Oh yay! Chapter 6 of ToB, whoot! I'm starting to feel sad now, cause ToB's reaching it's end. Chapter 7 is technically the last chapter. Chapter 8 is the epilogue. But after that there's gonna be a sequel called Moon, Blood and Flame, so check that out!

Disclaimer: -skipping this for this chapter- you all know what I'm gonna say anyway, so what's the point?

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"Are you ready Edward?"

"Yes Mother." There was hesitation in his voice.

"You're not scared, are you?" Amaya smirked, stroking the edge of a rough, silver dagger she held in her palm.

"No Mother." Ed returned the smirk, holding out his wrist bottom up. "Go ahead."

Amaya lifted the dagger over her head, and in a quick motion, swiftly sliced a deep gash through his wrist, then thrust the dagger into Ed's chest. She then stepped back, and watched Ed's eyes cloud, watching him fall to the ground and flinch before stilling, blood pooling around him thickly.

She winced, looking at her own wrist. Shining blood bubbled from a deep gash cut in. She stared at it, as the blood flow suddenly stopped, the gash knitting itself together, healing.

Ed shuddered back to life, weakly tugging the dagger out of his chest with a groan. He blinked, licking blood off his wrist.

"Amazing...it worked so mcuh better then planned." She whispered.

He stared at his wrist, standing up slowly. "So...we really can't die...?" He said shakily.

"A complete sucess it would seem." She agreed.

He grinned, his white fangs poking out from under his lip. He twirled the dagger around his fingers. "So, if I were to do something like this-" He threw the dagger at Amaya. Surprised, he was only able to gasp as the dagger penetrated into her skull. She staggered back, hitting a wall and sliding down halfway, blood spurting between the blade and her pale flesh.

"You...bastard..." She chuckled, ripping it out, the wound healing over as she stood again, licking at the blood on her face.

"I try." He replied, lunging at her with his claws outstretched.

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"Ah, dammit, where am I now?" Yukiko muttered, leaning on the black walls of the mansion. She looked around. "I coulda sworn this was were they were keeping Al..."

There was a sudden crashing sound from behind a door a few feet away. "What the-" She ran towards the door, pressing her ear against it. She heard a yelp of pain, and someone muttering something darkly.

"You need to work on your strategy Edward...so predictable, barely a good use of my time if you continue to fight that way."

Amaya...? Yukiko opened the door slightly and gasped. There was Amaya, smiling triumphly at Ed, as he tried weakly to pull her arm out of her neck. She had her claws completely through his throat. He made a strangled, gargling sound as blood slowly bubbled out of his throat.

Amaya looked at the door. She blinked. "Awake so soon Yukiko?" She said, ripping her hand out in a slashing motion, completely tearing open his neck. She threw him into a wall, where he hit with a loud crack and lay still.

Ahh, dammit! Yukiko grimaced, staring at Ed.

"You know...you really should learn how to give up." Suddenly Amaya was in front of her, opening the door wide and grabbing her arm, roughly pulling her into the room.

Yukiko glared at her, thrashing around. "Let me go!"

"So easy to bring you here too, you're just so gullible. I bet you'll be delicious."

She froze, then smirked at Amaya, staring her in the eyes. Her other hand went behind her, digging into her pocket for her crystal. "Really then? Hope you enjoy yourself, when you go to hell!" She quickly transmuted the crystal into a sword of diamond, swinging it at Amaya's arm. It connected, and Amaya hissed in pain as her arm was cut off. "Wench!" Amaya snarled.

"Serves you right!" Yukiko yelled, tugging Amaya's arm off and throwing it behind her. She held her sword out in front of her, ready to attack again. Amaya glared at her, as she swung the sword again, aiming for her neck.

Amaya grabbed the sword blade with her newly regenerated arm. "Crap!"

"A sword of diamond, huh?" She smirked. "Pathetic." She tightened her grip on it, harder and harder until it almost blew up from the force, diamond shards scattering around the room. (-is totally thinking of that episode where Scar blew up Ed's automail-)

Shockened by the destruction of her sword, Yukiko was blown back from the blast, slamming into someone behind her. She turned. "Ed!" She gasped.

