Me: Yup, that's right! It's time for chapter six! Yay!
Ed: Why are you so excited?
Me: Why do you have to ask?
Ed: I don't know, I'm just wondering…
Al: Do I finally make an appearance in this chapter?
Me: Maybe…you'll just have to wait and see! (-smug grin-)
Al: You're so mean to me…
Me: Yeah, I try. Ed, do the disclaimer…unless you want to have your automail dismantled. (-lifts wrench-)
Ed: Fine, fine…Kararu doesn't own Fullmetal Alchemist, but she does own Kararu Rinamino and Arlic (Pride), and Silvermoon15 owns Shikou Rinamino, we're just borrowing.
Me: That's right! On with the chapter!
Loosing the Sight
Chapter 6: An Equivalent Exchange
Something was wrong.
VERY wrong.
"Kararu!" Ed yelled. No answer. "Damn it!" He looked over the room once again to see…
"Mustang! Hughes!" Ed cried. He jumped up, feeling his left ankle twisted the wrong way. He fell to the ground saying, "Oh shit!" He landed on his bruised hip and hissed in pain. A groan from the two on the floor told Ed that one of them was awake.
"Damn…" Ed heard one of them said, then he watched Hughes sit up and rub the back of his head. "What…happened?"
"Beats me." Ed said, dragging himself across the floor over to him. "Is Mustang all right?"
"He's just knocked out." Hughes said after a moment of examining his friend.
"Are you all right?"
"Yeah, except for my head…Edward, are you hurt? Your ankle…"
"It's fine…really, it is." Ed said, putting on his best poker face but unfortunately, it wasn't good enough to fool Hughes.
"Let me see it." Hughes said, getting up and going over to Ed where he had stopped dragging himself. He knelt down next to him and pulled up Ed's pant leg and took off his boot to look at his ankle. "Hmm…" He took his middle and index finger and ran it over Ed's ankle, and in one particular spot, it seemed like Hughes was running a lit match over it.
"Ouch, don't touch that!"
The words had just come out of his mouth, and he tried to stop them but it didn't work.
"See?" Hughes said, looking up at him with a raised eyebrow. "You're lucky, it's just a sprain." Hughes got up and walked over to Mustang, then looked at Kararu's bed. "So, she's gone, huh?"
"Yeah…" Ed said, his voice full of worry and sadness.
"You really love her, don't you?" Hughes asked gently. Ed started to blush. "Come on, you can tell me." Ed cocked an eyebrow at him, then pointed to Mustang. "Oh, him? He's still out cold."
"I…I do…" Ed said, his blush increasing. Suddenly, Mustang sat straight up, Hughes and Ed both jumping and backing up against the nearest wall in fright.
"HA! I KNEW IT EDWARD!" Mustang yelled crazily, pointing an accusing finger at Ed.
"I thought you said he was still out cold…" Ed said, wanting to shrink to the size of an ant in embarrassment, then crawl under a rock and die.
"Uh…he WAS…" Hughes said with a sweatdrop.
"Huh? Where's Kararu?" Mustang asked as he looked around. "Oww, my head…"
"It seems she's gone." Ed said.
"We need to go find her then." Mustang said, getting up.
"But where do we look first?" Ed asked.
"Uh…I thought you knew…" Mustang said.
Both Ed and Hughes sweatdropped.
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"Kararu! Kararu, wake up!"
Kararu felt her body being shook, but she was somehow too weak to respond.
"Come on Kararu, please! Wake up!"
Her body shook more violently, yet she still couldn't answer.
"Please…just wake up…"
Her body stopped shaking, and she felt a small drop of water hit her cheek.
"Kararu, wake up, please…"
"I SAID SHUT UP!"
A new voice had entered into the conversation, the tone harsh and commanding. She heard a loud slap and the sound of something hitting the floor.
"And I said no! Kararu, please, wake up!"
"SHUT UP!"
"NO!"
Kararu heard a hand fly swiftly up high into the air, and she sat straight up and yelled, "DON'T!"
She heard the hand stop moving towards the person on the floor.
"Kararu…"
"Shikou?" Kararu asked. She turned to the source of the voice.
"Yes Kararu." Shikou said.
"Shikou, where are you?" Kararu asked.
"I'm here." Shikou said.
"I can't see you…" Kararu said.
"Your…blind?"
"I think…"
"Oh, did Pride already get you? That's a real shame, he ruined some of my fun yet again…Oh well, that just opens up more options." The commanding voice said.
"Envy…" Kararu spat.
"You already know my name, do you? I feel so honored that someone of your stature would have heard of me." Envy said, then Kararu heard footsteps go towards Shikou.
"Don't go any closer to her Envy." Kararu growled. "Or I'll claw your eyes out."
"Oh really? How?" Envy asked. Kararu hadn't thought that far and she growled at him. "Oh ho, I hit a nerve!"
