Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN FMA

I'm gonna tell you this right now I cannot update very often. At least once a week until Spring hits :3

Read and review please!

Chapter 1: And so the Story Begins

I thought for sure that he'd be…I don't know…taller perhaps? Hmmm whatever. I could tell that my sister thought the exact same thing as she scribbled in that sketchbook of hers that she never seems to be without. Her light chocolate colored hair fell lightly over her deep green eyes as she sketched and wrote down whatever details she either wished to add later or just to remember for future sketches. Even though clearly this was not the time nor place to be sketching away, there she was pencil making light noises. I mean come on, with a name like FullMetal what is one supposed to think? I think of a tall and heavy set man with bulging muscles and an aura of authority hovering around his frame.

Instead we get this…guy with long golden blond braided hair sporting a brown jacket. He seemed completely unprofessional the way he starred at the Flame Alchemist almost as if they were rivals and yet friends at the same time. FullMetal was a heavy name to carry…I wondered if over the years he had figured this out. Perhaps he regrets his name, or perhaps…he's lived up to it.

I'm not a moron nor am amateur, everyone has at least heard of the FullMetal alchemist. Savior of the people, the man who can't die. His name is famous anywhere and everywhere and yet here he is standing in front of my sister and I with a frown on his handsome face.

"FullMetal, this is Alexandria and her younger sister Vivian. They're newly acquainted alchemists and have just recently received their titles. I think you'll find them…to your liking perhaps."

What's he planning? How is it that during out meeting with Mustang that…Edward Elric just rushes in here fists a flying and shouting about having better things to do than see this crook? I have always know that Mustang was…well extraordinary with his abilities to gain ranks and of course he is the infamous Flame Alchemist, not someone to mess with unless of course it's raining and he's made a mistake. Utilize weaknesses. Too bad his is a very big one.

"Yeah what about them?" Edward blinked.

His eyes, they're gold as well. They seem to be hard as gold as well, he's intimidated many…I can tell. Even I think that I would buckle under that gaze if he tried.

Roy laced his hands together and hid his mouth behind them. "Well, the sisters have expressed a plenty about how much they'd love to meet the famous FullMetal alchemist and his mysterious brother who use to walk around in a giant suit of armor. Now as their superior I wouldn't want to-"

"Sir!" I objected immediately. I didn't even remember mentioning Edward's name at all while talking about how great of an opportunity this was. I was just trying to get out of here as soon as I could and that was that, apparently Mustang had other ideas.

Roy silenced me with a leering look that made me back off immediately. "As I was saying, FullMetal you are hereby assigned to babysit the two sisters and advance their skills in alchemy. You are to write reports on our two newest recruits and report directly to me, am I understood?"

"What?" Edward made a screwed up face as if he didn't fully understand the situation. He was probably thinking about why someone of his stature would have to take two new recruits under his wing. I was just as shocked, my sister was too busy sketching to notice a thing. "You've got to be joking-"

"What you can't handle us?" I crossed my arms and scowled. I wasn't about to take that from him! If he didn't want to waste his precious time than we didn't need him, especially if he was going to act like this! "Mustang sir, with all due respect I think that my sister and I could just as easily be taught under someone else as we could FullMetal."

"Yes, but I want FullMetal to look after the two of you. You two are rather important to us after all even if you don't think so. FullMetal these are your orders refuse and you'll be stripped and thrown in the brig. Anything else from either of you?"

"Hai!" My sister rose her hand. She pointed the tip of her pencil to the sky.

"Younger sister Vivian, how can I help you?"

"Sir, will you please turn your head twenty degrees to the south?"

Mustang's good eye twitched. "Dismissed."

Vivian pouted at him, shut her book with a boku, and headed up to Edward. She stuck her nose right in his face and snickered causing him to scowl.

"Like what you see?" He hissed.

"Not really, you have girly eyes!" She dashed out of his reach before he could grab her. Doesn't mean that he didn't try. He chased her around Mustang's office shouting at her profanities right in front of our superior.

Who at this moment was growing angrier and angrier by the second.

I stuck out my foot which my sister bunny hopped over, but the alchemist fell flat on his stomach.

"Edward! Falling for me already?" Vivian teased.

I smiled at my sister's audacity.

"Yeah you wish!" Edward snorted. He sat Indian style on the floor still trying to figure out how he could fall for such a childish trick. His eyes were on me, glaring hard but I ignored him by turning on my military boots.

"The name is Alexandria, the Freezing Water Alchemist if you please and this here is my sister Vivian the Quick Alchemist-"

"Like that!" Vivian pointed her pencil tip at the wall but nothing happened which confused everyone. Mustang snorted at her games.

"What sort of name is that?" Edward snorted as well perhaps he did it just because Mustang had. It just sounded so off 'quick' was a word to describe someone or something moving. She didn't seem that fast to Edward, just really jumpy.

