Well here I am again. And this time with a brand new story YAY!! lol anyways, I plan to see a lot of reviews on this one. This ones my first Fullmetal Alchemist story and I'm already really proud of it. Here's the first chapter of Fire Starters. Enjoy!! Send me lots and lots of reviews!
Oh! And one more thing. I really need to thank my friend Amy-Chan for giving me the ideas for this story. She really helped me out of a writer's block. THANKS AMY!!
Disclaimer- I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist. Hiromu Arakawa owns all the characters, excluding the characters I made up. The only characters I own are Serena and the others I made up
It was late in the afternoon. Not a cloud was seen in the sky. Roy Mustang sighed heavily as he sat down on a bench in the courtyard of the military base in Central City. He looked up at the cloudless sky, a frown on his handsome face.
Colonel Roy Mustang was known as the Flame Alchemist, meaning that he could control fire with alchemy. Just by snapping his fingers, he could spark up fire either like a bomb or something else. This could only happen when he was wearing his special ignition cloth gloves of course. He had been promoted to Lt. Colonel for his efforts in the Ishbalan Rebellion, then to Colonel later on. He was a well-known State Alchemist.
"Damn this day is going to slow!" He said to himself as he stretched out his arms in front of him. "You're telling me." Said a voice behind him. It was Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes. Roy quickly turned his head. He chuckled and turned his head back around. "What are you doing out here Maes?"
"Well I thought I would take a break to get some fresh air." He said sitting down beside Roy on the bench. "What are you doing out here Roy? You trying to get away from doing paperwork again?" Roy blinked and looked right at him. "No I didn't OK?…Well, maybe I did, but the pile on my desk is so large! And anyways, I have better things to do with my time." Roy smiled and crossed his arms.
Maes laughed. "Yea right, like what? Read love notes, wash the windows, or sleep?" Roy looked stunned. His eyes were wide open. He opened his mouth to say a snappy comment back, but Maes quickly stopped him as he pulled out a picture of his daughter. "Oh Roy, I was just wondering if you had seen this new picture of Elicia that was taken a few days ago in front of our Christmas tree. As you can see, she's wearing a pretty red dress that she picked out all on her own!!" He held the picture up about an inch from Roy's face.
Roy groaned and pushed the picture away from his face. He glared at Maes, who had a big goofy smile on his face. Roy took a deep breath and said. "Maes, for the last and final time. Yes I-"
Before Roy could say anything else, there was a big explosion in the building nearest them. Roy quickly stood up with Maes. "Wasn't that from the Interrogation Room?" Said Maes, coughing from the smoke in the air from the explosion. Roy nodded and narrowed his eyes. "Yes it was if my calculations are correct. Come on, let's see what caused it." Roy quickly ran towards the large gaping hole in the wall. Maes followed after putting his picture of Elicia back in his pocket.
Roy stood at the wall. He knew something was up from the way the wall exploded like that. Maes panted from running. "Roy why aren't you-"
-Shhh! Shut up Maes!! - Whispered Roy as he pulled Maes towards the wall and away from the hole. Maes gulped and silently stood there against the wall.
Just then, there was the sound of a girl laughing. Roy blinked and hid himself more against the wall. A girl looking no older than 25 slowly stepped out of the hole. The girl had long black hair with the ends dyed red, orange, and yellow, like flames. She only stood 5'5". She was wearing a tight black t-shirt, black jeans and black boots. She was also wearing a long red coat with the ends scorched, as if it had caught fire recently. As Roy looked at her, he quickly put his gloves on. He looked at her hands; he saw that she was wearing black gloves. Roy's eyes got wide as he saw what symbol was on the top of her gloves.
On top of her glove was the infamous alchemy symbol of fire. Just like on Roy's white gloves. Maes saw this and took a throwing knife from his pocket. The girl smirked and dusted herself off; she quickly started running in the direction she was facing. That's when Roy took action. He ran after the girl.
When Roy was a short distance away, he aimed his hands down and snapped his fingers. That created a large ring of fire around him and the girl. Maes just missed almost getting scorched by the flames. He was still in the ring of fire though. The girl gasped and looked around, trying to find a way around the flames. She looked back at Roy and growled, her eyes narrowed.
Roy narrowed his eyes at her. "You're not getting away that easily." Roy said, the girl growled again. "If I kill you then I'll be able to get away easily!" The female ran at Roy, who quickly backed up and snapped his fingers. The area in front of the girl exploded. But then, the girl quickly ran out of the fire created by the explosion. Her right arm got singed from the blast. But, it was a minor injury. The female yelled out and snapped her fingers on both of her hands. This created an even bigger explosion right in front of Roy, which it knocked him off of his feet.
Roy grunted and landed on his side hard on the ground. He rolled on his back and lay there stunned. All he could see was stars in front of his eyes. Around that time, the girl was running towards where the fire was disappearing from the ring Roy had made, leaving an opening. Roy groaned and slowly sat up. He growled and aimed his fingers right at her back.
Roy snapped his fingers and the spark traveled through the air. It missed her back and it hit the ground right in front of her. The ground exploded and the girl screamed out as she went flying back. Maes ran towards her and caught her before she hit the ground. Roy slowly got to his feet. Maes looked down at the girl, the girl had her eyes closed and she looked pretty beaten up from Roy's blast. Maes checked her pulse. "Well, she's unconscious. But she'll live" Said Maes as he picked her up.
The Flame Alchemist looked behind him and saw 3 military soldiers running towards the area. The one in the lead stopped right in front of Roy. "Colonel Mustang, we saw everything. It's a good thing you stalled her when you did, or we would never have found her." The soldier saluted Roy, and he returned the salute. "Do you know why she ran though?"
"Yes sir, we were questioning her about the murder of her parents, Kiana and Raymond Kimoto." Maes turned to them; the girl was draped over his shoulder. "Wait, your talking about the Kimoto Murders? I thought that case was closed 15 years ago!" Said Maes as he fixed his glasses. "The case was closed, but no one was charged with the crime. It was reopened due to new evidence. We found that they were killed due to an alchemic explosion. We knew that General Kimoto was a skilled fire alchemist and we originally thought it was an accident. But we found out that his black ignition cloth gloves were missing from the remains of their house."
"Wait a minute! So you're telling me that this girl killed the Kimoto's?" Asked Maes looking from the soldier to the girl. The man nodded. "Yes, she did. She has her fathers' gloves on right now as you can see. And the Colonel here has seen her use them recently, as we saw earlier. Hell, she's used them on us too!" The man pointed to the hole in the building that the girl had escaped from.
Roy blinked and looked at the soldiers. The soldiers did look a little beaten up. The soldier that was talking to Roy, his uniform was still smoking from the blast. He then looked back at the girl. "So that girl created all of this chaos. What's her name?"
"Serena Kimoto, the late Rolling Fire Alchemist's daughter." Roy gulped and nodded. "I see, well, let's get her some medical attention. Then when she wakes up I'll question her, myself." The soldier nodded. "Yes sir, but don't you think that we should be the ones to question her?"
"If you try to question her again, you might not make it out alive. It would be better if an experienced alchemist is there who knows what she is capable of." The soldier nodded. "Ok Colonel, but we will accompany you and Lieutenant Colonel Hughes to the Infirmary." Roy nodded and slowly started to walk towards the entrance into the building. Maes and the 3 soldiers following close behind him.
Well I hope you all liked the first chapter. Send me lots and lots of reviews -smiles- and ill get the 2nd chapter up as soon as possible. Cya lata!!