Yo! Chapter 7 is now in your hands….or on your computer screen. Whatever, so *sigh* I'm a bit depressed about this chapter, it has Winry in it. Nothing against her role as a character it's her personality. She throws wrenches at Ed and remember the original FMA? After Ed totally saves her from Barry the Chopper she turns around and 'celebrates' Ed becoming a state alchemist by making him buy her things! "Ed buy me this!" "Um sorry? I just saved your ass, I think you should be buying me things. Your here to celebrate me after all, not go on a shopping spree!" Stupid girl…But, I needed to get all the main peeps in, considering anyone that actually likes Winry.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Alchemist nor the Wizard
Winry: What was that about me up there?
Me: Isn't it obvious? I don't like you!
Winry: *Gets out wrench*
Me: Bring it! *L kick*
Winry: Why did you kick me like that! Ouch!
Me: Because I'm L! (Universal answer to EVERYTHING)
"Hello?"
"Hey there Winry."
"Ed? Why are you calling me?"
"I can hang up."
"No, no, I meant what's up."
"I broke my arm."
"ED! WHAT WHERE YOU DOING?"
"I was saving Lt. Hawkeye and the Colonel from falling off the roof."
"Really? No big fight?"
"No, Winry."
"*sigh* I'm on my way."
"Alright, I'll send someone from the school to come get you."
Ed's next class felt like it took forever.
"Okay, tell me, have any of you figured out One is All, All is One?"
Very few people raised their hands.
"Ok. I want you kids to go into the back room.", Ed told the hand raisers. Alphonse was in the back asking each of them what they thought it meant.
"As for you guys. It's going to be harder to understand alchemy if you don't know what it means. I'm giving you all 1 entire week to figure it out before I schedule to have you removed from this class. It's just that, alchemy is harder to teach than it looks and I need everyone to be at about the same pace."
Alphonse came out with the other students. He signaled to a few of the small amount of students and brought them forward. "Okay Brother! These are the ones!"
The only one that Ed knew was Harry. Ron never figured it out and Hermione got it wrong, she looked on the verge of tears.
"Okay then. The rest of you have one week like I said to get it or get out.", Ed told them.
Everyone was pondering on the thought of why Ed's right arm wasn't moving. At all. Then Winry busted in.
"EDWARD! What did you do to my automail!"
"Well seeing as it's attached to me, and not you, I'd say it's my automail."
Winry gave him an evil stare. "Shirt. Off. Now."
The students were sitting there like, "Who is this chick? What's automail? Why does she want him to take off his shirt?"
Ed took off his coat and the under jacket, revealing a mechanical arm. He sat down and put his arm on the table
"Pretty neat huh?", he asked his students.
Winry examined the arm "Aw Edward. The nerves are disconnected. There's a lot of damage to the internal wiring and I'm pretty sure that the joints are out of place. This'll take way too long for me to repair. I'm gonna have to take it off."
"Fine.", he sighed.
The students started to creep up to the front of the room and ended up in a circle around the pair.
Winry took one of her tools and disconnected the other remaining nerves. She unhinged the arm and popped it off.
A few of the students fainted, I mean, an arm popping off! Even if it's just metal….
Ed smiled. "Guess you guys have never seen something like this huh?"
Hermione stared at them, "I knew fake arms and stuff were possible but I never imagined this!"
"Blimey, so the thing just comes off?", Ron asked.
"Well no, it would have been a lot harder to get off if his nerves were still connected to the metal. Like this.", Winry demonstrated by lifting Ed's pant leg up and proceeded to disconnect and pop off Ed's leg.
"Yow! Winry I only need my arm worked on!", Ed yelped.
"Yeah, I was showing how it works.", She said.
"How am I going to get up and teach if I can't leave this chair?"
"Here, I'll reconnect the nerves for you." She got out her tools.
"W-Wait…Winry….GAH!", Ed yelled out in pain. "Alright class…" Ed clenched his teeth. "We're gonna learn about alchemy today."
Hermione raised her hand, "Um sir? Don't we learn about alchemy every day?"
Winry came up to her, "Only alchemy, geez Ed give 'em something good to do today! How 'bout you and I teach 'em about automail!"
"Not gonna happen, NO! Now just get my arm fixed please!", ED and Winry bickered until she went back to fixing it.
