鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)

Chapter 10 The Final Battle

Envy shifted slowly into Lyla, and walked up to Ed.

He pierced her, and she coughed blood.

"So naive, Edward…". He punched her in the face, and then jumped back.

"When did it happen? When did you become Envy?".

Dante stood up slowly, and cleaned her mouth, laughing.

"You have to earn that information… Fair trade… Lemme tell you: If you manage to cut my head without me harming you, I'll tell you".

Ed ran u to her, and a giant hand grew from the floor.

Dante looked at him, smiling.

In middair, Edward turned, and landed near her.

He jumped ahead, and pierced her neck. Then, he moved his hand wildly, and finally cut her off.

He kicked the headless body, which fell to the ground, and left quite a big blood stain.

Ed cleaned his blade, and saw how the head regenerated, and Dante stood up.

"Fine… When Envy was cruccified, I had Greed to tell Yeng to bring me out of the Door. He pierced Envy, and then I had him dissappear. After I wounded Envy, I went inside him, and took over, since he's gone so weak around you guys". Dante said.

Ed looked at her, and another question poped to his mind.

"How come you're using alchemy? You're still in Envy's body".

"Earn it". She said.

She shifted into Ling, and looked at Ed. He, trying to focus, thought over and over again that it wasn't the real Ling in front of him.

o0o

Roy snapped his fingers over and over again, creating blazes of fire around the field.

Many soldiers fought bravely, and the battle seemed far from ending.

He had seen Gluttony jumping around, eating the Xingian soldiers.

"It's been a while". He heard someone say by his side.

"I didn't miss this". A woman's voice added.

Armstrong and Riza were back to back with him.

"Riza, why are you here?". Roy said, annoyed, snapping his fingers again.

"I heard what you said to Edward about the mini skirts".

"You should take care of your relationship, Roy". Armstrong said, punching the floor, making a series of his head's image appear.

"It's the fact that she's pregnant what worries me. A battle field in an underground lost city is no place for an expectant woman". Roy said.

"You're having a baby? Oh, Roy!". Armstrong said, and opened his arms widely, just about to hug him.

Roy put his hand in front of Alex, and showed him his fingers, ready to snap them.

"Now I'm the fuhrer. If you even dare hug me, I'll take care of your ridiculous mustache". He said, angrily.

"You wouldn't dare…". Armstrong answered darkly. "…Sir". He added.

"Don't try me".

He turned around, and kept fighting.

Al went past him, and clapped his hands. He rolled over some soldiers, and laid his palms on the floor.

A giant hammer grew from the ground, and it fell on top of a troop of Xing.

Hohenheim moved around, walking lazily.

Many soldiers approached him running, but they were stopped by a wall, or a fist, or a spike, or their feet got trapped and attached to th floor.

He yawned, and looked to where Ed was fighting with…

"No…!".

o0o

Dante moved very quickly. Ling's shape was ideal for escaping, and it was very good at fighting.

Ed tried to cut her head again, but she bent, and kicked his left leg. He lost balance, and rolled on the floor. He stood up again as fast as he could, and Dante dashed into his chest.

Laying on the floor, breathing hardly, Ed looked at Ling, and for a moment forgot everything.

He was walking to school, with Winry hugging him, and Remy, Al and Ling walking by their side.

Laughing, and joking.

He shook his head, as he heard Hohenheim shouting at Dante.

He stood up, in time to see Hohenheim punching Dante on the face. She turned around, and returned the punch.

Ed pierced her in the chest, taking advantage of her distraction, and grabbed her neck. Pulling her face close to his, and filled with rage, he shouted:

"How can you use alchemy in this body?".

Dante sighed, varily breathing, and looked at Ed. He released her neck, and put his hand on top of the half of the blade that wasn't inside Dante.

"The beings inside the Gate made me one of them, and they rule alchemy. I made myself a type of disease that infected Envy's body with the capability to transmute".

Ed finished drawing the circle with Dante's blood. When she realized, he grinned.

"You won't be doing it anymore".

He put his hand on top of the circle, and his arm shined.

Dante's eyes went blank, and she started shaking violently. She coughed up some blood, and slowly returned to the green haired shape of Envy.

After this, Ed pulled his arm out of his step brother, and held in his hands a black sphere. It was simmilar to the philosopher's stone. Neither liquid nor solid.

Sighing, Ed tossed it away, near some soldier's bodies.

Just after he did, a roar sound from their side of the battle field.

They had just won the battle against Xing.

o0o

Al walked up to Ed and Hohenheim. They were trying to wake Envy up.

The Amestrian army had found some tunnels, and everyone was leaving.

In about ten minutes, there was no one left there, but Envy, Hohenheim, Ed, Al and the corpses.

"This feels lonely". Ed said, looking around.

"I've been a loner my whole life". Envy said, waking up.

They all smiled, and helped Envy stand up.

"The last thing I remember was being on that damn symbol, and a spear on my chest. After that, it all went black". Envy told them.

Ed and Al told him the story, with few details, and when they finished, he looked around.

"I can't believe she was still alive… Though I was too, inside the Door, but…".

Hohenheim looked around, too, and saw something weird. Some of the bodies they thought dead were moving.

"…And Ling's dead…". Envy whispered.

"I promised him I was going to bring him back". Ed said.

"That's human transmutation, brother". Al said, sadly.

"I've done it before". He said, looking at Alphonse.

"Get ready". Hohenheim said.

"What? What's going on?". Al said, surprised.

"She's not dead".

A black mass, with red eyes, in the shape of many attached bodies walked up to them.

o0o

"I ca't believe she won't die". Envy said.

