The Truth Within the Truth: A Fullmetal Alchemist RP

[Redryhno]

Kallu sighed and transmuted the stone bindings together, creating stone links to connect the man's hands and feet and adding stone weights to limit the monk's mobility and speed.

"Come now, boy, sitting around crying isn't going to bring your brother back, but if you start walking now you can stop the deaths of countless more brothers in Ishval and Amestris," Kallue leaned in close to his ear, trying to stay far enough away should the man decide to bite him, "There are more important things out there than the death of one man. The law of equivalent exchange has been met, don't go tipping the balance back off by causing more death.I am a man of my word and I promised your brother that you would live, so you will live.A stone thrown away may be separated forever from it's cluster, but all that does is send it farther to experience new events and see the unfolding of the new."

 

[sage42]

Tasha sighed as the monk was restrained. Glad that's finally over. Tasha though as she let her shoulders relax a little. She hated this, the blood shed, the carnage, it was all pointless. But like all the others she had no choice. And that's the price we pay to do what we do. She thought as she approached the restrained monk. "I know this is hard on you, and can't began to imagine your pain, but my friend here is right, the longer you stay the more people will be hurt in the long run. For both sides."

 

[CJ1145]

The Ishvalan monk carefully observed the situation. The Alchemists were currently holding the upper hand, with weaponry and their alchemic blasphemy giving them the edge by a wide margin. As Roland picked up his weapon, the monk sighed to himself in shame. "I have failed, this time. But know this, abominations, you will meet your end at my hand before this is done."

Roland began to fire his pistol, but the Ishvalan was simply too fast to keep up with. A duck, a dodge and a weave led the brown-skinned man to a dead end and forced him to leap up to the top of a hovel, upon which he dragged himself. He barely escaped the shots going after him, and began the trek across the rooftops to get to Master Torul's fortress before the dogs of the military.

[hr]

Tears continued to drip down the younger monk's face as he gnashed his teeth at the Alchemists' half-hearted attempts to console him.

"Stay?" he asked, forcing the sounds out through heavy sobs. "This is our home. You came here, attacked us. Why do you hold us at fault?"

Though his words were harsh, he gave no physical resistance. There was nothing more a man broken like him could do.

 

[Viking Incognito]

Vlad drew another circle in the blood and a bit of it jumped up to his face and immediately scabbed over on his cheek. The lash from the wire wasn't deep so the alchemically aided process worked in seconds. The Vampire alchemist returned his fingernails to normal and pulled off the scab on his face, revealing smooth skin underneath it. He walked up to Roland and gave him a pat on the back.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

"We do this in order to promote peace. You Ishvalans stirred up civil unrest. You give us no choice. If your people had chosen to stand done after the accidental shooting of one of your childern, all this could have been avioded. If you had just accepted the public apology there would have been peace. But now we are forced to fight and masacare your people to built peace for the future. Scarfices must be made in order for that peace to be achivied," James turned from the Ishvalan to face those of the squad with him.

"We have a misson to complete. Move out," he ordered, turning away from the group so that no onee could see his face as sorrow took over.

 

[Jedoro]

Closing his eyes, Elias sighed as he stepped back from the window, seeing that the fights outside were done. He moved for the stairs, but stopped to look again at the girl on the floor. At first glance, it would have been enough to convince one of his soldiers that she was dead, but in truth it was nowhere near enough to kill her.

Provided she could stop the bleeding when she awoke.

And that she didn't stay out for too long.

Dammit.

Elias stepped closer to observe the small pool touching the edges of her long white hair. She'd been smart enough to tie it back into a ponytail, but the length would still be a problem in combat. This wasn't the first woman he'd shot, and as long as they kept shooting at him, it wouldn't be the last. He had his orders, and it was either him or them. He knelt down by her hands, laying down his weapon as he remembered what happened to his rookies who hesitated.

It wasn't a mistake they made twice.

"Run. For the love of your god, when you wake up, run." After he dug out one of his field dressings, he gently lifted her head up and placed it underneath. "These watches won't let this war last much longer, so just find somewhere to hide." Grabbing her empty rifle, he found one of her spare magazines and reloaded it, then placed it back on the floor. "Your options are run, die, or surrender, and they get worse in that order."

Slinging his machine gun over his shoulder, he moved towards the stairs, getting halfway down before he stopped.

"But if you shoot at me again, I will kill you." Elias made his way downstairs and out of the building, listening to the floorboards creak with every step. Once outside, he took another deep breath, letting the smell of gunpowder make him forget about the holes in his sleeves.

