Sunday, December 9, 2007

   Sixth chapter
Yeah...finally I decided to continue the fan fic...
So, here ya go, the next part...

“Lost memories”

The sun it’s illuminating the dark streets… In a fresh and sweet morning… The birds were singing in the trees and the persons look like they were happy for the new day.
But in a house… Even when the light appeared…the memories of the night were alive somehow…
A young woman with blue eyes and blond hair was covering her face with both hands, sobbing; while a young man with light brown hair comforts her. Both were sitting in the dining room. In the living room another concerns were discussed…

Izumi: I don’t understand darling… Everything looked like it was lost…but suddenly he woke up… We thought that all was cleared…Now…the boy doesn’t remember anything about his past…
Sig: You say that he was dead and the next minute he woke up but, that he didn’t remember about his parent’s… He didn’t remember his own childhood friend right?
Izumi: No… He might have a deal with The Gate… His memories in exchange for his life…
Sig: But… Not all the memories, Izumi… I think they took the memories of his home and family…
Izumi: Then, how you explain that he remembers to Alphonse? He is part of his family too…

The boy before mentioned, interrupts the conversation while he was caring in his arms the bloody clothes of his brother…
Al: ….. The bond between my brother and I it’s very strong-said; he shows a weak smile- Even The Gate, couldn’t broken it-continued while he was putting the bloody clothes in water- But now… I don’t know how to tell him… What happened with mom and dad…
Actually…myself… I’m not sure to have the strong will to revive that…
Izumi: If your brother remembers you… Means that not everything it’s lost… He might be able to recover those memories
Al: But… in exchange of what?

Silence. Upstairs, in a room, boy reposes in a bed, the sun’s light was illuminating his face. He makes an uncomfortable grimace for the same light.
Izumi: Nevertheless… You’ll have to tell him everything… Even if you hided it…He’ll find out and it will be more painful to him
Al: I know…
The silhouette of the boy incorporates on the bed; looks confused around and finally, his eyes look outside of the window once that his eyes accustomed to the light
Al: Ok… I’ll do it… (Turns around and disappears of the room)
Izumi: (Sighs) …..Hope he accepts it…. It will be painful but…it’s the best choice….

The door of the room opens. Ed turns around. A blond girl enters with her look down while she carries a cup in her hands
Winry attains to the bed, Ed looks her confused. She spreads the cup and lifts her look, smiling
Winry: Drink it… You will feel better…
Ed: Well… (Takes it) Thank you… Umh…Ah…(Downs his looks shamed)
Winry: …Winry ^_^
Ed: !! Yes!... Of course…Winry… Thank you n_ñ
Winry:^_^ Winry Rockbell… Don’t forget it ok?
Ed: Alright… (Winry turns around and downs her look, walks to the door. There, she finds Al)
Al: Winry…Are you ok?
Winry: (Her lips trembles. Lifts her look and smiles) what are you talking about? I’m ok don’t worry ^_^(Walks away slowly)
Al: Winry…(Enters to the room while Ed drinks a little the cup of tea) Good morning brother! How are you?
Ed: …Hi Al… Better…I guess ñ_ñ
Al: Good to hear that happy.gif (Ed downs his eyes looking the liquid; his reflection returns him a sad and thoughtful look. Al changes his face) Brother…
Ed: Al… Could you…talk to me about…Mom and Dad? What happened to them or where they are? Also…details of our home… Please…
Al: (Surprised for the unexpected reaction of Ed) Alright… But I have to warn you: Some things won’t be very nice to hear… (Approaches and sits on a chair)
Ed: Don’t care… I just want to know… How is or it was our family…. Our home…. Everything
Al: Ok….. Our natal village it’s Rizembul… (That way, Al explains all to Ed the painful and happy experiences… Ed listens without show a weak attitude, hiding those tears…
When finally, Al finished, the room felt into a deep silence. Ed’s hands were trembling as his lips while he was looking the liquid in the cup)