Vivian didn't seem fazed by his retort in fact she downright ignored him grabbing my hand to head for the door. When she opened said door she found another face looking at her with the same gold hair as Edward. "Helllloooo…heh…looks like we an intruder."

I blinked. Who would have the gull to infiltrate Central let alone get by without being detected? When I saw him though I knew who he was. "No Vivian that's the other Elric brother, you know the one with the real brains."

"Why you!" Edward hissed from the floor.

Alphonse on the other hand was laughing haphazardly while rubbing the back of his head as if not knowing what to say.

He figured it out pretty quick though. "And who might you two be?"

"Newest recruits," Edward answered for us. He groaned. "In other words the newest pains in the asses."

"You're just angry because sis made you fall." Vivian said in a why-yes-I-know-it-all voice. She even let her nose stick up.

Alphonse Elric, rumored to have lived quite a few years walking around in a huge body of armor made from steel. His brother had transmuted his soul into that body of armor using a transmutation circle made from his own blood. Not many people know why they had to do this, most want to know but are too afraid to ask in fear of getting a fist in their face from the temperamental alchemist.

I've been told that Alphonse has a cooler head than his older brother, and at the moment I can really believe that. He seems like a nice kid, not one able to break someone's nose with a flick of his wrist.

Just your everyday super good looking boy with an awesome personality to match, and I get to travel with him.

Excellent.

"So brother, what did Roy want?" Alphonse kept glancing back at us as we followed them down the hall. I wish that Edward would stop sulking and tell me where the hell we're going. "Hey brother…brother."

"New recruits, I'm in charge of bringing them up because Colonel Lazyass told me so. Damn, I knew I should have quit the military when I had the chance!" Edward shoved his hands in his black pants.

"Oh, that explains why they're following us. Shouldn't we wait up?" Alphonse looked behind him once again. Vivian was sketching again not even looking in front of her, but I was glaring bullet holes into the back Edward's skull.

"No, they follow me Al and that's how it's going to be. If they can't keep up then they're not worthy of having that pocket watch-"

That very pocket watch smacked him right in the back of the head and made a wonderful sound. It kind of reminded me of the sound a box of wood makes when it's empty and your tapping on it with a stick.

Despite the nasty smile I had on my face, dread settles over me when he turned around extremely slow. I swear his eyes were black as he glared at me.

"WHAT THE HELL?"

I didn't think. "You have no right to mock us when you hardly know us!"

"Yeah well I don't want to know either one of you! You're a total waste of my time and I don't like it."

"Brother." Al warned.

"Yeah well who says we want to be brought up by a temperamental jackass with a height complex?"

"I do not! Besides is that anyway to talk to your superior?"

"Only if my superior is being a nutcase!" Our eyes locked as lightning zapped between us. I swear I'll knock the snot out of this idiot and put him in his place! No one makes fun of me, no one! "I earned that pocket watch Edward, there has to be some reason that the military picked me…why don't you stop and think about that for a minute? You got in because your some prodigy, I wasn't born with my skills Edward I worked my ass off to get where I am."

"What do you want a gold star?" Edward snarled back.

Vivian chose now to put her two cents in. "It would be a start!"

"I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S A GIRL LET ME AT HER!" Edward thrusts himself forward only to be held back by his arms, his brother sighing. Of course Edward made a scene by flailing and throwing his all into it.

"Just try it!" I dared.

"I'll make you eat your words! Every last one of them damn it! Al! Let me go let me go let me goooo! I'm gonna smack her silly!"

Not if you can't move, stupid. Some prodigy if he doesn't even realize where my talents lie. Right. I smirked. I'm going to wipe that smile right off his face.

"Now, now brother calm down. You always let your temper get the better of you, it doesn't make you look too good so just bear with it!"

Apparently Al hasn't figured out the simple fact that Edward doesn't exactly care about his appearance. "Shut up Al!"

"Your right Alphonse, it would look bad for others to see the great FullMetal alchemist get his butt kicked by his very own subordinate." I smiled pleasantly to myself. I was hoping that this would tick him off to the point where he would come at me with both his fists flying.

Too bad Alphonse seems to have an excellent hold on him.

"Edward! There has to be a reason why Mustang left them under your control. They both have to have some talent so just stay calm," Alphonse hissed. He lifted his arms so that Ed had to be on his toes. "And you! Stop egging him on, it's not good for his health."

"Yeah, you might stunt his growth some more sis." Vivian snickered.

Ed snapped. He flung himself after elbowing his own brother in the ribs. Vivian saw him and moved. She took a step back than twirled so that he only hit thin air. Ed was just as fast as she was and could turn on a dime as well. The two seemed to be playing some sort of game. He would lung, she would dance just out of his reach frustrating him to no end causing him to get reckless and eventually it led to extremely sloppy movement.

