Title: Legendary Fate: Tears On A Broken Sword
Description: CSI: Cleveland nominated for 3 Emmy's.
Description: CSI: Cleveland nominated for 3 Emmy's.
GoldenSama - December 27, 2006 09:24 AM (GMT)
Legendary Fate
Tears On A Broken Sword
Sama Says: This will clue you in to the three villains responcible for GS' evilest of evil plans! All of them, interesting enough, are canon characters who have been slightly modified for this future world. It will also give you a look into Van's tragic past and explains why he hates what and who he hates. Should be interestin'.
Seireitei -- Soul Society: 18 Years Ago
Seireitei is the home of the noble, powerful and rich in Soul Society. It is where the Shinigami dwell. It was here, in the heart of Seireitei where the Thirteen Captains of Gotei 13 were gathered, along with their Lieutenants. The hirearchy of Soul Society's army was gathered here, all to discuss what would become of one person in their midst. That person was the smallest and most innocent in the room -- a baby who had been born only a few days ago. Round, pink and only starting to grow a few orange hairs, the infant was currently asleep in a glorious crib made from white oak, covered in a soft silk blanket as black as coal.
Around the crib was drawn a circle on the floor. None of the Shinigami Captains or their Lieutenants dared to cross that line. Yamamoto-Genryûsai, General of the Gotei 13 and Captain of the First Division had made it explicitly clear that anyone who approached the child before the decision was made would die, regardless of rank or influence with the nobles and the King. Now, Yamamoto turned and looked at the Captains and their Lieutenants.
"Are we all in agreement, then?" He asked the Captains.
"Indeed." Chôjirô Sasakibe agreen. The thin-mustached man looked down at the baby, and his eyes did not budge the entire time.
"We might agree . . ." Renji Abarai closed his eyes and crossed his arms. " . . . The kid's parents sure don't."
"It is not their decision." Yamamoto replied swiftly. "It is mine. The child must be raised among mortal men and women. Her destiny is written in the stars, it is not our place to change that."
Before anyone could speak further on the subject, the door of the hall burst open. A Shinigami with orange hair and a large Zanpukto burst in; and he looked livid. His eyes were narrowed in frustration and his body shook with rage. Two Shinigami dashed forward to stop the orange-haired man from invading the room, but in a single slash of his blade he dispatched them both, knocking them to the ground to nurse deep injuries.
"Ichigo, stop!" Renji was in front of Ichigo at once, holding his own blade to stop the orange-haired man. "You can't change this, don't make it worse on yourself!"
"This is bull#%&^ and you know it Renji!" Ichigo yelled loudly, gripping his sword tight. "Now move, or I'll --"
"Ichigo," Yamamoto stepped forward, his oversized uniform. "You have no choice in the matter. Please leave at once."
"It's my daughter! That gives me a say!" Ichigo roared.
"Ichigo!" Rukia's voice floated across the room, and in a flash she had burst through the now-unguarded doors and found herself between Ichigo and Renji. She held her arms out as far as she could to stop either of them from attacking one another.
"Rukia, you can't agree with them can you?" Ichigo seemed shocked and horrified.
"Of course I don't," Rukia shot back. "But I've resided myself to the fact that we can't change it."
"One good reason," Ichigo growled. "Give me one good reason why I should accept this?"
"I'll give you One Billion," Yamamoto replied at once. "That is how many lives will be lost if the Sins are not stopped." The elderly Shinigami approached Ichigo, and he did not look angry. His voice was stern, but he seemed to understand this moment. "Ichigo... if you can accept the deaths of one billion people so that your daughter can be raised here by the two of you, then so be it."
Ichigo shook with fury. For a moment, Rukia was afraid he'd strike out at Yamamoto -- but instead Ichigo closed his eyes. Rukia could see his pain. She hadn't seen him in pain like this in several years.
"Damn you," Ichigo cursed. He turned and could not speak again. Instead, he exited from the room. Rukia dropped her gaze and followed her husband, without a word to Renji, Yamamoto, her brother or any of the others.
