The Missing Pieces to the Puzzle
A girl, her best friend, her crush, and her little brother are off to look for a way to get back to normal. Without the philosophers stone. Ace, being her best friend, Al being her closest friend and her crush, Benjamin her brother are off to find out just how to regain missing memories and parts of their lives. Alexandria, call her that and she'll rip any automail off of your body or make it so you need automail, is 16 years old and already a dog of the military. She keeps feeling like she has a crush on her best friend, Alphonse Elric, having lost her arm at age 9 she has spent the entire 7 years trying to find a way to get that body part back. Benjamin, or Ben, is her younger brother by a year having lost his leg from his ankle down wants his sister to be happy. He may seem overprotective but it's because he's seen his older sister depressed before and doesn't want her to be depressed again. Ace, well just um Ace, the outgoing of the pack. Can be serious at times but only if he needs to be serious and cold. Alphonse, or Al, once trapped in a suit of armor with a disembodied voice now back to normal and trying to help out his friends.
Their lives were normal until that night…
"Benny this will bring daddy back to us." Whispered nine year old Alexandria
"But Uncle told us that he couldn't come back." Whimpered eight year old Benjamin
"Sometimes grownups aren't always right Benjamin. Sometimes they can be wrong. Like that doctor who said daddy would live when he was sick." Alexandria said while making the human transmutation circle.
"But Alex, Uncle warned us what can lose body parts here."
"We won't be that dumb Benny."
"But remember what happened to Edward and Alphonse?"
"We'll be more careful! Now shut up and let's start!"
They started to do the alchemy needed to bring their father who had died from a disease no one knew about, the circle was glowing gold and they thought it was going perfectly fine but then beams of red and purple started to blast all over the place.
"ALEX!" shouted Benjamin as something touched his ankle and his foot from the ankle down disappeared.
"Benjamin!" shouted Alexandria as she ran to her brother. Something touched her shoulder and her arm disenagrated. Leaving only a bloody stump in its spot.
"Benny… call Pinako..." whimpered Alex as the light turned black.
~7 years later~
"Alex! Ed and Al are coming home!" shouted Benny as he jumped around with his automail foot.
"I know. Ed didn't say what was going on but he sounded excited." Said the now sixteen year old Alexandria
"Winry said she wanted us to go to her house so we can make cookies." Fifteen year old Benjamin said his gray eyes shining with excitement.
"Let me get dressed first Benny." Said Alex. Her waist length chestnut brown hair was messy from sleep and exhaustion could be seen easily from the way she moved. She hadn't slept that well ever since the Elric brothers left the last time.
"Okay but hurry!"
Alex laughed slightly her silver eyes filled with laughter and went and changed into her normal black knee length leggings, white t-shirt that went down to her lower thighs, denim jacket and black combat boots and the gold heart locket that was her mothers. She brushed her hair and put it into a ponytail with some of her hair falling out of it.
"Ready?" asked Benny
His black hair was kept short, only went down to his ears, and his piercing gray eyes and tan skin could easily tell you that he was a farmer of types.
"Oh shit. Benny I need to go to the farmers market and get food so we can eat tonight. Tell Alphonse and Edward that I say hi if I'm not back when they arrive!" yelled Alexandria as she ran off.
~That night~
"Hey Alex. Whats for dinner?"
"Stew." Said Alex as she put the ingredients for her famous beef stew into a pot
"Cool." Said Benny
"So how were Al and Ed?" Alex asked as she stirred the soup.
"They were good."
"What was the surprise?"
"You'll have to figure that one by yourself. I'm helping Winry tomorrow so you're gonna be alone."
"Okay."
As soon as the soup was done they sat down and ate in silence. "Oh and Ben could you feed Misty please?" Misty's the gray and black cat that Al brought home when he visited us once.
"Okay. Are you feeling alright sis?" asked Benjamin
"I'm fine. Just tired." his sister answered.
"Okay. Well night sis."
Alex nodded and went to bed.
~Next morning~
"Alex I'm going to Winry's!" shouted Benny upstairs.
"Okay!" yelled Alex. She was dressed in her normal garb and heading downstairs to work on a song with her piano.
"Everyone's gotta go their way… No that sounds dumb…. Everyone says they need to go their own way in life… That sounds much better… trying to figure out the way they can go may be the hardest thing to do." (I actually wrote the song stuff so please ask before stealing) said Alex singing the parts she needed to and playing notes on her piano.
Misty started to scratch at the door.
"Whats wrong kitty?" Alex asked standing up and walking to the door.
She looked out the little peephole thing and gasped opened the door and started to run.
"Al!" she yelled jumping onto her best friend.
"Hey Alex." He hugged her back.
"You're back. You're you again!" she hugged him tighter.
"Edward helped me."
She stood up fixing her clothes.
"Alphonse Elric you never ever do that again!" she yelled hitting him in the chest.
"Okay I won't do that ever again." (I'm having Ed keep his alchemy *spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen it that far.)
"So how's Ed?"
"Right now he's probably talking with Winry. And he's fine. He didn't get his arm and leg back though."
"What about the Philosophers Stone?"
"We would've had to sacrifice a human. Our father-"
"Wait you saw your father?" Alex said cutting him off.
"Yeah we did. Well Ed did. I don't remember much of the entire trip really."
"Oh. C'mon lets go inside. Wait why do you have a cane?" asked Alex pointing at the cane that Alphonse was using to walk with.
"I still need to get my muscle strength back. After being behind the gate so long it'll take me awhile to get it all back but I'll get it back." Explained Alphonse
"Okay. Gosh it's good to see you back to being yourself. I missed you." Alex hugged him once again.
"So did you make some more of those yummy muffins you used to make?"
"Yeah. The ones with the huge blueberries? Those are in the house. Freshly made from this morning."
Al grinned widely at her.
"Let's get some food into you Alphonse. You still look skinny." They both laughed walking inside the house.
What was supposed to be only a five hundred word intro turned into a big chapter. It's just a little thing with bits and pieces of their lives before the adventure started. Anything that's in large amounts of italic letters are flashbacks from well the past. Now I'm gonna have this be a thing I'll update weekly cause I have some other stories and school starting soon. I'll try to update this weekend but I don't know if I have to time too.
Oh and thanks to ThePokemonNerd for sending me in the OC which is Ace. I don't need any more OC's though. So please don't ask. Well bye guys!
-SeaFoam-