Chapter 2: Altercations of Flame and Metal
"DON'T TEST ME! YOU CAN'T WIN!" yelled a voice from behind a wall outside of Central. The wind was blowing violently. It was the day after Roy discovered the shocking news in his office.
"Oh, indeed, I can win, for I am the Flame Alchemist." Roy stood on the other side of the wall, out of eyeshot of his adversary. He was completely unphased by the wind. "Try as you will, you cannot defeat me-
Fullmetal."
"DAMN YOU MUSTANG! I'M SICK OF YOU CONSTANTLY BEING SO GODDAMN COCKY! ALL I'M TRYING TO DO IS GET RID OF YOU! YOU WERE TERRIBLE AS A COLONEL AND YOU HAVE BEEN WORSE AS THE FUHRER! WHY CAN'T YOU EXCEPT THAT YOU'VE LOST AND JUST WALK AWAY WITH THE LITTLE AMOUNT OF PRIDE YOU STILL HAVE?" Edward was furious. He just kept yelling at Roy, besides he had nothing to lose. Roy noticed his voice seemed altered.
"Poor little Fullmetal, thinks he can defeat me, the Flame Alchemist? Boy, you really haven't grown up at all since the last time I saw you."
"Don't even try messing with my mind. You're so goddamn ignorant." Ed was in disbelief that mustang was talking to him like this.
"You know Ed? I used to respect you. You could've amounted to something great. You were a great alchemist. And I respected you for it. What happened to the old Ed I knew? You were a good kid. Now here you are hiding behind a wall, with thoughts of killing me and I just have to ask myself, 'Where did I go wrong?'"
Ed hung his head and thought about what Mustang had just said to him. Where did he go wrong? So much had happened in the last few years he wasn't even sure who he was anymore.
Mustang called out, "Ed? Why don't you come out behind that wall and we'll talk about stuff, you don't have to jump to killing me."
Ed was silent for awhile; he was trying to hold back tears. Then he finally said, "You wanna know why I've been gone for so long? You wanna know why I'm here now? Well, DO YA?" Ed's voice seemed to change back to its normal tone.
Mustang tried to cool Ed down with a calming voice. He said, "You can tell me everything, anything you want, just let me come over there so I can listen to-"
Ed interrupted, "NO! Stay there! I'll explain. Just stay right there."
Mustang stopped, "Okay, I'm staying right here. Now tell me everything."