The mood was somber and quiet while Renji took the child -- little Kurosaki Noriko -- and headed away. His destination was the world of mortals, more specifically the town of Resembrool.
Resembrool: 15 Years Later
The yellow house in Resembrool had long stood with a sign out front that read: 'Rockbell Automail'. That sign was still in place, though consdierably older and more weathered than before.
Out in the lush green grass that covered the fields around Resembrool was a young lady, sitting in the grass. She wore a white dress and sat with her legs tucked beneath her. She was looking beside her as if she was looking at a person -- but there was no one there. She had long, orange hair that came down to her shoulders. She was nodding her head, like she was in a conversation; but she was alone.
"Hey, Noriko, stop talking to the ghosts! Weren't we gonna go exploring today?"
A young man in a brown shirt and a pair of black shorts was walking over to her. His name was Van Elric. He had his hands tucked in his pockets, and he looked somewhat annoyed.
"Aww, come on Van. You can see 'em now, too, right? So let me enjoy it." Noriko replied, sticking her tongue out.
"It's creepy. Dad says there's no such thing as ghosts. I don't know why I can see 'em but dad and mom can't." Van told her, walking over and sitting down her to her.
"Cause you spend so much time with me-eee, and I can see them." Noriko told him. "Besides, your dad is small-minded not to believe in them."
"Don't tell him that." Van grinned at his friend.
So it was that Noriko grew up in Resembrool. She had lived there for the entire fifteen years of her life. In truth, she often wondered where she came from and why it was that she wound up on the Elric's doorstep when she was just an infant. Both Edward and Winry swore they had no knowledge of where she came from, and eventually she'd learned to accept that.
Despite being raised by the Elric family, Noriko never took their last name. Not because she disliked them -- quite the opposite, she loved and treated them like they were her own. She merely left her last name blank until she could discover where she came from.
Noriko promptly stood up and stretched her arms above her head while allowing a large yawn. She then turned around and planted her foot in front of Van. "I'm bored. Let's go to the caves."
All at once, Van groaned. "Nori, no! Dad says that when he was younger he and Uncle Al almost died in there."
In the outlying hills of Resembrool was a cavern with a dark reputation. Once, years ago, a few villages had died because of something strange that happened in the cave. Ed and Al Elric had discovered that the cause was Jack Crowley, a former State Alchemist who, like the brothers, had tried Human Transmutation. Crowley had been using the caves to create Golem.
Noriko and Van had heard a few details about the caves being dangerous, but Noriko disregarded them. Apparently Ed had blasted away with alchemy back in the day, and the caverns structural intergrity was in question. A cave-in could prove deadly, as Van reminded her.
"So what?" Noriko replied when Van suggested the cave could collapse. "We can just use alchemy to clear the path."
"Not if the cave lands on our heads." Van warned.
"Stop being a baby. Let's go." Noriko was rather stubborn.
The pair hurried off towards the cavern. Van didn't want to go, not out of fear for the caves, but out of respect for his dad. Van held the utmost love and devotion to his father and if Ed told him not to go, he wouldn't go. Then again, Noriko was his best friend and if she told him to go, he didn't have a choice.
They had made it into the caves, and Noriko bent down to the ground and started drawing. Van knew that was trouble. Noriko was an accomplished artist, but if she was drawing on the ground, in the dirt, then it wasn't art she was making. It was a transmutation circle.
In a flash, light illuminated the cavern and Noriko held in her hand a large staff. She spun around and swung it at Van, who jumped back and clapped his right hand on the wall, using the transmutation circle on his glove to create his own staff. When Noriko came at him a second time, he blocked it. She had swung vertically, but he blocked on the horizon.
She jumped back and swung her staff low, and Van was caught on the ankle and tripped. She jammed her staff against his chest and grinned from ear to ear.
"I win!"
Van moved his hand fluidly and knocked the staff from his chest. She lost her balance and took a tumble, landing on him. A scuffle broke out, in which the two wrestled around, but in the end, Van wound up on his stomach with Noriko kneeling down on his back, holding his arms behind him.
