鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)

Chapter 8 The Way to Move

Everyone was quiet. Roy was ready to transmute for the first time in his life. Izumi had ask him a big dragon statue, and he had been calculating the materials needed for the task, so nobody wanted to bother him.

He put his hands on the circle, and it started shining. The floor crumbled underneath it, and it began gathering, giving shape to the dragon statue. Once he was done, everyone started congratulating him. It wasn't the best, but it was really good for a beginner.

"Now it's my turn". Armstrong said. He put the gloves on, and got ready to transmute the statue. He punched the floor, and a tiny lightning covered the statue. Suddenly, a cloud of dust came out of it, and it became a statue of himself, holding his arms up in the air. It was almost perfect. The only thing missing was the glitter.

"I'm gifted for alchemy". And he started posing.

"Since you can do it alone, go ahead and practice at home. You need to learn how to use it in an extreme situation, such as a fight, so, good luck with that". Izumi told them.

"What about me?". Mei Yang said, pulling Izumi's skirt.

"Oh! I forgot… Go ahead, try". She said smiling.

Mei walked ahead, and draw a circle on the ground. She clapped her hands, immitating Ed, and kneeled. The statue became a big, stone tree. Every single leave was perfect, and the branches were abslotutely different from each other.

"I'm proud of you, Mei". Izumi said.

Mei smiled hapily, and they all went inside the house to celebrate.

"Sensei… Where is your son?".

o0o

"Let go of me!".

"Shut up, whimp!".

"YAAAAAAARGHHHH!". Envy shouted.

"Wanna fight?". Wrath said, rising his fists.

"Oh, damn you". He moved next to him, and hit him behind the head, Wrath fainted, and he pulled him by his side.

"This one was a bit of trouble, Kimbley… I had to become his mother for him to come with me, and his actual mother was in the backyard, with the fullmetla pipsqueak".

"Forget about it… You ready to bring him?". Greed said.

"Yeah… He needs to be wounded on his little right foot".

Greed picked up Wrath's leg, and transformed his hand into his strong monster limb. He cut the foot deeply , and Envy dripped some of his stone into it. Wrath started shaking, and the process began.

o0o

Winry had given Wrath a pie. He was eating it slowly, since he couln't stop thinking on a way to open the gate. The greens outside the window, hiding the houses of Liesenburgh, were even sad to him.

Suddenly, he felt as if something had pulled his guts from within.

"WINRY!".

She came running from the kitchen.

"What's wrong?".

"Someone's calling me… They are pulling me…".

His Ouroboros tattoo had a cut through it, and he was bleeding. The floor was stained has he fought to keep his strength.

"Please… Keep me safe… Winry…".

She came close to him, and hugged him. He suddenly stopped moving. She felt his weight fall to the floor. His eyes were open, but they were pale, and the cut of his foot had already stop bleeding.

Winry took him upstairs, and made him lay on the bed. He was still breathing.

o0o

Wrath opened his eyes, and was surprised to see Envy and Greed looking down at him.

"Hello, little brother…" Envy said, smiling.

Wrath jumped back, and looked at them, worried.

"What did you do! Where am I!".

"You are in another world. We need your help for one tiny thing, and then you can go with your mother".

"I don't believe you!". He grew a spike on his hand, by connecting himself to the floor with his feet. Envy got cut through, but he smiled back.

"You are so anxious all the time… You are still a kid!". He shifted into Izumi, and looked at him.

"Why did you kill me?".

Wrath was about to fall to the ground, but hold himself.

"I know it's you! You always do this!". Hi grew his other hand into a spike, and cut through Envy's head, shifting him back to normal.

"You are such a pesky kid". He said, already tired.

Wrath transmuted his arms back to normal, and ran away.

"Should I chase him?". Kimbley asked.

"When we need him, he will be there". Envy said smiling again.

o0o

Izumi came running.

"He's gone!".

"What?". Ling asked.

"Wrath's gone!".

"Come on, Al, lets find him". Ed said. Everyone stood up and stormed out the house.

"So, we are looking for the long black hair kid, right?". Roy asked.

"Lets go ask for help in the fire station". Armstrong said. They both ran away, and everyone split up.

They looked for him the whole day. It was about nine o'clock when Al found a building he felt familiar about. Ed walked in with him, and they started looking around. They were not very sure what this place was. It was public, and they had seen it before.

