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Silent Shadow of Amestria	By : Emereld_Kitten_Tail Category: -Misc Anime > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1344 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Darkness inside Elfi's mind was shattered when the train Screeched. Eyes snapping open she flew off her seat onto the floor. Blinking from her spot on the floor she shook the cobwebs from her mind.
"You okay Elfi?" Al's voice helped her focus on what had happened. Swiftly she stood up, fixing her long shirt along the way. looking out of the window she watched on as the fields of Resembool came into view. She was almost home.
Turning her head, she looked at her brother, who really wasn’t a brother, to see the worried look in his eyes. He had been worried about her for the last few weeks when she started complaining about her chest hurting. She found it adorable but wouldn’t say anything besides it being big girl thing. He nodded but was still worried.
"I’m okay Al, just had the life scared out of me. Stupid train whistles." grumbling she retook her seat against the window and watched the fields starting to slow. Just a little bit longer and she can see Winry and Thalia. Hopefully the wolf doesn’t expect to many souvenirs because she didn’t get any for her.
Her younger sibling giggled at her complaining but didn’t comment about it. If anything that happened in these last two years that she loved it was that Al could laugh again. He used to be so silent before they came that she found it hard to believe it was really Al. Ed had gotten moodier if anything and the only time he ever caved was when Izumi talked about beating him up for not listening. Even Elfi couldn’t get that reaction after literally throwing him into a wall head first. Maybe he didn’t remember that one?
"So, do you think anything has changed since we were last here? I bet there are tons of new people!" she smiled at the smaller sibling, if anything he loved meeting new people.
"Yeah I doubt it. Resembool is always going to be the same. Useless and unrecognized. Don’t get your hopes up for no reason Al." the scorn in Eds voice hit a small nerve in her.
"Shut up ED! If Al wants to dream about something, then there's nothing wrong with it! Why do you have to be such a jerk about everything?" Elfi could hear her voice bounce off the walls of their cabin as she glared at her twin. She just didn’t understand why the boy was such a sourpuss. He stepped on everyone's dreams no matter how much they mean to them just to point out the 'facts' as he sees them. It’s downright rude and annoying.
He sneered at her but didn’t bother retorting. Elfi almost wanted to hit the idiot when she saw Al quietly crying out of the corner of her eye. Guilt hit her quickly. How couldn’t she have thought to comfort him?
Scooting over she pulled him into her as she felt her shirt wetten. Glancing at her twin she could see the uncomfortable and disgusted look upon his face. It was so similar to their mothers that she wanted to do give him a true piece of her mind. He got lucky today but she wouldn’t put up with it.
It wasn’t until the train stopped that she was finally able to get Al to calm down. Reaching down she grasped his hand and pulled him to a standing position.
"Come on Al, I bet Winry, Granny, and Thalia are all waiting for us." that got him to smile a little. completely ignoring Ed as he struggled with his bag she pulled Al out of the cabin. It took them a minute to get passed all the people waiting for a drunk man to get up but eventually they got off.
Huffing from the struggle she stretched her body out. Of course, the minute she did so a breeze blew and went right up her shirt making her yelp in shock. Al looked at her in confusion.
"the wind was cold." he nodded in understanding, this did happen to her quite often when she wore those shirts. Figuring that they would be good siblings the pair waited for Ed to get off the train. Which didn’t happen for another ten minutes.
"what took you so long? You should have been out minutes ago." She knew her voice came off as uncaring but didn’t let it bother her when his glare came back to life. He said something but right as he talked the whistle blew. She found it quite funny.
Grabbing Al's hand, they started walking towards the Rockbell home. It was rather early so hopefully Granny was awake or better yet Winry! Even though they hadn’t been to the house in two years all three Elrics could easily remember how to get there. by the time they reached the front porch the sun was just breaking the horizon. Wanting to surprise them she walked up and rang the doorbell.
When no one came after a few minutes she rung it again and this time a voice yelled out.
"Yeah yeah hold your horses." Elfi bit her lip in amusement at the woman’s tone. 'Grandma definitely isn’t a morning person.'
When the door finally opened the three came face to face with Granny Pinako Rockbell. The older woman blinked at them just taking in their sudden appearance. Slowly her eyes moved from one blonde haired Amber eyed child to the next.
"Elfriede, Edward....Alphonse?" All three Elrics nodded although Elfi and Al had to wonder why she paused at his name. Had he really changed that much? Sighing the old woman motioned them insides before shutting the door once they had all stepped passed her. None of the kids really knew what to do. All of them kind of expected a warm and excited welcome home, even Ed, but this wasn’t in their lists of possibilities.
"Well you all might as well sit down while I tell you what’s happened. It’s not bad but it’s not good either." Granny walked into her kitchen as the three siblings all took a seat at the table. There was a clatter of the old tray as she put something on it. Elfi grasped Al's hand under the table and he squeezed back just as hard. It was a good ten minutes when granny came back in. She was carrying her old tray with four mugs of what looked like coffee. She must want to make sure they were all awake for whatever it was that she was going to say.
Once everyone had their cup Granny started talking, "What I’m going to tell you isn’t for the faint of heart but I will tell you either way." turning her head at Elfi she sent the girl a mild glare, "Den somehow got Thalia pregnant a few weeks ago, and she is now locked in the shed out back. If anyone goes near her she shoots us with lightning. So Elfi she is your companion it is your job to look after her."
