Chapter 2 Is finally here..sorry for the wait

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Ed threw a small blue book against the wall and sighed. He had been up since 2 in the morning re-reading books and notes to see if he had missed anything, to help get his younger brother and himself home. He then got up from the table and picked up the book that lay sprawled open on the floor.

"There's got be some way to get back. I have to be missing something." He thought to himself as he sat back down at them table. His attention then shifted to the couch where Al laid fast asleep. Ed shook his head smiling.

"I I know I over looked something." He said turning back to the table in the dining room. About two hours' later Ed's eyes widened. He stood up, sliding the chair backwards and making it fall over.

"N-No way!" he yelled re-reading a small note that his father had left behind before suddenly disappearing three months ago. It was part of his diary he had collected over the years. Inside contained not only his thoughts and memories, but research. Research he had done on the gate and the connection to the world they were once in. Also to the other side of the gate as well.

For years I have been trying to figure out exactly the function of the gate. Now I see, it is really like a portal, a transporter to another world. But then other questions came to mind. Why do the people of our world come here? What purpose does this world serve to us? I wonder. It could be due to a fact that a part of the gate lies in our hearts, which hold the key to our hopes and dreams, but then what does it take to open the truth? To find what we are looking for? I believe that the gate lies in out heart as well, and to the people we care most about. This is the key to the activation of the gate, and if that's true, what is the exchange? At what cost does it take to get what we want and is the cost all worth the risk. For the many answers seemed, there are always more questions to take its place, for it can be seen that the power to open the gate this way may be impossible to accomplish from this world that I am in. Here there is no such thing as alchemy or a gate. Here equivalent exchange can be seen from money calculations, to the destruction of lives from machines capable of dispensing small bombs enough to kill hundreds, even thousands. But until I can find answers to these questions and more, I only hope that one day these references can help someone like they have me. One day that my researching will come to a close forever.

" The gate may lie in all our hearts. It may be the key." Ed said to himself letting the words sink into his thoughts. Al! Al! Wake up, I think I've figured out how we can get back.

Al woke with a start and sat up rubbing his eyes. "What ni-san?" he asked. "Al, we may have found a way back home. It's here in one of dad's journal enteries! I can't believe I didn't see this before." Ed replied pointing to the blue book on the table.

Al jumped up and ran over to the table. He skimmed over the scattered notes. Looking puzzled he gazed back over at his brother. "Ni-san I don't see anything that I didn't see before."

Ed slapped his head and pointed to a small section on the side of the notes indicted what he had figured out. Al sighed and skimmed over again and again before finally making sense of it. His eyes widened as he turned back to Ed, who only replied with a smile. "

"We're going home? When?" Al asked anxiously. His brother's smile then fell to a depressing frown. "I-I haven't figured that out yet, but I promise I will." He said turning back to the table, trying to hide a yawn.

Al looked upsettingly towards Ed and then let out a smile. "Well I am going to start breakfast and then you can go to bed if you want." He said then walking to the small kitchen on the other side of the room. "You hungry? He asked.

"Am I ever!" Ed shouted, sounding happy once again, picking up the notes and books before heading to the kitchen to help his younger brother with breakfast.