Fullmetal Alchemist One-shot
Falling
The girl walked through the woods with her head down, earplugs in her ears and the music turned up loud, as if she was trying to drown out the world. Her eyes were genuinely facing the ground and not paying much attention to where she was going – they were unfocussed as she seemed to be immersed in thought.
Therefore she did not notice at first when she stepped onto the strange symbols on the forest floor.
She did notice, however, when these symbols began to glow in a bright red light.
Suddenly the ground vanished beneath her, sending her into a free fall towards nothingness.
She was too surprised to even scream, all she managed was a surprised sort of "huh?"-noise, before she found herself falling.
All of a sudden something passed before her eyes as if it were sped up, whizzing past and blurring her vision: A space, entirely white and empty, except for a gigantic gate with complicated signs engraved on it, and a white figure with a wide grin standing in front of it.
Its mouth was moving, but she couldn't hear what it was saying.
Seconds later the tall gate opened wide and some sort of force was dragging her inside.
She was falling again.
Then there was nothing but darkness and she lost her sense of time and space completely. She had no idea how long she had been falling through nothing when suddenly a hole opened beneath her. She felt herself accelerating towards what looked like a small river framed by grass and rocks, rapidly getting closer.
It seemed sort of surreal to her – until the cold of the water hit her hard as she dropped into it, submerging herself completely.
She came to her senses quickly and swam to the surface, coming up for air rather forcefully and splashing water in several directions.
The river was deeper than it had looked from above, and she found she could not reach the bottom with her feet.
She stared up at the sky, looking for the gap in space and time she had fallen through, but there was only a few fluffy white clouds hanging lazily amidst a sea of blue and a bright sun.
That was when she heard the voice.
"Hey! You there!"
She brushed her brown hair out of her face as she looked towards the riverbank. A young man sat there, crouched down into a rather uncomfortable-looking position and eyeing her suspiciously. He was wearing a short shirt across his chest and a pair of short pants that didn't quite reach his knees – and his hair stood out from his head in a way she would have thought was physically impossible.
He frowned slightly, looking up to the sky and then back down at the girl in the water.
"Where the hell did you just come from?"
Hey there you guys! This is just something random I came up with because of a challenge from a friend :3 She is the "girl" - credit goes partly to KuroTenshiShiroTenshi ^^ She's gonna put up her part of the challenge, starring me :3
Anyway, to those of you who have been waiting for updates of my ongoing stories - I repeat myself here, I lost all data on my laptop because it crashed on me - it was saved though *phew* but I can't access it yet. So, logically, no updates for a while - I'm really sorry! That's also why I decided to upload this one-shot - to keep you... well, not satisfied, but busy until I can put up new chapters... sorry again .
So anyway, tell me what you think of my randomness xDDD
Oh and btw: Disclamer: obviously I don't own FMA. And I don't own "the girl" - that's KuroTenshiShiroTenshi.
Random fact: The character's Iphone was NOT damaged during this story. And this is NOT a commercial for Apple-products, either xD (I can say that truthfully as a HTC AND Ipod-owner ^^)
