Chapter One: Disclaimer
Dustin: Alright, here I am to deliver a disclaimer for this sin against nature. 'Twas a dark, dark night in history when two twisted minds brought this depraved story to the world. In other words, one day, Lor and I got bored, and started throwing around ideas for a Legend of Zelda and Full Metal Alchemist crossover.
Lor: its not like it's a bad idea…its just something to occupy my time in my writers block. Stupid other fics.
Dustin: Anyway as I was saying, we got bored, tossed around ideas for a while, and she started writing. Thus we have this fic. Or I'm assuming we do, as I am currently writing this before Lor has actually, you know, even started.
Lor: I did too start…there were five paragraphs before you finished this!
Enaru: …four and a half
Lor: same thing!
Dustin: Back to the disclaimer. Ahem.
Characters and places are owned by their respective creators. However the ideas and themes of this fanfiction are owned by their respective creators (Me and Lor) and all this is written by Lor. Also, Dustin owns a Ganondorf action figure.
Dustin: holds up Ganon toy RAWR!... Anyway moving on. Not sure if I was supposed to take some credit for ideas behind this, but I am, cause a lot of 'em are mine. Also, as I said, Lor does all the writing. All of it. I don't write, I make witty comments.
Lor: Wait! We forgot something…my amazing friend, Rob, came up with the title. So uber kudos to him! 3 u Rob!
Chapter One: History Repeats Itself
"Ugh…bored, bored, bored." Fullmetal alchemist Edward Elric stared out the window of the train, trying to will the scenery to entertain him. "Long train rides…why did the stone have to have evidence so far away, Al?" He looked over to the suit of armor that was his younger brother.
Alphonse shrugged, not too bothered. He didn't notice time too much anymore. "I don't know, Ed. But I don't think there will be anyone from the military there. So I don't think we'll need to worry about Colonel Mustang."
"Don't bet on it Al," Ed spat. "That ass has spies all over the place! Just watch Al, we'll get there and Armstrong will be there to record what we do!" He folded his arms grumpily. "Either way, I think this is a really good –"
He didn't finish, thrown to the floor as many other passengers were as the train came to a sudden, unwelcome halt. Al looked around a little as Ed growled. Bringing himself up from the floor, he shook his fist menacingly as the hijacker's voice came over the intercom. The train began to move again.
"GOD DAMN IT! EVERY SINGLE TIME! THAT'S IT!" Ed threw a fit, looking more childish than usual, before a gun shot was fired. Ed frowned as a bullet bounced off of his automail shoulder, leaving a tear in his long red coat. "Stupid jackasses, I don't want to fix my jacket again too." With a sigh, Ed stretched. "Well Al, let's take care of this so we can finally get on with our plans."
As he walked, Al looked to the other passengers. "Just stay seated and do what they say until everything is under control." Ed took a window out to the roof and Al proceeded through the train cars. Pausing, he took a moment of looking around to make sure that no tree branches, tunnels, overhanging rocks and/or possibly dangerous things that could knock him off the train and into certain death. Once assured, Ed stood up and began the trek to the front car of the train. More bullets came up through the roof.
But, Ed was an amazing ninja with unbeatable reflexes, so he didn't get hurt. Well, minus the amazing ninja skills. Ed's luck was just really good today. Or well, so far.
I better to get to hit someone in the face, this wasn't the kind of entertainment I had been asking for, he thought disdainfully, kneeling down on the roof as they passed through a tunnel. Oh yeah, there was no way he was getting injured by another one of those again. Once the world was light again, Ed looked up to three people armed with guns, two men and a very burly women. Scary. He'd leave her for last.
"You're the state alchemist on the train!"
Ed glanced around shiftily. "…maybe I am. I could just be suicidal."
"Then why 'aven't ye jumped off yet, boy?" the man-woman demanded, clicking the gun out of safety. Ed grinned devilishly, clapping his hands and pressing them to the roof of the car.
"Because I'd rather kick your butt!" Metal spikes rose up beneath the three assailants' feet, piercing their shoes. With an angry cry the man-woman shot at Ed. He ducked and transmuted his automail, stepping on the spikes with his left leg and slashing at the three.
