A/N: Chapter 4! Oh and thanks a lot for your fantastic reviews! You guys are awesome! Oh and this is the second chapter in a day. So thanks for your support! And you have inspired me to update this! Oh and sorry for the slow update on the last chapter. Put that all aside, let the story begin!

Disclaimer: Ed: Ever since Fang is still in an Insane Asylum for a day, I'll do the disclaimer. She doesn't own any of the other characters of FMA and HTTYD. There. You happy yet?

Onwards to the story! :3

Chapter 4: Swimming and Secrets Uncovered

As they reach Berk and went to their own houses, Ed lays down on the bed, still grasping his right shoulder. But, it was only lightly now.

"Ed, are you okay?"

"Yeah. Just don't worry about me. I'm fine. It usually happens when it's about to rain."

"So, why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Clutch your right shoulder if it's about to rain?"

"I-It was a childhood injury." Ed lied.

"Let me take a look at your arm Ed."

"No Hiccup. I'm fine!"

"Ed."

"I promise I'm fine."

Hiccup sighs as he leaves the room. Man he's stubborn.

He then, calls Ed down for supper.

Ed stopped clutching his automail and went down to get supper.

"Ah there you are lad. Come on and join us in our dinner." Stoick the Vast said as he motions Ed to sit down. Ed obliged and sat down beside Hiccup. As he sat down, it began raining hard.

Ah crap. Ed clutches his right shoulder again shortly.

"What's wrong lad?"

"N-nothing sir. Just having phantom pains."

Ed lied again and he started eating. Stoick looked at him suspiciously and continued eating.

"Oh Ed, I forgot to tell you, we're inviting you to swim tomorrow. Wanna come?"

"If I could swim, I'd love to." Ed replied sarcastically.

"Wait, what do you mean if you could swim?" Hiccup asks Ed with a huge hint of suspicion.

"I-I can't swim because of my childhood injury!" Ed lied. (AGAIN)

"Childhood injury Ed? Seriously? If you were injured when you were a kid, how could you fight the Outcast and the Berserkers single handedly? What is that shine on your right hand? How could you do other dangerous stuff? Oh and how could you predict if it will rain or not?"

"Hiccup!"

"No sir. He got me. No more secrets." Ed surrendered. With a sad smile.

"What do you mean Ed?"

Ed sighed and slowly removed his right glove and placed his right hand on the table. His automail shining faintly in the candlelight.

"Is that armor?" Stoick asks Ed.

"It's not. It's automail sir."

"Automail?" Hiccup asks.

"Automail is a kind of prosthetic that connects to your nerves, which hurts like hell enough to make even a grown man cry, that could make it move like a normal arm." Ed explains.

"It's really that advanced?!"

"Yep. I actually came from the future because of something random that dragged me in here" (*Cough Naked Slenderman with the name of Truth *Cough*)

"Woah. Do you mind if we see the whole arm?" Hiccup asks. Ed sighs and stood up. He took off his well, everything in his top showing his body full of scars.

On his right shoulder, where his automail is, pale white lines on his flesh left arm, a huge scar just across his heart, another one on his abdomen. (A/N: I forgot which side was it when Slicer sliced near his abdomen okay! I have poor memory!)

"Have you been in a lot of battles lately?"

"Isn't it obvious Captain Obvious?"

"I'll take that as a yes."

"How did you earn all of those scars anyway?"

"I got this from automail surgery." He points to the scar where his automail is attached.

"This from a battle with a psychopath named Barry the Chopper." He points to the pale white lines on his flesh left arm.

"This, a battle with my half brother." He points to the scar across his heart.

"And this, a battle from another psycho killer named the Slicer." He points to the slice across his abdomen.

"Seriously? That much battles?"

"Yep."

"Wow. That's a nice prosthetic you got there lad. How about we let Gobber see it."

"Is he like my mechanic who breaks down everything he sees that involves machines?"

"Nope. He'll just look at your automail and study it."

"Oh thank goodness."

"Do you mind if you take it off?"

Ed sighed and pulled the lever that locks his automail and got it. He tosses it to Hiccup and Hiccup, of course for being the scrawny weak Viking he is, got it but fell to the ground. Ed covers his mouth with his remaining hand as he is trying really hard not to laugh at Hiccup's epic fail.

"It's really light!" Hiccup exclaims as he carries Ed's Northern automail.

"Let me try Hiccup." Stoick said and Hiccup tosses the automail to Stoick.

"It really is light." Stoick said, amazed.

"Any other parts that is automail?" Hiccup asks.

"Well there is my left leg…" Ed drifted off.

"Wait, you lost your left leg too?!" Hiccup asked, shocked.

"Yeah…?" Ed replied.

