"OK, so... let me get this straight, you say you're a Night Elf, Druid, part of an Joint guilt of Alliance and Horde operative's, from the world of Azeroth, and you say you were transported here when you tried to 'hearth' back to a city called Stormwind?", responded Al, now done questioning the druid, sitting with him, and other alchemist's in Col. Mustang's office. "Yes, that is correct, was worried you weren't following me", Garn replied, now sitting in his humanoid form. "Well, it would appear Ed's little experiment interfered with the space time continuum, so much so, that it interfered with magical current in your world", Al said now captivated by the creature sitting across from him, everyone was. "By God!your grace, your strength, it is simply extraordinary fine sir! Such a glorious figure!, Major armstrong, chimed, now flexing him muscles, and sparkling, for reason's modern science cant explain. "So, do all people on your world have these strange power's on your world?" Hawkeye asked the druid. Garn chuckled, "not everyone, but some are trained in Druidism, oh.. And if you think IM fascinating...", Garn smirked, "you would all simply go crazy if you saw my world, there are warrior's, that can channel bloodlust and anger into a dangerous weapon, Palidan's, holy knight's who control the power's of The Light to heal, protect, or inflict judgement on others, Shaman's who can control the element's, Priest's that control The Light, and the power's of shadow", everyone was giving there full attention, captivated by what they were hearing, Ed was about to speak, but Garn was not finished. "There are other druid's, who can bring down the wrath of nature itself, Warlock's, using demonic energy and hellfire as a deadly weapon, with demons at there command, and Mage's, using forces of arcane to there will, Rogue's, who are master assassin's, and are concealed by shadow's themselves, Hunter's who control animal's, and mix magic with marksmanship, and finally, Death Knight's, who use runic and unholy power to smite there opponent's" After a mouth full of explaining the magical profession's of his world, Garn settled down, everyone in the room was stunned, "But,... thats-..." Al tried to reformulate his sentence, still trying to wrap his head around what he'd just heard, "How much control do you hold over these power's?", Al finally asked, thinking MAYBE there was a loophole. Garn paused, thinking, "Well, some of those I mentioned use something we call 'Mana', which govern's there magical output, almost all there action's require they tap into there Mana ,without it they cant act, however, other's are based on purely momentum or just alone fighting, all in all".
we have a good grip on our power's, with SOME restriction's, Shaman's have to 'call' upon element's, and earn the right to use certain elelement's, Warlock's have to use a portion of there energy or soul's for some of there spell's- yes you heard me right, soul's", The was gasp's, open mouth's, shock, "s-soul's?, that's just.. Unatural, we have a hard enough time trying human transmutation, and your using human soul's for a magical source?", said Ed, simply taken aback by just the thought that this strange tall man from another world had more control over the forces of nature then a state alchemist. Garn was chuckling nervously, "Oh boy... I better not tell some thing's about... certain classes then it may-", Ed slammed his hand's on the table, "Tell me! what can you do? JUST WHERE?..is the limit with your people?" Garn sighed, "well...some can drain life from living creature's... cure diseases...go invisible, become imperious to all form's of damage for a limited time, summon creatures, command creatures-" Garn coughed "...bring people back to life-", Mustang interrupted Garn, thinking he'd just muttered something crazy, excuse me, sir... what was that last one you muttered?", everyone was now staring at the druid, Garn cleared his throat, "I said..." he took a deep breath, these alchemist's were going to smother him in a few second's "In my world... Shaman's, Druid's, Priest's, Palidan's, and to some extent Warlock's... can bring people back to life-",just as Garn predicted, every alchemist in the room swarmed the desk, not even shocked, they gathered around him, in which he was sitting in, asking at least 20 question's per second, 'how do you do it?' how did learn it?', 'is there a penalty?', 'can you do it right now?', 'how long does it take?'Garn, after some effort, he was able to interrupt them over there barrage of question's, "HOLD ON, CALM DOWN! CALM DOWN, STOP YOURSELVES!" he said, "To answer your question's, YES this is true, yes I can do it, and there IS a boundary, to return a soul to a body it must be done in a set period of time, and it is VERY difficult to do, and it take's