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Promised Day

Father has finally got the power of the God but Hohenheim, with the aid of souls of other Xerxians destroyed the philosopher stone he just created. Father needs more souls to keep his power but what he is getting are hard fists from a teenager boy. it doesn't concern Father that the soul inside a suit of armour is gone but it clearly does to this young boy. The boy is filled with anger, he can destroy him but Father with never let that happen. He still has a chance or at least he can get another chance.

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There is just one thing in Edward's mind: that he has to destroy this homunculus. All his friends are also here with him, cheering for him, but one voice is missing, one that he wants to hear - his brother's voice, which is silent now because the suit of armour is lying on the ground motionless. There is no soul inside it. It is just a suit of armour, nothing else. Al's last words are echoing in his mind, "you better win, Brother". It was all because of this Humonculus, he deserves to die. He deserves to die. Ed always used to believe that he will never take a life but now it doesn't matter. He will kill him. It is because of him that he lost his little brother. He deserves to die. He must die. Ed lands his last fist into the face of the beast but as soon as his arm gets in contact with his face, a bright light comes out of that artificial human. Soon he is blinded in that light and loses his consciousness.

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"Brother".

This was not supposed to happen. He was not supposed to get unconscious.

"Brother".

He has to kill him. He has to destroy the one who stole his only brother from him.

"Brother".

Even though he is gone, Al's voice is still inside Ed's mind. He can still listen to him calling for him.

"Brother".

But he is gone, he will never come back.

"BROTHER".

That loud shout was enough for Ed to regain his consciousness. He is not in the middle of a battle anymore but in a garden which is calm and peaceful. He is sitting on the grass in the sky greying while the evening turns into night. He feels soft little hands wrapped around his left arm.

"Brother?"

This is the voice Ed truly wants to hear but this is really weird, he turns his face towards the little boy near him. this is Al, this is really Al, even though Al's face is full of tears, but Ed is happy because in front of him is his little brother and in his little human body. What else can he ask for? Ed is just staring at his little brother who is now really little and soft, just as he was before they did it - the thing which completely changed their lives.

"Al, you all right?"

Al just nods slowly. He tights his grip on his big brother's arm to hug it tightly.

"Brother, you fell down. I was tried to wake you up, but you didn't answer. I got scared", Al said everything as fast as he could and with eyes full of tears, tightening his grip even more.

"I am fine. Sorry to scare you but you scared me too", that was the moment when Ed's gaze goes down to his leg, his left leg, his flesh leg. Why does he have his leg? Al made the trade for his arm only so why does he have his leg, too?

"How did I scare you?", Al asks, finally loosening his grip a little and looking at Ed.

"Al, my leg?"

"What about your leg?"

Why is Al asking this? Isn't he shocked to see his flesh leg? Now Ed notices something else. His body is small, smaller than it should be. This is a little weird.

"Ed, Al, you need to come", comes a loud but sweet feminine voice from a distance behind Ed's back. Ed turns around to see the source of the voice. A little girl with short, bright blond hair and blue eyes.

"Winry?", Just one word slips out of Ed's mouth. Why is she small too?

"Come fast, Granny asked me to bring you back to your house", Winry shouts again for them to come.

"Granny is in our house?", Ed doesn't think before asking this question but soon gets lost in his thoughts. His house, is she really talking about his house? Images of ashes on the ground where his house used to be, come to his mind.

"Brother, let's go", Al's voice brings Ed back to the current time.

When the three of them arrive in front of their house, Ed is shocked to see his house, his own house. Exactly as it was before. Ed hesitates a little to enter but Winry literally pushes him inside. As soon as Ed comes inside the house he starts looking at everything as if he was seeing it for the first time but Winry doesn't let him enjoy watching all those things because she drags him inside to their mother's room.

This is the worst part of all of this because now in front of him there is his mom. she is lying on the bed; her skin is pale. She slowly tries to stretch her shaking hands towards her boys. He remembers this, he has seen this before. Many years have passed but his memories are still fresh, he could recognise every detail including where everybody is standing and what they are doing. Everything is exactly the same. Today is the day when his mother is going to die. This thought breaks Ed completely; he has to see her die again. he won't be able to save her again.

Trisha's boys are now holding her shaking hands, looking only at her. Al is unable to understand anything while Ed looks like he knows everything. She holds their hands as tightly as she can with her loose and shaking hands.

"You both have to... live. I have... saved some money... for this... eventually. Take care... of each other", these are the only words his mother is able to say before she becomes silent. Teardrops start falling from Al's eyes, but Ed is angry and frustrated. Why does he have to see this again? Why? He gets his hand out of his mother's motionless hand and runs away from there at the maximum speed he can reach with this small body. He can hear voices behind him, calling for him but he doesn't care for any of them. He just can't see everything happening again.

