"HELPPPPPPP!" I could her the muffled screamed between the sounds of tears and her spasms of pain.

She was trying to crawl her way up the stairs. At least I think that was a person? The smoke was too thick to see anything. Yes! YES! It was a person!

"Oh God." Hughes murmured before I could even see what was going on. The smoke had cleared. The man behind me had thrown up at the sight, but I still couldn't see. My eyes started to water from the smoke.

"Roy." Hughes covered his face his hand as if trying not to look. "Look."

I followed his eyes downward and saw her. A young girl maybe twelve was covered in her own blood and fighting death on the cold ground of her basement floor.

"Are you alright?" I asked kneeling down to see her. Perhaps if I looked down into her eyes I could see if she was alright. To my dismay her eyes... were gone. Like some one just robbed them from the socket of her eyes and filled the empty holes with blood.

Well maybe if I--- no they were gone too. Her hands were gone like they were sliced clean of without a struggle. Even the bone was cut clean and evenly. The blood was pouring from her severed limbs.

I removed my blue State Alchemy jacket and wrapped her in it, picking her up bridal style. I didn't know if she knew I was here or not.

Her only answer was more blood mixed tears. "Who did this to you?" Hughes asked as I carried her tiny body up the stairs and out the front door.

"Leiutinent! Please make arrangements at the hospital since you can't seem to hold your stomach." I demanded as my soldier was turning green with sickness before me. It was gruesome in there. How I still have my lunch in tact I don't know.

"I did it." I heard her faint voice from under my coat. "Alchemy----" Her breathing slowed after that.

"HURRY LEIUTINENT! RUN!" I yelled. She was dying in my arms. I placed her in the back of the small black car we came in. Hughes drove and as he started the car he pushed his glasses up onto his sweaty face.

We placed the Leiutinent who was running up the street to the nearest phone he could find.

"Quiet Roy." Hughes said in a stern voice. "Hungry? You haven't eaten since----"

"No." I simply said. Even if I didn't want to show it I was shooken up inside.

"Lost your appetite. That's okay. Me too."

"Reminds me of the Elrics Hughes." I said in my cold, official tone

"Do you think this girl tried human transmutation like the Elrics? The people in town said that her mother was recently killed."

"I don't know. We were sent down here to investigate weren't we? The daughter of one of our top state alchemist is missing for more than two days and when we find her she's bleeding to death begging for someone to save her. When children get involved in that kind of stuff a nerve can't help to get struck in me. I don't really care about who did it of what she knows about her father's work. All I care about is saving her life."

"We know this world is pretty messed up when children feel the need to take adult responsibilities."

I nodded my head in agreement. Times like this I wish the state never existed.

Author's Note: So I'm all done with this chapter. It was kind of an intro so yeah! Terrible, Okay, Lovely?~Bre~