:REMIALCSID: No i dont own fma... sadness

Dark Vengeance

By: Otaku-Rainbow

(1 month later)

Darkness. It was pure darkness. The atmosphere felt heavy and ominous. There was no sound. Not even the constant ringing one would usually hear was heard. It was quiet—too quiet without ringing. The feeling was too overwhelming to be ignored. It felt as if one was being watched or followed. But when you look back, no one was ever there.

Abruptly, a faint beam of light appeared. 'What's that?'

The girl jumped when the light out of nowhere. Hesitantly, she moved towards it, taking a step at a time. When she was near enough to touch it, the girl reached her hand inside. The light showed brighter than ever until it vanished, revealing to her a white room. Clutching her hands shakily to her chest, she scanned the area she was currently in.

Her legs shook in fear as sweat dripped down slowly along her cheek.

A cry of pain rang in the room as the girl snapped around, looking for the source. Click! She turned back cautiously to see a door opening on its own to reveal a veil of darkness beyond. Gray mist flow like ghosts from the door, swirling by her feet. She shivered whether from fear or the coldness, she couldn't tell.

a voice beckoned as low as a whisper.

Though, knowing it wasn't a good idea, her body moved on its own. Swallowing the lump in her throat, she willed herself to move forward into the dark abyss. At first, everything was blurry, but soon became clear as the mist dissipated. She was in another room. This time it was brown and dirty. Rats skittered across the dirt ground and into the holes in the wall.

An evil cackle filled the empty space as she watched the door of the room opened and a big, bulky man came in. It seemed like he was carrying something or someone on his shoulders. He threw it roughly on the bed. Her eyes widen in realization that he was going to rape a girl. She backed up against the wall, watching in horror as he continued to ravage her body. The girl screamed and struggled to remove herself from his vice-like grip, but to no avail.

She watched as the man left, trying to see his face. But all she was nothing but a blur. She went to help the girl, only to find that her hand went through the broken. 'What's going on?! Hey! Hey! Wake up!' She tried once more to help, but found herself being pulled away. 'Hey! HEY!'

The sounds of the IV and heart monitor were heard through the room. It was quiet. But not the same kind of quiet as before. Here you could actually hear the ringing again. The person on the bed moaned as they forced their eyes to open. 'Am I still in that dream?' The girl tried to sit up, but it only hurt her head even more. Painfully, she lifted a hand to her head, feeling bandages around them. She winced. 'Ow…what happened to me?' She looked around to finally notice that she was in a hospital.

The door to her room open, averting her attention. A nurse came in holding a clipboard, so she didn't notice that her patient was awake. When she did, she nearly did a double take. Her eyes were wide and her mouth was gaping out of pure shock.

"W-when did you wake up?!" she nearly shouted, hurting the girl's ears. "H-how? And…but—?"

"Excuse me?" the girl spoke, her voice cracked due to the dryness in her throat.

"You were in a coma and—," the nurse continued to rant, making the girl frustrated.

She cleared her throat loudly. "Excuse me!" she yelled, stopping the nurse. When she got the woman's complete attention, her frightened expression was now present. "Can you tell me who I am?"

The nurse nearly fainted at the question. "Y-you don't remember who you are?" she asked back skeptically. "You don't remember anything at all?"

The girl shook her head. "No, that's why I was wondering if you could tell me."

"Dear god," she gasped as she ran out of the room to get the doctor.

The girl was left in the room by herself again. Staring out the window to keep her busy, she thought to herself. 'Who am I? And why am I here?'

A few moments passed and the door was immediately slammed forward, letting in a blond boy who was rather short for his age and a large suit of armor.

"Rose, Rose how are you doing? I'm so happy you're finally awake!" said the boy with excitement. He sat on the bed, leaning over to give the girl a hug. "I heard the nurse say you were awake… I had to come see you." The armor laughed with joy as the girl grew more puzzled.

"Um… that's great and all but," she pause looking around the room. The boy then adopted an expression of confusion.

"What is it? Rose, please tell me. I want to help you in any way I can." The boy's eyes widened with worry.

"Well you have helped me some," the girl looked towards the boy again with a nervous smile.

"I have? And how was that, by being here? You know that I will always be here for you know matter what!" The boy smiled then.

"Well thanks for the reassurance. But I meant that you helped me by telling me my name. It's a very pretty name. Rose, I kind of like it. So um…what're your names? I'd love to know them since you say you will be here for me." The boy smile slowly faded.

