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What Lurks Beneath	By : RotSeele Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > Yaoi - Male/Male > Roy/Ed Views: 1878 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-What Lurks Beneath
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 18-Eighteen
- 19-Nineteen
- 20-Twenty
- 21-Epilogue
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Five
Edward jerked awake and sat up in the dark of their room, panting. His heard was beating rapidly, his skin crawling with cold sweat, and he could feel himself trembling. He’d been having a good dream. And then, suddenly, the dream changed for the worse. First he saw the transmuted form of his mother, then Alphonse, then... then Roy. It was the first time he’d dreamed of the Colonel, and dreamed of him in such a way that his body reacted violently. And not a good kind of violent, either. Edward rubbed his eyes and looked over at Alphonse, smiling at the large armor. Even if Al didn’t have to sleep, the younger boy always tried to dream.
Ed slowly settled back down and tried to go back to sleep. He imagined he heard pounding on the door. He imagined he heard the lock being broken and the door swinging open. He jerked awake when Raymond shook him, the man holding his fingers to his lips to signal quiet.
“Get up.” Ray said. “Quickly. The mind collapsed an hour ago and one of the kids got stuck in there.”
Ed swung his legs out of bed. “Al! Wake up! The mind collapsed!” He hurried to pull on his clothes, gold eyes turning to Ray. The man was staring wide-eyed at his automail limbs. Ed tried a nervous laugh. “Back when they were fighting the war in Ishbal, we got hit too, in our home.”
Ray’s lips turned down in a frown. “Hurry up. We don’t have much time.” The man stalked out of the room in a hurry, leaving the Elric brothers alone.
“Ed,” Alphonse began softly, “I have a bad feeling about this.”
Ed pulled on his shirt and reached for his black coat. “Yeah, but, we can’t just let that kid die.”
“Why would a kid play in the mine?” Alphonse asked as he followed his brother out of the inn. “They know it’s off-limits, especially at night.”
“Al, kids are gonna do what you tell them not to do, eventually.” Ed said softly.
Alphonse made a noise and hurried after his brother to the mine. Ed carefully picked his way through the carts and slipped into the mine, eyes adjusting to the dark. “Ray?” Edward called. “Mister Ray! Where are you?”
“Hello?” Alphonse yelled. His voice echoed throughout the cave as the boys went just a little deeper.
An electric light flickered to life. Another, then another, all lining the walls of the mine. Ed covered his eyes with his automail on reflex, the boys turning at the sound of a hammer cocking back and the familiar click of a bullet being loaded into the chamber. Ray stood behind them, a gun pointed right at Ed’s chest.
“What are you doing?” Ed demanded.
“That’s a fine question to ask.” spat Raymond. “Did you think I didn’t know? Blonde hair, gold eyes, a walking suit of armor. You might’ve fooled Mato and Lani and all the better for that, but you didn’t fool me! You’re Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist!”
“Yeah so? You want a cookie for that?” Edward bit out. “If you know who I am, then you know what I’m here for. So put the gun down and come with us. I won’t even put you in chains.”
Ray laughed, a high-pitched cackle. “Go with you? Lemme guess, that bastard Mustang sent you here, right? Did he tell you why he wants me in custody so badly? Did he tell you that he’s the reason I left the military? That that murdering bastard destroyed my life?!”
“Like I care!” Ed shouted. “He sent me here to get you, so that’s what I’m gonna do! I don’t care what your past is with that shitty Colonel!”
Ray’s face twisted into a horrid mask and he lifted his pistol. Fire erupted from the barrel and Ed yelped as the bullet narrowly missed hitting him. Instead it hit Alphonse’s armor and ricocheted into the stone of the walls. “Move.” Ray ordered. “Back there. Both of you.”
When neither Edward or Alphonse moved, Ray pulled the trigger again and this time the bullet struck Ed’s left leg. Ed shrieked and nearly collapsed; Alphonse grabbed his brother and glared at Raymond. “You won’t get away with this.” Alphonse said lowly.
“Of course I will.” Ray crooned. “Now move. Or I’ll shoot your brother’s real leg.”
Alphonse cradled Edward in his arms and backed down the tunnel where Raymond wanted them to go. The man forced them into a small niche lit with the electrical lights and forced Al to put Edward down and stand away from him. Ray grinned. “I’ll be sure to let Mustang know your last words. Got any?”
“Yeah.” Ed spat. “Go to hell. You think you scare me? I’ve faced worse people than you! People that wouldn’t hesitate to kill me and wouldn’t go through this to do it!” He yelped as the pistol stock cracked across his face. Alphonse shifted and froze as Raymond pushed the barrel up against Edward’s forehead.
“Oh, Fullmetal, if only you knew the truth.” Ray crooned. “Now, move, and this transmutation circle beneath you will activate. And believe me when I say you don’t want to move.” He looked toward Alphonse and grinned. “Same goes for you.”
