Insanity

Ed gave the kid with the sword the best death glare he could muster. His automail was resting behind the idiot kid. Maybe this was just a huge nightmare. After all, there was no way people could transmute fire, air, water, and earth without an array. Everything was a chimera. He hadn't seen a single normal animal. Even the younger boy's pet was a chimera; a bat lemur cross, Ed guessed. There was no way he was flying on the back of a six-legged chimera with a bunch of crazy array-less alchemists, who dared to steal his limbs, then tied him up. Who did they think they were? Ed rolled over and began to bang his head against the leather saddle. "Damn it, Elric. Wake up! Circles and runes! Phosphorus! Hydrogen! Helium! Antimony! Xing! Amestris! Drachma! Risembool! Winry! Mustang! Alphonse!" With each exclaimed word, Ed hit his head against the saddle. He did not wake up from the nightmare.

The kids glanced at the disoriented alchemist. Finally, the younger girl grabbed the bound boy, and smacked him across the face. "Pull yourself together, lily liver!" The slap certainly shocked Ed, but he was far from okay.

"Don't touch me, you freaks! Gimme my leg and arm before I give you all a fist in the face!"

"Is he all right?" The older girl asked.

"Heh. Ha. Ha! HA! HAHAHA! I am better than all right, you bastards!" Ed thrashed around, desperately trying to break the bindings. "I can beat you all here, right now!"

"I think he's a little-" The small girl started.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MOUSY LITTLE PIPSQUEAK?! YOU'RE A PIPSQUEAK!" Ed yelled at the girl who was shorter than him.

"What is going on back there?" Inquired the kid on the chimera's head.

"The captive's going crazy!" The guy with the sword replied.

"I'm going to land soon." Ed kept muttering familiar names, places, and elements. As soon as he felt the chimera stop flying, Ed wriggled and flung himself off the side.

"Hey!" Sword Guy protested.

The soft tail of the chimera broke Ed's fall. As soon as he hit the ground, Ed used his foot to kick himself away. Having only one leg caused Ed to wriggle around in a large circle. He was back at square one and felt the fur of the chimera. Panicked, Ed rolled away from the creature. "Nitrogen! Oxygen! Carbon!"

"Toph, stop him!" A rock wall sprouted from the ground and stopped Ed from rolling any farther.

"Freaks! You're all a bunch of circle-less freaks! Philosopher's Stone! Human Trans-!" Ed's cries were stopped short by the earth controlling girl grabbing his shirt collar.

"Stop it, you pansy! I hate flying too, but you don't see me freaking out. What did you say your name was? Elric?"

"Elric? Hawkeye! Mustang! Breda! Havoc! Falman! Fury! Hohenheim! Curtis! Rockbell! Tucker! Nina! Hughes! Alphonse!" Ed started to hit his head on the ground. When was this nightmare going to end?

"What's wrong?" The shorter boy asked.

"He's clearly insane." The older one responded. "We shouldn't have brought him." Ed's eyes were very pale and glazy. He began to mutter elements.

"He's acting different. He acted normal when we met him." Whose voice was that again?

"By normal, you mean attacking us?" The voices didn't matter.

"His breathing isn't normal." Go away, voices.

"I'll see if I can heal him." Damn it.

"No, I don't want you near him."

"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Ed yelled at the top of his lungs.

"He's going to give away our position. I'll take care of it."

"BASTARDS!" Ed was struck on the head with a club, and and the island became silent. Even while unconscious, Ed still muttered the elements and thought about familiar faces. They must all hate him. Otherwise, why would they have sent him away to this hellhole? It was all his fault Nina and Alexander were dead. No, killed. Same with Maes Hughes. Ed had killed him, too. Al, his little brother, hated him. He had to, after Ed trapped him in armor that couldn't feel, eat, or sleep. Edward Elric, the great State Alchemist, was a monster. Being trapped here was his punishment.

"He has a very high fever."

"…Get outta my head…" Ed had tried to get rid of the voices and nightmares, but they wouldn't leave. As a monster, he deserved it. Monster. Weapon. Human Transmutation. Nina. Hughes. Alphonse.

There was a sudden cool feeling that took over Ed's body and mind. No. He wasn't a monster. Al did not blame him for what happened. Al loved him. Winry. She was going to be pissed if his automail was not in tip top shape. Mustang was sure to give him extra work when he returned. Ed smiled. He wasn't a terrible person. He opened his eyes and looked at the girl who was nervously staring at him. She was doing the freaky water thing with her hands, and she quickly retreated when Ed fidgeted. All he wanted to do was wipe the sweat off of his forehead. Then he remembered he was bound. He hoped hadn't caused too much damage, but he couldn't really remember what happened. Where was he? The ground was black, and the younger boy was meditating. Then, something strange happened.

