Final Farewell
By totallyinlovewithed
This is my first fan fic so please NO FLAMES!
Chapter 1: Vengence
Disclamer: I (sadly) do not own Full Metal Alchemist
Ed was walking alone. It was pouring rain. He kept seeing Al's face in his mind. A tear trickled down his eye. He kept thinking to himself, "Why did Al have to die? Why couldn't he have just let me die?" The questions kept pilling up in his mind. He was headed back to the Rockbell's house. Looking down at the dirt road, he thought about how he and Al had used to play there all the time. He thought about how it was all his fault for suggesting to bring back their mom. "If we had just let her die, we wouldn't have created a homunculus. We would have known nothing about them. We wouldn't have tried human alchemy and Al would have still had a body and I would have had all my limbs. We wouldn't have gone looking for the Philosopher's Stone. I wouldn't have died and Al wouldn't have tried to save me. It's all my fault." That thought kept filling his mind.
As he walked up the steps to the Rockbell's house, Winry opened the door. "What's the matter, Ed?" Ed stopped for a moment. He started crying. "Ed?" said Winry. He turned around and ran off to his burnt down house. "ED!" called Winry after him.
He just stood at the ashes, crying. Memories flooded his mind. "Damn! It's all my fault!" He fell to his knees sobbing. He stayed there all night. In the morning, the rain let up and Winry had come looking for him. "Ed? Where's Al?" Ed just sat there, still staring at the pile of ashes that used to be his house. He looked up at Winry and saw her worried face. "He's dead and it's all my fault…" he said in a shaky voice. Winry just stood there looking at Ed. "Look, Ed, however he died, I'm sure that it wasn't your fault." "Yes it is, Winry. One of the homunculus stabbed me and I died." Winry gave a gasp of horror, "Al sacrificed his life and the stone to save me. I was supposed to be the one who saved him. Not the other way around." He put his head in his knees. He started crying again. "Look, Ed, it's not your fault. Trust me on this one. You couldn't have known that Al was going to do that." "It's my fault Winry. If I hadn't tried to bring back mom, then Al wouldn't have lost his body, and we wouldn't have gone looking for the stone. We wouldn't have met the homunculus and I wouldn't have gotten stabbed. Al wouldn't have sacrificed his life. It's my fault." "Ed…" said Winry now starting to cry. She put her hand on his shoulder. "Let's go inside. You'll catch a cold." "Whatever," said Ed. He got up and started to walk toward the Rockbell's house.
When he got inside, Winry asked if he was hungry. "No. Not really," said Ed. He didn't care if he died. He thought that at least he would be with Al. "Well Ed," Winry gave a sly smile, "so it looks like you're still a little shorty. Even after all this time" Ed just sat on the couch looking out the window. Winry knew that he wasn't in the mood otherwise he would have yelled her head off. She walked out of the room. He kept thinking about how much he hated Envy and the other homunculus. He got up and put his coat on. He jumped out the window and started running. He said to himself, "I'll kill them for this! I swear it!"
