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Edward Elric ([personal profile] fullmetal_alchemy) wrote in [community profile] all_inclusive2014-03-08 11:52 am

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Ed took a step back, nearly stumbling as he stared at the lobby of the hotel he suddenly found himself in. He'd been hurrying full-tilt into the lab -- and well, this certainly wasn't the lab he'd been in before. There was no familiar pattern of alchemy on the walls either. Which meant this wasn't the lab.

It was only belatedly that he realized he was also by himself. Everyone he had been traveling with was gone. He spun around quickly, braid twisting momentarily into the air. Nope, he was by himself. He grabbed the door he had just run through, twisting it back open, but the familiar streets of Central didn't wait outside of it. The realization of what had happened sat coldly in his gut. But, it should have been impossible.

Hastily, he pressed both his gloved hands against up the wall next to the door. His alchemy crackled along the wall before a new door was called into being. Even as the energy poured through both his real and automail arm, he could feel that there was something off about it, as if his connection had been altered in some way. He hastily grabbed the knob of the new door, pulling that open as well. What was behind wasn't the same as the first door he had opened -- but still wasn't Central. He slammed it shut, moving automatically to create a second door, and then a third. Each one opened up to a new place, but none of them were the world Ed had just left behind.

"What the hell," he growled under his breath, unable to hide his rank irritation. He spun back around from the wall, facing the expanse of the hotel in front of him again. There was only one weapon he had left to him now.

"Alphonse!" he bellowed. And then, even though he didn't want to: "Hohenheim!"
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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-09 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
To James, it sounded like some sort of curse and he stepped back a little, waiting to dodge whatever jet of colored light was surely about to come his way. While he had become something of an expert at casting curses without speaking out loud there were some that needed an audible spell to be pulled off correctly and while he'd never heard hohenheim before, it didn't sound good.

"Whoa, mate, watch where you're throwing curses," he said, frowning a little. Still, nothing had hit him and all the usual signs of curse-receiving weren't present: no singed eyebrows, no rips in his trousers, no extra appendages or infected pustules. It seemed to have missed him entirely.

"Er, it was a curse, wasn't it? Hohenheim?"
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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-10 03:04 am (UTC)(link)

James thought for a moment about giving his actual name but, then, if this was someone who was throwing hexes without much notice, maybe he wanted to give someone else's.

"Severus Snape." Even the sound of it was slimy and James instantly regretted his choice in pseudonym. "Are you sure it wasn't a curse?"

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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)

"Er, no, not Central. It's some hotel," James said, trying to decide how best to explain it. This was one of those situations where Remus and his head full of facts would be useful or even Sirius, with his charm. James had both when the occasion called for it but words seemed to be failing him.

"You can open doors and go into different worlds. I bet you just stepped out of your own into this one."

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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-10 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)

"No, I'm a wizard. What's an alchemist?"

James had never heard of that before except in some vague, foggy place where he thought he might have been asleep in History of Magic and something Binns said had drifted in by accident. He certainly had never learned anything about alchemists on purpose. If it wasn't important to being an auror, James didn't care.

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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-11 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)

"No, never heard of any alchemists, state or otherwise. Is that a Muggle thing?" As much as James liked some Muggle inventions (motorcycles, Sirius was onto something with that) he knew very little about how their world worked.

"Must be, since I've never heard of it."

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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-15 03:01 am (UTC)(link)

"Someone who can't do magic? Well, not a squib...but someone who can't do magic and doesn't know anything about it," James clarified. Really, someone who didn't know who Muggles were but clearly did not seem to be a Muggle himself? Was alchemist just another name for wizard that he hadn't learned in history?

"Ever heard of people like that?"

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[personal profile] prongsdefiant 2014-03-23 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)

James hooked his thumb back toward the general vicinity of the front desk. "They can tell you where your room is but other than that, you're just going to have to pull doors open and see where you end up. Nothing too helpful around here, I'm afraid."

Seriously, someone who hadn't heard of Muggles but clearly wasn't a Muggle himself? Weird.