"Like I said, I win." Noriko laughed into his ear.
"Yeah, yeah, lemme up!" Van tried to break free, but she held his hands tight, and with her knees on top of his wrists, he couldn't fight her back.
"Not until you say 'Noriko is much smarter and stronger than me.'" The orange-haired girl tormented him.
"Bite me!" Van replied at once, but she increased the pressure of her knee on his wrist and Van let out a sharp yelp. "Noriko is stronger and smarter than me!"
"And now say, 'Noriko is my queen and I'll obey her always.'"
"No!"
"Say it!" Noriko demanded.
"Bleah, Noriko is my queen and I'll obey her always." Van spoke saltily.
"Now . . . say 'Noriko is a beautiful and delicate genius.'" Noriko was enjoying herself.
"What's delicate about trying to break my arm?" Van demanded.
"Say it or I'll show you." Noriko snapped.
"No!" Van was finally resisting.
"You only refuse 'cause you're too much of a wuss to admit I'm pretty." Noriko grinned at him. Van tried to throw her off of him, but being that he couldn't use his hands and he was stuck on his stomach, he had no way of doing so. "Come on Van, just say what I want to hear and I'll let you up."
Van was stubborn. Not as stubborn as Noriko or his father, but he was still stubborn enough that he wasn't playing her game anymore. Games were only fun when he was winning.
"Nori... come on..."
"Come on what? You weren't afraid to tell me how pretty I was when we were kissing in Central last month." Noriko reminded him.
"I just don't like you threatening to break my arms!" Van complained.
"Aww, poor Van. You're a week older, a foot taller and a lot heavier than me and I can still kick your as-" Noriko was cut off mid-sentence by a thunderous bang above her head.
Noriko looked up to see something, and for a moment she thought she saw a man in a black-and-white uniform, but Van took advange of her being off-guard to throw her off his back and get up. Van quickly scampered into a upright posistion and glared at her, but Noriko didn't seem to notice that she'd been thrown against the ground.
"Van... look." Noriko pointed up at the ceiling. Van looked up, and he gasped. He saw the man too. He also saw the man taking something from his belt... a sword!
"Nori, look out!" Van stood and sprinted towards Noriko, who was now flat on her back watching the man with the sword, but he wasn't fast enough. Noriko seemed to be in a trance as she watched the man jump towards her. Van screamed loudly, and a moment later he felt something hot and sticky splatter his face.
He rubbed his eyes, and he saw that his hand was covered in a red liquid. He gasped and looked up to see Noriko, still lying on the ground, but now a large sword was stuck in her chest.
"N-N-Nori!" Van ran forward, his eyes as wide as mangos. The man in black-and-white clothing removed the sword and turned around. Then he vanished into thin air.
Van ran to Noriko and looked down at her. The top of her white dress was turned completely crimson with blood, and Van was horrified by the amount of scarlet liquid that seemed to be there. There was no chance she survived! He reached down and tried to press down to stop the bleeding, but it was bizzare because he couldn't feel a wound.
"What are you doing?" Noriko asked, and he yelled and jumped a few feet from her. She sat up and looked down at herself. She realized she was covered in blood, but the pain had vanished.
"Are you okay?" Van asked.
"Y-Yeah..." Noriko shook her head. "I can't explain it."
"Let's get you home. Mom can look at you."
"No, I'm fine. I just want to go take a nap." Noriko protested.
Since she was stabbed, Noriko had been sick. She would cough severly and even spit up blood, but she insisted that Van keep it a secret. Now, while his parents were over at Al's house, she was on the livingroom couch, hacking and coughing blood all over the carpet.
Van walked over to her and set down a cup of hot tea. He put his hand on her shoulder, and when she finished her coughing fit she looked up at him and offered a weak smile. Van reached down and wiped a smear of blood from the corner of her mouth.
"You need a doctor." Van told her.
"I'm fine." She replied stubbornly.
"You've been like this for three days, ever since that guy stabbed you." Van insisted. "Nori, I promised I wouldn't tell mom... but... your hurt."
