The Golden Wolf Eyes of Endurance

The laboratory site had turned into a lava melted zone, where sparking and heat-radiating liquid flames spilled over metallic panels and devoured it whole in single engulfing gulps. The intense scorch of the bright burn turned the air into hot vibration waves that killed off all presence of oxygen. Pieces of metallic scraps crumbled from the roof and clashed with the steel floor which was slowly being eaten away by the magma the reaction of failure from the orbit.

The tall walls of flickering inferno kept Alphonse from reaching his brother. "BROTHER WHERE ARE YOU!" he cried in a trembling fright.

Explosions from the encircled orb that Ed and Isiserah/Iyami had been in persuaded Alphonse to shield his face from flying particles.

ED'S P.O.V.

Heat…burning heat and dizziness filled my head and flickered at my skin. I slowly opened up my eyes in pain...Ugh, dizzy as hell. But I got used to the vision before me and suddenly jerked my body in urgency. I had blacked out on the metal plank on the other side of the place where that huge orb exploded on us!

All I could see now was this entire place on a boiling RAMPAGE. My mouth slung open as I looked around frantically for Isiserah or Al. That's when I heard my little brother's pleading voice call for me. I spun my head around, not really expecting what to see, which was of course that exploding orb pedestal and molten rock steaming around me with flames everywhere. Damn it, I could see all this, but I couldn't see Al.

" AL!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. "ALLLL!"

There was a long pause that made me even more frantic.

"ED!" I heard a relived cry from my only brother and family.

I smiled slightly in that same relief.

"ED! ARE YOU ALRIGHT! WHERE ARE YOU! I CAN'T SEE YOU, BROTHER!"

I flinched in a certain thought that hit me good and hard. I turned around to in view of that steaming magma. I looked back to the barrier of orange fire keeping me from the other side where Al was. "Al! Just stay put, okay? I'll be right back!"

Without me knowing if he heard me or not, I ran into the direction of burning death. I tried my best to keep my eyes open and alive. The heat was so blinding, and I had to squint several times just to feel my eyes burn.

Despite all this, I hoarsely called a name, "ISISERAH!"

The inferno and magma melting away the metal plank weren't necessarily in front of my path to block my way, but it was racing forward to block me. I held my wrist to my forehead to shade my eyes from the raging heat particles and waves. I cracked one eye open to feel the blustering scorch-winds strip across my skin hastily. Damn it, it felt like I was already burning in hell.

I looked down; a baaad idea. There beneath my feet where there used to be nothing but darkness, was an ocean of magma hotly misted as if this lab was now transformed into a huge volcano. The failure reaction to the orb of the explosion turned this place into nothing but heat. My feet suddenly became light and I nearly fell off the thin metal plank.

I strained to see what was ahead of me to keep my mind off of falling. That's when my world stopped in mid pain.

There she was…still tied up in blue and red wires squeezing around her wrists and waist. Some cords and plugs were still plunged into her spinal cord. She was badly bruised and red electric jolts from the damage were still shocking around her. Her eyes were closed, and one side of her, from her arm to leg was all metallic. The flesh had been burned off.

The sight horrified me…it was total proof…she was all metal inside, nothing else. I could feel a sweat stream dance down my jaw. I slowly glanced at my automail arm in brief understanding.

Just because someone has metal limbs…didn't mean they were inhuman through the heart and soul. Right...?

I stared back up at Isiserah with determination burning in my eyes. I kicked up off the ground and dashed into the living heat and near the pedestal of the orb. I then set my hands carelessly against the metal engulfing planks used to hold the sphere of light in place. The metal was so hot my flesh fingers steamed and I had to yank my palm away immediately.

I growled and looked up to Isiserah's shut down body. The hole I…I had stabbed within her heart was still bored deep and pitch black. I felt so bad…so pained to see such a sweet girl this way. It was a sin to see her in pain this way…and this time, I literally caused it.

