Everlasting
By LadysWords

Previously on Everlasting:

"I don't like spiders." Ron informed Harry for the fifth time that night as they found themselves tracking the spiders that Hagrid had spoke of earlier that night, before he was taken to prison.

As Ron and Harry walked further into the Forbidden Forest, the trees and everything that was around them seemed more dangerous. "Ron." Harry said. After a short while Harry had felt uneasy.

"Yeah, What?"

"Don't you feel like we're being watched by something?" Harry asked Ron, hoping the forest wasn't actually scaring him.

"Now that you mention it…" Ron replied to him looking nervous, and then checking around them to see if there was indeed something watching them.

Indeed something had been watching them. As Harry looked at above them he saw abnormally large spiders had surrounded them.

"What business do you have in our hallow?" A voice said coming from a rather behemoth looking spider that approached as it had climbed out its hole.

"Don't Panic." Harry said trying to comfort Ron's fear of spiders.

"Don't panic? That's bit difficult for me, Harry." Ron said in a hushed whisper.

"Who's there? Hagrid? Is that you?" repeated the behemoth spider.

"Friends of Hagrid." Harry said.

"Welcome, Friends of Hagrid, I am Aragog. I must ask you again.. why are you here?" Aragog asked of them once more.

"Up at the school, there are attacks happening... the victims are all petrified. The Ministry thinks it's Hagrid. They think Hagrid is the one that opened the chamber of secrets." Harry informed Aragog, seeing as Ron was not to keen on looking at, much less talking to, spiders.

"That is a lie! Hagrid never opened the chamber of secrets." Aragog shouted angrily.

"Then you're not the monster." Harry realized.

"No, I am not. The monster was born inside of the castle, I came to Hagrid from the distant land, in the pocket of a traveler." Aragog confirmed.

"But if you're not the monster, then what killed that girl fifty years ago?" Harry questioned.

"We do not speak of it! It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others.."Aragog replied.

A crunching noise was made as Harry and Ron both backed away from the angry spiders.

Harry could have sworn that with every step that they took more spiders had appeared.

"Harry." Stuttered Ron, while Harry eyed him in confusion.

Oblivious as to what he was doing to make the spiders angry all of the sudden, in a whisper Harry asked, "What?"

All Ron could do was point to the ground. Curious as to what Ron was pointing at Harry quickly looked down to see crushed spider eggs. Harry gulped. 'Not good.'

Ron and Harry looked at each other horrified.

"Oh l-look at the time. We've got to go, right Ron." Harry stuttered as they backed up a bit slowly.

Nervously Ron nodded in agreement.

It took one more crunch to make Aragog shout out, "Kill them!"

At that Harry and Ron bolted out of spiders nest screaming.

"That's the last time I'll try to get information from a spider!" Ron yelled as they fled from the spider's hole.

As luck would have it, a pair of headlights appeared on the horizon.

"Ron." Harry asked while ducking a branch noticing the bright lights while running.

"Yes, Harry?" Ron breathlessly replied.

"Isn't that the car?"

Harry and Ron looked at each other and then to incoming spiders that were quickly advancing in the distance.

"I vote we go to the car." Harry simply said; as it were he would rather confront the car to avoid the incoming danger of the angry spiders.

"Time to go." Harry said to Ron as they suddenly saw hundreds of large spiders in the distance approaching them.

"Good idea Harry." Ron said weakly, and fumbled his hands around nervously to start the car as quickly as he could.

"Now would be good time to go!" Harry yelled as he saw the spiders were nearly there and at that Ron managed to start the car.

Harry and Ron both soon found out that the spiders were a bit quicker than they had originally thought as the spiders soon outran the car.

"Up!" Harry yelled to the car up while pushing the stick shift forward.

Then luckily the car, after a few tries, flew into the night sky. The car spat them out as it landed ungracefully once more on the school grounds.

"The next time I see Hagrid I'm gonna kill him. Follow the spiders? Follow the spiders? I shouldn't have ... I mean, what was the point of sending us in there?"

Harry looked at Ron, "Now we know it wasn't Hagrid that was behind the attacks..."

"Wait does that mean? You don't think it might have been…" Ron said after realizing where Harry was going.

"I think Malfoy might have been right."

Chapter 15: The Inconvenient Truth

"A scientist seeks the truth, wherever that may lead. A believer already knows the truth, and cannot be swayed no matter how compelling the evidence."

– Author Unknown

"Mr. Alchemist." Truth sang into the abyss of his mind.

'Oh not again. You'd think Truth would leave my head alone, but noo.. he just has to annoy me here as well...'

"What now?" Ed snapped at the voice of Truth, since he was annoyed by its intrusion in his own mind.

"Don't you want to know the truth…?" Truth spoke into his head, like a child. A very annoying child.

'Who knew the truth could so damn inconvenient?' He thought as he heard Truth cackle at his response.

"Fine, show me." Ed rolled his eyes. 'Might as well...'

"I will show you then…"

Then suddenly the only thing Ed could see was the white large looming gate that belonged to the Truth.

"Show me the truth, Truth."

Then childishly Truth pointed to him and to itself and said, "You're already seeing the Truth, for I am it."

"Why you cheeky bastard." Ed growled at it.

Oh, how he wished to harm the damned inconvenient existence of Truth.

"Oh— do you know Tom Marvolo Riddle?"Truth suddenly asked of him.

"Yes?" Edward blinked in surprised, and then grumbled. "What of him?" If he wasn't annoyed by Truth before he was now. But that was understandable wasn't it?

Truth stared at him and sighed, "He isn't entirely dead."

"Not entirely dead?" Edward repeated.

"Nope, not dead yet." Truth replied.

"Why not?" Edward questioned, interested in finding out why.

