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Anyway here's the third chapter, hope you enjoy…

(there is a reason its mostly in italics)

Taking over me

Chapter 3-Mistake of years to come


"Water; 35 litres, carbon; 20 kilograms, ammonia; 4 litres, lime; 1.5 kilograms, phosphorus; 800 grams."

"Salt; 250 grams, saltpetre; 100, sulphur; 80, fluorine; 7.5, iron; 5, silicone; 3 grams."

"And trace amount of fifteen other elements." The two young boys stood in the study, checking off everything they needed, "Yeah that's everything. The physical ingredients of the human body. Now if we could just put together a soul, we should be able to call mom back from the other side." The blonder of the two looked at the ingredients and smiled determinedly.

"Edward, you sure we should do this?"

"Of course, don't wimp out on me now-"

"But no-ones ever done this right," the other boy's voice rose slightly, anxiousness evident, "I mean alchemy is equivalent exchange. The body content seems simple enough but what about the soul, what could we possibly offer?"

"Just hold out your finger okay?" Edward answered harshly pulling out a small penknife. He made a small noise as the blade sliced through the flesh of his left index finger. Al whimpered as Ed drew the blade over his finger too. "It's a soul, really." He said as the brothers held their bleeding fingers over the ingredients and watched the droplets of blood fall. "If you take out the myth, it's just the spark that starts life. This is our blood, from her blood." Ed turned to see his brother's worried expression. "That's a fair trade."


"Brother, are you okay?" Al crept to his brother's bedside. Ed was mumbling in his sleep and he had begun to shift restlessly. Al looked at his brother and decided that Ed was just talking in his sleep so he sat on the floor by the bed and tried to make out what his brother was saying.


That ought to do it," Ed stated as he placed the chalk on the ground next to him. He examined the array he had just finished drawing then looked up at his younger brother, "you ready?"

"Mmmhmm."

"Don't be scared Al, everything's perfect…lets do it."

"Mmmhmm." Al nodded but couldn't hide his apprehensive expression. They both leant forward and placed their small hands on the edge of the array, a bright golden light filling the room. Ed smiled into the light.

We're going to do it, its working!

The golden light gave out a gentle heat, warming their faces and arms.

Without warning, the golden light flashed a brilliant red and faded to lilac, the warmth intensified becoming hot and almost unbearable.

"Brother, something's going wrong here." Ed ignored Al's frightened voice and looked the other way, trying to find something that would prove Al wrong.

It can't go wrong, it cant, it just can't!

Al's scream startled him and he whipped round. Al was holding his arm out and what looked like little black hands were exploring and grabbing at his skin.

"Al!"


"Is he okay?" Al asked standing behind Winry, Riza and Glacier. He had quickly roused all the women in the house when he noticed that Ed wasn't looking so good. "He was fine before, I just thought he was sleep talking." Ed thrashed around in his bed, whimpering and muttering things incoherently.

"It's just a bad dream." Riza said though she still looked concerned, as though she wasn't sure of herself.

"Should we wake him?" Winry asked.

"No, a nightmare doesn't last forever; he'll either wake up on his own or-" Glacier was cut off as Ed called out in his sleep, making everyone jump.

"Al!"

Al stared at his brother.

He's having a nightmare…about me?

Tears slipped out from under Ed's eyelids and crept down the sides of his face, dampening his hair spread out on the pillow.

"Brother please," Al moved forward and sat on the edge of the bed, "Please don't cry over me."


"Edward! Brother!" Al's voice ripped through the air. Ed tried to take a step forward but found that he couldn't move. He looked down at his legs to see what the problem was. His breath caught in his throat as he saw more of the same little hands grabbing at the flesh of his left leg.

What is this? Why is this happening?

"Brother!" Ed looked up to see more of the black hands snatching at his brother, so many that he was no longer on the ground, he was being lifted and pulled into a vortex that had appeared on the wall, emitting the same lilac light. Parts of Al's body seemed suspended in mid-air. His hand wasn't attached to the rest of his arm yet it still moved as though it was. As though his wrist was still there but just not visible to the human eye.

"Brother please!" Al pleaded, reaching out the arm with the invisible wrist. Ed reached out also, trying to catch his brother's hand. He was inches away but he still couldn't move.

"NO AL!" He swiped at the air but just as their fingers were about to brush against each others, Al disappeared along with the vortex and all light other than the lone, unsmashed bulb on the wall light. Ed found he could suddenly move again and fell forwards onto the ground.


Al cradled his older brother in his arms, hoping his embrace would calm him, but it did nothing.

"Come on brother, it's just a dream." Ed suddenly convulsed violently and Al hugged him tighter. "Please brother, wake up." Al shook his brother slightly, deciding that Glacier's advice to let Ed sleep through the nightmare wasn't the best thing for him; he had endured this torture long enough.


"Alphonse say something! Al no!" Edward screamed into the stone floor of the study. His body had lost feeling and awareness during the transmutation, he could hardly feel the cold stone beneath his body and the fatigue spreading through him. "Al, STAY WITH ME!" his voice rose uncontrollably against his will as he begun to feel pain in his limbs where they were braced against the hard floor. "DAMNIT! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO-" shock and pain flooded his system as he fully regained all feeling. He looked down at the source of most of his pain and saw blood gushing out of what remained of his left leg. "NOOOO!" he screamed out pain, anguish and confusion. Ed remembered the black hands that had been grabbing at his leg and feared what had become of his younger brother.

This can't be right!

"What have I done? He's gone." He cried softly. Ed looked up and tried to see through the dust that filled the room making visibility difficult. That's when he saw it. "Mom?" the hand waved at him through the dust, waving him closer. He was about to attempt movement when the dust cleared and revealed the mistake that would haunt him for the rest of his life.


"NO!" Ed's eyes snapped open and he lurched forwards, vomiting over the side of the bed. He coughed a few times, his body shaking uncontrollably.

"Brother, are you alright?" Al raced to his brother's side and pulled back his hair as Ed vomited again. Winry disappeared then returned a few minutes later with a glass of water and a bucket which she placed in front of Ed. She then retrieved a blanket and draped it over his shoulders. Ed collapsed into a dreamless sleep in the early hours of the morning lying in his brother's arms.

"I will always be here for you brother, I promise."


Wow, lotta page breaks!

Shorter than the others, I know and I'm sorry but I'll be sure to make chapter 4 really long, I promise! Please review, it would make me happy!