This is an idea that was stuck for so long in my head, I just needed to get it out and share it with you guy.
This is going to follow the FMA manga because it's the main story and it covers more.
I am going to tell you a secret, in this fanfiction Elizabeth (fem!ed) and her full name is Elizabeth 'Elsa' Maria Armstrong (Hohenheim isn't a legal citizen of Amestris that is also why the boys had to take their mother's maiden name in the anime/manga) is the daughter of Van Hohenheim and Olivier Mira Armstrong
Prologue part 1
In an isolated village near the eastern border between Amestris and the deserted deserts of Xerxes rested a little village that the locals call Lior. It had many buildings packed together with radio lines running among them. It was actually very isolated from the rest of the country. Everyone in the was friendly to each other and everyone knew each other by name. The town was happy and stood tall all thanks to the guiding's of one man.
"Children of god who live on this earth, have faith and thou shalt be saved. The god of the sun, Leto, enlightens thy path. Behold , having descended from His throne, the Lord shall save thee from thy sins. As a messenger of the sun god, I am your father." His voice echoes through the streets as his preach is broadcasted through dozens of radio at each house and every establishment in the city.
At one such establishment is a odd couple. The odd thing is one of them is wearing a suit of armor that stand just about seven feet tall. With three spike protruding from both his shoulders and one just above his visor. The helmet has white strands of what looks like hair coming out of the back end. And on his shoulder pad you can see a symbol of a cross with a snake coiled around it, two wings coming from the snake and a crown adorns the rest of the symbol. A whit loincloth covered the area where his most vulnerable organ rested.
"…. A radio broadcast of a sermon?" the person in the armor said, glancing at the girl next to him. But his voice, his voice should have been lower for such a large man or even woman, but it sounds like a child that is wearing the armor.
The girl on his right side looks up from her meal to listen to the sermon.
"A messenger of god…..?" she asked, taking another bite from her food. "What's that?"
The person sitting next to the hulking suit of armor was a girl about the average height. She had a pale complexion with pouty light rose colored lips. Her hair was pale blond, straight locks of hair framing her face and covering her right eye, the rest was pulled back in a low ponytail that reached the small of her back. On her shoulder lay a white trench coat, leaving her arms free and showing she wore a dark tank top underneath that barely contained her DD-cup breasts. In between her collarbones lay a necklace with the came symbol that the suit of armor adorned on his shoulders. Her feet were covered in heelless boots that reached just over her knees narrowly reaching the black skirt that ended at a brown belt with an silver gain going in one of the pockets of the skirt.
The bartender looked at the girl in surprise. He was already past his prime and had a large black haired moustache that reached is jaw line and covered his mouth. There was no hair on his head visible because of a hat that probably shielded him from the un forgiving sun rays.
"I think I ought to be the one saying 'what's that' about you." The bartender asked, while grabbing a glass from under the counter. "Are you street performers or something?"
The girl put down the drink she was sipping from and opened her eyes, revealing that they were in fact beautiful deep blue orbs with a gold shining around the pupils. To put it together it was like staring through a telescope and looking at the beautiful displays of the universe.
She leveled a glare at the bartender who could only see her left eye, which did nothing to dull the effectiveness of the glare. "Okay, pops, what part of us looks like street performers?"
The bar keep held his hands up in surrender and was sweating bullets. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But, I keep looking, but that's all you could be. Please don't kill me."
The girl turned back to eating the meal in front of her, letting it go.
The bartender sighs in relief. "I don't see people with face like yours around these parts often. Tourists?"
"Yeah, we're just looking for something." The girl said, while placing her left elbow on the counter and leaning on the palm of her hand. "Anyway, what's with this broadcast?"
"You haven't heard of lord Cornello?"
"Who." the girl and the boy in armor asked, making everyone sitting at the bar turn to them.
"Founder Cornello!" the bartender said, not getting any sign of recognition from the duo. "Messenger of Leto, the sun god."
"The founder of Letoism, the one with the 'power of miracles'." Another customer chimed in. "He's this really wonderful man who came to this city a couple of years ago and showed us the way of God!"
