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Chapter 38 Straightened Out
Aria stood there, blood trickling slowly down her arm. She hadn't exactly been shot, the bullet, fortunately, just nicked her shoulder; though the shock of it was enough to make her faint. SHe rubbed her wrists from where she finally managed the get the handcuffs off. She watched the soldiers place the lifeless body into a black bag and zip it up. She couldn't believe he was dead. It was all over.

She then looked up to Al, standing there, the gun lowered to his side.

"A click." It was all he had heard. He popped the clip out and saw that there wasn't any more bullets in the gun.

"Al..." Aria walked towards him. He looked up to her, a sad expression on his face.

"Aria...I." He began.

She stomped up to him, raised her injured arm behind her and quickly swung it forward, smacking him square in the face. The sound resonated in the large hall. "You idiot!!!" She screamed. "You scared the hell out of me!!! Why would you do something so stupid?!"

Al dropped the gun and raised a hand up to the sore red part of his face. "I thought you were gone...I'm sorry."

She stood there gritting her teeth. "Alphonse...you..." Her eyes filled up with tears and she quickly hugged him, nearly knocking him off his feet. "I'm sorry, I just..." She sobbed uncontrollably.

Ed walked up behind him. "I had this weird feeling you would do something like that...so..." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a series of nine bullets. "I was taking my chances giving you one bullet to work with, but I guess it was for the best." Ed ran his fingers through his hair roughly pulling his bangs back while replacing the bullets in his pocket. "I'm just shocked you pulled the trigger a second time. I wouldn't have had the guts to do it."

Al smiled a little and held Aria tight. "I really don't know what I was thinking...obviously I wasn't; it was stupid...I'm sorry for scarring you."

Aria calmed herself down a little and sniffled. "Felix is gone...that means...we can be together." She hugged him tightly.

Al smiled. "That means I can take you for that walk by the river I mentioned before." She looked up to him. "I'm sure you'll love it."

The red bangs in her eyes were clinging to her cheeks because of the tears, she brushed them out of the way. "I'm sure I will." She touched noses with him and closed her eyes, nuzzling him lightly.

"Hey come on, I'm right here." Ed smirked. "Save that for when we get back. Oh. Before I forget." Ed walked up next to his brother and he raised his atomail above his head and sent it crashing down on Al's head.

"What was that for?!" Al yelled, kneeling down, clutching his skull in pain.

"Four years Al! Four god damn years we spent trying to get your body back! If you'd have blown your own head off, I would have transmuted your sorry ass back here and killed you myself!"

"Wouldn't that be counter productive?" Aria chimed in.

"Shut up!" Ed snapped.

Al stood up and rubbed the top of his head. "I'm sorry brother..." He was a little down.

Ed went all soft on him and gave in a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it. You know I'll always be here for you. I always have."

"Thanks." He looked over behind Aria, off a little in the distance, was Envy, semi-conscious but motionless. "What are we going to do about him?"

The three teens walked up to Envy and looked down at him. Ed kicked him in the head. "And that's for killing me. You ass-hat." He puffed his bottom lip out.

Aria laughed. "We could always just burry him."

Al nodded. "Good idea. No one will think to look for him down here." Al looked over his shoulder at all the soldiers doing the clean up behind them. "We only have a few minutes to do this, so let's decide what needs to be done. I'm too weak, so you two will have to do it."

Ed looked at Aria. "You're good at condensing materials, right?"

Aria nodded. "Yeah."

Ed grabbed Envy by the hair and pulled him to what he thought to be the center of the entire building. It was right in front of the stage. "Do you think you can condense all of the building into something really hard, like carbon?"

She smirked. "I could turn it into diamond...if I was allowed."

Ed thought. "...well, it's going to be underground...no one's going to see it...sure."

Aria nodded and then looked around. "I'll need something to draw a circle with."

Ed clapped his hands and touched the ground. A very large and intricate circle inscribed itself directly into the floor. "How's that?"

The young girl was amazed, it wasn't all that often that she got to see alchemy be done without a circle. "That's perfect." She watched Ed position Envy properly in the circle.

He stepped out of the ring and stood next to Al. "Whenever you're ready."

She knelt down at the edge of the circle and leaned forward. Before getting halfway to the ground, she put her hands out in front of her and touched down on the circle. A blinding alchemic flash brightened the entire area. Slowly, the walls, the pillar's and even the floor began to dematerialized and got sucked up into the transmutation. Shots of yellow and blue lightening jumped and danced around the changing matter that began to surround Envy. Aria slowly stood up, her arms outstretched guiding the reactions carefully. The ground in the circle began to sink inwards as all the materials that were being used got smaller and smaller. They could see the crystallization of the solid diamond surround Envy through the piercing light.

Al squinted. "She's pretty good at this."

Ed agreed. "I noticed."

After a solid minute passed, and the building they were in was completely level, finally, the light died down and Aria, weak form the transmutation, began to fall forward. Luckily for her Alphonse, who was directly behind her, caught her just in time. He pulled Aria back away from the deep hole that she created. "You ok?"

Aria groaned. "Yeah...So tired though." She rubbed her eyes. "That took a lot out of me."

Ed leaned over the edge of the ten foot wide hole. "So, how far down does it go?"

"I'm not sure...pretty far I assume." Aria closed her eyes and rested her head on Al's shoulder.

