The Flowing Sand Alchemist
Chapter two
I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist nor anything associating with it now on to the story. Also if Ed is spelt out to Edward it is Jasmin's POV but if it is shortened to Ed then it is Ed's POV hope you like it and please tell me what you think
"Where where am I?" Jasmin asked looking around and seeing nothing but empty white space.
"You are in my domain young miss Heartless." Truth said behind her, causing Jasmin to jump.
"Who are you?" Jasmin asked her mind already going through all the texts she has read about Truth.
"You already know who I am Miss Heartless, you're already going through all the text you have read about me." Truth smiled and how wide it became made Jasmin shiver.
"Yes I have read about Truth but you don't look like the description that was written in the book." This statement made Truth laugh its voice sending shivers down Jasmin's spine.
"And who wrote this description of me." Truth asked its smile becoming even wider.
"Edward Elric I think." Jasmin was scared by this being something told her that it had an unlimited amount of power and was just toying with her.
"Well each person that comes through here sees me as a different shape." Truth willed his existence to become more defined showing a small solid white girl standing there with a darker black outline than before its smile growing even larger as Jasmin noticed that the body shape between her and it were almost exactly the same.
"How is this possible?" Jasmin asked her mind racing to it figure out.
"It's quite simple really you are special even in my eyes, see this is not the first time nor the first thousand times you have passed through here miss Heartless."
"B But I have never seen you before!" Jasmin yelled getting so scared now she started to act her age for once.
"Well that's both true and false at the same time that's the finicky nature of time travel, you see you have created a time loop one that will keep repeating itself for all eternity, your father knew about this so did Trisha Elric, the adopted daughter of Izumi Curtis, all of your teachers knew this would be the end result for your training. Now that you know this it's time for you to see if you lose our bet this time." Truth snapped its' fingers and then all of the memories of the past 2365 Jasmins that have passed through here. The first hundred all paid tolls like Edward or Izumi did losing limbs or internal organs as they time traveled, then the hundred and first made a bet with Truth that she would be able to take in and stay sane with all the memories of all her past lives inside her then Truth upped her one by saying that not only does she have to withstand it but it will compound until one of her future lives will lose their sanity from the sheer volume of memories. Another two hundred lives later Truth began to get tired of waiting and decided to make all the Jasmins pay a toll by having their base emotions twisted towards a single type and Truth has yet to repeat a single emotion yet.
"Ow my head hurts." Jasmin said as her mind started to separate and catalog all the memories she has now gained compounding all the memories that were the same and noting the differences and noting how the emotion twist changed history quite a few times. Like when Roy Mustang was supposed to escape the slave alchemists grip easily was killed and Riza Hawkeye became president of Amestris Leading the country to even greater glory than Mustang ever could.
"Well you win this time miss Heartless now for your toll I have been saving this emotion for quite some time hoping to get one of you that would make the most interesting twists in history with it and it seems that is you let's see how much damage you can do with a love towards those that are your allies. Do not worry though it will seem as if this has always been the way you act you will not even notice a difference." Truth once again snapped its fingers and all of a sudden Jasmin began to see things in a new light seeing all her cherished memories with her mother who was long dead of all those moments in all her past lives with all those loves she has lived with and lost, then she noticed something in all of these memories.
"Why am I older in my past lives? There seems to be a gap in my memories about how I became so much older so quickly." Jasmin was perplexed by the problem.
"Oh the reason for that is because I blocked those memories because all of your past lives keep choosing different ages the last one wanted to become 70 years old. Now you have a choice how old do you want to be when you rejoin the past once again." Truth waited for Jasmin to make up her mind.
"I want to be 20." To this Truth smiled its creepy smile that made Jasmin shiver again, then it snapped its fingers one more time and Jasmin began to feel her self-getting taller, her body filling out, her muscles becoming less noticeable but as she moved around she noticed they were still there and just as strong, her hair went down to the middle of her shoulder blades still its midnight black coloring. Once her transformation was complete she noticed Truth's body changed as well to keep its overall outline to fit hers.
