Fullmetal Alchemist: The Midnight Eclipse

Alphonse shook his head. "I don't remember anything.." He repeated.

Xioimara sat back down as Edward went back inside. She simply nodded. Xioimara wondered what time it was. She felt so tired. Xioimara decided not to lay down this time. 'No one I know should be out this late.' She trusted this thought and shifted to her human form. Xioimara stood up and leaned up against the house, crossing her arms, keeping a close eye on the darkness.

 

"Try it. It'll help." she said.

 

Alphonse nodded. He looked to his brother. "I don't want to keep Xioimara waiting too long..." Alphonse noted. It seemed like their conversation was coming to an end, and if there was more to be said, then there was always tomorrow.

 

"Cmon...just...do it." Ed told his brother shakily.

 

Alphonse stared at his brother. 'I can't.' He tried to remember that fateful day but nothing could come to him. He couldn't do alchemy without a transmutation circle. That's why Ed was the state alchemist not he. Alphonse strained his mind for the memories but couldn't collect them. "I can't..." He told everybody.

Xioimara shook her head to stay awake. She had drifted off, even standing up. Her thoughts drifted to the future and the next time she would be able to run freely in the forest, then to food and then to sleep. Xioimara found herself sinking to the ground and falling asleep without her mind's permission.

 

Izumi sighed. "You must've lost your memory from the shock. Go on to your hotel." she told them.
Ed gave Al a look that said 'Let's thank her.' He bowed slightly. "Thank you for everything, Teacher." he said.

 

Alphonse bowed too. He wasn't quite sure if to call her Teacher or Izumi. "Thank you." Alphonse headed for the door. He looked down at Xioimara once he stepped outside. "We're going to head back now." He said in hopes his voice would wake her.

Xioimara opened her eyes and looked at Alphonse. It gave her a jump at first but the day's events quickly flooded back to her. "Oh yeah." Xioimara stood up tiredly. Her limbs were already partially asleep. "When did I get so tired...?"

 

"Maybe when we haven't eaten anything?" Ed offered.

 

Xioimara smiled at the thought of food. "Oh yeah." She repeated. Xioimara started back for the hotel. She yawned a little and shook her head. The cold of the night bit at her skin. "Alex got you guys your own room. He's probably still awake so just ask him for the key." Xioimara said holding up her own key. "What happened in there that made you scream bloody murder, if I may ask?"

Alphonse followed quietly after Xioimara. He was trying to remember the past events that occured in his life.

 

"Let's just say you know you've screwed up if your teacher tries to behead you." he said.

 

Xioimara raised an eyebrow. "That's a vicious way of teaching." She commented as they turned to enter the hotel. It was unusually quiet but she enjoyed the silence. The lights burned her eyes though. Xioimara unlocked her door and entered, " 'Night." She waved a hand at the brothers and shut the door behind her. Xioimara collapsed on her bed and fell asleep without even trying.

"Brother, do you think I'll ever remember the past?"

 

"Yeah, of course. We'll get your body and memories back first and then worry about me. After all, It's my fault your like this." he told his little brother.
"Hey guys, here's your key." Ling said as he handed it to them. "Nighty night." then he went back to his room.

 

"No, Brother. Stop talking like that. It was both our faults. We're young and reckless. It's not your fault." Alphonse pleaded with his brother. This was about the third time, Al guessed, he had heard his brother talking about this was his fault. It was both their faults in the end. Alphonse found their room and opened it, entering the room.

Xioimara felt her world come in and out of sleep. She twisted and turned as she fell through darkness. Xioimara saw the ground near her fast and was relieved to land quite lightly on it. Her current realm slided out of view and shifted to a dark room. Two young boys were drawing on the ground on the room. There was a pile of elements in the center and the reak of death.

Lust knocked on Juliet's door once the Elrics went into their room. "Get ready."

 

"You have horrible timing... ever since we planned attacking them I keep having memories of their mother... I'm... created from the failed transmutation of their mother aren't I?" Juliet Sloth asked.

