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Chapter Fifteen

Let Them Go

Ed weaved in and out through the trees of the forest after his mother-look-alike. Al followed calling his name. They were thinking the same thing. 'How is she here? She died and our human transmutation didn't work…or did it?'

The Inu-gang followed closely with Winry; Win and Kagome on Inuyasha and Shippo, Sango, and Miroku on Kirara.

"Winry, I thought you guys all said that their mom died?" Kagome looked over at Winry to see her crying and with a look of utter shock on her face.

"She did. This isn't her, there's no way. Their transmutation didn't work. Ed said that a monster was created, that wasn't…wasn't…human."

"Hurry up, Inuyasha! We gotta' stop them!"

"You got it! This reeks of Naraku!" Inuyasha and Kirara picked up speed. Once they entered a clearing to see Ed, Al, and Sloth standing off, a barrier stopped them. "Dammit!"

"Ed, get away from her! Al, stop him!" Winry pounded on the barrier until her fists bled.

Her words fell on deaf ears. Ed and Al were both lost in their thoughts and the fact that what seemed to be their mother was right before them.

"Ed, s-she…she died, this can't be her." Al shook Ed's shoulder, but he was in a sort of trance.

"My dear, Alphonse? Don't you remember your own mother? Well…no, I would expect you wouldn't. You obviously didn't love me enough or weren't dedicated enough to bring me back." Once she finished saying this she turned into her water creature form.

All Ed could do was scream in horror. Al tried to keep him from freaking out anymore or falling over, though it was hard enough to control himself, let alone his brother on top of that.

Winry watched helplessly in horror. She saw her love in disarray and saw a face of someone so familiar, mutate into something unthinkable. It was tearing her and everyone else apart.

Sloth regained her face. "Farewell, my sons." With that, she "melted" and slid into the bushes. Once she entered, Envy, Lust, and Gluttony came out.

Ed rose and wiped his tears. "Do you bastards have to ruin everything for us!"

"Well, maybe. Who next would you like to see die? Your father? Mustang? Or maybe…Hughes? Of course, the last one wouldn't be any fun."

"And why not!" Ed grew worried.

"Because, I already killed him when you left Central after the Lab 5 incident."

Ed stumbled with this. "You're lying!"

"No, actually, I turned into Maria Ross, I believe you know her, and led him out of the building. Once he realized I wasn't her, I changed into his wife and shot him." Envy smiled guiltlessly, he was greatly enjoying torturing the boy.

"You sick bastard! He was married! He had a little girl! You killed her father and my friend!" Ed transmuted his arm into a blade and took his fighting stance. "Come get me you sick son of a bitch! Come fight me unless you're scared!"

"Now, now. We need not be so hasty; it seems we have something against you!" Ed turned to check on Al only to Gluttony biting off his arm as Envy held him back in the form of Armstrong.

"Al! Let him go! He's my little brother!" Ed's eyes started to tear; he couldn't stand the thought of losing his little brother again.

"Brother, don't worry!" Al was still attempting to fight off the muscular man while his other arm was eaten.

Ed clapped his hands and created a box around Al to hold off the homunculi a little while longer. "I'm your enemy, not him, he didn't do anything! Fight me and if you're going to hurt anyone, hurt me, I'm your opponent!"

"Aww, how touching, he wants to save everyone, save for himself." Naraku came out of the bushes laughing maniacally.

"Naraku, you bastard, you leave Ed and Al alone!" Inuyasha unleashed another wind scar and finally broke the barrier. "Fight me, leave them alone!"

"Yet another hero, how touching!" Naraku spout some roots from beneath his cloak.

"Are you still not man enough to fight me in person? Do you still have to use your golems? Well then, BRING IT ON PUPPET-BOY!" Inuyasha activated another Wind-Scar and destroyed the golem. He turned to see Ed losing to two homunculi.

"Inuyasha! Get Al and run…!" Ed's sentence was interrupted with a nail going through his shoulder. Gluttony came over, tripped him and bit his leg, melting the lower portion.

"Ed!" Al had drawn a transmutation circle on the box wall and melted them down. "Get out of there!"

"I can't frickin walk! My leg is gone!" Ed stumbled backwards, pushing himself towards the woods. Kagome shot an arrow, leaving the homunculi in disarray while Winry ran forward and grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back. "Get out of here Idiot! You can get hurt!" Just as he finished saying that, Lust's nail went through her arm. "Winry! You bastard!" Ed grabbed Winry's wrench and a rock and made himself a make-shift foot and charged Lust. She dodged many of his moves, while a couple of his met her arms and stomach, many of her attacks me Ed in full force.

"You little rat!"

"Stop calling me little, size doesn't matter!" He saw an opening and took it. He ran her through.

"Here come my friends!" She fell over injured as Gluttony came over.

"What have you done to my Lust! You little bastard!" He lunged for his arm, Ed swerved and sliced his arm.

"Elric! Move!" Ed jumped out of the way as Inuyasha activated another Wind- Scar. But, the homunculi moved as well. They fled off into the forest.

"Winry? Are you okay!" Ed grabbed her and shook her lightly.

Winry flashed him a weak smile. "Yeah, I'm fine. My arm hurts a little though." She giggled a little.

"Don't worry, Win! I can fix that." Kagome flew to her side with her medic bag. She pulled out some antibacterial cream and some numbing lotion to ease her pain. "I have some for you, as well, Ed."

"Naw, Let's set up camp after you take care of Winry." He rose, but quickly fell when his "foot" crumbled beneath him. "Well, at least your automail holds up better than mine."

Winry laugh aloud at this. "Nice attempt though. But, the ankle obviously didn't function well enough. Uh, Ed…?"

"Yeah...?"

"Could you change it back to a wrench?" Winry blushed and looked at the ground in embarrassment.

Ed did what he was told, but he made an alteration. He added writing to it. Winry noticed this and read it aloud.

"Ed loves Winry." She blushed and smiled brightly. She turned and hugged him with one arm. "And Winry loves Ed, too!" She giggled while Ed blushed. Al and the other men laughed at him.

Al started singing "Love is in the Air!" and Ed transmuted a large fist witch rose out of the ground and took him high into the air. "Ah! Brother, PUT ME DOWN!" He drew a circle and did the same to Ed.

"Dammit, Al!" He clapped his hands and knocked the chalk out of his hands. "Let's see you fight now!"

Al pulled out another piece of chalk and drew another circle which made the fist clench around Ed, separating his hands and putting pressure on Ed's wounds, causing him to pale, get dizzy, and cringe in pain. "Brother…? Ed…?" Al drew another circle which caused the hand to set Ed down, he drew another which set him down. "Are you okay?"

Ed attempted to rise into his sitting position, with much effort. "Yeah, fine. Can we just set up camp and get my leg fixed? We also have to find some metal and fix you as well, Al."

"If I have to, I can go back to my era and get some scrap metal." Kagome enjoyed the thought of going to a junk yard with Inuyasha to steel a car door off some old piece of junk car.

"Yeah, I think you might have to, if that won't be a problem."

"No, Inuyasha and I aught to be able to find something."

"Why do I have to come!" Inuyasha glared over at her.

"Because 'I'll take too long' or 'I might go to school' at 11 o'clock at night. And besides, I need your help. For the method I'm thinking about using to get the metal, I'll need your help…most definitely." Kagome nodded to herself. "Plus you might make a new friend!"

"Fine, we'll be back later." Inuyasha picked Kagome up bridal style and flew off into the woods in the direction of the bone eater's well.