"Now to send you off after the little Elric as you have done so many times before and shall do again for countless more times." With that Truth gestured to a large stone door that slowly started to open and within was such a darkness that even Jasmin's hair seemed to be a light color by comparison. Then in the darkness eyes started to open up and small black hands began to drag Jasmin into the door, even though she knew exactly what was going to happen it still made no difference on how scared she was feeling by being pulled into that door.
"I wonder what differences she will make." Truth asked itself.
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Jasmin woke up next to a set of train tracks as she was grumbling to herself about how her neck hurt she stood up and stretched taking stock of what items she still had with her.
"Ok, let's see jug of sand check, throwing jars full of sand check, throwing stars check, transmutation circles on the stars undamaged, gloves check, transmutation circles on gloves undamaged, WA watch check and hmm that's new." Jasmin held up a blank watch made out of rose quartz with the time travel transmutation circle on its cover. Jasmin opened up the rose quartz watch and saw on the inside was a picture of her and her father. A tear welled up in the corner of her eye as she looked at the picture.
"Thank you truth, well no use sitting around moping let's see what I remember about this area." Jasmin concentrated as she sorted through her memories of the area; about a dozen unique memories popped up the rest were variations of these dozen. Deciding she would need the power she started to walk into the forest then after a second thought she went back to the train tracks clapped her hands and placed them on the tracks making a large stone wall from the earth underneath and using some of the iron rail made the word stop in the middle of it. Then taking a small amount of iron rail out using alchemy she transmuted it into magnetic sand, walking down to the point where she guessed the end of the train would be then adding another 20 meters and made a self-activating transmutation circle then covered it with a pile of magnetic sand.
"That should do it." She said to herself as she walked back into the forest putting on her gloves.
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Ed was sitting down his head resting back snoring lightly when the train jerked backwards as the emergency brakes were put on.
"What happened?" Asked the man across the aisle from Ed looking towards the front of the car his eyes wide with uncertainty.
"Don't know but I plan on finding out." Ed answered the man as he stood to go check on the engine car. Just as he was exiting his car he saw the shadow of the wall behind the train turning to get a better look at it he saw a few very large words on it.
'Edward Elric Get Off And Go Into The Forest' Shaking his head Ed thought to himself,
'Who is after me this time?' shaking his head some more Ed jumped off the rail of walkway between cars. Landing lightly on his feet Ed slowly started to walk into the forest not noticing the line of sand he crossed to get into the forest. Still walking towards the center of the forest his mind still on what Winry said to him earlier that week. Smiling slightly with a bemused expression Ed walked into a clearing where there were thousands of sand lines crisscrossing one another in an extremely complex pattern the equations alone made Ed's head spin, then he noticed a part that he recognized.
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Jasmin noticed that Edward had stepped into the clearing smiling to her-self as she placed her hands down on the center of the enormous transmutation circle just as shouted for her to stop. There was a crackle of alchemic energy and the traditional alchemical blue sparks started to form spreading outward to the edges of the circle encompassing the forest then a small eye of truth formed widening to the size of the innermost circle about the size of a large serving plate. Edward sprinted forward and grabbed Jasmin and tried to haul her away from the eye of truth only to be thrown away with a xingese martial art move. Looking down at his dazed expression Jasmin shook her head and the activated the second circle within the first causing the blue sparks to turn green and the black hands coming out of the eye of truth started to take all of the living vegetation out of the inside of the circle. Ed watched as the forest was slowly consumed by the eye and after a few minutes there was no forest anymore not even the grass had survived the only green color within the circle was a large green philosophers stone.
"Now Edward let's see how much your alchemy will cost." Jasmin activated another circle one of fifty she placed around in the precise spots Edward should have landed or stood after the stone was made once activated Edward was sucked into the eye of truth along with Jasmin screaming and cursing the whole time it dragged him into it.
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"Well, well, well, Elric long time no see." Truth said taking the outline of Ed's form.