Instantly Elfi paled. Thalia getting pregnant was one thing but getting pregnant by fucking a dog was another. Even though she gave in years ago, she was always careful to make sure it was in the beginning or end of her heat. Did the girl finally cave and just beg the other canine to fuck her senseless during the entire thing or did she want puppies and now doesn’t know how to take it? If there was one thing she knew it was that her butt was bacon.
"Yes Granny. Maybe we should have someone invent a female dog condom?" this got all three attention, especially granny's.
"What’s a condom? Are they used for something?" was the words she never expected out of the older woman’s mouth. She was pretty sure her jaw dropped to the ground. It honestly made no sense to her. How do they not have condoms? How do people keep from having babies if they have regular sex?
"Do they not have condoms here?" She tried to stress the here to point out she meant this world and not Resembool.
"I’ve never heard of them. What do they do?" a blush covered her face as she realized she was under the attention of three people, two of which are aren’t even teens yet.
Gulping heavily, she explained to them what a condom was, where it went, how they worked. In the end granny was grinning something evil but she was too scared to ask. Thankfully neither of her siblings asked anything after she said it was used in sex.
"So, did you all enjoy your two years away from my home? I hope so because starting tomorrow its back to school for you, Edward and Alphonse. Elfriede, you have a wolf to talk to and good job catching up on all your back orders. I have to admit that I thought you would bring some back with you." Elfi blushed once more under the pride in her grandma's eyes. It felt good though to rise above her expectations. She wouldn’t have though if it wasn’t for Izumi letting off lessons the last week and half of her time there. And even then, she barely made it.
"Thank you, grandma, but if it’s okay with you could we go to bed? We didn’t get much last night." Honestly, she just wanted to cuddle up to Winry a little before she had to get off to school. And maybe see Thalia later in the day, probably with a large juicy steak to appease her.
"Go on, if trains are anything like they use to be I wouldn’t doubt it." Instantly Al and Ed were getting up and heading upstairs. As soon as they were gone Granny smiled at her, "Am I going to have to have someone invent this condom before you’re a teenager? Others maybe blind about your feelings for Winry but I am not, young lady. And if I catch you two doing anything there will be hell to pay, got it?" Her head bobbed up and down so fast it was a blur of blonde and red.
"Can I go now?" her granny gave her one more hard look before smiling and nodded in acceptance. As soon as she was given the okay she shadow traveled upstairs into her and Winry's room.
It still looked the same as last time, with a few new stuffed animals and some more Automail memorabilia. Although she did notice a blow-up picture of Winry and her snuggled up out on the hill in their birthday suits on the wall. How could she have even gotten that picture? the weird thing about that one picture was that if one looked super closely they would notice that both of them were a little wet between the legs with light blushes on their faces.
Taking away from the image before her body went out of control she stripped her shirt off before cuddling into the blankets with Winry. A smile spread across her lips when the blue eyes girl wrapped her arm around her and pulled her in close as she snuggled even deeper into her.
Sighing in content Elfi slowly let herself drift off.

0/0

When she awoke later Elfi found she was wrapped up in a tight bundle of blankets and Winry wasn’t anywhere to be found. Turning her head towards the window she noticed the sun had risen far enough for Winry having to go to school. Gosh when she thinks about it much she sounds so old!
Groaning to herself she wiggled herself out from the cloth heater. She would have to ask Winry not to bundle her up too much. Sitting up on the edge she sighed in relief as the cool air around her massaged her body. Now she needed to figure out what to do. Go see Thalia or go work on her old project of reading all her daddy's book? Books sound safer but she really hadn’t spent much time with Thalia in this life.
Hating herself some more she quickly shadow traveled outside the shed. Creeping up to the door she easily took control of the shadows inside and had them hold the wolf down and muzzled. She could hear the growls from throw the door but that didn’t deter her much.
"Thalia I’m coming in" Not waiting for an answer she opened the door and slid inside. As soon as the door shut Lightning started crackling around her friend’s form. She would have to admit it was more frightening in this form but she had known the lightning user for to long for it to scare her much.
"Thalia calm down and I’ll let you go. How am I supposed to see my friend if she's being nothing but an utter bitch when I come home?" As soon as she reminded the wolf how she got in this position she stopped lighting off lightning and silenced the growls in her throat. Kneeling down she sat in front of her friends down form and slowly slackened the shadows around her.
When she didn’t make a move, she released them the rest of the way. Thankfully she didn’t attack or she would have been dead meat. Hell of a way to go. First human killed by her pregnant companion wolf. Wasn’t a good ending either.
"Persia? no its Elfi now, sorry. Keeping track of your names are going to get confusing." the wolf groaned and flopped down on her side, "I don’t know how you did this for 8 months ten years ago. I would have snapped and killed someone by then."
Giggling at her melodramatic friend she poked her in the snot, "But I almost did! Remember when Charles tried to get me to charge the dragon again to release some stress? I beat the living shit out of him and then threw him in there. He was walking funny for weeks after that and that was only after being hospitalized for two weeks. Selina wasn’t even mad at me for it and said he deserved it."
A snort of laughter escaped her friend, "I remember that. You were so mad when you got back to the boat that you didn’t even give me a tummy rub. Saddest day of my life."
Elfi looked at her friend like she was crazy. Did she really prefer this life over the one she had as a human? It didn’t make any sense to her but maybe it’s because she knew she could always make a new life for herself just by dying, Thalia didn’t have that option but took the best one that was available.
"Did you ever like being human, honestly?" her friend rolled onto her bloated belly not even minding the slight weight she was putting on her pups.