"Can I see it?" (A/N: Coincidence much? XD)

Ed sighed and lifts up his left pant leg revealing his automail leg.

"How long is it? The cut I mean."

"A few inches above the knee."

"That's one high cut."

"I know. Can I have my arm back please? I have to wear my clothes and it's as cold as a fridge."

"Oh sorry lad." Stoick apologized and tossed Ed back his arm.

"Now excuse me while I go somewhere private to attach my arm since it really hurts." Ed said flatly, got his clothes and went upstairs.

He sat down the bed and inserted his automail into the socket of his shoulder. He didn't know that Hiccup was watching him, and Stoick as he starts to connect the nerves. He grits his teeth in pain and flinched at the pain. Not just Ed but the father and son also flinched to see Ed in pain of attaching his automail.

He waits for the pain from attaching his automail fade until he hears a familiar squeak.

"Hiccup, I know you're there. Come in." Ed said.

"Hey uh Ed, sorry about-"

"If you're sorry about exposing my automail, I forgive you. But you better not tell it to anyone in the Academy tomorrow or you'll regret it."

"I know that already."

"So, how will you go swimming?"

"Since I can't swim, how about we ask Gobber to take a look on your automail tomorrow."

"Sounds good enough for me. Oh and do you have a paper and a pencil?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"I have to write something."

Hiccup nodded and opened the drawer of his room (Which is currently occupied by the smart and cute blonde with glorious blonde hair and glorious gold eyes that has automail and a fiercely awesome fighter.) and got the materials Ed needed.

Ed thanks Hiccup and writes a letter.

"Wait, you're left handed too?!"

"Wait, you're left handed?!"

"I'm left handed because I'm born left handed."

"I'm left handed because of my automail."

"And I thought I finally found somebody who is left handed."

"You're the only left handed in this village aren't you."

"Yes I am. Oh and Ed?"

"Yeah?"

"One last question. How did you earn your automail?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow. Mmkay?"

"Kay then. Night."

"Night."

As Hiccup leaves the room, Ed continues to write a letter to Al.

Dear Al,

I'm sorry if I worry you too much. It's just because of that damned Truth. He asked me if I could lend a hand. So I did. But I'm stuck somewhere far away from Amestris. I don't even know if I'm Drachma, Xing or at Creta. Sorry for worrying you Al.

Your brother,
Edward Elric

Ed puts the letter in his pockets and drifts off to sleep.

Toothless nudges Ed awake. But to no avail, Toothless grunts.

"Al… Winry… Colonel Bastard… 1st Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye…" Ed murmurs in his sleep.

Al? Winry? Colonel Bastard? 1st Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye? Who are those people?

"Screw… you… Colonel Bastard…"

Hiccup tries his best not to muffle out a giggle. Ed flips and buries his face on the pillow.

"Ed, wake up."

"5 more minutes Al…."

"Toothless, lick!"

Toothless obliged and licks Ed on the face.

"Awwwww YUCK! WHAT THE HELL IS MY FACE COVERED WITH?! Oh, morning."

"Morning sleeping princess." Hiccup said as he tries not to laugh.

"You cheeky little Bastard."

"Tie your hair. We're going to Gobber's remember?"

"Right on Hiccup. In 5 minutes I'll be there." Ed said as he falls back to sleep.

"Seriously?!"

"Oh shut up Mr. Iwakeupearly pants"

"Fine. But just 5 more minutes okay?"

"Whatever."

~5 minutes later~

Ed sits up straight with his eardrums ringing.

"Seriously? Have Toothless roar on my ear on the morning is not a good idea." Ed said as he was still placing both of his hands on his left ear.

"Let's just go."

"Whatever Madam Sexybritches."

"Oh shut up Ed."

Ed smirks and boards on Toothless with Hiccup and they fly off to Gobber's.

"Hey Gobber, we might want you take a look at this."Hiccup said as Ed shows his automail to Gobber.

"Wha is that?!"

"His current arm."

"Whaddya mean?"

"That's not his natural arm that he's born with."

"It looks like it is but it's armored."

"That's what everyone here says!"

"Not everyone. You only showed it to me and my father!"

"I'm sorry madam."

"Ugh. Could you please take a look if it has any squeaks or something?"

"Sure I can lad. Now let me see your whole arm."

Ed rolls up his sleeve and lays it on the table.

"Oh and lad, before we start, you might wanna tie up your hair."

"What?!" Ed swished his hair and knew that it wasn't tied.

"WHAT THE HELL?! MY HAIR WASN'T TIED UP?!" Ed yells and ties up his hair into a ponytail.

"Okay with that aside, let's get started. But eh I have no idea how to check it."