"Uh, why are those kid's eyes glowing?" Ed was freaked out, but he tried to remain calm. The girl turned around.

"He's talking to Roku. He mentioned it when we were flying."

"We were flying? On what?" The girl looked flabbergasted.

"On Appa. You were freaking out the whole time." Ed faintly remembered that. It seemed more like a vivid nightmare. The younger girl and older boy walked over and stood next to the water controlling girl.

"Wait, but how are his eyes glowing? How is that possible?"

"Don't answer any more of his questions, Katara. He's obviously a spy." Katara glared at the boy and turned back to Ed.

"He's the Avatar. He can do stuff like that."

"Katara! You just ruined the plan! The Fire Nation is supposed to think Aang is dead." Ed had stumbled into a special kind of freak show.

"What's the Avatar? Your leader, or something?"

"No, he maintains peace in the world. Didn't you know about him?"

"No."

"Liar!" The boy yelled. "You said you were the Avatar when we first met you. Of course you know who he is, everybody does."

"Sokka, he's not lying." How could this girl tell? She always seemed to be the one who mentioned something about lying.

"And how'd you make that chimera?" Ed nodded his head in the white beast's direction.

"Chimera? You mean Appa? We didn't…make him. He was born." The girl was confused, but not as confused as Ed.

"How the hell does that thing fly? There's no reason an animal that heavy should be able to fly." The older boy looked at Appa, like he was almost thinking the same thing.

"He air bends. Just like Aang."

"What's air bending?" Ed had a feeling these people were lying to him, just to make him feel like he was going crazy.

"Aren't you an earth bender?" The younger girl asked.

"No. What's this bending you speak of?" Before anyone could answer, the older boy burst in.

"Alright, that's enough questions from you. It's your turn to answer ours."

"Fine. Fire away."

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Why did you follow us? Where are you from? What's wrong with your hair, is it sick or something?" The boy spoke too quickly for Ed to completely hear all of the questions. He did hear the strange last one.

"There is nothing wrong with my hair! It's blond! Jeeze-!"

"Where are you from?"

"Is this an interrogation, now?" The boy held his club menacingly. "Fine, I'm from Amestris. My name is Edward Elric. Anything else?" To his dismay, the boy started to laugh.

"Edward Elric? That is the weirdest name I've ever heard." If Ed wasn't bound, he would have punched him right in the gut.

"If my name is so funny, then what's yours?" The boy waited for a moment.

"Sokka." The other girls said their names as well.

"Toph."

"I'm Katara, and over there is Aang." Ed had never of those names before. He truly was in a far away land.

"Why are you here, and why did you disguise yourself as Aang?"

"I have no idea why I'm here. At the time, it seemed like the best way to survive. Now, will someone please explain to me how…Aang's eyes are glowing?" Ed paused and really elongated the vowels of the name. Why couldn't the people here have normal easy to pronounce names?

"He's in the spirit world." Katara said it like that was the perfect explanation. Spirit world? Ed wasn't going to even ask.

"I thought this Avatar fellow was dead. That's what everybody told me."

"You see, Aang was sort of, I don't know, killed by the Fire Nation. I brought him back though…" Oh, Gate of Truth! This girl committed the taboo. She performed human transmutation, and it didn't fail! What's more, she seemed to be intact. This place's alchemy was twisted and dangerous. These people were dangerous. He had to get out of this place. Alchemy with no circles, successful resurrections with no toll, people that glowed, chimeras that weren't chimeras. He had to escape from this insane land full of dangerous people.

"…N-no equivalent exchange…?" Ed spoke softly to himself, but noticed as the dangerous people were looking at him. They were going to hurt him, he knew it!

"Don't touch me! Stay away from me!" Ed wriggled backwards, but didn't get very far. "You guys are insane! No circles! No equivalent exchange! No toll! Human Transmutation!" He was screaming at the trio. Would these people have been able to change Nina and Alexander back? Could they restore Al's body and Ed's missing limbs? Maybe even Teacher's insides? No, these people were dangerous and insane. They would never help a monster that committed the worst possible sin. Monster. Weapon. Extermination. Hughes. Nina. Alphonse. Mom.

"…Boron. Deconstruction. Sulfur. Construction. Helium. Reconstruction…" Ed's eyes were once again pale and glazed over.

"…Well," Said Toph after a long period of silence, except for Ed's mutterings, "He didn't tell a single lie." Sokka face palmed.

"He's gone back into shock."

"…Water: 35 liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Saltpeter: 100 G. Sulfur: 80 g. Fluorine: 7.5 g. Iron: 5 g. Silicon: 3 g…."

AkumanoshippoNiamh: Congratulations! You made Ed insane! After reading your review, I thought about how Ed would react to such things. So, as a result, he's gone bat shit crazy...thanks for the cookie...