"After living here, where no one knew me as human, I can say that I like being a wolf much more than I ever did as a human. Sure, I lost all the human connections to family but I gained a freedom I never had before. If I could go back I would shoot it down in an instant. Hell, I've even come to love getting knotted by that dog when he's fucking me into the ground." she may have said it totally serious but it didn’t help that some drool was starting to fall from her lips at the end.
"I don’t think I’ll be trying that anytime soon." a blush lite up her cheeks, "and what will you do if I am ever reborn into that life again? If I can go to a world were Alchemy exists, there’s high chance I’ll go back to our world."
A growl escapes her friends throat, "Don’t jinx us you fool! With your luck, we'll get taken to ancient Greece and back then women were little better than sex toys and breeding stock. If we did you would be lucky to not have a dick shoved up your cunt by the age of 8. That’s if they don’t kill you for having both sexes. And I don’t know if Artemis of that time would even let you into her hunt with your condition." A block of ice fell into her tummy. Thalia was right, all that was more than likely to happen. sighing she rubbed her temples she needed a way around this but it was pointless.
"So, did you at least learn something over the last two years? I hate to learn that I got knocked up before you got here for no reason." both females were silent for a long moment before Elfi groaned in despair.
"you would so do that! I can’t believe you!" her voice echoed through the shed but neither one thought someone was likely to come check it out. "But yes, if you must know I did learn something. I ran my own Automail business for the last two years. Nothing big or anything, mainly just maintenance work but there were a few people that needed finger replacements and I got those done pretty fast."
"Sweet! Did you save up a lot of money to buy me treats and toys?" she almost caved under the wolfs puppy eyes but the greedy glint snapped her out of it. Reaching out she lightly tapped her friend on the nose. Thalia yipped in pain before whining at her that was almost as cute as her puppy eyes.
"No I did not! I’m saving up to buy myself a house or something. I just don’t know if it will be here or somewhere else. Depends if in a few years Winry wants me to stay with her or to leave." Looking at her friend she could tell Thalia was unsure on those as well. "But I did build something. Remember the machine I built you back during your first heat? Well I made my own, it seems that wolf's life perk does a little more than I thought. Now I get super horny really easily and have to use the thing for hours once a week just to release all the stress."
Thalia’s jaw sunken a few inches into the floor at that revelation. "So, you get as horny as I do during my heat but much more often? That’s just so fucking funny!" her laughter exploded from her muzzle as she fell to her side. the harder she laughed the more her legs started kicking.
"It’s not funny! I’m already busy enough as it is; I don’t need to go through a heat every freaking week and settle it in hours after being constantly rammed into my floor by a damn machine!" her face turned more and more red as she pictured that image. Shaking her head to get the naughty thoughts away she goes back to the point. "Either way I was going to offer you one after you have your pups. But I guess you can just keep having sex with Den."
Thalia instantly stopped laughing at her and started pouting. "aww don’t be like that! I may like the feel of his knot pounding into me until it finally pops inside but that doesn’t mean I wanna get pregnant again anytime soon. Once every ten years is good enough for me."
"I thought you didn’t like boys? I’m pretty sure liking having sex with a male means that you’re not gay." Thalia started giving of a doggy giggle that sounded kind of like a yip and a hiccup.
"Okay then I’m bisexual and so are you! Need I remind you of Dionysius?" The temperature dropped instantly, Nervously Thalia looked into Elfi's eyes and nearly screamed at the look she received. It was colder than the artic and darker than the Abys.
Getting up Elfi spoke once, "I’ll bring you lunch and dinner today and three meals each day but do us both a favor and don’t remind me of him ever again. You will stay in here until I see fit to release you. At dinner time, I’ll let you out to use the bathroom. Try not to soil yourself in here too much." before Thalia could try and apologize Elfi disappeared into the darkness. Inside the Shed Thalia was cursing herself for reopening her best friend’s old wounds.
Elfi broke down when she got to her room. Tears, screams, and despair where ripping her apart inside. She had loved him more than anything ever in her entire life and that stupid titan had torn her away from him by killing her. It wasn’t fair that Thalia had to remind her of her grief, even though she knew the wolf would feel horrible as soon as she did it. She had a family, her children, her home, and her powers to could make her rival, if not beat, two of the Big three.
Now she was in a world severely different then her own and forcing herself to learn things that she didn’t even know if they would work in other lifes given how the realities seem to shift when she went over.
Taking a slow calm breath, she flopped down on the bed and easily closed her eyes and fell asleep.

0/0

It had been two weeks since then and so far, Elfi had kept her word. She fed Thalia three times a day and let her out at night. Thalia had apologized the first few times she did this but eventually she learned that Elfi wasn’t even listening. More than once both females cried themselves to sleep but in Elfi's case she had someone to hold her while she did this. Granny and Winry had tried to talk her into telling them what was wrong but she refused to say. And when they asked Thalia all they got was that she said something really stupid.
At the moment Elfi was taking her day off and just enjoying the morning. The sun was up and the wind was nonexistent. Figuring she hadn’t had a good walk around town in a long time Elfi leapt off the rock wall outside of the Rockbells and started heading into town.
There was a little bakery, a butcher, the school, and the farms. That was all there really was anymore. There used to be a few other shops but after the Ishvalian bombed part of the town these were the only businesses that stayed standing and in town. Resembool only had one main road that everyone was connected to with long driveways of sorts.
