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Alphonse Elric (indomitablesoul) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-01-03 00:18:00

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alphonse elric, arrival, complete, day 27, nymphadora tonks

-Who: Alphonse and Tonks!
-What: Alchemist meets witch
-When: Day 27, late morning
-Where: Around the alpine slide
-Status: Complete - Dropped
-Rating: Eeeeer, PG, PG-13-ish?

This new world Al had followed Ed into wasn't so different from his own. Some things that were different were fascinating and some were also frightening. That didn't matter though. As long as Al was with his brother, he knew they could get through anything.

They'd moved to a different city, outside of Germany, since the incident with the Gate. Ed told him that things were going to get worse. They were still searching for the bomb that had been brought over from there world, although they had destroyed the Gate with help from Hughes, Hughes' allies, and a lot of explosives.

Alchemy didn't work on this side of the gate and Al had to admit, he missed being able to use it. It helped to make life a bit easier... and also was useful for protecting oneself. Luckily, they hadn't run into much trouble... yet.

Al was in the makeshift study, looking over papers with his brother when it happened. He turned to Ed to ask him a question about something when suddenly the ground just... opened up underneath him. There was nothing but blackness.

Al's eyes went wide with panic and he scrambled forward to grab on to something, to stop his fall, but the black hole continue to grow until he fell into it. "Brother!" he cried out, reaching up with a hand in the hopes that Ed would grab it and pull him up.

But Ed didn't. Al practically went numb. Ed had to have seen him fall. Why didn't he try and stop him from falling?!

Abruptly, the scenery changed and Al plopped down onto some sort of... of slide. At first, he was too shocked to do anything except continue to slip down it but then he got his head around him and started to yell. The slide wasn't that big. Maybe he could stop himself...

He'd gone through some sort of portal. Had he somehow been taken back to their world? Was he back in Amestris? But he should have come out at the lost city, not here... where ever here was.

It was either try to use alchemy or just continue sliding. Al didn't know what he would make a transmutation circle on and he didn't have his gloves with him... He remembered his memories and remembered the Gate... Maybe he could do it like Ed did...

Clapping his hands together, Al focused and slapped his hands against the side of the slide. Blue light crackled through the air as a short but thick pole shot out and Al just barely managed to grab onto it before he went past it. He jerked to a stop.

Al didn't move for a moment. He could use alchemy. Not only that, but he didn't need a transmutation circle to do it anymore. Carefully, Al rolled over the side of the side and landed on the snowy ground. He wrapped his arms around himself, shivering from the cold. He was glad he could feel the cold, remembering when he was in the suit of armor and couldn't feel anything at all. Looking down, Al saw that he had been almost to the end of the slide anyway. Turning, he looked up at the top of it. It was pretty big for a slide. Must be used for something.

Looking around, he saw some buildings nearby. If he was back in Amestris, there was only one way to find out, and that was by asking someone.

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indomitablesoul
2009-01-20 04:26 am UTC (link)

"Could you tell me more about how this magic works? It sounds really different from alchemy," Al asked, growing more curious by the second.

When she held up the coin, Al laughed. "Oh that's too easy!" He looked around for something that would be bigger and spotted a statue of a cherub angel nearby. "Here, watch this!" Al went over to the statue, clapped his hands together, and placed them on it. Blue light shone around the angel as it changed shaped. With a sheepish grin, Al stepped back and pointed to the statue. It no longer looked like an angel. Instead it was almost a mini replica of Ed. "That's what my brother looks like," he explained.

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tonks_please
2009-01-20 01:21 pm UTC (link)

For a moment, everything else was forgotten. Everything. All she did was stand completely still and watch in awe as the statue changed. She'd never seen anything like that. "Wow." Her eyes were solemn for once. "Even a really powerful wizard would have a hard time transmuting that much..."

