Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Aaliyah.
No One's POV
The dark area appeared on screen with the broken stone pillars around with fire on them.
"Hello?" Ed's voice echoed. "Can anyone hear me?" Ed appeared on screen, trekking through the blood. His face was shown as he looked around. "Hello! ANYBODY?" He looked forward once more and cupped his mouth as he screamed, "What the hell is this place?"
Aaliyah's POV
'Open your eyes. Wake up Aaliyah.'
I stood up from the dream. "What was that?" I said to myself. I stand up and look around surroundings. "Where am I?" I said to myself. Wait where's Ed and Ling?! I have to find them? I run towards a direction. "Edward! Ling?! Where are you?!" I shouted. Then I heard my name called.
"Aaliyah! Where are you?!" the voice shout. It sound like Edward. I run towards his voice and saw him.
"Edward..." I said softly.
Ed's POV*
'Where the hell am I?!'I shout in my head. 'Where's Aaliyah!?'I look around my surroundings and saw only blood and building and others stuff.
I started walking around the place. And look for my girlfriend. "Aaliyah! Where are you?!" I shouted really loud. "Edward..." I heard a soft voice said my name. "Aaliyah...?" I said to her. "Wait, what if you're Envy." I said unsure. Aaliyah raise a eyebrow. "Really? *sighs*Why would look like ugly palm tree with the ugliest outfit, like seriously who's wear that." Aaliyah complain to me.
"Ok... You're Aaliyah." I said to her. Then I walked up to her and hugged her. "Edward..." Aaliyah said and as she hugged back. "What's wrong?" Aaliyah asked me. "I was just scared ya know. I thought I lost you." I said to her. "Edward, I will always be by your side. And never leave you." Aaliyah said to me.
Then we kissed and heard a footsteps coming our way. "I was about to ask if one of you were Envy. But nevermind." Ling said. "So what if your Envy." I said to him. "Do you want me to list the room service from top to bottom." Ling said. "Alright, your Ling." I said.
Aaliyah's POV
"What if your Envy you little runt." Ling stated. Ed jumped toward Ling to attack him he dodge by his hand. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A RUNT, YOU JERK!" Ed shouted. "Alright it's you." Ling said.
-Doorway of Darkness-
I was in thought and thinking where we are. "Hmmm... *gasp* I know where we are." I mumbled to myself. "We're in episode 25 'Doorway of Darkness.' one." I mumbled. "Aaliyah, where are we?" Ed asked. "Well, you won't believe me if I told you where we are." I said to him.
"Try me." Ed said. "Well, we are in Gluttony's Stomach." I said to him. "We are where?!" Ed said shocked/angry. "Yeah, we are." I said. "Well, let's look around the place." Ling said to us.
"Most likely. Look there." Ling moved his torch to light up the corner of a wooden cabin. "That's the abandoned house where were hiding. Also," He adjusted his flame over a wreaked car, "Check this out."
"And that's the Lieutenant's car."
"And I'm guessing all the fire is from Colonel's attack."
Then Ed saw something and on a half pillar and it was a armored hand.
"It's Al's."
Then Ed started shouting, "Waaahhhh! Conveniently awake the telepathic power! Elric brothers' telepathy! Ahhh!" I sweat-dropped at him. "He's so weird sometimes."
"Good luck with that." Ling said as he walked away from us.
As we were walking. "Hey, I got a idea." Ed said. "What's that?" Ling asked. "Hand me a torch." Ed said. As he transmute a well and drop the touch down the well. A few minutes later. "It shouldn't drop down by on." Ed said. Then they started running. "A wall?! There got to be a wall!" Ling shouted.
No One's POV
A metal box with a fire inside of it appeared on screen.
May appeared on screen, downcast, as she walked towards the fire. "I still haven't found her yet."
May dropped to her knees slowly in front of the fire. "Where is she?"
The scene pulled out to show Yoki standing on the other side of the fire.
"It isn't like her to just disappear like this." May said.
Yoki lifted a rod he was holding and poked the fire and mixed the wood around. "Maybe she got eaten by a stray dog or something."