I couldn't take it anymore. I fiercely clasped my hands together with tightly shut eyes and summoned my metal blade from the blue rows of light.

The sound of something unhooking caught my attention. I flinched and looked upwards with a snaky, intimidated breath.

The wires and cords connected and strapping her were slowly stripping off. With each cord that let her free, her body was shifting sideways for a drop.

I gasped inwardly and did nothing but scream her nickname, "ISE!"

Finally the wires disconnected and left her to fall lazily down on me.

My mouth dropped open as I slowly held out my hands to catch her. She fell into my arms and brought me down to fall with her. I lifted us both up in agony of my flesh leg being pinched in torture. I winced slightly, but nevertheless I kept my squinted eyes open to look at her lifeless face.

…All of the pain from my leg….quickly began to build up in my chest. Honestly, my heart was hurting more than my aching muscles. My flesh fingers steadily made their way to feel the fried cords and cold metal against her dented immortal heart. Feeling that empty space, that black hole of nothing but iron, tensed tears under my eyes.

I embraced Isiserah into me. I could feel her cold metal side against my skin. I clutched a fistful of hair and held her tight, trying my best not to shout in infuriation.

We don't cry…men aren't supposed to show their weakness, but what choice do I have? I didn't feel anywhere near being a "man" or the "human weapon"; I felt like a child. I was afraid…afraid she was going to slip away anytime soon. I don't care what she is! She's still Isiserah…I just want Isiserah back…it was the very same feeling I experienced when I lost Mom.

I buried my face into her flesh shoulder and finally let my tears race down my cheeks and wet my eyelashes, teeth clenched . I ignored everything going on around us. The ceiling was falling down on us little by little.

I had suddenly flung my tear stained face away from her shoulder. The crackling steel ceiling brought me back to reality. Right when I looked up, it crashed down on the spot in front of me, causing the plank to break. Isis and I were pulled down with that damn broken plank. I widened my eyes as I tried to reach out on the supporting plank, but the broken half we were on had already slid into the pool of lava below us. Before I could scream my lungs out, the wires connected to the broken plank was what kept us from plunging to our death. I grabbed onto the top of the broken metal so we wouldn't fall off the swaying lath. In my other arm was Isiserah clutched by her back. I shut my eyes tightly to block the heat waves from the pool of magma beneath us.

I could feel the tiredness marking my blood stained face, and the weakness of my vision coming in full impact. Even though it was hot, I was shivering in panic. My muscles were weak and I was in too much fear to help either of us up.

I slowly felt the sweaty grasp of Isiserah slipping out of my automail arm. I flung my eyes wide open as she was almost out of my hold completely.

"ISE!" I grabbed her arm to keep her from falling into the boiling magma. She was too heavy and too slippery to pull up. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, the rip of the thread of wires made it ALL turn to hell.

I looked up between my musty blonde bangs to see those threads of the wires and plugs connected to the supported steel board were on its way of tearing like rope. I knew what the fate was now….

I was jerked back down at the weight of Isiserah's wrist slipping out of my fingers.

More of the ceiling began to collapse onto the magma below us. But since the magma wasn't so deep, the falling steel was slowly burying the magma beneath it.

/15 SECONDS LEFT AND COUNTING/

/SELF-DESTRUCTION OF LABORATORY IN….

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The self-destruction warning label was doing a total countdown on when this place was going to be blown up!

"D-Damn it! You've got to be KIDDING me!" More nervous sweat poured down my face and soaked my vision wearily. I struggled to hold on to Isiserah. My fingers had already slipped into gripping her fingers. " ISIS! COME ON! WAKE UP!" I was down to grasping her two fingers now. "ISE!"

/8…. /

/7…. /

A lavender and red eye slowly came open as her body swayed from side to side by burning winds. "…Let...Go...Must...Be...Destroyed...Want...To...Die…" Red sparks traveled from her wounded heart and up my automail arm.

I hollered in agony as my nerves were paralyzed and my fake arm fell limp.

