LunarFallenStar: Hey Guys! New chapter! Responding to reviews now!
Phantom Hitman 1412: Yep, it's one of my longer chapters. And hair malfunction is a milder way to put it... and the first thing I came up with. (Also, most of the paragraphs below is my response to your review... I had a lot to say today...)
And yay! I'm not the only one who tried to make an Ed coat! I couldn't find a coat that could fit me either so I did find a red hoodie that would work but it took forever and it was one that my friend literally made me for my birthday. It took her forever and I helped with the insignia!
With the banter between Byakuran and Ed, I just felt like it would be something Ed would do...
And I've done something like you did with the milk crates before. Except it wasn't how far you could go it was something called the leap where basically you climb up this huge wooden post that's like over 50 feet in the air (hooked up to a harness of course) and jump, trying to hit a bell. Unfortunately for me, I'm really small for my age, and it's even worse 'cause I'm the oldest one in my class, so I jumped off the highest one first and kept on spinning round and round. Unfortunately for me once more, it was in a forest so I got a face-full of tree over like 10 times. When I finally got down, I was going to fast and decked like all of my friends and then hit another tree and my foot actually got stuck in a knothole in the tree. It took forever to get me down. They said it was funny for me to shout 'I believe I can fly' before getting a face full of tree. Man, I just went off on a tangent.
And I like Kikyo too. He's one of my favorite 'bad guy' Millefiore members and I think that would probably be Ed's reaction to him. And I love his character song. Have you heard Bel's 'Bloody Prince' or Lal Mirch's 'Burning Prayer'? They're both really good in my opinion.
Ed does need a hit list. I always joke with my friends about having a hit list and that they're at the top, it really freaks them out. Here's the new chapter and LOL Hasta la Pasta.
Archsage328: Yep and just wait, Ed really spills the beans in this chapter. And you're right, we all have moments like that.
SunshineAndMoonlight: Oh yeah, he would, guess I forgot to type his reaction...oops. Thanks for the review and BTW I love your new profile picture, SO CUTE! I love Chobits!
A Natsume Yuujinchou Lover: Hey ANYL! Yep, Ed's really careless. Oh and sorry about that recap thing, I forgot to put Ed's name in. They are talking about Ed. I think Ed would have a large scar on his chest mainly because of how Envy stabbed him and killed him in the first anime, so yeah.
~Previously
'Just you wait, Byakuran,' Tsuna thought, 'We're definitely going to win!'
Edward punched his fist into his palm, "Man, there's a whole bunch of idiots whose asses we've got to kick, I'll have to make a list just to keep track of 'em all!"
Viewing Area P.O.V
Everyone watched with baited breath as the battle of Choice raged on. No one averted their attention when Bianchi, Kyoko, Haru, Lambo, and I-pin returned once more, bringing beverages with them.
They slowly handed out the drinks. Kyoko asked quietly, "How's it going out there?"
"We're on the offense!" Ryohei yelled, "EXTREME rush!"
Bianchi handed Edward a cup of coffee. He sighed to himself when he grabbed it, feeling no comfort as most would in its heat as he couldn't feel it at all.
He returned his gaze to the screen when Yamamoto stopped suddenly. His eyes narrowed as the screen showed Kikyo getting closer and closer to the Vongola base at a speed that caused much discomfort.
Things only got worse when they noticed Tsuna heading off in the wrong direction as well.
When Yamamoto charged once more, they heard Tsuna's voice, "It isn't the navigator that's broken. This is an illusion of Torikabuto, I haven't defeated him yet."
Shock rose through the group, "What?"
Ed's grip on the mug tightened. He loosened it however when he heard a faint cracking noise, 'I had a bad feeling about this from the start...' Ed thought, glaring at the screen.
The screen changed once more to show Yamamoto trying to attack the Millefiore's base unit, but failing as a mysterious barrier kept him out, the target sitting inside comfortably as if to mock them.
Ed gritted his teeth, "This situation was hopeless to begin with..."
Reborn turned around and faced him, "Now aren't you negative, Mr. Elric."
Ed looked at the infant in shock for a few moments before staring intently at the coffee in his hands, bangs now shadowing his eyes.
The screen's image now displayed Gokudera who was watching the skyline intently, waiting for Kikyo to approach. Everyone was shocked as Kikyo appeared in front of Gokudera, no one even noticing him anywhere near the bomber beforehand.
Gokudera lept back in surprise before lighting his ring and injecting flames into his vongola box, releasing Uri and Sistema C.A.I.
He skidded to a halt on the pavement. Kikyo raised his hand and hit Uri, sending the poor cat flying.