May's face appeared on screen. "Eaten?" She asked. The screen pulled out to the show the two again with tears suddenly flying out of May's eyes and into the fire, putting it out.
Yoki screamed as darkness took over. "AAAAHHH! I was joking!"
A piece of wood was shown being waved by the metal crate with a few burning embers in it.
"She's not a cat." May said softly. The scene pulled out to show May and Yoki by the metal box with Scar's arm on the side of the screen to show where he was sitting. "She's actually a panda, but she got a disease when she was a baby and it kept her from growing all the way."
"I nursed her back to health after her mother abandoned her." May said as Yoki continued to wave the wood by the box to get the fire started. May's face was shown with sad eyes. "Since then, she's been almost like a sister to me."
Sad music began as the scene changed to a faded color sky with mountains around.
"My family, the Chang clan, is one of the lowest rank houses out of the fifty clans that make up the Xing Empire." Mays's voice said as the scene moved down.
A little girl that was May was shown to be walking down a road with a leaf umbrella with a baby panda bear sitting in the road.
"We have little to no power at all."
May stopped and looked up when she saw the panda bear.
"Maybe that's why I was drawn to her."
May blinked as she looked at the panda bear.
The panda bear appeared on the screen.
"She looked so helpless and weak; I couldn't help but identify with her."
The scene pulled out to show May and Xiao-Mei staring at each other.
"Hmm, but at the time, I guess I just took pity on her more than anything."
May kneeled down, putting the umbrella over Xiao-Mei as well. She reached a hand out to her and Xiao-Mei's mouth opened widely with sharp teeth showing. She snapped her teeth on May's hand, causing the girl to throw her umbrella away and scream out in pain.
May appeared on screen to be kneeling by Xiao-Mei, who was resting in a bed made of hay. May's head bowed a bit and bobbed from sleepiness.
"But that changed." May said.
May and Xiao-Mei were shown to be carrying heavy stacks of hay up a hill.
"And she became a part of my family."
"We've been through so much together."
Xiao-Mei and May appeared on the screen to be sparring together.
"She's always been with me."
Xiao-Mei and May were shown to be eating dinner.
"It feels so wrong not having her here now."
They were shown to be sleeping on a bed mat together.
May came back on screen.
"I don't think I could have gone through everything I have without XiaoMei by my side." May said as the scene pulled out to show Scar watching and listening from the shadows. "I know for a fact that I couldn't have made it across the desert without her."
Yoki leaned forward a bit. "Sure, but that was a pointless endeavor anyway." The two were zoomed in on. "Why would you risk your life like that for something as preposterous as immortality?"
May's face was shown. "Because it's the last hope that my clan has. If I don't return with a method for obtaining immortality and present it to the emperor, it's almost certain that my clan will perish."
May's hands gripped her clothes tightly. "That's why I risked my life crossing the desert..." She looked up. "With Xiao-Mei." Tears shot out of her eyes again and Yoki snatched up the metal box quickly before she could put the fire out again.
"Oh, come on. Cut it out." Yoki said as his hands holding the box were shown.
"You're going to drown us all!" His hands suddenly turned bright pink and he released the box, screaming out in pain before the box fell on his head. He shook his head to throw the box to the side.
Yoki curled in on himself, grabbing his head in pain as May continued crying.
Scar stood up.
Yoki lifted his head and rubbed it as Scar walked past him. He looked up at Scar as he passed. "Sir?"
"We got some time before the sun comes up." Scar's face was shown.
"There won't be as many guards patrolling the streets." He pulled his hood over his face.
"Eh?" Yoki said.
May looked up at him. "You mean you're gonna help me try to find her?"
Scar started walking away as May rubbed her eyes. "He's a good person." May said, looking at the retreating Scar.
Yoki looked at her. "His people were completely wiped out during the civil war a few years ago."
May looked at him.
"That's right." Yoki said as Scar's face was shown. "He knows a thing or two about loss so I'm sure he can identify with your worries about the fate of your clan."
May looked back at Scar, who stopped at the end of the alley. "What's the hold up?" Scar asked. "You coming or not?"
