::Hello readers! I will try to post something before each chapter. Full Metal Elizabeth. This is ment to take place as the same time as the movie, Full Metal Alchemist Connqueror of Shamballa, about a year before Edward has met Noah and the time when the movie takes palce. (So as in the movie Ed is 18, he is only 17 in this story.) If anyone has any more questions, just let me know. Enjoy!::

"Elizabeth! We have to leave now!"

The smell of smoke and burning wood covered the small room. Looking out the glass window that look out of the small city; the glow of flames covered each house and building. Her eyes didn't leave the flames. Why was this happening?

"Elizabeth! If we don't leave now we will die!"

Her eyes looked away from the window and up at her brother that stood above her. Ripping the bed sheets off herself, Elizabeth put her feet in her shoes and picked up a small book that layed under her bed. Taking her brothers hand, she watched as he pulled open her bedroom door and flew down the stairs. As she walked past the kitchen in the house she could see the room had already started to break into flames. Elizabeth soon felt her brother pulling her arm as he moved out of the house and onto the city streets. Each building was in flames, windows shamed and glass covering the road of the city. The sound of people screaming and crying was heard everywhere. Smoke filled the air, making it hard to breath as she ran beside her brother from their house; she would turn to look back at the house as they ran, seeing each window now full of flames.

Moving her legs as fast as her body could carry her, Elizabeth soon started to hear the sounds of gun shots. Her eyes looked up at her brother after she heard them; his face looked full of worry. Before Elizabeth could think, she was lifted off the ground and onto her brother's back. Hugging her arms around her brother's neck, Elizabeth closed her eyes and prayed that they would make it out of this Hell alive. Feeling her brother stop in his steps, Elizabeth opened her eyes to see they were standing in front of Meg and Beth's house. Meg was Elizabeth's cousin and best friend, someone Elizabeth could always go to when she wanted someone to play with or talk to. Watching her brother open the door to the house, then sat her back in the ground. Elizabeth could see that her Aunt's house hadn't gone up in flames yet, but she could smell smoke as she moved more through it.

"Aunt Beth! Where are you?" She heard her brother calling out as he started up the stairs. Slowing fallowing after him, Elizabeth could feel the heat of the flames as they moved closer to the second floor. Making her way to Meg's room, the smell of smoke filling her nose as she grew closer.

"Meg?" Elizabeth's eyes stopped on a body of a brown haired girl laying on the floor. Walking more into the room, she could see Meg wasn't breathing. Her eyes soon spotted that Meg was laying in a pool of blood. Covering her hand over her mouth, trying to hold back screams, Elizabeth ran out of Meg's room, soon running into her brother. He held the hand of her Aunt Beth; looking into Beth's eyes, she could see her Aunt looked scared.

"Elizabeth…" Her brother began, but was soon cut off but his sister's cries.

"Meg is…"

"Yes, I know. We have to hurry!"

He took hold of her hand as well and started down the stairs and out of the house. Running as fast as she could, they soon started out of the city, making their way to a group of other people that had left as well. Looking back at the city in flames, Elizabeth could feel warm tears cut down her cheeks. This was Hell, everything she had was gone, even her best friend. Hugging her arms around her brother's waist, she covered her face in his shirt. What could they do now?

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Seated on a padded bench, Elizabeth looked out the window of the train, watching people caring bags and boxes. In her mind held the memories of everything that had happened a week ago. The sound of people crying, the flames in the streets; she had a feeling those feeling were never going to leave her. Her eyes looked away from the window as a tall young man with dirty blonde hair sat down on the bench across from her, his light blue eyes looking at her.

"Elizabeth, just think of this as a start of a new life."

Elizabeth sighed and nodded, she knew Ben, her brother, was right. They had held many hard times in their life. From the lost of their mother and father; and now their home and city. Elizabeth never got to meet her mother, as her mom had died during the birth of her. But from the stories that Ben told about her, Elizabeth knew she had been an amazing woman. The only memories that she had of her mom was a small book that she had saved in the fire; the book held many photos and poems that her mother had wrote. Their father was someone Elizabeth wished she could have never had to say good bye to. To her, he was a charming man, always being there to help their family and teach her and her brother everything in life. But sadly, the evil war that had taken over half of the world had taken her father away from them. Elizabeth felt that her father was in her brother though, as he looked so much like their father and Ben took care of her like their father had.

Feeling the train start to move, her blue eyes looked back out the window as the world started to move. Ben thought it would be best to leave their home in Ireland and join their Aunt Beth in Germany. Beth had left a couple of days ago to stay with a friend of hers that had a farm house that she could stay in. She had told Ben and Elizabeth that they should come stay with her as they didn't have a home anymore. Ben started to get excited about moving to Germany, so he could find a job. He had heard from many people before that a group of workers in Germany had been working on a rocket. Elizabeth remembered when Ben had heard about this thing called a rocket. It was said that it could fly in the air and take you out into space to many places. She has always wondered what was out in space, as if there was another world there. Elizabeth had always dreamed of there being another world somewhere. A world where everything was like it was where she lived, but more clam and safer. Maybe this world she dreamed of had magic or something that no one around in her world could do. Ben would always tell Elizabeth that she had her head in a fairytale, as there was no place in the world that was like what she wished for.

Closing her eyes as the train ride started to make her feel sleepy. Every time Elizabeth would ride on a train or in an auto car, she would start to grow tired. It felt like she had only had her eyes shut for a second, but soon felt her brother rubbing her shoulder and telling her to wake up that they where in Germany. Looking out the train window, she could see that the sun was starting to set and the sky was growing dark. Following Ben off the train, her eyes soon spotted her Aunt Beth waiting for them by the train.

"How was your ride?" She asked them, taking hold of one of the suitcases Ben held.

"Oh, it was nice. But Elizabeth slept through most of it." He said, looking at his sister after he spoke. Elizabeth grinned some at her brother as she started to follow her Aunt away from the train and down a dirt road.

The walk away from the train didn't take too long, as Elizabeth soon found herself standing in front of a large farm house. Walking with her brother and aunt up the front porch stairs, she soon entered the house and was lead to a room not too far down the hall where she would be staying at. The room was small, but it was something she could get used to; it had a bed and place to put her clothes, so it wasn't too bad. Watching her brother sit her suitcase on the floor of her new room, he turned to look at her and smile.

"Elizabeth, I will be in the room across from yours if you need me."

Nodding after he spoke, she soon watched her brother leave her room and walk down the hall. Seating herself on the bed that sat by a window in the room, Elizabeth took off her shoes and looked out at the city that sat not too far from the house from the window. This place was her home now. Elizabeth had only lived in one house her whole life and the same city as well. But like her brother had said, this was the start of a new life. Tomorrow she would go into town and see what it held for her.