Chapter 16

What Happened?

Point of View: Ed

((I'm sorry for the delay. Once this story finishes then this account is closing. In the time that has passed, many of my characters have undergone changes in appearance and personality. I also apologize for typos in this chapter. My hands were frozen when I typed it.))

When I woke up, the room was empty of all life except for me, and Al. I blinked my vision back into focus and tried to sit up; easier said then done. The wound in my back began to throb, and I laid back down. "What happened?" I asked. The past few days had all been a blur.

"You got into a fight with some girl," Al said, "as you probably noticed, she stabbed you in the back!"

"Vengeance?" I asked. The name hit me like her dagger.

"Yeah, they haven't found her yet," Al replied.

"That girl was a homunculus Al."

"What?"

"A homunculus, an artificial human, she had the sign on her hip."

"So does Electra!"

"No, it's not the Oroboros, it's a different alchemy sign. I've never seen it before."

"Oh, okay..."

"Al, it doesn't make sense, two people with the same hair color, eye color, and skin types, who are almost opposites in personality, can't be the same person. Then there's the fact that Electra showed up while I was fighting Vengeance."

"What difference does that make?" said Al, "Electra is not the average person, she's, uhh, different."

"Everyone's different!"

"Yeah, but she is, really different!"

"Al, just leave me alone, they're not the same person, and that's the end of it."

We were quiet for a long time. We had no idea what had been going on lately. Usually some one would have shown up by now, to ask me about what happened, but no one had come yet. I tapped my fingers on the side of the bed and looked at the door, half expecting the Colonel to barge in at any moment.

Nothing happened. Al and I stayed in the room for hours, but absolutely nothing happened. "Al, what happened? Where did everybody go?" I asked eventually.

"They all left, but I'm not sure why, I didn't ask, but it seemed important," Al replied.

"Maybe Vengeance made another appearance."

"I don't know, but we should stay here."

"Yeah, I don't think I can get up."

About an hour later somebody did come in. It was Hughes, and he had pictures. This wasn't at all a very good time for this, but unfortunately I couldn't just get up and walk away. I interrupted, "how long was I asleep?"

"A few days. Electra said it would be better to put you in a medically induced coma for a few days, so we did," replied Hughes.

"WHY!"

"So your back would heal. I don't know."

"Why is everyone acting different?"

"Electra's in the hospital."

"Why? What happened?"

"We don't know."

"Was she attacked?"

"If you count attacking herself!"

I would think about the things we talked about here for a long time after that. Years would pass before I would fully understand. Electra was something different that was simply unattainable. Even just being in the same room was eerie; it felt like some other presence haunted the space around her. It was simply unnatural and simply put, alchemy-induced.

Something would go wrong very soon...