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Again, Chapter Eleven
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A long time passed and there was still no trace of Elysse, nor the homunculi. Well, not exactly nothing…News was heard among the military that a blonde was running around in Ishbal, around a deserted castle, and even through the very streets, hurting military men that got in her way, and Ed and Al tried not to think about Elysse.
Well, a few major things had gone by…Al finally obtained his body back. (Ok, we're ignoring Conqueror of Shambala here…Readers, please don't kill us! Conqueror of Shambala will screw up our story!)
-Flashback-
"Brother, here's the stone!" Al called, throwing it to Ed. They were literally playing Monkey-in-the-Middle while running out the doors of the Underground City. Lust had just spiked her fingernails through Al, just missing his blood seal.
Ed caught the stone. It was made of human lives, but that was the homunculi's fault. Or, more likely, Dante, their master's fault. Al and Ed had heard prisoners being held in the Underground City, and Dante had just turned them all into the philosopher's stone once Al and Ed arrived. Suddenly, Envy popped out of nowhere and punched Ed. Ed threw it back to Al. Everything seemed to go into slow motion…
The stone was flying through the air…Dante and Lust had just attacked Al for his blood seal, and knocked his helmet off. Gluttony was diving for the stone…and Envy did not want it to break on the floor. But the stone missed all of their clutches, and hit Al's blood seal. Bright red and blue lights flashed everywhere, and when everyone opened their eyes, they found the human Alphonse naked on the floor…
When Al returned to his body, he had the body of a ten-year-old, but still retained all the memories of the past years. And with every passing day, he was starting to look more like his real age (Ok, that's all fake, but it contradicts our story!)
-End Flashback-
Jean Havoc found a permanent wife (at last!), and Fury had establishing a home along with Al for stray animals. Not only that, Fury had married Sheska too. Armstrong took a rest from the army for a year, but came back stronger in his mood string. Bloche and Ross also got married. Falman and Roy FINALLY beating Breda at chess…but by teaming up.
Ahh…the Mustang couple. Ed and Al long knew about their relationship before Riza and Roy came to visit them at Peter's, but they were just playing around. Riza had given birth to three children the day right after Elysse left to Rena, Rhea, and Ray. Roy was really surprised. He thought that Riza had gone out on sick leave because she really was sick…Anyways, thankfully, King Bradley still had no suspicions. However, everyone had suspicions on him that he was a homunculus, but that was a different thing…
At two years old, Rena, Rhea, and Ray were darn hyperactive and athletic. Rena seemed to had inherited her mother's sharp eye at aiming, and nearly took off one of the vital screws in Ed's automail. So Riza started her off with bows and arrows. In addition, she was already reading (thanks to Fury and Sheska)…Rhea made her own alchemy circle and was already practicing alchemy, and Ray had a lot of charm like his father, in addition to the cuteness of a two year old. But there was one thing that was making Riza sad…she missed the young woman Elysse. Although she had met her only a couple of times, she wished that Elysse would be there to see her three children, just as a reminder to their "One-shot chat".
Edward and Alphonse were worried and finally decided to go look for her. Besides, they needed an adventure. It was the best time of the year: Christmas. The stores were lucky, as people buying presents to give for their loved ones. However, it was not the best time of the year for Edward and Al. Oh, they remembered the time when Elysse would always play snowball fights with them and for sure, she would win. They also remembered the time when she was sick in Christmas but she did not let some cold force her to stay in bed. Instead, she went downstairs and set the Christmas tree on fire because it was near the fireplace. However, they never forget when she started to sing Christmas carols...
-Flashback-
"Deck the halls with bows of holly, fa la la la la, la la la la!" Everyone sang in front of the Christmas tree in the Ballroom.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells, Edward's short and gay! Grandpa thinks that Edward stinks and the servants say 'Hooray!'" Elysse teased.
"What did you say?" Edward said annoyed.
"Short!" replied Elysse.
"What! I'm going to kill you, Elysse!" The eldest started chasing his sister, tripped and fell flat on his face.
"Oh, Edward's short! Edward's short! Now his face is flat!" Elysse teased once again to the Jingle Bells theme song. Everyone started to laugh, except Ed.
