Arrival: Part 2
Note: There will be slight changes from the anime
Edward Elric sighed and said, "I followed my dad, to escape from the zepplin bombings. He lead me into a dark alley with no one in there. He looked at me in the eyes and asked me to tell him everything that had happened on the other side of the gate. I told him everything, about how I am fighting Dante and the homoculus that they are trying to use my brother who had become the philosopher's stone…"
John the Reporter interupted, "Wait, wait, wait. Could you slow down a bit please. Tell me about the people you are fighting with" He said the last part with disbelief.
Edward said, "Alright I'll slow down." He continued, "I told him that I was fighting Dante, and the homoculus. The homoculus are humans made by humans. A perfect homoculus comes from a failed human transmutation. By the way a human transmutation is bringing a person back to life through alchemy. After telling him I was killed by Envy who was one of the homoculus, he suddenly…"
John the Reporter asked anxiously, "What happened?"
Edward said, "My dad said sorry to me, and then shot me to death."
John the Reporter gasped, feeling very surprised at this, although he still believed that the story was made up. He asked, "Do you know why he did it? Why are you still here if he shot you?"
Edward replied John's questions, "He had to think of a way to bring me back to the alchemy world, and the way he thought of was to kill my body on this world. As for why I'm still here, that is because this body is from the alchemic world, not this one."
John asked, "So what happened when you got back to the alchemic world? You got killed again?" He laughed at his own question.
Edward did not find the question funny, he replied, "That really did happen later on." After saying this he sighed.
John saw it wasn't a time to smile, so he returned to an expressionless face. He said, "So… how and why did you get killed again?"
Edward said, "Envy charged at me, and kept on changing faces as we fought. Changing faces is one of his special abilities. Finally I could not stand him taunting me, I used alchemy and attempted to blow him up. When I blew him up, Gluttony who is another homoculus, latched onto my shoulders. I fell to the ground with Gluttony, as I watched Envy regenerate from the pool of blood. When Gluttony tried to eat me up, I suddenly remembered something I saw at the gate of Truth. The symbol every homoculus had was a symbol of an ouroborus, which is a snake eating itself and also a seal called the seal of soloman. I thought that if I used it as an alchemic circle, they would either destroy themselves or they would destroy other homoculus. So I grabbed Gluttony's tongue, and I performed alchemy with the ouroborus symbol. To my surprise, Gluttony let go of me and started chewing off his hand again and again, I watched as the blood drop to the ground, and the fingers growing back out again. Envy was angered by what I did, so he assaulted me when I was concentrating on Gluttony biting off his fingers.
"He punched me in the face, although it was painful I felt that my jaw was going to fall of, I knew that I had to make use of this fall, so when I was falling to the ground I used alchemy to make an alchemic symbol on the ground, a simple alchemic symbol of the union of all four major elements, which you would see as two triangles making a star. After making the symbol, I fell to the ground, it was a hard fall since I did not do anything to soften the fall. The symbol was a trap, I knew Envy would come after me again, but when he did come again, I resisted the pain of the fall and performed alchemy. The simple alchemic symbol was apparently also a way to access the gate of Truth. When both of us got to the gate of Truth, Envy continued to attack me, he grabbed me and kept on punching me, wanting to kill me before I could turn him into a self eating freak like Gluttony. I was too weak resist his attacks. When he was grabbing me and punching me, both of us were being dragged by the tenticles to this side of gate. Suddenly I saw some light radiating through the swarm of tenticles, I thought that I was dead, but no I wasn't, I could still feel Envy punching me although it was a lot lighter than the ones in the beginning. I found out that I arrived at this side of the gate. We were on top of the ocean, as we were falling, to my surprise, a tenticle from the door wrapped around me, Envy continued trying to punch me, but found out that I was wrapped by a tenticle, and that he was falling into the ocean by himself. I was then pulled back into the gate, as I heard Envy screaming loudly, 'DAMN YOU!'" He stopped at this point.
By now, John was simply fascinated with the story, he did not care if it was true or not, he wanted to know the story, he was filled with curiosity for what would happen. He asked, "Why did the tenticle wrap around you? What happened next?" Wanting desperately to know what happened.
Edward did not answer his question but instead said to the director, "I want to take a break." Although the director also wanted to know what happened next, he nodded his head, firstly he had to respect the guest and secondly, he was still afraid of the short alchemist.