"Shut up Envy!" Kararu heard Shikou yell.
"Oh, and as you would say, 'and I said no!'" Envy said, mimicking her voice. "HEY GUYS! COME ON IN, ITS TIME TO GET WHAT WE DESERVE!"
Kararu heard a door to her left creak open and she heard six people walk in.
"Pride, stay by the door. I don't want her to get distracted by you. You'll get to have your fun eventually." Envy commanded.
"All right." Pride's voice said, and she heard a person lean against the wall.
"Now, it's time to get some information out of these two." Envy said, then turned to the two girls. "All right, answer me and no one'll get hurt. Where is the Philosopher's Stone?"
Kararu had to keep her face straight and her eyes from widening. She knew exactly where it was. "I don't know." Kararu answered out calmly.
"I don't know either." Shikou said.
Kararu heard Envy growl. "I know that one of you knows where it is. Tell me and no one will get hurt, GOT IT?"
"We don't know!" Shikou cried out.
"Lust, grab the wolf girl to keep her from doing anything. Gluttony…grab the blind girl. Do what you have to so she'll speak."
"Yes Envy…" A greedy little voice said, and Kararu heard large, loud steps walking slowly towards her. There was a surprised yelp from Shikou.
"Kararu! Kararu, move!" Kararu heard Shikou yell frantically, then her voice became muffled as something covered her mouth.
Kararu started to grow frightened. What was going to happen? She shrieked as two hands grabbed her arms and shoved them to her sides.
"Where is the stone?" Envy asked.
"I don't know!" Kararu said.
"Tell me!"
"I said, I don't know!"
"I KNOW YOU KNOW! TELL ME NOW!"
"I don't know!"
The hand that she had on her right arm lifted, then there was a searing pain in her right shoulder and she screamed in pain. She fell to the ground, her left hand going over to her shoulder.
"Gluttony…" Kararu heard Lust say. "Wipe your mouth." Kararu hissed in pain, and she heard Shikou gasp in horror through her gag.
"Now…tell me where it is." Envy said yet again.
"I…I don't know!" Kararu gasped out, feeling blood pour freely out of her shoulder where her right arm used to be.
"Get the wolf girl!" Envy said, and Kararu heard three pairs of footsteps heading in Shikou's direction. After a minute, there was a frightened gasp from Shikou, and a muffled yelp.
"Please…leave my sister alone…I'll…I'll tell you what you want to know…just please…don't hurt my sister…" Kararu said, feeling tears come into her pupil-less eyes as she sat up as best she could.
"All right. Leave her. Chain her hands though." Envy said, and Kararu sighed in relief as she heard Shikou drop to the floor.
"Now, where is the stone?" Envy asked again, his voice surprisingly soothing and calm.
"It's…"
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Ed pulled piece after piece of wood off of the pile of the 'house'. He was searching for anything, anything that the Homunculi would have left behind to indicate where they had taken Shikou and Kararu.
He finally saw a small, dark blue leather bound book that had a burnt edge. He reached down to pick it up to read the title in bold, golden cursive letters: 'The Demon Twins'…
Ed flipped the pages until he found a small bookmark in it. It was only about three pages from the end, so he set down the wood he had in his hand and brought the book over to a tree where he sat down to read.
The last few paragraphs read:
'And so, the girls made their last wish. No one knows what it was, and even though the girls knew that the Fates would never allow it, it was still worth a try. They drew their last breath as Challan tried desperately to convince them to try and live.
This story I tell you is quite true. So true, in fact, that you can go to the Ileki City graveyard and find two, unmarked graves that mysteriously have flowers growing there all year round.
The girls will be born again in four hundred years, and they shall have the same names, and shall also be twins. They shall have powers, and the demon in them will often come out. For now, I leave you with this: My beloved readers, listen to me and trust the story is true. To find out more about them…well…let's just say you have to go to their graves to find out.'
Ed stared down at the page. He closed the book and looked at the cover and the spine in hopes of finding the authors name, but found none. He opened the cover to see the title of the book in the middle of the first page, then gasped when he saw the author's name:
Hoenhiem Elric
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Al looked up from the book he was reading when there was a knock on his door. "Come in." He called. The door opened and someone stuck their head in. "Oh, hey Havoc. Come to talk again have you?"
"Actually, someone else, did…there's a visitor here for you." Havoc said, then turned behind him. "All right dear, go on in."
Al looked at Havoc with a puzzled look. The only people who had come in to talk to him were Sciezka, Havoc, Fuery, Breda and Falman. He grinned when Havoc stepped aside and another person came in.
"Winry!" Al said happily, standing up and running over to the girl, hugging her around the neck.
"Alphonse! You've got your body back!" Winry said excitedly.
"I know! And I get hungry, and tired, and I can feel things!" Al chirped happily.
"That's wonderful!" Winry cheered.
