Chapter 1: Hydrogen

(A/N: This is my first time using multiple points of view in a single chapter so... here goes nothing...)

KITE'S P.O.V.

"We have to go back! Yuma is still in there!" Tori cried out, as we ran out of the building.

I looked at her and said, "I'll go back, when your at a safe distance."

Another tremor ran through the building as it was falling apart.

Damn, the duel with that barian, and the canon overloading, is literally shaking the building apart.

Orbital flew toward me and said, "M-master K-Kite! The others are at a s-safe distance."

I nodded and said, "Take Tori and get her out of here!"

The robot looked up at me and asked, "What a-about you s-sir?"

I began running and I yelled, "I've got to get Yuma!"

The idiot, why the heck did he run back in here?

I mean he knows it collapsing, why come back?

I quickly took off in a sprint, running by every obstacle that blocked my path.

I yelled out, "Yuma! Astral! Can you hear me?! Answer me!"

"Kite!" I heard Astral's ethereal voice yell out.

I yelled, "Where are you?!"

Astral yelled, "Over here! Yuma's hurt badly!"

I began running toward Astral's voice, until I rounded a corner then...

Oh no...

I looked at saw Yuma, unconscious and laying face up on the ground, with cuts and bruises covering his entire body...

But what was the most critical thing was...

...The fact a large piece of metal, ran through his right shoulder...Severing his right arm from his body...

Astral looked at me with a teary look and said, "Help him...Please..."

I tore off my jacket and tied it to his bleeding stub.

He was starting to look pale; a defendant sign of blood loss.

He needs a doctor...

I cradled him in my arms and began running out of there, leaving a trail of blood behind me and on me.

Astral floated along side me and asked, "...Is.. Is he going to be alright...?"

I looked down at Yuma, who was breathing heavily and said, "I'm not sure... He's lost a lot of blood, plus we have no idea what state he's in right now..."

"He may be in shock, from all the trauma... He might make it if we get him out of here in time..."

Astral gave a sad sigh and said, "This is my fault...He should have never came back for me..."

He went back...For Astral...

God, now I feel like the idiot... He was helping a friend, the one thing Yuma will never stop doing...

Astral disappeared into the key on Yuma's neck.

He didn't want to see Yuma... Not like this...

The building was shaking once again, this time more violent than before.

I ran out the door of the building as it collapse in on itself.

Orbital came over and said, "Mas-Master Ki-Kite!"

I looked at him and said, "Call an ambulance! Yuma is severely hurt and needs immediate medical attention!"

The robot looked at Yuma and said, "Right away s-sir!"

Tori, Shark, Hart, and my father, ran up to me as I said Yuma down on the ground, trying not to do more harm to his already bleeding body.

I looked at myself and saw the blood stains covered my white shirt, where I held him.

Tori looked at him and said with a whimper, "Yu-Yuma..."

Shark just stared in horror and said, "Dear God... H-He's missing his a-arm..."

Hart hid behind our father, trying to block out the all the blood, over Yuma and myself.

Father looked at him and said, "He's gravely injured..."

I looked down at my makeshift bandage.

It was soaked with blood, already... He losing more blood than I thought...

I took off my shirt and placed it on the wound, then I began applying pressure, hoping that would slow the bleeding.

I looked up and asked, "Do you guys have any water? Any at all?"

Tori pulled out her water bottle, opened it up, and handed to me.

I nodded and said, "This will have to work..."

I poured the water into the rag and tied it on to Yuma's wound.

"That should slow the bleeding till the paramedics get here."

Shark looked at Yuma and asked, "What happened in there?"

I sighed and said, "Yuma ran back in to get Astral, and as he was leaving a part of the building must have collapsed on him..."

"When I found him a piece of metal was running straight through his shoulder...his arm completely severed..."

Tori was crying now and she said, "Yuma...Why? Why?!"

I heard the sounds of sirens as the paramedics arrived.

They picked him up and placed him in the ambulance.

Tori cried out, "Let him be okay...Please God...let him be okay..."

YUMA'S P.O.V.

"Hey Yuma, whatcha doing?" A boy asked me.

He had light brown hair that laid flat on his head, amber colored eyes that make you think the were made of gold, and skin as pale as snow. He looked no older than 7 years old and some how he looked vaguely familiar.

I looked at him and said in the voice of a five year old, "I'm getting ready for Daddy to come home from his trip to Xerxes."

The boy smiled and said, "Kari will be coming home from, the Journalism Club soon, you want to play?"

I nodded and said, "Show me how to do one of you alclemthy tricks."

The boy laughed and said, "It's called alchemy, and sure thing Yuma."

The boy pulled out a piece of chalk and began drawing a strange circle with triangles and weird letters.

He smiled and said, "The drawing is called at Transmutation Circle and the ground is made of basic stone what we call concrete. Now once you have it drawn, you place your hands on the circle and.."

He placed his hands down on the circle and it lit up with electricity and a blue glow. A small statue of Utopia appeared out of the ground.

He yelled, "Ta-da!"

I smiled and said, "Wow! Avery this one's your best statues yet!"

Avery nodded and said, "This one is the 39th one I've made, but I have to say, I like it quite a bit more. What do you think of it Yuma?"

"What do you think of Utopia, Little Brother?"

"Yuma... Please wake up...Please..." I heard Kari cry out.

Man, I feel awful...

Someone get the number of that bus that hit me...

Well I know one thing, waking up in pain and having weird dreams is the sign that something is wrong.

