And now I present to you, the lovely reader...The ToB finale!!!!! -bows at the applause- Thank you, thank you!
Okay, just telling you, the beginning of this might not make any sense. n.n I did that on purpose. HA! I love torturing you guys and stuffs.
Disclaimer: DX It's my last time, can't you cut me some slack? I don't own FMA.
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-One week after the incident-
Yukiko was strolling down the white halls of the military hospital, whistling merrily. One hand was behind her back while the other just swung freely next to her. She was wearing a hospital gown, a small one with short sleeves that revealed her pale, deeply scarred arms and it only reached as far as the middle of her thighs, making the scars that seemed to continue down her back viewable from behind. She was also wearing a while sling around her neck, that it looked like she had pulled her arm out of it.
"Hey, there she is!"
"Don't let her escape again!"
"Ah, crap." She mumbled, looking behind her at the two hospital attendants running towards her. She smiled at them, breaking into a run, dashing down the hall and into a room.
She closed the door behind her, sighing and starting to look around at whose room she was in. It was Ed's and he was lying unconscious on his bed, like he had been all week. His right arm and left leg were gone, but otherwise he looked like he always did. Just his hair was down and two pale scars were on his neck.
She blinked, watching him anxiously for a sign of him starting to wake up. But she saw none, instead hearing the employees closing in again.
She quickly looked around for a hiding place, cursing under her breath at her rotten luck. The bed was too low and anywhere else seemed obvious. Of course, there was one more option…
She shrugged. "He won't notice anyhow." She muttered, jumping on his bed and hiding under the covers at the foot of his bed.
Not even a second after she settled, the door burst open as the two men looked around for her.
"Great, she's not here either." One grumbled.
"How many times is she going to do this?" The other sighed as they left.
As many times it takes until I'm let out of here. She thought, starting to giggle as she climbed out.
"Um…Yukiko? The hell?" Golden eyes stared at her with a bewildered look.
"Ack!" She tumbled out of the bed, quickly scrambling up with her face completely red. "Ed! I um…heh, sorry."
He stared at her, looking confused. Don't I get enough of that at home? He wondered, sighing. (Oooh, is this a shout out to Ayumi? XD)
"Wait! Ed, you remember me?" She added.
He blinked. "Why wouldn't I?"
"Well, I thought that after you…" She trailed off, suddenly looking panicked. "I mean I just…thought you'd lose your memory again…" She hastily looked around, avoiding his confused look. "Hey! You hungry? Wait, of course you are, you haven't eaten all week, I mean, how could you, you…" She panicked again. "I'm just…here." She started to clumsily pick up a tray of food on a desk next to the bed with her left hand, cursing when she dropped it and bent down to try and pick it up again.
He watched her, glancing at the sling around her neck. "Um…Yukiko, what happened to your arm?" He asked slowly.
There was a loud clatter, and her cursing again. "Sorry, what was the question?"
"Your arm. What's wrong with it?" He watched her stand up, her face paled. "…nerves. They were cut when…the wound healed over before they could do anything." She shrugged like it wasn't important. "The nerve cells probably died or something."
"…you can't move your arm?"
She shrugged again. "Not a big deal, there's a way I can fix this."
He stared at her. "How?"
"You'll see. Oh, and here." She gently placed the tray on his lap, giving him a second to glare at the bottle of milk (XD) before reaching for it. He noticed the dark scar snaking across the top of her hand. "What-"
"Al said you didn't like milk –hated it in fact- you mind if I had it?" She interrupted, grabbing it before he could respond. She drank half of it and grimaced. "Way too cold."
"Wait…Al was here? Where is he, is he okay? How'd he get out? Did-"
"Wah! Slow down, geez." She thought for a bit, sipping down the rest of the milk as he stared anxiously at her. "He's fine, he's probably picking up that Rockbell person…think that's her name. He said you needed her for automail?"
"You mean Winry? She's coming?" He said, surprised.
She ignored his question. "As for how he and the other prisoners escaped, that was all Alexander." She beamed a bit.
He blinked. "Who?"
"Oh, I thought you met him. Alexander. That's Amaya's brother." She froze for a second as his brow furrowed.
"Amaya…?" He subconsciously clamped his hand over his neck. "Wait…where is she, do you know? What happened to her after…after I died?"
She flinched. "Amaya's dead." She said firmly, pointing to his neck. "Scars of the bite mark, that's the only proof we have. You turned human after the Colonel came."
"Mustang? He was there?" He said, almost smirking.
"Turns out he never trusted me to this mission after all and followed me inside after his work was done." She wrinkled her nose. "Double-crossing bastard…so anyway, after he saved me from the fire he forced me into this stupid hospital." She thought again. "Which reminds me, those guys are still after me." She stood up, walking to the door and opening it to check outside.