Smiling as she saw some of the old farm men hard at work she headed on over to talk some.
"Hey old man Jinkens!" the old man from five years ago stopped working to make his way over. When he was about five feet away he noticed her lack of clothing but didn’t think to mention it. She obviously knew she didn’t have anything on so why make a fuss about it?
"Ahh if it isn’t little Elfriede! I thought you were off with some Alchemy teacher? Didn’t get expelled, did you?" his whaspy old voice at the end had a little teasing to it but she didn’t want to play around all that much.
"I was but now I’m back here with Granny and Winry for two years and then I’m off again. how could you suspect me of all people to get expelled? If anything, id graduate early." both of them chuckled at her sudden confidence.
"And what of your brothers? I’ve seen Edward around town but not Al? I hope he isn’t sick or anything."
Elfi didn’t really know how to answer that one. On one hand Al was the same as always but on the other, he had stopped telling her about school a few days into it. When he wasn’t at school he was up in his room or laying out in the yard. After he finished his homework she had also seen him sneak out of the house with Ed and head up to their old home.
"Al's fine sir. He's just having a hard time getting back into school again. It has been two years you know. Although he does look a bit different than last time you saw him. He grew his hair out. We’ll all of us did." Reaching behind her she pulled her long braid out from behind her back and waved it at the old man. She giggled when his eyes seemed to follow it as it wiggled about.
"I see...well if I see another blonde kid that isn’t you, Winry, or Ed ill call them over. I do think I saw another on the last few weeks, maybe that’s him?" What the old man didn’t say was that he was sure that the blonde was a girl, between their demeanor and the feeling they give off. He would just have to see.
"Maybe?" She wasn’t going to tell him that she thought her little brother was a girl or anything, that’s up for Al to decide.
Seeing that the child wasn’t going to say any more than that he headed back out to finish his work. Although he did send word to the other men that he wanted to know if there was another blonde in town that wasn’t a known Elric or Rockbell. He had a sneaky suspicion about this mysterious blonde child.
Turning on the balls of her feet Elfi went to find her old home. If she remembered right it was just beyond the stream and a little to the east up on the hill. Humming a tune that sounded suspiciously of Home by Chris Daughtry. If anyone asked where she learned it she would just say someone that she used to know wrote it. He did do some records for DoD record studios after all.
She stared long and hard at the outside of her old home. The building was still white and blue but it was starting to peal. There used to be a swing in the tree but it looked like the ropes snapped and now it was lying in a tangled mess on the ground. Looking up she saw that the windows were busted, probably from the stupid kids in the village, and would need replacing.
Sighing to herself she finished the tretch up to the door and with a quick twist she pushed it open. She didn’t go in right away and instead she looked around for any signs of life. dust had built up on the floor over the years and if she looked carefully she could see the slight imprint of a large foot and two different smaller feet. Now she knew where her siblings had been sneaking off to but her mind was on the other foot. Did Daddy come back to his home like this?
walking inside she easily upset some of the dust but it didn’t fly too high to make her cough. Looking into the kitchen she was more than happy to note that she hadn’t forgotten to throw out their food before they left for granny's. That would have stunk if she hadn’t. Seeing little point in cleaning the downstairs just for the stuff upstairs to fall down upon it she grabbed their old dust pan, broom, and garbage can before heading upstairs.
Wanting to get it over with she started with her parent’s room. swiping all the dust off the furniture she grabbed the comforter by the edges and carefully shifted the dust until it was all on the ground before gently putting the blanket back on the bed. Not knowing what she would find in the closet she didn’t even open it. Instead she manipulated the shadows to wipe everything down that she could feel, including the clothing, and pushed it to ground before pushing it out through the gap under the door. Every time the pile got to big she would sweep it up into the big pile in the middle of the room.
After she did this she moved on to the other rooms before having a single large pile in the middle of the upper hallway. Using her pan like a shovel she scooped up the dust and poured it into the old bin. It was a close fit but she managed to get it all in there. when the lid was on it she easily pushed it down into her storage before heading outside to the old fire pit out back. It was rather deep, 10 feet if she had to guess. Carefully as she could she called up the bin and dumped it in the hole. When it was all gone, she went back into finish.
It was around an hour later that she finally dumped the last bin full into the old fire pit. Amazingly enough the dust was level with the ground and if someone didn’t know any better they would probably think it was a flat stone or something. Not caring if some idiot stepped on it she just picked up her things and headed back in.
Feeling a little parched she took out her flask and to a swig of raspberry sweet tea. It had been so long since she had any that she was chugging it to the point that it was leaking down her neck and over her slightly puffy nipples. Licking her lips in delight she slung the flask strap over her shoulder. As she looked around the inside of the house she decided that this was what she would do on her day off. Sure, she would love to spend it relaxing and spending time with Winry and possibly Thalia but someone needed to take care of her Daddy's home while he's gone.

0/0

Twisting the bolt a little bit more she finally finished with the arm of that gun automail guy. Putting away her things she gave him a light tape on his arm to let him know he could get up. the man grunted in effort after laying there for a few hours before finally dragging his body up. Giving a few experimental thrusts and swings he grinned at his arm before turning to her.
"Nice job, Elfi. Feels even better than the last time you fixed it." She sent the man a small smile in gratitude before scratching something down on a piece of paper. Making sure to put it in his human hand she let out a silent sigh.
Your welcome, Bald. Just make sure you take better care of it, you need to oil it more often.
