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FMA Fanfic: Silver Wings Ch. 6

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Chapter 6: Thief



Hikaru’s last statement left Ed even more confused than before, but he’s beginning to think more deeply. But no matter how hard he could think he still couldn’t understand Hikaru very well. He thought and thought for hours and by the time he gave up, it was about midnight. He snapped back to reality and noticed that Hikaru was lifting his human leg up to measure the finished auto-mail one. He blushed when he felt her soft fingers on his right thy.

Hikaru finished checking her measurements and went to the other table to grab the auto-mail arm. She carefully fastened a lot of wire to Ed and then connected the metal arm and leg to his body. She walked over to a lever connected to all the wires and placed her hand over it.

“This is another reason why I had you tied down with all those locks.” Hikaru explained as she pulled down the lever. An electrical wave went scourging through Ed’s body and connected his brain nerves to the auto-mail parts. He shook crazily, as the electric current passed through his body. He thought Hikaru would have a different way of doing this than his original mechanic, Winry, but he was wrong. Ed, in the end, was left exhausted. Hikaru walked over to him and pulled off all the wires. She then took a small silver key and unlocked the locks locking Ed to the wooden chair. He got up and began to test out how well the auto-mail turned out. He punched and kicked the air to test out his new metal arm and leg.

He finished with the practice test and noticed that he never felt better than this. The arm and leg were both light and sturdy. They had a perfect fluency that seemed to match with Ed’s body, and felt like that they were perfectly made for any type of combat. He walked over to Hikaru and placed his new right arm on her shoulder.

“Thank you, Hikaru.” Ed thanked kindly, but quickly changed the subject, “Can you please tell me where my clothes are. I don’t want to run around in my underwear.” His face flushed red with embarrassment.

Hikaru chuckled a bit and went to a small trunk under one of the tables. She opened it and handed Ed back all of his clothes. He quickly put them on hoping to not let Hikaru see him.

“Mind if I look around the mansion?” he asked as he finished putting on his black shoes.

“Feel free to have a look.” Hikaru answered as she began to clean up the workshop. Ed walked up the stairs and unlocked the door. Before he turned the doorknob, Ed turned around and quickly smiled at Hikaru and then was on his way out the door.

The mansion was a lot larger than what he had imagined. He began to walk around the main room and came upon the west hallway. The western hallway was even larger than the main room. No lights were turned on and the curtains were closed. There were empty suits of armor lined along the sides of the dark hallway. Ed crept passed them trying not to make much noise. He then made a run for it and exited the western hallway. The exit led the west wing, which happens to be as dark and spooky as the hallway before. Ed wandered around and was almost startled to death by a monstrous looking door. The door was made of complete stone and had a really creepy design carved into it. It was picture of two bandage-wrapped skeletons, one holding on to the left door handle, and the other holding on to the right. The skeletons were facing Ed and looked as if they were welcoming him inside.

Think about this rationally, Ed thought to himself trying to ease his fear. There are no such things as ghosts or skeleton zombies. Alchemists think rationally about things, and they shouldn’t believe in ghosts.

Ed held on to the door handle and pulled open the door. Inside was a dark room that was even darker than the last. He walked over to the curtain and opened it to shine some light into the dark room. When the moonlight entered the room, he noticed that he was in a small library. There was small round table in the center of the room. On it was a small, brown worn-out book. He walked over to the book and was shocked to see that there were bloodstains on most of the pages in the book. Ed looked on the cover and noticed that the book was an old diary. He opened the diary in full curiosity and began to read the pages:

ENTRY 1:
They told me who I was, but I couldn’t understand them…

ENTRY 2:
They told me what my purpose was, but I still couldn’t understand them…

ENTRY 3:
They told me that I can’t feel pain, but why does it hurt so much…?

ENTRY 4:
They didn’t need me today, so I went back and drew a picture. I wonder if it helps…

ENTRY 5:
I want them to stop all of this. It hurts so much, but it just won’t stop…

ENTRY 6:
Blood… Blood… All I can see now was blood… A never-ending cycle of blood…


Ed turned the page and looked as if he almost had a heart attack. The next page was almost covered with bloodstains! On the blood-filled page was a picture of a man getting brutally murdered! He had his limbs and head ripped right off his body! There was nothing but a brutal death on that page.

Ed was even more frightened than before. Who on earth could’ve written this gruesome book? He quickly turned to the next page and it was almost the same thing! The page was covered in blood like the previous one and had a different person getting brutally murdered. This person had his heart blown right out of his chest and had all of his limbs ripped off!

Ed kept flipping through the pages in the diary, but all he could find were bloodstained pages and brutally murdered humans. Ed was really frightened at this point. His body was beginning to shiver in fear. The next page of the diary had a human or multiple of them with an even more atrocious death than the previous page.

Finally Ed came to the final page of the diary. It was a normal picture with absolutely no bloodstains on the page. It was a picture of two young boys and two young girls. They all looked like they were about eight years old, but the picture was too old and blurry to tell any other details of the picture. There was some text on the bottom of the page, which read:

ENTRY 7:
The things I treasured forever are to be lost and hidden away from me, never to be seen again. Thus concludes my last entry in this book. This is the last piece of memory I have left to remember…


Ed closed the book now with a sad expression on his face. He felt sorry for the person who wrote the bloody diary and at the same time, thought that the person was a bit insane. He sighed and relieved to escape from that diary of madness. He skimmed through the shelf looking for an empty place to slot the it in. When he found a place, he slotted the diary in it. It fitted perfectly in the gap, and the house began to rumble a bit. Then a staircase fell down into the library room. The staircase wasn’t dusty, meaning that it was recently used. That gave Ed a little suspicion about the place. He walked up the stairs and lifted the trap door when he reached the top.