"But it was my Idea..." Ed replied. "Let's talk tomorrow, I'm tired..." he said as he collapsed into bed.

 

Lust looked at Sloth oddly. "We'll talk about true and false memories later. We need to get this over with." Lust added and nodded towards Xioimara's door. She headed over to the door and quietly tried the handle. It was open.

Xioimara backed up. Her view became foggy and obscured as their transmutation circle lit up. "Stop!" Xioimara shouted. She was confused and scared. The world dropped into darkness, except for the two figures of the boys. 'What are you doing?' No sound came out of her throat. 'Ed?' No sound. She tried to scream his name but out came nothing. They disappeared. Xioimara stepped back and fell out of the room and into blackness. Her voice finally screamed their names as the ground neared her painfully fast.

Xioimara awoke with a start. She wondered if it had only been minutes or hours she was asleep. She had somehow managed to throw all the sheets and pillows across the room. ’What happened here?’ She didn’t recall having that violent of a dream though she was shaken from it. Xioimara felt pain surge through her stomach and head. She felt like she was about to be sick. Xioimara dragged herself out of the bed and to the bathroom. Xioimara collapsed on the tile floor. The coldness was a comfort a midst her urgent pain. ’What’s happening?’ Her eyes glanced over towards the entrance of her room, blocked by a wall. "Go away." Xioimara threatened. She heard a swishing sound and felt a tremendous pain burrow into her chest.

She gasped in pain and grabbed onto Lust's black nails, as they dug deep into her shoulder and chest. Xioimara stared at the woman that was on the train with them earlier. She looked shocked and terrified. She ground her teeth together. 'Call for help. Scream. Scream. SCREAM.' Her mind pleaded but she stayed held by Lust's gaze.
"Why... don't you look scared?" Lust said to Xioimara as she approached the girl. She smiled at the girl, her nails pushing almost completley through Xioimara's body.

 

"Fine." Sloth grumbled. She got up and went to the Elrics' room. She pushed the door open and stepped inside. Edward was sleeping and Alphonse seemed to be as well. She looked at Edward and smiled a bit. He's so big now echoed Trisha's memory within her. She heard Lust say 'Why don't you looked scared?' to Xioimara. She got ready to drown them.
Ed woke up. He saw someone that looked like his mother standing over him. "You're the Fhurer's secretary aren't you?" he asked Juliet Douglas.

 

Xioimara picked up Ed's voice in the room across from her. Her voice came back to her. She had never been so happy to have it back. "ED! AL! RUN!" She screamed. Xioimara felt the nails fully puncture in and out of her chest. Xioimara felt her world wash white with pain for moments. When it finally started to come back to her, the world was still fuzzy and the woman stood over her. "Whor-"

"You couldn't have been anymore of a loudmouth!" Lust announced, cutting off Xioimara's breathe once the girl tried to curse her off. She retracted her nails out of her chest and lunged for her throat.

Xioimara threw her hands up in front of her throat as Lust lunged for her throat. "I dare you!" She screamed, the weight of the woman came off her throat quite suddenly.

"I wouldn't be doing that if I were you!" Armstrong said as he quite easily tossed the homonculus off of Xioimara. He stood in front of Xioimara, prepared to face Lust full on.

 

"Damn." Sloth said. "I suppose I can let you two escape this time." Sloth told them. "Go."

 

Alphonse looked at Sloth. She looked so familiar... She looked like mom still... He wondered what she was up to but wasted no time trying to hurry his brother out of the room.

"Xioimara, go get the brothers and get outside." Armstrong ordered Xioimara, as he stared down Lust.

Xioimara stood up, holding a hand over only one of her four deepest wounds. She didn't hesitate to leave. "See you there." Xioimara shakily said back to Arsmtrong. She made her way out of her room and looked across the way at Alphonse and Edward. "Let's go!" Xioimara cried, the woman standing in their room didn't seem so bent on murdering her as much as Lust.

 

Ed just reacted. He quickly followed Xioimara out. "Al, come on! We have to get Ling!"
"See you soon boys. And remember to clean yourselves up."