Disclaimer: I dont own FMA
"So this is the entrance?" Edward asked. The group stood there infront of an old wooden door on the other side of the school. After Edwards little outburst they had to get his attention again, before he ended up walking in the wrong direction from the way they needed to go. Alphonse kept teasing him a litle afterwards, but shut up when Edward threatened to throw his laptop into the river by their house.
"Yeah, this is it." Falman stated with a nod, "The only entrance in the school that no one uses." Edward walked up to the door and slowly placed a hand on it.
"It sorta looked like an old kitchen entrance, or the entrance to the servents quarters or something." Alphonse said looking over his shoulders at the others. Roy put a hand to his chin thinking slightly.
"Yeah I guess you have a point, it does look like somthing like that." He said after a moment.
"Hey guys!" Edward called out. Everyone loked over to him. Edward now sat crouching next to the door on the ground, half hidden behind a bush, "I think I found something!" Alphonse was the first to get to him, followed by the others as they all crouched down next to him.
"What did you find?" Alphonse asked. Edward didn't respond just pushed the branches from the bush aside and pointed to the ground underneath.
"A Transmutation circle?" Alphonse looked over at his brother in confusion, "Why is there a Transmutation circle here?"
"Probably a way to-"
"What are all you kids doing?" A female voice interupted what Edward was about to say. Everyone froze at the sound before turning around slowly to see who it was. Edward and Alphonse eyes went wide, while most of the group cursed silently under there breath.
"Mom!?" Edward and Alphonse asked at the same time.
"Mom?" The rest of the group looked over at them like they had grown antlers.
"That's not you're mother, guys," Roy said, "That's the school secretary, Juliet Douglas."
"They know." Juliet said, with a laugh, "And I may not be there mom, but I am there aunt, and I know one thing, you two boys should be at home in bed or my sister will be rather worried. You know she's a light sleeper." The two boys laughed nervously.
"But Aunt Juliet I didn't know you lived in Risembool..." Alphonse muttered slightly.
"Wow wow wow wait!" Havoc Interupted, "Please don't tell me our schools secretary and your mother are twins!"
"Sorry," Edward muttered, laughing slightly, "They are. Identical too..."
"Since we hardly ever see Aunt Juliet we sometime mix her up with our mother." Alphonse explained.
"Sometimes?" Juliet asked before laughing, "I think you mean pretty much everytime you see me without Trisha." She looked over at the two before she gave a small smile, but there was something that wasnt so inviting about it causing the boys freeze slightly, "It's a shame though, who my darling little sister decided to marry, and by moving here she's doomed you to the same fate as the old twins. What a shame."
"Juliet?" Edward whispered a sudden feeling of dread running over him. Alphonse moved closer to him, placing his hand overtop his and sqeezing. Juliet looked up in the sky, ignoring the older twin.
"Of course if you're going to escape the fate you may as well both die..."
"STOP IT!!" Wrath burst out the door and ran over to Juliet, "Please don't!! Please!! I don't want to see anyone get hurt again!!" It seemed as though the young homunculus was still crying over what Envy had said earlier but he still couldn't sit by and watch this. Sloth smiled down at the younger sin, wrapping her arms around him in a gentle hug.
"Don't worry Wrath, I wont be doing anything. That's Envy's job." She said.
"NO!" Wrath yelled, pushing out of Sloths arms, "I'm sick of this! I don't want them to end up like Damian and me!!" Edwards eye's widened at that. Was this Wrath, the new Wrath that his father told him about...was he one of the twins?! Edward jumped up at that and grabbed ahold of Wraths arms.
"Are you one of the twins?!" He asked. Wrath looked at him, his eyes wide in shock. It slipped. He let the one thing he never wanted them to find out about slip out. Wrath stared up at him, the surprise never leaving his face before he looked down and his shoulders slumped and he resigned.
"...yeah...I was the older one...like you..." He whispered. Everyone gasped at that, staring at Wrath in shock.
Winry sat down in her living room, a blanket slung loosly over her shoulders. It was passed midnight yet she couldn't sleep at all. She couldn't stop thinking about Edward and Alphonse. Mostly she was worried, the stories she had grown up with kept running through her head and she couldn't stop thinking that the boys were going to end up the same way as the other twins. That they would get hurt...