"His soul isn't in my gate. In fact… he split it and put it in objects. Sort of like… what you did to your brother." Truth spoke as he pointed to the gate behind him.

"What I did to my brother?" Ed stared at it blankly, since he could not, in fact, recall what he did to his brother. He did not even recall that he had one for that matter.

"Oh right… you forgot." Truth cackled in his face again.

Once more, Ed cursed his luck, which fate, sadly hadn't seen fit to give him much of.

"How about this Alchemist.. I will give you your memories back, and you will give me Riddle's soul- all of the pieces of his soul, that is."

"All of it?" Edward asked confused, "What do you mean all of it?"

"Riddle, separated his soul into many different objects.."

Edward sighed and gave it thought, ' It sounds like a better idea then dying all the time to find out what happened in my past…'

"Fine, you've got yourself a deal."

At that, Truth grinned and said, "Good choice Mr. Alchemist. If I didn't know any better, it sounds like you're tired of dying. "

"I'm trying not to make it into a habit." Ed could only growl at the Truth.

"Really? I for one, thought that you were always dying to know about your past."

Distracted by the door that was being opened behind the Truth he blinked in surprise, "What was that?"

At that, Truth chuckled once more and explained, "Enter it, and you will find your memories will be returned."

Edward looked at the truth, and then the gate, "Here goes nothing."

As he step entered it all he saw was white.

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The first thing he felt as he entered the doorway was sudden pain, and then he felt his eyes widen, and then he remembered.

He remembered who he used to be...and who he knew; Al his younger brother, Winry his girlfriend, Mustang… and then he remembered the shooting, his brother, General Mustang, Winry, and how all of them running towards him when he collapsed.

"ED!" The girl screamed, he now remembered she was Winry.

Now he remembered that day a bit more clearly, that day.

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"Morning Chief!"

"Hey Havoc." Edward waved, as he recognized the yellow haired officer as he entered the Headquarters in Central.

Havoc glanced at him and grinned a little while later when they navigated through the halls of HQ, "You're all grown up..." Havoc sniffled a bit when he noticed Ed's attire.

Ed could only respond, "Ah shut up, Havoc, this is just a one time thing."

"You sure about that Chief?" Havoc laughed while he added, "You never know, maybe the Boss will order you to always wear it."

His attire was, believe it or not, the military uniform. Of course he wasn't wearing it willingly, he wore it because, well, because of orders.

"You and I both know how I follow those type orders."

Havoc quirked an eyebrow. "How?"

"I don't." Edward smirked at him.

At that, Havoc snorted and then said, "But you are now…" while he did he glanced at the other officers that were around them that were staring at them oddly.

"C'mon, let's go Chief." Havoc tugged on the blue sleeves.

"They're still staring…" He grumbled to Havoc a little later.

"Can't blame them though…." Havoc said while sighing.

At that Ed shot him a look and began, "I know…"

"Chief, you can't blame them for not believing you.. Mustang doesn't either.."

"But the facts-"

"I know... but just leave it for today. For what it's worth.. I just hope nothing does happen today."

"Then..."

"Chief… sometimes people are wrong and sometimes they are not…"

Ed glared, "Fine."

Despite what people thought, he was certain that the terrorist organization known as B.R. was going to attack. He was certain of it. Why? Because he knew that the terrorists wouldn't get a better chance at assassinating the new Führer then today.

"It's time..." General Mustang spoke to the crowd later that day, "To put the past behind us-"

Edward frowned; he wasn't going to pay attention to Mustang's speech.

'Why haven't they attacked yet?'

"I'd like to introduce to you our new Führer ofAmestris, Führer Grumman-"

He saw Mustang moving aside for room for the new Führer, but then something else caught his eye. That's when Ed saw a glint of something, curious where it came from he glanced around looking for it, and then he spotted movement in one of the windows. He narrowed his eyes, and then he saw the glint of metal pointing down towards the stage.

A gun.

'Shit! It's the B.R!' Ed thought as anxiety took over him as he saw the person a bit more and then realized he was not wearing the blue uniform. Then he saw the gunman click his gun to load it and then saw him lower the gun on the table poised at the stage... while he put his finger on the trigger.

At that moment, time slowed as Edward broke from the line on the stage as he headed for the General and Führer.

The sound of the gunshot ripped through the air as he pushed both the new Führer and Mustang down to the ground.

Immediately, he felt pain in his head, and then he heard another bang and felt it hit his stomach. 'Shit..', he was the only thing he thought as he eye sight wavered.

As he felt the blood sipped from his head he could only mumble to Mustang who had been knocked down and was staring at him in horror, "Looks like... I was right... Mustang."

The last thing he heard was Mustang screaming in his ear, " No, Fullmetal!" What the man had to say to him next, he never heard as the darkness claimed him.

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Ed blinked, as he found himself surrounded by the Truth's domain once more, "That hurt..." was wall he could say after the pain subsided.

"Now do you remember all of your memories? Mr. Al-Chem- ist..?"

"I'm stuck aren't I? In this godforsaken.." He heard himself ask to the Truth as he had flashes of his memories.

"No, you're not. Once you defeat Riddle, You'll know what to do to escape from there."

Ed blinked at the Truth, "I'm not stuck?"

Truth shook his head once more, "No. You're not stuck."

Ed scowled at the Truth, 'Of course he'd give me a half answer…'

"Could you be a bit more elaborate?"

"That's the inconvenient truth isn't it? Mr. Alchemist." Truth, once again cackled as he was suddenly thrown back into the abyss.. "Oh and one more thing, Mr. Alchemist, Don't forget our deal about Riddle."

Author Notes: Everlasting is back after two weeks and a half! Thanks for the support especially Vendelareader and others. I'm dedication this chapter to everyone.

TBC