Equivalent exchange | By : Tsumiyouko Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > General Views: 678 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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"My best friend? Russell's my best friend, man this world's me has weird tastes." He looked over the next page.
New student today, well actually he's an old student of father's and he's a friend of Wills, man he's hot I wonder if he'll introduce me if I ask him too. He's in his twenties and he's great at alchemy though his specialty seems to be fire. I really like him. I guess I like guys, though mom's gonna be upset, she always wanted me and Winry to get married.
"So Russell's my best friend and I have the hots for the bastard great." He muttered. "This is going to be weird." he slipped the journal back into its hiding place.
This world was all together odd. It seemed like the bad things that had happened to him in his world had never happened here. Then he got upset as he thought about his Al and the others on his World. But he had his mother even if she wasn't his mother she was just like her, and his Al had no one but their friends and their world. He sat up and tried to get off the bed but lost his balance as he tried to stand up.
"Stupid legs." he muttered rubbing his now flesh left leg, which he was not used to yet. He was used to the odd motion of the Auto-mail limb and had over compensated. One more thing to get used to in this place. He pulled himself up shakily and sat on the edge of the bed. He looked over the flesh limbs, he even had the same scar on his upper arm from where before a fox had bit him but he had no clue how he had gotten it here. Hopefully everyone would just think the memory loss was an effect of the accident. He could learn all about whom, he was here and these people. He stood shakily and walked over to the bookshelves using the bed to get there. On one of the shelves were pictures, mostly of him and his brothers or one of his parents. Another picture had him, a guy who was obviously Russell, William, Al ,Winry in a flowery dress, a younger boy who looked like Wrath, and Fletcher, they were all posing together. William had his arms around his baby brothers Winry was leaning down with her arms around Wrath's shoulders. Fletcher was trying to give Al bunny ears while his brother was trying to push him away. Obviously they were all friends. He smiled at the picture this world was perfect but there had to be something wrong.
As he was looked at the picture, there was a knock and he fell onto the bed.
"Yes."
The door opened and a woman entered she had short blonde hair and wore a nurse's uniform.
"Mr. Elric, I heard you had woken up I need to look you over."
"Who are you?"
"Your nurse Clara, but then you were unconscious when I came here first." She smiled and approached him.
"Please sit up and open your mouth, I need to check your throat."
He did as he was told, for once, and let her look him over. She was quick and efficient not ever breaking the professional cheerfulness she showed. Her bedside manner was impeccable and she was done quickly.
"You should stay in a bed another few days Mr. Elric and light exercise after that nothing strenuous for at least a month."
"Fine." he sulked as she left letting her think he would actually listen to her.
After she had left he pulled out the journal to see if it could tell him anything else.
William introduced me to Roy today. He is a great guy, but a total flirt. We are going into town tomorrow night, Together, I wonder if he'll kiss me...I might have to hit him if he does though, I can't seem too eager to be with him, even if I am. He really is a great guy though.
Just got back from town and had to write this down. I just had my first real kiss. Roy's a great kisser, too bad Will caught us, he threatened to punch Roy when he saw us kiss, bad timing is a talent of his. Good thing Al was there too or he might have actually hurt him.
Ed sighed, his double here had obviously been obsessed with Roy. Though with the way everyone was going on about him, he might not be the bastard he was in Ed's world. He shook his head this was way too much. The journal was replaced and he lay back again hoping someone would show up and he could at least get a book or something.
He was dozing off when the door pushed open and the tabby kitten wandered in and jumped up to lay next to him again. She nuzzled his right hand and ran her head under his fingers.
"Hello, so Al finally got a cat huh? So what's your name?" He looked for a tag and found it on a small brown collar "Mittens? Cute and so him, he's not any different is he?"
The cat merely purred and rubbed against his hand, begging for more attention. He absently scratched the cat as he stared at the window to his room. How many times had this Ed slipped out that window he wondered. If he was anything like him it had no doubt been a lot along with his brothers, most likely. He fell asleep to the cat's purr and his own thoughts.
A couple of hours later Al was looking for the cat and found her asleep on his brother's bed. He smiled to himself and left them alone. A snicker got his attention and he saw his oldest brother in the hall.
"Checking on Ed?"
"No, I was looking for mittens, she got out of my room again, and as usual she got into Ed's room she must have gotten in there while he was asleep again."
