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Edward struggled to keep what little control he had of his body, although the questions plagued him with no answers. All he remembered was that thing, he thought that he read about it somewhere, that chimera, it wasn't man made, and to be honest he didn't know what could create such a powerful deadly thing. It took over his mind completely, only a spec that he fought to keep of himself. It wanted to use him, he knows, but how could such a thing exist, it was beyond human imagination, yet it controlled humans in ways that even the damned truth couldn't. He saw what it did, just wiped out the child's mother from existence, as…as if she was merely a drawing on a piece of paper. It kept on calling him the golden child, what did it want him for, he had no alchemy left, damn it. He could only curse as he watched on.
It smirked as another human body withered, cried and begged for his pathetic life; mortals were so entertaining, thinking that they had any form of control. That was the sixth human it sent to the gate, the truth should get its message by now, it will take back what was it's, the universe can forget about itself when its presence is a mere mistake.
Izumi rushed to central as soon as she heard the news, the thing that took over Ed, she thinks that she knows what it was. It was an old legend among alchemists, but she never thought that it would become reality. Now, she needed to get to the colonel as soon as she could for the ending would result in disaster for all of mankind.
She arrived three hours later, Mustang was still trying to recruit people to find Ed or the thing, in no more than hours the man aged nearly twenty years, the dark circles, the graying hair and wrinkles of worry echoed on his face. So he really did care about Edward, he wasn't just another military dog. She called out to him, and they talked upon her request in a room with maximum security as to not cause more panicky.
"…It's an old legend among alchemists, before the truth was created, there was something else there. The eternal being of sorts had a vengeance against time itself, so it created the chimera of age, the chimera was said to have the head of a phoenix, body of a dragon, wings of the devil, and the elixir of death as its limbs. But the being could not control it, it sought out not only time but the gateway to the thirteenth level of hell, to find the true philosopher's stone, said to be made with all souls in existence. It wanted to find it for it to become its heart, what its creator never gave, it lived for time, and time never stopped for it. So its creator locked it away when the eternal being created the truth and gate, to contain it…then mortals unintentionally were creations that came with the truth…the legends have it that 'the one to survive the truth trice, died himself only twice, the blood of the stone flows through his vines, death defying in the universe's end game, with he, time shall end'. Now- now that I've thought about it, it does sound like Edward." Izumi told her story which was lost on many modern alchemist, she remember reading it up in a small but very ancient library which she guess was fated to seen in one of her travels to the border between Xing and Amestris, she was lost in the desert, but that place, she thought it was a mirage at first, but it was real. And it prevented shelter and knowledge during a desert storm.
"survived the gate trice, Ed did do that, his mother, Al's soul and bring his body back, surviving death twice…every time he went to the gate, he died. H- Having philosopher's stone in his vines-" Mustang was trying to piece things together.
"- Hohenheim, he's not completely human." Izumi added.
"Death defying in the world's end game….the battle." Roy was speechless, how could Ed fit so well with this description.
"With he, time will end." Izumi added glumly.
As much as they both wanted to deny this, deny everything that was said, they couldn't. They knew that either Eric boys would fit, but it seemed like Ed so much more. Why would the boy be the world's end, haven't he suffered so much already, this is too great a burden, too evil of a foe.
"Is there anything else?" mustang questioned with desperation coating every word.
"Not-not that I know of."
Author's note: So what do you think, will Ed be the key to ending time, or is there more but they just haven't found it out yet? And will Ed ever gee his control back, or will time end as we know it? So review! ^.^