IMPORTANT: this chapter, more than any other explains what happens in the last episode. if you have seen the last ep, this chapter is a waste to read, because nothing of significance happens other than me outlining the episode. Go ahead and read it if you want though... I just had to write down everything so i wouldn't forget the ending to my ALL TIME FAVORITE ANIME/ MANGA (although the manga isn't finished in America yet...)

well, there are a couple things i added into the end, such as this letter from Resembool. In reality, Schiezka isnarrating all this stuff, which is how the viewer learnsall this stuff.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist, its characters, logos, themes, automail, items, rights, etc. There are direct quotes in here, but I made this story up to bridge a gap.

Later that day in the afternoon, Havoc brought me a letter. It was the reply from Resembool, from the Rockbells, and also from Izumi Curtis, who was staying with them for a time.

The reply was somewhat confusing and half disturbing. Alphonse was indeed a boy again, but he had no memories of his time spent in the suit of armor. In fact, he was ten years old when he should have been around fifteen or sixteen!

Although Winry, Izumi, Pinako, and others tried to make him remember, it seems none of these past six (author: I'm sorry, I don't know if this is right!) years' events registered in his mind. Al does like to hear about this stuff, though, they write.

A girl name Rose is going to be living with them for a while. She wrote me a letter herself. She claims we have a slight history: she met Ed on his very first mission in Lior. Apparently, she was there when Ed and Al used the Philosopher's Stone. Her letter is a very long one, detailing all that happened that night, including a woman named Dante who created and used the Homunculi. There was also talk of the Elric's father, Hohenheim of Light (I don't know why she calls him this. It's just written that way in the letter).

I finally learned all the pieces to this story. The Homunculi searched for the Stone because their selfish master needed it to stay alive. As original creators of the Stone, Hohenheim and Dante used it to attach their souls to new bodies when the current hosts started dying. Eventually, he left her and took the Stone. She did not know how to make a complete Stone, and so she had plenty of small, incomplete ones. These she fed to the Homunculi to keep them alive. Their number reached seven after a couple hundred years. The very last additions were the Elric's mother and Izumi's baby.

In the other letter, it mentions a boy named Wrath who was living in Resembool. Supposedly, he's the last Homunculus left. He represents the failed human transmutation of Izumi's baby. Automail now serves as his right arm and leftleg. Surprisingly, he didn't refuse the surgery, they wrote. However, he's run away, but there are sightings of him around Resembool and its neighboring towns every now and then.

Concerning the Fullmental Alchemist. This part of the letter is confidential. Even though Rose admits she was under Dante's spell, she still remembers everything. This information will never reach public ears (of course, it was never made public that there was body inside Al's suit of armor or that the Elrics performed a human transmutation. From the beginning, I had made Ed revise the cause of his lost limbs from human transmutation to the Civil War.

The Homunculi were going to use the Stone for themselves. Edward was killed by one called Envy. Alphonse,who had been set in a seal to activate the Philosopher's Stone, activated in himself and revived Ed, but at the cost of his mind and soul.

When Ed awoke, Rose told him his brother fixed his soul to his body with the Stone. In addition, Ed had his arm and leg back. Al was gone. In the letter, Rose said Ed asked her to take Wrath with her and leave. She obliged. Dante and the other Homunculi were gone. Rose saw Envy plunge into the light surrounding Ed while Al did the transmutation and disappear. The only one left was Ed. He never came out of that underground city (as a side-note, the letter mentioned that a secret lay under Central. It was here that all of the above events took place).

Rose did not see Dante or Gluttony (the Homunculus that left with his master) as she returned to the surface. She assumes they finished each other off because there was a hole in the lift that goes to the surface. She believes a battle had been waged between the two.

As for Alphonse, he quietly continues to study alchemy. I would learn later that he would one night approach Izumi and ask to be her apprentice again. He will ask because he wants to find Ed. At that time, he will have been told most of what happened after he and his brother lost their bodies.

Somehow, they all write, they believe Ed is still alive. I agree. It'd be too weird if that little smart-alleck were dead. Perhaps he has gotten lost. Due to what he told her, Rose believes Ed traded his body, mind, and soul for Al's body. That would make Ed some lost, wandering entity, perhaps even in another world, wouldn't it?

I think I'll miss those boys.