Metallic Hearts [A FullMetal Alchemist Story Part Twenty-Nine: The Untainted Child
Al: "Is he working with you two, Mason?" p
Mason: "I only scared you three years ago. She made me watch over you guys so you wouldn't die." p
Al: "Then why did attack us?" p
Mason: "Izume told me to train you guys a little." p
Ed: "What the hell?" You rolled your eyes and chuckled at Mason. "That wasn't just a little, we were seriously about to die." p
Al: "Yeah, you went to far against children!" p
Izume: "Stop complaining about old times! He's just a child." She was now changing subjects to the boy standing on the beach. "He may have stolen his parents boat or something and ended up here." p
You: "I highly doubt that, we would have spotted him, we were on the beach for sometime." Izume didn't have time to reply, she threw up blood once again. The little boy looked scared and you all ran up to her. The boy clapped and set his hands on the ground. "That light. . ." You looked over at the boy. "He's an Alchemist. . ." p
Izume: "Ed?" Ed ran at the boy and jumped on him. The boy grabbed onto Ed's hair who yelped. The boy began to transmute something. p
Ed: "This guys clothes. . ." The boy began to cry. p
Izume: "What are you doing, he's only a child." p
Ed: "But. . .this guy may have come here after us. . ." You ran over to the boy and helped him up, wrapping him up in your hoodie. p
Izume: "Come after you?" p
Ed: "I wasn't kidding." p
You: "Where did you come from? Where are your parents?"
???: "I don't know." p
You: "What's your name?" p
???: "I don't know. U don't know anything . . ." And he started to cry again. p.
You: "You don't have to cry, it's okay." The boy hugged you, and you wrapped your arms around him.
The Innocent Child
You all sat at Sig's meat factory, the boy was scarfing down everything he could get his hands on. Sig put a plate of meat on the table and the boy reached for it. Izume slapped his hand. p
Izume: "That foods not cooked yet." p
Winry: "But I'm glad you too came back alive." Al looked over at Lita who was scowling. "And of course you too, Lita." p
You: "I'm sure you're ecstatic." p
Ed: "Don't assume that we would die so easily." p
Winry: "So, did your teacher forgive you yet?" p
Ed: "That was the difficult part. Since we went against her teachings. We remembered that we are mearly a part of the flow of the world. But we were conceited. And thought there was a world within us too. And we tried to change that flow." p
Al: "What we did was unforgivable." p
Mason: "Let's go." You looked over to see Mason on the ground, a bunch of kids were trying to wrestle a football from him. p
Winry: "That's weird, everyone makes mistakes." p
You: "But we made more than a mistake. We made a choice, a stupid choice, that we can't erase. But we've learned from it, and that's all that we can do." p
Winry: "So what are you going to do now?" p
You: "Keep living, for those who can no longer do that."
Night
You and Al sat at the kitchen table, playing a small game of checkers. p
Al: "Teacher apparently doesn't want us going anywhere." He noticed Lita looking at the lock on the front door. "She put a lock on the door with Alchemy, she'll know if we left." There was a bright light that flashed through the house for a second. p
You: "Is that boy using Alchemy again?" You both walked up stairs to see Ed standing below a hole in the floor. "Ed, what the hell are you doing?" p
Ed: "I'll fix it later, let's go." He jumped down and you all followed him. You noticed that the bed was empty, you looked up to see the boy hanging from the ceiling like a bat in front of the window. p
???: "Wanna play?" Ed looked totally freaked out. "What a relief, everyone's dead, so I was bored." You blinked, did this boy not know what sleeping was. p
You: "Their not dead, they're just asleep." p
???: "What are we going to play? Oh, I know." He picked up a rat from the corner. p
You: "You were watching us the entire time on the island, weren't you?" The boy just looked at you. "Who are you?" The boy began squezzing the poor rat. "Hey, let that go." p
???: "No." He raised his hand thinking the rat was out of your reach. p
You: 'You shoudn't play with an animals life." The boy began running away from you. p
???: "I play, I play, I play!" p
Ed: "Be quiet, you're going to wake everyone up." The boy began to jump on his bed, doing a one handed handstand on his dresser. p
Ed: "Damn it." Ed transmuted the ground which tripped the boy and the rat ran away. p
???: "Wow. . ." p
Ed: "You can do that too right?" p
???: "No. . ." p
Ed: "Don't lie, you transmuted a stone on the island. Then your clothes are made from Alchemy too right?" p
Al: "Brother, that's not the nice way of asking." p
Ed: "Al, you saw it. This guy performed a Transmutation without a circle. We're like the only ones who can do that. But teacher, pretends that she can't. That's weird." p
???: "Take it off, take it off." p
Al: "Brother, he has nothing to do with those people." p
Ed: "Al, I remember his face from somewhere." The boy began transmuting the bed, the boy started to cry again as he started to mold with the bed. p
Al: "Brother, what did you do?" p
Ed: "I didn't do anything." p
You: "He couldn't do that anyway." Izume knocked down the door. p
Izume: "I can't sleep because of the noise." p
Sig: "Hey." Sig poked Izume on the shoulder. Izume looks over to see the boy mixed with the bed. p
???: "Turn it back!" p
Ed: "Teacher, we didn't do this." p
Izume: "I know. I've never taught you nonsense Alchemy like that. Stop crying!: It's going to be okay." Izume grabbed onto the boys hand. "You idiot student, what were you doing in here?" p
Ed: "I was worried, what if he was one of those guys whose after us." p
Sig: "Who are you being chased by?" p
You: "They call themselves Homunculus."