"Uri!" Gokudera yelled in distress before lighting the four other rings on his hand as well.
"Bastard, let's see how you do against my five wavelengths!"
Before Gokudera could even open one box, a group of vines wrapped around the boxes, keeping them shut despite any of Gokudera's attempts.
Gokudera, unable to fight, could only watch as Kikyo sped off towards the Vongola base.
"Dammit," Gokudera said, clenching his fists in frustration, "Irie, I let him past me, I'm sorry."
Battlefield P.O.V
Irie clenched his fists and slammed them onto the desk in front of him.
"Could the Millefiore's strategy really have been better all along?" Irie said, clenching his eyes shut as if it would make this whole situation disappear like a dream.
"Shouichi," Spanner got the red heads attention, "Installing the laser traps."
Irie nodded in response, looking at the flame detection unit to see where Kikyo was on the battlefield.
As Kikyo neared, he activated the traps. But to everyones' horror, none of them worked as Kikyo shielded himself with a thin veil of cloud flames. Smirking to himself, he used his plants to hit all of the laser traps dead on, causing a massive explosion.
"O-ho. You surely couldn't have thought that would stop me?" Kikyo said as he continued to fly towards the Vongola base.
"Spanner, activate the mobility of the base," Irie said, giving out orders in panic.
"Shouichi-kun," Tsuna's voice sounded over the transmitter.
"Tsunayoshi-kun," Irie said, "Is that you?"
"Yeah," Tsuna responded, "What's the situation?"
"Kikyo destroyed the last of our traps, our only option was to flee."
"I've tried to break out of the illusions by flying at high speeds, but've been unsuccessful. Torikabuto has yet to show himself as well," Tsuna reported, "I think his only goal was to delay me."
Irie clenched his fists again, repeating his question, "Could the Millefiore's strategy really have been better?"
"Shouichi, Kikyo approaching quickly," Spanner said, "Only a few hundred yards away."
Irie panicked for a moment.
Above and a little ways away from the moving Vongola base, Kikyo smirked. He watched as the Vongola futilely tried to run from him.
"O-ho. Think you can run from me?"
Kikyo chased them relentlessly, readying another attack. He was halted, however, when Irie and Spanner launched a smoke screen, blocking his view.
"O-ho. A smoke screen? No matter... as long as the target flame still burns, it'll be easy to find you."
"Spanner! Release all of the aerial decoys!" Irie said.
Spanner, nodding briefly, slammed his hand onto the control panel, quickly releasing the last of them.
"More decoys?" Kikyo's voice proved how annoyed he really was, "I don't want to deal with more of those... BEGONE!"
Kikyo held up his hand, his vines appearing, cloud-class flames covering them. Without missing a beat, he slashed out his hand, sending hundreds of vines into the smoke, dissipating it while destroying the decoys of it as well.
Kikyo flew on, the fog more like a faint mist now. He looked at his radar once more, "O-ho. You slowed down? I must've landed a hit."
He readied more vines, "Time to end this-"
His statement was cut off by an explosion. He backed away from the smoke and looked down to see none other than Gokudera on his air-bike, bombs out and his boxes still sealed.
Gokudera readied another attack and sent it flying, the bombs changing courses at random, all heading towards Kikyo who dodged with ease.
In a millisecond, Kikyo appeared once more in front of a surprised Gokudera. He rose his hand up once more and slashed it out. A cloud of smoke blocked the people who were viewing's vision. All that could be heard was Gokudera's strangled cry.
"Now that the side-character's gone," Kikyo said, flying into the sky once more. He was soon above the Vongola base and he sent another attack raining down upon the base, "I can move onto the main dish."
Everyone watched in horror as the Vongola base veered off course and into a nearby building, a small explosion occurring because of the sudden contact.
Everyone cheered however when the door swung open after many seconds and none other than a dazed Irie Shouichi came stumbling out.
Kikyo watched once more and prepared another attack, stopping however when a rumble was heard in the distance.
The picture on the monitor changed to Tsuna once more. Everyone saw the destruction that littered around the teen.
"That level of destruction," Basil said, "That could only be..."
"X-Burner," Reborn finished for him, "He blew up the whole illusion space, successfully freeing himself. Well done, Dame-Tsuna."
Tsuna flew into the sky, heading at top speed for Irie's location.
"Tsunayoshi-kun," Irie muttered weakly into the communication device, "Go defeat the target..."
"No," Tsuna said, going even faster, "I will not abandon a friend."
Ed smirked to himself as he listened to his student, "I'm glad you have your morals straight... Giotto would be proud to hear you say that..." Luckily for Ed, no one heard that little statement.