"I'll just leave you two to your business." Havoc said with a sly grin and a wink to Al before walking out of the doorway, shutting it behind him.
"Good, now he's gone." Al said with a sly grin similar to Havoc's.
"So, how've you been since you woke up?" Winry asked flirtingly, putting her arms around his neck playfully.
"Wonderful, but its pure bliss now that you're here." Al said, pulling her into another hug. "So, how was it without me?"
"I'm not sure…we still don't have any information on Ed yet…as far as we know here in the military, Ed's still missing."
"So…he could be dead…right?"
"Al, don't think like that. You know he isn't dead."
"Oh come on Winry. He's been gone for a week; the Homunculi are still after him and the stone. There's no way he could have escaped them…"
"Come on Al, think for a minute. Listen to what your saying. Ed's alive, I-" Winry said, but was interrupted when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Al called once more, and when the door opened, Falman stood there.
"Mister Elric, Miss Rockwell, Brigadier General Hawkeye is on the phone to speak to the both of you on a three way line…we have two phones already set up for you." Falman informed them.
"All right, thank you Falman." Al said, and he suddenly noticed that he and Winry were still hugging each other, and their faces were very close together. He blushed and lightly pulled away from her, Winry blushing when she also realized their current situation. Falman just smirked and motioned for them to follow him out the door.
"All right, pick you phone. Go ahead and talk, Hawkeye's on the line." Falman said.
"Thanks." Winry said, then picked up the phone. "Hawkeye?"
"Winry? Oh, thank god, you're there too. Good, I can tell you and Al at the same time." The voice of Hawkeye said through the earpiece.
"What's wrong?" Al asked once she finished.
"Well, we found Ed."
"YOU DID? OH MY GOD, IS HE ALIVE?" Winry shrieked.
"Yes, he's fine…well, was…he's gone, he must have run off. We had found him, along with two other State Alchemists. From what he told us before he left, for the past week, he was blind and didn't know who he was. The State Alchemists, Demon and Wolf are their titles, were living up in Ileki. They took him in and allowed him to stay with them. The Homunculi found and attacked the home, kidnapped Wolf, then while Demon, Ed, Hughes and Mustang were at the hospital, Hughes and Mustang were knocked out, Ed's ankle was sprained and Demon was kidnapped, and the last we know of Ed, he was looking through the ruble of the house to try and find anything." Hawkeye concluded.
"At least he's alive…" Al said with a sigh of relief.
"See? I toldja Al." Winry said in a mater-of-fact tone.
"Shut up Winry…" Al said.
"Oh ho, I poked something!"
"Winry!"
"Oh, what're you gonna do to me, huh?"
"I don't know…you'd hit me with a wrench if I did anything…"
"You bet I would!"
"Are you two flirting again?" Hawkeye interrupted them after a few moments of silence from her while she listened to them bicker back and forth.
Al and Winry looked up at each other from their phones and started blushing furiously.
"Is that all?" Winry asked after a minute of dead silence from all three ends of the lines.
"Yes. I'll call to give you updates later." Hawkeye said.
"Thank you. Goodbye." Al said, then hung up.
"Goodbye Winry." Hawkeye said.
"Bye Hawkeye." Winry said, then hung up her line. She looked over at Al, who was looking at her. She started to blush and look away quickly.
This was going to prove to be very interesting with them at the Central HQ together…
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Me: Okay, I had to end it there, but I've got a lot of ideas for this story, so I'll be working on it for a while!
Ed: Does it have to do with me getting hurt?
Me: I'm not going to say! It might spoil things!
Ed: That's a definite yes.
Al: How do you know?
Ed: I just do.
Me: Okay…
Al: All right, Ed, give the reviewers their gifts.
Ed: Fine, I'm only doing it because I don't want my automail to be detached…all reviewers get twenty platters of cookies and a free black-market copy of the FMA movie! Also, SpiderXombie, you get FIFTY POUNDS OF SUGAR TO EAT!
Al: Why are you doing that?
Ed: Because Kararu told me to.
Me: That's right! Well, I hope you all enjoyed it! Thanks for reading! Oh, and here's a little something that I did…it's an outtake for this chapter.
Loosing the Sight Chapter Six Outtake
(Envy and Kararu are yelling at each other)
"Where is the stone?" Envy asked.
"I don't know!" Kararu yelled.
"Tell me!"
"I said, I don't know!"
"I KNOW YOU KNOW! TELL ME TRUTH NOW!"
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" Envy burst out laughing. "What'd I say?"
"Kararu," Shikou said, "you're reading the wrong script…"
"Oh, damn…" Everyone on set and off set burst out laughing. Kararu muttered a few curse words under her breath before pulling the script out of Envy's hand.
END OF OUTTAKE
Me: Well, that was the outtake for now…I hope you all liked it! Thanks for reading it too!
Join me next time for:
Chapter 7: The True Power