"Incredible." Everyone seemed impressed by the story. "Definitely the power of god."
The bartender turned to the young girl, but she seemed to be not listening. "…You ain't listening kid." The bartender said while getting a tick mark.
"I am. I'm just not interested in religion." She said politely, while finishing eating her meal with her left hand. "Thank you for the meal sir."
"I'm full. Come on Al let's continue searching." The girl said while pulling on her white trench coat.
"Yep." Answered the now named Al, his voice echoing of the armor he wore. But the bulk of his cause his helmet to hit the roof on which a radio was placed. It fell of and broke into a million pieces on the ground.
"AH-! HEY! Don't cause any problems here!" the bartender shouted. "It's all because you're walking around that in a suit like that."
"Sorry, sorry. I'll fix it right up." Al said, as he knelt down beside the broken pieces gathering all of them together. The girl asked the bartender for another drink while the boy drew a circle on the ground with a piece of chalk.
"Fix it up? How the hell are you going to that? Damn thing is in million pieces." The bartender said as he scratched his head in confusion wondering how the boy was going to do it.
"Just watch." The girl said, sipping from her drink.
"Riiiiiight."
When Al was finished with his drawing of what looked like two triangles mirroring eacht other making it look like a star. There were also two circles one touching each tip of the star and the other cutting right through the middle. "Okay here I goooo!" he said as if to warn the people standing around him as he crossed his hands over each other.
The circle lit up and a blue light and some energy surrounded the broken pieces. The people that watched were taken a back. They had only seen one other man doing wonders like this one. When the light died down the crowd was stunned to see an intact radio standing there broadcasting the sermon.
"How's that." The girl said as she pointed at the radio.
"…..I'm totally stunned." The bartender said as he looked over the counter at his newly repaired radio. "You can use the power of miracles."
The eyes of the girl shot open. "Say what?" she said with an annoyed expression. "We're alchemist."
"Just call us the Elric siblings. We're sort of famous." -CLUNK- the girl looked at her brother and gave a chop to his helmet. "Ow, Elsa what was that for." He said as he held his head.
"That helm of yours didn't seem to contain you ego little brother." However the crowd was talking amongst themselves ignoring the comment the girl just made.
"The Elric siblings!"
"I've heard of them before."
"I've heard that the older one is one of the national alchemists…"
"THE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST." Someone in the crowd shouted as they began to gather around Al. "So you're that rumored genius alchemist!" "I get it since you're wearing this armor that you're called 'Fullmetal'!" "Can I have your autograph!"
The suit of armor was swarmed with people wanting something from the Fullmetal alchemist and just when the noise died down a little. "But I am not the Fullmetal alchemist." Al said desperately, this happened almost every time they introduced them selves and it started to tick Elsa royally of. And I she gets angry it's almost just as scary as their old teacher.
"What." Someone in the crowd said. "The little girl over there." They turned to face Elsa. "But she's a –"
"Is there something wrong with me being a girl." Elsa said crossing her arms and glaring down at the crowd that felt like they were only a few inches small. "I. Am. The Fullmetal alchemist."
'God she's scary.' Some people in the crowd thought.
"And I'm her younger brother, Alphonse Elric." The armored suit said while pointing at himself
"Please for give us." The crowed said while kneeling and keeping their heads to the ground as to protect their faces from being mauled.
But before the Elsa's vengeance could be enacted there came quick footsteps near the food stall.
"Hello! It's a little lively today." A feminine voice called.
"Oh, hello Rose." The bartender said greeting the newcomer from his hiding place behind the counter.
Rose had soft white skin. Her eyes were like amethysts, radiating a joyful shine. Her hair was a dark brown apart from the bangs that framed her face which had a pinkish color. Today she wore a thin white dress without sleeves.
"Going to church again?" the bartender asked while grabbing some canned food from the back.
Yes, I need to make some offerings." Rose pulled out a paper and her wallet. "Same stuff as usual today please."
While the bartender filled a paper bag for her, Rose noticed Al placing the repaired radio back atop the plank it fell from with Elsa standing next to him. "Oh, I haven't met you before."