The man snorted at her but nodded all the same. This had been his third trip to see her while she was in Resembool and he had to admit that this place seemed to fit her much more than Dublith did, even though the shop was amazing. And yet, sometime between his first visit to see her in Dublith and his trip here she had lost her voice and her arm but didn’t have automail installed yet. He wasn’t going to ask how but he knew it was painful.
"Sure thing. But if I do that I won’t get to see your pretty little face as much." she smirked at him but he knew she liked it, no she didn’t. "anyway, how much do I owe you for this? I never would have thought of having a hidden knife put in but I’m sure I will get some uses out of it."
She held up five fingers and he nodded in understanding. He reached into his inner coat pocket and pulled out a wad of money and counted out Five thousand Cenz. It was steep but he had busted the thing up a lot in their last raid and she had to build a bit of it from scratch and included the blade for a fraction of the price seeing as the work took her longer with only one arm.
Once the money was in her hand she dropped it into her shadow. All of her costumers had seen her do this and not one had been able to figure out where the money went. Some had even started calling her the silent shadow seeing as she couldn’t talk anymore and had a trick with the shadow.
"Well I guess I better go. See you next time Elfi." Slipping her coat on he lugged his large form out the front door and down to the train station.
Once he was gone Elfi's smile slipped as she looked around the shop. Her life had turned upside down just six months ago. It had all started when she walked in on Ed and Al about to start a transmutation in the basement.

*Flashback*

Elfi was currently working on some of her projects when she started hearing noises from outside of her daddy's workshop. Setting down her prototype combat Automail she got up and headed to the hidden door. She knew granny wouldn’t like it all that much but she liked the thought of people having a way to defend themselves better with their metal appendages. She had taking an interest in it after she meet Bald the first time and had been working on how to add it to her granny's style.
Tapping her finger to the wall with a spark of Alenergy she waited for the wall to slid away. With a rumbling the door moved bit by bit until it was completely gone. The moment it had started opening there was a flash of Blood Red Alchemy energy. Her body jolted at the feeling of it. It was desperate and inhuman but human all at once. The second the door opened all the way she was horrified with what she saw.
Both Ed and Al had scared looks on their faces as they were connected to the transmutation circle. Running over to them she grasped the back of their shirts and pulled. Neither one budged an inch. Growling in frustration she covered half of her body in her dark green Alenergy and slammed her hands down onto the circle to the right of Al. Her mind was so focused on powering this thing that she didn’t even notice when they all started screaming but hers cut off halfway.
In one last flash of light her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she collapsed.
When her eyes finally started to flutter open she took in everything around her. She was in a vast expanse of white with a single black figure sitting in front of a massive stone door with a tree etched into its surface. In the back of her mind she remembered Al mentioning something similar about his dreams.
"Ahh You have arrived. I was wondering when you would try to excess the beyond." The voice was like a child but multiplied with others in the background of the original.
Looking at the figure before her she could only wonder what it was she was seeing. She had never heard of something like it or what it was saying. it didn’t seem to have a face or any defining features besides its childlike figure.
"What do you mean the beyond? What were my siblings trying to do? And better yet, who are you?" she knew that the terror she was feeling was written all over her face but it didn’t matter at the moment. Somehow that stupid transmutation that those two were doing had brought her to the dead zone. but wouldn’t she be moving onto the next life then?
the figure chuckled at her as she screamed her questions. It honestly amused him when they freaked out like she was, "Me… I am truth. Everything that is true is me and I am it. Your brother and sister tried to revive their dead mother and failed. Now they are paying the price. And because you pushed more power then you should have you are going to pay for it as well."
As soon as he said that the doors burst open as a virtual sea of black tendrils spilled out. Elfi felt a scream rip through her throat as she tried to run from them. Suddenly there was something gripping onto her right arm. The second it tugged her entire body was wanked backwards. Before she could even blink she was covered in the things.
The second she tried to scream she felt one ram itself down her throat. She was choking on it instantly but that was nothing to the intense burning flames of pain flaring in her throat. She tried to scream around it but not a single sound left her. Just as fast as it had entered her mouth it was ripped back out. A shower of blood filled her mouth and poured out over her body. But that wasn’t the end. It started at her fingers on her right hand.
Ever so slowly the same burning from her throat floated up her arm. It was much more intense than before as her body started twitching as her brain tried to process what was happening. Once it was done the tendrils uncurled from her body and were sucked back inside the gate before it shut with a mighty slam.
Slamming down onto the ground she more blood expelled from her mouth and from the warm feeling enveloping around her side the red liquid was flowing from her arm and onto the ground beneath her.
She tried to speak but all that happened was the blood pooling inside her mouth gurgled and bubbled out. She could feel her eyes widen as she heard her own voice talk to her.
"I wouldn’t try to speak, little human, there won’t be a sound coming from you in a very long time. Sadly, this won’t move on with you into the next life but I’ll make sure something does." Reaching down the figure pressed its palm to her budding breasts and squeezed. Pain flared inside her as she felt something being burnt into her the skin of her breast. This went on for a few minutes and when he finally released her from his grasp she would have sighed if the blood inside her throat didn’t bubble when she did. Luckily, she could breathe through her nose just as well without it effecting her air supply.
The last thing she saw before her vision darken was the sharp red teeth in the figures mouth.