"Yukiko, you're not making sense. What fire? What…what happened?" He asked in an almost desperate tone of voice.
She groaned slightly, sitting down again. "After you died," She flinched when she said that. "First of all, the poison stopped." She parted the gown slightly to show the white crescent shaped scar on her stomach. "Then the house collapsed from the fire and I picked you up and tried to get you out."
She turned her arm over and pointed to the winding dark scar on her arm, then showed her the one down her leg. "And that goes on my back too. Healed pretty fast though, probably because…well, anyway, the fire probably would've killed me 'cause you were weighing me down and I was hurt anyway. That's when the Colonel showed up."
He stared at her in disbelief. "Why did you…"
"What?"
"You should've just left me there…I told you I'd be fine, the fire probably wouldn't have affected me as much…" He said in a shaky voice.
"Now who's not making any sense." She muttered. "I'm fine now, so what's the matter?"
"Alot! I already hurt you and you still…you could've died just to get me out."
"You almost died too, to save me and everyone else." She pointed out. "If you can risk your life, why can't I?"
"Because I never asked you too!" He yelled.
"You didn't ask me to stab you either!"
"This is stupid." He said, turning away. She glared at the back of his head. "You can't be mad at me for saving you, Ed."
"I'm not mad…just.." He shook his head. "Forget it. So, Amaya's dead, right?"
"Yeah. I killed her, remember?" She smirked at the thought. "Ha."
He rolled his eyes. "Whatever, as long as she's dead."
She smiled. "She is, I'm sure of it."
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A bright moon-white wolf quickly padded down the streets, it's fur thick. It had 3 large tails, and it's eyes were a bright ruby red.
It finally walked up to its destination. The ruins of the mansion; now reduced to a pile of ash and burnt wood. The wolf carefully climbed onto it, sniffing around before digging deep inside it. Moments later it climbed out, shaking ask out of it's fur, clutching a golden amulet in it's mouth. It jumped down and ran away.
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A figure covered by shadows walked slowly through a dark forest. A man, who kept irritably pushing his long black hair out of his face. He stopped as an excited muffled yipping sounded, and the same moon-white wolf ran over to him and dropped the amulet into his palm. He smiled, a set of fangs glinting in the light shining off the wolf. "Good girl." He cooed, petting it's head. It snapped at him, glaring.
He laughed, tapping each of the jewels on the amulet with a long, thin slightly curved claw. The amulet started emitting heat, glowing red as what sounded like a pulse stared to beat. He grimaced, dropping it and staring at his palm, which dripped with blood. He licked some of it off.
The wolf whimpered, staring at the amulet. He looked down at it, watching a heart grow around it, arteries and veins bursting from it and spreading, wrapping around forming bones and muscle. Organs grew at random, worming into its proper places. Flesh bubbled over the incomplete body, shielding what was being created. Hair sprouted out of it's skull, a face forming before finally settling, the body completed. The body of a woman who was supposed to be dead. Amaya.
He blinked, looking at the wolf and back at her. "…Amaya?"
She opened her eyes, looking dazed before focusing and looking at him. She smiled. "Alexander."
He sighed. "I told you this would go wrong." He said, hastily taking off his cloak and draping it over her naked body.
"Only because of that dreadful girl." She muttered darkly, wrapping the cloak around her and standing. She glanced at the wolf and smirked. "Kaorin, is this your newest form?"
The wolf nodded, stepping back into a bow while at the same time smoothly transforming, almost melting into a young woman. She stood up straight, her hair long and unkept, a deep black with thin white streaks in it, her bangs equally as long, a pure white except for the ends which were a dark black like the rest of her hair. Her eyes were still a ruby red, with two thin fangs longer the Alexander or Amaya's, poking out over her bottom lip. Small white wolf ears sat atop her head and she still had the long three tails.
"What's this Alexander said about the amulet thing?" She asked, her voice heavy with a thick, unidentified accent. "You seeking immortality again?"
"I had it too, if only for a night." Amaya growled. "But something went wrong with the spell."
"Trying to darken a soul was a mistake if the soul was pure." Kaorin stated. "It probably takes stronger magic."
"The spell to bind your soul did seem to weaken you." Alexander added.
Amaya glared at the two. "No matter. I'll need you two to help me with my new plan…" She said, looking up at the sky. Alexander and Kaorin threw each other a reproachful look. "Mark my words, they will all pay…"
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Aaaaaand...cut! It's over! -tear- Thank you for reading! Please, please review (since you won't have any other chance to). Stay tuned for Moon, Blood and Flame! That's the name of the sequel! And for more ToB stuff, check out Red Tears, it's a breakoff from the first chapter. Dark EdWin. X3 Yay!