May was shown with an excited look. "Yeah! Let's go!" She ran after Scar with a cheerful laugh.
Aaliyah's POV
I was running behind them. "Guys?! Wait up!" I shouted. Then they stopped running then Ling fall down into the blood. "I can't make it." Ling said into the blood. "You got to be kidding me." Ed said. "Go with out me." Ling said to us. "Fine then, we go with out you." Ed said angrily. And walked away. I just stand there. And 3...2...1. Ed head back to Ling and lift him up. I took the torch from his mouth.
We walked around and made it to something to lay on and Ling's stomach was growling.
Ed pull out his boot and said, "Leather boots is edible."
The boot was shown to be cooking in a pot of water over a fire.
Ed leaned over the pot and scooped up some of the food with a ladle. "That should do it!" He spoke. He handed a bowl to Ling, who was sitting by him. "Here ya' go." Ling looked at it then at Ed.
"You don't have athlete's foot, do you?"
A tick mark appeared on Ed's head and he lifted his metal foot and pointed at it as he yelled, "MY FOOT IS MADE OF METAL, YOU IDIOT!"
"Are you serious! I'm not eating a boot." I said angrily.
"Come on, Aaliyah. I just a boot and beside I'm sure you're hungry." Ed said to me.
"No." I said bluntly.
Ed sighs. "I rather starve then eat a boot, Edward." I said to him.
Ed jumped on me and stuff the bowl of leather boot into my mouth and I swallow it. "Oh my god?! Ed! How could you. I ate a boot." I said with depression.
Ed rolls his eyes. "Stop complaining about it." I glare at him. "Geez, how rude."
Then we heard footsteps coming our way.
"Whose there?!" Ed said. It reveal Envy who was steps in front of us.
"Oh, it totally Envy?" I said.
"Tell me the exit!" Ed yelled at him.
""It doesn't matter because there is no exit." Envy grunted which made us all turn to him in shock. All this work for a hope that would never come. "You've really gotten us into a fine mess... I can't believe you got me swallowed with you."
"Swallowed... So we really are in Gluttony's stomach?" Ed recalled.
"Well, yes and no. See, It's a lot more complicated than that. Just ask the pip-" Envy stopped mid-sentence at Ed's face in anger. "I mean the alchemists... They've should've realized what this place is."
I put my finger to my chin in thought. "Well, when we did get swallowed... That feeling... It was too familiar."
"So you do remember it then?" Envy asked with a hard tone. "This isn't the first time you've been through this."
I toke a step back and my eyes went wide. No way. No! I could remember the circle's light behind me, the eye when I saw the gate, and the eye in Gluttony's stomach. "The Portal..." I squeaked.
"The portal of Truth! But, it wasn't pitch black and filled with a sea of blood... It was more like... like an entirely white void." Ed answered.
"Oh yeah?" Envy asked. "So that's what the real one looks like."
"The real one?" I muttered confused.
"Gluttony is a failed experiment by our Father to create his own Portal of Truth." Envy explained. I toke another step back. This can't be happening! "Despite how powerful our Father is, he still couldn't create one... We're trapped inside a defective Portal of Truth. It exists somewhere in between reality and truth."
"In between?" I gasped in fear.
"And I can assure you that there is no way out of here... The only option we've got is to sit here while until our strength runs out... And that's it. All we can do is wait here to die." Envy stated.
I felt like I was hit by a thousand bricks all at once. Every shocking moment hit me like a glass vase hitting solid concrete. A loud crash with deviating result. "No..."
"Don't think I'm falling for any of that crap! I know you're lying to us Envy! You're lying! Aren't you?" Ed growled.
"So there really isn't a way out? We're going to die here?" Ling gasped in wide eyed shock and horror.
"I wanna know who your Father is... Who would try to create their own portal...?! It's Fuhrer Bradley, isn't it?!" Ed demanded in a low voice.
"What? Are you serious? Ha! Nice try, but King Bradley is nothing more than a Homunculus." Envy scoffed.
Hate nodded and looked down. "Told you so." Ling countered to us.
