Chapter 1 - Confrontation
it was fair time in the Country of Amestris after the defeat of the evil that is Father, during this, Edward and Alphonse Elric were considered Royalty because of their noble efforts
So, one day Edward Elric was hanging around Resimbool with his brother Alphonse.
"Hey, Al, go over and look for something for Winry for me, will you?"
The older Elric asked his kin; Edward ran off, leaving Al in his wake, to go with the nausious task of picking out a present for Winry in celebration of gaining their bodies back and their final admittance of love in the most awkward of fashions.
Edward was walking around the stalls, browsing for items for his own selfish desires and needs.
He came along to a strange stall inside the resimbool shopping district and began to ponder it.
"Huh? What's that? A mysterious item's and keep-sakes stall? That's kind of wierd... Oh well, can't be too terrible, best to have a look!"
Edward greeted the stall owne, but there was a vacant lack of a reply as silence filled the stall; until an old craggy voice pierced the silence with a deinghty "H-h-h-H-hello, young lad, do you like anything you see...?" Edward was tampering with the trinkets that lay beljangled around the tiny stall; Edward then noticed something out of the slightest corner of his eye, he was about to ask, but she had noticed his intentions before he could mesure.
"You like the ruby necklace, do you, Edward?" Edward noticed that the old hag had used his name; he hadn't introduced himself, so how did she know? His tales of Valor in central hadn't precisely gotten to Resimbool just yet, so, unless she was from central, how did she know?
"Oh, I know all about you, Edward Elric... Gave up your alchemy to save your own brother using your alchemy as the price at the gate of truth... Correct...?"
"H-how... no one knows I used the gate of truth to get Alphonse back, how would you know, are you an alchemist out for my head to learn my secrets and cut me off?"
The old hag took a few moments to gather the strengh for words; "I don't need to worry about pitiful things such as alchemy or alchestry, I am above truth, but below Humanity, forgotten of lamentation but praising the sky men for vanquishing my ailments, in an essance, I am universial truth made of pale skin and frail bone.. Now you,
Edward Elric, you have commited the highest taboo possible, destroying truth." The old hag then came to the ruby necklace that edward had so strangely looked at "So, you like this necklace, Edward? you know why you like it? because it attracts those without the ability to do alchemy, it fluxes the sense of nothingness coming from you in the alchemic field, and turns it into a partial mental magnet." Edward's head was spinning from the cataylclysmic amount of things he had heard "Anti-Alchemy stone, eh? Universal Truth? What a load of lies,
you are just a derranged old hag, who's obviously used medicinal alchemy on herself too much and now has finally started decending into madness." The old hag then suddenly Drops to the ground in an almost sporadic Pattern, Edward is confused and worried, but does not go to help her up "I knew it, I knew that you were some crazy old woman who'd kept herself alive way past her time through medicinal Alchemy." while Edward was triumphantly gloating, he heard chalk Scrapings on the ground and before he knew it, blue sparks were rifling the whole floor, and around Edward's feet, and as if suddenly, an all too fammiliar eye appeared below him and took him whole.
-END OF CHAPTER ONE-