The sound of footsteps snapped her out of her thoughts. She turned aroundto see her mother standing there. The two looked at each other for a moment before Sara smiled and sat down next to her daughter.
"Are you okay, Win?" She asked quietly. Winry looked at her mom, a little surprised as to why she asked.
"Of course...why?" She asked. Sara sighed and leaned back against the couch.
"Winry, I'm worried about you...you haven't been sleeping well since Ed and Al moved here." She said, "Can you tell me what you're worried about?" Winry looked at her mom for a minute before she sighed and looked down, clenching her fists together.
"They keep investigating the rumors..." She whispered, "..I...I don't want then to get hurt...I don't want them to...to...mom what if they...what if Alphonse ends up like the other one. I mean wasn't the first time this happened...wasn't it the younger of the twins that got hurt..? didn't he...didn't he...die..?"
"Wrath, don't say anything more!" Juliet snapped at the boy. Wrath turned around and glared at her.
"And YOU should talk!?" He snapped, "Sloth they're your nephews and you're willingly going through with this! Why...Why are you doing this!? What the hell is the motivation?!"
"Wrath...why are you yelling at me? You've never yelled at me before." Sloth said looking down at Wrath her face expressionless.
"Maybe because I'm already pissed!" He yelled, "Envy started at but you're just adding gassoline to the fire! You're not helping!"
"Wait...Sloth?" Edward whispered.
"Juliet...Juliet is the new Sloth?" Alphonse asked, his eyes wide. Sloth looked over at him.
"Yes, I am Sloth. I chose this though so don't start thinking that it was forced on me, do you understand." She said, her eyes hard as she glared down at the two boys.
"But...But why?" Edward asked.
"Well that's not really any of your business now is it?" Sloth said.
"It sure as hell is there business if you're the one who's going to take Alphonse's life..." Wrath muttered.
"What!?" The twins exclaimed at the same time.
"Oh Winry..." Sara looked down at her daughter, who now had her eyes shut tight as tears threatend to fall. Sara leaned down and hugged Winry tightly.
"I'm sure it won't happen again," She whispered, "They're rumors Winry, they're not real."
"But what if they are?!" Winry asked pulling slightly out of her mothers embrace so she could look up at her, "What if they're all true, and they end up hurt! We don't even know what happened with the older of the two! He just vanished after his brother was killed by Wrath right? That's what is says in the legend anyway, right?"
"Winry..." Sara looked at her and sighed, "Don't worry. If anything happens I'm sure you'll figure it out..." Winry looked down and nodded. Sara smiled before standing up, "Well now, let's head to bed now, alright?"
"Alright..." Winry said getting up herself.
"I won't be the one to kill him, Wrath. I told you, that's Envy's job." Sloth said. Edward glared at her, and stood infront of his brother in a protective stance.
"There is no way in hell that I'll let anyone harm Al!" He snapped.
"It doesn't matter if you feel that way or not..." Wrath whispered. Edward looked over at him.
"And what exactly do you mean by that?" He asked.
"What I mean is that it doesn't matter how much you try to protect him it will prove worthless!" Wrath yelled out, tears starting to form in his eyes once again, "I tried to protect Damian but he was going to be killed anyway! It didn't matter what I did...If Al is ment tobe killed then his fate has been sealed and there is nothing that you can do about it." Edward glared down hard at him.
"I don't care what you say...I'LL NEVER LET ALPHONSE GET KILLED!!" With that, Edward grabbed his brother by the wrist and ran, dragging his brother close behind, leaving the rest of the crew standing there, staring at what had just occured before them.
Haha! I finaly managed to get this chapter up. And I got my thoughts gather again. ...ok well basically I just found my storyline set up today and I figured things out again. In anycase this will be the last chapter for the summer. I'm going to a convention this weekend and then afterward i'm going to be staying with my friend for two weeks and she has dail-up. after that when I get home we're going on a family vacation for atleast a week i think...anyway i hope you enjoyed this chappie.
R&R please!
