Chapter 1. The door turns.
Izumi was staring through the window. Some kids were playing with a ball, and she had already repaired many windows because of that. She wondered what had happened with the Elric brothers. As far as she knew, Al had crossed the door, and she liked to think that they were together.
Almost every night she had dreams about them, alone, in a dark world where horrific creatures lived. She woke up in the middle of the night and thought of her three children.
Nobody knew where Wrath was either. There had been sightings of a boy in long black hair with two automail parts stealing chickens from farms around the area, but she didn't want to go for him.
"I'm still weak after all". She thought to herself.
One night, she didn't sleep. She had been thinking a lot, and had made up her mind. She wanted to do it, before her condition got worse, and died.
She was going to bring them back.
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Ed had a diary, where he kept information about their trips. That same diary was the one he used to write some notes about alchemy. The ones Izumi had taught him. In one of his trips to Liesenburgh, he had forgotten that notebook in Winry's house. That was the last time he was there.
Izumi traveled to Liesenburgh, and went to see Winry right away. She came out very pleased to see her, and so did Rose, with her baby in hands. Izumi asked for the notebook, and checked al the information about the alchemists the Elric brothers had met.
She wrote a letter, explaining her plan, and asked them to come to the ruins of Ed and Al's old house.
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Roy Mustang had woke up much better that morning. To his side was Riza, still asleep. He kissed her in the cheek, and stood up. The doctor had told him he could stop wearing that eye patch he hated so much, for it reminded him of his former leader.
He walked through the aisle of his new house, and jumped over Hayate, who went pass him running. Next to the door, in the floor, there were some letters.
Most of them were insignificant propaganda of newly built cars, so he didn't pay (much) attention. Only one letter caught his interest.
The rain had ceased during the night. The sun shined through the window, and the coffee was warm. Riza went into the kitchen, half asleep, and poured a cup of coffee to herself. She sat next to Roy.
"What's with that worried look in your eyes?" She asked.
He took a while to answer.
"Someone is bringing them back".
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Major Armstrong met Roy in the train station. Riza came with him and Hayate.
"You got a letter too, Roy?"
"You haven't called me Roy in a long time, Armstrong".
The train was ready to leave. As soon as they got an empty compartment, they sat down and didn't speak until they got to Liesenburgh.
Winry's house had become practically a hotel. Although there were few alchemists around, most of the people who had met the Elric brothers had came too. They were mostly happy to talk about their adventures with the Elric brothers, and were also serious about the fact of bringing them back. What really no one expected was what happened at night.
Everyone had arrived. They were about to go to sleep, when Paninya, (the girl with both automail legs because of a train accident) heard a noise on the roof. At first she thought it was a cat, but then she heard a loud metal bang, similar to the one caused by her legs.
She woke everyone up, and made them surround the house. Psiren and Paninya went up the roof, and they saw a shadow wandering there. Paninya tried to catch it, but she got hit in the stomach, and sent off flying. Psiren jumped and caught the shadow from behind, and noticed it was the size of a twelve year old, but one of his arms was cold. She was pulled over his shoulder, and tossed off the roof. Russel Tringham and his little brother Fletcher grew a tree by alchemy and caught her in midair.
Izumi went up the roof, and got ready to fight, but she didn't. The shadow ran towards her and hugged her. She felt a cold automail arm around her waist, and hugged Wrath back.
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The next morning, they all went to the ruins of the Elric's house.
Izumi, Fletcher, Russel, Roy, Armstrong, Psiren, and Wrath stood around the house forming a circle. Their first attempt failed, because they couldn't create enough energy.
Then, everybody filled in the circle. They were all next to each other, surrounding almost completely the house. Now, the alchemists tried again, and again, they failed.
They were about to give up, when something they didn't count on happened.
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A big, furry creature, with hare-like ears, wearing a coat, a hat and sunglasses appeared. By its side, there was a little girl, with dark purple eyes.
"You are doing it all wrong". Said Shou Tucker.
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At first, everyone started insulting him, but Izumi remained calm, and went up to him.
"If that is so, than how are we supposed to do it?" She said.
"Try doing as Ed would do" And he handed over a bunch of papers.
She started checking them out, and saw how perfect every note and circle in it was. She found one, particularly interesting. These were Ed's personal notes, where he kept his theories of alchemy. Many of them were very old, and had a signature that read: Hohenheim.