Irie continued to stumble on, protesting weakly to Tsuna about how he should eliminate the target first. Tsuna increased his speed a little every time he heard Irie's protests, hoping he could get there in time.
Everyone grinned as Yamamoto broke through the barrier. Ed stopped however, when he noticed Kikyo preparing an attack. Without hesitation, Ed ran forward, coming up in front Kyoko and Haru, turning them away from the screen and standing in front of them protectively. He briefly whispered to Bianchi, "Cover their ears."
She nodded, not hesitating to do so. After this happened, Irie's strangled scream rang through their ears and everyone watched intently as a cloud flame shot through him, sending him crashing to the pavement below.
Tsuna appeared on the screen, "Shouichi-kun!" He yelled, looking at his friend in horror. Quickly, he turned around and appeared swiftly in front of Kikyo who blocked his angry attack.
"It's no use to fight now."
Tsuna gritted his teeth before turning around and running back to Shouichi only to be halted by one of the Cervello, "Please wait, I must inspect the target flame first."
Tsuna gritted his teeth and flew back down to the ground, watching as she inspected the target on Shouichi's chest.
"I defeated their target as well," Yamamoto reported over the communication device.
"I admit, baseball idiot did do a good job in defeating their target," A voice said.
Tsuna turned around and watched as Gokudera walked up to him, "Juudaime, I'm sorry, I was supposed to protect them."
"That's okay, Gokudera-kun," Tsuna said, looking at his storm guardian, "I'm glad you're okay."
"You should be more worried about Irie, though," Gokudera said.
They turned around as the Cervello spoke up, "The target flame goes out when the life force drops below two percent. Irie's is below two percent and still dropping."
The other Cervello, speaking over a communication device, spoke up, "I've confirmed Daisy's target flame was successfully extinguished."
"Shouichi-kun," Tsuna said quietly, "Please don't die."
Kikyo, standing farther away, smirked, "I guess we are in a good situation, boss."
Byakuran smirked to himself from the viewing station, watching with amusement as Daisy's flame relit itself and the target stood up once more.
"Again... I can't die again?" Daisy questioned, looking at the flame.
"What?" Yamamoto asked in disbelief, "I extinguished the flame."
"What?" Tsuna questioned as well, "His flame relit?"
"You see, Daisy is a man that has the strangest habit of not dying," Kikyo explained.
"You mean he's immortal?" Gokudera gaped in disbelief.
"Like Edward-sensei," Tsuna said in disbelief.
Everyone in the Vongola viewing area watched in disbelief (Kyoko and Haru had turned back around, Ed just didn't want to see Irie supposedly get killed, it would shatter what innocence they have left)
"Seems like Mr. Elric isn't the only one like that on the playing field," Reborn said, turning to face the golden haired immortal.
"What?" Haru questioned, facing the immortal in question.
"You're immortal?" Kyoko asked as well, facing her teacher.
Ed looked at them and shrugged innocently, "Cat's out of the bag, huh?"
"W-what?" Kyoko and Haru said in unison, "B-but how?"
Ed just waved his hand in a dismissing manner before turning back to the screen.
"In that case, we have a winner," The Cervello said in unison, "Is the Millefiore family!
Ed watched the screen as Tsuna pleaded for Irie to not die. The match had been over for a while and the communications had just been restored. Everyone set out and ran to where Irie was located.
They soon reached the place where Irie lay upon the street, telling Tsuna and Gokudera about the future and how Byakuran came to power. Ed looked over to Reborn who hopped over and stood beside Tsuna, taking off where they had left off, "Parallel worlds."
Ed's eyes widened and he stood frozen in place. He looked down at the street, all of the others' conversation flying over his head, him not bothering to pay any attention to it. That one term repeated itself over and over in his head as if to mock him. Parallel worlds. He hadn't heard that term spoken to him in an in-depth conversation since he talked to Fritz Lang over four hundred years ago during the 'Shamballa' incident. Another bit of the conversation caught his attention. Byakuran had knowledge of all of the parallel worlds. Ed's eyes got even wider at that. Could another Byakuran possibly have gone into the past in a parallel world, in Amestris, and have met Ed at some point? The idea was farfetched and all, but it was something.
"Parallel worlds," Ed heard someone say, "That's impossible isn't it?"
"It's not impossible," Ed said, but snapped his mouth shut after he realized he responded aloud instead of in his head.
Everyone turned to him, "What?"
Ed looked away and muttered a 'nothing'. Everyone looked at him strangely before turning back to Irie who explained that the only world that hadn't been ruined by Byakuran was this one.