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Marlin's eyes widened as he watched in awe while the monk dodged or deflected virtually every shard of ice Marlin had sent his way. One seemed to have wounded his cheek, but that was a poor result of what would normally have been a killing blow. "..... Impressive." Marlin said loud enough for the monk to hear as he reached into his pocket and took out the canteen their driver had given him to fill the jar with. He couldn't afford to spend time filling it alchemically, but even more pressing was that he needed to hit this monk with something he absolutely could not dodge.

After emptying the contents of the canteen into the jar, Marlin's brainstorming was interrupted a projectile colliding with his shoulder. While he was unbalanced, the monk took the opportunity to strike and Marlin was nowhere near skilled enough to dodge from that position. Pure instinct saved him as he managed to raise his jar quickly enough to block the kick, but the impact was enough to send him stumbling. Now that they were close together, Marlin realized he needed to use this to his advantage.

He quickly touched a circle that turned about half the water in the jar into a cloud of mist that enveloped the two. Rather than hide in the mist though, he jumped a safe distance away from it, making sure to leave a small trail of mist connecting the cloud to the jar and touched a different circle. This one raised the temperature of the mist as high as he could, turning it into a scalding steam. Hopefully the monk wouldn't realize what Marlin was up to and leave the cloud before the alchemy took effect.

 

[Redryhno]

Pulling the monk up from the ground, Kallu began pulling him along as he stumbled in his weighted restraints. Pulling the monk off of the stone spikes impaling him, the Alchemist laid him out in as peaceful a manner as he could, before moving to this monk's brother and laying him out beside the other.

"I will allow you to say goodbye to your brother now, we don't have a lot of time, so make it quick. What is your name, Ishvalan?"

 

[nuba km]

ken got back up and looked to see if the deep blue alchemist was doing any better, He saw the alchemist jump out of a cloud of mist, the ishvalen monk must be in there, Ken again but his hands on the ground in the same fashion, the ground around him started to form a crater as a giant arm of stone grew out of the ground in the middle of the courtyard, the arm of stone then started slamming down toward the cloud of mist made by the deep blue alchemist, ken hoped the palm of the hand could crush the ishvalen monk in a single blow.

 

[JokerboyJordan]

Are you alright?

"I'm fine, it's just a fracture" he said as he gave a smirk, before grimacing and realizing the pain.

"But he got away" he muffled

He stared at the direction the monk had fled, it was obviously too late to pursue him now, but he swore that if they met again, he wouldn't let him escape.

Next time you bastard, I'm going to make your flesh melt whilst you're still alive

 

[Viking Incognito]

Vlad exited the alley and looked at the rest of the battlefield. It was mostly calm other than a cloud of mist with some kind of action happening in and around it. Vlad's hands were still covered in blood as well as the blood on his side from when he had been knocked over by the monk. He began splashing some of the water on the ground about himself, washing off the blood and holding his breath the whole time. Once most of the blood was off he grabbed what looked like a torn curtain from a near by pile of rubble and wiped himself off from the waist up. His pants and boots were now splattered with dirt and diluted blood, but his finely toned torso was at least clean, as well as his face.

With the temptation of the blood on his body now gone he hurried over to where he saw an alchemist with a large red beard watching the figth in the mist.

"What's the situation in that thing?" Vlad asked Ken.

 

[CJ1145]

The elder monk's eyes darted about. He was lost within the mist. Though he was a fighter of unrivaled skill, he was no tactician. He did not think that the mist could be anything but a delaying tactic, and realized his error only when the temperature rose to boiling levels. His screams could be heard through the courtyard as he fell to his knees, skin blistering in the oppressive heat. He began to make in a randomly chosen direction, hoping to find the edge of the cloud quickly. But as he stumbled, he heard the discharge of alchemical energy. In his last moment, he looked up to see a great shadow looming over the mist. And then, nothing.

The stone hand came down and crushed him in a single blow.

[hr]

The young monk averted his eyes. He couldn't stand to see his brother like this. Bitter tears stained the dirt, and a voice with just as much hate and anguish spoke after at least a minute like this, answering the Stone Alchemist.

"...Teole."

 

[Jedoro]

Elias' right cheek twitched slightly at the sound of the monk being crushed. After studying each of his severed limbs before being given any kind of first aid, the sight of a mutilated body didn't bother him, especially not after all of his soldiers he'd seen wounded or killed.

Or all of the Ishvalans he'd ended up wounded or killing.

But to only be able to hear the bones breaking, and having to focus on that, that was a new experience. One that he would have to process later. Since it had been several minutes since his last taste of combat, he was beginning to feel the fatigue of the adrenaline leaving his system.

"Anyone seen Colonel Grand? I believe we're done for now."