That's when it happened….in a blink of an eye she immediately slipped out of my grip and down with the falling steel particles.

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I was paralyzed in what just happened in less than a second, not able to grab her with a useless arm. "NO! ISE! ISISERAH!"

She plunged out of sight and left me alone clutching a dangling steel plank. My helpless dilated eyes watched her fall to her death. The light within my orb shrank down into the darkness within my pupil. I suddenly felt the broken steel cut through my flesh fingers. My trembling arm slipped off the steel in a slippery squeak and finally left go of that dangling piece of crap...and I fell to my death right after her…

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(END OF P.O.V.)

Alphonse looked down to see Ed falling into the dark depths along with Iyami and the collapsing ceiling. "BROTHER!"

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He looked to the ceiling to see everything falling above him.

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/LABORATORY SELF-DESTRUCT/

The entire building was demolished as every little piece of it collapsed into ash and dust. It hit the earth like tons of brick, but instead steel, falling to its point of nonexistence.

Hills

A few ebony wolves gathered round to examine the land dispersing to its doom where the laboratory was once held. A larger black wolf inhaled the scent of cinders air and whimpered in loss of another mixture of scents: Wind Seeker and Moon Dancer.

The Mountain pack wolves nervously galloped down the hillside and sprinted through the resides of collapsing land. Their muscles rippled under their wavering coats as they dashed at full speed to find their survivors.

Destroyed Laboratory (Ed's P.O.V.)

….Ow, GEEZ, my head hurt like hell. I shuddered like a sudden chill had overcome me, before shaking off my wooziness and peeled one eyelid open. I shot them both open once I realized what had happened. "Wh…Where am I?"

I was under rubbles of steel rock and ash, grime covering my cheeks nastily.

I tried to sit up, but my legs were caught up under molten metal and pinned me there. I could only use one flesh arm to lift my upper body up. My auto mail had been paralyzed thanks to Isiserah….no, that was wrong. I shouldn't say something so crude in that way about her…not when it comes to her….

I looked across from me while the stress and sadness in my heart filled my eyes, " ISIS!"

There she was…just..lying on her stomach against the rock hard floor. Her left arm had been ripped off, her right leg was detached from her port and was dangled by a few thin wires. The only thing fleshy on her body was one side of her face and her arm.

Isiserah looked up at me with red sparks flying. Her violet eye dilated on me. "…Ed…ward." She slowly crawled near me in handicap. Oil seeped from her pierced heart and left a trail of it as she dragged her mangled body.

I tried reaching for her, but forgot I was trapped and just cursed instead. I glared at it and carefully slipped myself from under them by only being able to raise it one centimeter off with my flesh arm. Surprisingly my automail leg wasn't damaged.

"…E…d….Ed…ward…Ed…" her voice was toning lower and lower thanks to her system being in turmoil.

I limply walked near her with a dragging automail arm. I could only see her correctly with one eye since my other one had been too blurry of a vision to see anything. I suddenly lost balance in my automail leg and collapsed to the ground in front of her, trembling. I looked up as my weak body quivered and sounds of shuddering, fearful breaths left my mouth. Isiserah was staring directly into my eyes, her one robotic red eye dilating off and on.

"I-Ise…" I stood up and reached my hand out to her. I quickly grabbed her and pulled her into me. I buried my face into her flesh shoulder and gazed at the detached leg of hers. The watery emotion in my eyes shuddered in hurt. " Isis, are you still with me?" she had been silent for a long time.

"Yes. Always. Wanted. To. Be."

I smiled sadly. "Don't worry, we're gonna get you out of here as soon as—"

"No. Ed…ward. Am. Dying." She said painfully in a cold robotic tone that never changed. Her head twitched against my shoulder to prove a malfunction.

I held her back and stared into her eyes with a fake hope and smile. "Don't be silly, you're not going anywhere from me. We'll get you fixed and everything will be like it use to be…"

"No. Never. Will. Be. Same. Am. Weapon." Her voice was getting low again...