He shifted into the dragon, and Hohenheim, Ed and Al sat down on his back, riding him.

"Get a grip". Envy said, and he started moving very quickly. He surrounded the black being that Dante had become, and twisted himself around it.

Ed jumped to it's leg, and cut it with his blade.

He jumped back, as Hohenheim jumped on to Dante's ches, and transmuted it into stone.

The black body fell down, and it slowly regenerated. Al jumped down of Envy's back, too, and transmuted a piece of his soul to one of the corpses that made part of the monster.

The rest of tham started shaking wildly, and they split, creating about twenty smaller dark creatures.

Envy shifted back to normal, and looked at the dark group.

"Damn, this is getting serious".

o0o

Al and the body with a part of his soul took care of four dark soldiers at a time.

Very quickly, they imprisonned them, and then crushed the jail, but the pieces of dark mattery become one big mass again.

"This won't be useful". He said.

Ed kept cutting and piercing, but the shadows, got a hold of him.

They were trying to get one of their hands into his mouth, but he shook in anger, and noticed that one shadow, bigger than the others, and with red eyes, wasn't moving.

He clapped his hands, and transmuted the shadows into the floor. It started cracking, as they tried to come out.

He had another thought.

o0o

Once, during his short period in school, he read about a theory.

The atoms in thet universe had a positive charge. A complete opposite universe would have negative charge. If these universe collided, the positive and negative charges would destroy each other, and simply dissappear.

He analyzed the shadows, and thought of the transmutation he had just made.

"So that's it! Envy, give me some philosopher's stone!". He shouted.

Envy jumped on top of the shadows, and pierced his hand with his finger, after shifting it to a spike. He jumped, turning around, and tossed the stone to Ed.

He grabbed it, and attached it to his blade.

Running up to the big shadow, he jumped, and with all of his strength, pierced it's chest.

As he had expected, the stone was absorbed, and the shadow started destroying itself.

"They're not shadows. They're negative philosopher's stone".

While the others ceased fighting, Hohenheim got close to Edward.

"What?".

"The beings inside the Door are the opposite to a human. As an atom has protons, electrons, and neutrons, there are beings outside the Door, inside the Door, and in a middle state. Homunculi would be like neutrons. Us, humans, who's lifes help create a philosopher's stone, are the opposite to the beings inside the door. We can be considered protons, and those beings, electrons. Dante had them create a stone, using her as material. After thinking how the positive stone would react to the negative, I made her dissappear… Or loose the rest of her powers".

"Impressive… You have really left me behind". Hohenheim said.

A body that shook, and was very pale and white, shook at the sight of the four family members.

"That's all what's left of Dante". Al said.

"Who…". They heard her whisper.

"I can't believe it… She was still alive".

"Who am I?". She finnally said.

Ed knelt, and grabbed the pale body from it's clothing, and lifted Dante a bit closer to his face.

"I told you I was going to get you". He said, hatefully.

"You made a promise to Ling… Now you have to bring him back…". Dante said, smiling evily.

Ed fell his heart cold and heavy.

"Who am I?". She repeated.

"You're Dante". Envy said, looking at her with hatred.

"Who am I?". She asked again, now looking at Hohenheim.

"You have been many people… But you're not the one I love". He said, with a sad face.

She teared slightly, and looked at Ed again.

"Who… Am… I?". She asked again.

"Who are you…?". Ed said, thinking of everything this woman had caused.

"You are dead". He finished.

He pierced her chest with rage, and got stained with blood.

Dante's pale body was dripping blood through it's mouth.

Ed teared too, thinking of what he was meant to do now.

He stained his fingers with Dante's blood, and drew a circle. A circle he had drawn before, in that same place, when he was going to bring his brother back from the death.

o0o

"Go". Ed said.

"You are going to use yourself as a coin for Ling to live?". Al asked, in the limit for tears.

"I took life away from him. It's nothing but fair that I return it".

"You are going to do it, Ed? The chances that you go past the door again may be none". Hohenheim said.

"Tell Winry I love her". He added.

"Let's go". Envy said, darkly. "Good bye, pipsqueak".

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SMALL, IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE ANT WANNABE!!!???".

"That's not what I said". Envy asnwered calmly, patting Al in the back.

Him and Hohenheim, followed by Envy, walked away of the battle field, and left Edward alone.

He clapped his hands, and was about to lay them on the ground, ready to take charge for his actions.

鋼の錬金術師/FullMetal Alchemist/Hagane No Renkinjutsushi


Hello, everyone! Gee, I've finnally finished the trilogy! I hope you liked it. I know, I know, the ending is waaaaaay to wode open. It's just that that's it for "The War of Amestris and Xing".

What I'm gonna do is write an epilogue. It will be called... uh... Epilogue.

Just review this, and then go check out "Epilogue", where I will give the Full Metal Alchemist anime a real, 100 original and nice closure. I can't take a wide open ending! So, enjoyed this? Review! And go read the end!

Leandro.

Special thanks to:

GreedyGreed, who's done beta reading for some chapters (those that don't have mistakes)

Kanashii.Umi, who's based many fics on my phrases, situations, commentaries, and Remy, and gave me the idea of having Kimbley as the chemistry teacher.

Redsoul, who's always reviewed first than everyone else, encouraging me to go on.

For them, and many more, who don't have any sort of connection to this website, but still had something to do with me writing this.

And, Last, above all:

to Hiromu Arakawa, for making such a gret manga, such great anime, such great movie, characters, story, etc etc-, and one crappy ending, which I tried to fix! I vow before you, as I know every other FicWriter that has written FMA does!