Yes, yes I know, I said I was doing a bunch of other stories but I'm feeling for something else write now, plus I'm still working on it, it ain't easy after getting a 3 month notice neh? lol anyways, This is a ling yao story as everyone can plainly see hehe! And! This is only the first chapter, a prologue if you will like the Greed story, but the next one is full of Ling so tell me what you think & I'll keep going with it...I know there are probably some errors & stuff & it may sound alittle depressing & corny, but like we say 'what's a story without conflict?'
Disclaimer (as always): I don't own FMA or the Brotherhood, although I have seen both the old one from 2003 & the current one starting in 2009 I believe is what I read...I'm not sure don't quote me or anything lol, I just like the anime itself! Now if only I could get my hands on the manga...I only own I think book...14? It's the one where Ling accepts Greed and all that...you know! Anyways! Enough talking from me! On with the show!
To those waiting for the Greed chapter it should be out today or tomorrow if you're still looking forward to it, & Kimblee's lemon is finally finished! So enjoy! =3
Chapter I : Wonderland
"It's been raining for the past week now, when is this crap going let up? I'd like to go back to school or something eventually. I'm starting to loose my mind being stuck in the same house all day…" Janelle muttered to herself as she packed up her back pack for tomorrow nights sleep over.
Her & her friend, Molly, were tired of waiting for the rain to stop, and decided that for the entire weekend they were just going to stay with one another, knowing that the weather man had implied that the rainy weather would finally calm down sometime in the next few days. But really who knew, mother nature worked in mysterious ways, yet! None the less, & needless to say, Janelle was tried of being at home…Alone.
Her family had gone out on a trip to Modesto to visit some old friends her & her mother had grown up with, but since her mother never really gave her the invitation to come along for the ride, Janelle figured she stay home & enjoy some anime in peace for once. Now that her two annoying brothers were out of the house, it was tranquil for once in her little world. She couldn't help but snort at the thought of them terrorizing her room while she would be at school trying to get her grades up in Science, & everything else she seemed to be falling behind in.
It wasn't her fault! After finally dealing with her ex-boyfriend, & his habits of trying to hold her as property, etc. She could finally focus on the things that really mattered…Her studies & stories she liked to write. Those two things, & besides the only friend she had in the world were the only hobbies she had to keep her occupied with the rest of the world around her…
Truthfully she hated the world she lived in, people were fakes, wars were occurring every couple of years & for the stupidest reasons…People were starving & no one wanted to help. Yeah, sure there were shelters, & things, but no one bothered to even helped themselves. They were all too much of scared, selfish, manipulative, fake bastards that only befriended you if you had something to give. In Janelle's case, everything. She was too damn nice, honestly. She always tried to make everyone else happy, except herself.
Molly, no matter how many times she'd say it, tried her best to ease her friends pain, but the truth behind the brunette's sorrows ran so deep not even her only friend could touch that part of her heart & soul….It hurt too much to talk about it.
Her past, the friends she thought she had, & everything else she could find to cake on top of her dimming heart just seemed to make her more & more numb inside.
Secretly, and childishly (She knew it too), all Janelle wanted to do was jump into the T.V. & fall into another world to escape her own… Even if it meant leaving her family behind…
It was that bad, but she would never tell anyone that; she just dreamed it, & that made her smile enough each day to escape her reality with daydreaming…
But, coming back to reality, Janelle plopped down on the futon in her room & sighed bored as she looked up at the T.V.
She was watching Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood, Volume 2.
She wasn't sure what episode it was but who could keep count after watching them over a couple of times in the last couple months…It was the episode where Ling Yao had been introduced into the story, chatting amongst the two brother's about his journey from Xing.
Jane couldn't help but stifle her soft giggle when Edward & Al became mind boggled by this, & asked him what he crossed the desert for…
Then her heart jumped when they did a close up of Ling's face, "I've come to find…Immortality."
She couldn't even look at the T.V. She felt silly, he was a cartoon character! But he was a hot anime cartoon character… Damn Arikawa for making his anime characters hot!
She laughed even more at her thoughts racing, but continued with her packing once again, as she listened to the show carry on with the combat between the Brothers & Ling's bodyguards. Lan Fan & Fu….
"Toothbrush…Toothpaste… Brush, Underwear…Bra…Socks…Extras clothes…What am I missing? I've got my homework assignments in here too, ha! Like I'm gonna do it when I'm over there, but oh well…Mp3's in here too…My gum…I…Pretty much got everything to go camping if I wanted to! Ha, ha."
With a loud zip of her overly bundled back pack, she sighed with relief after her check list was complete, & reached for her cell phone to see if Molly wanted her to bring any food or money to the house.
She buttoned in her text…And waited for a response.
When one didn't come, she figured Molly had already fallen asleep since it was like, what?
…12:00am?