"Wait a minute..." I trailed off. "The Fifth Laboratory... Human lives sacrificed to make Philosopher's Stones... Homunculi... And if the Fuhrer is on your side, then you must be the ones behind Ishval."
"Oh Ishval!" Envy beamed with laughter. "I couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable job than that! You remember the incident that started the war, right?"
"I had always heard it was because a military officer accidentally shot an Ishvalan child." Ed answered.
"Yep! And the one that proudly pulled the trigger was none other than yours truly!" Envy boasted making our eyes go wide. I little gasp escaped my lips which I covered with my automail hand. I was then filled with grieve All this... Everything it was his fault. No... My blood then boiled into anger which made me stand and start to slowly walk to him. My pace was deathly slow. "I ravaged their entire country with a single bullet! I mean, talk about invigorating! Oh, and the best part? The officer that I pretended to be? He was actually a moderate who had always publicly opposed the military's occupation in Ishval. And listen to this! The poor fool couldn't come up with a plausible defense and they court-martialed him! You know I don't think I'll ever get over how easily manipulated humans are."
"So you did it..." I gritted past my teeth. "You killed that child... You drove out the Ishvallens... You destroyed we're hometown... You turned Scar into a murderer... Your the reason Winry's parents were killed..." I said in annoyance.
"Okay then... If that's how you want it." Envy growled with a dark tone.
Envy stood tall with a dark as midnight stare. "I gonna show you four something neat before we die! Consider it a parting gift!" His form started to change as he spoke. It was dark green with black hair and a complete inhuman form.
"Did you notice his footprints?" Ling asked. "Back when we were all fighting in the forest?"
"Just that he's freakishly heavy for the size of his body... He might be a bit bigger than he looks." Ling answered. When the form was finished it was a beast that probably 50 feet tall with human faces all over. "Damn he's big and long." I said bluntly as Ed and Ling's eyes widen. "Aliyah?!" they shouted. "What? You thought it dirty. Didn't you two. Dirty minded." I said to them.
He growled and stomped his feet on the sea sending waves on us. I pushed away from Ed quicker than I could think. I then used a bolder as my landing spot. I winced and held the hand I punched Envy with. I think I broke my hand. Well damn. "How can that be a Homunculus? They're supposed to be artificial humans, right?!"
No One's POV
The music came to a stop as a chirping bird on one of Al's spikes was shown.
The scene pulled out to show Al sitting on the ground with Xiao-Mei by him and the bird flew off. Xiao-Mei was zoomed in on to show her staring up at Al. She looked forward when she heard a faint 'hmm.' The scene pulled out to show Gluttony standing in front of Al and Xiao-Mei.
Gluttony stepped to the side a few times, making Xiao-Mei run around Al's leg to hide. Gluttony moved to the other side where Xiao-Mei popped out at. When she saw Gluttony, she hid again. Gluttony moved closer to Al as Xiao-Mei popped up over Al's shoulder.
The scene changed to show Al's back with Gluttony standing in front of him, bending down a bit to stare at Xiao-Mei.
Gluttony put his hands together and whispered, "What should..."
Al's face was shown with his eyes black right now.
"What do I do?" Gluttony asked.
"I have no idea." Al replied.
Gluttony appeared on screen, looking down as he pushed his fingers together. "What do I do? I'm scared."
Al was shown again as Gluttony said, "I don't want Father to be mad at me."
Al's red eyes came back. The scene pulled out to show all three of them as dramatic music began. "What did you say? You have a father?"
"Uh-huh." Gluttony said.
"Is he the one who made the Homunculi?" Al asked.
Gluttony approached Al, making Xiao-Mei slide off of Al's back in fear. "Father made us."
Al was shown. He gasped and leaned forward a bit to put a hand on Gluttony's stomach.
Blushing, Gluttony backed up as Al looked at his hand. 'Where does everything he swallows go? It's got to be some kind of trick.' Al's hand clenched into a fist. 'Come on. Think! We made a promise and Brother might still be alive.'
'I can't just give up now.' Al knocked his hand against his head.