"So how about we try some transmutations. Al, pass out the chalk please.", Ed stood up. Al passed out the chalk and Hawkeye passed out pieces of wood. "Now, with the materials your getting I want you to draw this circle on to the wood.", Ed drew the basic transmutation circle. "Just try it out and we'll see who all gets it. Now all of you who didn't get One is All and All is One, this could be your opportunity to show me you really can handle alchemy, so do your best."
Harry, Ron and Hermione proceeded to draw their circles.
"So before we start let me explain what to do. Draw the circle, then comes the steps I explained earlier, Comprehension - Understanding the inherent structure and properties of the atomic or molecular makeup of a particular material to be transmuted, including the flow and balance of potential and kinetic energy within. Deconstruction - Using energy to break down the physical structure of the identified material into a more malleable state so as to be easily reshaped into a new form. Reconstruction - Continuing the flow of energy so as to reform the material into a new shape. Wood is essentially composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin, and extractives." Ed began to draw a list on the board.
Scots Pine
▪ Cellulose (%)
▪ Hemicellulose- 40
▪ -Glucomannan (%) - 16
▪ -Glucuronoxylan (%) - 8.9
▪ -Other polysaccharides (%)- 3.6
▪ Lignin (%) - 27.7
▪ Total extractives (%)- 3.5
"This is the chemical makeup of a Scots Pine tree, the type of block we are using. Alchemy, even as simple as this, is still quite difficult. I will allow you to use your magical essence to fill the gaps in the flow of balance in deconstruction and reconstruction but I don't want to see ANY wands got that?"
Ed looked at them all. They nodded and drew the basic circles onto the wooden blocks. "Good, now try it out. You can work in pairs, seeing as it's your first time, that's how Al and I started, we combined our energy to make a doll for Winry on her birthday."
"Yeah that was so scary, seeing you make that, but I understand what it was now.", Winry was still working on Ed's arm over at the other table.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at each other. They nodded and they all put their hands on one block. A blue light began to kind of sizzle from the circle. It looked like electricity! The energy swirled around them. They each had the happiest look on their faces as the room lit up with blue light.
"That's good! That's good! Keep going you're almost there!", Ed was enthusiastic at their progress.
They gazed at the energy around them. They looked at the circle and became even happier. The block was transforming before their eyes, without magic! Hermione gasped. It was miraculous to see! The light faded and everyone circled the trio to look at what they made. It was a lion. They made a lion that looked like the one that represented Gryffindor.
Ed picked it up and looked it over. It was a very simple lion but a good one nonetheless. "Good, you are able to combine your powers. Now, I might be pushing it, but try to see if you can each do it without help." He put a new block down to replace the one they just used. Harry drew a circle on it. Hermione and Ron turned to their own blocks of wood.
Ron went first. He placed his hands on the block and some faint blue energy appeared, the wood moved around like it couldn't decide what to turn into, then it settled down all together. "Blimey it worked for us together!", he yelled at the block.
Hermione pressed her hands on the block and mentally begged for something to happen. The light was stronger than Ron's. Her block began to shift it's form and in it's place was a very sloppy flower shaped thing. There were a lot of alchemy marks on it and it was kind of a weird shape, but a flower none the less.
"Good job Ms. Granger, a good first try. Harry…", Ed turned to Harry.
Harry did the same as Hermione. He pressed his hands on the wood and hoped for the best. His light was the brightest light he had ever seen. The transmutation went a bit faster than the other's. He blinked at the object he had created. It looked like a wand. He picked it up and held it. He knew the design but he couldn't remember where he saw it.
"Excellent work Mr. Potter!", Al said, picking up the wand.
"Not bad at all." The wand was passed to Ed. "This detail, is it a familiar design?"
"I'm not sure. I just…made it."
"That's not what alchemy does, you have to know what it is your going to make or it doesn't get made at all. You must have seen it and your sub conscience remembered it and made it. There are no coincidences.", Ed examined the wand further.
"Here Edward! The arm's all done!", Winry tossed him his automail, relying on him to put it back in so she could connect the nerves. Ed took it and plugged into his port and walked to her. She took a wrench and tightened the latch, connecting his nerves to the metal. He let out a small yelp but stretched out his arm with the usual routine, except his spar with Alphonse.
"I wonder if it works?", Hermione walked over and picked up the wand and tried to cast a spell, some of the alchemical energy came from it instead of magic. It rebounded onto her hand, creating a small cut. "Ouch!", she dropped the wand and grasped her hand.