"Not long enough in my opinion. What the hell was all of that just now? Was it you're doing?" Ed asked his tone clam but angry.
"No it was not my doing it was your friend right there." Truth pointed behind Ed who turned around and saw that girl from the forest checking the intricate circles on her arm length gloves.
"HEY!" Ed shouted to get the girl's attention to which she ignored as she traced part of a circle and then traced again.
"Truth my circles have moved five nanometers could you fix that it will mess up my alchemy if I use them as they are now." Truth smiled as small black hands rose up and disassembled then reassembled her arm length gloves, after tracing them again she seemed satisfied.
"HEY! Who the hell are you?!" Ed was very close to going up to the girl and shaking her till she gave him answers.
"Oh guess now might be prudent for introductions. My name is Jasmin, Jasmin Heartless." The girl said with a slight smile her blue eyes twinkled slightly with her smile. Then she turned to Truth and held out the green philosopher's stone.
"This should be enough of a payment for his gate right." Truth only laughed at the offering.
"Sorry the payment has risen once again." Truth smiled his smile way to large for the face it was on. Not even one second had passed before a younger version of Jasmin appeared through yet another eye.
"Ok how about now." The younger version said holding up three blue philosopher stones This caused Truth's smile to drop.
"You know it takes all the fun out of it if you keep doing this to save your future selves." Truth said to the younger version of Jasmin.
"True but you were the one to keep me in here saying I can only make small trips back to the reality so I make use of what you gave me in the best possible way next time you might not want to raise the price people are starting to notice the missing animals and forests even if I jump to different eras." Truth frowned at this one and waved his hand taking the four stones and placing them against Ed's chest.
"They have paid your fare now you get to use alchemy once again." Ed watched as his gate of truth was reformed before his eyes, a sight he thought he would never see again.
"Now it is time for you to go Elric and you to Miss Heartless, and you Miss Heartless we need to talk about your reality jumping privileges." As truth started to punish the remaining Heartless as the other two were dragged into their own gates.
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Ed awoke to the sight of a brown grass looking up he saw skeletal trees that were mere husks of their former selves. Getting up he looked around for Jasmin and saw her placing her hands once again on the giant transmutation circle. Just as Ed was about to run to stop her the sand making up the circle started to glow and flow into a jug next to her, once it was full to the brim Jasmin clapped her hands and pressed them against the ball of remaining glowing sand turning it into a monument to the dead forest.
"Ok what the hell was all this about?" Ed asked walking over to Jasmin wary as her alchemical skill seemed to surpass his own.
"I stole a forests soul to give you back your alchemy Edward that is what happened." She looked down at the dead grass and Ed watched as a tear slipped from one eye and fell onto the blade of dead grass. Unsure what to do Ed decided to test to see if he really did regain his alchemy clapping his hands he placed them on the ground and formed a small dirt toy horse similar to the one he had once made for his mother long ago.
"You are free to go Edward Elric I shall be taking my leave I hope you won't find those walls to difficult a challenge to tare down." With that Jasmin proceeded to walk towards the train and Ed followed.
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Jasmin glanced behind her to see Edward was following her just looking at him filled her heart with sorrow as she knew what price she paid for the greater good of her nation and the world.
'get a grip Jasmin you know that you have to follow him anyways just walk back to the train get in and sit down that is all you have to do now.' Jasmin picked up her pace to get to her destination quicker after her internal debate with herself. Edward increased his pace to keep Jasmin in his sight. A few minutes later they were both on the train moving west as the walls were removed by Edward and his newly regained alchemy. Edward sitting three seats ahead of Jasmin who simply stared at the back of Edward's head wondering what will happen next.
I hope you like the newest chapter it took me a while to debate whether or not I wanted to give Ed his alchemy back but in the end he would not be a fun to write if he didn't have his alchemy if you have any questions ideas or criticisms please review I will be sure to give a shout out with a reply/answer in the next chapter which should be coming out soon hopefully thanks again for continuing to read my fanfiction