I looked over to my younger brother; Ed. His hair was messy, and the all too familiar cowlick was ever present on his head. He looked slightly afraid, but I smiled broadly at him, erasing some of his fear.

"You ready Ed?" I asked, giving another smile, Ed seemed unsure for a moment, as he didn't answer, but eventually nodded his head ever so slowly.

"Are you sure this is ok? We're breaking Alchemy's biggest sin." Ed brushed a small golden bang from his equally golden eyes. Giving a frown, I turned my attention back to the supplies, counting them off in my head. "Haru?" I glanced briefly at him, before answering;

"Human transmutation is forbidden because people were to scared to do it, but we're not, we'll bring mom back, and everything will be how it was, ok Ed?" I walked over to my younger brother, and tackled him in a hug, he seemed to fidget under it, but soon relaxed, and hugged me back.

"Alright, I trust you Haru."

That's me; my name is Haruhi Elric, or Haru for short. I have chocolate brown eyes and brown hair, really different from my brothers gold eyes and blond hair, so I can easily see how people don't believe us when we say we're siblings. Im a year older than Ed, and I have long hair tied back into a small ponytail. Ed's hair is scraggily, as if he just got out of bed, and didn't bother to brush. Also, I take more from mom's side with the genes, and Ed with our bastard of a father.

"Of course you can trust me, when have I led you wrong?" Ed opened his moth to speak, but I put a finger to his lips. "Wait, don't answer that, but this time you can trust me with your life" A smile appeared on my face once more. If only I had known what my words would mean back then.

"Done" I bit down on my pencils tip as I looked over to the table full of supplies once more.

"Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms; ammonia, 4 liters; lime, 1.5 kilograms; phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams; saltpeter, 100 grams; sulfur, 80 grams; fluorine, 7.5 grams; iron, 5 grams; silicon, 3 grams…"

I added each of the measurements into the small box in the middle of the transmutation circle, I nodded to Ed, who left for a second, before returning with a knife.
"Now, we just need some soul data." I muttered, I used the knife to cut my finger lightly, pooling the dripping blood into the box, before handing the knife to Ed, who did the same thing, except he flinched when the knife made contact with his skin.

"Here we go, Ed." I watched as he dripped the last of his blood into the box, before joining me at the end of the transmutation circle. We clapped our hands and slammed them down.

I watched in awe as the materials seemed to climb up, and the blue cackle of transmutation energy filled the air. Giving a smile, I turned to Ed, who smiled back. Until, the blue lightning turned into a sinister purple.

"Sister, what's going on?" Ed glanced around nervously, and so did I, I gasped when I saw what it was.

"Its a rebound!" I looked all around, but I heard the frighten cries of my brother, and my head whipped over towards him.

"Sister! Haru! Please!" I gasped, I watched as Ed started to deconstruction before my eyes, I tried to reach for him, but I fell, looking back at my legs, I noticed how little black hands had grabbed hold of it, breaking down my matter.

"Ed!" I called one last time, before I noticed I was somewhere else. Looking around, I saw nobody, not even a trace of a human,the whole place was white as snow. But that didn't matter; I started racking my brain to remember what I was doing before this. "Huh? What was I doing..." I squinted my face in confusion.

"Hey!" A voice called, I looked over to my left to see a sillowet of a man, he didn't have a face, but yet there was a mouth.

"..Who are you? Do you know where I am?" The man seemed to light up as I asked my questions.

"Ah! Im so glad you asked! I am what you call the world. Or perhaps the universe, or perhaps God, or perhaps truth, or perhaps all, or perhaps one, and I am also… you. As for where you are; you are in my domain you ignorant fool. "

A loud sound of doors opening came from behind me; I quickly turned, just in time to see the black hands grab me. I let out a scream, as I struggled to get away.

"Pipe down, isn't this what you wanted, right al-che-mest?" Truth gave a toothy grin at me. I screamed once more before the gates closed.

I watched every piece of information that passed by me, it felt as though my head would split open, I even screamed, saying that it hurts. But it soon became clear to me; the truth of everything, I knew it.

"M-mom?" I saw a sillout of a woman, and I knew that is was my mother. I reached out towards her, only to be denied, and sent right back to the front of the gate. I looked around me, and truth was still there, sitting peacefully, his legs crossed.

"How was it?" He asked curiously, leaning forward with much interest.

"Great, I learned that the theory of human transmutation wasn't wrong, I just need to seek a little further" I placed a hand on the gate, then I turned to truth, grinning. "Please! Show it to me again!"

The truth seemed slightly.. smug, as he talked "I cant, I can only show you this much for the toll you paid for." I raised an eyebrow

"Toll?"

"Yes, toll" The truth stood up and started walking towards me, one of his legs becoming human like, and one of mine braking off, I tried to scream, but truth was right in front of me, silencing anything I wanted to say

" Its equivalent exchange, right young alchemist?" His grin was inhumanly big, showing me his white teeth.

Suddenly I was pulled back into reality, and my leg hurted like nothing I ever felt like before, taking a quick glance, I noticed how I had no leg. "DAMN IT! this cant be happening!" I looked around for Edward, his clothes were scattered across the ground.

"It wasn't- It wasn't supposed to be this way! Help! Somebody please..." I heard moaning not far ahead of, I looked and I saw moms arm through the smoke "Mom! please help!" the smoke cleared, and what I saw... wasn't human.

"No, no no! This is wrong! This isn't what we wanted!" I looked around the room, my yelling slightly muffled by the chocked sobs. "Ed, Edward please!" I staggered over towards a suit of armor, nocking its head down, I began to yell;

"Give him back! He's my brother! Take my leg! Take my arm! Take my heart! You can have it! So, give him back! He's my only brother!"

I clapped my hands