Ed picked it up, shocked, and pointed it at a student's block of wood. His alchemy flowed through the wand, which kind of acted as an amplifier and turned the block into a little bird statue. "That's interesting. Is that what all wands are like? Here, let me see a real wand!"
Harry took out his and threw it to Ed.
He caught it perfectly with his right hand. Edward pointed the wand at Ron's block. Blue energy came from Ed and red energy came from the wand. the two tried to combine but they ended up fighting instead. Magic or Alchemy? The light filled the entire room and it practically exploded. The room's floor began to break apart and they began to fall.
"Professor Elric!", the trio of students yelled.
"Edward!" Winry gasped.
"Brother!", Alphonse yelled the loudest.
The entire class fell through the floor into the class below. It was the beginner's transfiguration class. They all landed with a thunk and the few students who hadn't fell ran to get help.
"Brother! Brother!" Alphonse searched the rubble for Edward. Ed was lying on his side, underneath the black board. Winry, Hawkeye, and the others pulled themselves out from the stones and desks.
"Ed!", Winry ran to the brothers.
Edward cringed in pain, not only was his entire arm blasted apart, but the port for the arm on his shoulder was completely torn off. Ed was bleeding like crazy. "Dammit! Alphonse…"
"Shhhh Brother don't strain yourself! Winry get something to tie his arm with!" Al was shushing his brother and giving out orders to everyone.
McGonagall and Hawkeye rushed over to them form her desk, "What happened?", she said frantically, While Hawkeye tried to stop Ed's bleeding.
"Ed tried to use one of the wands you people have and the place just blew up!" Alphonse held his brother tighter "He tried to use magic and it almost killed him! Look what it did!" Alphonse was freaking out. He had once told Winry that it was either her or Ed that alway blew up first and that he never got the chance, but now, he got every opportunity out there. "Magic did this to my brother! He was only trying out an experiment, now he can't even get automail to replace his arm until Winry can find all the parts she needs! Why him? What did he do wrong? What makes him so different that he can't use a wand? Why…why….?" Alphonse was huddled over his older brother.
He looked at the others, but they were more focused on him, rather than Ed, except for Winry and Hawkeye. He looked around to see what they were staring at, and then he saw it. His head was lying some odd feet away from him, revealing his empty armor. He turned back at all their faces. Hermione was stunned. Ron was terrified. And Harry…Harry had a different look on his face, it was a look that said "What hell have you been through?" It was a look of sympathy. Alphonse turned back to his brother, and cried. Not real tears, but he cried the best that his body would let him.
The students from the alchemy class burst in with Professor Dumbledore and several other teachers. They ran to Ed and attempted to pull him away from Alphonse.
"No, stop! He's my brother! I can take him to the hospital wing! He's my older brother!", Al clung to the elder Elric.
"Alphonse if you don't give him to us he'll die!", Madame Pomfry yelled.
Al reluctantly handed over Edward to Dumbledore, who ran him out of the room with Madame Pomfry and Professor McGonagall. Snape and Flitwick began to clear the debris while Trelawny was helping students get up and get out of the room.
Alphonse looked down at himself, he was covered in Ed's blood. Winry had picked up Al's head and brought it over to him. Hawkeye also was helping get students out of the way.
A young Luna Lovegood was walking in the hall when Dumbledore rushed by with Madame Pomfry running next to him and Ed in his arms. She looked at them with wide eyes, seeing all the blood, she ran.
A man stopped her in the hall "Miss, you probably shouldn't run, you might get yelled at by the teachers." He looked at her face more closely "Is something wrong?"
"Th-that young boy, the new teacher that does weird things with energy, I just saw him being carried by the head master! It looked like his arm had been c-c…."
"What? What happened to his arm?"
"It was completely gone. Like it was blown off!", she was slightly freaked out but she was more focused on the strange creatures she knew that could do such a thing.
Roy's eyes widened and he ran in the direction she pointed, "Fullmetal!"
So? Eh? Eh? I did a pretty good chapter if I don't say so myself. I think this is my new favorite! A mysterious wand made from alchemy? That actually works? Whaaaaa? (If any of you have seen Death Note, that was my Misa acting voice from when she was trying to act out the interview for L.) That's a new concept, maybe a way for Ed to get working on some body restoration research? I don't really know yet… P.S. Every time you don't review, Ed get his entire arm, port and all, blown off. Don't make me write more of that! Please! I'm begging you!