He trained the gun on Edward as he backed up the tunnel, turning to hurry out of the cave. Ray started cackling, the sound echoing back to the Elric brothers.
“Brother,” Alphonse whispered, “what do we do?”
“We move.” Ed growled. “I’m not gonna let that psycho bastard kill me! We still have to find the Philosopher’s Stone!” He pushed himself up and tested his left leg. It held his weight well enough, so he took a step forward.
“Ed! The circle!” Alphonse cried, pointing.
Ed looked down at where he’d been sitting and watched the transmutation circle begin to glow. Edward quickly clapped his hands together and slammed them down on the circle, his own alchemy interfering with Raymond’s. Ed looked at Alphonse and grinned in relief. The ceiling shook suddenly, dust raining down on the boys. A low rumble of thunder sounded from the mouth of the mine, and more debris rained down on the Elric brothers.
“Shit.” Edward breathed. “He’s gonna blow us up!”
“We won’t make it!” Alphonse yelled as he and Ed bolted for the mine’s opening, feeling the rock around him begin to rumble.
“We have to! I owe that psycho for this bruise!” Ed yelled back.
The boys raced up the tunnel, debris and rocks nearly braining the two of them as they rushed for the mouth. Ed saw Ray standing at the mouth of the cave, grinning as though he had a great secret and Ed should’ve known it too. He held in his hand a strange cylindrical device, and Ray extended that hand. Ed stopped abruptly.
“Brother?” Alphonse asked, stopping to look back at his brother.
Ed’s eyes slowly turned to the electrical lights, to the wires. There were too many, far too many wires for just lights. That’s when he saw them, the bundles of charges set into the walls. Those gold eyes went wide at the realization that those chargers were bundles of dynamite. Which meant that the device Raymond held in his hand was...
“Alphonse.” Edward said in a cold, serious voice. “Run.”
“What?”
“Run! Just run as fas as you can!”
Edward bolted forward, Alphonse right behind him. Raymond’s grin split wider and his thumb pressed down on the trigger. Ed poured on all the speed he could to get to the entrance before the dynamite exploded. Alphonse was right behind him when the first charge went off, a loud boom that deafened Edward for a few moments. The cave mouth shuddered, dust raining down in a dark curtain. The second charge went off, disrupting the wood holding up the rocks and earth above the cave mouth. They were one hundred feet away, seventy. Alphonse pulled ahead of his brother, looking to stop the falling rocks so Edward could get out as well. Raymond shrieked with laughter as a third charge went off and took Ed’s feet out from under him.
“Ed!” Alphonse skidded to a halt and turned around, looking to go back for his brother. “Are you okay?!”
“I’m fine! Go!” Ed struggled to his feet and moved to catch up to his little brother, his voice barely heard over the thundering of falling rocks. Alphonse was frozen for a moment until he saw that Edward was okay, then turned around again to run for the mine’s entrance.
The rocks supported by the beams and planks above the opening shuddered. A few of the smaller ones toppled and created a tiny block at the entrance. Another charge went off and the one side of the mine began to collapse. Alphonse heard a clap under the roar of falling rocks and turned back in horror at the sight of alchemical light. Ed stood in the midst of the falling rocks, his hands pressed together in that prayer fashion. His gold eyes bore into Alphonse’s and before the younger Elric could scream in denial the floor rippled, the stone becoming like liquid as it raced for Alphonse.
He felt himself lifted up and carried past the falling rocks and debris. Smaller stones truck his armor, bigger stones crashing down around him. He was flung from the mine and out onto the cart tracks, landing hard as a wave of dust and sand flew over him. Alphonse heard horrible crashes as boulders came down and pushed himself up, turning over in time to see a boulder come down on his brother.
Alphonse felt a flash of cold rush through him. As the rocks and dirt kept raining down, Alphonse screamed, “ED! BROTHER! EDWARD!” Alphonse got to his feet and rushed for the part of the cave opening that wasn’t blocked yet. He had to backpedal quickly to avoid another avalanche of rocks.
“EDWARD!” Alphonse screamed as the debris showed finally stopped. He stared at the shifting pile until it settled and finally moved forward tot ry and get through the boulders and dirt. “Brother! Can you hear me?!”
Alphonse jerked when the pile he’d dug through suddenly collapsed, covering the hole he’d managed to get. With a horrible realization, Alphonse knew he couldn’t do a thing to help his brother. In fact, he didn’t even know if Ed was alive! No! Alphonse shook his head. Don’t think like that! Ed’s still alive! He has to be! What do I do? What do I do?! The Colonel! He’ll know what to do!
“Hold on, brother!” Alphonse said a whisper. “I’ll get the Colonel and he’ll know what to do! I’ll be back soon!”
The fourteen-year-old wished he could cry - and felt like he was. He turned from that closed opening and ran for the inn, hoping someone was around to help him.
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