"Van... I'm okay, rea--" She broke her sentence as she started coughing again. Van reached down to rub her back comfortingly, but then he noticed something... the blood stain on her shirt was very dark and very wet. Too much to be from her coughing.
"Nori, you're bleeding." Van told her.
"I'm..." Noriko tried to say fine, but she collapsed off the couch. Van rushed to her side and picked her up, but she did not move. She'd gone completely limp in his arms. He attempted to stop the bleeding, he tried CPR, but nothing worked... Noriko died in his arms.
Later that night, when the door opened and Ed came home, he noticed the blood all over the floor. Ed looked around the room, calling out his son's name and Noriko's too, but he got no answer.
Then he saw a flash of red light... and he recognized that light from a very bad memory. He ran into the den and found Van, sitting on the floor. Noriko was in front of him, lying in the middle of a transmutation circle.
Ed also saw The Gate.
It took only seconds for Ed to run into the room and to pull Van away from the circle and the gate. Van fought against his father's arms, but as it was established he wasn't a very good physical fighter. He watched in horror as Noriko was sucked away into The Gate, and no price was paid... no equal exhange took place.
Van would hate his father from this moment on. Ed would explain that alchemy can't cure the dead, and Van would hate alchemy too. He decided then and there to leave Resembrool.
He traveled to Central, where he stayed with his best friend Maes for several months until he learned about a doctor who had been rumored to know healing alchemy, stronger than in Xenotime. Van began searching for this doctor... not to bring Noriko back, but to make sure he had the power to save others.
He had let the person he loved most die... he would not do that again.
Tears On A Broken Sword
Sama Says: This will clue you in to the three villains responcible for GS' evilest of evil plans! All of them, interesting enough, are canon characters who have been slightly modified for this future world. It will also give you a look into Van's tragic past and explains why he hates what and who he hates. Should be interestin'.
Seireitei -- Soul Society: 18 Years Ago
Seireitei is the home of the noble, powerful and rich in Soul Society. It is where the Shinigami dwell. It was here, in the heart of Seireitei where the Thirteen Captains of Gotei 13 were gathered, along with their Lieutenants. The hirearchy of Soul Society's army was gathered here, all to discuss what would become of one person in their midst. That person was the smallest and most innocent in the room -- a baby who had been born only a few days ago. Round, pink and only starting to grow a few orange hairs, the infant was currently asleep in a glorious crib made from white oak, covered in a soft silk blanket as black as coal.
Around the crib was drawn a circle on the floor. None of the Shinigami Captains or their Lieutenants dared to cross that line. Yamamoto-Genryûsai, General of the Gotei 13 and Captain of the First Division had made it explicitly clear that anyone who approached the child before the decision was made would die, regardless of rank or influence with the nobles and the King. Now, Yamamoto turned and looked at the Captains and their Lieutenants.
"Are we all in agreement, then?" He asked the Captains.
"Indeed." Chôjirô Sasakibe agreen. The thin-mustached man looked down at the baby, and his eyes did not budge the entire time.
"We might agree . . ." Renji Abarai closed his eyes and crossed his arms. " . . . The kid's parents sure don't."
"It is not their decision." Yamamoto replied swiftly. "It is mine. The child must be raised among mortal men and women. Her destiny is written in the stars, it is not our place to change that."
Before anyone could speak further on the subject, the door of the hall burst open. A Shinigami with orange hair and a large Zanpukto burst in; and he looked livid. His eyes were narrowed in frustration and his body shook with rage. Two Shinigami dashed forward to stop the orange-haired man from invading the room, but in a single slash of his blade he dispatched them both, knocking them to the ground to nurse deep injuries.
"Ichigo, stop!" Renji was in front of Ichigo at once, holding his own blade to stop the orange-haired man. "You can't change this, don't make it worse on yourself!"
"This is bull#%&^ and you know it Renji!" Ichigo yelled loudly, gripping his sword tight. "Now move, or I'll --"
"Ichigo," Yamamoto stepped forward, his oversized uniform. "You have no choice in the matter. Please leave at once."