The trap door led to a secret room in the mansion that couldn’t be accessed through any other way other than the balcony or the staircase. The room was a strange laboratory with mirror on one side of the wall, caskets lying on the other side of the room, a chemical cabinet, and books on Alchemy, clay Golems… and the Philosopher’s Stone! Ed ran up to the table where the books were and saw that all the books stated that they were the property of the Central Library!

No way! Ed thought. Those are the books that the thief stole! He’s the one who robbed the Central Library! I’ll just have to capture him and then the Colonel will stop nagging at me about this. But why did he steal books instead of money and treasures?

Suddenly a sharp kunai was thrown directly at the book Ed was holding. Ed was startled and quickly turned around to see that no one was behind him. He began to wonder where that kunai had come from. Ed turned around and noticed that there was a girl standing on the table. She jumped off and perfectly landed behind him. The girl had long black hair tied in two ponytails and slightly slanted eyes. She looked almost like Hikaru, but her eyes were bluish-black, not crimson. She wore dark clothes like Hikaru, but instead of a sleeveless shirt and shorts, she wore a short black dress. As the girl stood closer to Ed, he noticed that she was slightly taller than him.

Is that Hikaru? Ed thought. No, it can’t be her. Hikaru has crimson eyes. This person only looks almost identical to her! Second! Hikaru’s shorter than me!

“Did you enjoy looking around at our books?” The girl said with an angry tone in her voice.

“What do you mean?” Ed asked in confusion. “Who on earth are you referring to?”

The girl gave him creepy glare and then answered, “Who do you think, you foolish shrimp?”

Ed was about to burst in anger. People may have called him “shrimp”, but never a “foolish shrimp”. He clapped his hands together performing Alchemy and transformed his new automail arm into a long sharp blade. Ed was fascinated to see what his new arm can do. He can now transmute his arm to an even longer blade than before. He ran at a quick speed trying to thrust his arm at the dark, mysterious girl, but she just easily dodged his attack. She jumped high into the air and came down with strong aerial kick. Ed dodged her kick and ran at her with the same strategy. Of course, the girl didn’t fall for the attack and dodged it again, but this time was different. After she dodged his blade thrust, Ed quickly took the opportunity to punch her directly in the stomach with his human fist. The punch looked as if it took an immense amount of damage, and it sent the girl soaring across the room. She flipped and broke her fall by landing gracefully on her feet. The girl took absolutely no damage from Ed’s strong punch. She just straightened her dress and began to wonder a bit.

Dammit! She thought. This body isn’t as human as I wanted it to be! But it’s the best that she could do without actually playing “God”.

Ed ran up to her again, but this time tried to use a strong high kick on her. She simply caught the kick and countered with her own kick to the stomach. The kick threw Ed into one of the small bookcases in the room. He hit the bookcase with immense force and the books fell right on his head. He climbed out of the pile of books and got back on his feet holding on to his stomach in pain. He let go of it and ran at the girl again. He threw a long punch at her and began to rapidly kick her from there. She easily dodged his punch and kicks and countered with an elbow jab. Ed quickly caught her elbow and threw a strong counter punch into her gut. The punch made her slide back a bit, but she regained her footing quickly.

“Damn!” Ed mumbled to himself. “How come my attacks have no effect on her? She can’t be a homunculus! Homunculi have the tattoo of Ouroboros on one of their body parts, and they can actually feel damage. What the hell is she anyway?”

The girl quickly ran and kneed Ed in his gut, knocking him down on the floor. He got up and swiftly slashed her in the stomach. Ed was expecting blood to fall out, but instead black ooze slowly poured out of her body. Ed was in shock. He never expected this to happen! The mysterious girl grew infuriated by this. She grabbed a kunai from one of her back pockets and quickly ran towards Ed while he was still resting on the floor. She threw the kunai directly towards his heart aiming to kill. Ed, however, was too weary to move and wouldn’t be able to dodge the kunai. He was doomed!
I haven't uploaded my FMA fanfic in a while. I feel like I really need to and I'm never gonna give up on the storyline, not when I got to about 100 pages on MS Word! xD I really need to start working on it again, but I hate writer's block. I'm working on Chapter 16 right now, and I hate feeling stuck, especially when my story is about to take a new turn on things. ;D

Another thing I need to work on for my Silver Wings story is original concept art! That way, you'll know what my OCs look like. :D

I hope you enjoy the story so far~! :heart:

Fullmetal Alchemist (c) of Hiromu Arakawa
Silver Wings story and OCs (c) of me (M.E.I)

Chapter Contents:
Chapter 1: [link]
Chapter 2: [link]
Chapter 3: [link]
Chapter 4: [link]
Chapter 5: [link]
Chapter 7: [link]
Chapter 8 Part 1: [link]
Chapter 8 Part 2: [link]
Chapter 8 Part 3: [link]
Chapter 9 Part 1: [link]
Chapter 9 Part 2: [link]
Chapter 9 Part 3: [link]
Chapter 10 Part 1: [link]
Chapter 10 Part 2: [link]
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now I'm really anxious to see the next chapter. keep up the good work I'll be rooting for the next one.