When her eyes finally fluttered open she was still inside the basement of her old home. It hurt like hell to lift herself up of her back but she managed. The second she was sitting up a virtual river of blood flooded out from her mouth onto her lower body and basement floor. She couldn’t feel her right arm but this wasn’t time to figure it out. Looking around she noticed her siblings laying upon the floor with blood flowing from them as well. Ed was laying there without an entire left arm or the bottom half of his right leg while Al didn’t have either of the bottom half of his arms.
Fear flooded her system, she needed to get them to grannies before they died of blood loose. concentrating on the shadows around them she called them forth and had them swallowed into the darkness. She didn’t know where she wanted to put them but she knew it needed to be near Granny.
When the shadows spit them all out they rolled and tumbled before finally crashing into the walls with heavy thuds. Neither of her siblings reacted and she couldn’t make a sound. The noise they made must have been heard through the entire house. It was faint to her but she was losing a lot of blood. The last thing she heard before she finally succumbed to her injuries was a blood curdling scream.

*Flashback end*

She didn’t blame the two of them, especially Al. She had told the child that Edward would try something eventually and unfortunately neither had thought to include her to be the voice of reason. When all three had finally awoken Al was instantly trying to apologize for not including her but the kid thought she already had enough to deal with and didn’t want to put any more on her. Al had cried into her bandages that night like never before but she just soothed him with her good arm. Later on, she wrote to him it was just a simple mistake.
Sadly, Ed had completely shut down. Depression stuck to him like flies to cow poop and nothing the family said to him did anything to fix it. To make matters worse the boy was wheelchair bound and hadn’t left his corner in his room ever since. Granny even had him hooked up to a catheter so he at least used the bathroom.
Now she was just saving up the money to pay for the automail that they would need. Thankfully granny was giving her a deal for both working on the designs and its creation, so now she only had to pay for half the cost. But the thing was that it was for two full arms, two half arms, and one half leg. If she emptied her entire savings she would have enough for Al's lower arms and Ed's leg but their full arms would have to wait. She thought that getting his leg would finally get Ed out of his funk but she wanted to get it entirely made first before telling him because he was getting it either way.
Shacking her mind out of it she went back over to her work station and started working on Al's left arm. the top part and the port were already made but she had to finish the hand. Just before she got to her table she caught her view in the floor to ceiling mirror that she used for customers to look at the changes she had done.
Her entire right side was entirely flat from her slightly widening hip to her shoulder. There weren’t any scars there but she knew that it wasn’t regular, after all Ed had some. The next spot her eyes landed on was the mark that Truth had left on her. It was just like Izumi's blue Flamel tattoo but instead of being above her breast hers was right in the center. She could barely even make out her pink nipple under the dark red mark. It was forever there according to Truth and she couldn’t get rid of it. It was similar to her dark marks from her powers over shadows but to her knowledge it isn’t connected to her powers over Alchemy. That was something she had tried. She could do alchemy much easier than before and could even do it without circles like Izumi but her power was much less controlled and refined. When she had flared her Alenergy over her body the first thing she noticed was that it covered her entire body but it wasn’t like a light emitting from her but sparks of lightning and would jump wildly whenever active.
when she saw this, she was scared to see how this would affect her Aura but seeing as she was missing a hand she couldn’t activate the gamers charm.
On the other hand, her body had developed a bit more since then. Her hips were smaller than Winry's as were her breasts. Actually, thinking back, she was smaller in all ways than she had been at 11 and a half years old in either of her past lives. At least she could still cup what little she had but she knew that they wouldn’t be anywhere near as big as her last lifes, maybe mid B-cup if she was lucky. Hopefully this isn’t a trend with her body developing less and less. She would hate that if it happened.
turning away from her image she headed over to the work table. Picking up her tools she started on crafting Al's thumb. If there was one finger she hated making it was the stupid thumb. Its design alone is so different from the other fingers. Frowning in frustration she got to work.
It was dinner time now and she was sitting to the left of Al while Winry was to her left. It made dinner a little more complicated to have but in the end, it worked. Granny usually ate last and fed Winry while she fed her as she fed Al. Honestly it would be easier if Granny just fed him but Elfi insisted it’s her job which of course led to Winry telling her that it was her job to feed her. Both were blushing at the start of it but eventually they got used to it. It was kind of like a chain gang.
"So Elfi, what did you do today? I know you had a customer but you wouldn’t tell me who? It took a long time for you to finish with them, much more than usual." Granny seemed to want to get the chitchat out of the way before they ate.
reaching for the pad of paper in front of her she wrote out a quick reply and handed it down to her.
It was Bald again. He got into a fight again and busted his joints. I had to fix them but I also replaced some of the other faulty parts. Whoever did his Automail did a shoddy job. I’m half tempted to send him to you for a full checkup.
Pinako raised an eyebrow at that before handing the pad back. She had met the man once and was angry that he had combat automail but she wasn’t going to judge him for it. It didn’t mean she was happy that Elfi was doing work on it and learning how to do such things.
"The next time he comes by send him to me. If his Automail is that bad, I’ll take a look at it. As much as I don’t like his combat Automail I can’t let him walk around with faulty engineering. But good job on fixing what you could when he's here. How far you on Al's arm? I’d like to get him started on rehabilitation as soon as possible." Biting her lip a little Elfi scratched her head.
I’ve got the entire thing done besides the hands. The stupid thumb is being a pain, as usual, but I have it almost done. I was going to carve an earth manipulation transmutation circle into the top of the hands before they are attached to him so they don’t hurt later. If you want, you can begin the port surgery for both arms. When he has recovered with that I should be done with both arms.