IMMENSE concentration." Garn took a deep breath, letting them soak all that information in, "Also, for some, such as Shaman's, the spirit's and the Element's may refuse to lend them the power to do, and for other's, it may simply not work.. But yes, for the most part we CAN bring people back to life... just not everyone" Garn took a breath, he definitely shouldn't mention anything about enchantment's to enhance one's attributes's, or about inscription, or portal's, or the creature's of their world, or you know what, just not mention ANYTHING ELSE about Azeroth. Garn relaxed a bit, "now... are we satisfied?",all the alchemist's nodded, satisfied that there overhaul of question's thrust upon the druid were efficiently answered, however Ed did not move, frozen, until suddenly a bird landed on a nearby windowsill, where it was immediately killed as Ed transmuted his arm and attacked the small creature, everyone flinched at this random outburst, Edward? What the hell was that for? Mustang cried out. Garn's eye twitched, "WHAT... in the name of Cenarius are you doing! ", Ed turned to Garn, "show me, show us this power which you claim you people hold". Garn froze, deep in thought, still enraged that Ed ward would kill a defenseless creature, just so he could see him preform magic. Garn took a deep breath, "Fine... but only because I feel that bird did not deserve to die like that", Garn stood over the creature, closing his eye's, the life force of the bird was gone, but the spirit was still lingering nearby, he had plenty of time, the bird was a fresh kill. Garn opened his palm's, holding them outward, feeling for the bird's spirit, focusing, he traced the source of the bird's spirit, he began to chant, and channel the restorative magic. Slowly, she channeled the spirit back into the bird's body, almost there, he was almost ready to seal it inside the body again, just a little- "is it done yet?" Ed yelled, Garn's spell was interrupted, twitching, "...PLEASE...BE QUIET...this is a VERY... COMPLICATED PROCEDURE,..I need complete silence... im ONLY trying to put a soul back into a body!", Garn tried again, this time without interruption, slowly, the soul channeled into the bird, until... there it was, with that, Garn raised his right hand into the air, light surrounded the body of the aviary creature, a second passed, for Garn, nothing new, for everyone else, it felt like an eternity, the bird moved, breathed, moving, looking tired, and still injured from Ed's attack, Garn moved his hand over the birth, allowing healing magic to flow from his hand into the bird, everyone watched, in awe, not only at the fact that the bird was alive, but as Garn's Druidic healing magic knitted the broken bone's of the small creature back together, skin and flesh closed up, and wounds dissipated. Ed, Al, Mustang and Armstrong stood in awe, silenced, all the science, all the alchemy, all the logic in the world, could not do in a life time, what this elf had done in 10 second's. "INCREDIBLE! MIRACULOUS! SUCH POETIC AND UNMATCHED LOVE FOR LIFE!", Armstrong said this as he flexed his muscle's, now sparkling. Garn exhaled , taking a seat, "there... satisfied?" garn said Ed was still speechless, Al was looking over the bird in awe, alive, and well. Garn removed a water canister from his bag, drinking heartily, reviving and long term healing took a lot out of him, it did for a lot of feral druid's, since they're training did not put much anthesis on magic, the balance and restoration druid's would have fared much better. "Well, there you go Edward,.. Witnessing life itself , though the measure you took to see it was.." mustang paused, "unorthodox, still an incredible feet". AL turned to the druid, "um.. I have a question to ask you.." he said, Garn looked up, "what is it? Fire away", he asked a bit reluctivly seeing as he'd been poked and prodded enough for a lifetime on this strange world. Al paused, probably because the fragility of the question, "Can you teach us this magic you preform", Ed snapped back to reality, so did everyone else, the power of Druidism, it would change everything, medicine, belief's , military, travel. Garn closed his eye's, he knew that was gonna come up, that question, he took a deep breath, him, a teacher, in this world?...no, he couldn't teach them all, he couldn't stay here. Even if he did, even if he agreed, there was no assuring they could learn it,... or if these people were ready for magic, not like alchemy, an art with rule's, restriction's, based on science, not essence, or mana, or spirit's and element's, Druidism seamed so... boundless, in comparison. Garn opened his eye's and looked at AL, piercing into the eye's of his armor, "...im sorry, but I cant, that would be too much", Ed was taken aback, the very idea of controlling life itself was