paper! I had a majorly bad case of writers block, and I couldn't even write my class essay :( O well, as long as I don't' discontinue it, right? Right. Well, I have nothing left to say, so here's the bit of the next installment! Ja Mata Ne!
Chapter 6 - The Mysterious Boy, Liquid
"Whatcha got in the sack, kid?" the gruff man asked as he reached for the bag Ed was carrying.
"Don't touch it, you mangy bastard!" Ed said as he lifted his knee and it connected with the man's 'happy place.' The man covered his crotch and doubled over into a coughing fit. Ed turned and took off.
"I could have taken care of him..." Ed thought aloud.
"I certainly think you could have..." A voice came from behind him. Ed stopped and turned around to catch a glimpse of the face that belonged to the disembodied sound.
"What the?..." Ed just dismissed it as his own imagination and continued running.
"So where exactly are we going at such a fast pace?" The voice came again.
"Who the fuck is that!" Ed whipped around and came face to face with a young boy, no older than him, but his face was covered in strange markings...almost like...Scar's arm!