"What?" Ed said. I had just finished telling him what I'm going to do, the information I have so far, and all of the risk factors involved. He looked back at me and said, "You aren't really going to go thru with this right?" I looked down at the floor, prepared for a lecture after my unwanted reply. "Yes, I am going thru with this. I have everything I need and-" Edward interrupted me, "Are you crazy, you could be killed!" He hit his hand on the desk and said "No, I'm not gonna let you do this, its too dangerous-" I cut him off, "There's no talking me out of this, Ed! I've made my decision." Ed got irritated, he knew not all girls were like this, so why was she acting so stupid! "The hell you have!" I was getting angry now, who did he think he was ordering me around! "You're not the boss of me, I've made this decision, its my problem if I fail! My resposibility, so quit trying to act like my dad, both my parents are gone!"

Ed went silent, I turned away from Ed and started straitening the contents of my bag as a short passtime. "So thats it, you're just gonna throw your life away." Ed said, why wouldn't he get this thru his skull. "No, Ed, I'm not just throwing my life away, this is the only step I can take towards moving forward in my reasearch. After all, I didn't become a dog of the state for no good reason." Ed paused for a minute, then he spoke again. "I know that, but-" I interrupted him again, "But nothing, Ed! You're not gonna stop me!" I said. "The hell I won't! Do you honestly think you mother would want you to do this? Huh?!" Ed yelled. "I don't know because she's gone, Ed, okay!" I said, a little quieter. "No, you do know, you just want to be an IDIOT and throw your life away," Ed yelled as he moved closer to me. Slowly lowering his voice as he got closer to me, he continued, "And as your bodyguard...I won't allow it." We were now face to face, staring right into each other's eyes. Ed's stare was piercing and actually very authoritive, I then grabbed up my bag and turned to walk out the door. "Where are you going!?" Ed yelled at me sternly. "To do my experiment, in peace!" I said as I pulled on my jacket. Ed grabbed my arm and held it so tight it was beginning to hurt, "You are NOT leaving this house." I rolled my eyes, "Oh this song & dance again?" I pulled my arm out of his hold. "Yes THIS song & dance again, and notice you're also going to get yourself killed this time too!" He said, he then gave me a sarcastic 'Its amazing!' look. I then said, "Only this time, you're not going to stop me." I turned to leave, Ed dove for his shoes in hopes he wouldn't fall on his ass again. I slammed the door behind me as Ed finally got his second boot on.

Seeing me gone made Ed's heart sink, 'she really wasn't kidding' he thought. He stood back up and though that he wasn't kidding either, he would stop her. Edward ran out the door quickly, he had no time to waste, who knows what she was doing now.

Ed went running all over town asking around in search of me. The longer he couldn't find me, the more of a sinking feeling he got. He reached a cement abandoned building, maybe she's in here. He looked at the doorway and thought to himself, oh please be okay.

He went inside, the building was much larger that he thought. Thru the door was an ongoing hallway that seemed like a maze as Ed walked thru it. Ed finally reached a very large room, he slowly walked into it as he searched the room. He figured no one was there until his eyes fell on me. Ed gasped, "Raven..."

Edward charged at me at full speed, but he wouldn't stop me from going through with this. "Raven DON'T DO IT!!" He yelled, I clapped my hands together and put them to the ground. Edward was then pushed backwards into the wall by the large chunk of ground I transmuted. Out of the wall came thick chunks of stone that wrapped themselves around Ed's limbs, rendering him unable to move.

As I watched Ed struggle with all his strength, I felt sad, but I wasn't about to give up. I turned around to face the transmutation circle I had arranged with all the things I needed to test my theory. "Raven don't do it! It's too dangerous, you could get killed!" Ed pleaded to me as he struggled to get loose. I ignored him, his continued struggle just made me want him to give up more. "Listen to me dammit!" He yelled at me, I looked back at the struggling boy once again, he stopped struggling for a minute, noticing I was looking at him. I looked back at the ground, "I'm sorry…" I turned back to the transmutation circle, I heard Ed begin to struggle again, "NO DON'T DO IT!!!!" He screamed. Came down to my knees, clapped my hands together, and put them on the transmutation circle. "NOO!!! STOP DAMMIT!!!" He screamed through tears. Blue light grew in front of me, sparking and cracking until it turned into a huge explosion. I felt pain flush over my body until everything went black.

(Ed/3rd person POV)

Tears ran down Ed's face as he looked at the girl's limp body on the ground. "RAVEN!!!!" He screamed trying to get his hands free, all of the struggling caused blood to drip from his left wrist. A disturbing giggle broke out, Ed looked up to see Envy, Lust and Gluttony, standing in amusement of Raven's death. "Since she's dead, can I eat her?" Gluttony said gleefully. Envy shrugged "Well she is dead, what else would we do with the body?" Lust nodded at Gluttony, and Gluttony looked back at Raven's body. "GET AWAY FROM HER!!!!" Ed screamed. "Well what do you suggest Fullmetal pipsqueak, Hmm? You intend on keeping her body as a souvenir?" Ed was extremely insulted by this, "She's dead, just face it." He held up two fingers and said "That's two women you care deeply for dead." He smirked, Ed got angry "SHUT UP DAMMIT!!" Tears rushing down his face only to fall to the ground, Envy shook his head.

"I don't recall calling the water works, do you?" Lust asked Envy. "No, that's just the Fullmetal boy leaking, not the water pipes." This only worsened Ed's anger, but then his eyes widened when he saw Gluttony heading towards Raven's body. He tried breaking the stone that held him, using every ounce of strength in his body, until he got his right hand broken out. He then clapped his hands together and put them to the wall releasing him. He used alchemy to transmute his hand blade as he jumped off of the wall charging strait at Gluttony, screaming at the top of his lungs ready to kill him. Gluttony jumped away quickly before Ed landed on the ground. Hatred, tears, and sorrow filled his eyes as he stared at the homunculi so humored by this event. Ed turned to Raven's body, there were blackened areas from where dust from the explosion settled on her.

He knelt down next to her, gently scooped her up and held her close, she was definitely dead, but still he put his head to her chest to maybe hear a heart beat. He got nothing but a bunch of dirt on the side of his head. Tears streaked his face again, now what was Ed going to do? His true love was dead now, no matter how much he tried to run away from it, he couldn't escape, because his reminder was laying limp in his arms. He need's evidence to believe something, and all the evidence he would need was right there. "She's dead you know, she isn't coming back, and unless you want to repeat what happened with your mother, I wouldn't suggest trying to bring her back." Envy said. Ed cried harder now, he didn't want to believe it. He clenched his fists and cried out at the top of lungs in agony. He buried his face into Raven's lifeless chest, and wailed, feeling so useless that he couldn't stop her when he could. He wondered why he couldn't do anything right, he couldn't protect his mom, he couldn't protect Nina, he couldn't even protect his own brother when he needed help. He was full of memories of the past, hatred for himself, and agony for loosing another loved one.

End Chapter 12