A.N.: Helloo. Ed is stuck in our world. (I'd wish he'd stay here) Yep. Please read the whole chapter and PLEASE REVIEW! 3

The Small Guy/Shorty/Pipsqueak at the Library.

"Ugh..."

It was like any other day. The birds were chirping, the sun was shining and today would be the day this girl's life would change forever.

Of course, she was unaware of what fate had in store for her.

She did what she always did, she took a bath, dressed, and then headed downstairs. As always, her step mom was there to greet her, "Good morning, Rie." She glanced at her for a minute, "Yeah, morning." She grabbed her notebook and headed for the door. "Shouldn't you take your breakfast first?" Rie closed the door, and shouted her reply, "I'll take it later!".

Rie arrived at the library and climbed up the stairs. It was nice being close to a library. Rie was no bookworm, but being close to it was very useful for home works and such. She had always come on Saturdays, and she didn't come on weekdays because she was far too busy. Sometimes she went even though there were no projects or assignments, it was part of what she did every week, and a week without coming didn't seem complete. She entered and grabbed the books she needed. She sat on where she always did.

Every now and then Rie gets tired of this weekly routine, but she really had no choice now, did she? She read carefully, jotting down what was needed. She was pretty focused for the next few minutes.. But then...

"Nyahaha! I got it!", shouted one boy.

"Noisy.", thought Rie. The boy retreated with a smile and a laugh, returning to his books. The boy had long golden hair that was neatly braided, his eyes, like his hair, were golden. He seemed to have a stationary arm that was wrapped in bandages, but it was done messy so you could see slits from where the bandage did not cover, and what you could see wasn't flesh, but rather metal..? Oh and another thing, he was really short.

This was not the first time Rie had noticed him though. She would see him here every time she came. True that there are a lot of people who come to read in the library often and you would see the same people coming here day after day, but his appearance stands out, unique, unlike others. Not only that, she also observed that he read the oddest books--books she had never seen or heard of before and it's not the first time he had been noisy either. He would shout or curse out of nowhere and people around him would be startled at him. But, this is the first time he's actually said a meaningful sentence... Well, not exactly meaningful but a sentence nonetheless.

Not long after, the small guy stood, and exited the library. At the same time, Rie finished what she was doing and proceeded to return the books where she took them but, something caught her attention.

"A pocket watch?"

A strange circular metal object was spotted on a table formerly used by the small guy who just left. It had an animal on it. Well, it looked liked an animal. Rie thought it resembled a lion. Behind it, there was a star..?

"Nice. The shorty sat here awhile ago...this is his? Should I give it back?" Rie had two choices: One, give it back, or two, sell it and feel guilty for it. She thought for a moment, "Stupid conscience." she muttered. She ran out and instantly spotted the ignorant-fool-who-left-a-very valuable-looking-watch-who-is-also-very-short. She would've called out his name, but she didn't what it was, and he might get mad if she called him shorty. The shorty turned to corners of streets making it difficult for Rie to catch up and give the watch back. She would've shouted something like, "Hey!" or "You!" but she was too busy catching her breath. Right now, Rie had second thoughts about selling the watch and she fantasized what she'd do with the money. This really looked fancy and valuable. But doing that would mean that all this running, panting and all the effort would be wasted. "Ugh." What was started must be finished.

At last, the pipsqueak turned to a corner that seemed to be a dead end. Rie was nearing when suddenly she was blinded by a flash of light. "Light? From where the shorty is..?"

Rie turned to the corner and was stunned at what she saw. "A hole..?" There was a hole in the middle of a wall--the wall to supposedly end this road. Yet there was a hole in the middle of it... and beyond it? A field. Just an empty field. Not only that, but the hole itself weird. It's absurdly perfect. Perfectly round. And if things weren't weird enough, a weird circle was in the middle of the plain field with writings and shapes in it...

"The pipsqueak? Where's he?" Rie asked herself. She saw him place a glass container containing some red liquid in it at the middle of the weird drawing. "Blood?" Rie suddenly realized how much of a dangerous situation she was in. Is this some kind of conspiracy? Should she turn back? Her head was spinning and she didn't know what to do. She then remembered her earlier motive... "The pocket watch thingy.." Should she give it back now? I mean that's why she's here right now, right? What if they're some aliens who plan on destroying Earth? What could she possibly do? It's possible that guy is a Martian... (I mean he is short).

Rie was lost in her thoughts. The pipsqueak's movement snapped her back into reality. She tried to focus, but she was panicking. The whole earth could've been resting in her hands, and all this just because of a stupid watch. She turned her attention back to the small guy, he clapped his hand to his stationary hand, his hands touched the ground and a familiar light flashed. "The light earlier..?"

Thoughts, theories and assumption spun through Rie's mind. "What's happening? Does that light have some kind of power? Did the blood in the bottle help increase it's power? If it was blood whose was it? Why is that guy very short?"

Rie looked around. She was starting to fade.. more like disintegrating. This happened as the light spread through out the area. Rie didn't know if she was more confused or sacred. She screamed, and she started crying. She could swear the small guy looked behind and saw her. His eyes widened as he saw what was happening to the girl. Same thing was happening to him though, he was fading as well, but he looked happy to be. Rie wasn't really sure of what she was seeing, it might've been because of the light that she was seeing these things.

She was scared, confused, hungry and convinced..

That she really should've just sold the pocket watch.

Ohh… So tell me please if I should continue. If I'd get at least 2 reviews I'd probably post the 2nd chapter. I wasn't very descriptive though. I didn't mention the color of Rie's hair or anything like that. Could you please tell me as well the typos and the errors of this story? You know I'm not very good with names. You may think Rie is a weird name. I might've written her name as "Rei" some part in this fanfic. eep Oh and the title of the 2nd chapter is "True Knowledge". Yep. Please review