"She says she's an alchemist. Seems like she's looking for something." The bartender said while finishing up the bag for Rose.
She thanked him and grabbed the bag. As she walked around she turned around and smiled. "I hope you find what you are looking for."
The mood of everyone sitting at the counter seemed to shift to a somber one. "Is something wrong Elsa asked stabbing another piece of food on her fork.
"That girl, she ain't got no relatives, but on top of that, her boyfriend died in an accident this year…" the bartender said looking down.
"Yeah, you'd think she'd be sad but she didn't look so down." Another customer said. " what saved her were the teachings of Cornello, the messenger of the sun god Leto."
"He who gives everlasting life to the living and rebirth to the dead." A man with a beard quoted. He grinned. "'The power of miracles' proves that. Miss you should take a look too. That's definitely the power of god."
"'Rebirth of the dead', eh." Elsa said looking up from her dinner. "That smells awfully fishy." She said shoving her empty plate to the bartender.
"Have faith! Thy wishes shall be answered. -"
"- All children have the blessing of the light." A bald man said into a microphone whilst reading from a book. He lay it down and turned of the switch from the broadcast off.
The man was large in stature but it could not be said he had any muscles. The only hairs on his face were is thick grey eyebrows above his smiling eyes. He wore a black priest suit and over his shoulders rested a white scarf.
"Wonderful job, founder." One of the people in his office said.
"Founder, we are grateful for your precious words today as well." Another said while bowing out of respect.
"FOUNDER!" He looked up and saw a girl. He stood up from behind is desk and approached her. "Ah, Rose. As good as always. Wonderful job." He said while resting a hand on her shoulder.
"No it's only the usual. And if it happens…" she said while clasping her hands together. "Someday…"
Cornello smiled at this. "I understand quite well what you're trying to say. After all, god has been observing your good conduct."
Rose spirit rose up, her eyes became eager. "Then…?" before she could finish her question Cornello silenced her by putting his hands on her shoulders.
He knelt down before her coming face to face with her. "But Rose, it is not yet the time for that. Do you understand. Right?"
Rose looked down with a sad smile. "…That's…That's…Right. Not yet."
"Good. You're a good child, Rose." Cornello said with a toothy smile that reached his ears.
As Rose exits Cornello's office she sees the Elric sibling sitting on the first row of benches in the main area of the church.
"Oh? Didn't I meet you earlier…?" she asked in surprise. "Do you want to learn about Letoism?"
Elsa who had her arms crossed under her chest looked up and opened her eyes. "I'm an atheist, no thank you."
"That's not good!" Rose exclaimed. "By believing in god, you'll live with daily gratitude and hope." She said while placing a hand over her heart. "Isn't that wonderful?" she asked hoping for them to see the light religion had provided for her. "If you have faith, you'll be strong enough to endure anything."
"ARE YOU SAYING I'M WEAK!" Elsa shouted giving Rose the evil eye. She stood up grabbed the seat of the bench with her left hand and lifted the whole bench with Al's armored body with it. Rose was awed by the almost inhumane amount of strength that Elsa was displaying without seeming to put any effort in to balancing such a heavy object.
"Easy sis. She didn't mean it like that!" Al said hoping to calm down his sister. He knew to avoid calling his sister weak because every time someone did she'd go ballistic.
"Hmpf." She huffed dropping the bench together with all, almost cracking the wood. "How can you believe in something like that?" she asked sitting down on the bench she just dropped. "Pray to god and the dead will come back eh?"
Rose whose heart was still racing from the intimidating display of strength took a moment to calm it down. "Yes." She said closing her eyes and folding her hand over her heart. "Without doubt."
Elsa let out a sigh. 'this girl is so annoying.' She thought. She took out her journal from inside her coat. "35 liters of water, 25 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, one and a half kilograms of lime, 800 grams of phosphorous, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of saltpeter, 80 grams of sulfur, seven and a half grams of fluorine, 5 grams of iron, 3 grams of silicon and a little bit of 15 other elements."
"Huh?" Rose was completely blown away by the information overdose and had no idea why Elsa would list all those compounds.