After a quick scan of her message granny nodded before turning to Al.
"Are you sure you want to do this Al? the recovery will take a few years and its quite painful to do." She tried to stress the time it was going to take but they all knew he would do it.
"Yes granny. I want to do something with myself and this will just be another step into doing it. I’m not afraid of how long it will take to recover. Please I wont to do this as soon as possible so I can fulfill my promise to big sister." while his face was determined she could see water in his eyes and she was sure granny could to.
"Alright Al, I’ll get everything ready tomorrow and you'll go under the next day. Sadly, you'll have to be awake during the port surgery or the nerves wont sync right." the kid nodded before staring at his arms once more and then shifted his eyes to look at her and Winry. If anything, this had made his feelings more obvious to her, especially after truth called Al her sister.
After dinner was done She took Al up to her room, Winry had agreed to let him stay with them so she could help him get dressed and ready in the mornings. He still went to school but they didn’t have him write anything, usually he just explained his answers or after school gave verbal reports on whatever subjects he was taking. And even with all his issues he still fought through them and she couldn’t be any prouder.
Once both Winry and Al were in bed she headed down to the shed. It had happened roughly 7 months before the failed transmutation but she had finally forgiven Thalia for bringing up her first love. It had nothing to do with Thalia going into labor and having to be there to help her push out a litter of pups from her stretched vaginal canal. Personally, she was scared to know what twins would have done to her own vagina if she had given birth to them.
Walking up to the door she knocked three times before waiting a moment Opening the door. She could see perfectly in the dark and loved the sight of all the dogs in a pile in the back. Thalia was sitting there waiting for her and when she saw the door open she slipped out. Quietly as she could Elfi closed it. Silently the pair went inside and sat at the dinner table.
"So, have you figured out yet on when you plan on confronting Al? Or better yet slapping Ed upside the head with his knew foot to get him out of his funk! A swear that his mood is potent that its effecting my pups and I swear if they get hurt because of it then I’m chewing through his other leg." If there was one thing that had changed in the wolf it was she would hurt anyone to protect her pups.
Scrawling out her message she placed it in front of the wolf to read.
I was thinking about doing that after the port surgery which is in a few days. Besides I have to ask him what color her wants his arms, possibly the nails, and the circle I’m putting on the top. And you aren’t hurting Ed, that’s my job. I don’t know how but Al thinks something will happen soon that will knock him out of his depression.
Thalia snorted at the remarks but knew that they were true. If anyone could squeeze a secret out of Al it was Elfi and if that kid had a feeling about something they had all learned to trust it.
"Fine I won’t hurt the brat but he better gets healed fast or I’m sending my kids to learn their hunting skills on his testicles. Speaking of which yours still haven’t dropped. Didn’t they do that last time by this age?" Smacking her face Elfi was starting to regret going over her entire life with the wolf in as much detail as she could remember. Silently she sighed at her friend’s blunt way of speaking. Not feeling like answering she held up a one and then a four. The nod seemed to mean she understood. "and when did you first have your period? I would think it was coming soon."
Elfi shivered at the thought. hopefully her periods weren’t going to be as bad as the ones as Persia, that would drive her insane. Or maybe losing her arm and vocal cords would have raised her pain tolerance?
It started in June of my first summer at camp, just before I turned 12. Now I don’t know since my birthday is in February which is another 6 months away. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully I’m not going to see Izumi when it happens. I probably won’t get my own arm done until after the next two years with her, especially when she beats me into the ground.
Both females shivered at the thought, Elfi had told Thalia of Izumi. It would not do her any good if the woman beat her for her accident. Hopefully she would be happy that she could still do alchemy. But should she show her the true circleless alchemy or her version?
"So, am I coming with you this time? Or should I stay here again? Either way works for me, I still get to train my lightning either way." Just to prove her point the wolf twirled a string of lightning around her tail.
Smirking at her friend she could believe how much better she had gotten in the last ten years. She was more that sure that if she had stayed human and joined the hunt her control would never have gotten passed summoning bolts down from the sky and maybe a random bolt from her body.
It’s up to you, most of my time is spent between the shop, martial arts, and alchemy. Seeing as neither Al nor Ed are coming with and will be going through rehabilitation there will be more room and less problems.
She could see the thoughts running through her friend’s eyes. If anything good that came out of losing her voice it was that she got better at picking people apart without them knowing. She could simply stare at them as her eyes roam over their form and analyze them as a whole. None seemed to notice her doing this so she was fine with it.
She knew that Thalia didn’t want to leave her pups, seeing as they would only be here for 8 years if she was lucky. It would be painful for her to leave them alone for too long and she needed to teach them the way of life and other such things.
"Would I be able to come over for the second year? I just want to see my babies grow a bit more before leaving them" Elfi couldn’t judge the wolf for wanting that. Scooching out of her chair she wrapped her arms around her friend, giving her a reassuring hug. Thalia let a few whines loose before she started rubbing her head into the side of her head. Pulling back a little she tilted her head and gave a small kiss to her friends nuzzle before nodding. "Thank you"
Getting a little tired she stretched out and yawned. Thankfully Thalia got the message and jumped off her chair and headed for the open back door. Following after her Elfi silently let her friend into the shed. the last glimpse that she got was of Thalia snuggling into her children with something akin to a smile. It was heartwarming but also a little sad for her. She wished that she could have done that with her kids back in Manhattan.