"It's strange..the more times I die, the faster I come back to life." He informed Amaya, grasping Yukiko's arms. "Same with regenerating."

"The bond strengthens then." Amaya nodded.

"Ed, come on, fight it!" Yukiko yelled frantically.

"Why should I?" He slammed her against the wall, driving his claws into both of her forearms. She yelped. "I'm sorry Yukiko, but I'm just having way to much fun with this." He was slowly adding more force as he pressed down, slicing deeper and deeper into her arms.

"Bastard!" Yukiko kicked him off, wincing as his claws were torn from her flesh.

Ed just laughed. "Mother, may I have fun with her?" He asked excitedly.

"Don't kill her just yet..." Amaya answered, glowering at Yukiko.

Ed smiled, lunging at Yukiko again. She ducked behind him, kicking at him again as she scambled across the floor, gathering the shards of diamonds. She grabbed a particularluly sharp one and started to quickly scratch at the floor.

"What are you doing now?" Ed asked, clawing at her again. She rolled out of the way, continuing her scratchings. He glared at her, dissapearing and appearing in front of her, smacking her in the face. "Answer me when I talk to you!"

She bit her lip, trying not to yell out in pain. His claws had made 3 large scratch wounds on her cheek, starting to burn and hiss. "You should know what I'm doing." She said, standing up, holding the diamond shard firmly in her left hand.

"Oh?" Ed looked closely. "Crap, is that a..."

"Too late now!" She said, cutting the wound on her left forearm a bit wider. Blood splashed onto the scratching as she clapped her hands and slammed it down.

Before he could try running, a dark red light shone from around the small puddle of blood, mixing with the diamond shards, transmuting a dark red band that wrapped around his body, binding him.

"And you call yourself an alchemist." Yukiko scoffed bitterly. "You of all people should've realized that I was making a transmutation circle."

"That's enough." Hands closed around her neck carefully, squeezing just enough to make her gasp for breath. She was pushed back into the wall again. "You really think you can stop me?" Amaya snarled, her face inches from Yukiko's.

" Won't...let you...g-get...away..." Yukiko choked out, her own hands on Amaya's trying to loosen her grip.

"What makes you possibly think you could make me do anything? You've seen nothing of my power." Amaya's eyes narrowed. "You don't know anything."

Yukiko didn't respond. Amaya's grip was tightning, it was almost impossible to wedge just a little more air into her lungs.

"There's no way...you're just an ordinary girl, there's no way you'll interfere with my plans. I'm immortal now...there's nothing you can do, nothing! I will get what I want."

"Y...you know what..." She tugged a bit more. "I may only be mortal...but...I..will stop you...I m-ma..." Amaya's grip tightened again.

"Mother, that's enough."

"Edward..." Amaya shot him a glare, but let go of her, stepping back. Yukiko fell on all fours, gasping for breath.

Ed knelt in front of her, lightly touching the wound on her left arm with his claw. "You know Yukiko...you really should learn how to give up."

"Ngh..." Yukiko kept her eyes on the floor, wincing slightly.

"But you just never learn...you should've done the smart thing, and just went home with your life. It's a shame I have to kill you...you could've been useful." He continued, pressing down more. His claw started glowing green, and the flesh around the room started to hiss and bubble angrily. She bit her lip, trying not to scream.

"Now...how should I do it? Let you bleed to death, or maybe you'll succumb to my poison beforehand?" He said thoughtfully, twisting his finger around, digging deeper. He pierced into an artery. Blood gushed onto his hand.

Dammit... Yukiko thought, closing her eyes. She bit her lip harder. I can't die here, I ca...She suddenly jerked her arm away, ignoring the rip of flesh and blood that resulted, making a break for it. She stumbled out the door and into the hall.

Ed sighed. "Again?"

"Edward...stop playing with your pray, it gets annoying after a while." Amaya growled softly.

Ed shrugged. "She's my kill, I can do what I want with her." He smiled. "I mean...this is getting most entertaining..." He said, as a glowing blue ball formed into his hand. "Try this out for size, Yukiko..." He threw it, the ball flying into the hall. There was a flash of light, and a shriek followed.

"Perfect..."

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And there we go! Starting to realize that I barely have another way to end a chapter without a cliffhanger of sorts. -sweatdrop-

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