"It's my daughter! That gives me a say!" Ichigo roared.
"Ichigo!" Rukia's voice floated across the room, and in a flash she had burst through the now-unguarded doors and found herself between Ichigo and Renji. She held her arms out as far as she could to stop either of them from attacking one another.
"Rukia, you can't agree with them can you?" Ichigo seemed shocked and horrified.
"Of course I don't," Rukia shot back. "But I've resided myself to the fact that we can't change it."
"One good reason," Ichigo growled. "Give me one good reason why I should accept this?"
"I'll give you One Billion," Yamamoto replied at once. "That is how many lives will be lost if the Sins are not stopped." The elderly Shinigami approached Ichigo, and he did not look angry. His voice was stern, but he seemed to understand this moment. "Ichigo... if you can accept the deaths of one billion people so that your daughter can be raised here by the two of you, then so be it."
Ichigo shook with fury. For a moment, Rukia was afraid he'd strike out at Yamamoto -- but instead Ichigo closed his eyes. Rukia could see his pain. She hadn't seen him in pain like this in several years.
"Damn you," Ichigo cursed. He turned and could not speak again. Instead, he exited from the room. Rukia dropped her gaze and followed her husband, without a word to Renji, Yamamoto, her brother or any of the others.
The mood was somber and quiet while Renji took the child -- little Kurosaki Noriko -- and headed away. His destination was the world of mortals, more specifically the town of Resembrool.
Resembrool: 15 Years Later
The yellow house in Resembrool had long stood with a sign out front that read: 'Rockbell Automail'. That sign was still in place, though consdierably older and more weathered than before.
Out in the lush green grass that covered the fields around Resembrool was a young lady, sitting in the grass. She wore a white dress and sat with her legs tucked beneath her. She was looking beside her as if she was looking at a person -- but there was no one there. She had long, orange hair that came down to her shoulders. She was nodding her head, like she was in a conversation; but she was alone.
"Hey, Noriko, stop talking to the ghosts! Weren't we gonna go exploring today?"
A young man in a brown shirt and a pair of black shorts was walking over to her. His name was Van Elric. He had his hands tucked in his pockets, and he looked somewhat annoyed.
"Aww, come on Van. You can see 'em now, too, right? So let me enjoy it." Noriko replied, sticking her tongue out.
"It's creepy. Dad says there's no such thing as ghosts. I don't know why I can see 'em but dad and mom can't." Van told her, walking over and sitting down her to her.
"Cause you spend so much time with me-eee, and I can see them." Noriko told him. "Besides, your dad is small-minded not to believe in them."
"Don't tell him that." Van grinned at his friend.
So it was that Noriko grew up in Resembrool. She had lived there for the entire fifteen years of her life. In truth, she often wondered where she came from and why it was that she wound up on the Elric's doorstep when she was just an infant. Both Edward and Winry swore they had no knowledge of where she came from, and eventually she'd learned to accept that.
Despite being raised by the Elric family, Noriko never took their last name. Not because she disliked them -- quite the opposite, she loved and treated them like they were her own. She merely left her last name blank until she could discover where she came from.
Noriko promptly stood up and stretched her arms above her head while allowing a large yawn. She then turned around and planted her foot in front of Van. "I'm bored. Let's go to the caves."
All at once, Van groaned. "Nori, no! Dad says that when he was younger he and Uncle Al almost died in there."
In the outlying hills of Resembrool was a cavern with a dark reputation. Once, years ago, a few villages had died because of something strange that happened in the cave. Ed and Al Elric had discovered that the cause was Jack Crowley, a former State Alchemist who, like the brothers, had tried Human Transmutation. Crowley had been using the caves to create Golem.
Noriko and Van had heard a few details about the caves being dangerous, but Noriko disregarded them. Apparently Ed had blasted away with alchemy back in the day, and the caverns structural intergrity was in question. A cave-in could prove deadly, as Van reminded her.
"So what?" Noriko replied when Van suggested the cave could collapse. "We can just use alchemy to clear the path."
"Not if the cave lands on our heads." Van warned.