"Wait…". Ed said. "It's the temple… Where I crossed the gate, and you transmuted Gluttony.

They were in the middle of the big room where everything had happened. Ed was amazed, and looked down to see if the circle was still there.

"Brother… I think this is the library". Al said, looking around.

"Hey… Now that we are here, why don't we search? Wrath probably is somewhere around here, if he recognised the building".

"Yeah, lets look around".

They started looking around. Ed went to look for history books immediately. Al just hang around looking for literature. Ed chose a specially big book about the second world war. He opened the book, and started checking it out.

One of the chapters talked about Hitler's beliefs. He turned out to believe in magic, and the book even talked about him obtaining the spear of Longinus. Ed remembered that when Envy was captured in the castle, the man next to him claimed to have every spear that was believed to be the real one.

"Thule society… So Hitler was really into this…".

He kept on reading, and he found a picture. It was a big snake, apparently eating itself, with a man between its teeth.

Edward was very surprised. He read the text underneath the picture.

This picture is believed to be of a magical circle. Hitler went after a dragon, and tried to use it to open a gate to another world. No rests of the dragon have been found, although in the circle drawn underneath it, there are traces of blood.

Ed couldn't believe it.

He went on watching the pages, and found another picture.

A group of men were carrying around some corpses. They had died because of some sort of explosion. Two of those corpeses were blonde, and their clothes were burned. One of them, as he could see, had a metallic hand.

These two men are very misterious. There were no registered documents of them, and the older one had a metal arm and leg. This kind of technology was impossible at the time, and scientists were unnable to decipher how did this metallic arm and leg worked, since they were completely distroyed.

"Al… come here…".

"What is it?".

Al saw the picture.

"We are dead…". Ed said.

o0o

Gluttony was walking around with some bags. He had just gone to the supermarket, looking for new things to eat. He stopped in an alley, because he saw a big cake. It was above a table, and it looked very tasty. He walked near it, and let his shopping on the floor. He smelled the food slowly, and opened his mouth. He pulled out his tongue, ready to taste the cake for the first time.

A spike came out of it, and pierced it.

The cake shifted into Envy.

"I never thought I could turn into dead objects".

Gluttony was waving his arms. Envy had his tongue very tightly grabbed between his pale fingers, and it didn't taste good.

Envy pierced his hand, and dripped the philosopher's stone in Gluttony's tongue.

At first, he tasted it, and then, Envy let go of the tongue, and Gluttony started shaking.

"So, my big, fat, stupid brother… I really liked your way to obey orders. I never argued with you".

"Hello Envyyyyy" He said in his stupid voice

"Hi… wanna see Lust again?".

"Can IIIIIIII?".

"I promise you…". He said grinning.

o0o

"As soon as sensei pulled us, we must have been killed…". Al said.

"I can't believe it…".

"Brothers…". They heard a weak voice behind them say.

"Oh, here you are… Brothers?". Al asked.

"It's me, Wrath… From Amestris…".

"Holy shit…". Ed stod up and made him sit down.

"What happened, how did you end up here?". Al asked.

"I was sitting at Winry's house in Liesenburgh, out of nowhere, I felt someone pulled my guts… Then I fainted, and went through the door. When I woke up, I saw Greed and Envy by me. The brought me here".

"Are you sure it was them?". Ed asked

"They both had the Ouroboros, and Envy didn't die when I cut his head and stomach…".

"Damn… Izumi was right… they are coming through". Ed said.

"What? Is she here? She crossed the gate?".

"Yeah… She's looking for you. Your body here went missing. I guess Envy took you away and then he turned you into an Homunculus". Al answered.

"Al, take him away, I want to keep researching".

Al stood up, and took Wrath with him. As soon as they left, Ed walked up to the big hall, and kept looking at the floor. He clapped his hands, and laid them on the floor.

A giant circle shined. Ed looked at it, and saw it was a lot like the circle He used to open the door to 'Shambala' when he was in Germany.

"Well, Kimbley told me about this, Ed".

o0o

Envy jumped down from the second floor. He was in his black clothes, and the Ouroboros could be seen easily.

"Turns out that Kimbley used to work here. He found this circle on a book one day, and made it a night he was left behind. It didn't work, since he didn't have energy to pay for the transmutation. He wanted to jump to another world…". Envy said, looking at the shining circle he was stepping on.

