Kuri, Rei and Ed were excited, they had gotten their state alchemist certification.
They headed back to the Tucker house to find it deserted.
"Al? Al where are you?" Ed said.
Ed found Al in the center of a transmutation circle. "What did he do to you?!"
"I asked him to help me regain my memories." Al said. "B-but..."
"I'll kill him!" Ed shouted and ran into the middle of the house.
Kuri chased after him.
"Over here. Come on in. Have a look. It's a finished version of a Chimera that can understand human words. Listen, that person is Edward." Shou said.
"Ed... ward..." Chimera said.
"Big... Brother..." Nina the Chimera said.
"Nina, this might hurt a little, but bear with me." Ed said.
"Brother! Are you planning to re-transmute her?!" Al said. "That's something that we can't do..."
"My Chimera has been perfectly transmuted! Nobody can return it to the way it was! Be careful! Make sure you don't do to her what you did to your mother!" Shou said.
"Let's play... Let's... play..." Nina the Chimera said.
"Nina..." Kuri pushed Ed back just before he transmuted and activated her pentacle. "Rin. Pyō. Tō. Ja. Kai. Jin. Retsu. Zai. Zen."
Ed's eyes widened as Nina the Chimera was sucked inside the pentacle. "What have you done?"
"I'm transmuting her. The pentacle is designed for purification anyway. It should wor—" Kuri made a choking sound, as the rebound snaked up both her arms, turning them black.
Ed grabbed the pentacle, trying to pull it away. "Let her out! It's going to kill you! You can't die! You just can't!"
She could barely speak as the blackness skittered towards her heart, but she managed the chant backward, releasing poor Nina the Chimera onto the floor. The blackness receded and she collapsed.
"What's going on here, Edward Elric?!" Basque Grand said.
"He... used his own daughter..." Ed said, holding Kuri in his arms.
"The Chimera and Tucker will be dealt with in conjunction with a court martial. You will not speak of what you saw here to anyone else." Basque Grand said.
"Hold on!" Ed handed Kuri off to her sister and ran after Basque Grand. "You guys knew what Tucker had done, didn't you?! You're just getting rid of the evide-"
They drove off, but Nina the Chimera escaped.
"I'm not letting them get away with this!" Ed said.
Kuri came to. "They can't take her away to be a lab rat!"
"Let's go!" Rei said.
"Right!" Al said.
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"You are composed of both man and beast, are you?" Scar said to Nina. "Why would I know such a thing? How regrettable...O God, that great God who hast created us and all other things...Please receive this woeful spirit into thy bosom."
He destroyed Nina the Chimera.
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"Brother!" Al found Nina's remains.
Kuri caught Ed as he fell to the ground and threw up. Rei started to cry.
"Nina...!" Ed shouted, in tears.
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"God, I now understand. The reason why my brother gave me this accursed arm- it was so that I would take those alchemists, who have departed from the path of God, and with their same devilish works...destroy them..." Scar said.
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Kuri stared at the destroyed Nina.
"It's... as though she was decomposed by an alchemist...but who...?" Kuri said.
"But then, even if we were to do something..." Ed said. "We can't..."
"I'm sorry..." Rei said.
"Nina, I'm sorry..." Kuri said.
"Brother..." Al said.
Ed looked up at Kuri and realized she had not escaped untouched. A lock of her hair had gone white from the failed transmutation, and he could see a line of black in her skin on her right arm.
"Never again," Ed touched her arm, running his hand to her heart. "Just a bit further and you would have..."
His voice failed him.
"I promise Ed. I never want to see that look in your eyes again." Kuri said.