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"Who are you?" Syn asked through gritted teeth. "And who is she?"

"Ed…ward El…ric." The boy gasped, trying to remove Syn's hand from across his throat.

"Who is SHE?" Syn demanded fiercely crushing her grip harder around his throat. Syn could have sworn she heard cracking but she wasn't sure if it was from his neck or her fingers.

"W-Who…?" he asked, still attempting to get some air. His eyes started to look hazy and he was putting up less of a fight.

"That girl!" Syn pulled her chocker and her collar away from the left side of her neck to show him a red marking. He gave her a fearful look through the pain and lack of oxygen. "That girl I just saw!"

He only gave her a painfully, distortedly confused expression. Syn let out a growl of irritation as she threw him against the opposite wall. Edward Elric hit with wall, and slid to the ground on his side. Syn caught on that he couldn't see what she saw, so she decided to enlighten him.

"That girl! The one you used to play with as a kid!" she snarled at him. She was still very enraged by what the boy but her through.

"Winry… Rockbell." The boy gasped, finally catching his breath. He was holding his throat, rubbing it gently to ease the pain. Syn could tell that it would bruise.

"What happened to her?" Syn knelt down to his eye level on the ground.

"She… She died." He hung his head shamefully.

"Are you an alchemist?" Syn asked. It wasn't totally out of the blue.

"Yes."

"Did you try to bring her back?"

"No. I'm not stupid. I learned the first time with my mother." Edward refused to look at her.

"… You're that boy that created Sloth, right?" She asked him softly.

A look of shock crossed his face. "W-Who?" he asked with the same look of confusion he gave her not to long ago.

"Sloth. Her name used to be Trisha Elric." She said in the same softening tone. "That was before she was created."

"So… we succeeded?" Ed's face didn't look fearful anymore. He looked excited. "She's actually back?"

Syn sighed and shook her head. "Yes, she is, Edward Elric, but she's not on your side."

His lips turn into a frown. "O-Oh."

"My name is Syn." She said, sitting down next to him. She was oddly out of character. She actually sounded nice!

"… I take it but the tattoo you're a homunculus too."

"Yeah." She said as she watched blood drip from his hair that was in a perfect ponytail and trailing down the front of his exposed neck (where a brown-ish blue-ish hand was forming). "Listen… sorry I went a little haywire there." She looked away from the blood. She was amazed at how much she wasn't acting like herself at all! "You're just the person to help me, you know?" She looked at his face. "Something about you, Edward Elric, is helping me regain my human memories. If there's one thing I could wish for in the world, it would be to become human with all of my memories."

He stared at her. Syn knew that he though she was very odd, but she didn't care. She'd long for anyone to help her since she knew Dante wasn't going to.

"Edward Elric, please help me." She seemed to plead.

She wasn't sure if it was from true honestly wanting to help, or fear, but he answered, "Yes."

Yessum, Edward Elric is the boy. Poor him.

Not much else to say.

'Cept that school started and I'm still trying to upload at least once daily and these chapters are almost a page and a half. Don't kill me.

D.A.

-FMA Fanatic 4Eva