"So you got past the door… I thought you were used as material…". Ed said. His look got darker with every passing second.

"Ho, ho, ho… Hohenheim helped me, actually. When his blood activated the circle, I was taken away, and my body was decomposed… But my essence remained. I became part of the door once more. Only one thing allowed me to make it over this world…".

"So I made a mistake, you made it alive, and Hohenheim died in vain?".

"That bastard didn't die… I really enjoyed destroying his body. For a moment I believed I had killed him… But inside the door… While he was laying between my fangs, he used his own blood to create a circle. He transmuted his soul to one of my fangs. That essence became a part of my own, and inside the door, since I was originally from there, I had more power. My essence was complete… Once the door started turning, I jumped off. I came to this world about three months before you did. At least in essence. You were suspended in the door for three months… I found out I could shapeshift, so I created my story here. I fell into a boy's body that is, actually, this". He said, pointing at his chest.

"So you were lucky enough to get a new body, and started planning on revenge?".

"Oh, I can't tell you my plan, yet… I read a tale about other Homunculi, and I decided to bring them back. Since I have Hohemheim inside me, I also have all his knowledge, and bringing my old Homunculi brothers and sisters, and getting some new ones, is not hard at all…".

"Hohenheim? Hohenheim is a part of you?".

"I wanted to kill him badly… Only that, like this, I should have to kill myself to do it, and I still love me…". He said. "So I decided to gather some Homunculi under my command, and make them help me kill Hohenheim. After that, I thought of ruling the world, but live on forever killing humans for fun every once in a while will do". He said.

"You son of a bitch!".

"You gotta keep your tongue tied up, young man". Greed said, jumping from the second floor.

"Can I eat him?". Gluttony said, falling after Greed, and bouncing around.

"By the way, pipsqueak… Remember my brothers?".

"What…". Ed started saying.

Pride came out of the shadows. Apparently, Bradley had already been transformed.

"And my sisters?".

"Did…".

Lust came out of the shadows too, being followed by a young girl, with brown hair, and the Ouroboros on top of her heart.

"You…".

"That's the new Sloth". Envy said smiling.

"Say?".

"The only one missing is Wrath". Lust said.

"No he's not". Wrath said.

o0o

After Al had taken Wrath back, he had told Izumi about how he crossed the door. Ling, Armstrong, Roy and Mei yang had gathered at her house after giving up on finding him, but they stood up and decided to go to the library to look for Ed. When they got there, They saw the Homunculi gathered around Ed, and they got ready to fight.

The Homunculi looked around, and saw everyone ready to fight them. They just got ready, because evryone in this Universe was different from Amestris.

Only Greed got scared when he saw Izumi's look. It was the same woman that would have killed him in the bar if it wasn't for her illness.

"I think we shouldn't fight". Ed clapped his hands, touched his auto mail, and grew his usual blade.

"There's one thing we ought to settle". Ed moved towards Envy, ready to get him killed.

"YOU CALLED ME A PIPSQUEAK AGAIN!". Envy didn't have time to move. His head was pierced, and it turned hard for him to think. He shifted his hand into a giant spike like the one he used to kill Ed the first time, but he dodged it turning around and ripping his blade off Envy's head.

The wound closed, and envy shifted his arm back.

"I was about to propose a ceasefire…". Izumi and Al clapped their hands, and tons of spikes came out of the floor taring Gredd, Gluttony and Envy apart. Wrath turned his hands into spikes again, and fought Lust, who couldn't damage him badly.

Once Armstrong noticed Sloth's power to become water, he imprissioned her into a big block, and left her there. He moved on to fight Greed with Izumi.

Greed was already restored, and had become the blue demon. Izumi told Armstrong to go help Mei Yang. She was fighting Gluttony by herself.

When Armstrong came to help her, they created a cage together. Gluttony ate his way out, and jumped over them. Roy snapped his fingers, and Gluttony becam a big fireball that rolled through the place and turned everything on fire.

Ling was fighting Pride. He had proven to be tougher than Ling expected, because he could foresee every movement he made. Only whne Envy jumped next to him, dodging Ed and Al's attacks, Pride lost focus. Al attacked him, and he couldn't protect himself from both attacks. Ling pierced his head, and destroyed his left eye.