"Rose this isn't funny," the boy stated.

"She's telling the truth," an old man appeared at the door, seeming to have been there awhile. "She has brain damage from being hit on her back where her neck joins her head. I don't know if it's permanent or just temporary yet. We'll have to run tests and just hope she gets some memory back. Just be thankful that's all she lost and she isn't a vegetable." The doctor informed to the small crowd.

"Rose, I'm sorry…I didn't realize…" Rose cut him off by placing her finger to his lips.

"Shh… It's okay. I won't hold it against you. Just please tell me your names and how I know you. I would love it very much." She smiled gently.

The boy blushed and turned towards the armor, "Well this is my younger brother Alphonse"

"Al for short," he giggled and let the boy take the floor again.

"And I'm his older brother Edward. We first met in Lior, and it's a long story after that." Edward thought about more to say when he was interrupted.

"That will wait for another day. Please she needs her rest, and I need to run more tests until she's full able to see everyone. Now take your leave,"—he glanced at Ed and Al then turned back to Rose—"Dear Rose, don't worry in a couple weeks you'll be healed and you can go do what ever with Mr. Elric. But until then, you must do the healing process."

Directing his attention back to the Elric brothers, he said in a firm voice as he pointed towards the door, "Now out you hooligans!!" Edward gave Rose another hug before departing. Al bowed, and they finally left.

Rose looked towards the window, 'what a strange group of people.' She then lay down and soon drifted off to sleep.

"When I get my hands on him, I'll kill him!" Edward yelled in a furious voice while his fists shook in anger. He was pacing the small living room painted in gold acrylic as the window that let in some cool wind didn't help calm the tense mood. Al who was sitting on the rather small sofa—that could barely fit his large armor body—listening to Ed's ranting, finally couldn't take them anymore. So to try to calm his elder brother, Al stood up slowly and placed a comforting hand on the alchemist's metal shoulder.

"Brother, it's going to be okay. We'll get our revenge soon, but you need to calm down. Right now, we need a plan. We—" Al suggested, only to be snapped at.

"AL! How can you be so calm after what happened?!" Ed yelled angrily, but stopped realizing what he just did. Turning around, he starts to pace once more. "She lost her memory, Al"—his golden eyes gazed at the floor as his tense pacing begins to slow—"…when she gets it back, how will she ever forgive me? I still have to find a way to get your body back, too. Damn it, I don't even know what to do anymore," he murmured in a painful and angry voice. Edward finally stopped pacing and looked towards Alphonse. His eyes were starting to well up with tears from the agony he's felt ever since he saw Rose again. "Will she ever forgive me? I…I didn't even save her on time…and…" Ed averted his gaze elsewhere which landed on the staircase to avoid the look his younger brother gave him.

"Brother." Al walked towards to his pain-filled brother and spoke in a comforting voice, "The Rose I know will forgive you, I promise."

"No…" Ed said quietly shaking his head as he headed towards the door. Then, looking back to Al, he said in an even quieter voice, "…you can't." Sighing, the alchemist opens the door and took a step out before telling Al, "I'll be home for supper. I just need to go let out my anger and think of what I'm going to do."

Al decided to come with his brother as well. "Let me go with you."

"No!" Edward snapped, but then closed his eyes, rubbing the bridge of his nose as he inhaled deeply to control his anger. "I'm sorry, Al, but I just need to be alone for a bit, okay? I'll be fine." Stepping out, he closed the door gently—so gently, it seemed like it took him a lot of effort to not break the door down—as he left Al by himself. He went down the streets with no signs of stopping until he felt the town disappear behind him.

While with Al, he somewhat pouted—if you can call it pouting—and sighed at his brother's attitude. "I wish he wouldn't do that. I can help, too. I know I can, Brother," Al whined a little, but soon gave up and went to check up on Winry.

Rose opened her eyes to the same sight as before with the white walls, white shelves, and whatnot. Though, the only that changed was the lighting of the room. The town was now darker outside as the sun began to set over the horizon. 'This is rather dull,' she thought idly, gazing out of the window. 'Why do I have to stay in here? That's it, I'm going outside.' With that, she pulled the covers off her bandaged legs. Wincing, she tried to move her legs to the side of the bed. 'Easier thought then done,' Rose thought with a grimace etched upon her face.

