Wow! 21 reviews on one chapter? That's unreal! I've never gotten that big of a response before! Never!That beats my biggest prior record of 14 reviews on the first chapter of "The Joke's On Us"! Wow. I can't believe that this story is so darn popular! Total, complete shock! I'm so honored! Heh heh, fine, I'll continue this story. (If I don't, I think that some of you will probably kill me.)

Disclaimer: I don't own FullMetal Alchemist...but I act like Al, does that count towards anything? Seriously, I act like Al. I might not look it by the way I write, but in real life, that's how I act, hehe. (So, if you're one of those that says that they don't like Al, well, it's a good thing we don't know each other, hehehe.)

Al's eyes widened in shock at the scene before him. One moment, his brother had been standing on the edge of the cliff, and the next, he was gone. The utter shock of the moment left him paralyzed, able to do nothing. He wanted to jump up and run, find his brother, and pull him back up to safety, but his legs wouldn't move.

His lips quivered as he tried to form words to call out to Ed, but no sound came forth. The situation was too much. His vision began to blur, and before he knew it, everything had gone black.

The next thing he knew, he heard the characteristic beeps and clanks that only came from hospital rooms from all the machines hooked up to him and all the people bustling around. He heard a lot of voices fussing over him, but couldn't quite make out what they said. One voice sounded quite familiar though.

"Is he going to be okay?"

Brother, thought Al, how did you get here? Al finally managed to open his eyes, and saw Ed staring down at him. Ed gasped and threw his arms around Al. "Oh, thank goodness! Don't ever do that again! You had me so worried!"

With much effort, Al managed to pull up enough strength to ask the same question he had just been thinking, but hadn't had the strength to utter. "Brother, how did you get here?"

Ed sent him a quizzical look, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Al hesitated a moment while he tried to regain his strength, and then said, "I saw you jump over the cliff."

Ed's jaw dropped. "You-you saw…?" Al nodded. "H-How much did you see?"

Al waited another moment to answer to gather strength, and then said, "I only saw you jump over the cliff. I passed out right after that."

Ed breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "I guess that I must've been the cause of your fainting. For that, I'm sorry, but why were you following me?"

"I was worried, Brother," Al said, "You haven't been acting like yourself all day."

Ed looked down at the ground. Should he tell Al? No, not right now. He might be able to make it all go away without Al ever finding out anyway. Al didn't need to know. "I suppose I haven't," he said, "I'm sorry, I've had a bad day. I shouldn't have taken it out on you."

"Brother?" said Al, propping himself up a little bit with one of his arms, "How did you get back up the cliff?"

"Oh," Ed started as he snapped his eyes back up at Al, "There was a ledge not too far down from where I jumped. I had known it was there. I just felt like falling a little bit is all. I guess I just needed an adrenaline rush."

"Why didn't you just tell me?" asked Al, exasperated, "I could have joined you."

Ed chuckled as he stood up and rubbed Al's hair. "You wouldn't understand." He then turned and walked out of the room to allow Al to rest.

"So, you haven't told him yet?" asked Colonel Roy Mustang as soon as Ed had stepped out of the room.

Ed hung his head. "No, I can't tell him. Not just yet."

"Rest assured," said Colonel Mustang, "We're doing everything in our power to catch the culprit, so that this won't happen to anyone else."

"I'm sure you are," said Ed, "But please don't tell anyone about me, okay?"

"You have my word on it," said Colonel Mustang. With that, the two saluted, and then parted.

Sorry that that chapter was so short. I need to keep the guessing game going for a few chapters, so that kind of makes the chapters short. Sorry. Hope you liked it anyway. Please review. If I get a lot of reviews, I'll update really soon. Otherwise, you'll just have to wait until I get around to it, hehe.