Ed paled at the thought. His world, Amestris, was like those horrible futures... in ruins, in wars? He thought about all the descendants of the people he loved. General Bastard's descendants, Rose's descendants, maybe Winry's descendants... could be fighting in a war? Or worse, part of the Millefiore? Ed's face was white as a sheet at the thought. It tore him up from the inside out. Sure, maybe he wasn't part of that world anymore, but it was once his home and that wouldn't change.
Ed barely listened to the conversation, his own thoughts swirling around his head. Nothing really surprised him anymore, he didn't look up even when Yuni, the black spell boss, showed up.
"Oh, Yuni-chan is all better," Byakuran said, "That's a surprise."
"Byakuran, you may have thought you broke my emotions, but my soul was in a faraway place, still intact."
"A faraway place?" Byakuran asked in confusion.
"It appears I can also travel to different worlds as you can," Yuni said.
Byakuran looked up in shock, but then grinned, "Oh, so there's three people who can travel to different worlds here today? How interesting."
"T-T-Three?" Tsuna asked in confusion, "But there's only two!"
"Oh? So Fullmetal-kun hasn't told you his greatest secret yet?" Byakuran asked, staring at said blonde, "I guess he's always been a secretive one. Not even giving the people he's fighting for the world with the whole story, huh, Fullmetal-kun?"
Ed's gaze shot up once more, staring intently at Byakuran, "W-what? How do you know... about Amestris?"
"Edward-sensei?" Tsuna asked.
"So you haven't told them?" Byakuran said, laughing slightly, "That's rich!"
Ed gritted his teeth and looked away.
"Anyway, Yuni-chan... I'm number one in this. You're number two," Byakuran said, "I get the final decision."
"In that case, I'm withdrawing from the Millefiore," Yuni said, turning to the Vongola group, "Sawada Tsunayoshi-san, I have a favor to ask. Please protect me and the pacifiers of my comrades."
Yuni held up the colorless pacifiers of the dead Arcobaleno.
"Now, Yuni-chan, those are my possessions," Byakuran said.
"No they are not," Yuni said, "If they were, it would not be the trinesette policy. The arcobalenos watch over the pacifiers, and the Vongola the Vongola rings. And besides, soulless pacifiers would never reveal the meanings of their existence in your care, as they were entrusted to me." The pacifiers began to glow brightly, outshining even the sun.
"I see, so that's how it is. Yuni-chan, I definitely need you now," Byakuran said, walking closer to Yuni, "Come, let's make up, Yuni-chan."
"Stay away!" Yuni demanded, taking a step back and causing the pacifiers to lose their shine, "We can no longer leave our souls with you!"
"What kind of nonsense are you saying? If you're going to take that and run, I'll chase you to the end of the earth and bring it back," Byakuran said, continuing to advance, "Now, come back to me. Here."
Byakuran continued to make an advance on Yuni, who continued to back away. As he got closer and closer, the sound of a gunshot echoed. As the shock settled in, everyone fully took in the situation. They saw Reborn's gun smoking and Byakuran holding his sleeve with the hole in it near his face.
"Reborn!" Tsuna said in shock.
"Uncle!" Yuni cried, running over to stand behind him.
Reborn used the gun to tilt his fedora up, "Byakuran, I don't give a damn who you are, but when you attempt to hurt the boss of the Arcobaleno, I won't stay quiet."
"WHAT!" Tsuna yelled, "She's the boss of the Arcobaleno!"
"Byakuran-sama," Kikyo said, "We will soon bring Yuni-sama back."
After saying that, Kikyo, Zakuro, and Torikabuto who were standing behind Byakuran rose up to the sky. Kikyo raised his hand and quickly unleashed an attack aimed at the Vongola, which was blocked by Squalo, a cloud of dust soon obscuring their vision. When the cloud of dust disappeared, everyone could see Squalo and Hibari in the front weapons raised.
"Wait a second, Kikyo-chan," Byakuran said, "Yuni-chan must be upset after waking up from her long sleep."
"Yes, Byakuran-sama," Kikyo said, lowering his hand.
"Then, how about this Yuni-chan," Byakuran said, "I worked very hard to earn the trinesette policy that I was supposed to earn after winning Choice. But if you return to the Millefiore, I'm willing to return the Vongola rings to the Vongola family."
Everyone gaped at Byakuran, "But, B-Byakuran really wanted the Vongola rings, I thought..." Tsuna said.
'Right now, it's Yuni,' Byakuran thought to himself, 'I want Yuni now that her soul is back. The rings can come later.'
