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Brothers trought time

Chapter 3.Alchemy...?

Al blinked and tried to see something more than just pair of, more or less, creepy cold eyes and some vague shadow.

"Umm... Could you please be kind enough to come down... Mister...?"

"As you wish..."

The creature jumped down next to Al. Al couldn't help but just stare. The "Creature", as Al had put it, was alot like a human except that he had great white wings, like an angels wings in some pictures Al had seen somewhere. His ears were long and sharp and his hair was silver coloured. The man turned his gaze to Al.

"You can call me Halfmoon... What shall I call you...?" He asked and smiled somewhat devileshly. Al didn't like it at all...

"I-I'm sorry but I'm not supposed to talk to strangers... And I think I have to go now... Bye.." He said and turned to go but Halfmoon grabbed his hand and stopped him.

"You were allready talking to me so why to turn around now and pretend you didn't?" He looked at Al and rised an eyebrow. Al looked at him with terryfied look on his face. The mans grip was so tight that it hurt Al's wrist.

"Could you let go...? Please..."

"Nope.. You'd just run away... So I can't" Al had never really hated anyone but this man made him feel sick. He absoulutely couldn't stand him. He fought himself free and was about to run away when his road was blocked by a herd of wolf's.

"I already said that I can't let you go... Come now... There's someone who wants to see you..." Halfmoon said and without another word he lifted Al to his lap and flew away.

Elsewhere, Ed, Slade, Tidus and Garret had found a little cave and hid themselves there until the herd of strange creatures was gone.

Three hours later...

"Is it clear yet..." Garret asked leaning to the wall of the cave.

"You go and take a look..." Slade hissed. He wanted to make clear that his position was most uncomfortable that it could ever be.

"Yeah. You're and the newcomer are the smallest here so you go look..." Tidus said annoyed. His pose was too uncomforable for him to move before Slade did.

"I'll go..." Ed said in an irritated voice. He wanted out. The cave smelled like blood and was too small for all four of them.

"Hey! You better not let us to be exposed! If you do, I'll... Hey! Are you listening?" Slade growled after Ed, but Ed didn't care. All he wanted now was some fresh air.

Ed peeked outside and saw no-one.

"All clear!" He shouted to the cave. First one to crawl out was Garret. After him came Slade and then Tidus. The night had started to fall and it was pretty cold.

"Allrighty then... Shall we put on fire? It looks like it's going to be cold tonight..." Tidus said looking for a place for a firebase.

"Yeah.. I'll go get the wood..." Garret said and left.

"Okay."

Ed stared at the fire. The flames reflected from his golden eyes. His stomach started to growl.

"Ughh..." Was all he said and curled up in a ball. 'Ssooo hungry..' His eyes started to close but were wide open again when something hard hit his head. Ed rubbed his temple and glared to the direction. Slade sat there and stared at fire.

"Eat... You need your energy..." He said without moving his eyes. Ed looked down to the ground. There was an apple. Big red apple. Ed took it and looked at it suspiciusly. Then he glared once again at Slade. The man sighed.

"It's not poisoned if that's what you're afraid..." He said with somewhat irritated voice. Ed looked at the apple again and took a bite. 'Not bad...' He thought and ate the whole apple. After that he stared at the fire again. Thinking. He raised his head and looked first at Tidus who was fast asleep. Then he turned his eyes at Garret who was humming and frying something that deceptively looked like a frog. Then he once again looked at Slade and asked:

"Who, or WHAT, are you guys...? You're not humans are you..? And why do you have paint on your faces?" Ed looked at Slade with really annoyed face.

"No, we're not humans, we're elfs... And this is not paint... They are marks..." Slade explained and his voice was really irritated. Ed had even more puuzzeled look on his face than he had back then when they first met.

"They are proofs that we are royal..." Garret said grinning.Ed's eyes widen.

"WHAT?" Ed couldn't believe it. Elves? Royal no less! Garret just nodded and continued smiling.

"I'm the king of the shadow-elves. Slade's the king of the forest-elves and Tidus is the prince of the Cloud-city... And then there's many other tribes and cities and stuff..."

"T-this is just crazy!" Ed whispered rather loudly. He stood up and started walking in circles.

"This is just a dream... Yeah.. Just a dream and when I wake up, I'll be back in London.. Right, right... That's right...Right?" Ed lay his hopeful eyes on Slade and Garret who just stared at him.

"Think what you want kid... But this is a real world... And the world's name is Murgos... Live with it..." Slade said with no real tone in his voice.

"This can't be a dream... Becouse what kind of psycho would dream of world that's at the border of the war... Only thing this could be is a nightmare..." Slades voice got it's usual dark unfriendly tone back. Garret nodded.

"Yup.. We're on the edge here... The whole Murgos is..." He said with a small voice.

Ed sat back down and started to think throught his position now. He had no idea where Al was so for now he was alone in a compleatly strange world with compleatly strange "people". And besides this world is on the edge as those two described it. And then there was one thing Ed really wanted to try. Could he use alchemy in this world. 'Oh well.. I guess it's not like the end of the world if I try... Lets see...' Ed looked at the ground beneath his feet. Then he clapped his hands together and after that he placed them on the earth. There was a blue light as a sign of an alchemical reaction. 'It WORKS!' Ed lifted his hands slowly from the ground and pulled out a sword.

"What the...?" Tidus had woken from his sleep and stared at Ed. So did Slade and Garret. All if them dumbfounded. Ed looked back at them with a grin and holding the sword he just had transmuted.

"Ehe.. I guess alchemy really does work here..."

Lexan: That was a short chapter -.- Oh well... I'll try to make the next chapter a bit more interesting and longer than this... If you're only interested that is... ... ...