I slowly opened my eyes to see, that I was laying in a hosptial bed, and the majority of my body was covered with blankets and bandages, except my left arm, which had an IV with a thing of blood going into my wrist.

Blood? Why do I need blood? It's was just a scrath and...

I tried to lift up my right arm, but it didn't move.

What going on with my arm? Is it asleep or something?

Kari looked up at me with her eyes puffy from tears and said, "Yuma! Thank God you're awake!"

I said, "Yeah, mine telling me why I'm in a hospital and why I can't move my right arm?"

She cried softly, "Yuma... A building collapsed on top of you... You were hurt severely..."

I looked at her and said, "I remember Heartland was collapsing... But I don't remember getting hurt."

She gave a sob and said, "You were hurt Yuma..."

She placed her hand on my shoulder and ran it...

Wait...

Something does not feel right...

I looked and saw where her hand rest...

It laid on the a bandage of what remained of my shoulder...

My right arm was missing from the shoulder down...

She cried, "I'm so sorry..."

I placed my hand on my shoulder and said in a panic, "M-My...arm...W-What happened to m-my arm...?!"

Kari looked at me and said with a tremble, "The building collasped on top of you... A piece of metal ran straight through your shoulder... It severed your arm instantly..."

I looked at my sister as her faces filled with tears.

She looked down and said, "Yuma... you almost died... You almost never made it out of there..."

She looked up and said with her face doused in tears, "If it wasn't for your friend, that building would have became your tomb... I would have lost my little brother..."

I wrapped my good arm on to her and said with tears graising my face, "I-I'm sorry...I-I'm sorry...Please don't cry anymore... Kari..."

Kari looked at me and said, "Yuma..."

I cried out, "Please d-don't c-cry... I-I won't make y-you cry anymore..."

She pulled her hand up and wiped away the tears from my face.

She huggged me and said, "Don't ever scare me like that again. Okay Yuma?"

I wrapped my arm on her and said, "Okay..."

I heard the door open from behind the curtain.

"Are you sure this is the right room?" Bronk's voice asked.

"I'm perr-fectly sure this is his room." Cathy's voiced purred out.

"I hope he's doing alright?" Flip's voice said.

Kari pulled back the curtain revealing my friends with a large bag of goodies and various get well gifts.

I gave a sad smile and said, "Hey guys..."

They stare at me in complete shock. Apparently, this was there first time seeing my missing arm too...

Flip said quietly, "I knew you were hurt badly but..."

Bronk contuied, "Nothing prepare us for this..."

I nodded and said, "Yeah, me either..."

Cathy gave a small sob and said, "Oh Yuma..."

I looked up and said, "Please don't cry... I can't bare to see anymore tears..."

Cathy took a deep breath and dried her eyes.

Flip looked at me and said, "This must have been a tough couple of weeks for you..."

My eyes widen and I asked, "Did you just say weeks?"

Flip nodded and said, "Yeah, Heartland tower collapsed about a month ago."

"I've been out cold for a month?!" I said with shock.

Bronk looked at me and said, "Wait, he just woke up?!"

Kari nodded and said, "Yeah, Yuma's body wasn't stable for weeks. His heart wasn't creating enough new blood, due to the nature of his trauma. He was in the ICU for nearly 3 weeks, then they moved him in here once he was stable. Then he woke up about 15 minutes ago."

I sat back and said, "God, I can barely belive it... Grandma must be worried sick..."

Kari nodded and said, "She sleeping out in the waiting room, she barely slept a wink since you got here. She almost refused to eat, until Lily Bot got a hold of her."

"So he's up."

I looked to the doorway to see Kite and Shark walking in.

Kite looked at me and said, "It's good to see your alright Yuma."

Kari looked at him and said, "Thanks to you."

I looked at him and said, "Wait, Kite's the one who got me out of there?"

Shark nodded and said, "He used his jacket as a bandage and basicly carried you out of there. At the time, you were in really bad shape..."

I looked up at him and said, "Thank you, Kite."

Kite smiled and said, "You do the same for me or any of your friends."

I nodded and said, "Yeah, I guess I would..."

Kite reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.

He looked at me and said, "By chance have any of you heard of a country by the name Amestris?"

Bronk replied, "Ames-what now?"

Kari replied, "Amestris, it's a militant country, half way around the world that bases it science in a thing called alchemy. Question is, why bring it up?"

Kite unfolded the piece of paper and said, "Amestris isn't as highly devolped in holo-tech or anything like that, but the are highly adavanced in three things. One is their military, which is one of the best in the world due to the fact that the nations around them try to destroy them. Two is alchemy, a super science that can create objects with mere drawings and the knowledge of what it's made of. And Three..."

He showed us a diagram for what looked like...

"Is that an arm made out of metal?" Flips asked.

I looked at it more carefully studing how the metal pieces conected like joint and muscles.

Kite nodded and said, "It's called automail. A fully operational proctheic that allows the user to move it like their orginal limb, meaning they can actaully use the fingers, write, eat, duel with it. The country of Amestris has these made all over their country..."

Kite put away the paper and said, "And it just so happens I know one of the best automail mechanics there is."

I looked at him and asked, "Are you saying what I think your saying?"

He smirked and said, "Yuma Tsukamo, do want automail or not?"

Kari looked at me and said, "It's all up to you Yuma, I've got no say in this."

I looked up at him and asked with a smirk, "When do we start?"