Needless to say, there went three rebels down the cliff.
Ed sure hoped he didn't hurt any wildlife.
Dropping down into the conductor's car, he looked around. There was…no one…even Al wasn't there? Slowly, he pulled open the door to head back through the train.
Well it was a good thing Ed hadn't yet conquered the height of five feet, four inches. Because if he had, then that knife quivering above his head would have gone through his skull, and the massive amounts of fangirls would not be pleased. A clang of metal later, and Al had exited the coal car.
"Ed! We need to get out of here before they –"
Ed's eyes widened at the sound of some sort of hiss. "Before they what? Al, before they what! Al!"
He received his answer a moment later when the car exploded.
A very lonesome and unhappy state alchemist sat in his desk back in Central. Colonel Roy Mustang flipped through different folders he was to sort through. The first was too long, the second too gruesome, and the other fourteen-some folders looked threatening. He decided that since they were going to eat his brain, he would take a coffee break.
As he stood up, his first lieutenant approached him. "Sir." She saluted and waited for his acknowledgement.
"Go ahead, Hawkeye."
"There's a call for you on the private line, I think we may have found the location of the Elric brothers."
Screw the coffee break, he needed to get that brat back here ASAP. He went to the lines and picked up the receiver. Listening for a moment, a look of "what-the-fuck" disbelief spread on his face. "Heh…derailed train? You don't say? Short kid in a red coat took out most of the hijackers?" After a long pause, Roy hung up the phone.
"Hawkeye!"
"Sir?"
"Looks like Fullmetal walked into a detonation. You'll head off with the rescue party and try to locate him. Take Armstrong with you."
"Affirmative."
Meanwhile, a good long way from Amestris…
Sitting down in the sand of the desert known as the Gerudo valley, the pointed eared swordsman yawned. No real reason to be anywhere right then…there was a distinct lack of monsters and people to save. Overall, it had really been just a few weeks of him wandering the country on foot.
"Maybe I should go back to the castle…there's bound to be trouble that Impa has at least heard about…" He looked to his glowing companion with a slender smile, but there was little warmth behind it. "What do you think?"
The fairy's wings fluttered a little, but she didn't respond.
"…Navi…"
"What?" It bounced up suddenly, before disappearing under his hat. "I don't know Link, there's nothing wrong with a little peace!"
"There is when it doesn't feel right," he sighed, laying back against a boulder. "The monsters shouldn't be so dwindled. Even when it's dark I see next to nothing as opposed to a few months ago."
"Or maybe you're just doing your job too well!" Navi argued, before circling him madly. "All we do is find monsters and get rid of them!"
Link wanted to argue, but deciding that he wasn't going to win against the guide, didn't. As he settled comfortably for a nap, she began to buzz and circle insanely.
"Hey Link! Look!"
Did she ever stop? Couldn't she just ignore the signs of nature and let him be? Standing up, Link stretched and adjusted his shield. "What, Navi?"
Sitting on a sign, Link walked over. Kneeling a little, he brushed away the sand and dried, dead plant life. "It's just a territory warning, Navi, nothing to worry about." He looked it over again. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again. It looked old, there probably weren't any people here anymore.
((a/n: I don't own that sign either ;;))
As he turned around, three arrows zipped through the air, missing him. It was probably intentional. Link held up his shield as he looked around for the shooter. Gerudo territory, he should have been more cautious.
He certainly wouldn't put the sign's warning past them.
Another arrow bounced off his shield. Link moved quickly, rolling under the cover of a dune. Loading an arrow to his bow, he peeked over the hill of sand. Just barely, but he could see the end of an orange ponytail. Navi zipped past him, annoying the Gerudo warrior out of her hiding place. His arrow buried itself into her thigh. He had no intention of slaying her.
"Let's go, Navi." Before she could call out for reinforcements, the two had disappeared.
