Prologue
My head is screaming to turn around and not care what happens. My heart says to go in and show them what I can do. So I follow Colonel Mustang into the room. It was large and tall. I felt as if I was going to turn into a speck of dust in that room. I was just one of many alchemists who had gone there to prove themselves military worthy just as I wanted to.
"Do you need anything to draw a transmutation circle with?" a man in a military outfit asked me.
"No, I don't but thank you very much," I said with a smile, "I have one."
I took off my white glove to reveal a transmutation circle with a lightning bolt in the center on the back of my pale white hand.
"Are you ready Miss Adams?" said Colonel Mustang, the man I have looked up to for so many years as a military state alchemist.
"Yes I am sir," I said feeling the fear bubble inside me.
I step up to the grey cement floor and give a heavy sigh.
"Can we take this test outside? I don't want to blow anything up," I said trying not to be scared.
"Miss Adams we cannot. Begin when you are ready," says the Colonel.
"Whatever you say sir,"
I rub my hands together as my mother showed me. I take the position and aim right above the Amsteris flag. I let the fear go right into the lightning as it shoots out like a white-blue rocket. The military men look awestruck as I lower my hand and push my dark red-brown hair out of my face.
"I am not done yet sir," I said with a smile.
All the fear fizzed away; I am content with my alchemy. I want to show them something of my highest ability. I want to show them the falling star.
I clap my hands again. Blue lightning surges between them. I wound it into a ball and release it to about 10 meters off the ground. The military officers around me looked unimpressed. Then I hit the ball with another bolt making it explode sending millions of sparks all over the room to reveal lightning in the rest of the harmless explosion. There are 6 bolts suspended around the still hanging ball. The bolts spin, the men watch as I strike a lightning bolt to the floor so powerful it propels me up about 25 meters, and with another crack of lightning, the sparks of the lightning fly all over looking like millions of tiny stars.
"Whoa, that is really impressive!" I hear an officer say.
"Congratulations Miss Catelin Adams, you are officially a state alchemist," a man says from in front of me. My bangs obscure my face and I cannot tell who is addressing me.
"Thank you sir…"
"Füher King President Bradley."
"Oh I'm so sorry sir," I said bowing my head.
"Don't be embarrassed Miss Adams that hair of yours was in the way. Besides, you are a state alchemist now. You also get this," he hands me a silver pocket watch with the familiar lion that is on the Amestris flag, "and a title that is fit of your abilities. From now on, you will now be known as the Lighting Alchemist."
"Thank you sir! I will not let any of you down!" I said holding the watch to my heart.
I had finally done it! I was a state alchemist as my mother had always talked about when she was teaching me. I salute to the Colonel and walked home to my home in right there in Central City.