-End of Flashback-
"Come on, Al" called Edward, starting to walk off into the crowd.
"Oh, uh. Coming, brother!" Al got up and ran after his brother. "You know, Ed. Brown doesn't suit you well..." Al added, looking at Ed's coat.
"Oh, Al, shut up. You've grown cockier since you got your body back…You're just trying to get me annoyed..." Ed was a little pissed that his brother was taller than him. But the effect of Elysse leaving had a huge impact on Ed. Well, they were twins, so there at least had to be a common ground for them…One time, Al caught Ed talking to himself, saying that he wished Elysse would call him 'pipsqueak' one more time.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a blonde zoomed passed Ed, knocking him down. She had long blonde hair that leveled to her waist, and she was wearing a black coat that leveled to her ankles revealing her black boots. Just then, when Edward stood up a man knocked him down chasing after the blonde.
"Watch where you're going!" Ed called out. He stood up to brush himself off.
"Well, that sure was interesting…" Al muttered. "So where do we go from here? How are we gonna look for Elysse?"
"Out of the way, pipsqueak!" The girl was back; she pushed Ed out of the way and ran for her life. She took an Alchemy book out of her bag and threw it at the man but it hit Ed instead. She gasped and ran off.
"Ouch, the heck…man, that was kinda like Elysse back there…What the, hey Al...Look at this!" Edward handed the Alchemy book. It looked like the one Elysse threw at him a long time ago, but it now said 'Alchemy for the Advanced Master Individual' "There's an initial on it...E.E. What kind of initial is that?"
"Umm, Elysse Elric?" questioned Al.
"What, why would I-" Edward paused and looked over at his brother. "Did you say Elysse Elric?" the blonde asked his armor brother.
"Yea, maybe..." replied Al, with a shrug. He wasn't going to get accused for his body again.
"That's it! Al, come on!" Edward ran after the man and the girl.
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Elysse ran back, passing a short idiot and another blonde that kinda looked like that idiot. She tried to ditch the man by running backwards, but it didn't work. She saw something familiar about them, but she did not turn back. She needed to run for her life. A crazy drunk perverted man was chasing her for no reason after he said, "Hey, baby. Come here to me!" She was shocked that such a drunk man could run so fast…
"Hey, wait!" Ed called out and ran after her.
"Miss, hold on!" Al followed his brother, still carrying the Alchemy book.
"Hey, come back here you stupid girl!" A man called out, and kept chasing Elysse.
"Oh, great. Three idiots chasing me!" Elysse ran into a store.
The three men came crashing into the store looking for Elysse. Then they saw her zoom out the other door.
"Ah, ha!" the man shouted and ran out, grabbing her.
"Let, go!" Elysse kicked the man off her and ran off again, leaving the man unconscious. "You're gonna harass me!"
Edward on the other hand was waiting at the other end, and once the girl was about to pass he tackled her. Pinning her to the ground, he was on top of her. However, he could not see her face that well; her long golden hair was covering it.
"I've finally caught you, Miss. Independent!" Ed said but soon realized one of his hands was touching her breast. "Ah, ya..!" he took his hands of her as soon as possible.
"Hai yah!" Elysse said, punching the pervert. "Watch it you short idiotic pervert!" Elysse pushed the boy off her and stood up, brushing her self off she brushed her hair off her face, revealing her identity. She then looked around and spotted Al. "What, the...Al?"
"Hey, Elysse!" Al said greeting her with a smile. "I got my body back!"
"Omigod! Alphonse Elric! You are soooooooooo cool!" Elysse screamed, trampling over Ed as she ran to go hug her little brother. "Wow…it's great that you got your body back! But who's this guy!" Elysse pointed to the blonde wearing a brown coat.
"That's Ed," replied Al. He had a major sweatdrop.
"Ed?" She grabbed the boy and soon realized it was Ed. "Ed! Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" she apologized at how painful that black eye she gave. And they both gave each other a big hug.
"Hey, long time no see!" Ed smiled, ignoring his painful eye.
"Ed…I missed you!" Elysse got up and dragged Alphonse into the hug. They forgot about all the pain they went through in that hug, and they all cried with happiness. Elysse would need to be update on Roy and Riza and everyone else, but that would wait till later…