Xiao-Mei was shown staring up at Al as he stood up and said, "Gluttony," The scene pulled out to show Al standing in front of Gluttony. "Will you take me with you? Will you take me to meet your father?"
Gluttony looked at Al, then smiled. "I guess so."
Al was shown.
Gluttony was shown. "He'll be happy since you're a human sacrifice."
The scene pulled out to show all three of them. "Uh...oh, sure, right." Al replied. "That's why he'll want to meet me." Al bowed his head a bit. 'And I guess I'll find out what that means.' The scene pulled out slowly to move farther and farther away from the three.
Central Command appeared on screen.
"In regards to the search for potential sacrifices," The room full of generals appeared on screen. "Our only candidates are the Elric brothers and Martin."
"What about Dr. Marcoh?" Another general asked. "Isn't he ready?"
"We still have Kimblee."
Raven was shown with his head tilted back on his chair.
"I doubt that Kimblee could muster up the nerve it takes to open the portal." Another general said.
"That reminds me." The General continued, looking at Raven.
Raven opened his eyes to look at him.
"How have things been progressing along with Mustang's candidacy?"
"That's a question for the Fuhrer." Raven replied.
Mustang, who was sitting in a chair, and Bradley, who was staring out a window, appeared on screen.
"He plans on having a nice long talk with him." Raven said.
The music died down and Mustang asked, "Tell me, why are you bothering to let me live?"
Bradley was shown on screen to be drinking from his tea cup. "Because you aren't going to learn your lesson if you're dead, soldier."
Mustang was shown with his head bowed a bit and frowning. "And the military? How long has all this been going on?"
The scene moved to Bradley's front. "The Homunculi have been controlling this entire nation since its inception."
Mustang tilted his head down a bit more. "So, all this time you've been sitting back and laughing at our struggles?" Hughes's coffin being buried was shown. "I saw you at General Hughes' funeral." Bradley was shown at the funeral with his hands trembling. "Your hands were trembling." Mustang reappeared on screen, looking up at Bradley angrily. "So did you fake that as well?"
The scene moved to show the two from behind. "Why must everyone make such a fuss over the death of a single soldier?"
"The moment a soldier dons his uniform, he accepts the reality that he might be buried in it." Mustang was shown to be glaring. "And about my hands." Bradley was shown. "Hughes's child screeched throughout the entirety of his funeral." His hand holding the cup was trembling. Bradley turned his head sharply to look at Mustang. "My hands were trembling with anger."
The scene moved to show the two from behind again as Mustang said, "How can you even say such a thing? You have a child, too."
Bradley turned back to the window. "You're speaking of Selim? He's more well-behaved than that."
Mustang was shown with a dark look on his face. "And how do you think he'd react if he found out that his father was a Homunculus?"
Bradley's back was shown. "Was that a threat? You'll have to do better." His face was shown. Selim eating with his mother by him was shown. He smiled at her. "Selim will never work as a point of weakness in my life." Bradley turned to look at Mustang. "But you, on the other hand." Mustang was shown. "I know exactly who to use as your weak point."
Dramatic music began as the outside of Central Command was shown from the sky. A small figure could be seen moving quickly down the sidewalk.
Riza was shown to be standing at attention.
"Lieutenant Hawkeye!" Fuery shouted.
Riza looked over at Fuery in surprise. "What's wrong, sergeant?"
Fuery saluted her. "I received a memo from personnel bureau." He dropped the salute as the scene moved to show him from the front. "And well, I'm being transferred to the Southern Command Center."
Riza took a quick step forward in shock. "They transferred you?"
"And I'm not the only one," Fuery said as Breda appeared on screen, looking shocked. "Breda's being sent to the western command." Falman appeared on screen, saluting someone. "And Warrant Officer Flaman's been reassigned to the Northern Command."
Riza reappeared on screen as she gasped.
When they heard a gun being shifted, Riza and Fuery turned around to see a MP saluting before two soldiers were shown to be approaching them.
Riza and Fuery snapped their feet together and saluted.
"Lieutenant Hawkeye?" Yakovlev asked.
"Yes, sir." Riza replied.