Ed: S-so… That’s why we live here…right?
Al: Yes, but sometimes, Winry come to visit us… Helping us to remember our home….. Maybe one day, we could visit Rizembul what do you think? n_ñ (Ed left the cup on a table next to his bed)
Ed: …I don’t know…
Al: (Touches his kneels before talking) Brother….. Do you remember…something after you…well…died?
Ed: It’s curious… I remember everything about it… Dante and her reasons… But I couldn’t remember even our own house, here in Central…
Al: Then... You remember something don’t you?
Ed: …Some images are blurry… First… I was in the middle of…nothing… And then… It was in front of me…
Al: The Gate? (Ed assents)
Ed: …Those things…spoke to me… They told me that they could let me live… But in exchange of something more…
Al: … What did you give them?
Ed: …I… (Flashbacks that shows Ed in front of The Gate, those eyes were looking at him mischievously) …..They wanted…a part of me… (Ed falling into “nothing”) …..I gave them….. I gave them… Ghh… (A couple of images, which cannot be seen, appear on his head. He touches his head with both hands closing his eyes because the pain) Dammit! Ghh… (The anterior images pass fast until they stop by a scream of pain…by Ed)
Al: Brother! (Touches his shoulders) Are you ok?
Ed: Ghh…Yes… It’s just that… (Keeps silence)
Al: Ngh…

(In that moment, Izumi and Sig entered to the room. Al explains them what happened and the things calm down.
Later, they went to left Winry at the train station.
While the train was starting to move, Winry was looking, sad, to Ed, who has his look in a point; even that, she didn’t expect that he lift his eyes to look her and lift his hand to say good bye…
When the train went, the others were planning to go home, but Ed wanted to be alone for a moment. Al understood that and he let him go, but first, he gave him instructions of how to get home in a paper XD
Ed walked for the streets, lost in his thoughts… Wishing to find an answer soon….
He arrived to the Lake of City Central (Hah! There was a lake? If not…lets add it X) lol) He sits in a chair and watches the ripples in the water, while the wind was percolating between the trees. Edward feels guilty…but at the same time, he blamed destiny. Why he has those powers? Why he couldn’t be more wary? Why he was enjoying the second chance? Why?...
Nevertheless, he left the site and went to a place where, curiously, he didn’t want to go, but ended there: The Library
He entered and in a few minutes, he was sitting with 4 books accommodated in piles and with one opened, reading, investigating, and thinking…
In the tree books he didn’t find anything interesting, in the fourth book, he discovered that there were things for Botanic Alchemy. Nevertheless, when he opened the last book, he saw a title that captured his attention: “The Gate, legend or reality?”
He remembered that, before, he yanked the book while he was trying to get another one. When he was about to get it back to it’s site, he looked it for a minute and then, he put it on his arms. Ed wondered that, if there was a God, he manipulates the destiny of the persons…
While he was reading the article, his eyes were opening surprised…
Who was the writer of that book? “Unknown” Yeah, he should have supposed that… Finally, he found it… There was a paragraph that almost makes him fall of the chair…

“Centuries ago, people believed that the persons who had a strange symbol in a part of their body, were related with the Evil. The government and the church, for their own fears, ordered to kill those persons that in that moment will defeat the real evil that was coming. They wanted to avoid that the persons create the demons…
But, a couple of lovers survived… They had a boy that they fostered with love and they also prepared him for the war that was coming…
When the boy grow up and his parents died, the same mark appeared on his heart but the kind people couldn’t fingered him… That man was called “the chosen one”; he’ll have the key to access to the Universal Truth…
He chosen and assembled persons that had a pure soul and he make them his disciples…
Years later, they formed their families…”

Ed, shocked, changed the page but his surprise was bigger when he noticed that there was a missing page…
Frustrated, believing that that was only a bad dream, he closed the book, but first, he wrested the first part of the legend…
He took back the other books and went out of the Library completely shocked
He didn’t know what to do… Tell his teacher…his brother…
He discovered the genuine truth, behind truths…
That old and almost wrested book has developed part of his destiny… The reason to explain why he fought with the homunculi in the past… The reason to explain his mysterious powers… Why his enemies used him and at the same, wanted to kill him…
Him, Edward Elric…Definitely was… The new “chosen one”…

TO BE CONTINUE
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