Irie looked at Byakuran warily and thought, 'What's going on, Byakuran's been acting differently ever since the pacifiers glowed.'
"Byakuran, I know why you want me," Yuni said, "And that's why I can never return to you."
"Then the Vongola rings belong to us," Byakuran said, his eyes narrowing, "I have no intention to hand a strong weapon to the one's protecting you. Although your prince on a white horse seems terrified by your request."
"Ehhh?" Tsuna yelled.
"The Vongola rings do not belong to you Byakuran!" Yuni said, "I will say it again, the pacifiers belong to the Arcobaleno and the Vongola rings belong to the Vongola family! That is fact, yet you forced a match of Choice and named the Trinesette as the prize so you could quickly get your hands on it! As I am the sky Arcobaleno, and therefore a member of the trinesette, I find your battle of Choice, invalid!"
"Invalid?" Tsuna questioned.
"Meaning?" Yamamoto and Gokudera asked at once.
"What does that mean?" Ryohei asked as well.
"You don't need to hand over the Vongola rings," Yuni answered.
Byakuran began to laugh loudly, brushing his bangs out of his eyes, "The Sky Arcobaleno certainly holds a lot of authority over the use of the Trinesette Policy, but you don't want to anger me. Do you not care what happens to the remaining Black Spell members after their boss, Yuni-chan, betrays me?"
Yuni frowned slightly, the members of Black spell briefly crossing her mind.
"Well, they're completely devoted to you," Byakuran said once more, "So they'll probably enjoy being tortured for your sake."
"What?" Tsuna demanded, "You're using them as hostages!"
"They'll understand," Yuni said, looking into the eyes of Byakuran with determination, "They all understand."
"But that means," Tsuna looked at her in shock, "You're willing to let your friends die?"
"The rest is up to you, Tsuna," Reborn said, looking up to Tsuna, "Yuni asked you to protect her, what will you do?"
"But, her friends will-" He stopped in shock however when he looked at Yuni, and saw that she had made up her mind.
"Yuni-chan, your prince on a white horse doesn't seem that reliable," Byakuran said, advancing once more, "Come with me, I'm still willing to forgive you-"
Everyone looked in shock when a hand reached out and grabbed Yuni's arm, "Come with us! Join us! Everyone, we're going to protect her!" Tsuna yelled, causing joyful tears to come to Yuni's eyes.
Everyone said 'yes' quickly and Yuni looked at them, "Thank you very much!"
"Idjit! I won't let that happen," Zakuro sneered.
"Byakuran-sama," Kikyo said, "please give us permission to take back Yuni-sama!"
"Sure," Byakuran said, smirking slightly.
"Time for destruction," Torikabuto said, floating slowly down to them.
A large range of explosives was fired and when the smoke cleared, everyone could see Squalo riding up to them on his shark box weapon, "VOI! That's more like it!"
"Squalo!" Tsuna yelled.
"He's going to buy us time," Dino said, brandishing his whip, "Tsuna, we should fall back and re-group!"
"Fall back? But we're surrounded by buildings!" Tsuna said in a panicking manner.
"In that case, the flame ring teleportation system which brought you hear should be nearby," Yuni said.
"Ehh? The thing that warped us here from Namimori?" Tsuna questioned.
"It's true," Spanner said, leaning onto Yamamoto for support, "I'm getting a metallic reading from above Vongola HQ!"
"If we use that, we should be able to get back to Namimori," Reborn confirmed.
"Or at least away from here," Ed added.
"I won't let that happen," Kikyo said, launching more of his vines in their direction.
Everyone flinched away preparing for impact, but looked up when nothing hit, "Sistema C.A.I. I'm going to stop you this time!" Gokudera yelled, "Juudaime, use this chance to head for the teleportation system!"
"Got it! Sorry, Gokudera-kun," Tsuna yelled, "Let's go, Everyone!"
Kikyo began to go after them, but was halted by Squalo, "I ain't gonna let that happen!"
The group continued to run away, but Basil and Ryohei who were supporting Irie kept falling back, "This isn't good!"
They looked over their shoulder and saw Torikabuto approaching fast, only to be blocked by a blast of storm flames, "I told you, I'm not gonna' let you past me this time!"
The group continued to run, soon reaching the Vongola choice base. They quickly found a gurney and placed the injured Irie upon it, wheeling him inside quickly, "All non-combatants get inside quickly as well as Arcobaleno! There is a non-trinisette barrier where you will be safe inside!" Spanner said.
The non-combatants quickly got inside as well as Bianchi. The others stood outside and watched as Squalo, Gokudera, and Hibari appeared riding on Squalo's shark.
