A.N
Please, I beg of you, do NOT get used to this. I doubt my updates will come like this. Thank you Guest, I changed there ages again. I want Ed to have one year of "healing" or something before he gets his letter of admission. ^~^ Thanks for pointing that out! Sorry, this is kind of a short chapter! I'll work harder! Meh, spoilers? Not sure if you can call it that~
Oh yea, a disclaimer: Not Mine~ (if it was, I wouldn't have made that mistake!)
It was true that Truth had given back Izumi's organs and she tearfully- but joyfully- told the boys. Hohenheim almost wept at the sight of his two little boys and Mustang's men had a laugh at Ed's current height and age. Regretfully for them, Ed physical strength didn't deviate too far from his previous strength so he did manage to hurt them a little. Feury and Falman only watched with hesitant humor when Ed "punished" the other soldiers.
Pinako was shocked to say the least. "You were 11 when we did the surgery. Now you are 10 with an automail leg. Hah! Went back in time did we pipsqueak!"
Ed childishly stuck out his tongue, "Shriveled up raisin, at least I have my age as an excuse. "
"Well, vertically challenged bean, so do I!"
"Granny! Ed! Both of you should stop! Al is resting!" Winry scolded them as she descended the stairs after making sure Al was taken care of.
"How's he doing?" Ed asked with worry in his tone. Winry and Pinako were both horrified at Al's condition and swore to help him. For the past week or so, he was slowly improving thanks to the guidance of the females.
"He is doing much better! Sleeping too, " Winry reassured the little boy then she squealed. "I forgot how cute you were as a kid!" She immediately swept Ed off his feet and embraced him. Ed flushed and attempted to wiggle free from her death grip- zero success. "Ah! Ed, your birthday is coming up soon and so is Elicia's. This will be so exciting!"
Ed gave her a look that showed his confusion. Then he grunted, "There is no big deal about my birthday. . ."
Winry glared at him and planted him back on his feet. "Excuse me, Mr. Grumpy, but Elicia would love to have a birthday party with the man- excuse me- boy that helped avenge her father's death!"
Ed's mood immediately fell. Thinking back to the death of the Homunculus was not one of his top choices. It had still made him bitter thinking back to both Hughes' death and the pathetic last form of Envy. Winry noticed his obvious lack of joy and lightly knocked him on the head.
"Come on Mr. Downer, I'll teach you how to maintain your automail! Hopefully it won't break as easily now. And, I'll get you a gift if you would just tell me what you want."
Ed mentally rolled his eyes but still responded with warmth in his voice, "Yes, yes, yeesh, you my mom now?"
Winry smiled brightly and giggled gaily in response. She tugged Ed's arm and led him to her workshop to teach him the proper management required for his automail leg.
"Happy Birthday! Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!" Winry cheered and embraced the exasperated boy and excited little girl.
"Let's go to the cake, Brother, " Elicia giggled and pulled Ed to the table with the huge cake. Gracia chuckled and Al smiled. The many other boys grumbled in jealousy and Alphonse's smile grew at the sour glares the boy directed at Ed.
"One- two - three!"
The candles went out instantly and everyone cheered. The little boys shouted and cheered while eagerly directing Elicia's attention to them. Gracia smiled and knelt by Ed's side.
"What did you wish for?"
"Heh, if I told you, it wouldn't come true would it?" he sent her his trademark smirk but then awkwardly shifted, "We finally succeeded in our plan." He pointed to Alphonse- who was talking with some of the other kids. "Al, Alphonse is back to normal- he got his body back. We should have told you earlier but we never had a chance to."
Gracia nodded and smiled happily. "You boys went through so much to get this far right? As I can see you surely shrunk from the last time I saw you." Ed casually shrugged his shoulder. She spread her arms around Edward and pressed him to her chest. "Hughes would have been so happy. . ." she trailed off, letting her attention drift to the picture of Hughes on the mantle.
"Well, enough of this moping, I am going to check up on Alphonse to see if he would like some cake or any extra treats. It's been too long hasn't it?" she picked herself up and carefully cut a piece of the strawberry cake and brought the plate over to where Alphonse was chatting at.
"That was fun wasn't it?" Winry's face was flushed from the excitement that lingered even after the party. When she walked to the mailbox outside of their automail shop. "Oh, Ed, you have a letter. . ." Ed and Al curiously peered over her arms when she knelt so they could see.
"Wizards? Witches?" Winry commented curiously.
"MAGIC?!" the two boys gawked.
A.N
X/ My pacing is terrible I admit, I just thought this was the best way to end this chapter. So sorry for the shortness and yeah. . .I'll get back ASAP
I did my best to love over spelling and grammar so hopefully there won't be anything majorly incorrect. So yeah, thanks for reading! I'll get back to you eventually! I don't have the first book at my side which makes it harder, meh~
See ya~