"Stop being a baby. Let's go." Noriko was rather stubborn.
The pair hurried off towards the cavern. Van didn't want to go, not out of fear for the caves, but out of respect for his dad. Van held the utmost love and devotion to his father and if Ed told him not to go, he wouldn't go. Then again, Noriko was his best friend and if she told him to go, he didn't have a choice.
They had made it into the caves, and Noriko bent down to the ground and started drawing. Van knew that was trouble. Noriko was an accomplished artist, but if she was drawing on the ground, in the dirt, then it wasn't art she was making. It was a transmutation circle.
In a flash, light illuminated the cavern and Noriko held in her hand a large staff. She spun around and swung it at Van, who jumped back and clapped his right hand on the wall, using the transmutation circle on his glove to create his own staff. When Noriko came at him a second time, he blocked it. She had swung vertically, but he blocked on the horizon.
She jumped back and swung her staff low, and Van was caught on the ankle and tripped. She jammed her staff against his chest and grinned from ear to ear.
"I win!"
Van moved his hand fluidly and knocked the staff from his chest. She lost her balance and took a tumble, landing on him. A scuffle broke out, in which the two wrestled around, but in the end, Van wound up on his stomach with Noriko kneeling down on his back, holding his arms behind him.
"Like I said, I win." Noriko laughed into his ear.
"Yeah, yeah, lemme up!" Van tried to break free, but she held his hands tight, and with her knees on top of his wrists, he couldn't fight her back.
"Not until you say 'Noriko is much smarter and stronger than me.'" The orange-haired girl tormented him.
"Bite me!" Van replied at once, but she increased the pressure of her knee on his wrist and Van let out a sharp yelp. "Noriko is stronger and smarter than me!"
"And now say, 'Noriko is my queen and I'll obey her always.'"
"No!"
"Say it!" Noriko demanded.
"Bleah, Noriko is my queen and I'll obey her always." Van spoke saltily.
"Now . . . say 'Noriko is a beautiful and delicate genius.'" Noriko was enjoying herself.
"What's delicate about trying to break my arm?" Van demanded.
"Say it or I'll show you." Noriko snapped.
"No!" Van was finally resisting.
"You only refuse 'cause you're too much of a wuss to admit I'm pretty." Noriko grinned at him. Van tried to throw her off of him, but being that he couldn't use his hands and he was stuck on his stomach, he had no way of doing so. "Come on Van, just say what I want to hear and I'll let you up."
Van was stubborn. Not as stubborn as Noriko or his father, but he was still stubborn enough that he wasn't playing her game anymore. Games were only fun when he was winning.
"Nori... come on..."
"Come on what? You weren't afraid to tell me how pretty I was when we were kissing in Central last month." Noriko reminded him.
"I just don't like you threatening to break my arms!" Van complained.
"Aww, poor Van. You're a week older, a foot taller and a lot heavier than me and I can still kick your as-" Noriko was cut off mid-sentence by a thunderous bang above her head.
Noriko looked up to see something, and for a moment she thought she saw a man in a black-and-white uniform, but Van took advange of her being off-guard to throw her off his back and get up. Van quickly scampered into a upright posistion and glared at her, but Noriko didn't seem to notice that she'd been thrown against the ground.
"Van... look." Noriko pointed up at the ceiling. Van looked up, and he gasped. He saw the man too. He also saw the man taking something from his belt... a sword!
"Nori, look out!" Van stood and sprinted towards Noriko, who was now flat on her back watching the man with the sword, but he wasn't fast enough. Noriko seemed to be in a trance as she watched the man jump towards her. Van screamed loudly, and a moment later he felt something hot and sticky splatter his face.
He rubbed his eyes, and he saw that his hand was covered in a red liquid. He gasped and looked up to see Noriko, still lying on the ground, but now a large sword was stuck in her chest.
"N-N-Nori!" Van ran forward, his eyes as wide as mangos. The man in black-and-white clothing removed the sword and turned around. Then he vanished into thin air.