"These would be the calculated components that make up the body of a your average adult." She said while closing her book. "We already know that much with modern science, but the reality is that no successful human transmutation has ever been reported." She said while putting the journal away in her coat and then crossing her arms again. "There's just not enough of something…" she said while looking at the statue daring it to giving her the answers. "For hundreds of years, scientists have been researching, but they still haven't been able to grasp it. So, you could say it's wasted effort, but I think it's a lot more useful than just praying and waiting." She said looking down whilst closing her eyes. "Oh, right, and the ingredients fir these parts." Elsa said making Rose look up at her. "You can pick all of that up at a marketplace with the pocket money of a little kid."
This made something in rose snap. "A PERSON ISN'T A THING! YOU'RE BEING DISRESPECTFUL TO THE CREATOR! YOU'LL GET THE WRATH OF HEAVEN!" she yelled getting frustrated how someone could talk about a human life.
Elsa smirked. "Us alchemist are scientists, so we can't believe in vague thing like the 'Creator' or 'God'. She said mockingly making Rose growl in irritation, but the buxom blonde gave her the evil eye and she quickly slapped both hand before her mouth. "We explain the fundamentals of the creation of everything in the world and pursue the truth." She smirked again. "It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, we're the ones closest to him."
"That is arrogant. You think of yourself as God's equal." Rose said before slapping her hands back afraid what the other girl might do to her if she ever spoke out of line again.
"Oh, right. I've heard of this legend before." Elsa said smirking, crossing her legs over each other. "There was once a hero who flew too close to the sun, his wings of wax fell apart he plummeted to the earth."
Rose was speechless she did not know what to say.
Outside on the town square Cornello stood before a huge crowd that shouted his name in praise. He waved at the crowd and produced a tiny flower from his pockets. He dropped it in the other hand and clasped the hand that first held the flower over the other. Energy gathered itself around his hand and when he opened them a magnificently huge flower was revealed.
"What do you think."
"That transformation reaction is normal alchemy, right?"
"Indeed."
"But the law…"
Rose turned her head to the conversing voices and was met with the Elric siblings. "So the two of you came. How is it?" she asked but before giving them the time to answer she said. "No doubt about it, this is the power of miracles. After all, lord Cornello is the son of the Sun God."
Elsa crossed her arms reached her chin with her hand. "It's not 'the power of miracles', it is however alchemy." She said drinking in the sight in front of her. "Cornello is an imposter." This made Rose angry she looked at the taller girl trying to glare holes in the back of her head, but Elsa turned her head to look at her with an evil eye causing her to scramble back.
"Sister it's not nice to scare people." Alphonse scolded his sister with fear for his own life. "Besides he goes against the Law."
"Indeed, this raises some questions." Elsa said crossing her arms again. She looked down at the ground with her eyes closed trying to clarify just how this was possible. But that train of thought was interrupted by Rose
"What law?" she asked getting confused with all this talk about 'alchemy'.
Alphonse noticed the dark look in his sisters eyes. He quickly went on to explain to Rose hoping she would be spared from his sister's wrath. "from an average person's viewpoint, alchemy is a very handy skill that can make anything, with out limit." He said pointing at Cornello. "But the truth is that there is a rule to this. To but it roughly, there's the law of conversation with mass and the law of providence. Among us practitioners, there are people who use the four elements and the three principles, but…"
"In short the basis to alchemy is 'equivalent exchange." Elsa added opening one eye that looked directly at her. "If you want something, you need something of the equivalent cost." she looked at Cornello and continued. "But her ignored that law and was able to transmute."
Rose was getting angry, how dare these strangers down talk their founder. "MAKE SOME SENSE!" She shouted. "DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF MIRACLES OR NOT!?"
"Sister maybe it's…"
"Yeah maybe it is." She looked at Cornello's hand and saw it wear a ring with a single round, red stone. "Bingo. Rose I may have spoken to soon. I'm interested in this Letoism of yours. I would really want to talk to the founder, so could you give me some information?"
"Oh, you've finally become a believer!" Rose said totally believing Elsa's convincing lie.
Cornello said at a table sipping his tea when one of his underlings came in with a message. "Founder, there is someone requesting an audience." He said. "A girl and an armored man that call themselves the Elric siblings.."