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The newest pages had better and improved versions of similar circles to those of Hohenheim, and were signed by Ed.
Izumi was proud that she had accomplished such a great student, and made every non-alchemist to hold hands and create a circle around the house. The alchemists where inside that circle, forming a smaller circle, and in the center, Izumi stood.
"Now" She said.
The alchemists hold hands, and then kneeled. With their hands on the ground, they all performed some of their own alchemy. Izumi clapped her hands and took all the alchemy to herself, and created a circle. First, it was made of vines. Then, they turned on fire, and then he became water. After that, Wrath made them become light. Izumi was amazed by this, and so was wrath himself. Then it became stones. While Izumi hold the connection, Tucker walked up to her with his daughter next to him.
"You need to pay for this, the strongest alchemy ever made, and we are the coin" He said. Izumi touched them, and all of a sudden, there it was.
The Door.
Everyone stared at it. Izumi saw she was surrounded in the circle, and the door started opening. Tucker and Nina were pulled in. He smiled, and the laughed.
"I am the ultimate alchemist! I have made the best Alchemy EVER!".
Once he was swallowed by the darkness, the door remained open. Wrath didn't want to look at it, and he was shaking of fear. He was the only one still kneeling. Everyone else was staring at the open door.
Izumi made him stand up.
"Don't be scared. That part of your life is over. Right now I need your help one last time".
He stood up, and hugged her again. She looked at him, and kissed his forehead. He hugged her a bit harder, and lost all his fears. He was with his mother.
They both stood in front of the Door, and a shadow came down. It opened a pair of eyes, and looked at wrath. He looked back defiantly.
"I don't belong with you" He said.
"You never have, silly boy".
"We have made a fair trade. We handed over a lot of power, and two bodies. We want all our effort paid as it should".
"Name your desire, since you have paid, I will bring it for you".
"Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric. They went through this door not so long ago, and now they must come back".
"Fine" Said the shadow, and floated slowly back towards the door.
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Eveyone looked expectant towards the door. Izumi and Wrath stood in front of it alone. Suddenly, a hand came through the darkness. It was an automail hand. Three more hands appeared, and then to blond heads. Two faces with blue eyes turned up, and looked at everyone. They were coming out.
Ed and Al where there.
They smiled, and everyone started cheering. Izumi was crying, and Wrath hold her smiling slightly.
Hundreds of hands came out of the door, from behind the Elric brothers, and grabbed Izumi. She wasn't surprised, but everyone shut up. Wrath tried to hold her, but she told him to remain calm. He cried silently.
Ed and Al looked at her coming towards them, and she hugged them.
"I'm very proud of you" She said.
Everyone was tearing, for happiness and sadness, and Ed and Al did too.
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Surprisingly, the door started turning around. Wrath jumped towards Ed, and grabbed his hand.
"Mother will not go in vain!" He yelled.
Ed grabbed Al's hand, and they tried to come down, but the door turned and separated their hands from Wrath's. They went back through the door, as it turned, and closed with a loud bang. The white place where everyone was standing disappeared, and they were back at Liesenburgh.
Pynako was the first one to stand up. She walked towards Wrath, and pat his back. Winry came close to him and hugged him. He hugged her back.
"They are all gone! Mom and brothers are gone!" He cried.
Everyone was sad. It was as if somebody had just died. To them, that was what had just happened. Roy Mustang was the only one who wasn't really sad. He started thinking, and put his spark gloves one. He snapped his fingers, creating a spark, and tried to make a big flame out of it, but he couldn't.
"Armstrong, try to create a statue with your alchemy" He said.
Armstrong, surprised as he was, did as he was told, but all he achieved was to shake the ground a bit.
"I can't transmute".
"I thought so" Said Roy. "Now that the door turned, Alchemy cant be used in this side. But it can be used in the other side of the door".
There was a ray of hope in Wrath's heart.
"That means they can come back?"
"They need to find out how to". He said with a smirk.
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In the other side of the door, Ed woke up. He was in an alley. In front of him there was a graffiti on the wall, and lots of cans of paint around him. Al was near him, and started to wake up. They looked around, and looked at how they were dressed. Underneath the graffiti, there was a date: 5/24/06.
They had been in this world before, but that was 60 years ago. Ed was dressed with a red shirt, jeans and black sneakers. His hair was short. Al looked just as always, but he was wearing a green shirt, and similar jeans as Ed, only older.
"Where the heck are we now?".