Full Metal Journal: The Life of a Military Private

OK, I'll say this one last time: I do not own FullMetal Alchemist.

Last chapter. Enjoy.

Final Entry:

Well, I'm going home… but nothing will ever be the same again.

How can it? Smokey's dead. Castillo and Squeaker are dead. Shadow's probably dead, or in a hospital somewhere with his arms missing. Even if he did live, he'll never be able to practice alchemy again.

How is it I'm still alive, when all the others are dead and gone? How can I continue to go on with life knowing I'll never see them ever again?

Why didn't I die too? I wish I had died too.

I'll have to live with this realization, that I'm alive and they're dead, for the rest of my life.

… In short, I'm going home.

And the best friends I've ever had in the world aren't.

…

I think that's all that needs to be said.

Don't you agree?

End Journal

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my first ever completed story on this site.

Thank you all so freaking much for reading and reviewing. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't thank the following:

EquineAngel, who was the first to review

CorruptionGlare

Miss Woodford

words without (formerly shadowriter55, you especially I want to thank for the reviews you made early on.)

InuJoey

angelic lily

Steve Fett (glad we worked out the issue we had. Good luck with your RE fic, dude! I'll be one of your first reviewers!)

Kitty29

Tressa

And last, but most certainly not least, mucho thanks to:

Alchemy202- You especially kept this story alive. Thank you so much.

There are a few others, of course, but it was these people I just had to thank.

Wanna see what happens next to Scotty Rodyle? Tune in for the sequel to Full Metal Journal: The Shambala Chronicle: What Happened Next.

As you can tell, it's movie based. It'll be Scott's version of events from before, during, and after the movie.

Coming to January 2007.

Yeah, it'll have to be a while. I got other stuff to work on. But in the meantime, enjoy my other FullMetal fic, Life in the Devil's Nest. It's a Greed fic, and, according to everyone who reviews it, it's pretty good.

With all that said, make your final reviews- and thank you all again so much for reading this story.

Peace out.