Chapter 1- Hi there
"No Scarlett!" Mrs. Harriet Aburn pleaded.
She held her dead daughter in her arms as blood spilled from her right side and forehead.
Scarlett Em Aburn had walked out of her home to retrieve the mail for her mother and never looked before she crossed the street. A drunk driver, driving too fast had hit her and kept driving after the poor girl was killed. Her mother had found her in the middle of the rode, dead.
"Wake up! Wake up Scarlett!" Harriet demanded shaking the girl slightly.
Back in the house a loving father heard the cries of a worried mother. He dropped the alchemy book he was currently reading and ran outside.
"Harriet! What happened?" He yelled and ran to her side.
"She was hit Bill! I asked her to get the mail and a car hit her!"
"We've gotta get her out of the rode!" He yelled.
Bill ran to the middle of the rode and picked up his daughter. He carried her over to the deck on the front of their house out in the country. There went any houses for miles let alone a hospitable. Harriet followed closely behind and opened the front door for her husband. They went in to the kitchen and with one swift movement Harriet brushed everything of the table with her arm. Bill set their bleeding daughter down and frantically searched for a pulse. First at the neck than the wrist and finally the heart.
Hot tears soon ran down his cheeks.
"She's dead." He confirmed.
He pulled out a chair from the table and sat down. He put his elbows on the table and his head in his hands. Harriet mirrored his actions on the other side of the table. They just sat their and cried together over their dead daughter.
Soon a thought dawned on Bill.
"You know Harriet, we could bring her back." He stated.
"What? You don't mean-"
"Yes. Human transmutation."
"Bill no. You know that's forbidden." Harriet stopped crying.
"Do we really have any other choice." It wasn't so much a question as a statement.
"You're right." Harriet noted and smiled and tiny smile, happy to think she would have her daughter back soon.
After bringing the dead body upstairs into the attic and laying it down in the middle of the floor, Bill began to draw a transmutation circle around his daughter.
"Ready?" He questioned Harriet as he kneeled down beside her in front of the circle.
"Ready." She nodded.
The slammed their hands down on the chalk-drawn circle and soon saw a bright yellow light.
Harriet's face lit up with happiness and anticipation as well as her husband's. Although something was slightly wrong and they could both feel it. Soon the brilliant bright light swirling around them was replaced with a deadly blue and purple light filled with dread.
"Bill! Something's wrong!" Harriet screamed, terrified.
She felt a sharp ripping pain at her hand. When she looked down her left hand was gone and blood was flowing out her wrist.
At the same time Bill felt a ripping pain at his left thigh. When he looked from his hip down was missing on his left side. Blood pooled below him.
The to horrified parents looked towards their daughter for the last time as, she was enveloped by the light. With a bright blinding flash everything went silent and Scarlett Em Aburn was gone.
SCARLETT'S POV
I can feel my toes as I wiggle them but I keep my eyes shut. I feel weak. I can barley move. Below me I can feel something prickly. Than I hear something brush around on the prickly stuff. My eyes open quickly.
I see blue with splotches of fluffy white stuff and the pointy tops of green things. I try to sit up but fall back down. My body is so week. I keep looking at the fluffy white thing up above me. This world is so strange yet so beautiful.
I close my eyes for a second and when I open them someone is hovering right above me. He has long green hair and a black head- band around his head. He grins at me.
"Finally I thought you'd never wake." He says keeping the smirk plastered across his face.
"Um hi there." I manage to say.
My voice is raspy and quiet.
"Hmm you're weak. Here eat these." He forces something red and hard into my mouth.
I don't fight back I'm too tired to. Instead I eat the crunchy stone. It hurts my teeth and scratches my throat as a swallow it. He puts more in my mouth. They taste like nothing but the more I eat the stronger I feel. Soon I'm able to sit up and eat on my own and soon I am full and can't eat any more red stones.
"Who are you?" I ask the strange boy.
"My name is Envy."
"Like one of the seven deadly sins." I note.
"Exactly." He says and smirks again.
For some reason I smile back.
"And you?" He asks me.
He's sitting with his legs crossed across from me. I cross my legs to match his.
"What?" I ask confused.
"Who are you?"
That's when I realize I can't remember my name or anything.
"I don't know?" I say. "I can't remember anything."
"That's normal." He says. "Just close your eyes and think as hard as you can."
I do as I'm told and close my eyes. I concentrate as best as I can and it's not long before I remember everything.
I am Scarlett. I live in the country with my mom and dad. I see faces of the rest of my family and other people I know and than I remember walking out side and into the rode and getting hit by a car.
I gasp.
"I'm dead." I exclaim.
Envy chuckles. "Not quite. You're a Homunculi."
"A Homunculi?" I say. "But how? I was hit by a car."
"Some one tried bringing you back to life with human transmutation."
I remember that. It's when alchemy is performed on humans. Dad studies it and even taught my some.
"When a human transmutation fails, which they always do, the body becomes a Homunculi." He says.
I look at his eyes. They're purple.
Does that mean mine are?
"Why is your hair green?" I ask.
"Why is yours purple?" He challenges me.
"What? It isn't my hair is blond." I correct him.
"Nope. I'm pretty sure it's purple."
I reach behind me. My hair is touching the ground. How'd it get so long so fast? I pull it around so I can see. He's right. It is the darkest of purples.
"Hmm. And your eyes, they're purple." I ponder.
"So are yours although yours are much darker than mine."
"Why am I here?" I ask
"You tell me. I found you out here."
"I see." Envy, one of the seven deadly sins. "Where are the other six?"
"Hmm?" He raises one eyebrow.
"You said you are one of the seven sins. The other six wear are they?" I explain.
"Oh you mean Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Warth, and Pride. Ha! They're dead. That Fullmetal pipsqueak killed them. He let me live. He just couldn't bring himself to kill me."
I had heard of Fullmetal. He's a state alchemist.
"Well, come on lets go." Envy said getting up.
"Go where?" I asked getting up.
"Well it's getting dark and we shouldn't sleep in the forest if we don't have to but, first things first. We've gotta get you some clothes."
I gasped and looked down.
I was completely naked. As fast as I could I dropped to the ground and pressed my hands the grass. There was a small flash of light and than there was a small pile of neatly folded clothes.
I took the first piece of the pile and unfolded it. It was a pair of the shortest shorts I've ever seen. They couldn't even be considered shorts they were more like bathing suit bottoms. I quickly slid them on and grabbed the second piece of clothing. It was a midriff shirt with a v-neck. It fit tightly and barley covered my breasts.
"Nice." Envy commented.
"Shut-up." I muttered.
He began walking and I followed quickly.
"So you can perform alchemy." He noted.
"Yes my dad taught me." I said. "But I can never control what the object looks like completely." I look down at the black clothing I'm wearing.
"Yes but you don't need a transmutation circle." He said and I saw him smirk again.
My heart did a weird fluttering movement for a second.
"I never have needed one." I smiled proudly.
"How'd you get those scars?" He turned towards me and touched a white splotch on my stomach and them above my right eye.
"I thing I got them when I was hit by the car."
Suddenly his face changes, like he smelt something horrible.
"Get behind me he commands." His voice has changed too.
I do as I am told.
Envy takes a protective stance in front of me. I peek around him and see a figure coming towards us in the distance.