"You know he likes her Al, he just acts like that because he can." William told him. Putting an arm around Al's shoulder. "Come on then we should see about lunch for our poor bed-ridden sibling."
"All right." The younger blond followed the elder down the hall.
In the kitchen, their mother was working at the stove humming softly. Russell was over in the corner peeling potatoes as a punishment for shirking a class.
"Hey Will, Al." He called seeing them, Trisha turned to look at them.
"Hello boys."
"Hi mom,."
"Hello mother, we figured we should feed the shrimp." Will smiled.
"I wish you wouldn't call him that, Will." Trisha told him, stirring the large pot simmering on the stove..
"Aww mother, I only call him that so no on else can." He explained.
"Of course you do William." she sighed and turned back to the stove
While William and Trisha talked, Al wandered over to Russell.
"So how's Ed doing?"
"Better, he seemed kind of out of it when he woke up, but he's been out cold for weeks probably had some weird dreams."
"Yeah, so when can friends bother. I mean visit him?"
"Tomorrow after classes, I guess."
"Right Fletcher will be happy to hear that."
Alphonse smile as he accepted a potato from the conscripted laborer,
"I'm sure Ed will too."He said handing the tuber to his mother.
William with a tray in hand called to his brother as he moved for the door.
"Let's go, if the shrimp doesn't eat pretty soon he may turn on Mittens."
The look of shock crossed the youngest Elric's face and he passed his brother rushing for the stairs.
Russell and William shared a look and laughed.
Younger brothers were always too gullible.
Much to Alphonse's is relief Edward was still asleep when they arrived. Mittens was safe, purring quite contentedly against his chest.
"Hey Ed wake up we brought you lunch." William sang out.
Edward groaned and rolled over making the cat move. She walked to the foot of the bed and sniffed at him before settling down to groom herself..
"Come on Ed you need to eat. you haven't eaten in a few days." Al pleaded.
Ed rolled over and looked at his brother's from under the blanket.
"Why?"
"Because if you don't eat, you'll never grow and we'll forever be loosing you in the front yard when the grass isn't cut."
"What?!" the infuriated glare was lost under the blanket, but William laughed anyway.
Al shoved him slightly and sat down beside his recuperating sibling.
Because mom made it and she's worried about you.
Ed seemed to think it over before relenting.
"Fine." He sat up and Will set down the tray on the side table. "But I need to do something besides lay here."
"You can have a couple of books, but you know dad will expect you to do some homework if you have paper."
"I'll do it, anything but sleeping, you can't have any fun in bed."
Al blushed brightly as Will laughed, Ed glared at him and he calmed down.
"You know at sixteen, you really should know better than that little brother." Will told him ruffling his hair.
"That's not what I mean!" Ed yelled at him turning almost as red as Al was. Besides the nurse said I couldn't do anything strenuous." He huffed.
"Brothers." Al groaned and his elder siblings stopped glaring and laughing to look at him.
"Yes Al?"
"Can we just eat now?"
"Aww we embarrassed our innocent baby brother." Will teased.
"Stop that!" Al demanded and Will pounced him to tickle him.
Ed laughed and the two turned on him, forgetting about the fact he was supposed to be resting, they sprung on him and an all out tickle fight began. At first, it was Will and Al against Ed. The table soon turned when the younger brothers went up against their elder. Soon William was begging for mercy and the bed was a mess. When no one could breathe, they stopped and all three laughed struggling to catch their breath.
"Even a few days of being stuck in bed and you're better than me." Will panted with a sigh.
"That' because I'm the best." Ed preened.
"Sure you are, now eat your lunch it's gotten cold."
"Yes mom."
"No your mother is downstairs"
"You're right; you'd look bad in a dress."
"Damn straight, I would."
Ed looked at him and shook his head. These two were strange in some ways, but they were technically his brothers. He dug into the soup still hungry as ever. William still managed to steal food as they ate.
It was an easy camaraderie for Al and Will, Ed found himself relaxing a little as they joked about silly things. Will teased Ed about his height again, but this time Ed just stole his bread. Al told Ed about Russell's punishment and he laughed.
"No wonder these potatoes seem weird, Russ has no kitchen skills." Ed mused poking at his potatoes.
"True." Will agreed trying to get back his bread, but Ed took a huge bite out of it and Will merely pulled another piece from the tray for his soup. "We should go Izumi Sensei's class is this afternoon, you should feel lucky you don't have to get your ass kicked today."