Picking up a spare rock left over from the transmutation, Ed held it over the large creator and let it go. He stood there, waiting for a noise. "..." Nothing. "..." Still nothing. "..." Finally, there was the sound of the rock hitting something. "Wow...that has to be at least half a mile down." He shrugged. "Looks like I got my work cut out for me." He sighed. "I'll be right back." He began to run off in the direction of the bigger buildings. "Oh, and move out of the way!" He yelled over his shoulder.

Al, even though he was still kind of weak, picked Aria up in his arms and headed toward the other soldiers. "What do you think he's doing?" She asked him in a confused tone.

He turned, Aria still in his arms. "I'm not completely sure, but I think he's looking for something to fill in that hole."

Just then, everyone could see the ground heave and a wave of rubble head toward them. "We should move." Aria sounded kind of scared as she tapped him frantically on the shoulder.

"Good idea." Al picked up the pace and began running. "Move guys!" He yelled to the other soldiers who in turn, saw just what Al was moving away from.

In a flash, the tidal wave of rubble came down and crashed on the gaping hole. "There, all done." Ed said, standing atop the mountain of rubble.

Al brushed the dust out of the air in front of him and helped Aria stand. "A little warning next time Ed."

Ed rubbed the base of his nose. "I had it under control. You should have more faith in me." He yelled down to them. Making a few carefully placed jumps, Ed was down at the bottom of the pile of junk and broken buildings. "Now, to smooth things over." Ed clapped his hands again and touched the rubble. In a matter of seconds, the rubble receded and the ground was once more completely leveled.

"Nice." Aria smiled.

"Perfect." Al added. "Let's get going, I'm sure Winry wouldn't mind a phone call right about now."

Ed smiled. "Sure." With all that done and over with, the three of them headed back toward Central to file their reports.

"Alphonse Elric. How have you been?" Grumman smiled at the young boy. They stood outside the main headquarters, Mustang's staff was present and also a good portion of the other alchemists who accompanied them on their rescue mission.

Al stood up straight and saluted the older man. "Good, thank you sir." He lowered his hand.

Aria leaned over to Ed and whispered. "Who's that?"

He leaned and replied. "That's Fuehrer King Grumman. He's the guy in charge of the military. Actually, he's Riza Hawkeye's Grandfather."

She gasped. "Really? Wow, such an important person." Retaining her excitement, she quietly watched on to what he had to say to Al.

"Good, good. I heard you caused quite a ruckus down below Central." He placed his arms behind his back and clasped his hands together. "Would you care to explain?" It seemed as though Al was being scolded.

"Well, I uh...sir." He swallowed a lump in his throat. "It's just that--"

Grumman smiled, putting Al's shuddering at ease. "Don't be so uptight. I'm just a little curious as to how someone is able to control inanimate objects through alchemy."

Al breathed a sigh of relief. He thought he was going to get in trouble for getting rid of all the excess cult members, via explosion. "It's quite easy really." He kneeled down on one knee and drew a circle in the ground and then, touching the circle lightly, he created a small movable toy. Which, oddly enough, looked strikingly like his old suit of armor. "If I transmute a small part of my soul into the object, I can move it." He proceeded to draw another circle in the ground and place the stone toy in the center.

Once again, he touched the circle and preformed alchemy on the little bobble. As if by magic, the little toy moved of it's own accord. "And now, I can move freely inside the inanimate object." The little toy spoke.

"Amazing! It can talk." Grumman looked down at the figure, walking and moving about on it's own. "How exactly are you doing that?"

Al smiled. "Actually, I'm not doing anything right now. It's doing that all on it's own. You see, with my soul in there, it can move around as if it's me...and...really, I'm not to sure how it works, it just does."

"I have no clue either." The little toy spoke again. Then, the figure slowed down, and then fell over.

"Oh...it died." Grumman picked it up and shook it a little.

Al smiled. "Nah, it's ok. The transmutation is only temporary, when it wears off, my soul returns to me."

Grumman nodded and reached into his back pocket. "Well, that's all the proof I need." He held out a silver pocked watch with the Armistrian military symbol on the front of it. "I think you deserve this. The test you wrote still counts, so all I needed was proof of talent."

Al's eyes widened. "Uh, I--?" He reached out and took the watch from the old man. "Thank you sir." He promptly attached it to his own belt.

"It looks good on you." Ed spoke from behind him.

Al smiled at his brother. "Thanks." Quickly turning back to the fuehrer, Ed and Al stood side by side, and in traditional military fashion, saluted him.

He smiled warmly. "Now there's just the matter of your name." He thought to himself for a moment. "How does the 'Wandering Soul Alchemist' sound?"

"I'd say it's got a nice ring to it." Ed glanced at his brother.

He nodded. "Defiantly."

Grumman smiled. "Good,

Al held his watch out in front of him and admired it. "Wandering Soul..."

Aria, who sat in the seat next to him, smiled and leaned up against his shoulder. "It's sounds all dark and mysterious." She giggled. "I think things turned out pretty good, wouldn't you say?"

Ed and Al both nodded. The older of the two, having an entire seat to himself, laid out and stretched. "It really did...I'm still amazed at that ability of yours Al. Where did you learn how to do that?"

He thought for a moment. "I'm not sure. I guess when the stone activated, it gave me the know how of the soul transfer. Who knows. The important thing is that we're finally going to get some rest."

Ed shut his eyes. "Yeah, us being in Resembool will put Winry's mind at ease." He smiled. Finally, they were going back to nice warm beds and a happy home.

!!!END!!!

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