My eyes widened in realization. How long have I been drifting in the fantasy and out of reality? She was right one-hundred percent. Nothing was going to be the same again…but still. "That doesn't matter! Weapon or not, you're still Isiserah!"

She fell into my arms with her body slightly being stunned by a few embers. "Who. Is. Isiserah? Never. Existed. Iyami. Is. Iyami."

I shook my head lightly and tried to look down into her facial features...what was left of them, anyway. "Isiserah is that nice girl I first met, not a weapon. You're still a good PERSON, I know you are." I was dropping out of reality again.

"Robot. Have. No. Soul." I could feel hot oil against my skin as it seeped from underneath her eye. "Am. Dying." She explained lowly. She raised her face and gazed into my eyes deeply. "Iyami. Love. Ed…ward. Iyami. Want. Ed…ward. Happy. See. Ed. Smile."

"Then stay with me! Please…" (Corniness) I squeezed my eyes shut, feeling the utter remembrance of my childhood. The image of my hand clutching Mom's flashed in my mind. "I can't lose you too…I can't lose you too…" I wrapped my one arm around her back and pulled her into me again, but tighter this time. I was so scared, so scared I'd lose her. I was trembling like a small little helpless child. That sudden visual of Mom's hand falling lifelessly into the mattress struck me HARD. Tears rushed down my face as my body shook from the memory. I was…so afraid…the cold fear ran up my spine.

A puddle of oil dribbled from out of her body from the wounded metallic heart. I felt her eyelashes brush my shoulder as they blinked. She spoke muffled against my shoulder. She put her flesh hand on my back, making me gasp lightly in mid-tremble. "Ed…ward. Don't. Be. Scared. Iyami. Still. Loves. Ed. Don't. Cry. Iyami. Can. Never. Cry. Is. Not. Human. Is…dying…" her voice lowered again.

"Ise!" I yelled hopelessly as I could feel her slipping away. I released her and roughly clutched her shoulder to see what was happening.

Her violet eye was slowly darkening. "…Iyami. Loved. Ed. Artificially. Ed. Be…Happy…." Her eye darkened completely black as I just watched in disbelief.

This can't be happening….

"I. Am. Sorry. Ed…ward." her red eye blacked out as she slowly began to shut her eyelid. The coldness of her body became colder. Her empty shell fell into my arm lifelessly.

I stared down on her…this couldn't be. There's just no way she's dead! My mouth was hung open as a single tear rolled from my extremely fearful and wide eyes.

All was silent…

"Ise…" I said under agony. "Ise!" I shook her with my breath hitching and slightly choking me. "No, GOD DAMN IT! ISISERAH! ARGH!"

END OF P.O.V.

The empty shell of Isiserah/Iyami lied wrapped up in Edward's arm. Plugs, wires and cords loosely stayed attached to her spinal cord as oil stained her body and the floor beneath her. Her head was tilted back with Ed's face buried into her flesh shoulder. Her long white angelic hair trailed paths in the black greasepond.

A few rocks shifted in the distance. They then shuffled and rambled fiercely. Alphonse struggled from beneath the steel and lifted it off his armored body. Oil, dents and dirt tainted his metal torso. He heaved the obstacle off his body in a heavy grunt and soon peered in front of him. "...B-brother? BROTHER!"

There was his brother hugging Isiserah/Iyami with one working arm. From the looks of it, she was dead, cancelled and annulled.

"BROTHER!" Al yelled louder, removing demolished pieces from his path to reach his brother

Ed raised his red, puffy eyes from Isiserah/Iyami's mangled body and stared at Alphonse.

The armored brother flinched in hurt from the stare Edward sent him.

. Tears that ran down his face marked a clear trail through the flith painted to his cheeks. His golden eyes had lost the never ending fiery determination of solemn passion, and were replaced with lifeless anguish and emptiness, like there was nothing to be ambitious for any longer.

"...Ed?" Alphonse recited quietly.

