Okay, so this is my first fanfic, so it might not be the greatest ever (but I won't know until you review). I don't know everything about FMA, but my beta should be able to help me there… So, read and review, and make me happy!

My body felt like it was going to explode because of that horrible, horrible man. A light came from under my feet and a voice screamed at me to run. I could feel my muscles changing, my eyes changing, my whole body changing, and I felt an inscription being burned into my skin. I opened my eyes, and the pain came rushing in.

"I want to die!" Those were the words I said. "I want to die!" I said it again and again.

Then the pain suddenly stopped, and I felt myself changing again. My body was changing back! The voice was no longer screaming at me, but only told me that I wasn't alone anymore, that now it was a part of me. That I could command it to do what I wanted. I felt happy, finally happy.

Everyone around was staring at me as I half-changed.

A blur of claws, red splashing the floor.

Once they were dead, I was running, away from this hell, away from that traitor, away from him forever. I felt hot tears run down my face as whatever they'd done to me disappeared, for now. I changed back to normal.

Gunshots from all sides rang out after me. One grazed my arm. Suddenly, a cliff's edge loomed in front of me out of the night. I felt my feet hit nothingness, and within seconds, I hit cold water.

Darkness.

"What's your name? Who did this to you? Why? Where did you come from? Where's your family? These are questions I need answers to. I need to know so I can get you home, where you belong."

Her impatient voice broke into my water-logged thoughts, and the questions took a second to reach my ears. I stared at my rescuer, the one who had pulled me out of the water, then tried to jump to my feet, but failed.

"I don't know who I am, I don't know who they are, I don't know why, I don't know where I belong!" I screamed at her. "It's like they tore it from my head, everything is gone! All I remember is what happened after whatever they did to me!"

She moved closer to me. "Hey! I know that you've had a hard time lately, and you've just fallen off a cliff, but don't go crazy on me," she said softly, soothingly. She wrapped her arms around me and gave me a hug. "Okay?"

Images and family, memories, and words… all gone. Everything, gone…

The voice in my head sounded like how a cat would sound if it could talk, like it was purring at the same time. I almost wanted to talk to it, but I didn't. It's not like I expected a response. That would freak me out…

"Do you even believe me?" I asked her, choking back tears. I suddenly recalled the name she'd told me to call her: Jo.

"Yes, I do," Jo replied, squeezing me tighter. "I believe you because this has happened before. Many times before."