Yeah, it was midnight. Janell could never sleep alone, & with all the emotional distress she had been enduring within the last week, sleep was a luxury at this point.
"Hmm, oh well. She'll text me tomorrow…" She yawned, physically tired if anything, & rubbed her face upwards till she ruffled the top of her head wondering if a shower would be adequate at this point before hitting the hay.
My back has been killing me... Fucking sciatica Eh, I guess a shower sounds good…
She then looked towards her Emerson made television again; she was surprised to see how much she had been pondering & packing now, she had somehow mindlessly changed out to the second disc.
This time, she came to find the scene had already come up to the point where Edward had returned from his trip to Resembol, finding out that Alphonse can truly get his body back! Ling was sitting out in the hallway with a furrowed brow on his face after kicked him out of the room, which again, the girl's couldn't help but smile.
Why she couldn't stop smiling was beyond her & her control.
But after finding out the truth about Alphonse's body, the scene had come to the escape from Gluttony, & Envy after the brother's, Ling & Roy had attempted to hide away in Roy's cabin out in Central's forest, now that their hideout was destroyed Ling, Edward & Alphonse were all heading out into the forest to mislead the Homunculi away from Lan Fan, Roy & the secretly warm hearted doctor that came to their rescue…Especially Lan Fan with the act of cutting off her own arm…
She was so savage!
Janelle shrugged knowing that she didn't want to miss the rest of the disc & pushed the pause button as she walked past her T.V. to stroll into her bathroom.
It was small, but cozy, & it was never too much for her to handle when it came to keeping it clean & tidy. That's how she liked it, damn it!
Curse those brats… She smiled, a little sarcastically at the thought of the two rug rats known as her brothers again, but quickly pushed it away as she removed her clothes & jumped into the heated shower awaiting her.
She wasn't going to let anything stress her out. Even the smallest of things. It wasn't like she hated her brothers, it was just…Well, they were her brothers! The middle child, Kota, was a down right into himself, snotty, loud, bossy, bully arrogant little prick that Janelle wanted to bitch smack him back to his senses.
But every time Janelle tried putting her foot down, their mother always gave some new excuse about their father now being around…
Whether true or not though, Janelle found that no reason to act the way he did…mean…
For the other, he wasn't so bad…He was the youngest, Shinta. He was the hyper one, & always all over the place. He was also the only that usually left the mess in places & then blamed his brother for it. Considering Jane could actually with stand him, was enough to say that she really did sympathize with him as well.
Besides her being the black sheep in her family, Shinta was the second to be black sheep when it came to attention. He deserved the most since he was the youngest, but her mother, was a skeptical one.
It reminded Janelle of nothing more than those fakes & flakes she use to hang out with, so when it came to sympathy for her mother…There was none…
Not a trace…
The history they shared could've had been called a lot of things…
Betrayal…Would be the most accurate word to use.
What most people have with their mothers is trust, love, compassion, comfort, & safety…
Jane had none of those…
And even if her mother were to say she did have those… Their were no honesty in her words…
She never knew she could hate her mother so…
Oh, damn she was suppose to be relaxing! She felt stupid again, giving into the emotion of rage & hate again. She the worse thing was she hated feeling so bitter, she wanted nothing more than to be happy…
She never expected anything to be perfect, but her life, it felt like chance was taking one failure after another to screw her over…She never had a good hand to play with…! God never gave her one! Ha! That was a laugh! God! What a bunch of bull crap she thought again amused before laughing softly under the fall of warm water stinging her once chilled skin & aching bones.
There was nothing like a nice hot shower to relax the body, mind & soul…
Nothing…
About an another hour passed before the girl finally walked out in her long sleeve silk blue Pajama's while drying her soaked with her towel, & with another touch of the DVD's play button the show un-paused itself, & continued on where it she had left it.
Janelle sighed tiredly sitting on the bed now that she was finally feeling the weight of sleep weigh on her eye lids & the sense of calmness over take her form…
Maybe I should just finish it in the morning…I'm not leaving until noon…
That quick thought process gave Janie the body power to lift herself up off the bed again, only to be startled by the lightening booming and clashing just outside her window…
It was so close her ear drums popped at the sound of its crackle at the ground outside her home. Her body couldn't stop shaking from the sudden jolt, but none the less she laughed out of relief & cupped her hand over her heart…
"Jesus, scared the crap out of me…." She breathed weakly before grabbing her back pack roughly out of spite in the process to sit it down in front of her door for the morning…
But when she decided to reach for the player to stop the DVD player…Another strike of lightening hit…
This time it hit the electrical box just outside her house …
Now, in most cases you'd think the lights would've just gone out & Janelle would've been left in the dark until the next morning.
But that wasn't the case…
Oh no, no, no. This was something straight out of a poltergeist!