"Brother!" Stuck in the branches of a large tree were the Elric brothers. Surprisingly, the branches were sturdy and Al had yet to plummet to the ground. Good thing too, at the twenty-some feet even something of Al was bound to break. "Brother wake up!" he called again, trying not to move too much. "There's something in my armor! Ed!"
But the boy was out cold, draped awkwardly in the branches. He had taken the blast worse than Al of course. However, how they managed to survive an explosion of that magnitude Alphonse didn't wish to understand. He heard giggles echoing from inside him, and didn't like it. Whatever was there, was playing tag and bumping up against the metal plates. Al looked down, to an audience of light haired children.
"Er…hello there," he called cheerfully, waving. "Do you know how my brother and I can get down?"
In awe, or maybe they were just stupid, they stared up at him blankly. Sighing, Al looked over to Ed and began to tug gently at his pant leg. "Brother!"
Ed sat up swiftly, looking around frantically. "Where are they? I'll beat the crap out of …Al…where are we?"
"Gah!" A glowing ball with wings slipped out of Al's armor, followed by two others, before the three returned and began to bounce around. "Ed they won't get out of my body!"
"Hang on Al!" Ed clapped his hands and reached over. As he touched Al's armor the branches shook violently and the two plummeted down to the soft green grass below. The soft, green grass that had been part of the peaceful, blissfully ignorant atmosphere that the Kokiri children, as well as Link himself, had been raised.
Ed wasn't thinking about that. Neither was Al. The older Elric hit the ground with a sickening thud, whilst the other bounced once with a clanging sound. Edward moaned against the ground, rolling over slowly to his back.
"Al?"
"Right here Brother." The slightly dented suit of armor leaned over him, looking for injuries. "Did you break anything?"
"I can't tell, Al, even my automail hurts," he snapped back sarcastically, before glancing at all the pointed eared children.
"The hell? Who are they?"
Al turned, before bowing his head. "Hello again. My name is Alphonse Elric. This is my brother, Edward. Nice to meet you." The twenty-some children whispered among each other shyly, regarding the intruders. Finally, after the three glowing, winged things left Al's armor, a girl with blonde hair in pigtails stepped forward. Timidly she looked up at Al.
"My name is Fyz," she told him quietly, holding out her hand. "How did you fall into the Great Deku Tree?"
Al's hand greatly outsized her own and he took it as gentle as he could to shake. "Um…there was an explosion…and I guess that's how Brother and I got here." He glanced over as Ed sat up and stretched to make sure everything was working.
One of the glowing things sat on Fyz's shoulder. She glanced down in concentration, then looked back up at Al in curiousity. "The fairies want to know why you're empty inside."
Sweatdropping, Al turned to his brother for permission. Ed shrugged, what harm could a bunch of seven year olds in a forest do? "Um…well see Fyz…I um…I got hurt! So Ed needed to give me a different body to keep my soul here until we fixed up my real body!" He grinned, as much as the armor could grin, and gave her a thumbs up. "So this is just until we get what we need to fix my body!"
Fyz looked to the fairies and smiled. "See, he's not bad. Will you come play with us, mister Alphonse?"
"Hehe, sure, but you can just call me Al." He stood up and looked at his brother. "Come on, Ed, we need to find out where we are."
"Just a moment," boomed a deep voice. Almost immediately the children shrunk out of the way of the tree, which was regarding the Elrics thoughtfully. "I wish to converse with them alone…return to thine homes." Fyz waved at Al shyly before darting off with the others.
"E-Ed…the t-tree is t-talking…"
"I see that Al! What is it?" he demanded of the tree.
"Thou are not Kokiri children. Thou dost not belong within the Kokiri forest."
Ed rolled his eyes and folded his arms, wasn't that clear? "We know, Gramps, that's why we're leaving as soon as possible. Which way is Amestris?"
Obviously Ed wasn't being polite enough. Promptly a fairy rammed into the back of his head and moved away. Ed swatted back, but it was useless. They were too tiny and too fast for him to catch.
"I know not of this Amestris. However, thou may find what thou art looking for within the Hyrulian kingdom capital."
