Chapter One: On To Central
The day was sunny and a girl with brown shoulder length hair and hazel green eyes was busy packing her clothes and other small items. This was the day she was to leave and go for the alchemy exams in Central. This girl has been living with some friends since the death of her mother. This girl's name was Teresa but she liked to be called Arwen. Teresa packed up her alchemy books and notes that she had aquried since the day she and family moved to the small town of Alma.
Here Arwen stayed until the day her mother died is when she moved to her friend's house to stay. The day finally came when she was to go to Central to take her exams. Arwen went down the stairs with her three bags. Two bags were huge since they held her clothes and small items. The last bag held nothing but her alchemy books and notes. Seh saw her two friends sitting in the living room. One of her friends was a male with short brown messy hair. He wore coke bottle thick glasses and was on the skinny side but he had emmense strength. The other friend of hers had the same length of hair as she did and the same green eyes. She too had emmense strength even though she doesn't use it that much.
" Well guys I'm leaving." Arwen said to her friends. The girl friend rose out of her seat and hugged her. " We're gonna miss you Arwen." she said. " I'll miss you as well. I bet you're not going to miss Beth are you?" Arwen asked her friend. " We're not going to miss pixie that much." replied her friend. " Just as I thought." Arwen said opening the door to head out. " Well, see you two when I pass." Arwen said as she stepped out to meet Beth at the station.
At the station a girl with long brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing a pair of blue jeans and a white t shirt. Was standing at the platform waiting for someone. This girl's name was Beth. Beth is to go to Central to participate in the alchemy exams as well. She started to learn it when she meet Arwen a couple of years ago. " What could be taking her so long?" Beth asked herself.
Beth saw a figure coming through the doors of the station carring what seemed to her big black bulges on it. After the figure emerged through the doors Beth saw that it was Arwen. Arwen let the train workers take her bags of clothes to the luggage car while she kept the bag of alchemy books by her side. Arwen walked towrds Beth looking exhausted. " What did you bring? Bags of bricks?" asked Beth.
" No just my clothes, a few sketch books with charcoal, and all my alchemy books and notes." Arwen answered. " Well let's get onto the train before it leaves us." Beth responded heading to the train's compartments. Arwen followed her and sat next to the window opposite to her friend.
Once the train started to head north Beth began to hum songs and remembering the things she learned. Arwen opened one of her advanced alchemy books. " Why do you keep reading those books? I thought you memreized those things the way you keep reciting the passages word for word." Beth said. " I like to read you know that. I've only memorized the basic and modereate alchemic books. The advanced ones I just only got two days ago and I hadn't had a chance to read either of them." Arwen answered a little irritated at Beth's questions. That only shut her up for an hour until she fell asleep.
While Beth slept and Arwen read a man was in a military building in Central was getting ready to greet two people who were to come for the exams. " Lets see only three people to take them." said the man to himself. he looked up to see three people in his office. One was tall and very built with a blonde curly cue on top of his head which was bald. He wore a blue uniform and had light blue eyes. His name was Major Alex Louis Armstrong. One other man had short black hair with what looked like a cowlick on his head. This man wore glasses and the same blue uniform as well and his name was Luteinanet Colonel Hughes.
The last man in the room was short and had blond hair in a braided ponytail. He wore a red coat over an all black outfit. He looked irritated and wanted to leave. his name was Edward Elric the Fullmetal alchemist as he is known. The man who sat in front of them named Roy smiled and placed his chin on his hands. " Two people for the exams are coming and are going to need to stay with someone to study for the exams in the next coming two months. The reason I have asked you three in here is to see who would be up to it. They will be arriving here soon and once you meet both or one of them base your decsions to let them stay with you or not." Roy said to those in his office.
" Why in the hell do we have to Roy! Why can't you find someone else to!" answered Ed. " Well fullmetal some of the other state alchemists are gone on missions or were killed by Scar." Roy said. " Now prepare for their arrival. I will ask you to follow me to the station. I say they should be here in a few minutes."said Roy as he got up to go to the station " Yes sir." said Armstrong and Hughes as they saluted. Ed semi saluted although Roy didn't notice.
On the train Beth and Arwen were getting ready to get of the train to meet the Colonel. " What do you think the Colonel's going to look like?" asked Beth getting over excited about the whole meeting. " I don't know I just hope he's nice." ansewered Arwen. " I hope he's drop dead gorgeous! I wonder if he has dark hair and if he's the tall dark and handsome type of person..." went on Beth as the trian stopped and she began to get off. " You and your silly fantasies." Arwen said as she rolled her eyes.