Ed is running away from his own home, as far as he can, from the same home which he misses the most. During his run, he see some unbelievable things. First, the shop from where he used to buy chocolate in his childhood. But almost a years after his mother's death, the only owner of the shop, Mr Grant, died when he fell down from the roof while trying to repair it. But today he is alive and working in his shop. He smiles towards Ed, but Ed is not in the condition of smiling, knowing exactly what is going to happen to him next year. He starts running again but forced to stop once again by seeing another familiar face, Mrs Rosey's. An old weak woman with no family. She spends most of her time either talking to small children of the village or with animals. When she notices Ed, she smiles at him and brings her hand forward towards him with a candy inside it. She motions for Ed to come here and take the candy, but he can't. He remembers her death too. She died at the same time when everybody was busy with Mr Grant's funeral. She was struggling with pain, but no one was there to help her. The scene when Ed saw the dead body of this lady flashes in front of his eyes. He can't take it. He can't so he runs away.

"Hey, relax", comes the sweet voice of Anney, since Ed just bumped into her while running. Anney is 4 years older than Ed and is very sweet but she died too after 2 years from now, during the rebellion of Ishbal, some shooting happen in Resembool, too. She got killed by one of those Ishbalans but today she is here. She is alive.

"Ed, are you all right? You have just been staring at me for a minute." But Ed can't reply to her. He runs away from there too.

Why is he seeing all those faces? Why is this happening? He doesn't want to face all of that again. He doesn't want to see all of them die again in front of him. He reaches to a place which usually scares a small child of his age but for him, it is the most comfortable place in the world - the graveyard where he used to spend most of his time in childhood, in front of his mother's grave. But today that place is empty. There is no grave. The graveyard is missing many graves which he remembered to be existing there but now those people are alive so why would they require a grave?

He sits at the same place where he always sits but today there is no grave in front of him. He can still imagine it being there in the exact same place.

The sound of crying little girl comes to his ears. He turns to look towards the girl. Actually, she is the same age as he is, as he's small now, too. She is crying in front of her parents' graves. Ed remembers her, she was in his class. Her name was Elena, the shyest girl of the school. Ed had also made fun of her many times but now he can't do it because now he knows exactly how it feels to have no family. Because now he has also seen his mother's death in front of him, too. In his childhood, when he realised it, it was too late because when his mother died, Elena had also died on the same day. He always regretted it, too, but now he has the chance to at least apology to her.

She is sitting there with her favourite teddy bear in her hands, looking at her parents' graves when she notices someone coming to her, It is Ed. He cames there and sits silently near her without the courage to make eye contact with her. she turns her face away from him too.

"I'm sorry Elena, for making fun of you in the school", Ed states in a single breath without looking at her. He feels even more hurt when Elena stand up and run away from him, but she accidentally drops her teddy bear while trying to run away. The teddy bear which she can't leave for a second is lying there in front of him. Now he notices that one arm of her teddy bear is broken. Has it always been broken? Has she really always carried a teddy bear with one broken arm? Even if she can't forgive him, he can still do this for her. He can at least fix this teddy bear. He stands up from his sitting position to go near the teddy bear. After clapping his hands, he touches the teddy bear. Actually, he is not sure whether this will work or not, but it does. Bright light flashes from the teddy bear which forbids him from seeing anything around him.

Everything goes bright around him. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself not in the same graveyard, but in a place which is completely white, or white void. Ed remembers this place exactly because he has already visited this place three times. Once while trying to bring back his mother, a second time when attaching Al's soul to the armour and a third time while coming out of Gluttony's belly. Today he is here again, in the Portal of Truth and in front of him stands the figure which always haunts his dreams.

Something white but with the outline of a boy exactly like Ed is standing there, but he is not laughing as he always does. It is very angry.

"So, are you going to tell me why I am here?", Ed blurts out at his face. Today he is not afraid of him as he was when he visited him for the first time.

"Dwarf in the flask Homunculus", Truth starts with the same angry face, "First of all, he stole God's power, then reversed the time"

"That means I really am back in time. I am 5 years old.", A little smile comes on Ed's face, "That means I've got another chance to save everyone". Images of all those people who have died return back to his mind: Elena, Mr Grant, Mrs Rosey, Anney, Mr and Mrs Rockbell, Nina, Mr Hughes and Al... but what about mom?

Truth tries to say something but Ed cuts him off.

"Hey bastard, if you were really sending me back in time then would it kill you to take me a few more years back so I could save mom too?!", Ed spits without hearing what Truth want to say.

Finally, Truth gets the chance to speak, "You can't save her! You can't save anybody"

The smile on Ed's face changes into an expression of anger, "What do you mean?"

"Everything is going to be the same, who is supposed to die will die and whatever is supposed to be lost will be lost. Five sacrifices will again be used. Again, Dwarf in the flask will steal my power but this time he will not reverse time. He'll die by your hands", he replies pointing towards the shocked child.

"What the fuck? If I am back in time I am going to save everyone, and this includes defeating that copy of my old man too. And about your sacrifices, this time I am not going to perform human transmutation, and neither will Al, and that means that bastard will not get 5 sacrifices", Ed replies in his anger.

Truth laughs loudly, "You really think you can change the fate of the whole world?", It laughs again.

"Maybe not of the whole world, but I will change the fate of my loved ones, at least"

Again, loud laughter.

"TRUTH", Ed shouts with all his power, "I will protect everyone around me and I will change the fate".

"Then it will be fun to watch you try".

With Truth's laughter, small, black hands come out of the gate behind Ed and take him. Ed lets them take him peacefully.

So what do you think about it?