Groaning, she sat up. 'Okay almost done.' She leaned forward and soon stood up.

'Got it! Now on to walking.' Rose started walking, wincing at the pain till it finally numbed away. She reached the door and opened it slowly. 'No ones here. Okay, now how do I get out of here?' she walked to the stairs and noticed the front door downstairs. 'Bingo!'

She heard some noise as Al walked into the room talking with Winry trailing after him.

"…But Edward hasn't come back yet," the armor spoke seeming worried.

"He will, Al. I won't be surprised if he comes back in the morning. You know he's very stressed out right now… just let him be!" The girl reprimanded as they both walked into the kitchen.

'By the smell, it must be dinner time. Perfect chance to go! I'm not running away, but they can't lock me up in that stuffy room.' With that she walked outside and started following the road. Slowly, of course, she disappeared as Edward had done earlier.

Staring at the sky, Edward sat on top the hill that was very common in his home town. The stars shone brightly in the darkening sky for there were no city lights to compete with them. Sighing, Edward stood and turned, but his cool calm self adopted a surprised expression as a certain Ishballen girl stood on the road.

"ROSE! Hey, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be in bed," Edward called to her. She looked to his direction and smiled.

"I'm taking a walk. The room was stuffy and I wanted to go outside. I thought you were eating dinner with everyone else. I guess I should've paid attention to what Al was talking about." She smiled as she walked towards Ed, faster this time since she had some more practice dealing with the small pain. "Are you going to make me go back?" Her smile left her once cheerful face and was replaced with a suspicious gaze.

He shook his head and smiled. "No, not right now. You can sit up here with me if you want to." Edward turned and pointed to beautiful sunset. "It's actually really nice, just to

sit there and watch it."

"Sure, I'll come up." Rose started at a slower pace as she walked up the hill with Ed. She was doing great till she tripped on a rock and fell. Alarmed, Edward quickly jumped down and carried her the rest of the way up bridal style. "Sorry about that, I guess I'm just clumsy. Well, I am now if I wasn't before. If that makes any sense." She giggled and Ed joined in with a simple chuckle.

The couple then looked to the sky and watched the sunset in silence. After a while, however, Ed soon began to get annoyed at the silence and spoke abruptly.

"So you do you remember anything yet?" Surprised by the sudden outburst, Rose shook her head no.

"I've been cooped in that room everyday, so I haven't really been able to go experience things or be with people. The doctor said it would jog my memory, but he won't let me out. So I kind of forced my way out." She smiled and laughed a bit and Edward joined her smiling.

"So you don't remember yet. Maybe I can help you." Ed suggested as Rose perked up a little at the offer. "Let's see, since I'm here maybe we can start with your memories of me." He looked at her to see if she wanted to. When Rose nodded, he smiled, pleased. "…um... Lior, we met in Lior. You were a follower of the sun god and Cornello was a priest who guided you. You had an old boyfriend named Cain, but he died. You helped me find a place to stay and you were very nice. Rose, do you remember this?" Edward asked, taking her hands into his.

"A little," She answered, closing her eyes to picture the memory. "A blond boy, cute… red coat, and he had a brother. You have a brother, Al. I think I'm getting this." Rose opened her eyes and looked into Edwards gleaming ones.

"So you thought I was cute, huh?" Edward smiled and Rose smiled back.

"I think I remember you, Edward. You saved my life. We were great friends."
"Yes, we were," Edward was excited with how much he helped. She knew who he was now.

Rose looked to the sky, "I can't believe it's coming back now. But I think… no maybe I shouldn't say it."

"What is it Rose? You can tell me." Ed's face grew concerned.

"Well I have so many memories and thoughts about you. Other people pop up, but I keep seeing your face. I think maybe, I'm not sure but..." Rose looked away.

"Please, Rose."

"I think I'm in love with you…" Ed was shocked. He loved her, too. But hearing this made him excited. He turned and faced her.

"Well you really can speak your mind, but are you sure?"

"I think so. I mean I don't know, but then again I am getting my memory back and all, but it could be you're…" Edward cut her off with his finger to her soft lips and shushed her gently.

"Edward?" Rose looked at him to see his face grow closer to hers. Softly and slowly, he gently placed his lips upon hers. Surprise and nervousness was her first reaction, but soon lust and longing filled her as she shyly returned the kiss. As the lip locking increased in passion, the sky faded to black with the bright stars.

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