The minute that lightening hit the electrical box, the energy within the cord back fired the electricity back into the girl's DVD player, causing an electrical charge around Janelle & her DVD player…
Then…The light consumed more…It brightened the room till it was nothing but in a total white void…
"Wha-What the…Holy hell…" Janelle's eyes widened in shock & fear, not knowing whether she was about to feel a volt of electricity through her or whether she was about to die from the shock of the electric storm, but suddenly…
In that moment….
Somehow, someway…
She began to deconstruct into thin air.
"Oh fuck!" She didn't even have time to react, she was too scared of what was happening!
Was this really happening?
Did she fall asleep in the shower?
Dear God, what the fuck in all mighty hell was happening to her?
With a soft gasp into the air, the back pack, the DVD player, & Janelle disappeared from the world of reality, & imploded into nothing…
At least…That's what she thought…
Her eyes closed shut just in time to open them back up at the sound of nothingness…
Again it was nothing but a white void that she stood on. There was no more rain, no room, no nothing!
Except…For a very familiar, enormous door…
"No fucking way…" She muttered in a shaky voice.
Her mind was going to fast, & she didn't want to believe, or more rather, she couldn't believe was in front of her…
It was the same door in the show…
The Gate of Truth…
"So, a new comer, eh? How exciting…"
That voice…Is that…? It can't be…This world isn't real…It can't be real…
Janelle didn't want to turn around…She knew exactly who it was, & feared in believing what was going on around her .
She had to believe she was dead; but then again, how could she be in front of 'truth' itself if that were the case?
"Hi-ya…" He chuckled smoothly, grinning…
"Truth?" She asked quietly only getting the shadow to tilt his head with a frown of curiousness…
Then he grin widen even more, "Ha, so, you know who I am already…That's good…I take it you want to trade?"
"…" There was nothing she could really say, she couldn't speak or think right for that matter, & when the sound of creaking began to quake beneath her feet, Janelle knew that could only mean one thing…
She looked down at her hands, her pupils widened at the new discovery of her peach colored skin & the weird black outlining of her body…
Oh god…I'm-,…I'm a-, The corner of her eyes began to surface of salt water as she slowly turned herself to the opened door of truth now, she nothing but the vast emptiness it withheld before the snake like hands began to wrap around her with ease.
The echoes of the doors childish voices slowly volume into innocent giggles as the hands grabbed onto Janelle body & face, again deconstructing her it pulled her into its opening…
"W-Wait! I haven't told you what I wanted to give you!" She panicked. She was hoping she'd be able to pick what truth could take in exchange, but the shadow sitting before her, merely grinned happily, laughing at her.
"But dear alchemist…You have already given me something…" Janelle was confused, & at the same time scared, knowing that when she would reach the other side of whatever hell hole she would come out of, she would be missing something.
When the doors finally closed before her eyes, the realm of emptiness began to spin with vast amounts of knowledge…
Knowledge she had never even heard of or comprehend, & meshed in with the information trying to expanding her weakening mind, were the dear memories of her world…Of her past, of everything she knew…
Then, her world fell numb and blank before a spark of a bright light exploded before her eyes and with in seconds, Janelle began to sense she was falling out of bubble of emptiness she once floated within.
She gasped feeling the drop in her stomach as the light below her began to glitter like a distant star…The further at first until she fell even closer into the light, until the light brightened with spark that resembles a big bang effect.
She was beginning to hear talking & almost a full on conversation the brighter her world became, & within seconds of finally coming face to face with the light.
Janelle felt like she was falling through a thin layer of plastic wrap when she hit the bottom of this new portal & within seconds, she collapsed on top of something soft, & warm which made an odd yelping noise when she made contact on it.
Her world was spinning, she hadn't even opened her eyes from the soreness they had endured from the halogen light that nearly blinded her to death! She couldn't even tell where she was, her vision was just that blurry and before she could focus in on anything or anyone, something hit her right on the side of the head causing her to fall back into darkness…
"Edward!"
"Owe…What the hell fell on me…? Eh… Alphonse?"
"No! It wasn't me Brother… I swear! Are you alright?"
"I don't know, I think so...Who the hell is this?"
"What's going on in here?"
"Ling...! Give us a hand, will ya?"
"This girl...She just transmuted out of the ceiling!"
"What..."
Next - Chapter II: It Be That Of An Angel, Or Not
A new world opens up for this mysteriuos girl who fell from heaven
And with a fresh start the girl must find her place in the new world in order to fit in
But when the others show her the one thing she's been searching for...
Will she be able to trust the mysterious boy that can sense her ripples of troubles?
Or is it merely a cheap attempt to get information to the unknown?
I hope you all like that, I tried my best to make it as interesting as possible, without over doing, it, & let me just tell you, like I said before, Ling Yao will be presented in the next...So until then!
Bye Bye!
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