"Like I'd rather be languishing about all day. Without anything to do its sheer torture." He waved his arms for emphasis. "Bedridden, bored to tears and being mauled by Al's cat."
Mittens yawned from the rug, having sought refuge during the minor scuffle. Al had already gone to the bookshelf to retrieve something for his brother. Setting a small pile on the nightstand, he was rewarded with a grateful smile. William picked up the tray and left in its place a pen and a notebook.
"Here you go little brother, just don't blow up your room again."
"I won't." he promised, unsure how he could have possible done so in the first place.
"Okay."
His brothers left and Ed was left to his thoughts. Reaching over he picked up the first book, quite content to read for the rest of the day.. It was a book on Alchemy of course, and he sank into it.
After awhile there were shouts outside and he struggled over to the window to see what was going on. He smiled when he saw what looked like Izumi yelling at William, Alphonse, Russell, Fletcher, the Wrath look alike, and a couple others. Each time they attacked, they were thrown back. Al and Fletcher caught the boy, most likely he was the Michael mentioned in his journal. They tried a three-way attack and were batted away easily as she taught out of the book she held. Russell and Will were any better, caught in a tangled pile and struggling to rise.
While they trained, two older men watched from the low stone fence. One was a large man, not fat but heavy muscles covered his frame. He was blond or at least the few hairs on his forehead and the large mustache he bore matched it. He was dressed simply in black slacks, a white buttoned shirt sat across his broad shoulders. By no means was this anyone other that Alex Louis Armstrong. Ed hoped he was nothing like the Armstrong of old he doubted his newly acquired arm could take such an exuberant greeting. The other was even more familiar with short black hair that hung just over his jet black eyes. Roy wore blue pants and an undershirt, a white t-shirt hung draped over his shoulder. From the look of things, they to had suffered from Izumi's tender ministrations and were now resting.
By chance, the man who would be Armstrong saw him perched in the window. Smiling broadly, he waved, alerting his companion. Roy's head shot up and he followed his friend's line of sight and found Edward. His features softened and he too smiled, though not as cheerfully as Armstrong had. It was a gentle look, one Ed was unused to and he found himself smiling back. Before he knew it, he offered a small wave to the man. Roy easily returned the gesture in what was almost a salute and he felt relived. It sudden dawned on him and blushed suddenly. Dropping from the window, he smacked himself in the head. What was he doing? This was Roy of all people. Why the Hell was he playing Juliet?
Seizing the journal, Ed set about filling in his thoughts. He wrote what he knew so far down, he had to remember everything he had learned, after all he was stuck here, for now and he was going to have to be these people's Edward Elric. .
Ed looked at him and shook his head these two were strange in some ways. but they were technically his brothers. He dug into the soup still hungry as ever. William still managed to steal from both plates as they ate.
it was an easy camaraderie for Al and Will, Ed was relaxing a little as they joked about silly things Will teased Ed about his height again this time ed didn't say a word he just stole Will's bread. Al told ed about Russell's punishment and ed laughed.
"No wonder theses potatoes seem a bit weird Russ has no kitchen skills." Ed mused poking at his potatoes.
"True." Will agreed trying to get back his bread, but Ed took a huge bite out of it and Will merely pulled another piece of the tray to sop up his soup. "Well we should go Izumi Sensei's class is this afternoon you should feel lucky you don't have to get your ass kicked today."
"Yeah right. I 'd rather be languishing about all day. if I can have a book or two to read while I do."
Al had already gone over to pull down a few books and pout them on Ed's night stand when William picked up the food tray he also brought a pen and a notebook.
"Here you go brother just don't blow up your room."
"I won't."
"Okay."
His brother's left and Ed picked up the first book quite content to read the rest of the day if they weren't letting him out of bed. It was a book on Alchemy of course and he sank into it.
After awhile there were shouts outside his window and he struggled over to see what was going on. He smiled when he saw Izumi yelling at William, Al, Russell, Fletcher, the boy who looked like Wrath, and a couple others while they attacked her and were thrown back everytime. Al and Fletcher caught the boy who looked like Wrath most likely this was the Michael in his journal. They tried a three way attack and were knocked away easily as she taught out of a book she held in one hand. Russell and Will were not faring any better they were in a tangled pile at the moment.