"What?" he yelled. "I'm busy. Tell them to go home." He said putting down his cup of tea. "Wait! Did you say the Elric siblings? As in ELIZABETH ELRIC!" he folded his hand and rested his head on them, this was not good now a bitch from the military comes here to spoil his plans.
"Yes, I'm sure that was the name of the girl… do you know of her." the underling asked.
"Oooh, this is bad!" Cornello sighed. "SHE'S THE 'FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST' ELIZABETH ELRIC!" Cornello shouted at him, making him realize how dire the situation was.
"Wha..! That weak little girl!? This is a joke right!?"
"IDIOT!" Cornello yelled pinching the bridge of his nose. "Age is irrelevant to being an alchemist. I've heard that when she was twelve, she obtained her license to become a state alchemist, but. She really is that rumored brat."
The man was shocked. "Why is a state alchemist here?" he demanded. "Could it be that he knows about our plan?"
"It seems that the dogs of the military have excellent noses."
"You want me to send him away founder?"
"No, doing that would be too suspicious. He might return if we turn him away." He said there think about how to deal with this situation. He reached a little lightbulb. "They never came here, how does that sound?" he asked.
The underling looked stunned, and then smirked. "As long as God is content.."
"Now please enter." The sibling plus Rose followed the man through the hall that would lead them to Cornello. "The founder is a very busy person, and thus does not have much free time, but you two have good luck." He said as the group passed a couple of acolytes.
Elsa held her arms crossed and her eyes almost closed as she followed the man. "That's alright. I don't plan on talking to him for too long." She said as she carefully surveyed the room they were in with one eye.
"Yes." The guide said reaching inside his jacket. "We'll end this quite soon." He said pulling his gun and pressing it against the closest person, that happened to be Alphonse, he pressed the gun at the side of his helmet and shot it clean of.
Rose was horrified by this but Elsa remained calm. The helmet sailed through the air and plummeted to the ground. The acolytes that they passed locked Elsa with their weapons in a flash. She remained calm not moving a muscle and keeping her stoic expression.
"Brother." Rose shouted. "What is the meaning of this." She said as she looked at the armor without helmet.
"Rose, these men are heretics that were going to trap the founder. They're demons." The man with the gun told her while looking at the still smoking helmet.
"NO!" she exclaimed, shaking her head. "If that's why the founder wouldn't have allowed th-…"
"The founder has allowed this." He said at her horrified face. "The words of the founder are the word's of god." He turned to Elsa aiming the gun between her eyebrows. "THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD!"
"Oh?" a voice that was bounced from metal said. "THAT'S A MEAN GOD!" a fist grabbed the gun the man was holding. There standing ready to punch him was the armored man without his helmet, but the armor was empty.
"WHAAA…?!"
The weapons the acolytes were holding suddenly fell apart in tiny slices. They looked shocked at their weapons before a fist grabbed the both of them and flung them forward, making their faces collide with each other's breaking a few teeth. The suit of armor punched the man straight in the face knocking a teeth out and crushing his nose. An acolyte that held Rose back screamed before the helmet was thrown against his face, making him lose consciousness.
"Direct hit."
"MY HEAD!"
Rose looked at the armor. It was empty there was no one inside. "Wh- Wh- Wha! WHAT'S GOING ON…!? She yelled pointing at the empty armor.
"Its always…" Al said pointing at the empty suit while Elsa knocked a few times producing a hollow clunking sound. "like this."
Rose was utterly horrified. "Th-.. There's no one inside. I-… it's hollow…!?"
"Oh this." Al's voice said while the armor placed its helmet back. "This is someone with the sin of trespassing into god's forbidden domain. Just like me and my sister too."
"Elizabeth too?"
"Okay let's stop talking about this topic." Elsa said dusting of her hands. "You saw god's nature, didn't you?"
"No! There has to be some kind of mistake!"
"You have seen this much, and you still believe in that imposter. ARE YOU TO BLIND TO SEE THE TRUTH!" Elizabeth said yelling the last part, making Rose cower back in fear. "-tsch- no backbone all." She muttered. "Rose. Do you have the stomach to see the truth?"