Van ran to Noriko and looked down at her. The top of her white dress was turned completely crimson with blood, and Van was horrified by the amount of scarlet liquid that seemed to be there. There was no chance she survived! He reached down and tried to press down to stop the bleeding, but it was bizzare because he couldn't feel a wound.
"What are you doing?" Noriko asked, and he yelled and jumped a few feet from her. She sat up and looked down at herself. She realized she was covered in blood, but the pain had vanished.
"Are you okay?" Van asked.
"Y-Yeah..." Noriko shook her head. "I can't explain it."
"Let's get you home. Mom can look at you."
"No, I'm fine. I just want to go take a nap." Noriko protested.
Since she was stabbed, Noriko had been sick. She would cough severly and even spit up blood, but she insisted that Van keep it a secret. Now, while his parents were over at Al's house, she was on the livingroom couch, hacking and coughing blood all over the carpet.
Van walked over to her and set down a cup of hot tea. He put his hand on her shoulder, and when she finished her coughing fit she looked up at him and offered a weak smile. Van reached down and wiped a smear of blood from the corner of her mouth.
"You need a doctor." Van told her.
"I'm fine." She replied stubbornly.
"You've been like this for three days, ever since that guy stabbed you." Van insisted. "Nori, I promised I wouldn't tell mom... but... your hurt."
"Van... I'm okay, rea--" She broke her sentence as she started coughing again. Van reached down to rub her back comfortingly, but then he noticed something... the blood stain on her shirt was very dark and very wet. Too much to be from her coughing.
"Nori, you're bleeding." Van told her.
"I'm..." Noriko tried to say fine, but she collapsed off the couch. Van rushed to her side and picked her up, but she did not move. She'd gone completely limp in his arms. He attempted to stop the bleeding, he tried CPR, but nothing worked... Noriko died in his arms.
Later that night, when the door opened and Ed came home, he noticed the blood all over the floor. Ed looked around the room, calling out his son's name and Noriko's too, but he got no answer.
Then he saw a flash of red light... and he recognized that light from a very bad memory. He ran into the den and found Van, sitting on the floor. Noriko was in front of him, lying in the middle of a transmutation circle.
Ed also saw The Gate.
It took only seconds for Ed to run into the room and to pull Van away from the circle and the gate. Van fought against his father's arms, but as it was established he wasn't a very good physical fighter. He watched in horror as Noriko was sucked away into The Gate, and no price was paid... no equal exhange took place.
Van would hate his father from this moment on. Ed would explain that alchemy can't cure the dead, and Van would hate alchemy too. He decided then and there to leave Resembrool.
He traveled to Central, where he stayed with his best friend Maes for several months until he learned about a doctor who had been rumored to know healing alchemy, stronger than in Xenotime. Van began searching for this doctor... not to bring Noriko back, but to make sure he had the power to save others.
He had let the person he loved most die... he would not do that again.
BlueRush - December 27, 2006 07:30 PM (GMT)
:3 YES!
Excellent, GS. Very excellent. *clap clap* But who was that man? What happened to Noriko? All this and more... next time... onDragonball Z Legendary Fate!
Excellent, GS. Very excellent. *clap clap* But who was that man? What happened to Noriko? All this and more... next time... on
Cojo - December 27, 2006 07:57 PM (GMT)
I really want to say this was awesome, cause it was, but it was also sad.
Hurry up in LF Gs. I have to see how this all works out.
Great job BTW. Its awesome how you can write these good fics, and the SK and WS ones at the same time without taking any of the coolness out of each.
Hurry up in LF Gs. I have to see how this all works out.
Great job BTW. Its awesome how you can write these good fics, and the SK and WS ones at the same time without taking any of the coolness out of each.
Clown Prince of Crime - December 27, 2006 08:59 PM (GMT)
Cool, GS. ^_^ Now I know why Van is the way he is! But... isn't Noriko technically his sister? I mean... I know they aren't related, but being raised together their whole lives under the same roof... it would seem to me that they'd come to think of each other as siblings... ^_^;
Okay, I'm gonna stop before I put my foot in my mouth any deeper...