Ed stared, wide eyed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back it up, gramps, where did you say we were?" Last he checked, their train was working around Areugo… "Aw crap. Al…we're nowhere near the train…"
"Brother, just listen!" Al looked at the Great Tree. "What direction is this city?" After gaining an idea of the directions, he bid them to leave. Entering the village part of the Kokiri Forest, Ed noted that…everything was miniature. Perfectly sized to the children. Did that mean they didn't age?
"Al, this place is weird…let's grab a map and go."
Shaking his head, Al glanced around for Fyz. "Brother, I promised I would play a game with them. Just one, then we can go?" Ed sighed and waved his right hand dismissively, there was no denying Al when he used that voice.
Feeling suddenly alone as all of the Kokiri went off to play with Al, Ed sat down in the grass. What a pain…they had to travel to some capital city to the northwest, then from there find out how to get back to Amestris.
"Al! What game do you want to play?"
"What about tag?"
"No, I want to play hide and seek!"
"Hide and seek!"
"No, tag!"
"Hide and seek!"
Al smiled and took a step back, there had to be about twice as many as there had been at the tree. He didn't want to accidentally step on one…tag was out of the question. "Um…hide and seek sounds fun. You guys can hide, and I'll look for you." He turned around and covered his eyes, and began to count. Almost soundlessly they scampered off to their own hiding places. This was their forest, he was going to have to be really smart to be able to find them. Or really lucky. Better to have both.
"Forty-nine…fifty!" He glanced around and was greeted with silence. They were good. Almost as good as Ed, but Al doubted that they became bored as easily as he did. Which meant that he might be searching for quite some time.
He first looked into logs and behind bushes, and didn't hear anything. Walking around Ed with only the sound of the clinking armor, he looked around the abnormally large roots and plants growing by a quiet little house. Mentally frowning, he turned to walk away. Was there a secret underground where they all were?
He stopped at the sound of a girlish giggle and went back to circling the house. Getting down to his knees, he peered between the vines and roots. He smiled. "Heh, one-two-three on Fyz," he told her cheerily. He backed up as she crawled out.
"You probably won't find the others," she told him, pulling a leaf out of her blonde hair.
"Yeah," he agreed. "You're all very good at this."
"I know!" Her eyes were beaming. "Let me hide inside you! I'll tell you where everyone hides so we can play more games!"
Al hesitated. "Um, okay." He opened up the chest plate for her to get inside, and then closed it, grinning over at Ed when he received a disdainful look.
Ed felt left out.
As he walked past, the older brother pointed toward the shop lazily, before yawning and laying back to sleep. Al peeked around the corner and a boy with spiky blonde hair was staring back.
"Guess you found me," he grumbled, although smiling.
It had become dark out by the time Fyz assured Al they had found everyone. The boys had taken to teasing Ed. And well he kept losing every argument – but that was only because Al picked him up everytime he went to hit one of them.
Come morning, Ed had only gotten three hours of sleep and was grumpy as all hell. Perfect for traveling. As they bid their good-byes, Fyz followed Ed and Al to the bridge. She wasn't allowed to cross so she waited for Al to notice her.
"Um…" Hidden by the shade of the thick trees was the tinge of pink on her face. "Here. This is for when you fix your body." She held out an odd instrument to him, wooden, with several holes.
"What is it?" Al inquired curiously, taking it.
She rocked on her feet hesitantly, as if trying to pick the right words. "Um…an ocarina. If you come back one day, I'll show you how to play it!"
"Okay!" Al smiled. "We'll try our best. Goodbye!" She waved after them until they had disappeared, before she too returned to her home in the forest.
"Hey Al," Ed teased, a sly look on his face. This was probably the first time he had actually spoken to his brother in the last twelve hours. "I think she likes you."
END/CHAPTER
Lor: gasp Is there a secret affair going on!
Enaru: don't be stupid.
Lor: okay, you're right, there isn't. Hmm. I want reviews. This is going to be a good fanfic, I feel it in my blood.
Enaru: sure about that?
Lor: I don't have a choice, Dustin owns the FMA game. I write, or I don't get to play. But until next time! DUN-DUN-DUN!