Wiping the tears away she made her way up to the girl’s room and easily slid under the covers. Wiggling a little bit, she soon found her backside pressed up against Winry's and just like the other nights the girl easily wrapped her arm around her tummy and cuddled in closer. In no time both fell asleep in the warm embrace of the one they loved.

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Screaming was all she could hear. Al had been taken into the operation room in the back to finally have his ports installed. She knew it was painful but there was nothing she could do to ease the pain. Granny wouldn’t let her in, even to comfort Al, without knowing that she wouldn’t try anything to ease it for him. Thankfully Winry was in there with him, both helping granny and providing support for the child.
Not able to stand the shouts anymore she got up from her chair outside the room and headed to her work station. If there was one thing she liked about it is that sound couldn’t penetrate it well, so she could hide from his pain.
When she got there, she found something she didn’t expect. Ed was sitting in his wheelchair to the left of her work table just staring at it. Even from here she could see the regret shimmering in his eyes but she could see the fire flaring inside them as well. Did Al's surgery finally bring her brother back a little? She may not like him all that much but she was happy that he wasn’t turning into a shell of his old self. Nodding to him she sat down in her seat and started working on the Al's palm.
Both siblings were silent as she worked, something she was thankful for. Ed was staring at her as she worked with almost unnatural interest. He didn’t make any moves as he tried to figure out what she's doing but she could sense him trying to pick himself up out of the chair a little to get a better look at her work. It sent a funny feeling through her body as his eyes bore into it.
Finally, she stopped working, having enough of his glaze, and swirled in her chair to look at him. As soon as she came to face him she felt his eyes roaming over her body. It wasn’t uncommon for someone to do this but she knew he wasn’t interested in her body, just the symbol on her breast and the area her arm had disappeared from. Not once did he cringe in disgust like he use to when he saw her privates but he did when he saw all the things she lost in her effort to save them.
His voice was thick with emotion as he spoke but it was also low so she had to listen closely to hear it, "I’m sorry Elfi. I never should have pressured Al into helping me or even attempted to bring mom back. I didn’t mean for either of you to get hurt but thank you for trying to help us and paying for our automail. I know you were saving your money for something else and yet still used it all to get us up again."
She didn’t move from her spot, frozen from the shock of his words. Not once in his life had Ed ever apologized for doing something to either Al or herself. And she knew what he was saying was the absolute truth so she couldn’t just ignore him. With wet eyes, she bent over to the boy and hung her arm around him, surprisingly he did the same. Just as she did for Al and Thalia she gently pressed her lips to his forehead.
Pulling back, she flashed him a smile for the first time in a very long time. She couldn’t help but be amused by the blush that filled his cheeks. Seems the boy can at least still get embarrassed. But he didn’t whip his forehead like she expected him to do. Could this be how they repair their relationship?
"Thank you for understanding. Do you think you could start working on my leg when your done with Al's arm? I’d really like to be able to get up on my own and get this thing out of my dick." the pleading look her was sending her was so adorable painful that she let out silent giggles at the look.
Sliding out of her chair she walked over to the cases on her shelves and pulled out on medium sized one before lugging it back over. Gently she set in own the floor before popping the locks and opening it. It would have been better if she had some golden light shining out as she did this but she was fine with the shocked look on her brother’s face.
Inside the case was a complete automail leg and port made from steel 52. She had measured the boy soon after she could get out of bed and had finished it a month after that. Looking at Ed's face as his jaw fell into the flooring she couldn’t stop the grin from forming on her face, forcing her canines to poke out of her mouth even more then they usually did. If she looked into the mirror she would probably think that she was about to devour an entire cow or something.
"Wow! You already did it? But how? It takes Months to do Automail like this, doesn’t it?" his eyes were shining in disbelief as he stared down at his new legs. He never thought that she would work so hard for him so fast.
Reaching up to her desk she snatched up her pad of paper and pen before scribbling out a message to the boy. Turning the pad in her hands she held it out in front of him for him to read.
Did it a few months ago. Figured you would need to walk soon and I was fine with feeding Al for the time being. We were simply waiting for you to get out of your funk before doing anything.
As soon as he finished she pulled it back as he silently gapped like a fishy. She found it awfully amusing, seems she had that effect on people when she kept doing things none of them expected. reaching out she gently put her hand under his jaw and forced it with an audible snap closed before she compared it to the old nut cracker that Sally Jackson had.
Shaking his head Ed seemed to finally get out of his frozen state, "When do you think I could get it attached?"
The port at the end of the week but the leg will be at least a month. Your body needs to come down from the shock and pain of the first surgery. Although neither of us are getting are arms for two years. It will take me that long to gather the money and build them.
"Why would it take you so long to build them? You did the leg in a month?" She shook her head at the boy’s ignorance but she couldn’t blame him for it.
That was a leg, half of one actually, which is much simpler than an arm. We are getting full arms and part of our shoulders. And I only have one arm to use which makes it harder. Add in my work in the shop and lessons with Izumi I will have to use all my spare time just to do it.
His eyes nearly popped out. Never once did he truly think about all the work she had put in during their two years with Teacher. He had thought that she was just doing the same things as them. If she did all those things, then how did she have the energy to even do anything? The most she must have slept was like two hours a night. But wouldn’t she have crashed eventually?
"Oh...I guess I can understand that."
Both preteen soon fell into a comfortable silence, while ignoring the muffle screams that Al was still giving off. Needed to get back to work she sealed Ed's leg back up and returned it to its shelf before getting comfy in her swirly stool once more.
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