Ed and Al fought Envy, who mainly protected himself, and did some occasional attacks. The Homunculi were really loosing, until they realised the place was on fire. They kept on fighting, until Gluttony returned bigger than before. He started burping, and he turned the rest of the place on fire.

Taking advantage of this distraction, Greed saved Sloth from the tank, and they all ran away. When Izumi was about to take them outside, she got knocked down by a piece of ceiling. Wrath set her free, and carried her, but they were all trapped.

"Everyone, duck. We'll get intoxicated by the smoke".

"Is anyone here!". Maes Hughes voice shouted.

"Over here, Hughes!". Roy shouted.

From the smoke, the fire brigade emerged. Riza had an extinguisher, and she was clearing the path. They all stood up and went across the room. They were in one of the small rooms now. The history book was still open on the table, and Ed picked it up as fast as he could.

"Where's Mei?". Ling shouted.

She had fainted because of the smoke. Hughes went looking for her, and when he found her, he got her on his back, and started running. A bookshelf was falling, and was about to block the door. Maes ran, and tried to make it to the door, but the shelf fall on top of him.

Mei Yang was laying on the floor. Maes was holding the burning bookshelf with his fire proof suit, and was breathing the smoke. He couldn't let Mei die. It was like killing his own daughter.

A metallic hand appeared, and grabbed the shelf. Maes was released of the weight he was holding, and he saw Ed rising the shelf. Al picked Mei up, and Amrstrong pulled him out of the room. He fainted after crossing the door.

o0o

"I can't believe it". Ed said.

Maes was lying on the bed, in coma. An artifficial lung was breathing for him, and his wife and daughter were by his side. Ed was looking through the window of the door.

"He saved Mei Yang…". Ling said, looking at him.

"He also died trying to help someone in my world".

"That's a good thing… Hey, I have a problem…".

"What is it?".

"I'm not really confortable talking here… Can we go somewhere else?".

After walking out of the hospital, Ling and Ed went to the company. They went up to the last floor, where Schyezka received them happily.

"If anyone comes, I'm not here". Ling said.

Ed went inside the office, which looked just like the last time he was in it.

"Well… There's this girl…".

"That Ran Fan girl?".

"Huh… Yeah…".

"I knew it… You couldn't hide it".

"It's just… She's so…!".

"I know, I know… I can ask Winry for help".

"Would you?".

"Well, not so much as asking her… she has been planning on making you guys hook up for a while now…".

"So you knew?".

"Who didn't?".

o0o

"Do it, Kimbley". Envy said.

"I don't dare…".

"If you don't do this, I'll kill you. You know I'm capable of it".

"But… This time, it's taking someone who hasn't left the door yet. They are attached strongly to it!" Kimbley replied, very scared.

"I have the Philosopher's stone. You can get past the rules of aclhemy. Now bring him". Envy yelled, loosing patience. "Come on, we still gotta bring another one after this".

Kimbley draw a circle around the grave. It was designed for the body to appear there. Even if it went wrong, the Homunculus would appear.

Kimbley clapped his hands, and layed them on Envy's chest.

They were both in front of the door.

Envy pierced his hand, and tossed some stone to the gate.

"There you go… Give us this guy". He said, throwing the bones near the stone.

The door opened, and the black hands took the materials. Suddenly, one of the shadows stepped out, and it had the bones in their respective place, and the stone in the middle of. From the stone, the organs and the flesh started appearing, and the new Homunculus raised.

They were standing in front of the grave.

"What's your name, brother?".

"Call me Sorrow". Ling's father said.

o0o

The doctor walked into the room.

"Excuse me, lady… I think you could wait outside… I need to give him this vaccine… He'll probably stop using this machine if I give it to him".

"Yes… Thank you". Glacier said. She picked her sleeping daughter up, and walked out.

The doctor cleared Maes arm, in search for a vain. Once he found it, he injected the crimson liquid.

Hughes started shaking. Glacier looked through the door, and got worried the doctor wasn't doing anything to stop her husband's shaking. She yelled for help, and a nurse came.

They went into the room, running, and were surprised to see Maes Hughes standing and smiling.

Glacier walked up to him, and kissed him.

"I'm so glad you are ok!". She said, bursting in tears

"Don't… Don't worry, honey".

Maes got dressed, thanked the doctor, and walked out.

Envy shifted back to his original form, and looked at the door.

"Welcome, Disease".

After this, he opened the window, shifted into a crow, and flew off.