Finally, she realized that she was staring like an idiot, blinked, and grinned at him. "That's really brilliant. Anyway, I should show you your room, let's talk as we walk?" Slowly, she was recovering from the amazing sight she'd just seen. "Magic needs a couple of things. First, a wand. Second, an evocation, or the words. Third, the proper gestures with the wand." She thought about that as they walked toward A building. "Most spells, anyway. And some people can do it without speaking any words, but only really talented people." She could do it, if she chose, but she liked the flair of saying the words. Sometimes, as an Auror, she'd had to use silent spells, though.

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indomitablesoul
2009-01-22 11:21 am UTC (link)

"Okay," Al said, nodding when she said she would show him where his room was. He clapped his hands together and once again touched the statue, returning it to the original form it was in. "There." He looked back at Tonks, grinning. "Okay, ready."

As he followed her lead, he listened as she explained about her magic. "With alchemy, you need a transmutation circle. I can show you what one looks like later. I don't have any chalk or ink on me to draw one. Some people, though, don't need a circle. We've... seen the Gate," he informed her, his face growing solemn. "If you've seen the Gate, it... means you did something you're not supposed to do with alchemy. Human transmutation. Everything has to have an equivalent value but there's nothing that could ever be equal to a persons soul. Our... our mother died. We were only ten and eleven, so we tried to bring her back. I lost my whole entire body and almost died, but my brother sacrificed his arm to open the Gate up and get my soul, then attached it to a suit of armor. He lost his left leg too. In our world, the Philosopher's Stone heightens your alchemic ability. We searched for it so we could restore our bodies."

Al smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. "To make a long story short, I actually became the Philosopher's Stone, well, my armor did, and my brother was killed so I used it's power to bring him back and then he brought me back, I lost my memories, learned more alchemy, found a way to open the Gate up again and got reunited with my brother because he got pulled to the other side of it. It all sounds really complicated, doesn't it?" he asked with a sheepish laugh. "I got my memory back though! That's why I don't need a circle, because I remember the Gate now."

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tonks_please
2009-01-22 10:16 pm UTC (link)

The witch blinked again as the statue went back to normal. Minerva might have an alright time doing that, but even she might strain a little to do it. She grinned at the boy, and then headed off toward his dormatory.

She listened as Al spoke, noticing the many differences in alchemy and magic. "That's really brilliant..." She walked in relative silence, tripping now and then, but listening raptly to the boy as he told his story. "You've kinda been through a lot, yeah? I still don't quite understand how someone could become the Philosopher's Stone, but I'll take your word on it." After all, she was a pretty good judge of character and was fairly sure he was telling the truth.

Finally, they made there was to the front door of the correct building, and Tonks pushed it open. Once there, she shook snow out of her hair, shivered theatrically, and tapped herself with her wand. Immediatly, her clothes began to steam as they dried. "I'm glad you got your memory back, and I hope you find your brother. Your room should be this way, I think..."

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indomitablesoul
2009-01-24 04:11 am UTC (link)

"Oh, it was because I didn't have a body made of flesh. A suit of armor is something that's inanimate, so that's how the Stone was able to become the armor. My soul was attached to the armor, though, so that's how I became the Stone. Does that make more sense?" he asked, not sure if he was just confusing her further.

He followed her inside and watched as she did something with her wand that made her clothes start to steam. "What was that?" Al asked with a large amount of curiosity.

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tonks_please
2009-01-24 04:07 pm UTC (link)

She nodded. While she wasn't familiar with his rules, she did know that magic had them. Why wouldn't alchemy as well? "That makes sense." And it did, more or less.

"This?" She looked down at her wand. "A drying charm." She flicked her wand once more and pointed it at him so he could feel the warm air coming from it. "Really useful." Once they were both dry, her wand went back in her pocket.

"Right, then. Let's go!" She started down the hallway toward where she believed his room was. "Oh, and by the way, it will look pretty boring at first. You just have to concentrate and it will look like whatever you want. Useful, actually." She smiled. "Wish for what you want, and the Planet will usually give it to you. Except freedom, of course."

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