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Chapter 2
"No actually. My brother and I tried to bring our mother back from the dead."
"You're kidding me right? You know that's impossible."
Ed smirked, so, he's just like one of them. The idiots who stuck me in this godforsaken place. "Not where I'm from."
Danny became even more curious and asked, "What do you mean?"
Jeez, this kid just doesn't give up! Oh well, seeing as though he hasn't called me crazy or nuts, yet, I guess I could tell him a little about Amestris. "Well, if you really want to know, then come in and have a seat. It's going to be a long story."
Danny nodded and walked in. The room was pretty plain but there were a few drawings hung up by tacks on the walls. All of them were basically the same though, a circle with stuff inside them. There were also a few pictures on the wall too. Most of them had a picture of Ed with someone that was slightly taller than him, but looked a lot like him. Danny assumed he must've been related. Besides all of these there was a simple table, two chairs, and a small bed.
"Well, uh, have a seat. Sorry, I'm not used to having visitors. The only visitor I had was my little brother Al…but he died just a few years ago." His eyes hardened as he remembered the last days he was able to spend with him. "Anyway," he seemed to snap back to reality, "When I was younger, my dad left not long after my brother was born. My mom raised us both…and those were the happiest years of our life. Well, one day we came home and found her passed out on the ground. Turned out that she was suffering from a sickness for a long time. She died a little while afterwards…and we had known that it might've been possible to bring her back with alchemy." Ed paused and glanced at Danny, expecting him to look disbelieving. He was somewhat surprised that he was still listening expectantly.
Ed continued, "See, me and my brother were really good at alchemy. Mom said we were 'definitely his sons'. So, we found a teacher that trained us with and eventually we thought we'd learned enough to try it.
"We gathered up most of the ingredients for a human being and began the process. We thought that everything was going great but then, everything went wrong. I realized that we didn't have all of the ingredients for a human. We didn't have a soul to finish the equivalent exchange. I looked beside me and my brother was being taken by a bright light and I tried to save him. I turned back and saw that my left leg was being broken apart. Then I sacrificed my right arm to save my brother's soul. I attached it to a suit of armor and well our journey to restore our bodies started.
"The thing is, even trying to bring back a person who died is a huge taboo. It's called 'human transmutation'. We were punished, but we were still lucky…seeing as though I'm still here today.
"After a few years we found a way to restore our bodies but, millions of people had to die so that we could. We eventually found it but my brother became it. Al was almost sacrificed and I died."
"Okay now I'm lost. If you said that you died then how are you talking to me?" Danny asked. Could he be a ghost? If he is then why hasn't my ghost sense gone off?
Ed smiled, "My brother pulled me back, but he was gone when I woke up. I had my arm and leg again. My friend Rose told me about what happened and why I was still alive. I told her to get out of the place that we were in and to take a boy who had my arm and leg with her because he basically ended up just like I was…well, he lost my arm and leg after we'd fought. So, I sacrificed my life for him and ended up in this world in which I had thought was a dream at until a certain point.
"For two full years I didn't know what happened to him. Along the way I met a guy who looked a lot like Al and his name was Alphonse which, coincidently, was my brother's full name. Anyway, I met up with my brother here, he was partially attached to a suit of armor, and we were able to talk. We opened the Gate and I was able to go back home for a little while. I even able to meet up with an old friend who gave me this arm and leg I have today." He paused again to pull up his sleeve. Danny was amazed. Ed smirked again and continued, "An idiot from this world wanted to take over my world and started killing everyone and everything in her path. Al and I saved the world and I told him to stay there to destroy that part of the gate. He didn't and well, we were finally able to destroy it after so many years…So, I think that's about it." Ed waited for Danny to say something like, 'you're crazy!' 'You've gone nuts!' or just laugh hysterically like many have so many time before. Danny simply stared and seemed to believe everything that he had said.
"Whoa, dude. Talk about a hard life! How old are you?"
Completely taken by surprise, he answered, "100 years old exactly. Why?"
"Whoa! I thought you were a little younger! I mean you don't look all wrinkly and I thought you were only like, 60 or something."
This kid's pretty strange…not that I'm not but no one's ever reacted like him, thought Ed. "Hey kid."
"My name's Danny Fenton."
Why does that sound so familiar…I could swear I've heard that name somewhere… "Yeah whatever. Usually people think I'm crazy when I tell my life's story. That's why I'm stuck in the goddamned place. Did you actually believe me?"
"Well, my parents are crazy ghost hunters so, I guess, anything's possible right?" Danny replied.
That's it! There's a ghost called Danny Phantom that helps this town! He paused for a moment to look at Danny. He may not talk to anyone, but he sure heard the rumors. He even read the paper every once in a while. Sans the hair and the eyes, the two looked exactly the same."Hey Danny, you said that your parents are ghost hunters didn't you?"
Danny nodded slowly. "Yeah, why?"
"I don't know, but you do know about that ghost kid that helps the town right?"
Danny nodded even slower, failing to hide the fear in his eyes. Ed might've been old, but nothing got past his eyes.
Noticing the fear, he knew he hit the nail on the forehead. "You're Danny Phantom aren't you."