appealing, he wouldn't let this opportunity slip away. Ed moved closer, "why not? It would change the face of the world, save live's, create peace-", Garn cut in, glaring dagger's at the young alchemist, "Damn it all! Your not ready!, im sorry, I wont teach you druidism, to have such power, ecpessially along with alchemy, beside's, it may not even be compatible with the people of your world", Ed was fuming, he wasn't going to give up, "we mastered the art of alchemy, we can learn your magic, just teach us!", Mustang stood up, "as crazy as it sound's I agree, this magic, it had benefit's that even alchemy cant offer, will you teach us?", every one was waiting, each second they waited, felt like an eternity. That was it, Garn had to tell them, it would simply kill any hope they had, but.. It was the truth,... it had to be said, "...When I said you might not be compatible... I wasn't lying... im Sorry, but you have to know the truth... on my world...Human's cant learn Druidism, in fact.. They cant learn Shamanism as well.. Im sorry, your race simply cant grasp such complicated magic", Ed looked shocked, slumping back down in his chair, defeated, now accepting the fact that his world would never reap the benefit's of the magic this stranger was showing them,Al nodded, "I see,..", Mustang looked content, disappointed, but content. Garn stood up, "now look, the fact is, even if you where compatible,... I can't stay, I HAVE to get back to Azeroth, like now". Nothing had changed the fact that he had a responsibility to his guild, to his world, to those he cared so dearly about, Azeroth was in the middle of a war with ancient enemies, and itself, the Horde and the Alliance were at war, while Deathwing, Ragnarok and there minion's which sought to destroy life itself , he had to get back, there was no other choice. "My Hearthstone is ready for use again, if you try what you where doing when I got brought here, I could get back". Ed got up. Now seemingly content, "Well, we pulled you into this mess, I guess it's only right that we try and send you back, come on, If I remember correctly, the transmutation circle's should still be up", Ed walked slowly, in no rush to reach his destination, toward's the library, where the alchemic set up for Ed's experiment's still existed
Garn, followed Edward to the library, thankfully the hall's were now clear, everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing, there job's, not staring out of there office's at the strange tall blueish purple man in the hall. Garn felt sorry for these Alchemist's. dashing there hopes like that, but it was all true, they wern't compatable, and he couldn't remain here any long. But regardless,... he felt he should say something, anything to ease the blow, "Ed, i know you wanted to learn our magic, but trust me... its not a miralce, and its not a sollution to every problem in life". Ed kept walking, but listened, " how so, it can bring people back from the dead!", Garn thought about it, he knew what ed said was further from the truth, because of all the things that happened in Azeroth due to magic. "Trust me, its not, its ripped worlds apart, destroyed people, some have gone to war over it,... some people have even gotten addicted, and many misuse it, beleive me when i say it Ed... its not perfect" Ed paused for a moment, then let out a drawn out sigh, "I guess i see your point... sorry about all this, guess where just not ready to meet people from other worlds". They approached the library, the Transmutation Circle's still drawn into the ground, Garn stood where he had entered this world not to long ago, and had already taken out his Hearthstone. "Alright,... we have to hurry, cause for all I know im needed back at Stormwind,.. by Elune i hope this works...". Ed looked everything over, after a few seconds, gave a casual nod, its all set, if thsi brought you here while you tried to use that stone, then it should have an opposite effect here". Garn activated the slow process of 'Hearthing', activating his hearthstone, set to take him to Stormwind. ed clapped his hands together, "Goodbye Garn... and good luck", Ed slammed his hands down, causing an alchemic reaction, a few seconds later and some blinding lights later, Garn was gone
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Garn opened his eyes, and gavea smile. Bingo, he was standing outside the local Tavern of Old town, he was home. "Thank Cenarius thats over with... strange people... still, they had a lot of potential". Garn shrugged this thought off, realizing why he was here, "Right, better get back to Command and report in... im gonna have a freaking feild day trying to explain this whole fiasco!, This said, Garn shifted into his travel form and raced off towards the Stormwind Command Center without a seconds delay.