Chapter 9 – The Full Metal Warlocks

"What the hell is a matter with your arm?" The fake priest asked in shock.

"Man, I just got this jacket. Oh well I guess it's nothing I can't fix with wizardry…" Edward Ulrich stated.

Izumi ran up to him as he finished his sentence. "Edward! If you can fix it with your own hands, do it that way!" Izumi warned.

"That'll take forever!" Ed complained. Izumi frowned at him.

"Well…I'm glad you weren't hurt," Izumi smiled. This made Edward blush.

"Hey! Don't forget about me," Cornelius, the fake priest was getting a temper angry that Ed seemed to forget him.

"Oh yeah…the freak," Ed spoke. He removed his jacket and gloves revealing his robotic arm. He turned to the priest haunted by what the priest had said. "Hey, Sick freak…" Ed yelled.

The priest gave him a weird look.

"I'm going to take you out!" Edward Ulrich warned.

The priest started laughing…

"Hey, what's so funny?"

"A boy like you will take me out?" The priest seemed to be enjoying himself.

"Where are your scars?" Ed asked intently.

"Hmm…?" The priest seemed confused.

"Don't tell me you haven't lost anything performing wizardry?" Ed looked concerned. Izumi was baffled too.

"Haha…Of course not. I've learned some valuable information about not losing limbs to those snake like creatures," He warned.

"Tell me!" Ed ordered.

"Why should I tell you?" The priest smiled.

"Then I'll just have to beat it out of you!" Ed warned.

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"I'm sure I heard him wrong…?" Ann Rose asked herself again; surly this man who had been helping her friends and family wasn't going to kill them.

Alfonso let go of her when he got to the main hall. "I'm going back for my brother, stay here?" Al warned her.

Ann just looked off into space. Surly Cornelius was going to bring her boyfriend back.

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The priest punched at Ed who moved out of the way. "You'll have to be faster than that…" Ed smirked.

"Damn it, why can't I hit you?" Cornelius was in a rage.

"Easy, I'm on much better terms with wizardry than you are," Ed ripped his left pant leg off.

The priest's eyes widened in shock, this boy had performed the human resurrection spell?

"Oh I see now…it just came to me. Did you try bringing back mommy or something?" The priest mocked.

It had actually occurred to Ed he could of tried bringing her back but as much as he missed his mother Hoenheim had stopped him from pressing the issue any further. Of course that didn't stop him from trying to bring back Winry's parents. Unlike his mother some bomber had taken them not by accident but on purpose.

No one had the right to take a life of another. That had made Ed feel much sicker than anything else in the world. Murder…

Ed did not reply. He merely ran at the priest.

The priest blocked with his knife but it flung out of his hand.

"You can't win…" Ed proudly spoke.

"Hah…We'll see about that," The priest ripped his shirt off to reveal many writings for performing spells all over his torso.

"What the hell?" Ed knew the blood the priest had used to write those was not his own. Instead it had been those who disappeared.

"You see these writings! These allow me to perform spells without chanting," The priest proudly said. He cast a freezing spell at Ed's arm. His robotic arm became frozen.

"Damn it," Ed knew he couldn't use it now.

"Ed, allow me to take care of this…" Izumi stepped forward. After a few blows the priest kneeled down before Izumi. She had cast her own spells, one that made him not able to move.

"What did you do?" Ed asked. Izumi didn't answer.

"Looks like we've got him…" As Izumi finished the priest started screaming in pain.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh…" The priest screamed as something dark in color peeked its head out of one of the spell writings. It flicked its tongue over and over. Soon followed by more…and more…and more…

Ed looked on in horror. These were the same black snakes that had taken his limbs and brother.

"Izumi…"

"Yes Ed, I see it but I don't get it,"

There was an explosion of blood and a flash of light. There where the body should be lay a crimson colored…stone?

Ed looked down at it in puzzlement. What the hell was this thing he asked himself? What had the snakes done, how did they appear out from him?

Ed kneeled down to grab it.

"What is this thing?" He asked. Izumi couldn't answer.

"Boy we'll be taking that," An unfamiliar voice ordered as something grabbed it out of Ed's hands.

"What the? Who are you?" Ed asked turning to the strange woman.

"None of your concern," She made her fingernails sharper, like claws. She attacked Ed ready to kill.

Alfonso however had jumped in the way.

"What?" Lust seemed surprised.

"Leave my brother alone!" Al warned.

Lust frowned. "How did you block my attack?" Lust asked in a furious tone.

"Killing me won't be an easy task," Al looked up at her. When Al tried speaking again a flash of light ripped opened a portal. Lust was thrown off at the portal, memories flooding back from a time she had forgotten.

"What the hell is that?" Ed asked confused.

Al turned to Ed. "Brother! I've seen that place before," Al yelled.

"What are you talking about Al?" Ed asked confused.

"You don't remember…?" Al asked in confusion. "That's the place that let the black snakes out, we opened it remember?"

Upon closer inspection he noticed it was in fact pretty close to the flash of light that had taken their limbs away. He had only seen it for a few fleeting seconds as the snakes quickly worked. It would reopen and close pretty fast.

Lust lost the red stone to the rip and it closed.

"Who are you anyway?" Lust demanded.

Edward looked up.

"If you must know, we're the Full Metal Warlocks!"

"Warlocks?" This angered Lust, It was the warlocks who had brought into this world, tortured her, and controlled her.

She wanted to kill them but decided it wasn't worth the master's punishment. She disappeared in a flash of light.

Ed looked at Izumi.

"What the hell was that all about?" Ed however did not get an answer.

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Izumi yawned as the boys got into the truck. "Hurry up!" Izumi warned. Ed had overslept and Al tried his best waking him up.

"I get the front seat!" Ed yelled. Izumi however stopped him. "Hey what gives?"

"You two can sit in the back of the truck, besides you need time to talk with each other about last night's events," Izumi explained.

"What the heck do you mean?" Ed asked.

"Well, first your going to have to learn how to work as a team," She smiled warmly at him. "Besides this seat is full of personal photos I can't risk losing to the dusty air," Izumi said.

"Well whatever, where are we headed?" Ed asked.

"My home so we can begin your training," Izumi said.

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Sam Tucker smiled through the cage. The wolf like humanoid creature snarled at him, growling in a rage. He wrote down something in his notes.

"Now now…I promise to return you to normal when I've studied the line between this world and the next some more, that way I'll bring her back for us," Sam smirked. "Bedside's you look much cuter this way…" He tried reaching into the cage to pet the creature but it bit him instead of relaxing from the touch.

"Ow, now now…is that anyway to treat your father, Natalie?"

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