Two brothers walked into an office and faced a man with raven hair that rivaled his eyes. The man gave the elder brother a packet of paper and watched them sit on the couch in front of his rather cluttered desk.
"Your assignment today is to go to Ginshale and meet another State Alchemist. Bring her back here and I'll explain everything else then."
The blonde looked through the packet and muttered some things to himself about the alchemist. "Shina Fekir. Lightning Shard Alchemist. Nineteen years old...same age as me." He stopped when he reached a page with a picture on it. It captured the image of a girl with knife-like green eyes and a frowning expression. Chestnut-brown hair framed her face and fell past her shoulder blades.
"When do we leave?" the elder brother asked, taking his eyes off of the girl in the picture.
"There's a train leaving in thirty minutes and another on leaving an hour after that. You can take either one. Take that packet with you; it may be of some use to you. That is all!"
The brothers turned their backs to the colonel and stalked out of the room. "Oh wait. I almost forgot. You won't be alone; she lives with her younger sister. I'm not exactly sure what her name is, though…Anyways, you may go now."
Just as the brothers left to military headquarters, the younger one asked, "Brother, what do you think she's like? I mean, do you think she'll be nice or what?"
The blonde alchemist turned around to face his seven-foot tall suit of armor for a brother. "I don't know, Al. But I do know this: Mustang's probably gonna make us work with her. So let's hope that she's decently nice and that she's not a jerk or anything." With that, the Elric brothers headed towards the Central train station, not knowing exactly what lay ahead of them.