 

[Redryhno]

"Well, Teole, looks like you've said your farewells to your brother. Let's get go-" He heard the screams of the monk in the boiling mist a few blocks away, before hearing the abrupt end to them after a loud 'WOMP'.

"Come on, let's get moving, Teole, I've got some more prisoners to bring with us. They'll get medical attention."

Heading back to the alley where he sealed the two soldiers up in, he let the stone in his hand connecting to Teole's restraints drop to the ground, making him jump forward as the weight overbalanced him for a moment. He transmuted a section of the sphere into a small doorway, and peered inside. One of the soldiers looked terrified that he had been in the small space for so long, looking to the side, Kallu saw why. The soldier he had knocked down with one blow had his head at a sickening angle, almost perpendicular to his body. Picking up the stone weighing down Teole, Kallu transmuted it into the sphere, holding him fast as he created a twin set for the soldier, who he then transmuted to the same stone he had the monk held to. He then transmuted the stone block connecting the two of them to and began dragging them along. Back towards the camp he had come from, keeping his guard up the entire time, should either of the two prisoners decide and try to escape, or more Ishvalan soldiers came around a corner. He dug into one of his pouches and pulled out a handful of shale powder and transmuted once again, changing the sand into sharp crystals, minute enough to be forgotten, but deadly should they get into an opponents eyes and lungs, he had learned.

 

[nuba km]

Ken stood up after the stone hand crushed the elder monk, he was out of breath again, he then turned to answers vlads question 'well I noticed one of our team being attacked by an elder monk, I figured out he was the deep blue alchemist as I once read about the deep blues alchemists kettle when researching the use of multiple alchemic circles to carry out specific tasks. Knowing he needed water to stand a chance I used my alchemy to force water stored inside the pores of stones to the surface, after that I took a moment to catch my breath. When I looked back at the battlefield I saw a cloud of mist with the deep blue alchemist jumping out of it, I figured the elder monk must be inside of it so I crushed the cloud with a stone hand.' after explaining ken thought he should introduce himself to his team mate 'I am the landscaping alchemist by the way.'

 

[Viking Incognito]

"I've heard stories of you. I must say, your large scale technique is impressive. I choose a more subtle approach to battle. I'm Vlad Dracule, the Vampire Alchemist." Vlad said, holding out his hand.

Before the other alchemist could return the gesture, Vlad realized his shirtlessness and became slightly embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, but could I trouble you to borrow your overcoat?" Vlad asked.

 

[nuba km]

'thank you for your complements, I must say I have never heard or read of you. Also if you didn't want to be shirtless you should have thought of that before taking off your coat' ken said, he then walked out of his carter over to the deep blue alchemist, when he got close he held out his hand to offer a hand shake, 'what great use of the water I provided you, I wouldn't have thought of using it in that manure, I wonder if after we finish this mission I could take a look at the alchemic circles on your unique choice of weapon' Ken said in a slightly more cheery tone then he has used to talk to the other members of the team so far.

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Marlin stared blankly at the cloud of steam as he listened to the monks screams of pain. As expected, the monk had underestimated just what Marlin could do with alchemy. What wasn't expected was the giant stone hand coming out of the ground to finish the fight. Marlin blinked once in surprise and then walked over to see if the monk was still alive. He was not. ".... How lamentable." Marlin said quietly. Though the monk would not have hesitated to kill Marlin, Marlin was hoping to merely end the fight by incapacitating his foe.

As Marlin stood, he heard a voice behind him and turned to see a fellow State Alchemist who had helped him apparently. ".... So it was you. Thank you.... for the water." Marlin muttered, shaking the hand extended towards him and mulling over the request to study the circles on his jar. In the end, he could think of no real reason why not. ".... I suppose it couldn't hurt. Some of them aren't complete though. I haven't finished my research.... Perhaps if I..." After that, Marlin once again found himself mumbling various ideas he'd had for improving his circles, almost forgetting that he was still conversing with another person.

 

[JokerboyJordan]

If you didn't want to be shirtless you should have thought of that before taking off your coat

Roland couldn't help but burst into a fit of laughter at Vlad after the Alchemist said this.

"I knew that prick would cause rifts between people" he said as he patted Vlad on the back and gave him his own overcoat.

"It's too hot for me to be wearing it anyway, just make sure to give it back, preferably free from bloodstains "

 

[nuba km]

'Ah a fellow man of thought, well lets not converse for too long we need to continue advancing' Ken said, he then turned to the other members of the group and shouted 'lets advance before the surviving enemies regroup, reinforces and attack.' Ken started continuing his way to the destination expecting the rest of the group to start following him.