Ed gritted his teeth and turned back to the dead metallic body. "Sh-She's gone, Al…we l-lost her."

Al gasped silently. "You mean she's…?"

Ed nodded achingly, lips parting as strands of gold locks shielded the profile of his face.

"Brother…" Al walked over to him with lowered orbs. "I'm sorry…"

"Sorry for what? This is what you wanted, right! Well you sure as hell got it, Al! She's dead! Happy? She's dead, dammit!" Ed snapped with a crackling voice. "She's dead…"

"What I meant was that I'm sorry for you…"

Ed simply grunted.

"…I know you cared, Ed. But she did what was best for all of us. She wouldn't be happy if she had to live an immortal life for all time. She wouldn't be happy knowing she was created to serve destruction and nothing but destruction. She wouldn't be happy to know she has no purpose to be here. When she first came to us, she was already deluded, because she didn't know. She's a robot Ed, not a human, you have to understand that by now. That's been your problem along. I'm sorry, brother, but what she felt was artificial emotion."

Ed stared down at her body in understanding. What Al said was true, as always. When it came to Isis he never knew what to think so he'd make things fairytales, excuses, anything to imagine that she is human…not a weapon to be. She had emotions, but they were artificial, not organic. The real emotion lies only in human souls, yet robots have no soul…just a complex mind that will sometimes tell them anything desired upon, if given the chance to think on its self.

They both snapped out of the discussion and turned around to see a lone black wolf in the rubbish digging through the debris. It stopped to stare at Ed and Al. It bent its ears back and sharpened the yellow, deadly look in its broadened eyes. It gazed into Ed's eyes fiercely.

Edward furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and slight fear of how intense and perhaps angry this animal was staring at him, huskily breathing.

The black animal could see its own kind in Ed's wolf eyes, but noticed the sadness and pain in them, and lifted its lips to show a glimpse of its fangs. Ed did not deserve the golden eyes of a wild, fur-coated warrior if he were to mope in weakness for a lost loved one. Such disgrace…such dishonor for stealing a wolf's yellow eyes and use them to end the fiery fierce determination they once held. Wolves' eyes must stand for fierce determination and strength, no matter what. Otherwise it is depraved.

The midnight-colored wolf took in Ed's air and twisted its ears. Wind Seeker. It whimpered a single note and continued digging through the metal. It stopped at a point and poked a cold nose against a white blood-stained paw. It dug more frantically and stopped to give a gentle howl.

More wolves scampered towards the scene and halted at the sight. They licked the snout of Wind Seeker's bloodied fur as his eyes were pierced down on his cheeks to never open again.

One smaller gray wolf stalked Ed's ground and appeared beside him a few feet away.

Ed blinked at it as it lowered its tail and probbed at Isiserah/Iyami's hair. It snipped at her mane and wires plunged into her back. It smelt of artificial. An artificial one who rejected its purpose. She was a poor soulless thing…

It whimpered and sang a chorus with the others of grieve for poor Wind Seeker, Moon Dancer, and even for Isiserah/Iyami. Any friend of alpha Wind Seeker is a cautious friend to them.

After the melody they fled the land, the black beauty giving Ed one last strong glance signaling to hold their fierce stature if he wanted to stand with pride again. Well, of course, this is animal body language talk, Ed wouldn't get that message!

Ed stared down at the lifeless robotic perfection in drooped eyes. That's when his irises widened once his sights stayed on the metallic hole in her heart. "Al…"

"What is it?"

"…The Philosopher's stone…" Ed's dilated golden orbs stared up at him. "…It's gone…"

Holy crud I'm tired of writing! Ignore the whole "wolf eyes" thing if you were really lost (just had to make the whole wolves being their concept interesting!)! Um, I'm sorry I was gone forever! I've been working on my Shaman King story and completely forgot about this one! Ah! So many people who supported this story, and I ditched it! I'm very sorry! I'll try to stop doing that! Cuz you see, I've done to this almost all the fics I've written, so it's a habit.

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