In Central
Gracia: "Thank you for coming by, but are sure it's okay considering your new job." p
Sciezka: "I work at home so I make my own hours." p
Gracia: "Ah, Sciezka. I don't know if you're still investigating the incident with Maes, but please be careful." p
Sciezka: "Oh, don't worry about me, I'm not a very brave person. I wouldn't get involved with anything I thought was that dangerous. Bye bye." p
Elysia: "Bye bye. See ya tomorrow." Sciezka runs after her ride. p
Sciezka: "Just a minute Colonel." Sciezka tripped and a gust of dust surrounded her. p
Havok: "Hmm, ouch." Roy couldn't help but chuckle. "That had to hurt." Sciezka started to get up as Havok backed up the car. Roy rolled down the window. p
Sciezka: "What are you doing stalking around here?" p
Roy: "Is it wrong for me to drive by and check on the wife of an old friend." p
Sciezka: "Can't even show your face in there. Not when you refused to investigate the death o your old pal. Or maybe your two busy thinking about your promotion." p
Havok: "Come on. Lay off will yeah." p
Sciezka: "Here are all of the documents Brigadear General Hughes was working on before he died." Sciezka threw a ton of books into Roy's vcar, who was glaring at the growing pile of books. "The reason for his death must be in there somewhere and you should be looking for it too. Congratualtions on your new Central job!" Sciezka returned to her home to continue her own investigation. "What does all this mean? I can't make any sence out of all these stupid records! Okay, I have all of the calls sent out from central to the main headquarters on the day General Hughes died. But I can't find any relation to it. I got it!" A bunch of books crashed ontop of her. p
Central
Secretary: "I can't keep track of all of you. I have a few things I have to accomplish." The Fuhrer walked in. "Their teacher lives in a town called Dublith. Maybe you should try there." p
Envy: "I'll leave Greed to Lust and Gluttony. What should I do with the rest if I find them in Dublith?" p
Secretary: "Nohting. I still haven't givin' up on the Stone. Arrange for them to go on another trip to try and try and create it." p
Envy: "You may be the youngest but you act as if you are all grown up." p
Secretary: "I want those kids to create the Stone. But I don't want them sticking their nose into the Ishballen buisness. I assume you understand."
Back with you
The boy was fast asleep in his bed. p
Izume: "So why don't these Homunculi create their own Philosopher's Stone." p
You: "They would, if they could use Alchemy. Homunculus have no soul, for some reason, that may have something to do with them being unable to do that." p
Izume: "That would mean this child is different from all the others." p
You: "That's true but no alchemist can transmute their own body. No alchemist should be able to do that so easily, let alone at all." p
Al: "Just think about it teacher. He did it without a circle which must mean. . ." p
Izume: "You lost your memory when it happened, right, Al. You remember it though, don't you?" p
You: "I remember, how could I not. The horror inside the Gate. I couldn't understand what was happeneing, but it seemed everything about Alchemy was pouring into me as this damned steel circulated through my skeletal system . . .are you pleased with this?" Izume looked at you. "You're always telling us we screwed up. I know what you really think. You're happy we're like this. You think we diserve it, you think our consequences for what we did are suvisient, or maybe you think we deserved more. And your right. I should have just died. And that boy, I saw him. Inside that damned gate, and you keep telling yourself that he's human. But, I know the truth, and if you don't want to believe me right, that's fine!" The boy jumped out of the room and ran out the door.