Chapter 12: Gift

I woke up, unsure of what had happened. I sat up and looked around, I saw that we were still Bareos’s fortress. That’s when I remembered that Ed and I had just finished creating the Philosopher’s Stone, but where was Ed? I quickly looked to my right and saw him unconscious as well. I quickly crawled over to him and shook him worriedly.

“Ed? Edward, wake up!” I said.

Sure enough, his eyes opened and he looked at me a little confused. I smiled and hugged him, “I’m so glad you’re okay.” I said.

Ed put his arm around me, and attempted to sit up a little bit. “What happened?”

I pulled myself off of him and let him sit up the rest of the way. I said, “We transmuted the Philosopher’s Stone so the transmutation circle for it wouldn’t eat the whole country.”

Ed rubbed his face, “Aw, dammit, I thought that was a dream. At least I was hoping it was…”

I looked around some more and then I saw someone on the ground in front of us. They were too small to be Bareos, and they were covered up with a grey blanket. I stood up and walked over to the lump in the floor, once I got close I could tell it was a child. I pulled the blanket back a bit to reveal their face. I gasped and jumped backward onto my butt.

“What is it? What’s wrong?” Ed said as he began walking over.

I sat back up and checked the child’s pulse on his neck. He was very much alive; and he was definitely Ed’s younger brother.

Ed arrived to my side and saw who it was that was in front of me. He gasped, “Al…?”

He walked around to the other side of Alphonse, Ed stared at his face in utter shock, there was no doubt that it was Alphonse Elric in the flesh and blood.

Ed touched Al’s face with his left hand, just then Al opened his eyes and looked up to his brother.

“Brother?” Al said, a confused look on his face. He sat up, and the blanket the covered him fell revealing that he didn’t have a shirt. Before Al could react, Ed hugged his little brother tightly as if he hadn’t seen him in ten years.

“Ah! Brother…I…Can’t…Breathe…!” Al said.

Ed quickly let go of Al, and said “Sorry…”

Al realized something was up, “Wait, I couldn’t breathe?” Al looked at his hands in utter shock that he wasn’t in a suit of armor anymore. He looked at Ed, “Brother?”

“I don’t know Al…” Ed replied.

I looked down and saw that there was a piece of paper in Al’s lap. I picked it up, and unfolded it.

“What’s that?” Al asked.

My expression turned shock, but then I smiled. “This should answer your guy’s question.”

I handed the paper to Ed, he held it so both him and Al could read it. The paper read:

Edward,

We may not have the same morals, but we still relate when it comes to what we desired the stone for.

So, this here I understand is your little brother. You two look much alike.

No need to thank me, I’m already long gone anyway.

- Bareos

Ed threw the paper down and began looking around the room. “Dammit, where’d he go?”

Ed walked around the room, looking in every nook and cranny. Just then we heard a bunch of footsteps, we all looked to see where it was coming from, and just then from the hall that we came in from, Mustang and every one else showed up.

Mustang seemed to relax a bit seen that we were alright, but then he saw Al and was confused.

We all noticed that he didn’t recognize Alphonse, so Edward explained. “Uh, this is Al, believe it or not. Bareos brought his body back while we weren’t looking.”

Mustang’s confused look went away and he said, “Ah that explains why he separated Al from the rest of us. But why would he do that?”

“I don’t know, he left a note saying something along the lines of, ‘we relate when it comes to what we desired the stone for’, and he said don’t bother thanking him, he’s already long gone now.” Ed explained.

“Gone, huh. So I guess that means the stone has been foraged and he got away with it.” Mustang filled in.

“We would have stopped him, but we got knocked out.” I explained. “Once we woke up, he was gone, and Al was here.”

“Is Sakura okay?” Al asked.

Mustang nodded, “She’s fine, she’s still unconscious and we had to give her some blood to help her recover from that wound.”

I sighed, “That’s a relief.”

Just then the building began shaking, and more bits of the ceiling began caving in.

Mustang the yelled, “The fortress is caving in, we need to get out of here, A.S.A.P.!”

Sure enough we all followed him out of the place, and got out just in time for the whole place to not cave in on us. The sun was high in the sky and the weather was as pleasant as could be. It almost felt like one big happy ending to the whole ordeal. Even if the Philosopher’s Stone and Bareos went missing.

Ed took the blank that Al had himself wrapped in and made a pair of pants and a shirt for him, since apparently he wasn’t wearing anything under the blanket.

Ed stepped away from the rest of the gang took a big whiff of the air, he lifted his arms out and let the wind caress his entire body. Anybody could tell he was incredibly happy just by looking at him.

Sakura had woken up, and was quite surprised to see Al at eye level as opposed to being a 7 foot tall suit of armor. But none the less, I’m almost certain she thought he was cute.

I wrapped my arms around Ed from behind and said, “We made it. We’re alive.”

Ed smiled and said, “Yeah, we made it.”

“Well, I don’t mean to spoil all of the fun, but we do need to go back to Central, and you two do need to fill out a detailed report of what happened.” Mustang said to Ed and I.

I let go of Ed as we both turned to look at Mustang and Ed said to Mustang, “Aw, are you serious?”

Mustang smirked, “I expect them on my desk Monday morning.”

“What?! That’s tomorrow morning! Can’t we at least get some rest first?” Ed protested.

“Fine, I’ll make it Tuesday morning, but no later, got it?” Mustang said.

Ed had an annoyed look on his face that made me laugh. He looked at me and said, “What’s so funny? You have to do that too you know!”

“I know, I’m just laughing at that look on your face.” I said over laughs.

He continued looking annoyed, he mumbled, “What’s wrong with the way I look?”

Everyone got themselves together, and we headed back to Central.

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Much of the country rejoiced that the attacks from the robots had stopped, but the worrisome still remained since the person behind the attacks was still on the loose.

Mustang put out a search for Bareos, and notified all neighboring countries, including Xing.

Ed and I wrote our boring reports, hoping that the Colonel would understand why we completed the stone.

Edward and I decided to be in a serious relationship officially… Yes, as in we’re now boyfriend and girlfriend. Sakura and Al’s response to this was something along the lines of, “Finally! It’s about time you guys stopped beating around the bush!”

And everything went back to normal, at least as normal as it could. Things probably won’t stay so calm for long. Knowing what trouble magnets the four of us are, we’re destined to end up in more crazy adventures.

But to be honest, I’m happy to know that, because I don’t think I’d like to have it any other way.

End Chapter 12

END SHIRANAI OUGONJUTSU 2: RESURRECTION OF THE CRIMSON ELIXIR

After word:

YAY! That makes 2 stories I have officially finished.

Yes, I know, I predicted 13 chapters, but in the notebook I wrote the summaries for each chapter in, I accidentally skipped Chapter 8. Hence the reason why there are only 12.

Another funny thing is the last chapter I finished was chapter 10. OO

And ZOMG! Ed and Raven FINALLY Kiss! Haha!

Okay, special thanks…special thanks…

+My ever so supportive and adoptive DeviantART family and friends. (Yeah, you know who you are!)

+My computer for putting up with my abusive ass. (What a trooper! Yay Edo!)

+My mom, for letting me use her computer when I didn’t have Ed.

+My external HDD, Winry! (She protects all of my precious stories.)

+My homey, Emily (For talking to me when I was bored with writing. Huu. . )

+BARNSE & NOBEL! (Wait, what?)

+Hiromu Arakawa and all the other people that own rights to FMA. (Thanks for not suing!)

+And Last, but not least, YOU! (for reading this story!)

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-Raven