"Quickly, shoot your flames into the transportation system, there's no time!" Ed said, his flame lighting on his head. A spear rose from the ground and Edward quickly grabbed it, spinning it expertly in his hands.
Everyone looked alarmed, however, when Byakuran approached, "Hurry up Tsunayoshi-kun!" Ed said walking forward.
"Ed-san, please step back, I'll hold him off," Dino said, brandishing his whip.
'Isn't this guy totally useless without his subordinates, though?' Ed thought to himself.
"Dino-san! You'll be left behind!"
"Someone has to do it!" Dino replied.
Tsuna panicked as he didn't want to leave Dino behind. He turned around however when a weird sensation hit the back of his mind. He was alarmed as he saw none other than Rokudo Mukuro standing in front of Chrome, wielding his trident.
Byakuran's eyes widened briefly before his smirk returned.
Mukuro stepped forward and blocked Byakuran with his staff. His eyes glinted dangerously and his demon eye changed to path one. Byakuran looked down as the ground began to crack below him, soon erupting in a geyser of magma.
Tsuna gaped at the illusion, but grew even more alarmed when Byakuran stood tall, unfazed by the large eruption of magma around him. He smirked when Mukuro cast more illusions, adding more erupting magma geysers as well as wrapping Byakuran's body in plants.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi," Mukuro said as Byakuran broke free from the illusions, thrusting his hand through the fake Mist guardians chest, "Make sure Byakuran doesn't get the Sky Arcobaleno, protect her with your life."
"Great speech, Rokudo Mukuro," Byakuran said, "How 'bout you come here in person and we can resume this fight."
Mist flames began to float off of Mukuro's form, causing Edward to take action, "Tsunayoshi-kun! I would strongly advise you start unleashing your flames right about now! I would do it, but I don't have normal attribute flames!"
Tsuna looked at Ed before briefly nodding. He lit his flame along with everyone else and they quickly sent the rainbow of flames up into the sky. Soon, the Vongola group disappeared, leaving behind an illusion of Mukuro and a group of angry Millefiore members.
After being transported back to Namimori and getting back to Vongola HQ safely, only without Hibari, Kusakabe, and Dino who left and went somewhere else, the group finally had time for a breather.
They sat in the dining hall with which they hosted many welcome parties, and relaxed a little bit to re-establish their energy.
That was when the whole 'there's three people who can travel through parallel worlds' thing came up.
"Edward-sensei," Tsuna asked as the group sat waiting for an answer, even Haru and Kyoko were there, having heard the whole thing, "What did Byakuran mean by you traveling between parallel worlds?"
"Well..." Ed said, looking around nervously.
"Don't try to dodge the question, Mr. Elric, as everyone in this room is eager to find out the truth," Reborn said, staring at the alchemist.
"Yes," Kyoko said, "Haru and I would like to know as well."
"It's a really long story," Ed said.
"We've got time, after all, we need to rest for a few moments," Reborn said, a hint of something dangerous in his voice, "We would really like to know."
Ed gulped a bit before starting his story. Here goes nothing, time to say everything, "Well, I already told you all that I'm immortal, but I never really told you why. As Byakuran told you, I am from a different world. In that world, alchemy, which is nothing more than an ancient science in this world, developed more than science and something like the industrial revolution never occurred. I mean we had trains and automobiles, but it probably would never advance further than the basic designs as we really only needed alchemy to create things.
"Now that I've got that out of the way, I'll tell you my story. When my little brother and I were really young, only around five or so years old, our father left us and the only person that really knew anything close to a reason was our mother. We began to learn alchemy at that young age and became pretty good. We only did it because it would make our mom smile. After that, she had an illness my brother and I had no clue about and we came home one day and found her collapsed on the floor. She was sick with worry and the illness, so we looked through our dad's notes and found letters he had written her and we desperately tried to contact him and bring him home before she died. We had no such luck as she died later on. At her funeral, we were the last to leave her grave and that was when I came up with the idea to try and bring her back to life.
"We soon found an alchemy teacher by the name of Izumi Curtis and we trained under her for two years before returning home. She put my brother and I through hell, leaving us on an uninhabited island for a month with only a knife and a riddle we had to solve. When we returned home, we buried ourselves in alchemy books and soon I came up with a theory for human transmutation, the ultimate taboo in alchemy as no one had successfully done one and the price was too high for any human to pay, but I foolishly thought that our plan was perfect. Ignoring my brother's warnings about how we shouldn't do it, we waited for one night and gathered everything that was needed.
"Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20kg. Ammonia, 4 litres. Lime, 1.5kg. Phosphorus, 800g. Salt, 250g. Niter, 100g. Sulphur, 80g. Fluorine, 7.5G. Iron, 5g. Silicon, 3g. And traces of fifteen other elements. Those are the elements that make up an average adult human body. You can buy these elemental ingredients at the market with a child's allowance. Humans can be built on the cheap. We gathered these items and put them in a bin in the center of an elaborate transmutation circle in our basement. We still needed material for the soul and we foolishly thought a few drops of our blood would be enough. We activated the circle feeling on top of the world, happy we would see our mom again. The transmutation was a beautiful shade of gold at first, but soon turned a sickening purple. Little, black hands wrapped up around my brother and I. I heard Al's screams and reached for him, but it was no use, my little brother disappeared before my eyes and I soon found myself in a white expanse.
"I thought I was dead, that was until I saw the gate. Its large doors swung open revealing thousands of pairs of eyes staring right at me. Then, the black arms flew out and grabbed me, pulling me into its murky blackness. I felt like I would die because I suddenly found all the information of the world being poured into my brain. I felt like my head would explode. But then I saw it, I saw what appeared to be my mother, but before I could reach her, I felt a searing pain in my leg. I found myself once more in my basement, and I looked down at my left leg and what I saw horrified me. A puddle of blood surrounded what was left of my leg. The gate had taken my left leg from the knee down. I looked at what was supposed to be my mother, but all I saw was a mass of bloodied skin, glowing eyes,with ribs and organs outside of its body. When it reached for me, muttering my name, I screamed as loud as I could and then, shakily breathing, it died. I soon pushed over the vintage armor my father had collected and as a last ditch method, I wrote a symbol inside with my blood. I did another transmutation and when I regained consciousness once more, I saw that the gate had claimed all of my right arm, but I had succeeded."
"What did you do?" Reborn was one of the only ones capable of speaking.
"I bonded my brother's soul to the suit of armor. I begged my brother to not look at what we had created. He picked me up and wrapped loose bandages onto my wounds and carried me to our friends', the Rockbell's, house. He burst through the door and begged them to save me as they were automail engineers. They accepted and we spent all of our money that our mother had left us on the fake limbs. The normal recovery rate is a couple years, but I did it in one year. In that time period, a Colonel by the name of Roy Mustang from the military came to their house and saw me. He knew about my transmutation and he was the one who snapped me out of my depression. He was also the one who told me about becoming a state alchemist. After I got automail, I set out to become a state alchemist. Because of the gate, I also learned the truth and was able to perform alchemy without a transmutation circle. I ended up becoming a state alchemist and was then known as the fullmetal alchemist as well as the youngest state alchemist ever as I was only twelve. I also received the silver pocket-watch that you all see me with often as proof that I was a certified state alchemist.
"Well, my brother and I began to search for something known as the Philosopher's stone which was said to be able to bypass the laws of Equivalent exchange."
"Equivalent exchange?" Tsuna repeated, "Isn't that what you told me about when you found me after I left the group for a while?"
Ed nodded briefly before continuing, "The law dictates that humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First law of Equivalent Exchange. We learned many things in searching for the stone, I even destroyed a religion along the way. I also learned that the philosopher's stone was created by sacrificing human lives. After all that, we got in trouble with these beings known as the Homunculi. They were false humans, humanoid dolls without souls created through human transmutation, and they were named after the seven deadly sins. After getting in a fight with them, our close friend Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes began to investigate them, although he got killed in the end because of it. Later than that, in a place called Lior, the place where I destroyed the religion, began to have outbreaks with Riots and such. I end up going to investigate along with my brother and end up fighting a man named Scar who was responsible for killing multiple state alchemists.
"In the end, we were stopped by the Homunculi Lust and Gluttony. I ended up helping the refugees of Lior escape, my brother staying behind to fight Kimblee, an evil guy working for the military, not going into details. Kimblee ends up turning my brother into a ticking time bomb right before Kimblee dies, and the only person who can save him is Scar who performs a transmutation, offering up all the soldiers souls to turn my brother into a living philosopher's stone.
"Later, my father, Hohenheim, who resurfaced, goes to fight the leader of the Homunculi, Dante. While all this is happening, my brother, Wrath another homunculus, and I go to a factory where Al and I are confronted by the Homunculus we created that is the spitting image of our mother. She, known as Sloth, attempts to kill us, trying to prove to herself that the memories of our mom that were plaguing her were not her own. In the end, I kill her and Al is soon captured, causing me to follow him far below the ground where Dante's hideout is, but beforehand, saying goodbye to Mustang who was going to confront our Fuhrer, who was also the homunculus pride.
