"Why are we stopping?" Ling asked as the coach came to a halt.
"I have no idea." Roy said looking at his wife.
"Look the princess is getting out." Kimbly notes pointing towards Xiúlàn as she stepped out of her coach.
The trailing car holding Hohenheim, Lust, Envy, and Bradley came to a halt behind the other coaches.
"Why are we stopping?" Ling asked running to Xiúlàn.
"We can't take coaches where we are going." She answered.
The group exchanged confused glances as Xiúlàn began her trek into a small crack in the mountain. The group hurried after her.
The group walked for what seemed like miles into the mountain until they reached a dead end. Roy used alchemy to make a torch so the group could see the path in front of them.
"What the hell! Are you kidding me?" Greed groaned.
"Oh this is no problem. We can just make a door." Ed chided walking up to the rock surface, clapping and pressing his hands against the surface of the rock. Nothing happened.
"What the hell?" Ed scoffed.
"Silence! We are in the right place." Xiúlàn ordered. "Bring that torch closer."
Mustang walked up to the wall and shined his light on the wall.
"It's just a plain wall!" He exclaimed.
"You are all so narrow minded." Xiúlàn sighed as she pressed her palm agains the wall. Her tattoo began to glow as the cave began to shake.
"What's going on?" Envy howled.
Blue light began to erupt out of the rock face. A beautiful intricate pattern of two dragons dueling began to surface. Two round doors appeared. They rolled away from each other allowing the group to pass.
Greed let out a long whistle. "Ok, not gonna lie that was pretty badass."
"Hurry the doors won't stay open forever." Xiúlàn warmed.
The group buried through the door and jumped as the great doors closed as the last one walked through. The doors led to a narrow passage was with "....are those mine carts?" Ed question.
"Simply speaking yes." Xiúlàn confirmed stepping into one.
"Princess what are you doing?" May gasped.
"Come on then we don't have all day." The princess sighed.
Aft r a pause the group began hesitantly getting into the carts.
"Shot gun!" Greed yelled before climbing in behind Xiúlàn causing her to jump and Greed to laugh.
"Why must you be so difficult?!" She exclaimed.
"Hey doll face there's not a lot of these rail carts we have to condense." He smirked.
To her dismay she looked behind her to find all of the carts filled with two to each car. She sighed and tried to create the most space between them.
"Alright everyone hold on." She warned.
Her tattoo began to glow again as the brake was disengaged on the front car. The group slowly started down the track.
"If it's really going to go this slow why don't we just walk!" Greed whined.
Xiúlàn silently smirked as the cart rounded a corner right into a drop.
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The Horror From Beyond The Gate (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood fan fic)
FanfikceIt has been eight years since we left our heroes. Ed is married to Winry and is on a break from his alchemiy research in the East and Al is back from the west. Roy and Riza, now married, live in central as as Roy rules the nation of Amestris as thei...