"I'm Yakovlev, from Personnel." Yakovlev said as Riza and Fuery lowered their hands.
Riza was shown as she thought, 'Am I being transferred?'
"And my name is Storch." Storch said as he took an envelope from Yakovlev. "I'm the personal assistant to Fuhrer Bradley. I need you to take this." He held an envelope out to Riza.
Riza gave a quiet gasp. "Am I being reassigned, sir?"
"That's correct." Storch replied.
Riza took the envelope. "I'd like to look at them." She took the orders out of the envelope and read them silently. Her neutral expression turned to shock. "What is this? This can't be right!" Her face was zoomed in on from the side. "Are you sure that these are my orders?"
Fuery looked at her. "Where are they sending you?"
Riza looked back down at her papers. "'First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye is to report for duty.'" She paused for a moment before continuing. "'At Central Command Center.'" While Fuery breathed a sigh of relief, Riza continued. "'As personal assistant to Fuhrer Bradley.'"
Fuery gasped.
The room Mustang and Bradley were in reappeared on screen.
"It's as simple as that." Bradley said before he was zoomed in on. "She'll be under my watch from now on."
Mustang was shown to be looking down in shock.
Aaliyah's POV
Envy appeared on with horrid greed faces slid off his body and into the blood. Another one soon followed it.
A group of the horrid green faces were shown with an echoing voice saying, "Play with me."
"Hell no." Ed said as he stood up on the rock he was on. "You go and play by yourself."
Ling was shown to be watching Envy, who was laughing as the horrid faces on his body made so much noise. "This isn't good." Ling said.
"This is very horrifying and gross." I said with a disgusted look.
Envy's tail smashed into the stone pillar Ling was kneeling on, but Ling and I jumped backwards off of it before we could get hit. He jumped over one of Envy's hands in the air, but the second one managed to grab him and slam into a rock. He shouted out in pain as Envy landed in the blood with a huge splash.
"Ling! Aaliyah!" Ed screamed before Envy's tail swung out behind him and slammed into Ed.
No One's POV
Envy half-laughed half-roared as Ed went flying back into the blood.
Ling and Aaliyah was shown to be running over to him. "Ed!" He screamed as Envy stepped forward. "Be Careful!" Aaliyah shouted as she and Ling jumped and somersaulted through the air to dodge Envy's foot. He flipped over in the air and landed by Ed, who was picking himself up while rubbing his chest.
Ling turned to Ed. "Can you make a weapon?"
"You got it. With this ocean of blood," Ed clapped his hands and put it on the blood. "There's plenty of iron to work with." Blue alchemical light lit up the screen as a sword started to rise out of it.
Ed grabbed it by the handle as it finished and dramatic music began. He paused in holding it for a moment to change his hold on it before he lightly tossed it to Ling, who caught it. He flipped it in his hand to change his hold and smiled when he saw the design. "You have the tackiest sense of taste."
Ed appeared on screen, smiling as he put his hand to his automail arm and transmuted it into his signature blade. "Ah, c'mon. I think it looks pretty damn sharp myself."
The smile wiped off of Ed's face as he looked at Envy, who appeared on screen and laughed cruelly. Ed and Ling were shown to be staring up at him. "Can we take him?" Ed asked.
"I doubt it. He is a giant monster." Ling and Ed were shown close up.
"And then on top of that," Ling put a hand to his chest. "I'm pretty sure he broke two of my ribs."
"Yeah, I'm pretty beat up myself." Ed was zoomed in on. "But that's beside the point." His eyes narrowed dangerously. "All that matters now is filling him with some pain!"
The scene pulled out to show Envy waiting in front of them.
The scene changed to show Gluttony and Al standing on a hill. Gluttony was shown, then Al with Xiao-Mei on his shoulder. Al looked at Gluttony. "Are you sure this is the right way, Gluttony?"
Gluttony looked at him. "Uh-huh."
Al looked forward again. "But this is the way," he said as the scene slowly circle him until it was showing him from behind and that Central was in front of him. "It can't be. Your father is living in Central?"
The scene went dark and reopened as the ending scene.