Chapter 1

Scenes of Edward Elric's last battle fly by. The dwarf in the flask is defeated and Ed performs his last transmutation. The two brothers Ed and Al return, though Ed cannot perform any type of alchemy ever again.

"There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it, you'll find that you have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah… a heart made fullmetal." - Edward Elric


Connor Elric ran for his life. If I don't get back in time teacher's going to kill me!

BAM!

"HEY WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING-" Connor yelled shoving blonde hair out of his face. In front of him was a girl with straight black hair and brown eyes. She was rubbing her shoulder and moving her arm around in circles.

"Oh, I'm sorry,"

"No, no it's no problem I was just, not talking to you exactly…" he said blushing.

"Well I didn't really see you anyways. You're really short,"

"HEY WHO YOU CALLING SHORT-"Con was cut off due to a kick in which he was flown into the air.

"WHERE WERE YOU! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BACK TWO MINUTES AGO AND I FIND YOU YELLING AT A GIRL!"

"I'm fine! Really," Lily tried to say.

"Hi! I'm Izumi Curtis it's nice to meet you," she held out her hand.

"Lily,"

" What's your name, you kind of look like Al,"

"Connor. Connor Elric. So you know uncle Al huh,"

"My teacher,"

"WHAT!"

"Yeah! I'd like to keep it on the downlow though,"

"Well he did say something about having a really talented student,"

Lily sighed. "Look I really have to go. It was nice meeting the both of you!" she said running off into the distance.


Lily ran into the train door and found a seat. She tapped her foot restlessly. Dad is really going to give it to me this time. She was still getting use to the metal arm. Her stub almost always ached. Lily hadn't told her father about her weekly visits to Alphonse Elric. She looked at her watch and stared at it for what felt like an eternity. Finally the train stopped. "This is our stop at Central. Please get off the train." Lily ran off the train and kept running all the way to her home. She ran around to the back of her house, and using a transmutation circle she hid under a bush, opened the wall and shut it again. She pushed her couch over the transmutation marks left on the wall.

"You know I that I can see you right?" said Roy Mustang.

"Uh.. Hi dad! It's good to finally see you!"

"Come on, cut the nice talk. You're nearly an hour late,"

Lily sat down. "I'm sorry father,"

He sighed and put his hands on her shoulders. "I just want to keep you safe. What were you doing anyway?"

Lily smiled. She loved it when her father didn't act like Fuhrer all the time. "Like I said, just trying to learn as much as I can,"

"I guess there's nothing wrong with that… it's been a long day,"

Roy stood up and took his hands off her shoulders. "I have a lot of things to do so try not to bother me. It's not easy being Fuhrer Mustang and all,"

"More like Fuhrer Mustbeboring," Lily said.

"Hm," he said with a smirk. "Goodnight Lily,"

"Goodnight,"

Lily sat quietly and watched the clouds slowly pass over the moon. It was on a night just like this… everything was so quiet, so peaceful. Scenes-awful memories flashed into her mind.

I miss you mom. I'm sorry I couldn't save you. She said looking into a picture of her mother, Riza Hawkeye. There was so much she didn't understand. If I could just bring mother back, she'd tell me the truth, and I'd would have a mother, and maybe even a father again. Lily's father only told her thin outlines of what happened. Lily wanted to find a way to bring her back, though she knew human transmutation was strictly illegal. Maybe if there was a way to bend the rules, to get around the rule of equivalent exchange. Lily took out all her research notes and laid them on the ground. She had learned alchemy, alkahestry, even how to be a ninja(learned in Xing). Her most proud accomplishment was making and perfecting her own type of alchemy: G-force alchemy. Yet she hadn't brought her mother back. And there was only one way that she could bring her mother back. To obtain a philosopher's stone.


Connor ate dinner with his family.

"So Con, how did your lesson with teacher go today?" Winry asked.

"Ummm, great!" he said with a thumbs up.

"I'm guessing that means absolutely awful," Ed said.

"Izumi is funny!" said Jonie, Con's younger sister.

"Not when she's your teacher," Ed and Connor said simultaneously.

"I actually ran into this girl today,"

"Was she really really pretty?" Jonie asked.

"Yes-no that's not the point, she said she was Al was her teacher. She also called me short,"

Ed raised an eyebrow. "Was her name Lily?"

"Yeah!"

Ed laughed and gave him a smug grin. "How'd you like the Fuhrer's daughter?"

"FUHRER MUSTANG'S DAUGHTER!"

"Relax, Mustang and I are old pals,"

"I know, the whole Colonel Mustang thing, right?"

Connor unlike Lily had been told about everything. The philosopher's stones, homunculi, and how Ed defeated that evil.


Lily sidestepped Al's giant stone fist that shot out of the ground. Lily saw him preparing again by clapping his hands together. Slamming her right fist into her open hand, she saw a giant wave of earth come towards her. Lily hit her metal fist against the ground. Blue electricity ran up the wave, instantly dissolving it. She ran towards Al blocking and dodging each transmutation. Al prepared for hand to hand combat. Lily's moves were quick and precise, something she learned from Lan Fan on her trip to Xing. Always be moving. A standing target is much easier to hit. Don't ever let the opponent see you long enough for them to make eye contact. Lily knocked Al down.

"Don't tear the old man to pieces!" yelled a voice walking towards them.

"Brother! It's good to see you," Al responded standing up.

"This must be Lily, it's good to finally meet you. I'm Edward Elric,"

"Fullmetal Alchemist!"

"Yup. Haven't been called that in a long time. Just thought I'd stop by. I wanted to ask you something, You're going to be at the state alchemist trials tomorrow right? My son Connor's gonna be there,"

"Yeah,"

"Wait, really?" Al asked, "I thought your dad didn't even want you learning alchemy in the first place,"

"Well, my dad actually doesn't.. know,"

"Um.. Lily I don't think that's a good idea," Al said.

"He can't turn down any try-out who wants to be a state alchemist,"

"She's right," Ed said, "plus, he'd be an idiot to turn down a talented alchemist like you,".

"Well, there's still a lot he doesn't tell me. All he ever said was: 'There was a war between homunculi and the military involving philosophers stones.' It's so frustrating!"

Ed's brow furrowed as he got ready to say something. Al gave him a discouraging look and cut him off.

"That same old arrogant Mustang! He's hiding the truth from her!" Ed said as Lily walked away.

"You know the Fuhrer. He didn't tell us if Hues death either," Al replied.


Mustang looked out at the small crowd. Among them were the Elrics including the son of Fullmetal.

"Alright Havoc, you can let the next one in," he said looking down at his notepad. The door opened and slammed.

"State your name and age please," he said.

"Lily Mustang. Age thirteen."