The Broken Promise
The short alchemist returned from the bathroom and sat on the sofa. He was ready for the question John would ask next. After hearing the last section of what the alchemist said, John the Reporter felt like a little child listening to fairy tales, and he burned in curiosity of wanting to know what happened to the short alchemist.
John asked eagerly, "Why did the gate pull you back?"
The Alchemist sighed, and said, "My brother Alphonse who was the Philosopher's Stone he is an armor with a soul sealed onto it. Just in case you want to know, my arm and leg were stripped from me, and my brother's body was stripped from him because we performed a failed human transmutation trying to revive our mother. OK so back to the topic Alphonse tried to make a deal with the gate. It was a pretty stupid thing to do, but my brother wanted to save me. He put his life on the stake, trying to bring me back, as the Philosopher's Stone, his life would have been valuable even to the gate, but he was wrong, the most valuable thing about my brother wasn't his life itself, but the memories. Instead of giving up everything, my brother only had to give up the Philosopher's Stone and his memory of the past few years traveling with me, and he would get back his original body before the failed human transmutation. There were two choices, I could live a normal life on the alchemic world, or I could live an immortal life without any change to my appearance on this side of the gate. I wanted to live with Alphonse in the alchemic world, I couldn't choose, he was the Philosopher's Stone, so he was the one who could chose. He chose to give me an immortal life, but when I looked him in the eyes, I knew he was asking me to promise him that I would go back to the alchemic world for him."
John looked at the Full Metal Alchemist's leg and his arms for a while, he didn't know what to think, he only knew that this person was someone that has endured great pain. He asked, "So did you fullfill your promise?"
Edward Elric answered solemly, "Half of it."
John asked, "Why is it only half of it?"
Edward Elric galped and said, "I returned too late. He was dead when I returned."
John gasped and asked desperately, "Why was he dead?"
The Alchemist sighed, shook his head and said, "It was riddiculous."
John asked, "How?"
Edward said, "I built a rocket with a person who resembled my brother called Alphonse Heiderich. Alphonse Heiderich was extremely bright and hard working, working with great efficiency and worked day and night with the rocket. I don't know what his driving force was… was it a sense of achivement? Or was it a sense of disbelief and trying to prove me wrong about a parauniverse. Amazingly it took us only 1 year to build the rocket, in a huge and sophisticated laboratory that my father bought with huge sums of money he got from magical item analysis. On the day of the launching my father gave me and Alphonse Heiderich that had strange symbols on them, both of us didn't believe in it but we still wore it to comfort my father. At the rocket's highest speed, the necklace that me and Alphonse had started to glow and our rocket blew up. I saw something I have seen several times in my life… It was the gate." Edward stopped for a while.
John asked, "How did you reach the gate again? You didn't perform alchemy."
Edward Elric replied, "Apparently the necklace my father gave me did work, and somehow it summoned the gate." He continued, "The shards of the rocket flew across the gate at high speed, and the two of us were pulled over as well." The interviewed boy stopped for a while. John waited for Edward to continue. After a few minutes Edward concluded, "It seems that fate had to pull me and Alphonse apart."
John asked with a fake caring tone, "What happened?"
The Alchemist answered, "Well, the shards squashed my brother to death, as for Alphonse Heiderich, he broke his head when he landed in the alchemist world." Although Edward Elric said it very casually, it took him a great deal of courage to say it. He continued, "I got a safe landing because I softened the fall with alchemy. I arrived in Central, which was the capital. I knew Central very well, so I walked to the Main State Building, not knowing the death of Alphonse Heiderich and my brother. When I arrived I tried to look for anyone I could find. After looking for a long time I found…"