Spoilers: Let's just go with all of FMA

Disclaimer: God I wish I had thought up something as wonderful as this series.

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Memoriae

By: Henshi

Al is dreaming. And in his dream he sees things he doesn't understand. He dreams of death, of fire, of blood red eyes. He dreams of what it must be like to not feel, to not be alive, to reach out and touch and only realize that your hand has made contact because, suddenly, you can't move your arm anymore.

And in his dream there is alittlegirlandherdog. And it's strange but he can't separate the two in his mind. This is something horrible, he knows it is, this is something awful. He doesn't understand. It makes him sick.

He dreams of faceless bodies. Of people he knows, God he knows themWho are you!?he knows them, he knows them heknowsthem. He dreams of that person in the picture (tou-san?). But now the figure has a voice and how could he remember that?

Al dreams of monsters. Of moving corpses and a bright red tattoo. He dreams of his mother. He dreams of Sin.

And now he is dreaming of his brother. The Edward he remembers is all teeth and smiles and cocky attitude and did you just call me short!? But the Edward in the dream is gold and metal and crying, sobbing and Nii-san doesn't cry. So, it's understandable, you know, that he wonders why this brother is lying on the ground like that and why his eyes are so wide and why it is all just so RED. Because Nii-san can't be, he can't be... But Al is powerful in this dream. He's the strongest Alchemist to ever live and he's going to show the world just what his brother is. He claps his hands.

And he wakes, and wonders why the floor is so cold, and why everything is so bright, the basement isn't this bright and oh, God, "Kaa...san..."

Alphonse remembers nothing.

Owari