"I end up going to the underground city and confronting Dante who plans to live longer by invading Rose's body by using the philosopher's stone planted in my brother. So I can't interfere, she sends me through the gate into this world, where I go into the me in this world's body, finding my father there as well as he was apparently sent through the gate too. We are forced to run as bombs are raining down on London in World War I, he then realizes that it's the me from Amestris talking to him and he proceeds to tell me that our alchemy was powered by the lives of the people on this side. After being crushed and on the brink of death, I open the gate within myself and return to my own world where I attempt to fight Dante. She however sends Envy to attack me. After I have him pinned, he reveals to me that he was in fact Hohenheim's other son, I stopped out of shock and he ends up stabbing me through the chest, effectively killing me. That's where the scar comes from that you saw, Tsuna.
"My brother however, offers his life up in exchange for mine and I wake up once more, alive and with all of my limbs. I then offer up my life as payment and bring him back as well, only with him having no memories of his time in the armor. I then wake up in Munich, Germany with my automail and a few years before World War II occurs. After a few years, I was still trying to find a way to return to Amestris, never really knowing at all if my brother or the General was alive and the same goes for them. I had become a rocket scientist in this world at first and even ended up meeting Al's counterpart in this world named Alfons Heiderich. We go to a fair and end up hitching a ride with a group of gypsies and meeting one named Noah who could read minds by contact.
"Noah ends up getting sold and I rescue her, Alfons and I taking her in to live in his house where I lived as well. I end up making the discovery about the Thule society who were a pro-nazi secret organization who actually hired Alfons' and his friends' to construct Rockets. The Thule society was attempting to open up a pathway to Shamballa which in fact was my world known as Amestris. They ended up sending a bunch of armored soldiers over, which were quickly batted away by Alphonse. I met a Jewish director known as Fritz Lang who, after I attacked his driver because of how Fritz looked like a homunculus, told me to be his temporary driver.
"We ended up going to an old castle where a dragon was rumored to be. We found it eventually and it actually turned out to be Envy. After fighting for a while, the Thule society showed up and captured him, taking him away. I saw one of the members and soon learned he was a professor at a university. After learning more information, I broke into his private villa and soon found a large, worn down transmutation circle inside. After fixing it up, I wiped my cheek with my glove, getting blood on it by accident as I had cut my cheek on a bit of glass, and placed my hands on the circle, startling myself when it actually worked. That was when the Thule society showed up once more and went all trigger happy after the men in armor returned, all of them dead. I dove into the mass of bodies for cover, coincidentally finding my brother who had transmuted part of his soul into one of them. We then ran off and I was happy knowing that my brother was safe.
"After a whole bunch of other stuff, Noah ends up stealing some of my memories and helping the Thule society with some of my knowledge of alchemy. After breaking in a second time, I fall down, only to see that when I tried to stop them, they had captured my father. He was trapped in Envy's jaws and he told me to give Al his regards before causing Envy to bite down and kill him, activating the transmutation circle. I couldn't help but fall to my knees as my father's blood fell down like rain. Then Eckhart, the boss of the organization, shot my arm and I fell. When I regained consciousness, I found myself strapped into a rocket. Alfons soon sent me off and through the opened gate.
"Once back in Amestris, I did a crash landing and Winry who just happened to be their fixed up my automail and I went off to kick some German butt. After reuniting with my brother, we went up to Eckhart's main rocket where we confronted her in battle with the help of Roy who had apparently lost one of his eyes. We fight her and win and I send my brother and the General back to the surface so they can destroy the gate which Al had opened on that side while I return to this world and destroyed this gate.
"After returning to this world, a deformed and monstrous Eckhart stumbles out of the plane demanding to go back only to get shot by this world's Hughes counterpart. I wander out as well, letting the armor out of the plane only to hear my brother's voice from one of the suits. And to my surprise, none other than Alphonse pops out and he tells me Roy had gone to destroy Amestris' gate and that Al had come to help me destroy this one. He also told me he had regained his memories. We end up destroying the gate and I find that for helping me, Alfons had gotten shot and had died as well. After his funeral, my brother and I set out to find the uranium bomb which had been brought over, during that time we searched for the bomb, I also came upon the realization I had turned immortal after returning to this world through the gate for some reason. Oh, I also forgot to mention my dad was over 400 years old as well. The end."
Ed looked around at all the surprised faces and sweat dropped, "You do know that that story was the simplified version... right?"
LunarFallenStar: Hey guys! Long chapter, huh? Well, R&R everyone and stay tuned for the next chapter.