"Just move everything movable and listen for squeaks."

Gobber obliged and flexed everything.

"Uh huh. There's your problem. Your elbow's squeaky. Now let me put some oil."

P.S: Never trust Gobber if he says that he'll put some oil. If he means some he really meant a shit ton of oil.

Gobber pours a lot of oil on Ed's automail. As Ed tries to move his automail, it moved better. He thanks Gobber and puts on his glove. But because of too much oil, the oil slides down his arm down to his hand, giving his glove some oil stains. He rolls down his sleeve and of course, it also get oil stains.

"So how about we show ourselves to the swimming and we just stay by the bay shore? Or just take a dip in the sea."

"What about your automail?"

"I got it covered." Ed assured with a smirk and went behind a tree. He claps his hands and transforms some of his skin to his automail, covering it. (A/N: I don't know if he could do that so don't hate me.)

He runs out of the tree and reveals his hand to Hiccup. Hiccup, who was shocked to see his hand already got skin.

"How about call them to plays some beach volleyball."

"How do you play beach volleyball?"

"Just spike the ball or hit it with your hands over the net."

"Alrighty then."

Ed transmutes a net and draws the court with a stick. He transmutes a volleyball from the dirt and leaves near the trees and tries it out.

"Here. This is the volleyball. If it touches the ground, your group will have one point."

Ed bounces the volleyball around. He spikes it up and spikes it up again and hits it over the net.

"This volleyball is good enough. Come on."

Hiccup calls them all to play and they went to the shore. Ed re-tells the instructions and they all nodded their heads. Astrid, on the other hand, has a mischievous smirk on her face.

They all teamed up and went to their respective areas.

Teams:

Team Dragons: Team Vikings:

Ed Astrid
Hiccup Tuffnut
Snotlout Ruffnut

Scorer: Fishlegs

As the game began, Ed decided to serve. He spiked with his right hand, sending the ball to Astrid. Astrid spikes the ball and it goes to Hiccup as Hiccup counters and it goes to Tuff and Tuff spikes and it goes to Snotlout and Snotlout spikes and goes to Ruff and so on and so forth.

As the match ends, this is the score:

Team Dragons: Team Viking:
13 12

In short, Dragons win by a point. Later, the two best buddies (Ed and Hiccup) sat down by the shore, gazing at the beach.

"So Ed, how did you get your automail?"

"It was because me and my brother did the forbidden thing in Alchemy. Human Transmutation. Since it follows the law of Equivalent Exchange, I thought that it was going so well when something changed. From the yellow flash, it became a dark purple flash. We tried to resurrect our mother as our father left us when we were very young. We trained under a great Alchemist named Izumi Curtis. She sends us to an island with only a knife with no food, shelter or Alchemy. After a month, we trained under her in Dublith for a year and went back to Resembool. When we came back, we studied more about Human Transmutation. We memorized everything that is needed to complete a human body. We even bought it all from a few stores and then mixed them in a basin. We slit our fingers and dropped blood as our DNA samples. Later, as we did it, a huge eye opened at the middle and black hands came out. They got my brother's whole body and it only got my left leg. Later, I found myself in front of a huge Gate. A lot of stuff were inserted into my brain. The white figure named Truth got my leg as a payment for the toll of True Knowledge. Because of True Knowledge, I lerarned how to transmute without an array. I knocked down a huge armor by the side of the wall where we did the Transmutation and drew a blood rune. I bonded my brother's soul in the armor but at a cost. It costed me my right arm . As my brother woke up from the bonding, he saw me and rushed me to our childhood friend because she's an automail mechanic. They took care of everything. I asked them if they could attach automail on me. They agreed but they told me it will take 3 years for the surgery and rehab. I told them 1 year is enough but they warned me I'll cough up blood. I didn't care. As they attached automail on me, I forced myself not to cry even though I was just 11 and my brother's 10. I did not cry. I took an exam that would make me a part of the military in Central. I became a certified State Alchemist and got the rank of a Major immediately and the dubbed me as the child prodigy and the Fullmetal Alchemist as every State Alchemist has their second name depending on their appearance and abilities. I got my title from my automail. I became the dog of the military even though I don't want to so that I could get my brother's original body back as I don't care about my limbs." Ed told Hiccup. Hiccup was there staring at him with shocked and sad emerald eyes, facing Ed's golden eyes.

"Y-you really went through a lot! I don't even know if I could survive that if I was you!"

"I even doubt that you could." Ed replied.

"Anyway, come on let's head back home. It's getting late."

"I hear ya."

With that statement, they ride on Toothless and flew back to Hiccup's house.

So I hope ya like this! Sorry that it's short. Anyway, review! And I'll be seeing you in the next chapter!