While they trained two older men who Ed recognized watched from the low stone fence. One was a large man not fat but heavy muscles covered his frame. He was blonde or at least the few hairs on his forehead and the large mustache he had were blonde. He wore simple black pants and white button up shirt. The other man was even more familiar with short black hair and black eyes he wore blue pants and a white t-shirt from the looks of it the two had also been part of the sparring for a while and were now resting. The others were pretty good, Al seemed to be one of the best at holding his own and got the others to do more strategic attacks. Will didn't seem that good he could hold his own but apparently Envy's skill had come from his centuries as a Homunculus. Russell was good but Fletcher wasn't very strong or fast. Michael was a lot like his mother though apparently.
Ed wrote what he knew so far down in the note book on his la, he had to remember everything he had learned after all he was stuck here for now and he was going to have to be these people's Ed. He would just have to slowly become accustomed to this place and these people.
An hour or so later they all headed inside probably to shower and go to another class, he seemed to be living in some kind of school, he supposed his father had started it to teach alchemy though how he had gotten Izumi to help teach he had no clue. He wondered who else he knew who was here. Not to mention how different they probably were. Not that so for most of them had been.
He leaned a little out the window now that no one was really out there to see him do so. He could see a vegetable garden below him the stone fence that Armstrong and Mustang had been leaning on surrounded it. Below his window which was apparently on the second floor was a door which probably led into the kitchen. To the left of his windows were two more sets and to the right was one more slimmer window. He could see the road a little as it curved around the hills of the familiar country side, it looked just like Resembool but a few more buildings dotted the landscape. He did see the river though with it's stone bridge. He could even see the house which was probably Winry's. Mitten's shifted on the bed and jumped onto his lap blocking the notepad demanding love. He scratched her and put her back on the bed to note a few more things before returning to his bed as he heard foot steps in the hall. They stopped at his door for a moment and ran on. He picked up another book to read and drifted off.
The light was a blinding blue white flash. It glowed around him as strange black things grabbed his arm,
"Brother!" Al was just a head he could almost grab the younger boy's hand but it vanished just as he touched the fingers. His own leg dissolved in front of his eyes.
"Al!" he yelled sitting up and looking around. The light outside was fading and he looked at his arms both still flesh again, he then threw off the blankets to reveal two flesh legs.
"Brother?" Al came running in followed more sedately by Will who carried a tray that probably held his dinner.
"Are you all right? "Al asked seeing his brother trembling.
"It's nothing Al just a bad dream that's all." he tried to calm down. It had been the gate that day but why was he having that nightmare again?
"Are you sure Ed? You sounded really scared and you did yell Al's name." Will asked.
"I can't remember why it's already gone." he told them.
"Okay, here we brought you up dinner but dad wants us to have dinner downstairs because we have company we'll be back up later."
"I have to eat alone?"
"Yeah but tomorrow you might even be able to come down for lunch at least." Will told him lighting the lamp closest to his bed as the sun was setting.
"Okay." he dug into the tray as they left. At least he was getting the same food as everyone else, and not invalid foods.
After he ate he picked up the book again. A little while later the door opened again. Trisha entered smiling at her son.
"You're looking better Edward." She said.
"Thanks mom I guess all this bed rest has helped, can I get up yet?"
"tomorrow." she promised kissing his cheek and taking the tray out. "I'm sure you'll be much better then."
"All right."
Soon the door was opened again this time by Al carrying a small wooden box.
"Hey brother."
"Al what's that?" Ed sat up.
"the chess set, want to play a few games with me I might even let you win." he smiled and sat on the bed placing the game between them.
"Let me win? I'm not that bad at chess."
"You're not that good either." he said as he set up the board.
They played a few games Al wining the majority of the games like he always did Ed had no real mind for strategy preferring to barrel in and get it done and on more than one occasion this left his king defenseless. Al was really good with strategy though carefully moving pieces to where they'd be the most effective. The two played for hours until yawns Punctuated moves.
"You should get some sleep Al."
"Not tired." he said yawning.
"I am then go to bed."
"fine see ya in the morning big brother."
"night."
Al put the game on the chair and put out the lamp grabbing mittens he closed the door behind him.
TBC...
Well there it is the first chapter in my first actual Full metal alchemist fic, that is not a lemon or a drabble. Hope you liked it and chapter 2 should bring more revelations about this place.
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