The Elric siblings stood in front of a large wooden double door. "So this is the founder's room that Rose told us about?" Elizabeth said sizing up the door. "Oh well. I'm out of patience so.." she said as she kicked the doors inward making them fly of their hinges. "How rude, there is no one here to receive us." She said crossing her arms under her breasts.
"Welcome," a voice said. "The holy church. Did you come to learn our teachings?" Cornello said with a warm smile as he stood on the stairs in other side of the room, supporting some of his weight on a cane.
"I want you to tell me something us the general gist of it." Elizabeth said crossing her arms. "Like this rule about tricking you believers with cheap alchemy."
"..Hrm, I wonder what you might be speaking of.." he said smiling. "Comparing my 'power of miracles' with alchemy would pose a bit of a problem. If you saw it once, you would understand..."
"I've already seen it." Elizabeth said glaring up at the priest. "The thing I don't get at all is the thing about how you were able to transmute something while ignoring the laws."
"That's why I said it wasn't alchemy." Cornello said scratching his head.
"I thought so. The 'philosopher's stone'." Cornello hid his shock behind his smile. "You're using that aren't you? It's that ring, isn't it?"
"I really I hate it had to come to this. But, I expected no less from a state alchemist. It is exactly as you said." He held out his left hand, which had the ring on it, before him. "You are CORRECT! This is a mysterious power amplifier that was said to be found only in legends. If we alchemists use this, we can perform tasks of great magnitude with little cost."
"That is why we've been looking for it."
"Hmph! Why? What would you wish for by using this stone? Money? Fame?"
"You too. You've made a religion through fraud what do you want. If it's money you can use the stone to make as much as you'd want."
"It isn't money." He said. "No, I want money. But, even if I remain silent, it will enter my wallet in the form of donations from my believers, you see. On the other hand, I need obedient believers who would be happy to throw their lives away for me." He held his hand before him trying to hold the invisible power that he desired. "IT'S WONDERFUL! THE GREATEST ARMY IN THE WORLD! ONE WHICH DOESN'T FEAR DEAT!" He started to laugh maniacally. "I steadily advanced my preparations! BEHOLD! AFTER SEVERAL YEARS, THIS COUNTRY WILL BE MINE! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" people say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but Cornello was already corrupted by madness at the prospect of power had he laughed his guts out.
"Are you done laughing." Elizabeth asked. "Because, frankly I don't care about your plans. But seeing as my superiors would get mad at me for letting you go through with this, I guess I'll just have to take you in. So are you going to hand over the stone peacefully or do I have to pry it from your severed hand." Cornello gulped. "If you hand it over peacefully you may go around your business, seeing as the only crime you've committed as of yet is fooling a couple of impressionable people."
"He. He. HehehahaHAHAHAHAHAHA! HA! YOU'RE TRYING TO BARGAIN WITH ME." Cornello hollered. "MY BELIEVER WON'T ALLOW ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THEY'D KILL YOU BEFORE WE REACHED THE EDGE OF THE CITY. I AM LOVED BY THEM! THEY ARE MY FAITHFULL SERVANTS! NOT MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU'D YELL AT THEM, THEY WON'T LISTEN!" he paused catching a breather. "THAT'S RIGHT! BECAUSE THESE STUPID BELIEVER HAVE BEEN FOOLED BY ME! UHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"Thank you for that splendid speech." Elsa said as Alphonse began to remove his chest plate. "Maybe the believers wouldn't listen to what an outsider has to say but what of one of their own." Revealing that Rose had been inside Al's armor the whole time.
"Rose!?" the founder yelled shocked, his eyes were as large as dinner plates. "What is the…"
"FOUNDER! Is what you just said true!?" She asked climbing out of Al's armor "Have you tricked us!? The power of miracles, God's power…" tears started to form in her eyes. "You weren't going to grant my wish!? YOU WEREN'T GOING TO BRIN HIM BACK!?"