Fascinated, I watched with just a twitch of a smile playing on my face.

Alphonse however threw up his hands and rubbed his head like crazy talking to himself extremely fast saying things like 'why do I even try?' and 'It's his fault, he should drink milk'. The milk comment made me smile.

"Bunny hop!" Vivian bent her knees and leaped soaring above Edward. For a girl she could jump some serious heights, it was one of her talents. She was very acrobatic having practiced just for fun and could leap people with ease, or use their heads as leverage. This of course got very annoying. As for myself my only talents seem to be my alchemy and my witty tongue, I can't even jump a tree stump. "Like that!" She snickered and tapped Edward on the back.

"Quit playing games! It isn't funny anymore!"

"But Edward…sir! I couldn't possibly hit you, that would be a good night in the brig for me and besides I can't hit someone properly anyway. I've never needed to learn." She explained. "You see, if I can't defeat someone using my alchemy than I can always run or out maneuver them until they got tired."

"You know," Edward sighed and gave up. "You'd make a way better thief. I know just the girl who would love to have you-"

"Don't corrupt my sister!" I spat. There was no way that I was going to let her go off and become some master thief. What if she actually got caught? I highly doubt that Edward is going to bail her out after all this teasing.

"Whatever. Listen up you two because I'm not saying this twice," Edward crossed his arms sternly. "Tomorrow morning we're leaving, got that? We don't know where we're going we're just going to hop on a train and go. Having no destination in mind, we might actually discover something new. If we find a problem we'll fix it, understand? Now than, get everything ready and meet us at the front gate tomorrow at nine am sharp. Late and we'll leave you behind, am I understood?"

We both saluted him, he is our superior after all and he does deserve some respect. "Sir!"

"Sir!" Vivian giggled.

Edward snorted, a bit happy that he actually got a decent answer from us.

"You should have been nicer to them brother they're girl's after all." Alphonse lectured as we went our separate ways.

"Yeah right! They aren't like any women I know, they fall directly into the Winry category. Nice and insane with a touch of cuteness, but that's about it." Edward said it just loud enough for us to hear as we walked in the opposite direction.

"But brother, aren't you even the least bit curious about their talents?"

Edward was silent.

We ended up going shopping, loving our new pay. We bought anything and everything that we thought that we might need, as long as it would fit in the large backpacks that we both carry.

For dinner we ate at a lovely little restaurant sitting down to talk about the Elric brothers.

"Oh, oh, ohh! He's fun to tease." Vivian stuck a meatball in her mouth, chewed, and mmmmed.

"But we shouldn't do that, it isn't right considering how we're antagonizing our superior officer." I point out even though I had done more than half of the antagonizing. He could quite literally have us sent to the brig by filing a few reports, but then again he's probably too lazy to do that. That or the fact that he tried to punch Vivian put him in his place.

Let's just hope that our whole trip isn't going to be like this. Full of insults and fights left and right, here and there. If so we might cause more trouble than actual progress. We have to show them that we're worth investing in…that if is we ever decide to take on a research project! Imagine that, I don't think I'll ever do that…I don't like being confined.

"Sis…yeah she's pretty gone right now. I'll just eat her dessert!"

But think about it! Me getting an award for my epic discovery of something in our area. That would be amazing, than Edward couldn't say anything mean about me.

"No you don't." I stuck my spoon in the ice cream to pull it back across the table. "I'm eating this!"

"Oh boo." She sighed.

"What do you think he hopes to gain from all of this traveling?" It didn't make any sense for a military alchemist to be out and about looking for his own missions when the state can just as easily assign them at will, but then again it would take a pretty big mission to get the FullMetal alchemist involved.

"Maybe…he's bored." Vivian leaned back in her chair causing it to lift up onto the back legs. Her balance was so good that I highly doubted it would be falling anytime soon. "I know that if I was some big shot alchemist who had nothing to do I would be bored. I mean if a war doesn't break out, then there's really not a big need for alchemists. I mean yeah we could go around fixing tools and stuff like that, but where's the fun in that? I like helping people just as much as the next alchemist but I think I'd like doing even greater things even more. You know?"

"Yeah, but honestly what can I do with my talent?" There really isn't anything. My talent isn't made to make people's lives easier, it's made to kill and that's all. That or refrigerate things I guess.

"We could start our own ice cream shop!"

I knew I shouldn't have asked her. "Whatever, I'm a walking killer who hasn't killed anyone yet."

"If that's what you want to call yourself sis," She chewed patiently on a pocky stick. "But I don't think you're a killer, and I don't think you'll ever be one."

If we only knew back then.

Hope you enjoyed it. The next chapter will be up another day :3 Reviews are loved!