Okay, I'm gonna stop before I put my foot in my mouth any deeper...
GoldenSama - December 27, 2006 09:03 PM (GMT)
She should have been his sister, but she refused to think of herself as a real member of the Elric family. She'd say that if she actually accepted herself as one of them, she wouldn't be able to discover who she really was. So she looked at it like she was just staying with them for a while.
Clown Prince of Crime - December 27, 2006 09:08 PM (GMT)
Well, I realize that, but if it was since they were babies, then... meh, nevermind, I'll take your word for it. It's easier on me that way. XD
But, ya, good work on this, GS, really! It gives me a new understanding of Van. ^_^
But, ya, good work on this, GS, really! It gives me a new understanding of Van. ^_^
Dark Phazon - December 27, 2006 10:01 PM (GMT)
Quite a sad story... But good, as well! Kinda like FMA in that way, actually! Very nice.
Clown Prince of Crime - December 27, 2006 10:05 PM (GMT)
I think he meant later, not ago. ^_^; I've done that kinda stuff, myself... but it doesn't take long to realize what he meant... unless you're... well... someone who can't pick up on things very well or ignores what they want to make themselves seem like they know it all or something. And while people like that exist, I know you ain't one of them, DP. Now, what was I talking about again? Oh, ya! Stay out of my liquor cabinet!
Dark Phazon - December 27, 2006 10:09 PM (GMT)
I was just joking around in my normal unfunny way. Sorry about that!!! :heh:
GoldenSama - December 27, 2006 10:20 PM (GMT)
Eh? Well, I'm glad you liked it DP, and it's meant to be sad. I'm always horrible to my main character...
But I did mean "Later" and not "ago". >_> I'm an idiot sometimes.
But I did mean "Later" and not "ago". >_> I'm an idiot sometimes.
AGodofIrony - December 27, 2006 11:03 PM (GMT)
Wow...Another excellent piece of writing GS...This spells some interesting stuff for the futute of LF!
BlueRush - December 28, 2006 01:33 AM (GMT)
In the novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein marries a girl his family adopted, and in fact his parents expected them to marry while they were raising them. In the original version they were relatives, cousins actually, but in the 1912 (or 1812? ^^;) revision Shelley changed it to non-relatives. ^_^ So, this situation has precedence.
Also, I'm sure I would've considered this sad if I hadn't had an inside track to the plot before it was written... ^^; Kind of prepared me emotionally... but it was still awesome!
Also, I'm sure I would've considered this sad if I hadn't had an inside track to the plot before it was written... ^^; Kind of prepared me emotionally... but it was still awesome!
GoldenSama - December 28, 2006 01:44 AM (GMT)
Maybe I should clear things up.
I didn't have Noriko live with the Elrics to create a creepy, brother/sister romance. I did it because I needed a way to explain Van hating alchemy and his father. I could have killed off his mother, but I'd be beaten to death by a rubber fish, and that would be too much like actual FMA.
So instead I chose to introduce a love interest, which would also allow me to use a Bleach OC. Seeing as how it'd be hard to explain having Rukia and Ichigo live in Resembrool, I did things this way, to cause drama, tragedy and to explain everything I had needed to explain.
I didn't have Noriko live with the Elrics to create a creepy, brother/sister romance. I did it because I needed a way to explain Van hating alchemy and his father. I could have killed off his mother, but I'd be beaten to death by a rubber fish, and that would be too much like actual FMA.
So instead I chose to introduce a love interest, which would also allow me to use a Bleach OC. Seeing as how it'd be hard to explain having Rukia and Ichigo live in Resembrool, I did things this way, to cause drama, tragedy and to explain everything I had needed to explain.
Clown Prince of Crime - December 29, 2006 11:05 AM (GMT)
Oh, I wasn't trying to scold you, DP. Actually, my post really didn't have to do with you so much as it was me rambling on about... stuff to ramble about.
And GS... given the choice between a romantic interest and his mother... good choice. The fish shall spare you.
And GS... given the choice between a romantic interest and his mother... good choice. The fish shall spare you.