Cornello looked affronted but then he smiled. "hm.. Perhaps being a messenger of god was a lie. But-" he said looking at the crying Rose. "with this stone, as well as the transmutations of living beings that alchemists have failed at.." he paused. "There is the possibility that your lover can be resurrected."
Alphonse turned his helmet to Rose. "Rose, don't listen to him."
Cornello held out his hand reaching to Rose. "Be a good child and come here." He commanded.
Elizabeth turned her head looking from the corner of her eye at Rose. "If you go, you won't like the end results." She warned coldly.
"What's wrong?" Cornello asked gesturing with his hand for Rose to come to him. "Am I not the only one who can grant your wish. Remember your beloved." He waited for Rose to answer his call. "Well!"
Rose looked down at the ground before her, her nails were digging trenches in her palms. She walked towards Cornello. Without looking back she spoke to the siblings. "I'm sorry you two. But this is the only thing I can rely on."
"Good child."
"We forgive you Rose." Alphonse said.
"Well? How does it feel Cornello?" Elizabeth hissed. "How does it feel to deceive a little girl. To give her hope only to rip it away from her in the end." She said glaring up at Cornello.
He however ignored her. "Now," he said walking over towards a secret lever and pulling it down. "I will have to purge these heretics that threaten the future of my religion with haste."
A door opened and a clawed paw came into the light. It was followed by a lions head. It was frightening, but even more so that it's back belong to an whole other animal. Its hind legs were scaly and his tail was thick and long. "This philosopher's stone is a really impressive thing." The creature roared. "It can make things like this." Cornello said smugly. "Is this the first time you've seen a chimera? Hm?" he asked looking down on the girl.
"Well, it's a little hard to fight unarmed." She reached inside her coat
-click- BANG.
The beast fell down with a hole right between its brows. Elizabeth held a smoking gun daring the beast to stand up again. "WHAAAAA- Don't just shoot down my chimera. I worked really hard to achieve a chimera that wouldn't fall apart in a matter of days."
Elizabeth look up at Cornello unimpressed. She clapped her hands to gather and brought them down to the ground. The energy that surrounded her went into the ground and when she lifted her hand there was a portion missing from the ground and in her hand rested a newly formed sword.
"Why you!" Cornello said being shocked at the display of alchemy. "To transmute a weapon from the pavement without a transmutation circle… I see that state alchemist isn't just a fancy title. But that won't be enough."
A second chimera had emerged from, and had snuck upon Elizabeth not wanting to make the same mistake as his fallen kin. It took a swipe at her left leg with claws that were half a foot long. Elizabeth didn't have enough time to parry so the claws shredded her boot. She groaned. "ELIZABETH" Rose cried out fearing for the other girl.
"HAHAHA! HOW IS THAT! HOW DO CLAWS THAT CAN CUT THROUGH IRON FEEL!?" he boasted.
"You're going to pay for that." She hissed. "That was my favorite boot!" 'huh' was she paralyzed with fear that she couldn't think rationally. Why would any one in her situation be worried about a boot and not for their own live.
But as the onlookers waited the claws that the chimera had used suddenly broke. 'How could this be.' Cornello thought. "WHAT HAPPENED!? IF THE CLAWS WON'T WORK BITE HIM!" he yelled.
The chimera as if to listen to the command pounce on Elizabeth and sank its teeth in her right arm. There was no scream of pain. After a moment of waiting the chimera yelped in pain as if it had chewed on something his fangs couldn't crush.
"What's wrong, you stupid feline?" she said holding her arm up to glare up at the chimera. "Get a real good taste." And with that she kicked the chimera away from her revealing that al its teeth had broken off.
As the beast was kicked off it ripped the sleeve of Elizabeth's white jacket of. Underneath you couldn't see an arm made out of flesh and bones but out of metal.
Cornello was taken a back. "Artificial limbs of steel, 'automail'." He said as Elizabeth tore of the rest of her jacket. "Ah, I see now….. THE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!"
Elizabeth glared up at Cornello. "Now I'm angry. First, your beast rips open my favorite boot, then it ruins my jacket, and you are going to pay for that!" she said clenching her automail.
to be continued
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just a gentle reminder drink your milk and I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist (brotherhood)