AN: Ok, so I'm so sorry that I am posting this so late, but I've been so busy lately that I might only be able to post this every other day.
I also want to thank my reviewers Arden Anam and Emalee Roze for your suggestions, they were really helpful. I love it when people give me constructive criticism! I also want to thank Seengot for favoriting (wow, I don't know if that's a word or not) my story.
Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or anything FMA related. :'(
Well, I hope that you enjoy!
Chapter 7
"So, how'd ya' get here?" I asked, trying to break the tense silence.
"Um…" Ed said. He looked down.
"Can I ask you something?" Mo said from the other end of the table.
"Sure." Al said, cutting off Ed before he could reply.
"Well, where were you before you came through the gates? Were you in Germany? I mean you had to be in order for Al to have his body back." Mo said.
"WHAT?!" Al, Ed, and I yelled at the same time.
"How… how did you know?" Ed stuttered.
"Mo! What's wrong with you? How could you say that?"
"Well, I mean, it's not like we can change anything right? The series is already over." Mo said sheepishly.
"Series? What do you mean 'the series'?" Al asked.
"Yeah, what do you mean?" Ed said looking straight at me. I tried to avert my eyes but his golden eyes kept staring straight at me.
"Um… well, you know how I freaked out when I found out who you were and the fact that you could do alchemy?" I asked Ed, who simply nodded. "Well, the reason that I freaked out was that… well that…" What am I doing? I am I really going to tell Ed about FMA? What's wrong with me? However the look in Ed's eyes compelled me to keep going. "Well, here there's no such as alchemy."
"Then how do you know what alchemy is?" Ed interrupted me.
"I'm getting there. Now do you want me to tell you or not?" I snapped at him. Ed remained silent so I went on. "Well, over here there's a really popular type of book, a manga, that's name is Fullmetal Alchemist, or FMA for short." Ed looked up at us surprised.
"Fullmetal Alchemist? How can it have the same name as my title?"
"Well, you see Ed, the story is about you." Mo added.
"What do you mean it's about Brother?" Al asked.
"Well, it's about Ed and you. You know, your whole story. How your mom died, the human transmutation, loosing your body and his limbs, Ed joining the army, finding the Philosophers Stone, oh and then there was the movie and the whole Nazi and Germany thing. But I personally liked the show better then the manga, but then again, I never really read the manga so I can't judge." Mo rambled off, clearly not noticing the two distressed boys in front of her.
"God Mo, blunt much?" I said to her.
"Well you were taking too long."
"Well, it's a pretty weird subject isn't it? How'd you like to have your whole life's story told to you by some stranger?"
"So, you know everything?" Ed asked, breaking up our bickering. "So to you, our whole lives are just a book?"
"Well, yes and no." I replied, silencing Mo with a glare. "Yes we know everything, but no. At least not to me. Ever since you came here, I guess that pretty much proves that you're real, so therefore your lives are more then a show."
"Wait, you keep saying that there's a show, what do you mean?" Al asked.
"Well, the book was so popular that people made a T.V. show out of it, which ended up being super popular." I answered.
"What's T.V.?" Ed asked.
"Oh! That's right, they haven't invented T.V. yet." Mo piped up.
"What do you mean they haven't invented it yet?"
"Um, well, it's 2008 right now." I said.
"What?! Oh this is so cool, no wonder everything is so different." Al said.
"So it's my turn to ask a question. How can you learn do alchemy here?" I said.
"Well…"
"Please Ed, we told you everything that we know. You can trust us." I pleaded. I just needed to know.
"How do I know that?" Ed snapped.
"Brother!" Al yelled. "Be nice."
"You can trust us because even before I knew who you were, I took you in and I trusted you. And know that I know who you are I'm telling you everything that I know. So I yeah, I trust you, why don't you trust me?" I yelled back. The whole kitchen became silent as we waited for Ed's answer.
"…"
"What?" Mo asked.
"I said that I JUST CAN'T! If you know everything about me then tell me why should I trust some random people who I just met who are telling me that I don't exist? And yes Molly, I'm looking at you! How do I know that you're not Envy, huh?" Ed yelled as Al slumped down in his chair looking absolutely mortified.
"Well, there's the simple fact that we haven't tried to kill you yet!" I said back at him. I was starting to get mad which was a bad thing, cause unfortunately I could be just as stubborn as Ed when I got mad.
"We learned how to open the doors again." Al stated softly.
"Al…" Ed started.
"What do you mean?" Mo asked him.
"Well, you probably know that alchemists have the ability to open the gates within them in order to create the energy necessary to transmutate something." Al paused and we nodded, signaling him to go on, despite the fact that Ed was trying desperately to tell him to stop talking. "Well, we learned through a lot of practice that we would be able to use our own energy as energy to transmutate something as long as we sent it through the gate twice. Of course it means that over here we can't do large amounts of alchemy, but it's better then nothing."
"So theoretically, someone who wasn't an alchemist would be able to alchemy if they just learned how to send their own energy between the gates?" Mo asked.
"I guess so, but it's not like I've had any chance to really test it out. For us, it's hard to do simple alchemy, so for someone who's never done it before it might be impossible. But since I've answered one of your questions, can you answer one of mine?"
"I'll try." Mo said.
"So, how do you think that we went ahead in time? Shouldn't the gates have taken us back home?"
"I think I can answer that one. Ed, do you remember anything about Einstein's theories?" I turned toward Ed.
"A bit, but not much." Ed said, still sulking.
"Well, I was thinking about what the gate was. What if it was a worm-hole type of thing? Well, not a worm-hole exactly, cause of the sacrifices and the Truth, but something like it. That would mean that not only would it connect places, but it would also connect time." I tried to explain as simply as possible."
"I guess it's possible…" Ed said skeptically. After that, the conversation died out as we all tried to process what we had just heard. I however, was still mad at Ed for not trusting me. How can he not trust me? After all that I've done for him? I let him into my house! He could've been some murderer yet I trusted him, so why can't he trust me?
The sound of Mo's cell phone broke the silence. "Sorry guys, I've got to take this. It's my mom." Mo quickly walked off into the other room.
"What was that thing?" Al asked.
"Oh, it's a cell phone. It's like a regular phone only without any wires connecting it to anything." With that, Mo walked back in.
"Sorry Moll's, but I've got to go. Mom forgot to tell me that I've got a doctors appointment today, so there's no way that I can get out of that. And, I've got to text Jenny and try and explain why you weren't at the party last night without mentioning these two over here." She said pointing to Ed and Al. "I think that I'm just going to tell her that you were feeling sick and that I came over here to make sure that you were ok. So if she calls you, act sick."
"Ok, thanks for the heads up. So I'll see ya' later." She said as she walked out the door.
"See ya'!" I yelled back at her. I sighed to myself. So what am I going to do now?
AN: Well, I hope that this chapter cleared a few things up. Warning, next chapter is going to involve shopping, bored teenagers, and Terminators. LOL, I can't wait to write it. Please review! I live off of reviews! XD
